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Elsje Tymens, the widow of Jacob Leisler, survived him some 13 or 14 years. She was living Sept. 17, 1704, at which date she was a sponsor at the baptism of Elizabeth, dau. of Barent Reinders. Issue.
2. i. SUSANNAH2, bap. Feb. 10, 1664 ; joined the Dutch Church in New York, Dec. 3, 1681, and removed with certificate some time after to Ber- gen (N. J .? ). The date and place of her first marriage are not known. She m. Ist, Michiel Vaughton (called Farton in the Dutch Church Baptismal records), an Englishman and a protégé of Gov. Thomas Dongan, with whom he came to New York in August, 1683. He was a half-brother of John Spragg, Esq., who was a member of the Legislative Council in 1683, and subsequently Secretary of the Province of New York.
Governor Dongan describes Vaughton as having been " a volunteer two or three years on board ship with Captain Temple," etc., and "a pretty
1 Gerardus Beekman, Johannes Vermelje, Thomas Williams, Meyndert Coerten, Abraham Brasher, and Abraham Gouverneur were convicted, with Leisler and Milborne, of high treason.
" Moulton's View of the City of New Orange in 1672, p. 22.
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ingenious young man," who, happening to be in London when he came away, offered his services, which the Governor accepted and promised to aid him with money when in need of it " for to put him into some way." On the 11th of May, 1684, he was commissioned Clerk of the Market of New York, and in December following we find him Commander of the Sloop James, and authorized by warrant to proceed to the Sound and seize and send to the city all vessels that may seem to be engaged in unlawful traffic. Edward Antill was part owner of the vessel he commanded, Vaughton's share in it having been purchased with money loaned him by Gov. Dongan. In the spring of 1685, Hugh Riddle, a Scotchman and " poor Gentleman," coming into the Province from New Jersey, brought with him, without entry at the Custom House, a small parcel of linen of the value of three to five pounds. Some time after, Riddle and one of the Custom officers " drinking drunk together," fell to quarrelling, on which the officer went out, about one or two in the morning, and, meeting Vaughton, also a Custom House officer, compelled him to go with him to seize uncustomed goods, at Riddle's lodgings. Arrived there, they broke open the door, and Riddle, " still drunk," in endeavoring to keep them out, stabbed Vaughton, wound- ing him severely. For this offence he was thrown into prison, where he remained a long time awaiting Vaughton's recovery. Being in a starving condition, he was finally liberated upon the application of Mr. Vaughton, Mr. Spragg, and others, the Council ordering his goods to be released upon his paying the physicians their charges for attending Vaughton. These being more than the value of the goods, and Riddle a poor man, Mr. Spragg, in charity to him, paid the surgeons their demand, amounting to ten pounds.1
On the 24th of January, 1702, Susanna Vaughton, his widow, petitioned for a patent of 300 acres of land, lying in the vicinity of the Crom Elboogh (Crum Elbow Creek), in Dutchess County, "which she alleges to be part of a purchase made by Henry Pawling (Sheriff of Esopus in 1684), under a license granted to her husband, in company with said Pawling, and for which no patent has as yet been granted."
The last notice of Michiel Vaughton where his identity is certain is found in the record of the baptism of his son Michiel, September 9, 1688. The sponsors at this baptism were John Spragg, Robbert Walters, and Catha- rina Leydser. He probably died soon after. His widow m. 2d, March 12 1704, Leonard (Huygen) de Kleyn,* by whom she had no issue.
1 Doc. Rel. to Co'. Hist. of N. Y., vol. 3, p. 407-8-9, 493. Cal. N. Y. Hist. Mss. English, p. 116-117, 128 134 and 306.
* LEENDERT (Leonard) HUYGEN DE KLEYN (de Cleyn, Cleyn) Van Buuren, was a son of Hugh Barentsen de Clein, who, with his wife and seven children, embarked from Amsterdam for New Netherland, in May, 1661, in the Beaver. Hugo Barents (de Kleyn) and his wife Mayken Bartels joined the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam, October 2, 1661. Leendert joined May 28, 1679, and m. Ist, April 25, 1683, Magdalena Wolsum (Wolsing, Wolsen), widow of Cornelis Van der Veen. He was a shop-keeper in New York for many years, but removed in the latter part of his life to New Rochelle, Westchester Co., N. Y., where he died in 1735, having survived his second wife, Susannah Leisler, a number of years. The latter part of his name is frequently dropped in the Dutch Records, and he appears simply as Leendert Huygen or Huygens. Issue: I. David, bap. May 24, 1684. d. s. p.
