History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 24

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466

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Marynus Gerretse and Annaatje Lisk: Children-I. Hen- drick, April 8, 1780; 2. Johannes, Dec. 14, 1781 ; 3. Trynt- je, July 24, 1793.

Pieter Gerretse and Priscilla Cadmus: Children-I. Ger- ret, bap. Jan. 22, 1769 ; 2. Jannetje, b. July 16, 1780.

John Garretse and Antje Toers, m. May I, 1783. Child- ren-I. Annaatje, June II, 1784; 2. Cathalyntje, Feb. 15, 1786 ; 3. Hendrick, Oct. 27, 1787.

Johannes Gerritse and Antje Van Winkel : Child-Jo- hannis, Dec. 7, 1790.

Gerret Gerritse and Grietje Gerritse : Child-Marritje, Sept. 27, 1791.

Pieter Gerritse, widower, m. Jannetje Van Vechten, wid. of Ad. Post, Aug. 5, 1781.

Helmich Van Wagenen m. Fietje Van Duyn, Jan. 15, I792.

Helmich Gerritse m. Maria Van Aalen, Feb. 25, 1792. Gerrit Gerritse m. Maragrietje Van Rypen, July 12, 1794.

Peter Van Wagenen m. Sarah Plum, Sept. 25, 1796.

Jacob Gerritse m. Lea Wesselse, Feb. 6, 1803.

John G. Gerritse m. Elizabeth Van Giesen, Mar. 31, I&II.

Jacobus Van Wagenen m. Grietje Cadmus, Sept. 21, ISII.

Henry G. Gerritse m. Margerit Blair, Feb. 9, 1812.

John I. Gerritse, jun., m. Mary Brouwer, Mar. 21. 1813.

Peter H. Gerritse and Eva Romyn had children: I. Geertje, b. April 30, 1789 ; 2. Joannes, b. Aug. 24, 1791.

Garret G. Garretse (probably a son of Gerrit G. Van Wagenen and Rachel Westervelt, and a grandson of Gerre- brant, son of Gerrit Gerritse and Maritje Gerbrants) m. Marritje Doremus, April 17, 1791. Children-I. Gerrit, b. Nov. 5, 1791 ; 2. Rachel, b. Oct. 15, 1794; 3. Marragrietje, b. Jan. I, 1797; 4. Hendrick, b. Aug. 30, 1799; 5. Corne- lius, b. Nov. 24, 1801; 6. Gerrebrant, b. Nov. 19, 1805 ; 7. Simeon, b. Nov. 19, 1809.

Garret Joli. Gerritse and Margrietje C. Doremus had child : Marretje, b. Sept. 3, 1784.

III. AND XI. WALLING JACOBS AND SYMON JACOBS (VAN WINKLE).

According to the Dutch system of nomenclature in the seventeenth century, it is proper to infer that these two men were sons of a man whose Christian name was Jacob. It is also safe to assume, from the customs of the time, that Wal- ling and Symon were the names of members of the family of a preceding generation. In the annals of that century we have two men living in the neighborhood of Bergen, one called Jacob Waling, and the other called Simon Waling, and in the generation after them we find their names per- petuated among a family known in later years as the Van Winkles. In view of these facts, and in the absence of ev- idence to the contrary, the writer assumed twenty years ago, that Jacob Waling was the common ancestor of this family in this vicinity.1 It is true, that Jacob Waling is spoken of as from Hoorn, and that Simon Waling is referred to as from the Bilt-van de Bilt ; but the Van Horns of Hudson

1 The author submitted these conclusions in. January, 1874, to the late Dr. E. B. O'Callaghan, who, in a very kind letter in reply, doubted their correctness, taking the view that Jacob Walingen van Hoorn could not have been the ancestor of the van Winkels, nor could Simon Waling van de Bilt have been related to either Jacob Waling van Hoorn, or to the van Winkels. After the publication of Winfield's History of Hudson County, the author informed Mr. Winfield of the above views regarding the ancestry of the van Winkels, but Mr. Winfield was of the same opin- ion as Dr. O'Callaghan. At that time the records of the Dutch church in New York had been very imperfectly published ; since then, they have been printed with great care in the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, and we have the dates of baptisms of three of the children of Jacob Waling, as will be seen hereafter. These baptisms establish be- yond all reasonable doubt the fact that Jacob Waling was the founder of the van Winkel family in this region.

