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" François Doughty, coming to the Manhattans to live, during the war, was engaged as preacher by the English in and around the Manhattans, who were bound to main- tain him, without either the Director or Company being subject to any charge there- for. And the English giving him nothing for his support, two collections were taken up among the Dutch and English, whereon he lived at the Manhattans.
" The said Colonie of Mespacht was never confiscated. That is proved by the owners who still dwell there, who had an equal interest in the colonie with Doughty. But as Doughty would prevent its settlement, and permit no one to plant in the colonie unless those who would pay him a certain sum of money down for every morgen of land, and then moreover, a certain sum annually in shape of quitrent, and sought, also, to make a domain thereof in opposition to the co-interested of the colonie, Mr. Smith having especially complained, it was finally concluded by the Director and Council that the copartners should enter on their property, reserving to Doughty the bouwery and lands which he had in possession, so that he should suffer no loss or damage thereby. That I could also prove, were it not that the documents are in New Netherland and not here.
" The English preacher, François Doughty, has never been in the company's service. Wherefore the latter was never indebted to him, hut the English congregation must pay him, as it can be proved in New Netherland. The company hath assisted tho said preacher from time to time with goods and necessary maintenance, amounting to about fl.I,100, ($440,) as the colony's books can testify, whereof he hath never paid any part."
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G.
Payment and Expenditure which Kiliaen van Rensselaer has advanced and paid, in his life-time, as Patroon of the Colonie called Rensse- laerswyck, situate on the North River of New Netherland, for the sup- port of said Colonie, together with what has been expended and paid after his decease in behalf of said Colonie.
[From the Rensselaerswyck MSS.]
[NOTE .- The Merchants' books in Holland are kept in guilders, stivers, and pennies.] 1630.
Jan. 10. Paid to Wolfert Gerrittsen for Rutger Hendricksen van Soest, Superintendent of a brewery, in advance of what he shall earn, 20 Rix dollars, .
fl. 50.00
Paid in further advance, by Wolfert Gerrittsen, to Rut- ger aforesaid, 5.00
To Rutger Heindricksen aforesaid for a present,
5.00
f. 60.00
14. Paid to Brant Peelen, from Nieukerck, second farm ser- vant, [Bouw-knecht,] with the promise that he shall be appointed superintendent on the second farm, in ad- vance, 6 Rix dollars,
f. 15.00
To the same as a present,
10.00
To Wolfert Gerrittsen, overseer of farms, (opperboumeester,) for the following items ; for one month's wages, to be deducted, 20.00
For one month's wages in hand, for which he shall account, or to be otherwise deducted,
20.00
For 12 ewes with lamb and one ram, fl. 78.00
For payment of his expenses and trouble, 9.00
For 16 bushels of oats, . 12.00
For 150 double cakes of pressed rape-seed, 7.10
For lint-seed fi. 1, Hemp-seed fl. 2, Rope fl. 4, 7.00
For 2 large bed sacks to contain hay, 5.00
For a hasket and other small matters,
1.10
120.00
15. For 2 handsome guns for my servants who shall be sent out for my use, . . fl. 37.10 To Seger Heindricksen from Soest, Shepherd and Ploughman, at fl. 25 yearly, on account, 6 Rix dollars, · 15.00
Feb. 8. To Gillis van Schendel, for one map on parchment, and four ditto on paper, of the islands and other tillage grounds, (bouwlanden) situate in my Colonie, to he sent thither for their convenience, 6 Rix dollars, . 15.00
25.00
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Feb. 19. To Wolfert Gerrittsen, for his disbursements :-
For the sheep, . fl. 3.00
For veterinary surgeon, 6.00
For 10 halters and one sheep-shears, 4.00
13.00
Mar. II. Paid, by Wonter van Twiller, to Simon Dircksen Pos, for expenses on the sheep, . . 4.18
To Jacob Janssen, " lansman," for expenses at Texel :- For purchase of two sheep at Texel, and some hay, fl. 14.00 For the keep (staengelt) of 13 sheep (whereof one died of the mange) for 41 days, and carriage of said sheep, together 13 stivers per day, . 26.13
To Claes Arissen, for hay and carriage, 6.00
46.13
17. Paid at Middelburg for 2 Zealand plonghs for Wolfert Gerritt- sen, and for oats and draff for the sheep, which he bought also in Zealand, . 22.00
May 17. To Roelof Jansen of Masterlandt, assistant Bouwmeester, who shall serve with his family, according to contract, yearly fl. 180, from which is to be deducted, as having been paid, 40 Rix dollars, .100.00
To Claes Claessen of -, farm-servant to Roelof Jansen, to be deducted from his yearly wages, . . 10.00 To Jacob Govertsen, 8 rix dol. to be deducted from his yearly salary, 15.00 June 3. To Jacob Schimmel, for 2 guns for Roelof Jansen and his people, which they are to restore, . 28.00
July 4. Paid to Jacques Spierinck, anger-maker, (boor-maker,) for axes, adzes, horers, angers, sledges, &c., delivered to Roelof Jansen, to be taken along with him, . 37.15.6
Dec. 7. To Johan Monfoort, for so much bonght of him for me in New Netherland, by Wolfert Gerrittsen, viz. 4 ewe milk-sheep and 4 lambs, in all, . .
