History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 28

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

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I. Benjamin Vanderlinda, b. Dec. 29, 1793.

II. Annaatje, b. Sept. 27, 1797.

III. Jacob, b. Sept. 8, 1800.

IV. Johannis, b. Jan. 22, 1806; bap. March 2, 1806, at which time his father was dead.

The following data are gleaned from the Acquackanonk, Totowa and Hackensack church records :

Lucas Van Winkel m. Lena Van Wagenen, Oct. 29, 1780. Children : I. Sietje, b. Aug. 7, 1784; 2. Rachel, b. Sept. 15, 1781 ; 3. Lena, b. June 18, 1787; 4. Rachel, b. Feb. 21, 1790; 5. Jacobus, b. March 26, 1797.

I Bergen County Wills, A, 239.

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Joseph Van Winkel and Lea (or Lidia) Wood had child- ren : I. Pryntje, b. April 24, 1794; 2. Egbert, b. Sept. 29, I80I.

Isaac Van Winkel m. Helena Schoonmaker, Aug. 21, 1796. Ch., Johannes Wanshair, b. March 4, 1797.

Jacob Van Winkle, sen., bachelor, m. Jenneke Van Win- kel, June II, 1780. Children-I. Simeon, b. Sept. 26, ' 1783; 2. Lena, b. May 8, 1785; 3. Jenneke, b. June 9, 1788; 4. Myntje, b. April 19, 1793.

Jacob Van Winkel and Elsye Keep had ch., Jannetje, b. Dec. 9, 1776.

Johannes Van Winkel, jun., m. Sarah Van Winkel, April 15, 1787.

Jacobus Van Winkel and Margrietje Toers had children -- I. Annetje, b. Oct. 24, 1788; 2. Jacob, b. June II, 1790 ; 3. Tietje, b. Jan. 15, 1794; 4. Lena, b. May 7, 1797 ; 5. Margrietje, b. March 23, 180I.

Johannis Van Winkel and Gerritye Sip had children-I. Waling, b. June 6, 1772; m. Selly Gerrebrantse, Oct. 29, 1797 ; 2. Helmigh, b. Dec. 14, 1777 ; m. Antje Van Houten, Aug. 19, 1804 ; ch., Johannes, b. Feb. 22, 1805.

Johannes Van Winkel and Cattelyntje Ryerson had ch., Cattelyntje, b. Nov. 5, 1777.

Johannes Van Winkel and Elizabeth Ryerson had child- ren : I. Maria DeBoos, b. April 5, 1793 ; 2. Johannes Jores Ryerson, b. Nov. I, 1795.

John Van Winkel and Tiesje Vreeland had ch., Annatje, b. March 29, 1800.

Seventh Generation.

Waling Helmich-Waling-Johannis-Waling-Jacobse had children :

I. Helmich, b. Feb. 16, 1806; in. Catharine Camp- bell, dau. of Donald McIntyre, of New York,

He gave the writer the following sketch of his life, on June I, 1881 :

Before I was married I started a grocery and general coun- try store at Franklin, Essex county, near Kingsland's paper mills. Most of Kingsland's operatives dealt with me, but it was not a "mill store." About this time the Duncans had a small hat shop along the river, about two miles below Belleville; they then engaged in the cot- ton business at Franklin, where they subsequently failed. I remained at Franklin about four years. Then I went into the paper business with Kingsland at the old Curtis Mill, which was subsequently burned down. Kingsland sold out to Curtis and rebuilt his paper mills where the Kingslands now are. I was with him two or three years until he re- built. I then, in April, 1833, came to Paterson, and bought out Lemuel White, who had a grocery in Van Houten street, where Nathaniel Lane was later. I remained on that site two years, removing thence to where Henry Van Gieson subsequently kept store for so many years, on Main street, east side, near Broadway. It was then an old frame building, a mere shanty. It was kept by Samuel B. Hazard at that time ; I bought him out. I occupied that stand for about ten years, when I removed to the south-west corner of Main and Ellison streets, where I remained un- til I went out of business.

Mr. Van Winkel was alderman from the east ward of Pat- erson, 1864-68; he was deputy tax receiver for about ten years before his death, which occurred Feb. 15, 1885. His widow died Nov. II, 1886. He lived for many years on the north-west corner of Church and Van Houten streets.