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county do not trace their ancestry to the former, nor do the Vanderbilts claim Simon Waling as their progenitor. Assuming that the two men were brothers, it is not unlikely that Simon may have migrated from Winkel-a small vil- lage in the northern part of North Holland-to Hoorn, one of the principal seaports of the same province, on the Zuid- er Zee, and thence down to de Bilt, another little village, near Utrecht. Jacob perhaps made his way to Hoorn at the same time, and as both brothers became somewhat identi- fied with the places where they had made new homes, the one was called Jacob, van Hoorn, and the other Simon, van de Bilt. In later years, desiring to be identified with their ancestral home, their descendants took the name or were called van Winkel, after the little village whence Jacob and Simon originally came. Simon was one of a large party of settlers who came out from Holland, in the ship Rensselaers- wyck, in which they sailed October 1, 1636, and located at Rensselaerswyck, New York, under the direction of the Pa- troon of that colony.1 He was still there in 1644, when he was assessed 24 schepels of wheat and 26 schepels of oats for the tenth due to the Patroon.2 He entered into an agree- . ment, October 7, 1648, to purchase Peter vander Linden's plantation on Manhattan island, for 175 guilders (about $70).3 A few months later he appears to have been settled at Pavonia, about Paulus Hoeck, where he was found dead, on March 9, 1649, and from the arrows and wounds in his head he was naturally supposed to have been killed by the Indians, probably by the Raritans, or by some of a more southern tribe. His house was plundered of about 300 guilders in string sewant, four beavers and five otters, with some cloth and friezes. It was conjectured that this theft drew him from his house in pursuit of the marauders, as he was found lying dead on the ground, with a small ladder in his hand, about a pistol shot from his door. The body was carried across the river to Manhattan, where the affair cre- ated so much excitement that the Governor and Council de- cided to make no further stir about it, and to do what they could to reconcile the whites and the Indians. Still, it was included as one of the counts against the natives in justifi- cation of the massacre of 1655, it making the deeper im- pression because it was the first fatal affair following after the peace of 1645.4 These are the only notices we have of Simon Waling. His life in the New World was brief, and his end a tragic one.

The first mention we have of Jacob Walingen is under date of January 12, 1639, when he made a declaration that David Peterson (de Vries), of Hoorn, skipper, had in the year 1636 threatened to leave Cicero Pierre at Cayenne and Virginia. 5 This suggests that Jacob may have accompanied de Vries on the voyage in question, or that they were ac-

quaintances at Hoorn. In 1641 he and Jan Evertsen Bout were appointed on a committee of twelve men to suggest to the authorities the best means to punish the Indians for murders they had committed.1 He appears to have made an unsuccessful attempt to locate a colony at the Fresh River (the Connecticut), the English refusing to grant the petition of his company to take up land, of which the New England- ers afterwards took possession themselves.2 A patent was granted to him, October 23, 1654, for "25 morgens of land across the North River, between Gemoenepae and the Kil van Kol."3 He was admitted to the rights of a small Burgh- er of New Amsterdam, April 17, 1657.4 He must have died soon after, for his widow, Tryntje Jacobs, married Jacob Stoffelsen (widower of Vrouwtje Ides), August 17, 1657, by whom she had two children-Stoffel, bap. December 19, 1660, and Tryntje Jacobs, bap. Jan. 28, 1665. On June 17, 1668, she was again married, this time to Michael Tades, (widower of Annetje Eduwarts).5 Surviving him, she for a fourth time entered the state of matrimony, on March 15, 1671, Casper Steenmets, a widower, being her next choice. She died May II, 1677, and Steenmets succeeded to her rights, as the widow of Stoffelsen, to a tract of land on Erie, Grove and South streets and Jersey avenue, Jersey City.6 She was the third wife of Steenmets, his first having been Dorothea Aestens, and his second, m. March 31, 1651, Jenneken Gerrits, spinster, from Zutphen. His son, Chris- topher Steenmets, subsequently became interested in Ac- quackanonk, and his descendants are numerous in this re- gion.

Second Generation.

Jacob Waling and Tryntje Jacobs had children :

I. Grietje, b. about 1645; m. Elias Michielse (Vree- land), of Gemoenepa, Aug. 30, 1665. Her descendants will be found under her husband's name, on a subsequent page.