33.00
12. Paid to Philip Jansen of Harlem, for eight sheets of ruled paper, a writing-book and pen, to make drawings around Fort Orange, 1.13
To John Theisen, trumpeter, to be deducted from the hire of Rut-
1631. ger Heindricksen of Soest, . 10.00
June 24. Paid to Maryn Adriaensen van der Veere, who proceeds thither with his people to plant tobacco, according to contract made with him, for the half of 4 guns, 8 axes, 4 adzes, 12 spades, amounting to fl. 74.10, fl. 37.05
For one half of fl.143.04 to Jasper Ferlyn and Johan Tiers, for guard money, (wachtgelt,) and paid in hand, 71.12
108.17
26. To Maryn Adriaensen, as per receipt, to be repaid in tobacco, the sum of, 100.00
To Maryn Adriaensen aforesaid, repaid the half of fl. 12, which he paid to Cornelis Maasen van Buren Maasen, to be deducted from his hire, 6.00
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June 30. For remaining day's wages to Jasper Ferlyn and Cornelis Maasen, who embark on board together, · 2.00
July 5. Paid to the following millwrights and sawyers, according to con- tract made with them :-
To Andries Carstensen, master millwright, fl. 40.00
To Laurens Laurensen of Copenhagen, 27.10
To Barent Thomissen of He gensout,
25.00
92.10
To Heindrick op de Camp, for two small millstones for a small grist-mill, . 20.05
9. To Lubbert Tamessen, for one iron trap of 155 lbs. at 6 stiv :- fl. 46.10, and twelve stiv. boat freight, . 47.02
Pieter Jansen Smit, for one iron trap, 36 lbs. at 6 stiv :- fl. 10.16, besides 4 [erasure] fl. 14 and 8 stiv. freight, 25.04 To Laurens Laurensen, paid for sledges, . 9.00
To Coenraedt Notelman, sheriff (schout) of New Nether- land, to present to the Skipper of the (ship) Eendracht, fl. 5.00 Besides 12 Rix dollars to he disbursed, on arriving there, for my people, . 30.00
35.00
Aug. 5. To Mr. Schepen Bicker, for the purchase and expense of five Cow calves at Texel, according to account, hold- en by Coenradt Notelman, fl. 69.12
For purchase and expense of 3 calves from Jacob Clas- sen, and had by myself, 32.00
For freight of three calves, from here to Texel,
2.10
104.02
To Copartner Samuel Bloemmaert, for so much delivered by, and made good to him, 2,222 lbs. of wheat and rye
meal, at 4 stivers,
fl. 88.00
10 bags obtained therefor by him, at 16 stiv., 8.00
96.00
To Jacques Spierinck, anger-maker, for the master millwrights and wood-sawyers, according to account, 27.17
Sept. 27. To Simon Symensen of Hoorn for rope and lines furnished said wood-sawyers and wood-cutters, 39.15.10
For interest of disbursements, according to contract, at one penny for 16, or 6 per cent.
A. 297.10 paid, anno 1630, from 10th to 15th Jan. fl. 29.05
101.11 in February and March following, 9.00
125. in May following, 10.00
65. 5.6 in July and June,
4.10
43. in December, 2.10
218.10 in June, 1631, 3. 0
229. 1 in July, 1631,
3.0
267.14.10 in August last
0. 0
61.5
1348 2
1348.02
Sommarium,
1409.7
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MEMORANDUM of what has been received and had by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, as Patroon of the colonie of Rensselaerswyck, on behalf of the same, together with what has come in on behalf of the Colo- nie after his decease :-
1631.
