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veniency or convenience the laying out of a street through the same " would cause to said Heathcote and Meyer .*
MARTIN JANSE MEYER and his wife Hendrickje, made a joint will dated in New York, March 16, 1693, at the probate of which, Aug. 17, 1714, the fact is recited, " that Martin Meyer dying first some years ago, the said Hendrickje is also lately decd." The children named in their will are, Jo- hannes Meyer, eldest son and heir ; Hartman [Hermanus] ; Martin ; Elsie Meyer married with Burger Myndertz ; Belitje Meyer married with Claas Gysbertsz ; Helena married with Eduard Cock ; Catharina and Anna Meyer " ongetrout." It is probable that they resided during a portion of their married life out of New York, as there is no record here of the bap- tism of three of their children. Issue :
2. i. ELSJE2, bap. June 10, 1663 ; m. BURGER MYNDERTSZEN, who in 1702, was a Blacksmith in New York. He was probably the son of Myn- dert Frederickse, one of the early settlers of Beverwyck, who came from Iveren, and married in New Amsterdam, Aug. 5, 1656, Catharyn Burcharts [Burger] of the latter place. "The unsettled condition," says Prof. Pear- son, " of the early Dutch family names, is well shown by the descendants of Myndert Frederickse ; some took the surname of Myndertse, his Chris- tian name ; whilst others took that of Van Iveren, the place from whence he came in Holland." Burger Myndertszen was born in 1660,t but the place and date of his marriage are unknown. He probably had, besides other children not traced, one son, Martin Van Iveren, who m. Feb. I, 1718, Judith Holmes, and had son Burger, bap. Nov. 13, 1718, in the Dutch Church in New York.
3. ii. BELITJE2, bap. Feb. 22, 1665, m. CLAAS GYSBERTSZEN, of whom we have no notice except that in his father-in-law's will.
4. iii. JAN,2 bap. June 12, 1657. This is probably the JAN or JOHANNES MEYER, of New York, who m. at Hackensack, N. J., Aug. 22, 1696, JAN- NETIE CORNELISE BANTA, of the latter place. They had a son Martin, 3 bap. at H. Feb. 25, 1700, and probably others.
5. iv. ANNETIE,2 bap. Aug. 29, 1668 ; unmarried in March, 1693, the date of her father's will. There was an Anna Meyer-perhaps the same -- wife of Samuel Lee, who had son Samuel, bap. Feb. 3, 1714, in the Dutch Church in New York.
6. v. HELENA,2 bap. Dec. 23, 1674, m. Oct. 12, 1692, EDWARD KOCX (Cock), of whom we have no further account.
7. vi. HARTMAN2 (HERMANUS), named in his father's will, was admitted a Freemant of the city of New York in 1698. He m. March 6, 1702, HELENA, dau. of Elias and Marritie (Cornelis) Post. She was bap. Sept. 29, 1680. They had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York : 1. Maria,3 bap. Oct. 4, 1702 ; 2. Martinus,3 bap. March 8, 1704; 3. Martinus,3 bap.
* Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. English, pp. 30-143.
t Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 82.
# The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York, in their petition Nov. 9, 1683, to Gov. Dongan for a charter, enumerated among other ancient municipal customs, privileges, &c., that "None were to be esteemed Freemen of the Citty but who were admitted by ye Magistrates afores'd [May- or and Aldermen], and none before such admission to sell by retayle, or exercise any handycraft, trade or occupation, and every merch't or shop-keeper was to pay ffor ye publick use of ye Citty 63-125, every handycraft {1-4s, on being made ffree."
"No freeman of ye Citty was to be arrested, or have their goods attatched, unless it was made to appear that they were departing or conveying away their estates to defraud their credit'rs."
" No person was admitted to trade up hudson's River except he was a Freeman, and had been an arrivall inhabitant in the Citty ffor ye space of 3 years, and if any ffreeman should be absent out of ye Citty ye space of 12 months, and not keep ffire and candle, and pay scott and lott should loose his ffreedom."-Valentine's Manual for 1844-5, P. 312.
