From Preface:
Family Record by Daniel Van Tassel of Tarytown, New York, was compiled prior to 1920, and is in the possession of THE HUGUENOT & HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION of New Rochelle, New York, 179 Main Street.
Copy typed by Miriam R. Owen of the Association and purchased by the Van Tassell family organization of Utah, was sent to Mrs. Ann G. Dowding, 977 Yale Avenue, Salt Lake City. . .
From title page:
Genealogy
of the
Van Texel -- Van Tassell
family
in America
1625-1900
Descendants of
JAN CORNELISSEN VAN TEXEL
Born 1625 On Isle of TEXEL off north
Coast of HOLLAND
Compiled
by
DANIEL VAN TASSEL
(Typed and Indexed, 1950-1951, through the Van Tassell organization of Utah from a typed copy of the original by Mariam R. Owen).
Pages 53-54:
Abraham born 1754, died March 15, 1826. Married Hester Devoe, daughter of Abraham and Leah (Storms) Devoe. Born April 24, 1759, died about 1799. Married 2nd, February 2, 1802, Sarah Minnerly, widow.
. . . Abraham was a tall, raw boned man and was early nick-named "Brom Bones" to distinguish him from other Van Tassels bearing the same name, who lived in the neighborhood and attended the Sleepy Hollow Church at that time. Abraham lived in Sleepy Hollow a little north of Carle's Mill. His name appears upon an old Revolutionary muster roll still existing of Captain Gabriel Requa's Company of the upper part of the Manor of Philipsburgh. It was made up between 1778 and 1780. On it appears the name: "Abram Van Tassel (Bones)". For many years after the war Abraham was chorister and reader at the Old Sleepy Hollow Church in Tarrytown, New York.