II. Richard, b. Jan. 21, 18II.

III. Marritje, b. Aug. 3, 1813.

Waling Waling-Waling-Johannis-Waling-Jacobse had children :

I. Dirck, b. March 28, 1805.

II. Jannetje, b. Sept. II, 1807.

III. Sophia, b. Feb. 6, 1810.

IV. Nicasie, b. Nov. 17, 1812.

V. Richard, b. Oct. 16, 1816.

VI. Petrina, b. 1818.

VII. Rachel Ann, b. 1820.

VIII. Catharine, b. 1822; d. in inf.

IX. Claertje, b. 1823.

X. Catharine Jane, b. 1826.

John Simeon-John-Simeon-Symon-Jacobse had child- ren :

I. Cornelius, b. Sept. 9, 1806; m. Catharine Leah Van Dien, of Paramus, March 4, 1809; he d. May 25, 1873 ; she d. August 5, 1879, aged 70 years. He owned the Riverside farm, where he lived until he sold it to the Riverside Land Improvement Company, after which he resided on the south- west corner of Ellison and Hamilton streets. He was greatly interested all his life in the First Reformed church, of which he was a zealous and generous supporter. Child- ren-I. John H., b. Feb. II, 1827; d. July 27, 1828; 2. Anna, m. Helmas Romaine; 3. John H., b. Sept. 29, 1846 ; d. April 6, 1851 ; 4. Simon Peter.

II. Peter, b. June 23, 1810; he was killed, April 29, 1828, by being thrown off a horse he was leading to water near his father's mill.

Frans Simeon-John-Simeon-Symon-Jacobse had child- ren :

I. David, m. Brache (Bridget) Decker, of Macopin, and died at the age of 85. Children-I. John, d. in inf. ; 2. Lettie, m. John Smith, and lived in Passaic street, Pater- son, many years ; 3. Jennie, m. Chauncey Andrews, jun., Paterson ; 4. John ; 5. Margaret, m. John Osbon, of Sad- dle River ; 6. Caty, m. Anthony Sheffield, of Mahwah; 7. David.

II. Elenor, b. March 14, 1797; m. Richard Myers.

III. Elizabeth, m. John Myers, who lived at the top of Goffle hill. He had no fear of snakes, and one day, as the men who were mowing expressed a dread of the numer- ous copperheads, he declared that he would catch them in his hands as fast as they could find them. The third one he seized was too quick for him, and as he failed to grasp it as high up the neck as he intended, it buried its poisonous fangs in his hand. He applied a poultice of plantain leaves, salt and hoarhouno to the wound, and drank freely of a decoction of plantain leaves and milk. Although his arm had been greatly swollen, up to the shoulder, he was out of danger the next day.

IV. Jane, m. John Zabriskie, who d. young, leaving her with one child, Mary, who m. John Van Blarcom, whose sons, Daniel and John Frank, live in a house erected on the site of the former residence of Francis Van Winkle.

Jacob Simeon-Jacob-Simeon-Symon-Jacobse had child- ren :

I. Jacob, m. Polly Helms. Ch., Peter, b. Nov. 2, 1805. .

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II. Henry, who went to sea.

There were other children, who did not remain in this vi- cinity.

Edo Simeon-Jacob-Simeon-Symon-Jacobse had children :

I. Antje, b. Feb. 27, 1806; m. John Thomson, a machinist, of the firm of Thomson & Evans, who carried on the Union Works, on the north side of Market street, near Spruce street. He was afterwards, for thirty years, superintendent of the Ellicott Mills, Md. He and his wife died the same day, in 1884 or 1885. They were m. Nov. 9, 1826.

II. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 3, 1807; m. David Burnett, a newspaper editor and publisher, printer, bookseller, bank cashier, etc., a prominent and highly esteemed citizen for more than half a century ; she d. in 1883.

III. Edo, d. in inf.

IV. Mary, m. Treadwell Ketcham, formerly in the gro- cery business on Main street, in Paterson, but for many years past a resident of New Haven, Conn.

V. John E., b. Feb. 25, 1814; m. Rebecca Oldis (b. Nov. I, 1818, dau. of John G. Oldis and Aletta Van Voor- his), of Paramus, June 19, 1838; her husband d. in 1889, and she in 1890. He was a machinist and inventor, whose work will be noticed in a later chapter. He lived in the house occupied by his father, on the northwest corner of Broadway and Carroll street.