2. Maria, bap. March 7, 1686 ; m. February 28. 1708, Joseph Robinson, merchant, of New York, and had Leonard, bap. September 24, 1710 ; Richard, bap. September 17, 1712 ; Joseph, bap. January 2, 1715; and Maria, bap. January 14, 1719.
3. Elisabeth, bap. March 29. 1688 ; m. November 3. 1705, Anthony Lispenard, son of Anthony and wife Abeltie. At the baptism of his children his name is written Anthony Lippenard. In 1724 he removed to New Rochelle. Issue : Anthony, bap. July 27, 1709 ; Magdalena, bap. February 16, 1712 ; Leonard, bap. January 25, 1716 ; Johannes, bap. February 1, 1721 ; and Elisabeth, bap. February 5, 1724.
4. Barent, bap. February 28, 1690 ; m August 28, 1711, Cornelia, dau. of Rev. Rudolphus Varick and his wife Margareta Visboom, and had Leonard. bap. December 7, 1712. Barent de Kleyn died soon after, and his widow, Cornelia, m. 2d, July 22, 1715, Pieter Van Dyk.
5. Johannes, bap. February 4, 1694 ; d. s. p.
6. Magdalena, bap. January 26, 1696 ; d. s. p.
7. Catharina, bap. in Brooklyn, November 27, 1698; d. s. p.
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MICHIEL VAUGHTON, son of Michiel Vaughton and Susannah Leisler, bap. September 9, 1688, m. May 15, 1712, Catharina dau. of John Don- aldson (Danginson, Danillson, Dennissen, Dumelson) and Elizabeth Ro- denburg.| In 1719 he was a merchant and afterwards a sail-maker in New York.
Will dated Dec. 28, 1732; proven Feb. 24, 1736; names wife, Catharin ; eldest son, John ; son, Jacob ; daughters, Elizabeth, Susannah, Katherin and Mary. Appoints his wife and his cousins Paul Richard, and William Hamersly, of the city of New York, merchants, Executrix and Executors. Issue :
I. MICHIEL VAUGHTON, bap. Feb. 15, 1713 ; d. young.
2. ELIZABETH VAUGHTON, bap. Sept. 1, 1715.
3. JOHANNES VAUGHTON, bap. July 31, 1717 ; d. young.
4. JOHANNES VAUGHTON, bap. April 24, 1720.
5. JACOB VAUGHTON, bap. April 11, 1722.
6. SUSANNAH VAUGHTON, bap. Dec. 2, 1724; m. March 8, 1747, Maurits, son of Balthazer De Hart and Margrietje Maurits, of New York. They settled at Shrewsbury, N. J.
7. CATHARINA VAUGHTON, bap. Dec. 21, 1726.
8. MARY VAUGHTON, bap. Sept. 25, 1728 ; she prob. m. June 22, 1769, Pieter Wessels.
3. ii. CATHARINA,2 bap. Nov. 8, 1665 ; m. Feb. 4, 1685, ROBERT WAL- TERS, j. m., from Plymouth, England. He was a merchant in New York, Alderman of the South Ward, 1688-9, member of the Assembly called under Leisler's authority in 1690, and member of the Colonial Council under Governors Bellomont and Nanfan, from 1698 to 1702, when he was suspended by Lord Cornbury. He was again a member of the Council under the administrations of Governors Hunter and Burnet, and Mayor of New York 1720-21-22-23. He died early in 1731. Issue :
I. ELISABETH WALTERS, bap. Nov. 1, 1685; m. Capt. Johannes Wendel, of Albany. See Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 148.