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Feb. 18, 1711 ; and 4. Hermanus,3 bap. Feb. 17, 1714. He died in 1714, and his widow, Helena Post, m. second, July 1, 1715, GERRIT BRAS, of New York, by whom she had 3 sons and 4 daus., bap. in the Dutch Church in New York.
8. vii. MARTIN2 (MARTINUS), mentioned in his father's will ; m. May 28, I705, EMMETJE, dau. of Jacobus Franszen and Magdaleen (Cornelis) VAN DYCK. She was bap. Oct. 17, 1686. They had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, one dau. Catlyntje,3 bap. April 24, 1706. She m. Nov. 19, 1726, PETER BOND, JR., sometimes written Bant, Band and Bondt. They had 8 children bap. in the Dutch Church in New York. She died in 1743, and her husband m. second, Aug. 7, 1744, Elizabeth Becker, widow of Jonathan Friend.
9. viii. CATHARINA?, unmarried at the date of her father's will.
I. ADOLF MEYER1 was from Ulfen in Westphalia, at least it is so stated in the record of his marriage, which took place in New York, April 29, 1671, to MARRITJE VER VEELEN, of Amsterdam. His wife was a near relative, perhaps a dau. of Johannes and Anna (Tjersvelt) Ver Veelen, who were among the first settlers of New Harlem. She joined the Dutch Church in New York Dec. 7, 1673 ; he joined March 1, 1674, and soon after removed to New Harlem. He was Corporal of the First Night Watch there, Dec. 6, 1675 .* He was a farmer by occupation-a prominent man in public affairs-one of the patentees in Gov. Dongan's patent of March 7, 1686, confirming the New Harlem patent of Oct. 11, 1666, granted by Gov. Nicolls -- and an Assistant Alderman from the Out Ward, as Harlem was then designated, in 1693-4. On the 11th of Dec., 1691, he was chosen by the freeholders of Harlem, in company with Jan Hendricks Brevoort, Samuel Waldren, and Peter Van Oblinus, to lay out the undivided land belonging to the town. These persons, as trustees of the town, con- firmed to John Loweson Bogert certain of these lands on the 14th of Sept., 1706,t which is the last notice found of him. His wife was a widow, March 7, 17II. His will is dated Feb. 13, 1710, but not proven until Sept. 2, 1748. In it he mentions his wife Maria, and the following named children, 6 sons and 3 daughters :
2. i. JOHANNES?, bap. Aug. 13, 1671. He was a farmer, and settled in Harlem ; m. Jan. 30, 1702, TRYNTJE VAN DALSEN (also written Dalden and Dalsing). They had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, 1. Jacob3, bap. May 8, 1709, and, 2. Maria3, bap. May 6, 1711.
3. ii. HENDRICK®, bap. Sept. 3, 1673 ; m. Dec. 10, 1697, WYNTJE RHEE, probably the dau. of Jan Rhee (Ree) and Claesje Dircks, who was bap. Feb. 18, 1682. They had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York : I. Maria3, bap. May 14, 1699 ; died young. 2. Adolph3, bap. Oct. 29, 1701. 3. Johannes3, bap. Jan. 27, 1703 ; died young. 4. Johannes3, bap. July 9, 1704 ; died young. 5. Abraham3, bap. July 8, 1705. 6. Maria3, bap. Sept. 14, 1707. 7. Hendrick3, bap. Aug. 10, 1712 ; died young. 8. Hendrick3, bap. July 26, 1713 ; m. Sept. 23, 1735, Maria, dau. of Abraham and Mary (Leisler) Gouverneur. 9. Johannes3, bap. April 15, 1716; died young. Io. Johannes3, bap. July 5, 1719 ; m. Oct. 1, 1747, Anna Crommelyn.
* Valentine's Manual for 1848, p. 387.
