Tombstone Inscriptions from Church yard of First Dutch Reformed Church of Fishkill, Dutchess Co., NY:

Hier Lydt Het Lighaam
van
Jacobus Swartwout
Zynde in de Here Gerust
den 3 Dagh van April 1749
Oude Zynde 47 jaar.. 1 maande
en 20 dagen

Jacobus and Gieletjen Nieuwkerk of Hurley, moved to Minisink then to Wiccopee near Fishkill. They are buried in Dutch Cemetery at Fishkill.

Taxpayers of Ulster Co listed January 26, 1715 included Thomas and Jacobus Swartwout.

“Swartwout Chronicles,” Page 161: The disagreements and contentions of the settlers at Maghagkemeck and Minnessinck evidently influenced Captain Jacobus, third son of Thomas Swartwout, who had married 10/4/1714 Gieletjen, daughter of Cornelis Gerrits and Jannetje Kunst Nieuwkerk of Hurley, to remove from Maghaghkemeck and settle in Dutchess Co. where at Wiccoppe on November 9, 1721, he had purchased of Cathryna Brett a farm of 306 acres of land. Lying immediately south of the Fish Kill, nine miles easy of the Hudson River, his bouwerij was contiguous to the farms of Johannes Buys and Johannes Ter Bos whose baptismal names were later incorporated in the designation Johnsville bestowed upon the small village near the highlands about a mile southeast of Brinckerhoffville. The fertile acres of his farm are now embraced in the two farms respectively owned by Stephen J. Snook and Francis Burroughs; the one lying about 1/2 and the 3/4 miles east of Johnsville and on the north side of the highway running from that place to village of East Fishkill. On a map of 1779, locality is titled “Swartwouts.”

Fishkill congregation erected a church in the village in 1731. Captain Jacobus Swartwout, who had been admitted to membership in the church on June 17, 1732, was a holder of nine sittings: “five places in pew No. 11; one for himself, one for his wife gieltje and one for his daughter Jacomintje and one for Catrina and one for his son Tomas, and four places above in the gallery, in pew No. 4; one for his son Cornelis and one for Rudolphus and one for Samuel and one for Jacobus. On the death of his father, his sitting in the pew on ground floor was transferred to his son Cornelius.

In Jacobus’ last will and testament, made 12/1/1744, he bequeathed to oldest son, Thomas, 60 pounds or choice of one of his “negroes for his birthright and to his five sons: Thomas, Cornelis, Rudolphus, Samuel, and Jacobus. His estate, which he ordered to be divided equally among them. He died 4/3/1749 and his remains interred in the graveyard on the west side of the Reformed Dutch Church in the village of Fishkill.207