VI. Isaac, who accidentally fell down a well and was killed, at the age of three years.

VII. Catharine, b. March I, 1816; m. May 12, 1842, Henry Clark, a prominent hardware merchant for many years, at the northwest corner of Main and Ellison streets ; she d. Sept. 9, 1877.

Peter Simeon-Jacob-Simeon-Symon-Jacobse had child- ren :

I. Henry, m. Maria, eldest dau. of Peter Jackson, a leading merchant at Acquackanonk (now Passaic, where she was b. June 22, 1807), June 20, 1827. He was the author of a novel, "which obtained no great success," but which, so competent a critic as Parke Godwin says, was "marked by considerable originality and force."

II. Adolphus, m. - - Van Winkle, granddaughter of Walling Van Winkle, who lived where the late David Anderson's house now stands in Passaic.

III. Edgar S., b. Aug. 3, 1810, at his father's residence in Marketfield street, New York city; attended school in Paterson, and then at Nassau Hall Academy, a famous school in its day, at Acquackanonk, presided over by Dr. Lambert Sythoff ; studied law with John P. Jackson, of Newark (whose sister Maria had m. Edgar's brother Hen- ry), and afterwards with William Slosson, of New York, in which city he was admitted to the bar in 1831, and for near- ly half a century was one of the shining lights of his pro- fession. He was a widely read man, cultivated the muses, and found time amid the cares of an exacting practice, for the amenities of life. He d. Dec. 9, 1882. He m. in 1835, Miss Beach of Litchfield, Conn. A charming, appreciative sketch of him was read by his friend, Parke Godwin, before "The Column," a literary society of New York, in January, 1883.

IV. Peter Godwin, b. in New York city, Sept. 7, 1808. On the return of his family to Paterson, in 1822, he entered into partnership with Abram H. Godwin, and the firm kept a store for several years, at the southwest corner of Main and Van Houten streets, and also at Oldham, near Benja- min Brundred's machine shop. In 1835, he removed to Parkersburg, Va., practising law until 1852, when he be- came treasurer and afterward president of a railroad com- pany. He took an active part in politics, and when West Virginia was formed, he was elected United States Senator by the Unionists, in 1863, serving until 1869, being a mem- ber of some of the most important committees in the Sen- ate. He d. at Parkersburgh, West Va., April 15, 1872. He m. a dau. of William P. Rathbun, of Hohokus, but previ- ously a famous merchant of New York.

The following data are from the various church records :

Annaetje Van Winkel, maiden, of Wesel (probably dau. of Jacob-Symon-Jacobse), m. Rynier Van Giesen, widower, of Hackensack, Oct. 31, 1760.

Annaetje Van Winkel, maiden, m. Hendrick Van Blar- con1, both of Acquackanonk, Nov. 20, 1763.

Catharine Van Winkel, maiden, living at Wesel, m. Phil- ip Berry, widower, b. and 1. at Hackensack, April 15, 1761.

Jacob Van Winkel and Hilegond Bruyn had children : I. Johannes, b. Sept. 6, 1754; 2. Jacob, b. Dec. 15, 1760. The sponsors on the latter occasion were Rynier Van Gie- sen and Antje his wife.

Jacob Van Winkel, jun., m. Anna Kingsland, March 17, 1813.

Jacob Van Winkel m. Antje Koejeman, Jan. 8, 1815.

John Jacob Van Winkel m. Elizabeth Brinkerhoff, June 2, I793.

Simeon Van Winkle, of Bergen county, having died intes- tate, Simeon Van Winkle (presumably his son) was appoint- ed administrator, Aug. 15, 1793.1

IV., V., VI., AND VII. ELIAS, HARTMAN, JOHANNES AND CORNELIUS MICHIELSEN (VREELAND).

