Born c.1681, Christoffell Tappen died at age 59 in August 1740. The paterfamilias of the Tappen family of Kingston, NY, he was born in Fort Orange (present-day Albany, NY) to Dutch settlers Jurian Teunis Tappen and his wife Areentje, maiden name has been given as Jacobse or Davidts. In 1714 he married a native of the Netherlands, the former Cornelia "Neetje" Vas, who survived him by some 19 years. The original Tappen home was among those destroyed when the British burned the city in October 1777, but both Christofell and Cornelia had died many years before the outbreak of the American Revolution.
His gravestone, which is made of brown sandstone, features a winged skull soul effigy in its tympanum, and substitutes the Dutch "Jaar" for "year" in its otherwise English language inscription.
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 1988)
His gravestone, which is made of brown sandstone, features a winged skull soul effigy in its tympanum, and substitutes the Dutch "Jaar" for "year" in its otherwise English language inscription.
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 1988)
Born c.1681, Christoffell Tappen died at age 59 in August 1740. The paterfamilias of the Tappen family of Kingston, NY, he was born in Fort Orange (present-day Albany, NY) to Dutch settlers Jurian Teunis Tappen and his wife Areentje, maiden name has been given as Jacobse or Davidts. In 1714 he married a native of the Netherlands, the former Cornelia "Neetje" Vas, who survived him by some 19 years. The original Tappen home was among those destroyed when the British burned the city in October 1777, but both Christofell and Cornelia had died many years before the outbreak of the American Revolution.
His gravestone, which is made of brown sandstone, features a winged skull soul effigy in its tympanum, and substitutes the Dutch "Jaar" for "year" in its otherwise English language inscription.
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 1988)
His gravestone, which is made of brown sandstone, features a winged skull soul effigy in its tympanum, and substitutes the Dutch "Jaar" for "year" in its otherwise English language inscription.
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 1988)
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