+ Deduction of Title of Benj. I .. Benson to 80 acres of Land at Harlem, etc., New York, 1836, 8º.
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4. iii. ANNA CATHARINA2, bap. March 12, 1677; m. Dec. 24, 1698, ABRAHAM RYCKE, of the Poor Farm, or Bouwery .* Though married as Rycke, his proper name, or the one he afterward assumed, was ABRAHAM LENT. He was the son of Ryck Abrahamsen [Lent] and Tryntje Hercks, born March 10, 1674, and bap. May 12, 1675. His father was the eldest, and his uncle Hendrick the youngest, son of Abraham Rycken, " who for some reason not clearly ascertained, renounced their own cognomen and assumed that of Lent." Abraham Lent lived for some years in Westches- ter County, but in 1729 returned to Newtown, L. I. He died Feb. 5, 1746, and his widow July 21, 1762. For a very full account of their family see Riker's Annals of Newtown, p. 317, to which we are indebted for some of the particulars here given.
5. iv. MARIA?, bap. April 26, 1679 ; m. July 29, 1699, SAMSON BENSON, JR., from Albany. His name is sometimes written Samuel in the Dutch Church records. They had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, I. Johannes, bap. Feb. 4, 1700; and, 2. Catharina, bap. Jan. 10, 1705. There was a Samson Benson, Jr., perhaps the same person, who m., Dec. 10, 1710, Maria Bocke (Bocquet), dau. of Abraham and Tanneke (Andries) Bocke, and had 7 children, bap. in the Dutch Church in New York. This statement, however, must be regarded as entirely problematical.
6. v. ABRAHAM®, bap. March 3, 1682. He was a farmer in Harlem, and owned a farm of 85 acres there in 1713. He m. May 10, 1706, ENGELTJE BUSSING, and had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, Abraham3, bap. Feb. 8, 1716.
7. vi. ISAAC2, bap. April 13, 1684 ; was living at date of his father's will.
8. vii. JACOB2, bap. May 16, 1686. He m. (1710 ?) ANNATJE HEN- DRICKSE KAMMEGA, and had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, I. Adolph3, bap. March 7, 1711. They also had bap. in the Dutch Church in Hackensack, N. J., 2. Adolph3, bap. May 10, 1712 ; and, 3. Annatie3, bap. May 20, 1722, and probably others, the record of whose baptism is lost.
9. viii. ADOLF2, bap. July 24, 1692 ; m., first, Oct. 25, 1716, MARGRITJE WALDRON, by whom he had no issue bap. in the Dutch Church in New York. He m., second, CATHARINA, dau. of PETER HARING (Herring.) By his second wife he had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, I. Maria3, bap. Aug. 9, 1724 ; 2. Petrus3, bap. Oct. 22, 1729.
IO. ix. ANNETJE", bap. Aug. 3, 1698 ; m. May 2, 1718, JOHANNES SICKELS, of Harlem. Of them and their descendants we have no account.
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Perhaps no class among the early residents of New Amsterdam was more distinguished for the rapid strides they made to wealth and social distinction, in their adopted home, than those who came from the old com- mercial cities of Germany. The most prominent representative of this class-which included, among others, the heads of the Vander Beeck, Santford, Ebbing, Leisler, and Schrick families-was Nicholas De Meyer, a native of Hamburg, who settled here as early as 1655, engaged exten-
* This was a large farm " in the occupation and tenure (as early as 1654) of the deacons and officers of the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam "-situated at Newtown, L. I .- which was kept under cultivation by them for the benefit of the poor. It was called the Armen Bouwery, or the Poor's Farm, from whence the name of Poor Bowery, still applied to that section of the town .- (Riker's Annals of Newtown, pp. 35-36.)