Sept. 29. From myself for so much which I must bring in for my two- fifth parts of the first estimate . fl. 563.14.8 " " Received from Samuel Blommaert, in liquidation of his one- fifth part, 281.17.8
Nov. Received from François Boudewyns for the one-fifth part of
1632. Johannes [De Laet] aforesaid, 281.17.8 Feb. 20. Received in liquidation of Samuel Godyn for one-fifth part as aforesaid, 281.17.8
[Cetera desunt.] £. 1409.07
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H. Names of Settlers in Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646
Compiled from the books of Monthly Wages and other MSS.]
1630.
Wolfert Gerritsen, superintendent of farms.
Rutger Hendricksen van Soest, superintendent of the brewery.
Seger Hendricksen van Soest, shepherd and ploughman.
Brandt Peelen van Nieukerke, schepen; had two danghters, Lisbet and Gerritje.
The latter married Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick. The father died in 1644. He is mentioned by the Rev. Mr. Megapolensis in his tract on the Maqnaa In- dians, and by Van der Donck in his Beschryvinge van N. N., as having raised wheat off one field in Rensselaerswyck eleven years in succession. The land was ploughed twelve times in that period ; twice the first and once every suc- ceeding year, when the stubble was ploughed and the wheat sown and harrowed under. Van der Donck adds :- " There are many thonsand morgens of as good land there as that of which we have spoken." Several descendants of this indi- vidual reside in Albany county, where they go by the name of Brandt.
Simon Dircksen Pos, was one of Minnet's council in 1624; died in 1649. Jan Tyssen, trumpeter, Fort Orange.
Andries Carstenssen, millwright.
Laurens Lanrenssen,
Barent Tomassen, sawyers.
Arendt van Curler ; a sketch of this gentleman has been already given, p. 322 Jacob Jansen Stol, succeeded Hendrick Albertzsen as ferry-master at Beverwyck.
Martin Gerrittsen van Bergen, married Neeltje Meynderts ; his oldest son was Ger- rit ; his second, Myndert van Bergen. In the year 1668, he had a lease of Castle Island, called after him, Martin Gerritsen's Island, and in 1690 he lived south of that island, on the west side of the river. He had property in Katskill, Coxsackie, and Albany, of which place he was magistrate for a long time Claes Arissen.
Roeloff Jansen van Maesterlandt, wife and family; came out as farmer to the Patroon, at $72 a year. The Rev. Ev. Bogardus, of New Amsterdam, married his widow.
Claes Claessen, his servant. Jacques Spierinck.
Jacob Govertsen.
Raynert Harmensen.
Bastiaen Jansen Krol, Fort Orange.
Albert Andriessen Bradt, " de Noorman," married Annetje Barents, by whom he had eight children, viz. Barent ; Eva, (who m. Roeloff Swartwont ;) Storm ; En- geltje, (who m. Teunis Slingerland, of Onisquathaw ;) Gisseltje, (who m. Jan van Eechelen ;) Andries, Jan, and Dirck. The tradition is, that one of the above
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children was born on ship-board, on the passage ont, in the midst of a beavy storm, in consequence of which he was called " Storm van der Zee." Barent Albertsen succeeded his father, in 1672, as lessee of the water privileges on the Normans Kill, for which he was to pay $150 a year ; and Slingerland succeeded, in 1677, as lessee of the farm which his father had occupied until then on the above stream. Albert de Noorman died 7th June, 1686, and Swartwont, mention- ing the occurrence, says :- he was "een van de oudste en eerste inwconders der colonie Rensselaerswyck." He was one of the oldest and earliest of the inhabit- ants of Rensselaerswyck. At the time of his decease, he was proprietor of some lots and houses on the island of Manhattans. It was after this man that the creek south of Albany was called the Noormans Kal. Many of his descendants are still met with in and around the latter city.
1631.
Maryn Adriaensen van Veere. This was the freebooter who afterwards played so prominent a figure in Kieft's time.
Thomas Witsent.
Gerrit Teunissen de Reus, schepen, had a well-stocked farm in Greenbush
Cornelis Teunissen van Westbroek.
