Cuddeback, Jacob

Jacob Cuddeback was a French Huguenot. His name was originally spelled Caudeback, and there is a city of that name in France from which he came. It was a place of 9000 inhabitants in 1685. His wife was Margaret Provost, whom he married at Esopus or elsewhere along the Hudson. The pioneer lived to be nearly one hundred years old. His children were: 1, Benjamin, who never married. He lived to be eighty years of age, spending his life in this town. 2, William, who married Jemima Elting and settled on the old homestead. A majority of the Cuddeback families of the present time in this vicinity are his descendants. His children were James, Abram, Benjamin, Roolif, Sarah. 8, James, who married Neelje Decker. He lived near Deckertown, N.J. He died at the age of thirty, but left children, whose descendants are quite numerous in Niagara Co., N.Y. 4, Abraham, who lived to be about eighty. His wife was Esther Swartwout. He spent most of his life in this town, but in old age moved to Skaneateles, where his children had previously settled. 5, Dinah, who married Abraham Lovis, of Rochester, and settled in New Jersey. 6, Eleanor, who married Evert Horn-beck, of Rochester, and lived where Mrs. Joseph Cuddeback now resides. 7, Elsie, who married Harmanus Van Gordon, and lived at the Flat Rocks, in New Jersey. 8, Morice, who married George Westfall, and lived in New Jersey. 9, Naomi, who married Lodewyck Hornbeck, of Rochester.