II. Jacob, bap. Oct. 16, 1650 ; m. Aeltje Daniels, wid., Dec. 15, 1675 ; 2d, Grietje Hendricks Hollinge, March 26, 1695, who d. Sept. 20, 1732; he d. Nov. 20, 1724.

III. Waling, b. about 1651; m. Catharina Michielse (Vreeland), March 15, 1671. He never seems to have held any public office, and the notices of him are but few in the records. The belief is that soon after 1700 he lo- cated on the east bank of the Passaic, opposite and below the draw-bridge, where he had an extensive farm, embrac- ing much of the present Rutherford, which he had bought in 1682, or earlier, from John Berry.7 In 1707 a road was

1 N. Y. Civil List, 1869, 5.

2 Remonstrance of New Netherland, 28; N. Y. Col. Docs., I., 332.

3 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 381 ; O'Callaghan's New Netherland, II., 588.

4 The Register of New Netherland ; 1626 to 1674. By E. B. O'Cal- laghan, LL.D .; Albany, 1865, 182; N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collections, 1885,24.

5 N. Y. Dutch Church Records, passim.

6 Winfield's Land Titles of Hudson County, 46, 349, 402. At a meet- ing of the Governor and Council at Newark, May 28, 1673, "A commit- tee had examined the petition of Casper Steenmets in behalf of Trenica Wallens his wife to the second farm at Harsimus, granted March 5, 1665, to Jacob Stoffelsen then husband of Tryntje Wallings."-E. J. Deeds, Liber 3, f. 82.

7 Recital in E. J. Deeds, Liber A, f. 40.

1 O'Callaghan's New Netherland, I., 436.

2 Ib., 472.

3 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 335.

4 Valentine's N. Y. Manual, 1863, 547-8 ; A Brief and True Narra- tive, etc., 1655-6, reprinted at Albany, 1873, 5-6 ; Remonstrance of New Netherland, 28; N. Y. Col. Docs., XIII., 49.

5 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 5.

THE VAN WINKLES.

laid out from "the place called the Pole-Fly to Wallen Ja- cobson's," indicating that he was then on the east side of the Passaic. Some of his descendants occupy part of this Ber- gen county tract to this day. Although he is spoken of as "of Acquackanonk in the county of Essex," it is to be borne in mind that the bounds of Acquackanonk were sometimes construed to extend across the river into the present Bergen county. However, while Waling may have established a home with his brother Symon and their neighbors, along the western shores of the Passaic river, upon one of the Hund- red Acre Lots, we find him, as stated on a previous page, conveying away a half of his interest in Acquackanonk, by deed dated May 6, 1689, to the heirs of Abram Cornelisse van Waggim. As this is the oldest document known to ex- ist, next to the Patent itself, relating to the conveyance of land within the bounds of Acquackanonk, it is given here- with in its quaint and somewhat peculiar Dutch. The com- mas at the end of words indicate a contraction, usually for the letter e or the letter n :

Compareerde voor my Claes Arentse toers Klerck jn d' Jurisdicy' Bergen jn oost nieu Jarsey d' Eersame Walinkh Jacobse van Winckel woonachtich op Achquickanonck jn d' County van essex d' welck' By desen bekend' opdraege' geceedeert' en getransporteert' t' hebben, aend' Erfgenamen van Wylen Abram Cornelisse van Waggim Salr: een Lott Landt geleegen jn d' Buurte van Achquichanonck jn d' nieuw' Lotinge geteekent No. 8 synd' d' Helft van het Veertiend' gedeelt jn d' Buurte van Achquichanonck Welck' Lott Landt hy voor desen Bekend' verkoght te hebbe' aend' voorn. Abram Cornelisse voor d' Somm' van vyftich £ of tweedingsent gulders en d' Bekend' van alles ten dancke voldaen en Betaelt t'weisen d' Laetst' penninck met den Eersten, soo dat d' Compar- andt het voorn: Lott Landt by desen Cedeert e' transporteert e' opdraeg- aend' gemelte Erfgenamen van Abram Corneliss' van Waggim ofte aen desselfs successuers ofte die naemaels dese haerlieden acty mocht' ver- krygen, jn een Volkomen possessy e' Eygendom met alle d' Laste e' gerechticheden tot het selve Lott Landt Verhaarend' haerde' dat de Com- parandt daer Ewich reght of acty, of tytel of pretensy aen is Behoudend' maer desis daer van voor hem selfs of successuers oft' di' namaels syn acty mochte verkrygen van nu en ten Eeuwigen daegen beloovend' dit transpoort vast e' onverbreckelyck te houden doen houden alles ondert verbandt' van alle Reghten e' reght' In oiccord' deses heeft Comparandt dit met syn Eygen handt onderteykent e' geseegclt Actum Bergen jn oost Nieu Jarsey den 6 mey 1689

Getekent en gesegelt jn onse precenty

.walin Jacobsen [L. S.]