Cornelis Tennissen van Breukelen, Raedts persoon ; the descendants of this man now call themselves van Brackelen.
Johan Tiers.
Jasper Ferlyn.
Gerrit Willems Oosterum.
Cornelis Maessen van Buren Maassen (in Gelderland) and Catalyntje Martensen, his wife, came out in the ship Rensselaerswyck. In the passage out was bom their first child, Hendrick ; had besides him, four other children, viz. Martin, Maas, Steyntje, and Tobias, all of whom were living in the colonie in 1662. Steyntje married, 1663, Dirck Wessels, " free merchant here." The father had a farm at Papskenea. He and his wife died in 1648, and were both buried on the same day ! (Beyde op eenen dagh zyn begraaven. MS.)
Cornelis Teunissen Bos, bouwknecht to Cornelis Maassen, was commissary at Fort Orange previous to 1662.
1634.
Jan Labbadie, carpenter, native of France, was subsequently commissary to the Patroon, and after that held a like office at Fort Orange, under the company. He married the widow of Mr. Harman van der Bogaert. He came out previous to this year, and was part owner of the Garce.
Robert Hendricksen. Adriaen Gerritsen.
Luhert Gysbertsen, wheelwright. Jan Jacobsen.
Jacob Albertzen Planck, officier, or sheriff. Joris Houten, Fort Orange. Hendrick Cornelissen.
Jan Jansen Dam, or Damen ; married Anaentje Cuvel. He removed subsequent- ly to New Amsterdam, where he was elected one of the Eight Men ; amassed considerable wealth, and was one of the owners of the privateer La Garce. In
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1649-50 he went to Holland with C. van Tienhoven, to defend Stuyvesant against the complaints of Van der Donck and others, and died on his return, 18th June, 1651. He does not seem to have had any children. He had three bro- thers, Cornelis Jansen Cnyper ; Cornelis Jansen Damen ; and Willem Jansen Damen ; and two sisters, Neiltje and Hendrickje. He adopted the son of the last-named sister-Jan Cornelis Buys-who assumed his name, having been left 600 Car. guilders. Jan Damen, at bis death, willed 400 Car. guilders to the poor of Bunick, province of Utrecht. The inventory of his personal property fills ten folio pages in the records.
1635.
Jan Terssen van Franiker. Jan Cornelissen, Carpenter.
Juriaen Bylvelt. Johannes Verbeeck ; Raedt Persoon, 1658, 1661.
1636.
Barent Pieterse Koyemans, alias Barent the Miller, entered the service of the first Patroon, at 30 guilders a year. Three brothers accompanied him to Rensse- laerswyck in 1636 : viz. David, Jacob, and Arent, who was a lad. It is pre- sumed that they came originally from Utrecht. Barent worked in the Patroon's grist-mill until 1645, in the fall of which year he took charge, with Jan Gerrit- sen, his partner, (who came out with him,) of the Patroon's saw-mills, being al- lowed 150 gl. each a year for board, and 3 stivers a cut for every plank they sawed. He remained in this employment until 1647, having cut between three and four thousand boards in that time. Previous to 1650, he lived a little sonth of the 5th or Patroon's creek, and in 1655 took a nineteen years' lease of a farm of maize-land at 24 gl. per annum. In 1657 he rented, in company with Cornelis Theunis, van Breukelen, for three years, the Upper Mills, (as the mills on the Pa- troon's creek were called, in contradistinction to those on the Norman's kill,) which he leased on his own account in 1660 for 13 years. This lease expired in 1673, about which time he purchased, by consent of the Commissioners at Al- bany, from the Katskill Indians, a large tract of land, some twelve or fifteen miles south of that city, on the west side of the river. The place had been known, for many years previous, as offering peculiar advantages for the erection of saw- mills, Cryn Cornelissen and Hans Jansen having erected saw-mills on the creek immediately north of Beeren Island as early as 1651. Coeymans had, no doubt, these advantages in view when he made his purchase, which began at a point on the shore called Sieskasin, opposite the middle of Jan Ryersen's island called by the Indians Sapanakock, and ran south to the mouth of Pieter Bronck's kill, as Coxsackie creek was then called. Following up this creek to its head, the line then went west until it struck the head of the waters falling into the Hudson, all the land on which belonged to the Katskill Indians, the waters flowing west to the Schoharie creek being the property of the Mohawks. The line then went northerly to the bounds of Rensselaerswyck, and thence returned to the Hudson River. A patent was obtained for this tract, twelve miles deep and some eight or ten front, from Gov. Lovelace, on 7th April, 1673. But falling as it did with- in the original bounds of Van Rensselaer's colonie, Coeymans purchased out the
