126 ALBERT, son of Roelof (33), was b. March 5, 1754, He m. Maria Van Saun March 8, 1779, and died Nov. 6, 1829.
He was a Revolutionary soldier; was Private, Minute Man, in the Bergen County New Jersey Militia; Private, Captain John G. Hopper's Company, Bergen County Regiment (Colonel Theunis Dey commanding), New Jersey Militia; enlisted Jan. 1, 1781, for the war, as Private, Captain Samuel Reading's Company, Second Regiment, Infantry (Colonel Elias Dayton commanding), New Jersey Continental Line; served with the Company and Regiment in the New Jersey Brigade (Colonel Elias Dayton commanding), Major-General Benjamin Lincoln's Division, Continental Army, in the Virginia campaign and seige of Yorktown, Virginia, April to October, 1781; took part in the battle of Yorktown, Oct. 6 to 19, 1781, and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his command, Oct. 19, 1781; present with command May 31, 1782; final record unknown. Also served as Private, Captain Garret Cooper's Company, Bergen County Militia, in Second Regiment, Infantry (Lieutenant-Colonel Amos Stark commanding), New Jersey Detached Militia, in the Pennsylvania Insurrection of 1794; enrolled Sept. 14, 1794, for three months, and discharged Dec. 24, 1794, expiration of term of service.
He purchased a large farm in Ramapo Township, four miles from Haverstraw, Rockland County, N.Y., to which he and his son Roelof removed.
Children of Albert Westervelt (126):
278 Roelof, b. Nov. 21, 1780.
279 Hester, b. April 13; bap. April 27, 1783; m. John
Conklin.
280 Nancy, b. Sept. 14; bap. Oct. 2, 1784; m. Beekman I.
Van Buren
281 John, who removed to Hackensack, N.J., and d. unm.
282 Sarah, who m. Brower Cooper.
283 Jacob, b. April 1, 1789.
284 Jacobus, b. Oct. 24, 1792.
128 DANIEL, the patriot, son of Jan (35), was b. at Closter, N.J., Feb. 26, 1748. No record of his baptism is found. He m. at Schraalenburgh Margrietje, dau. of William Christie and Catalyntje de Maree, on the 25th day of May, 1766, being then in his 19th year. He and his wife became members of the Schraalenburgh congregation on Aug. 27, 1772.
At the commencement of the Revolution he was most outspoken against the British, and became "a marked man" for his patriotic utterances. Early in the war he enlisted and became Ensign in Captain James Stagg's Hackensack Company, Bergen