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sively in trade, and in less than twenty years became next to Fredrick Philipse, the wealthiest inhabitant of the city, his fortune being equalled only by that of one other person-Cornelius Steenwyck, from Haerlem. He was admitted to the rights of a small burgher April 14, 1657 ; Schepen, 1664 ; Alderman, 1669-1670 and 1675, and appointed Mayor of the city in 1676 .* He was also an Assistant Alderman for the South Ward in 1686. He belonged to the anti-Leislerian party, and appears to have been more moderate and conservative in his politics than the majority of his political associates. In 1689-90 he was appointed a member of Gov. Sloughter's Council,t but had deceased before Sloughter's arrival, in March, 1691.
I. NICHOLAS DE MEYER1, the ancestor of the DE MEYER family, of New York, m. first, June 6, 1655, LYDIA, dau. of Hendrick VAN DYCK. His name appears in the record of his marriage, and also in the list of members of the Dutch Church, without the prefix De, but it is always at- tached in the record of the baptism of his children. He joined the Church in New Amsterdam, in April, 1660 ; his wife was a member for some time prior to her marriage. She died about 1687. He m. second, SARA KELLENAER, of Kingston, who was, says Mr. Valentine, the widow of John Wicksteen. She joined the Dutch Church, in New York, Sept. 1, 1689, and was then the wife of De Meyer. He died in 1690, and had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, 3 sons, and 3 daus., all by his first wife, viz. :
2. i. JOHANNES2, bap. Jan. 26, 1656. On the 13th August, 1680, John and William De Meyer and Mathias Mathisen, obtained a grant of about 60 acres of land at the fall of the Platte Kill, in Ulster County.į He is not mentioned in his brother Henry's will, dated Nov., 1692, but is prob- ably the JAN DE MEYER, who by wife EVA MATHYSE, had son Mathys3, bap. March 10, 1697, in New York.
3. ii. WILHELMUS?, bap. Nov. 21, 1657 ; m. Oct. 23, 1678, CATHARINA BAYARD, from Bergen op Zoom, an old and strongly fortified town near the sea coast, in Holland. She was a near relative of Balthazar and Anna (Stuyvesant) Bayard, probably a dau. of the latter and sister of the former. Soon after his marriage he removed to Ulster County, N. Y., having pur- chased, April 11, 1679, a parcel of land, with house and lot at Kingston. He was a witness at Kingston, Jan. 19, 1681, at a renewal of the treaty of peace with the Esopus Indians.§ In 1684, he returned to New York, rejoining with his wife the Dutch Church here, on the 5th Sept. of that year. He again removed a few years after to Kingston, where he was engaged in trade, as a merchant, and represented the county of Ulster in the Colonial General Assembly during the years 1691-1693 and 1695-98. In 1692, he bore the title of Captain, and some years later that of Colonel. He was Clerk of Ulster County, 1704, and living at Kingston as late as May, 1709, and probably died there. He and his wife Catharina Bayard had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, one dau. Anna3, bap. Nov. 1, 1685. They probably had son Nicholas3, a freeholder and inhabitant of the County of Ulster, in 1701-2 ; also a dau. Lydia3, who became the second wife of Andries Douw, of Manor Rensselaerswick, and had dau. Catharina, bap. at Albany, Nov. 26, 1704.|
* Valentine's Manuals. t Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. of N. Y., Vol. 3, pp. 685-756.
# Calendar of Land Papers, p. 20.
§ Coll. Ulster Hist. Society, 1-64. | Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 43.
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4. iii. ANNA CATHARINA?, bap. June 19, 1661 ; joined the Dutch Church in New York, Feb. 28, 1678 ; m. Oct. 13, 1680, JAN WILLEMSZEN NEE- RING, a young man from Bordeaux. In July, 1690, he is described in a deed made by William De Meyer, to him and others, as a resident of New Castle, in the Province of Pennsylvania, and in August, 1692, as a resident of New Castle, in Delaware, where, probably, he lived and died. They had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York :