The progenitor of the Vreeland family in this vicinity was Michiel Jansen (Michiel, son of John), van Broeckhuysen, 2 who sailed from Holland October 1, 1636, in the ship Rens- selaerswyck, accompanied by his wife and two children. 3 On the same vessel was Symon Waling van de Bilt, whose rela- tives, as we have seen, were, with the sons of Michiel Jan- sen, among the first Patentees of Acquackanonk. Mauritz Jansen came over on the same vessel with Michiel Jansen, but there is nothing to indicate that they were related. Michiel came to America in the capacity of a farm servant

1 Liber No. 33 of Wills, Secretary of State's office, Trenton, f. 169.

2 Broekhuizen and Broekhuizenvorst are two villages with an aggre- gate population of 900, on the west bank of the river Maas, in the north- eastern part of the Duchy of Limburg, which is the most southeastern province of Holland .- Terwen, 492. These small villages and towns in Holland are shown with great clearness on the Nieuwe Kaart van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden, benevens de Nederlandsche Bezittingen in andere Werelddeelen, a map on a very large scale, published (fourth edi- tion) at Leyden, by D. Noothoven van Goor, in 1864.

3 The fare for himself and two children was 140 florins 16 stuyvers, or about $56 .- See Annals of Albany, by Joel Munsell, Albany, 1871, IV., 33.

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(boere-knecht) in the employ of the Patroon of the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck.1 Under date of June 16, 1643, Arent van Curler writes from "At the Manhattans," to the Lord Patroon Van Rensselaer, in Holland : "Regarding the dia- mond (het crystal) near Michel Jansen's house, of which your Honor writes that I should send over some more speci- mens thereof, I have spoken about it to Michiel Jansen, and to several others, to engage them to buy it. But they will not do so, apparently because they fear for the labor, and it will terminate badly."2 It is most likely that Michiel was surreptitiously dabbling in the fur trade about this time, the profits of which were all his own, whereas, diamonds, if found, would belong to the Patroon of the Colony. The next mention of Michiel is in connection with some court proceedings, Sept. 29, 1644: "Michel Jansen vs. Laurens Cornelissen, for the recovery of 90 guilders due by plaintiff's man-servant, whom the defendant carried from the Colonie (Rensselaerswyck) without consent ; defendant denies that he knew the man to be a hired servant ; plaintiff maintains that defendant ought to have delivered the man over to the fiscal at Manhattans, and not carried him elsewhere; judg- ment for the plaintiff."3 A contemporary writer says that "Jansen made his fortune in a few years at Rensselaers- wyck, but not being able to agree with the authorities there, finally removed to the island Manhattan in the year 1646." 4 In view of his contemplated departure from the Colony, he gave a power of attorney, Nov. 4, 1644, to Arent van Curler to settle all his accounts with the Patroon.5 He was still there, however, in 1645, when he was assessed "20 schepels wheat, and 20 schepels oats, and 2 schepels peas," for the Patroon's share of the produce.6 Adriaen van der Donck (a prominent settler at Rensselaerswyck, and one of the most intelligent men in New Netherlands-the first lawyer there, also), had some negotiations with Jansen, at the house of Dominie Megapolensis, "about hiring him his bouwerie for so long as his lease was concerned, for which purpose

they had come together at the aforesaid place. * * * Michiel would first insist, as was right, that he should have nothing to do with former questions and ·losses, but every- thing must be given to him clear, so van der Donck and I fell to talk about the late burning of his house"7 (the house was burned Jan. 17, 1646). He appears to have leased tbe West India Company's bouwerie or farm on Manhattan Island about this time, and removed thither. He was to have gone to The Hague on business connected with the Rens- selaerswyck Colony, but as his accounts were not settled, he having a disputed claim against the Colony, Jan Evertsen Bout went in his stead. Bout had a farm in Pavonia, form- erly the property of Michael Pauw, and which the Company

had bought for fl26,000, and which having been ravaged by the Indians in 1645, the Company presented to Evertsen, who sold it to Michael Jansen with "a poor, unfinished house and some few cattle," for fl8,000.1 Jansen paid for the farm in instalments ; he and Bout agreed concerning the balance due, June 9, 1655, and it was not until the whole cousideration was paid that he received his deed (dated Sept. 9, 1656). The farm comprised several acres or more, south of Communipaw avenue, Jersey City.2 Jansen had not definitely abandoned his proposed trip to Amsterdam, and in view of his contemplated voyage thither, he was given a power of attorney by Sander Leendertsen, June IO, 1647, to receive money from the West India Company.3

