Johannes Westbrook served as a Trustee at Kingston, N.Y. 1694. He is one of the six white founders of Minisink Village. (Wantage recorder, Dec. 22 and 29, 1911). He took the oath of allegiance in Ulster County, N.Y., September 1, 1689.559, pg 281

He was a member of the Company of Fort in Kingston, 1686 or 1687.560, pg 280-281

In 1709-10, and in 1718-19, he was taxed one schilling in Ulster County for one fyre place.561, pg 280-281

A view of the Westbrook house built about 1725 is given in Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York,” 1936/1968, p. 581; in “That Ancient Trail,” 1942, p. 111; in “Fifty Years on the Frontier with the Dutch Congregation at Maghaghkamik,” 1937, p. ii; and in “Before the Waters, The Upper Delaware Valley,” 1966, p. 31.