BANTA, MONTFORT, DEMAREST [and Cook,
Wilcoxson, Boone].....arrived in the 1780's with the Low Dutch
Colony led by Hendrick Banta 3rd. I am descended from Hendrick
through each of his two wives.....from 1st wife, Rachel Banta
and their youngest child, a daughter, Geertje/Charity who
married Frances Montfort Sr. From second wife Antie
Demarest and their son, John Banta who with his wife, Polly
Riker Banta joined the Shakers in 1805. Charity Banta Montfort
joined the Shakers in 1805 with her youngest daughter, Sallie,
followed in the next 5 years by her son Francis Montfort Jr and
his wife, Polly Banta Montfort and their 3 children,in 1806 [she
is the daughter of John and Polly Riker Banta]; son Jacob and
first wife, Margaret Banta and their children in 1809 and
daughter Rachel Montfort Vories and her husband and children in
1810. I have researched the Montfort family extensively and am
willing to share information with anyone interested in the
family as well as information on the Shakers of Kentucky. I
have a website on the Montfort family, a narrative, at
http://bar-b-k.tripod.com
Hendrick
Banta 3rd had 6 children by his first wife, Rachel Brower Banta
and by his second wife, Antie Demarest he would have 13 more.
Hendrick and Antie would also raise 9 grandchildren of a
deceased son and daughter in law.
Francis and Charity Banta Montfort had
9 children: Rachel [John Voris], Katherine [Francis Vories],
Henry [married a Montfort cousin from Ohio and moved there
himself], Francis Jr [married to a half first cousin, Polly
Banta], Maria [married Stephen Terhune, a cousin], Jacob
[married a cousin Margaret/Peggy Banta, divorced her after being
expelled from the Shakers and married second to Nancy Lineback],
Sallie [never married, joined the Shakers with her mother], John
Calvin [married to Nancy Agnes Mitchell and then to Ruth Gess],
and Charity [married to Cornelius Lyster].
David W. Montfort, youngest child of
Francis and Polly Banta Montfort, would be born in 1806 eight
and a half months after his parents joined the Shakers and would
live as a Shaker till he left in 1827. He would marry in 1832,
Mary Cook, daughter of Seth and Frances Wilcoxson Cook of Shelby
County. Frances is the daughter of Lt Daniel and Sallie
Faulkner Wilcoxson and a granddaughter of Sarah Boone Wilcoxson
[John]. Squire and Daniel Boone were younger brothers of Sarah
Boone Wilcoxson.
Siblings of David were brother John,
born in 1803, married to Susan Minn [?] and has descendants
living...and sister, Charity born in 1805 who would marry Isaac
B. Fallis and have one son before her death in the early 1830's.
Lt Wilcoxson is a Revolutionary War
veteran buried in Shelby County. Francis Montfort Sr's service
in the Revolutionary War has been recently proven for membership
in DAR, if anyone is interested.
I hope this is acceptable for
inclusion on the First Families part of the Shelby County Genweb...any
questions, feel free to contact me at this address. Thanks.