I. SARA NEERING, bap. July 23, 1681.
2. LYDIA NEERING, bap. May 20, 1685.
3. JOHANNES NEERING, bap. May 22, 1687.
4. ELIZABETH NEERING, bap. May 17, 1691.
5. iv. DEBORA', bap. June 25, 1664 ; joined the Dutch Church, March 5, 1681. Married first, Sept. 17, 1684, THOMAS CRUNDALL, a young man from London. He was a merchant in New York, and Alderman of the Dock Ward, in 1686 and 1687. They lived " Along the Strand," then the most aristocratic quarters of the city. He was living in July, 1689, and was active in his opposition to Leisler and his adherents. She m. second, Oct. 2, 1691, THOMAS LYNDON (LYNDALL), a young man from old England. He was Sheriff of the city of New York, from March to October, 1691. His will is dated Aug. 27, 1694 ; proven, March 3, 1696- 7 ; names only his wife Deborah, and dau. Frances, to whom he gives his estate ; speaks of loving brother and four sisters in England, without nam- ing them. She m. third, Oct. 10, 1697, WILLIAM ANDERSON. He was engaged in mercantile pursuits, in New York, was Treasurer of the city from 1703 to 1706, and Sheriff from Oct., 1708 to July, 1710,* and a vestryman of Trinity Church, from 1698 to 1717. His family, in 1703, consisted of I male, I female, 2 children, 2 negroes, and I negro child. His wife was living March 14, 1710, but died prior to June 18, 1712, at which date a bill was introduced into the Legislative Council, to enable William Anderson to sell ground in Queen Street, the estate of said William in right of Deborah his wife, deceased, for the pay- ment of debts contracted by her before their intermarriage. She' had no children bap. in the Dutch Church, except by her first husband. These were :
I. THOMAS CRUNDALL, bap. July 29, 1685.
2. SARA CRUNDALL, twins, bap. May 25, 1687.
3. LYDIA CRUNDALL,
4. LYDIA CRUNDALL, bap. Feb. 6, 1689.
Of her dau. FRANCES LYNDALL, no mention is found, except in her father's will.
6. v. LYSBETH,? bap. Aug. 29, 1666; joined the Dutch Church in New York, Feb. 25, 1685 ; m. Aug. 24, 1687, PHILIP SCHUYLER, of Albany, son of Col. Philip Pieterse Schuyler and his wife Margareta Van Slichtenhorst ; born Feb. 8, 1666.t Soon after their marriage they removed to Esopus (Kingston), where he was engaged in trade. On the Ist of March, 1693, they both joined the Dutch Church in New York, by certificate or letter from the Church at Esopus. They had bap. in New York, one son,
I. NICHOLAS SCHUYLER, bap. Sept. 21, 1692 ; was a Surveyor and Indian trader in the Mohawk Country. He was a member of the Provin-
* Valentine's Manual for 1864.
t Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 98.
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cial Assembly from Schenectady, in 1727-8; m. at Albany, Dec. 2, 1714, Elsie Wendel, and was buried July 8, 1748. He had bap. at Albany, I. Elisabeth, Sept. 18, 1715; 2. Philip, Oct. 27, 1717, and at Schenec- tady, 3. Ariaantje, March 6, 1720, m. Col. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, and died Oct. 17, 1763 ; 4. Harmanus, Jan. 28, 1722 ; 5. Catharina, Aug. 1I, 1723, m. John Jacobse Lansing, gentleman, of Albany, Dec. 12, 1747 ; 6. Harmanus, b. April 2, bap. April 3, 1727 ; and 7. Johannes, Feb. 4, 1733. (See Pearson's First Settlers of Schenectady, p. 166, and Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, pp. 98, 130.)
