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THE VAN CLEVE FAMILY
Far too often the Revolutionary service of women is passed
without the credit that should be theirs. To the pioneer women
of Kentucky is due equal credit with the men for the great results
accomplished. Married on 8 August 1765, to Squire Boone 2nd,
Jane Van Cleve dedicated herself to years of struggle for Amer-
ican independence. That her ancestry may now be made a part of
this record, credit is due to the timely contribution of Mr.
Charles Watson of Philadelphia (See Boone Bulletin No 3, P 45),
who supplies information but recently come to light.
The family of Van Cleve came originally from Amsterdam,
Holland, and settled at Flatbush, Long Island [New York].
Isabrant Van Cleve married on Staten Island, N.Y., Jane
Vanderbilt, said to be a sister of Commodore Vanderbilt's grand-
father. Isabrant and Jan Van Cleve had three sons and six dau-
ghters. The sons were Benjamin, who settled near Freehold,N.J.;
Aaron, who removed from Brunswick, N.J. to the forks of the Yadkin,
in North Carolina, in 1751, and John, who settled at Maidenhead,
Amsterdam Co,N.J.
Aaron Van Cleve, son of Isabrant, married Rachel Schneck,
daughter of a Dutch family. Aaron took part in the meetings that
results in the Mechlenburg declaration of American Independence,
more than a year [before the Philadelphia Declaration of Inde-
pendence]. Aaron died in 1780 and he and his wife are buried in
Burning Rigg graveyard in Rowan Co, N.C. Among the children of
Aaron and Rachel Van Cleve were Aaron Van Cleve 2nd, Benjamin,
John, William, and Ralph, all of whom settled in Kentucky, and
Jane who married SQUIRE BOONE, brother of Daniel.
William Boone Douglass, L.L.M.[Master of Laws]
Source: THE BOONE BULLETIN, Volume 1, Number 5, June 1929
pages 128-132
Reprinted: BOONE PIONEER ECHOES, Volume 28, Number 2
April 1986, page 169 -174
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