Notes for: Phoebe (Vemmete/Femmetje) Voorhees
Her last name comes from Sinnott, page 162. I have good information that "Phoebe" is the Anglicized form of Femmetje. This appears to be true.
Here is some information on her from the Voorhees book. It is talking about Femmetje / Phoebe (Voorhees) Bodine, wife of John Bodine (b. abt. 1730).
The following is supposedly written about Femmetje Voorhees in the Voorhees book on page 122:
"She lived at Sowerland, NJ.* John Bodine died intestate and the estate was administered 19 Sept. 1770 by William Van Doren and Jacobus Voorhees of Somerset Co. Fellow bondsmen was Hendrick Sedam. A letter from S. B. Powell (daughter of Phebe A. LaTourette), North Hector, NY dated 30 Nov 1876 to John B. Thompson states, "Mother received a letter from you etc. requesting history of her father's family.---- Her father was Abram Bodine and mother Anna Bice. They came to this county when mother was 4 years old. Mother's grandmother Bodine's maiden name was Phebe Voorhees." (The writer lists the names of Femmetje Voorhees' children and their spouses as given here. She states that they came from Sowerland, near Readington, NJ. The writer of the letter had visited Mr. Stine at Plainfield, NJ - John Bodine Thompson papers, Rutgers University Library.)
*"Sowerland" is the Blawenburg-Montgomery area.
What the above means is that this Bodine family was originally from near the Blawenburg-Montgomery area (Hunterdon Co.) of New Jersey. Around 1789, Abraham and his wife Anna moved to the area of North Hector (now in Schuyler Co.), New York. This would go along with my assumption that the Abraham Bodine buried in the Old Lodi Burial Ground in Lodi, Seneca Co., NY is the son of John and Phoebe Bodine. Lodi is not too far from North Hector.