7. vi. HENRICUS,2 bap. Nov. 7, 1668. He was a prominent and success- ful merchant in New York, and m., May 14, 1689, AGNIETJE DE KEY, dau. of Jacob Theuniszen and Hillegond (Theunis) De Key ;* she was bap. July 6, 1670, and joined the Dutch Church in New York, Sept. 2, 1688. His will is dated Nov. 9, and proven Nov. 22, 1692 ; names wife Angeni- eta, dau. Lydia, and the child his wife " is now bigg withal ; " his brother William De Meyer ; his sisters, Anna Katharina Willems, wife of John Wil- lems [Neering] of the town of New Castle ; Deborah, wife of Thomas Lyndall, of New York, gentleman ; and Elisabeth Schuyler, wife of Philip Schuyler, of New York, merchant. Appoints his wife and brothers-in-law, Theunis and Jacobus De Key, executors of his estate. He had issue bap. in New York : 1. Lydia,3 bap. Feb. 4, 1691 ; and 2. Henricus,3 bap. Nov. 13, 1692 ; he is probably the H. De Meyer who was a witness at Harlem, March 28, 1721, to a conveyance (unrecorded) of lands made by Eliza- beth Benson, widow and executrix of Johannes Benson, late of the Island of New York, and others, to Sampson Benson.t
Agnietje De Key, the widow of Henricus De Meyer,2 m. second, in August, 1696 (m. l. dated Aug. 11), WILLIAM JANEWAY, gentleman. He was an Englishman, and came to New York in 1693, as purser of H. M. Ship Richmond, commanded by Capt. John Evans. He was admitted a freeman of the city in 1695. In 1700 he was acting as Capt. Evans' agent, to whom an extensive grant of land had been made lying on the west side of Hudson River, about 40 miles in length, and 20 in breadth ; but which was afterwards " cancelled for its magnitude, uncertainty, and want of con- sideration."į William Janeway was a vestryman of Trinity Church in 1697, and from 1702 to 1704.
* This name furnishes another illustration of the changes in early Dutch family names, which render the tracing of their pedigree so difficult and perplexing. The ancestor of the DE KEY family of New York was, JACOB TOENISZEN [Theuniszen] Van Tuyl, in Guilderland, who married in New Amsterdam, March 29, 1658, HILLETJE [Hillegond] TOENIS [Theunis], born in the latter place. At the baptism of their first child Theunis, April 4, 1659, their names are recorded JACOB VAN THUYL and HILLEGOND THEUNIS. At the baptism of their next child, Jannekin, Dec. 15, 1660, the fathers name is recorded simply JACOB THEUNISZEN ; at the baptism of their third child Johannes, Jan. 28, 1662, the fathers name appears JACOB THEUNISZEN KEY, while at the baptism of their fourth child Johannes, June 8, 1664, he comes out full fledged as JACOBUS DE KEY, which surname he ever after retained. There is reason for his being called VAN THUYL, after his native place, but why he adopted the surname of DE KEY remains a mystery. He was a man of some note in his day, and an active opponent of Lieut. Gov. Leisler, who caused his arrest and imprisonment.
His son CAPT. THEUNIS DE KEY, bap. April 4, 1659, married May 26, 1680, Helena Van Brugh. He was a merchant of good repute, an Assistant Alderman from the North Ward in. 1685, 6, 7, 1691, and 1692, and one of the Church Wardens of the Dutch Church in New York, in 1698.
+ Deduction of Title of Benj. L. Benson to 80 acres of Land at Harlem, etc. New York, 1836. 8º. Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. N. Y., Vol. 3, 55 ; Vol. 4, 391-784, Valentine's Hist. of New York.
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VAN DYCK.
