Provoost Research Page 1

A number of references to Provoost including:

David Provoost (1), of New York, owned the property now (1870) known as Jonas' Wood. He married ____ Rhinelander, and had four sons: John, William, Henry and _____; and one daughter

William (2) son of David (1) came to Rye, and bought of David Doughty sixty-seven acres of land near Rye Ferry - lately known as the Provoost estate.

William T. (3), son of William (2), became the sole proprietor of Rye Ferry. He married Mary Carson, daughter of Robert Carson. She died in 1844. They had seven sons, five of whom removed to Buffalo.
James (4) died in 1868.
Robert (4), who died in 1840.
David (4), Samuel (4) and John (4) now (1870) living.
George, whose family are now residing on Rye Neck, died in 1846.
William (4), second son of WIlliam T. (3), lives near the steamboat landing, on a part of the old farm, the greater portion of which was bought in 1868 by E.B. Wesley.
'Rye Ferry' ceased to exist about sixty years ago. As late as 1810 or 1811, boats - schooners - ran regularly between this place and Matincock Point, on the opposite shore of Long Island.