Als getuygen

R. Van: Giesen Jan Arent

In kennis van my Claes Arentse toers klerck

[Endorsed :]

transpoordt en opdraght van Walingh Jacobse aende Erfgenamen Wylen Abram Cornelisse van Wag[gim]

(Translation.)

Appeared before me, Claes Arentse Toers, Clerk in the jurisdic- tion of Bergen in East New Jersey, the Hon. Waling Jacobsen van Wink- el, living at Acquackanonk in the county of Essex, who by these pres- ents acknowledges that he has transferred, assigned and conveyed unto the heiress of the late Abram Cornelissen van Waggim, deceased, a lot of land lying within the precinct of Acquackanonk, in the new allotment, marked No. 8, being the [or " his "] Half of the Fourteenth share in the precinct of Acquackanonk, which Lot of land be ac- knowledges to have heretofore sold unto the aforesaid Abram Cornelissen for the sum of fifty pounds or two hundred guilders, and he also ac- knowledges the said obligation to be paid and satisfied, the last penny with the first, so that the grantor by these presents assigns, transfers and conveys the said Lot of land unto the said heiress of Abram Cornelis- sen van Waggim or to her successors or to her heirs after her, so that they may be vested with the complete possession and ownership, with

all of the appurtenances and rights in, of and to the said lot of land per- taining, so that the appearer forever hereafter shall have no claim, or deed, or title or pretense to ownership therein, but for himself and his successors binds himself and them, from now to eternity, that by no act of his can or may this conveyance he challenged, but shall be observed, done and kept hy everyone bound hy every right and justice. In ac- cordance therewith the appearer has with his own hand subscribed and sealed this instrument. Done at Bergen in East New Jersey the sixth of May 1689

Signed and sealed in our presence Walin Jacobsen [L. S.]

As witnesses

R. Van : Giesen In the cognizance of me Claes Arentse

Jan Arent

Toers, Clerk

[Endorsed :]

Assignment and Transfer

from Wałingh Jacobse

to the Heiress

of the late Abram Cornelisse van Wag[gim]

Abram Cornelissen van Waggim was doubtless a son of Cornelis Abrahams, an agriculturist from Gelderland (and probably from Wageningen), who migrated to this country in the Gilded Otter, which sailed from New Netherland April 27, 1660.1 The Grietje Abrams, or Grietje Cornelis mentioned below, was in all likelihood his daughter and sole heiress. She and her husband-the first Barkalow occur- ring in the history of this neighborhood-joined in the fol- lowing deed :

Compareerde voor my Claes Arents' toers Klerck jnd' Jurisdicy' van Bergen jn oost nieu Jarsey d' Eersame' Jan Harmiensen van Borkeloo en grietje abrams ge eghte [ woonacht de eygenaer een stuck] Landt' synd' wettige Erfgenamen van wylen : Abram Corn[eliss' van Waggim] en By deses Bekende' en verklaert' opgedraegen [geceederten getrans]poorteert' te hebben, gelyck sylieden [opgedr]aegen, cedeeren' en transporteeren by desen Aen en ten behoev' van Hossel Pieterse woonachtich op Achqueghanonk jnd' County van essex, een stuck Landt, geleegen jnd' Buurte van Achqueghanonck jnd' County van essex jnd' nieuwe Looting', geteekend' No. 8 synd' de Helft van het veertiend' gedeelt' jnd' gemelte Buurte sodanick als het d' Comparant' van d' Eerst' Eygenaer Walingh Jacohse de' 6 mey 1689 getranspoorteert is, welck Lott Landt sylieden Bekenne voor desen verkoght te hebben aend' gemelte hessel pieterse voord' somme van tweentsestigh pont tien schel- ling', oft' vyfentwintigh gulden hondert Nierlants gelt volgens Coop- brief gedateert den 12 maert 169%% e' Bekenne' By desen van alle' ten dancke voldae' en Betaelt te weesen, de Laetste peninck met de' eerste soo dat Comparant' het voorn : Lott Lant, By desen opdraegen', cedeeren en. transporteeren aend' gemelt Hessel Pieterse, en aen syn successuers en erfgenamen, ofte die namaels dese syne Acty mochte verkrygen, in een ware volcomene' possessy, en eygendom met alle de Laste en gereghi- ticheede, tot het selve Lott Landt Behooren sonder dat sy cedent' daer Eewige Acty Reght, of tytel, of pretensy aen syn Behoudend', maer desisteerende dae' van, voorhaerlieden selfs en voor haere successuers, en erfgenamen, voor nu en ten eeuwigen daegen, Beloovend' dit transpoort vast bondich en onverbreekelyck te houden en doen houden, alles on- dert verbandt van alle' Rechten, en Rechteren, In oiccord' deses hebben de Comparant' dit met haer eygen handen onderteykent, Actum Bergen In oost nieu Jarsey den 20 Mey 1695