HENDRICK VAN DYCK,I came from Utrecht to New Amsterdam about 1639-40-accompanied probably by his wife, DIVERTJE [DEBORA] COR- NELISE, alias BOTJAGERS-as ensign in the service of the West India Company. In March, 1642, he was sent by Gov. Kieft in command of an expedition against the Weckquaesgeeks Indians in West Chester ; and early in 1644, with Capt. John Underhill, against the Long Island and Connecticut Indians. He soon after returned to Holland ; was com- missioned Schout-fiscal, June 28, 1645, and again embarked for New Neth- erland, in company with Governor Stuyvesant, in December, 1646, the bickerings of the "Churlish Director" with Van Dyck furnishing the staple themes of scandal on the voyage. "At Saint Christophers," says Brodhead, " the Fiscal Van Dyck, claiming a seat at the council board, to dispose of a captured prize, was rudely repelled-'When I want you I will call you,' was Stuyvesant's haughty reply. Renewing his attempt at Curaçoa, the insulted fiscal met a still sterner rebuff, and was not allowed even a 'stroll ashore' during the three weeks the ship lay at anchor there." It would be difficult to form an excuse for this outrageous treatment, on the part of the Director, of his chief officer. Upon their arrival he was ad- mitted to a seat in the Council, and held office until March 28, 1652, when he was dismissed by Stuyvesant, from which action he appealed to the States General for redress. In September, 1655, he unfortunately killed an In- dian squaw, whom he detected in stealing peaches from his orchard, situated a short distance below the present Rector Street. To avenge this murder the Indians invaded the town, wounded Van Dyck, cut down his next door neighbor Paulus Leendertszen Van der Grist with an axe, and in three days massacred one hundred inhabitants of the surrounding settlements, and carried one hundred and fifty more into captivity .* Divertje Cornelise, the first wife of Hendrick Van Dyck, became a communicant of the Dutch Church, in New York, May 30, 1672, shortly prior to her death. It ap- pears somewhat remarkable that her husband's name is not recorded in the list of Church members. He m., second, in Midwout, June 20, 1675, Magdalena [Jacobs] Ryssens, widow of Jacob [Van] Couwenhoven, both living in New York, by whom he had no issue. He and his first wife made a joint will, August 13, 1655, before the notary, Dirck Van Schelluyne, which was proved March 22, 168], and in which they mention their dau., Lidia Van Dyck, married with Nicholas [De] Meyer ; their dau. Rycke Van Dyck, married with John Durett ; also their "two underaged children, by name, Cornelis Van Dyck, old thirteen years, and Janneke Van Dyck, old nine years."
CORNELIUS VAN DYCK,2 son of Hendrick ; bap. in New Amsterdam, March 10, 1642 ; settled in Albany ; became a Chirurgeon, and practised his profession there until his death in 1686. His first wife was Elisabeth Lakens ; the second, Elisabeth Beck, the widow of Captain Sylvester Salisbury. For an account of his children see Pearson's First Settlers of Schenectady, p. 219, and First Settlers of Albany, pp. 125-6. The other children of Hendrick Van Dyck' named in his will were :
LYDIA VAN DYCK,? born in Utrecht ; m. NICHOLAS DE MEYER.
RYCKE [ULRICA] VAN DYCK,2 born in Utrecht; m. Nov. 1, 1654, JAN
* Brodhead's History of the State of New York, vol. 1. |
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. DARETH (Durett, Dret, Droit, De Ret), also from Utrecht, who soon after removed to Beverwyck, where he died in May, 1669 (Pearson.) They had no children baptized in the Dutch Church, in New York.
JANNETJE VAN DYCK,2 born in 1644, in Enckhuysen, on the Zuider Zee, probably came to New Amsterdam with her parents on their return to New Netherland in 1647; joined the Church in New Amsterdam Oct. 12, 1664; m. March 22, 1665, JOHANNES COLY (Coely, Coelie, Cooly, Cooley), a young man from London. The most frequent form of this name in the records is COELY. He was a blacksmith, and furnished the iron work to repair Fort James in 1672-3, and also to repair it during the time of Gov. Sloughter in 1691 .* Though his wife was a communicant of the Dutch Church, he was reputed to be, in 1696, one of the few Roman Catholics in New York. His will is dated in New York, Jan. 22, 1688; proven March 22, 1709. In it he mentions his wife, Jane, and 8 children, viz. : William Cooley, his " eldest and only son ; " his daughters, Elizabeth, Deborah, Lydia, Hannah, Mary, Rickey, and Cornelia. Appoints his wife Jane sole executrix. They had baptized in the Dutch Church :
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