2. JOHANNES WALTERS, bap. May 22, 1687.
3. MARIA WALTERS, bap. Nov. 24, 1689.
4. CATHARINA WALTERS, bap. - , 1692 ?; m. Nov. 15, 1710, Johannes Van Hartsberge, and had Elizabeth, bap. Aug. 5, 1711 ; Johannes, bap. March 29, 1713; and Catharina, bap. Dec. 19, 1714. In 1719 he was a merchant at Surinam.
+ Elizabeth Rodenburg, dau. of Lucas Rodenburg and Catrina Roelofs, was born on the Island of Cu- racoa, her father being vice director there from about 1646 to 1657, the year of his death. Her mother was a dau. of Roelof Jansen and Anneke Jans, and after the death of her first husband married 2d, April 24, 1658, Johannes Pieterszen Ver Brugge [Van Brugh] from Haerlem, a prominent merchant and magistrate of New Amsterdam.
Elizabeth Rodenburg m. Ist, September 3, 1679, Ephraim, son of Augustyn Hermans and Janneken Ver- leth. He was bap. September 1, 1652. In August, 1673, when the Dutch fleet under command of Benckes and Evertsen captured New York, he was a Clerk in the Secretary of State's Office, and was com- missioned with others, by the Dutch Council of war, to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabit- ants on Long Island. Removing to the Delaware, he was appointed, in 1676, Clerk of the courts of New Castle and Upland, the court giving him in 1678 a certificate for his excellent conduct while in office. After his marriage in New York he returned to Delaware, and was appointed Surveyor (to which profession his father belonged) June 22, 1680, for the counties of New Castle and St. Jones. About this time he joined the Labadists, a short-lived religious sect, of which Jean de Labadie was the founder, and whose followers Dankers and Sluyter had with slight success sought to colonize on the Delaware. (Hazard's Annals of Penn., 426-51-72. Memoirs L. I. Hist. Soc., Vol. 1, xxxi., xxxiv., xxxv.) He died in 1689. His widow re- turned from New Castle and rejoined the Dutch Church in New York, September 1, 1689. They had issue bap. in New York : Augustinus, bap. July 7, 1680 ; Augustina, bap. June 1, 1684 ; Samuel, bap. April 20, 1687, and Ephriam, bap. October 7, 1688.
She m. 2d, March 24, 1692, John Donaldson, j. m. Van Galleway (Scotland ?). He lived on the South or Delaware River where Catharina, their dau .. named in the text, was probably born. They had another dau. Maria, bap. in New York, July 1, 1696, who married George Yates, merchant, of Philadelphia.
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5. SARA WALTERS, bap. in Brooklyn, May 4, 1695 ; d. young.
6. JACOBA WALTERS, bap. - , 1697. ?
7. JACOB WALTERS, bap. March 20, 1700.
8. SARA WALTERS, born June 29, 9 o'clock in the evening ; bap. July 2, 1704.
9. HESTER WALTERS, bap. Jan. 8, 1707
4. iii. JACOB,2 bap. Nov. 13, 1667. He was act ve in procuring from Parliament the reversal of the attainder of his father and brother-in-law Jacob Milborne, and for this purpose visited England in 1694-5. After his return he resided in the South Ward of New York, where he was living in Nov., 1731. He died without issue.