Jan Harmiensen van berkello [L. S.]

Getekent, en geseegelt, en geleesert jn onse presenty als getuyg' Johanniss thomassin dit ist merck van X Cornelis Thomasse jan arent den[to?]ers

[Endorsed :] Transpoort van J[an] Harmese van Borcoloo Ten Hessel Pieterse den 20 mey 1695 1 N. Y. Doc. Hist., III., 37.

dit ist merck van Grietje X Cornelis [L. S.]

In kennis van myn Claes Arentse toers Clerck

HISTORY OF PATERSON.

MEMORANDUM, on the II day of february in

the Year of our Lord One Thousand [Seven Hu]ndred & fifty Three Jobannes Thomasse one of the [subscribing] Witnesses to the within Deed, being duly Sworn before [me Uzal] Ogden one of the Judges of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas for the County of Essex, maketh Oath that be Saw John [Harmien]sen van Borkeloo, and Griety Cornel- ius otherwise called Grietje [Ahram]s his Wife Seal & Deliver the within Instrument as their Voluntary Act and Deed .-

Taken & Acknowledged & Sworn the Day & Date above before me-

Uzal Ogden

(Translation.)

Appeared before me, Claes Arentse Toers, Clerk in tbe jurisdiction of Bergen, in East New Jersey, the Honorahle (or bonest) Jan Harmiensen van Berkelool and Grietje Abrams, bis wife [ the owner of a piece of] land being tbe lawful heiress of the said Abram Cornelissen van Waggim, and by these presents acknowledges and declares that she has transferred, given and conveyed unto and in behalf of Hessel Pieterse, living at Acquackanonk in the county of Essex, a tract of land lying within the precinct of Acquackanonk, in the new allotment, known as No. 8, and the half of the fourteenth share in tbe said precinct, in the same manner as was conveyed to the appearer by the former owner, Walingh Jacobse, the 6 May, 1689, which lot of land by these presents she acknowledges to have sold unto the said Hessel Pieterse, for the sum of sixty-two pounds ten shillings, or one hundred and twenty-five gulden, Netherlands money, pursuant to a contract dated March 12, 1691, and she acknowledges by these presents to have received full satisfaction and payment, the last penny with the first, so that the grantor by these pres- ents conveys, gives and grants the aforesaid lot of land to the said Hes- sel Pieterse, and to his successors and heirs, so that henceforth by tbis bis deed may be acquired, in a true, perfect possession and ownership, with every custom and right, so that the said lot of land thus granted, shall belong forever, with every right, title or claim to him he- longing, without the let or hindrance of ber, or her successors and heirs, from now to the day of judgment, promising tbis convey- ance to keep firmly and inviolably, and to do and fulfill everything bere- in obligated, with every right and justice, In pursuance whereof the grantor has subscrihed these presents with her own band. Done at Bergen in East New Jersey the 20 May, 1695.

Jan Harmiensen van berckello [L. S.]

Signed, sealed and read

in our presence as witnesses Jobannis Thomasse this is the mark of X

this is the mark of X Cornelis Thomasse jan arent den [to?]ers

Grietje Cornelis [L. S.]

