62–63.  Jeremiah Bortle of Columbia County, New York was born on Tuesday, December 15, 1795, and died on June 1, 1855. Lydia _____ was born in Massachusetts on Friday, September 27, 1793, and died on November 14, 1865. They were married about 1816. She took the name Lydia Bortle. They had five children:

i. Charlotte Bortle was born on October 27, 1817, and died on March 24, 1900. She married Ezra Able. This information from the Bible of Eva Youngblood. Ezra Abel appears in the 1840 and 1850 censuses for Columbia County, NY, Claverack, p. 124 & 040 respectively.
ii. Mary Jenette Bortle [#31]: She was born in New York on October 2, 1820, and died in Berrien County, Michigan, on February 6, 1875.
iii. Peter Bortle was born on December 17, 1822, and died on March 7, 1880. He married Amanda Strong; they had two children:
  1. Frank A. Bortle, born 1854, died September 25, 1861
  2. June Estella Bortle, born May 11, 1859, died June 25, 1864, of diphtheria.
iv. Jeremiah Bortle was born in Columbia County, New York, on May 24, 1825. He married Sarah Stupplebeen.
Note: The IGI* has the marriage of Jeremiah Bortle to Sarah Stupplebeen on September 2, 1847, in the Mellenville Reformed Church, Columbia, New York. Baptism Records of Reformed Churches ... gives for this church, the baptism of Ellen Jane Bortle, born 6 Nov 1849, baptized 8 Jul 1850, parents Jeremiah Bortle, Jr. and Sarah Stopplebeen [sic]. The Ten Broeck family Bible gives his wife as Sarah St___; the entry was incomplete but the author believes that it is "Stupplebeen". There is an interesting, if not confusing, coincidence: Hillsdale Reformed Church Births and Baptisms has a Jeremiah Bortle born December 8, 1824, christened May 14, 1825, (10 days different from this Jeremiah—if they, indeed, are different). His parents are John P. Bortle and Catharine Hoffman.
v. Maria Bortle was born in New York on August 26, 1827, and died probably in Erie County, Pennsylvania, on April 25, 1865. She married Charles Darling on November 22, 1852. He was born in New York in 1827; they had one child Mary M. Darling, born 1854.

Charlotte (Bortle) Abell Jeremiah Bortle Sarah (Sl___) Bortle
Charlotte (Bortle) Abell Jeremiah Bortle Sarah (Stupplebeen) Bortle
Peter Bortle Frank Bortle June Estella Bortle
Peter Bortle Frank Bortle June Estella Bortle

A Tentative Bortle Story

The names, dates, and family associations come from the Bible of Margaret Lydia Tenbroeck Youngblood. Ten Broeck Genealogy, p. 162, gives: Peter Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck, born April 17, 1817; married January 19, 1842, Mary Jannette Bortle, of Claverack [note that the Bible gives the year as 1841; 1842 is probably the correct date because the Bible entry had to be written long after the fact]. However, this associates the Bortle family with Claverack.

The 1790 census of Columbia County contains no Bortle families. It does contain many Ten Broeck and Van Rensselaer entries.

The 1820 census of Columbia County contains entries for

1830 Census Columbia Co., NY (National Archives reel 87) Males (ages) Females (ages)
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5		5
10		 10
15		15
20		 20
30		30
40		 40
50		50
60		 60
70		70
80		 80
90		 0
5		5
10		 10
15		15
20		 20
30		30
40		 40
50		50
60		 60
70		70
80		 80
90
p.41: Ezekiel Bortle -------1--- --1-2------
p.78: Philip Bortle 1-1-2------ 2---1---1--
p.80: Philip Bortle ----------1 -------1---
p. 109: Charles Darling -11--1----- --2--1--1--

The 1840 Census index for New York includes:

These need to be looked up in detail.

The following two census entries were consecutive in the book.

1860 Census, Erie Co., Pennsylvania
Summit Township, p. 10; June 7, 1860 Archives film #1108
NameAge Occup."Land""Cash"Born
Peter Bortle 38Farmer $327N.Y.
Amanda Bortle 26   Pa.
Estella Bortle 1   Pa.
Chas. P. Darling32 Farm laborer $235N.Y.
Maria Darling 32   N.Y.
Mary M. Darling 6In school  Pa.
Lida* Bortle 65   Mass.
*Lida is most certainly Maria's mother, Lydia (_____) Bortle.

Check out some lists of Bortle (Barthel / Borthel / Bartell / Bartel / Bartle) marriage, birth and baptism church records from early Columbia County, New York.

A search of the IGI (International Genealogical Index) for Charlotte Bortle yields three entries for a person born October 10, 1797, in Northumberland, Saratoga County, New York. One record gives her husband as Grover Buell; the other two give relatives: Owen F. Buell and Rebecca Ann Cherry Porter. She is possibly a sister to Jeremiah: she is two years older, born in the same state, and his eldest daughter is also Charlotte. The IGI gives a Grover Buell born December 24, 1794, in Northumberland, his father's namesake. Another record gives their marriage about 1816 in Northumberland.

There appear to be at least two families in the Claverack Township, Columbia County, New York, area with similar names: the family of Henrich Barthel, a German who immigrated with the Palatine migration about 1710, or another Palatine family, Andries Bartel; and the Dutch Bortle family. Even tho the names are similar and are often spelled like one-another, the Bartel family seems to have maintained its spelling and conducted its birth and marriage ceremonies in a Lutheran Church, usually in Loonenburg. The Bortle family seems to have had their services in a Dutch Reformed Church.

Isaac Barthel/Bortel and Catherine Hoffman
The IGI gives a Jeremias Bortel christened in 1801 in the Saint Johns Lutheran Church, Manorton, Columbia, New York. His parents were Isaak Bortle and Catharina Hoffman. If he is the Jeremiah of this entry, then the parents' names are not as expected, the use of the a Lutheran Church is unusual, and there was a six-year delay from his birth to his christening.

Columbia County marriage records give the marriage of Isaac Barthel and Catherine Hoffman in the Reformed Church of Claverack on January 22, 1788. Also, the birth of a son, Peter, to this couple on June 17, 1788, was recorded in the same church. Here is a family with records in both the Dutch Reformed Church and Lutheran Church.

The IGI further gives a Catherine Hoffman christened on September 26, 1762, in Germantown, Columbia, New York; her parents were Robert Hoffman and Sara Naalstein.


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