He seems to have attained much prominence immediately in his new location. In 1647 Director-General Stuyvesant and his Council, in view of pressing difficulties between the people and the Indians, invited the citizens to choose eighteen of the most expert and reasonable persons, from whom the Director and Council would select Nine Men "as is customary in the Fatherland," to give their advice when called on, and to assist in promoting the welfare of the country. " The eighteen having been elected by the people of Manhattans, Breukelyn, Amersfoort and Pavonia, the Director-General and his Council, by proclamation dated Sept. 25, 1647, selected Nine Men of the best known, most honorable and respectable, choosing three merchants, three citizens and three farmers. Michiel was one of the last. These Nine Men constituted a sort of court also, three (one of each class) sitting every Thursday, month and month about, to hear civil causes. Six of these Nine Men were to retire annually, and twelve men having been nominated by the Nine, the Director and Council selected the six new members.4 In February, 1649, while Jansen was still in of- fice, the Nine Men having decided to send a delegation to Holland, "considered it necessary to make out a series of memoranda, in order to draw up a proper journal from them when occasion allowed. This task devolved on one Adriaen Van der Donck, who, in accordance to a resolution which was adopted at the same time, was lodged in a room in one Michiel Jansen's house. One day when Van der Donck was abroad, the Director-General seized this rough draft with his own hand, and placed Van der Donck, the day fol- lowing, under arrest."5 Nevertheless, the "Remonstrance" was completed under date of July 28, 1649, signed by eleven persons, including Michiel Jansen, and sent to Holland. It was accompanied by a petition for a municipal government for New Netherland, dated July 26, 1649, and signed by the same parties, Michiel Jausen and the others. 6 The mes-

1 Van Tienhoven's "Answer to Remonstrance," p. 65.

2 Winfield's Hudson County Land Titles, 51, 52; Valentine's Hist. N. Y., 139.

3 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 37.

4 O'Callaghan, II., 37-9; History of the State of New York, by John Romeyn Brodhead, First Period, 1609-1664. New York, 1853, 476.

5 Remonstrance of New Netherlands, 48 ; Van Tienhoven's Answer, 63; N. Y. Col. Docs., XIV., 113.

6 N. Y. Doc. Hist., I., 386; Brodhead's N. Y., I., 505; N. Y. Col. Docs., IV., 28-36; N. Y. Man., 1851, 409 ; O'Callaghan, II., 121 ; Val- entine's N. Y., 52.

1 Van Tienhoven's "Answer to Remonstrance," etc., Nov. 29, 1650 ; Albany, 1856, .64.

2 O'Callaghan's New Netherland, I., 459.

3 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 91.

4 Van Tienhoven's "Answer to Remonstrance," etc., p. 65.

5 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 30. 6 O'Callaghan, I., 472.

7 Ib., 469.

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sengers who bore this important document to Holland were fortified by a certificate of their appointment, signed by Michiel Jansen and the other Nine Men.1 Michiel Jansen served as one of the Nine Men in 1650, for the last time. Under date of May 4, 1653, Michiel Jansen deeded to Her- man Smeeman "25 morgens of land with the house and all that is thereon, together with 25 morgens of land belonging to Oloof Stevens Van Cortland, charged with a yearly rent of 38 guilders" (Manhattan Island).2 On November 27, 1654, a patent was issued to Michiel Jansen for 26 1-3 mor- gens of land at Pavonia, a patent being issued at the same time for 40 morgens of land at the same place to Claes Jan- sen Backer (Nicholas Jansen, baker), his brother.3 The full entry is as follows :

Petrus Stuyvesant etc. with the Honble Council declare, that we have to-day, date underwritten, granted and conveyed to Michiel Jan- sen a parcel of land, situate at Pavonia back of his own land, 80 rods wide running N. E. into the woods on the N. W. 200 rods in length along the land of Claes Jansen Backer, thence N. E. 80 rods, altogether 267% morgens. With the express conditions, etc etc. Done at Fort Amster- dam in .N. N. the 27th of Novbr 1654.