In the cognizance of Claes Arentse toers Clerk

[Endorsed :]

Transfer from Jan Harmiensen Van Borcoloo to Hessel Pieterse the 20 May 1695

It is a curious fact that these deeds seem to have been lost sight of within half a century after their delivery, and in 1756 Peter H. Peterse, son of Hessel Peterse, the grantee in the deed named from Van Berckelloo, took legal steps to

perpetuate such testimony as was available, regarding his right to the lands so bought by his father. The following papers1 tell the story of this proceeding, being now brought into place with the original Dutch deeds, for the first time in nearly a century and a half : Mr. John Van Winckle

You are bereby desired to take Notice, that I intend to examine Micb- ael Van Winckle and John Walense Van Winckle upon Oath, before Samuel Nevill, Esq., one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Province of New Jersey, concerning what they know or can declare touching their Father, Walense Van Winckle's Selling and Conveying a Tract of Land at Aquahenonck to Abraham Cornelius Vanwackum, and what they further know relating to the said Land ; at the House of Jobn Walense Van Winckle, To-morrow Morning, about Seven of the Clock being Saturday the 12th Day of June, 1756. This Notice is therefore given to you, tbat you may he present, and ask them any Questions you think proper : They being very antient men, and their Testimony, as I believe, material in that Affair.

Peter H. Peterse.

June 11th 1756.

[Signature of]

Hessel Pctersie

Be it Remembered, Tbat on the Twelfth day of June, 1756. personal- ly appeared before me, Samucl Nevill, Esq., one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Province of New Jersey, Hessel Petersie,2 who being first duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists, de- clareth and saith, That he served a Copy of the within Notice upon Jobn Van Winckle Son of Jacob Walense Van Winckle upon Friday the 11th Day of June 1756, at the House of the said John Van Winckle. In Wit- ness whereof I bave bereunto set my Hand tbe Day and Year above written.

Samuel Nevill

New Jersey, Ss.

Michael Van Winckle, of New Barbadoes Neck in the County of Ber- gen, and Province of New Jersey, Yeoman Aged Seventy Nine, deposeth and saith, That Walling Jacob Van Winckle was this Deponent's Fath- er ; That he this Deponent very well remembers, That his said Fatber Walling Jacoh Van Winckle sold to one Ahraham Cornelius Van Wagum One Eight and Twentieth Part or one Half of his the said Walling Ja- cob Van Winckle's Right to the Aquahenonck Patent, together with a Lot of Land Numb. 8. in the New Allotments now lying in a Place called Weeselle, as also all his' Right, Claim, and Title to the said Eight and Twentieth Part of the said Patent, the same in Twenty Eight Parts to be divided. And this Deponent further saith, That be bath often heard his said Father say, and declare, That he had sold to the said Van Wag- um all his Eight and Twentieth Part or One Half of his Right to the Aquahenonck Patent aforesaid ; and that the said Patent lies in the County of Essex in the Province aforesaid. And this Deponent further saith, That since the said Bargain and Sale between the said Walling Ja- cob Van Winckle and the said Abraham Cornelius Van Wagum as afore- said, he this Deponent never beard his said Father lay or pretend any Claim to the said Eight and Twentieth Part of tbe said Patent, or to any Part or Parcel thereof. And further this Deponent saith not.

Sworn this Twelfth}

Day of July, 1756. 5

Mighiel Van Winkel

Before

Samuel Nevill.

New Jersey, Ss.

John Van Winckle, of New Barbadoes Neck in the County of Bergen and Province of New Jersey, Yeoman, Aged Seventy Three, deposeth and saith, That Walling Jacob Van Winckle was this Deponent's Father ; Tbat he this Deponent hath often heard the said Walling Jacob Van

1 Jan Harmansen van Berckelloo was doubtless a son of Harman Janse, who emigrated to this country, with his hrother, Willem Janse, in 1662, and bought a house and lot in New Utrecht, Long Island, Feb. 17, 1667, where be resided thereafter .- Bergen's Kings County Settlers, 21. The family derive their surname from Borculo, in Gelderland, Holland, a town and district where a magnificent court was established as early as 1190, which was maintained with varying fortunes so late as 1850, when it was sold by the crown to various individuals. Borculo proper has a population of about 1200, but with three villages embraced in tbe district, about 4,000 .- Terwen, 598.

1 From the Nelson MSS. These papers are all in the bandwriting of Judge Nevill.

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History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 24

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914 Publication date: 1901 Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 466

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466