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Patroon's claims, 22d Oct., 1706, agreeing to pay a quit-rent of nine shillings a year, and he finally obtained letters patent from Queen Anne, confirming the whole to him and his heirs forever, 6th Aug., 1714. This purchase now consti- tutes the ancient town of Coeymans, in the county of Albany .- Barent Pieter- sen had five children-Andreas, Samuel, Peter, Ariantje, and Jannitje. An- dreas moved to the Raritans, New Jersey, where he purchased a considerable tract of land, and where some of the Coeymans still reside. Peter married twice : by his first wife he had Mayica, who married Andreas Witbeck ; and Elizabeth, the wife of Jacob van Allen. By his second wife, Charlotte Amelia Drawyer, he had Gerritje, who married John Barclay, mayor of Albany ; Anne Margaret, who married Peter T'en Eyck, and Charlotte A., who married John Brouck. Mrs. Abraham Verplanck of Coeymans is grand-daughter to this Mrs. Bronck All the descendants of Barent Coeymans, after the first generation in a direct line, were females. Owing to this singular circumstance, the family name is now extinct in this State.
Pieter Cornelissen van Munnichendam, millwright.
Dirck Jansen van Edam.
Mauritz Janssen, van Broeckhuysen.
Arent Andriessen van Frederickstad.
Michel Jansen,
This Michel brought out his wife and two children. Van Tienhoven says he came out as a " boereknecht," or servant. He amassed a fortune in a few years, in the fur-trade, but not being able to agree with the head men of the colonie, he removed, in 1646, to the island of Manhattans. He purchased Evertsen Bout's farm in Pavonia, with some stock, for 8,000 gl., and was appointed one of the delegates to Holland in 1649, against the colonial administration, hut owing to the unsettled state of his private affairs he could not accept that appointment. It was in a room in this man's house, in New Amsterdam, that Van der Donck wrote his celebrated " Vertoogh," or Remonstrance against the maladministra- tion of affairs in New Netherland.
Jacob Jansen van Amsterdam.
Simon Walings van der Belt ; was killed at Pavonia, in 1648, by some savages from the south.
Gysbert Claessen van Amsterdam. Hans Zevenhuyzen.
Cristen Cristyssen Noorman van Vlecburg and wife.
Adriaen Hubertsen.
Rynier Tymanssen van Edam.
Tomas Jansen van Bunick.
Tys Barentsen Schoonmaker van Edam.
Cornelis Tomassen, smith, and wife.
Arent Steveniersen, wife and two children ; he married, anno 1637, the widow of Cornelis Tomassen, by whom he had two other children. Johan Latyn van Verduym. Claes Jansen van Nykerk.
Rutger Jacobsen van Schoenderwoerdt ; married in New Amsterdam, anno 1646, Tryntje Jansen van Briestede, (who died at her son's in Rosendal, in 1711.) By her he had two daughters and one son. Margaret, one of the daughters, married, in 1667, Jan Jansen Bleecker, who came from Meppel, province of Overyssel, to America, in 1658, and was the ancestor of the present highly re- spectable Bleecker family in this State. Rutger Jacobsen was a magistrate in Rensselaerswyck as early as 1648, and continued to fill that office as late as 1662, and perhaps later. He owned a vessel on the river in 1649, in which year he rented, in partnership with Goosen Gerrittsen, the Patroon's brewery, at 450
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gl. a year, paying in addition one guilder for every ton of beer which they brewed. This duty amounted in the first year to 330 gl., and in the following season they worked up 1,500 schepels of malt. On the 2d June, 1656, he laid the corner- stone of the " new church," in Beverwyck, and we find him subsequently part proprietor of Pachonakelick, called by the Dutch Mohican's or Long Island, below Bethlehem. He had the character of an upright citizen, and to his credit it must be added, he rose by his honest industry from small beginnings.