5. iv. MARY,2 bap. Dec. 12, 1669 ; joined the Dutch Church in New York, Sept. 2, 1688, and afterwards removed to Bergen. In Feb., 1690 (m. 1. dated Feb. 3 of that year), she married JACOB MILBORNE (Milburne, Melborn), the active Secretary of her father, and one of the leading spirits of his administration. He was born in England about 1648, and was a brother of Rev. William Milborne, who settled as minister of the church at Saco, Maine, in May, 1685, and prob. died at Boston, August, 1699.1
It is alleged that he was convicted of clipping the Kings coin, and sold as a servant in the Barbadoes, and afterwards bought by a Hartford man.2 If this story be true, he must have been a mere child at the time of the com- mission of the offence for which he was transported to Barbadoes. He was living in Hartford in 1663,3 came to New York in 1668, being then twenty years old, and was employed by Thomas Delavall, a leading merchant, as clerk and bookkeeper, in whose service he remained until 16/2. In October of that year he was admitted to plead with John Sharp and Samuel Edsal, Attorneys for the Plaintiff, in the trial of a suit in the Court of Assizes, at New York, on appeal from the Court on the Delaware, brought by Armigart Pappegoya (dau. of the Swedish Governor Printz) against Andrew Carr, for the recovery of Tinnicum Island.4 He soon after engaged in trade as a merchant in New York, his commercial enterprises causing his frequent absence from the province. Returning from England on the 25th of August, 1689, he was appointed in December following Secretary of the Province and Clerk to Lieut .- Gov. Leisler, with whom his subsequent history and sad fate is identified.
It is probable that Mary Leisler2 was the second wife of Jacob Mil- borne. In the list of members of the Dutch Church in New York, under date Nov. 29, 1688, appears the name of Johanna Edsal, h. v.5 Jacob Melborn. Opposite her name, Obyt is written, but the date of her decease is not given. She was probably the dau. of Samuel Edsal and Jenneke Wessels, and bap. in Bergen, N. J., Sept. 4, 1667.
In the second preamble of the Act of Parliament in 1695, reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler and others, the following is recited : "And whereas the said Jacob Leisler, also Jacob Milborne, Abraham Gouverneur, and several others, were arraigned in the Supreme Court of Judicature at New York aforesaid, and convicted and attainted of high treason and felony, for not delivering the possession of the said fort to the said Richard
1 Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, 3, p. 206. Folsom's Hist. Saco and Biddeford, p. 137.
2 Brodhead's Hist. of New York, 2, p. 196. Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. N. Y., 3, 755.
3 Hinman's First Puritan Settlers of Conn. p. 54.
4 Hazard's Annals of Penn., p. 400.
5 Abbreviation of Huysvrow, the Dutch word for wife or housewife.
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Ingoldsby, and the said Jacob Leisler and Jacob Milborne were executed for the same. May it therefore please your most excellent Majesty at the humble petition and request of Jacob Leisler, the son and heir of the said Jacob Leisler, deceased, Jacob Milborne, the son and heir of the said Jacob Milborne, deceased, and of the said Abraham Gouverneur, that it be declared and enacted," etc.1
The above is the only statement we have found, that Jacob Milborne left issue surviving him. This son (if the name is not an accidental in- terpolation in the above bill) was probably the fruit of Milborne's first mar- riage with Johanna Edsal, who, being in England at the time of his father's tragic death, afterwards remained there.
Mary Leisler,2 widow of Jacob Milborne, m. 2ª, in May, 1699, ABRA- HAM GOUVERNEUR, for whose descendants, see pages 19 and 20.
6. v. JOHANNES,? bap. Dec. 20, 1671 ; d. young.
7. vi. HESTER,2 bap. Oct. 8, 1673; m. BARENT RYNDERS (Reinders, Rynderts), of the city of New York, merchant, m. I. dated March 10, 1696. He was probably a son of Barent Reyndertse, smith, who was living at Albany as early as 1657, and died there in 1682.2 His will is dated Feb. 5, 1725 ; proven Jan. 25, 1726-7. His widow, Hester, made will dated July 11, 1757 ; proven April 29, 1763. Issue :
I. GEERTRUYT RYNDERS, bap. Aug. 16, 1702; m. Ist, about 1728, Nicholas Gouverneur, and 2d David, son of William Provoost. By her first husband, Nicholas Gouverneur, she had Hester, bap. Sept. 7, 1729 ; died young ; Abraham, bap. Nov. 22, 1730 ; Hester, bap. March 5, 1732; Barend, bap. Feb. 6, 1734; died young ; Nicholaus, bap. June 15, 1735 ; died young ; Barent, bap. May 29, 1737 ; and Nicholaus, bap. April 18, 1739. See pages 19 and 20.
