VALENTINE Family

In the Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County, NY, Chapman Publishing Co., 1895, there is a reference to a Johann Valentine Andrea in the entry for Otto Andrea on p. 874. Part of the entry is quoted as follows:

The [Andrea] family is descended from Jacob Andrea, a German divine, who was born at Waiblingen, Wurtemberg, March 25, 1528, and died June 7, 1590. He studied at Stuttgart and Tubingen, and was ordained pastor in the former town in 1549. In 1557 he became preacher to Duke Christopher of Wurtemberg, whom he accompanied to the Diets of Ratisbon and Frankfort. In 1562 he was appointed a professor of Theology and Classics in the University at Tubingen, and Provost of the Church of St. George, and from this time took a prominent part in the movements and discussions of the Protestant Church. He was especially instrumental in the adoption of "Formula Concordae" as the common profession of faith of the two Protestant parties. His grandson, Johann Valentine, a voluminous German author, born at Heninberg, August 17, 1586, died at Stuttgart June 27, 1654. After travelling over Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, he filled various ecclesiastical positions for some time, and officiated at the chapel of the Duke of Wurtemberg. His "Mythologae Christiana" and other Latin works have been partly translated into German by Herder and Sontag. In 1633 he published a work advocating republican Christianity in Germany. His German writings included several poems, among which "Christlich Gemuel" is highly praised by Herder, who declares that Andrea boldly announced truths in the 17th century which no one would dare to express in the 18th century. He first made known the order of Rosicrusians in two or three publications, and is regarded by some as the founder of the order. His autobiography was published in 1849 in Latin. He was a friend of Luther.

Otto Andrea married Gertrude Matilda Gale 23 Apr 1845. She was a daughter of Anthony and Maria (Helme) Gale and "traces her ancestry back to Johann Weisner, who was a Swiss soldier in the allied army under the Prince of Orange and then under the Duke of Marlborough, until peace was declared in the reign of Queen Anne. He then came to America and had large grants of land in Orange County. His son, Hendrick Weisner, and his grandson, Henry Weisner, were members of Coleman Assembly from 1767 to 1769. Henry Weisner married Sarah Walters in 1769. Mary Weisner, his daughter, married Phineas Helme, and Anna Helme, their daughter, married Obadiah Helme. Their daughter, Maria D., married Anthony Gale, the father of Gertrude Matilda Gale, the wife of our subject."


Names

4 1819-1900 VALENTINE, Mary - SAWYER, Benjamin Carpenter
5 1787-1859 VALENTINE, Stephen - KNAPP, Elizabeth (Betsy)
6 1760-1825 VALENTINE, Ananias - MEEKER, Elizabeth b1761/3
7 1736-1800 VALENTINE, Ananias - DOLSON, Marya Marietje 'Maria'

More names, alphabetical:

Elizabeth b182x

Fleming b. c1809
Frances b. c1822

Hannay (Hannah) 1798?-1830?

John 1820-1919

Louisa 1810-1861

Rosetta B. (Minturn?) b. c1832

Sarah Jane b. c1813

William 1830-63

More on likely MEEKER line (from geni.com), 7 Eliz (m. Ananias Valentine) b1761 Sussex Co, NY d. 9-10-1824 Goshen, NY (geni) ... possible dau of Stephen M w/line below:
8 1731-78 Stephen M b/d Eliz-town d. 3/24 - Phebe ALLING (...) (parents of Rachel SQUIER, Joanna SAYRE, Robt M, Obediah M, Esther THOMPSON, Prudence GARTHWAITE, Ezekiel M, Stephen M and Phebe Allen BONNELL (hmmm, no Eliz VALENTINE shown)
9 c1705-49 Stephen M b. Eliz-town d. 10/2 Lyons Farm, Essex, NJ - Mary ? (parents of Stephen, Capt Obediah, Eliz Mary LUM 1739-89, Mary SAYRE, Sarah CRANE, Phebe CRANE
10 c1680-1731 Joseph M b/d Eliz-town d. 12/14 - Phoebe ?
11 1648-1717 Capt Joseph M b. NH d. Eliz-town - Comfort MARSH (...)
12 1620-90 Wm 'Goodman' M b. Leamington d. Elizabethtown, Essex, NJ big note says Wm Goodman M came from England aboard ship Abigail w/bro Robt on 9-9-1635 to MA Bay Colony, each bro had 4 sons, by Jul 1644 he'd moved to New Haven Colony, then to Newark NJ then aka Elizabethtown Point c1664, he m1 Sarah Jane PRESTON dau of Wm P and Eliz SALE in NH, moved from there to Eliz Town Pt, NJ c1665, given a tract of land, sometimes spelled Meaker (English spelling), he was constable of town ... - Sarah Jane PRESTON (...)
13 c1594-c1625 Albert or Nicholas M b. Leamington, Warwicksh, England note says 'Meeker' name derived from 'Le Marque' i.e. 'the thin man', orig came S w/Rolf the Viking, and a Le Marque came w/WmConq in 1066 i.e. Hastings field since called Le Marque's Field, given by WmConq - ?
14 c156x-? Wm M - ?


Descent Chart

Note in 'Dear Folks' p21 that Eliz SAWYER b1764, dau of Major James, m. John KNAPP and was Mary (VALENTINE) SAWYER's gma's gma. Also Harriet SAWYER b1811, dau of Ben and Hannah (WOOD) SAWYER, m. Fleming VALENTINE (who fits into above how?).

R recently learned she has at least 2 VALENTINE cousins via 23&Me of ~.77% shared DNA, so ~4th cousins.

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