In the raid made by the Indians on Sept. 15, 1655, on Manhattan Island and Pavonia, Michiel Jansen's family alone escaped.4 Nevertheless, he felt constrained to remove his family for greater safety across the river once more, where, although not privileged as a citizen, he was permit- ted, Nov. 22, 1655, in consequence of his having lost his all by the Indian war, to open a tavern, and the authorities gave him a lot "between the old church and the Gracht." His petition on this occasion sets out in simple and touching language his misfortunes :

To the Noble, Worshipful Direct- or-General Petrus Stuyvesant and the Right Honorable Council of New-Netherland.

Shows with great humility and due respect Michiel Jansen, farmer and former resident here, that during the last unexpected disastrous conflict with the Indian natives of this country, he was hereft not only of what he had earned here with God's blessing during a period of 17 years, but also of all, what he, the petitioner, had brought to this coun- try and what had been sent to him. All of which has been cruelly hurned or taken away by the aforesaid Indians, so that he, the petition- er, has now no means in this world to live on with his wife and six children, hut as he desires to gain a living, like the other inhabitants of this place, by doing something or another, wherefore he first needs be- sides God's blessing your Honorable Worships' good favor, he, the pe- titioner, therefore addresses himself respectfully to your Honorahle Worships praying that in consideration of the above stated facts your Honorable Worships will favor him with a lot within the city next to Abraham Clock, 30 to 36 feet wide. whereas the same would he very useful to him, the petitioner, for what he intends to undertake for the maintenance of his family; which doing etc shall remain as ever your Honorable Worships' obedient subject.5

Machiel Jansen

The Gracht was the ditch or canal running through the centre of what is now called Broad street, and the lot in question was on the north side of the present Pearl street, just south of Broad street.6 He was also appointed,

1 N. Y. Col. Docs., I., 258.

2 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 378.

3 N. Y. Col. Docs , XIII., 37.

4 O'Callaghan, II., 291.

5 N. Y. Col. Docs., XIII., 61.

6 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 159, 160; Valentine's Hist. N. Y., 28, 69, 86, 108, 139; N. Y. Col. Docs., VIII. , 649.

Feb. 21, 1657, one of the measurers of lime and grain, 1 and on April 13, 1657, was admitted to the small burgher right. 2 He followed his business as tapster until a more settled condition of Indian affairs, when he returned to his Pavonia farm, re-erected his farm buildings, and renewed his former operations. He was one of the witnesses to the Indian deed, January 30, 1658, for the Bergen tract. 3 In 1650 he had a house and lot near the corner of William and Beaver streets, in New York.4 Bergen having been incorporated in 1661, Michiel Jansen, Herman Smeeman and Caspar Stynmets were named as the first magistrates of the first court of jus- tice erected within the limits of the present State of New Jersey, and of the earliest organized municipal government within this State.5

In December, 1662, he joined his neighbors in asking the authorities for "a God fearing man and preacher " at Ber- gen, for whose support he subscribed twenty-five florins. 6 He died before the ensuing June, when his widow and other residents of Gemoenepa requested the Director General and Council to enclose their settlement at that place with long palisades as a protection against the Indians .?

The wife of Michiel Jansen was Fitje Hartmans, or daughter of Hartman - ; hence the latter name among her descendants. In the record, in the New York Dutch church, of the baptism of Johannes, the mother's name is given as Fytie Wessels, and one of the witnesses was Anna Wes- sels. From this entry it seems probable that Fytie Hartman belonged to the family now known as Wessels. On the occa- sion of the birth of Cornelis, in 1660, the mother's name is not given, but the witnesses were Warnar Wesselszen and Hendrickje Wessels. In 1679 the Labadist missionaries, Dankers and Sluyter, give this account of a visit to the aged widow, at Gemoenepaen, in the course of a voyage from Brooklyn : "Our old woman at the house (in Brooklyn) told us of another good woman who lived at this place (Gemoen- epaen), named Fitie, from Cologne, and recommended us to visit her, which we did as soon as we landed. We found her a little pious after the manner of the country, and you could discover that there was something of the Lord in her, but very much covered up and defiled. We dined there and spoke to her of what we deemed necessary for her condition. She has many grandchildren, all of whom are not unjust." 8 This is really warm praise, from two of the most censorious of dissatisfied travelers. Fitie sold her husband's house and lot south of Prince street, in New Amsterdam, October J, 1663.9 She was a member of the Bergen church in 1664. When the English acquired possession of New Jersey, Gov. Carteret gave her a patent on May 12, 1668, for the tract of

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History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 28

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