2. ELIZABETH RYNDERS, bap. Sept. 17, 1704 ; m. July 3, 1729, Nicholas Bayard, son of Samuel Bayard and Margreta Van Cortlant, and had Hester, bap. July 29, 1730 ; Samuel, bap. March 22, 1732 ; Samuel, bap. June 13, 1733; Margareta, bap. Feb. 2, 1735 ; Nicolaas, bap. Nov. 14, 1736 ; Margareta, bap. Aug. 27, 1738 ; Judith, bap. Feb. 29, 1740; Barent Rynders, bap. March 31, 1742 ; and Elisabeth, bap. Oct. 15, 1746.
3. JOHANNA RYNDERS, bap. July 21, 1706; m. Dec. 12, 1723, David, son of David Provoost and Helena Byvanck. See vol. vi. p. 16, of the N. Y. G. AND B. RECORD. To the account of their family, there given, add that their dau. Helena, bap. May 24, 1728, m. Ist, Fresneau ; m. 2ª, June 19, 1760, Jacob Brewerton. 4. ESTER RYNDERS, bap. Oct. 31, 1708 ; d. unmarried.
5. BARENT RYNDERS, bap. Nov. 19, 1710; m. Feb. 3, 1740, Maria Cuyler. He died before July, 1757, leaving wife and dau. Hester surviving him.
6. JACOB RYNDERS, bap. Oct. 26, 1712 ; d. s. p.
7. ALIDA RYNDERS, bap. Oct. 31, 1716; m. March 10, 1743, Henry Cuyler, Jr., of the city of New York, merchant, son of Henry Cuyler and Maria Jacobs ; he was bap. Sept. 25, 1715. They had issue : Barent Reynders, bap. March 20, 1745 ; Hester, bap.
1 Documentary History of New York, vol. 2, p. 249.
2 Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 91.
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Jan. 4, 1747 ; Maria, bap. June 15, 1748 ; and Alida, bap. Nov 12, 1749.
8. JOHANNES RYNDERS, bap. Jan. 14, 1719 ; d. s. p.
8. vii. FRANCINA,2 bap. Dec. 16, 1676; m. Ist, THOMAS LEWIS ; m. ]. dated Nov. 26, 1694. Will of Thomas Lewis, merchant, of New York, " at this present time in good health but now bound out on a voyage," is dated Jan. 10, 1699-1700 ; proven June 14, 1704 ; names : wife, Frances ; son, Thomas ; "and the child with which his wife is big withall." Appoints his wife and brothers, Leendart Lewis, and Barent Rynders, Executrix and Executors. Issue :
I. THOMAS LEWIS, bap. - , 1695. ?
2. JAKOBA LEWIS, bap. in Brooklyn, Sept. 12, 1697 ; she m. Ist, May 17, 1724, Jesse, son of Lucas Kierstede and Rachel Kip ; he was a sea captain and prob. d. s. p. ; his widow m. 2ª, April 21, 1734, Bartholomeus Schatts, by whom had issue : Reinier, bap. April 2, 1735; and Francina, bap. Sep. 12, 1739.
3. FRANCINA LEWIS, bap. in New York, April 9, 1699.
Francina Leisler,2 widow of Thomas Lewis, m. 2ª, JOCHEM STAATS (prob. the widower of Antje Barentse Reyndertse, who died in 17071), by whom she had Elizabeth, bap. June 12, 1712, at which date Jochem Staats had deceased.
9. viii. MARGARET.2 It is probably an error to place her name here as the eighth child of Jacob Leisler. She is mentioned in the petition of her mother, brother, and sisters to the Queen (1694?), praying for the reversal of the Attainders pronounced against her father and Jacob Milborne.2 No other notice is found of her, and it is probable that she was the step-daughter of Jacob Leisler, Margaret Van der Veen, who married Isaac Stephenszen. See page 28.
LOOCKERMANS.