Ryckert Rutgersen ; was engaged, when he first came out, at 120 gl. per annum for a term of 6 years. In 1648 he took a 6 years' lease of Bethlehem Island, at 300 gl. per annum, besides the tenths. He received three horses, and two or three cows on halves, and the Patroon was to build him a barn and dwelling-house, he cutting and drawing the timber, and boarding the carpenters. He was exempt from rent and tithes for the first year. In 1652 he surrendered his lease to Jan Ryersen, after whom this island has since been named.
N. B. The Settlers of 1636 came out in the ship Rensselaerswyck, having sailed from Holland on the 1st October of that year.
1637.
Jan Michaelsen van Edam, tailor, and his boy.
Pieter Nicolaussen van Nordinge.
Teunis Cornelissen van Vechten, succeeded Michel Jansen on his farm in 1646, and lived in 1648 at the south end of Greenbush.
Burger Joris, smith.
Jan Ryersen ; the island situate opposite the junction of the towns of Bethlehem and Coeymans, on the Hudson, was called Jan Ryersen's island, in consequence of this man having lived there in 1652.
Abraham Stevensen, surnamed Croaet, a boy.
Cornelis Teunissen van Merkerk.
Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick ; married, Ist, Gerritje Brants, daughter of Brant Pee- len ; 2d, in July, 1657, Annetje Lievens. He was a brewer in the colonie in 1649, in which year he accepted, after a good deal of solicitation, the office of magistrate, or Gerechts persoon. Was afterwards one of the part owners of Nachtenack, the Indian name for the site of the present village of Waterford, Saratoga county.
Willem Juriaensen Bakker, was banished from the colonie in 1650, at the age of seventy years, in consequence of his repeated misdeeds .*
* As the minute in the Gerechts rolle, or court register, of the sentence pronounced against this public disturber will afford some idea of the strictness of the police in those days, we are tempted to translate it. It is in this wise :- "Their worships, the Commissioners and Council of the colo- nie of Rensselaerswyck, having duly considered and weighed the demand of the Honorable Direc- tor, as prosecutor against Willem Juriaensen Bakker, and finding that he was already banished out the colonie by their Worshipful Court, on the 4th February, 1644; and afterwards because that he attempted on the Lord's highway with a koife to stab the person of Antonie de Hooges, then commis to the Noble Patroon, whereby he, in as much as in him lay, did commit a murder, for which he, on the 28th Angust, 1647, was banished from the colonie ; and he having by petition prayed for a respite, which was granted to him, he pledged all his goods, and also subjected himself to the banishment of his person, should he happen to insult any person within or without the court, or to do any thing that should be displeasing, or worthy of punishment. Therefore, the Honorable Prosecutor, recapitulating the same, has set forth, to wit, that he, the Delinquent, hath so fright
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1638.
Jan Direksen van Amersfoort.
Gerrit Hendricksen.
Wybrant Pietersen.
Cornelis Leendertsen.
Willem Meynten.
Francis Allertsen, cooper.
Martin Hendricksen van Hamelwaard.
Roeloff Cornelissen van Houten.
Adriaen Berghoorn.
Volckert Jansen.
Hendrick Fredricksen.
Jacob Jansen Nostrandt.
Christoffel Davits ; lived in 1650 on a farm at Dominie's Hoeck, now called Van Wie's Point.
Claes Jansen Ruyter. Jacob Flodder, his man.
Gysbert Adriaensen van Bunick ; came out in the Key of Calmar.
Teunis Dircksen van Vechten ; came out, with wife, child, and two servants, in the " Arms of Norway," and had a farm, in 1648, at Greenbush, north of that oc- cupied by Teunis Cornelissen van Vechten. He is referred to in 1663 as " an old inhabitant here."
1639.
Jacob Adriaensen van Utrecht. Ryer Stoffelsen.
Cryn Cornelissen ; obtained a license in 1651 to erect a sawmill in company with Hans Jansen van Rotterdam, on what is now Coeyman's Creek.
Adam Roelantsen van Hamelwaard ; previously a schoolmaster in New Amsterdam. Sander Leendertsen Glen ; married Catalyn Doncassen. He was one of the Indian traders at Beverswyck, and finally moved to Scotia, near Schenectada, of which tract he obtained a patent from Gov. Nicolls, in 1665. Reference is made probably to this gentleman by the French in their account of the burning of Schenectada, anno 1690, in the following terms :- " At daybreak some men were sent to the
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