AMONG the early settlers of New Netherland were five* persons bearing this name-Govert, Jacob and Pieter Janse Loockermans, and their sis- ter Anneken, and a Balthus Loockermans. The modern form of the name is Lockerman, but in the early records of the family it is spelt Loocker- mans.
BALTHUS or BALTHAZER LOOCKERMANS was perhaps a cousin of the others, the exact relationship being difficult to determine, from the meagre records that have come down to us concerning him. He and his wife Engeltje Hendricks, had two children baptized in the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam, viz., Jacob, May 28, 1662, and Jannetie, Oct. 14, 1663.
PIETER JANSE LOOCKERMANS was in New Amsterdam in January, 1642, and we find traces of him here as late as Oct. 1648. In 1656 he was a citizen of Beverwyck (Albany,) and purchased there, Nov. 16, of that year, a house lot of Hendrik Gerritse (Van Wie or Verwey). In April, 1658,
1 Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 105.
2 Coll. N. Y. Hist. Society for 1868, p. 335.
* Anthony Loockermans with his partners Messrs. (Paulus Leendertsen) Van der Grist, (Cornelis) Schutt and (Cornelis) Steenwyck, on the 26th Nov., 1654, made an agreement with the Director (Stuyvesant) and Council, for the charter of the ship Golden Shark, for a voyage to the West Indies. Of him we have no other notice, and suppose that Govert Lookermans is the person alluded to. (Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, p. 143.)
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he was a boatswain in the West India Company's service. He probably had the following children :
i. PIETER LOOCKERMANS, who probably had two danghters, viz. : Marritje, married at Albany, Dec. 5, 1694, to Jo- hannes Fonda, and Lammertje, married at the same place, Nov. 3, 1700, to Ariaen Oothout.
ii. MARIA LOOCKERMANS, who married, Ist, Pieter Van Alen, of Kinderhook, widower of Maria Teller, and, 2d, in 1677, Gerrit Van Nes, of Greenbush.
iii. HILLETJE LOOCKERMANS, who married, prior to 1682, Cor- nelis Stephense Muller, of Greenbush, 1663 ; of Clave- rack, 1720.
iv. CAATJE LOOCKERMANS, who married, prior to 1683, Jan Salomonse Goewey, of Albany.
V. ANNA LOOCKERMANS, who married, Ist, prior to 1684, Adam Winne, of Albany, and, 2d, Oct. 18, 1691, Jacob Teunise Van Woert, widower of Catryn Claas, of the same place .*
JACOB JANSE LOOCKERMANS also settled in Beverwyck, as early as 1657. On the 28th of July, in that year, the Sheriff brought a suit against him for having assaulted Meuwes Hogenboom, and split his face open from his forehead to his under lip with his knife ; he was find 300 guilders ($120), and ordered to pay for loss of time, board, and surgical attendance. In May, 1664, he and John Davits were Commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace between the Mohawks and the Northern Indians, or Abenaquis, which they successfully concluded at Narrington, on the 24th of that month. In April, 1667, he purchased a house and lot in Albany, of Willem Jansen Schudt, and another July 25, 1684, of Laurence Van Alen. On the 24th of August, 1685, he obtained a license to travel, trade, and hunt among the Indians, as far as the Wagganasse and Attawaasse (Ottawas), with a company of thirty men. He was probably the Captain Loquerman, who, with Arian Abrahamse Schuyler and Jean Blaquerd, were detained as hos- tages in Canada by Gov. Denonville, while awaiting a reply to his letter to Gov. Dongan, dated Oct. 2, 1687, in which he complained of the infraction of the late treaty of peace by the English. He was living Aug. 18, 1700, at which date he was a sponsor at the baptism, in Albany, of his grandson Jacob, the son of Wessels Ten Broeck and Caatje Loockermans, who were married in Albany, April 2, 1684.+
ANNEKEN [ANN] LOOCKERMANS, j. d. Van Turnhout, married Feb. 26, 1642, OLOFT STEPHENSZEN [VAN CORTLANDT] j. m. Van Wyck in Duurs- tede. She probably came out with her brother Govert, on his return to New Netherland in Nov., 1641, her name first appearing in the records as one of the witnesses at the baptism, Dec. 1, 1641, of his eldest dau. Mar- ritje. In the Members Book of the Dutch Church in New York, her hus- band's name is recorded Adolph Stephenszen Van Courtlt, and at the baptism of their children, Olof Stephenszen Van Courtlant and Van Court- landt. The name is now spelled, we believe, by the family, Van Cort- landt.
* Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, pp. 49, 54, 75, 85, 112, 128, 152, and Pearson's Early Records of Albany, p. 8. Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch. p. 195.
+ Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, p. 307-316. English, p. 139. Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, pr. 75, 109, and Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. of N. Y., vol. 3, p. 513. Broadhead's Hist. of N. Y. vol. I, P. 733.
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Olof Stephenszen Van Cortlandt came to New Amsterdam in the ship Haring in 1637, a soldier in the West India Company's Service. He was promoted by Gov. Kieft, and in July, 1639, appointed Commissary of Car- goes, at a salary of thirty guilders ($12) per month. In 1645 was elected one of the Board of Eight men to adopt measures against the Indians, and in 1649, one of the Board of Nine men, of which body the following year he was President. He was elected Schepen of the City in 1654, and in 1655 was advanced to the higher position of Burgomaster, an office he held during the years 1656-58-59, 1662-63 and 1665. He was Alderman in 1666-67, 71, and succeeded Mr. Isaac Bedlow, upon the death of that gentleman, in the same office in 1673. His place of residence was in the Brouwer Straat, now Stone Street, where he was also engaged in busi- ness as a Brewer, in which occupation he became wealthy. " He had the character of being a worthy citizen and a man most liberal in his charities."* He died April 4, 1684, having survived his wife about a year. Issue : +
I. STEPHANUS VAN CORTLANDT, born May 7, 1643 ; bap. May 10, 1643 ; m. Sept. 10, 1671, Geertruyd Schuyler, j. d. Van Albania, dau. of Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Margareta Van Slechtenhorst.
2. MARRITIE [MARY] VAN CORTLANDT, born July 30, 1654 ; the records of the Dutch Church in N. Y. gives the date of her baptism July 23, 1645 ; m. April 27, 1662, JEREMIAS VAN RENSSELAER, j. m. Van Amsterdam, second son of Kilian Van Rensselaer, the first ancestor of the family in America.
3. JOHANNES [JOHN] VAN CORTLANDT, born Oct. 11, 1648 ; bap. Oct. 25, 1648 ; died unmarried.
4. FYTIE [SOPHIA] VAN CORTLANDT, born May 31, 1651 ; bap. June 4, 1651 ; m. May 6, 1671, ANDRIES TELLER, j. m. Van N. Albania, son of Willem Teller and Margariet Dunces (Donchesen).
5. CATHARINA VAN CORTLANDT, born Oct. 25, 1652; bap. Jan. 5, 1653 ; m. Ist Nov. 3, 1675, JOHANNES DERVALL, j. m. Van Amsterdam ; he died Feb. 18, 1689, and his widow m. 2d Nov. 30, 1692, DE HR. FRED- ERICK PHILIPSZEN (Phillipse), wedr. of Margariet Hardens (Hardenbroeck), the first Lord of the Manor of Philipsburg.
6. CORNELIA VAN CORTLANDT, born Nov. 21, 1655 ; bap. Nov. 28, 1655 ; m. July 12, 1682, BRANDT SCHUYLER, j. m. Van N. Albania, son of Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Margareta Van Slechtenhurst. He was born Dec. 18, 1659. (Prof. Pearson, to whom we are indebted for the date of Brandt Schuyler's birth, says, in his "First Settlers of Albany," page 98, that he married 2d, April 16, 1741, Margareta Van Wyck. It was his grand- son, Brandt, the son of Philip Brandtse Schuyler and Anna Elizabeth Staats, who married Margareta Van Wyck, and died Aug. 15, 1752. Their children were baptized in the Dutch Church in New York.)
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