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In an original letter in my possession, written in Amster- dam 17th of 5th month, 1678, by Peter Hendricks to Roger Longworth, it is said : " And (to speake it is familiarity to thee) we have also some feare concerning Jacob Tell- ner; he is prettie high and it does not diminish but in- crease, but my heart's desire is that he may be preserved."
84 A true account of the Scence and advice of the People called Quakers.
85 Dr. Scheffer's paper in the Penna. Magazine, Vol. II., p. 122.
86 Exemp. Record, Vol. VII., p. 208.
87 Exemp. Record, Vol. VIII., p. 360.
THE SETTLEMENT OF GERMANTOWN.
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In 1684 also came Jan Willemse Bockenogen, a Quaker cooper from Haarlem.88
October 12, 1685, there arrived in the ship "Francis and Dorothy " Heinrich Buchholz and his wife Mary, and Hans Peter Umstat, from Crefeld, with his wife Barbara, his son, John, and his daughters, Anna Margaretta and Eve. Umstat was the son of Nicholas Umstat, who died at Crefeld at four o'clock on the morning of October 4, 1682. He had bought two hundred acres from Dirck Sip- man, which were laid out in Germantown toward Plymouth, and there he spent the remainder of his days. Among the possessions he brought across the seas with him was a Bible, printed at Nuremberg in 1568, which had belonged to his father, Nicholas, at least since 1652, and which I inherited through his daughter Eve. In it, in addition to the family entries, are among others the following : " In the year 1658 the cold was so great that even the Rhine was frozen up. On the 31st of January so great a snow fell that it continued for four days. There was no snow so great within the memory of man," and " December 16, 1680, the Comet Star with a long tail was seen for the first time." The comet which so impressed him is the one that appeared in the time of Cæsar, and with a period of about five hundred years, is the most imposing of those known to astronomers. In 1685 came also Heivert Papen and about the same time Klas Jansen. Occasionally we catch a glimpse of the home life of the early dwellers in Ger- mantown. . Willem Streypers, in 1685, had two pairs of leather breeches, two leather doublets, handkerchiefs, stockings and a new hat.
The first man to die was Jan Seimens, whose widow was again about to marry in October, 1685.89 Bom died before
88 Among his descendants was Henry Armitt Brown, the orator.
89 Pastorius' Beschreibung, Leipsic, 1700, p. 23, Streyper MSS.
THE SETTLEMENT OF GERMANTOWN.
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1689, and his daughter Agnes married Anthony Morris, the ancestor of the distinguished family of that name.90 In 1685 Wigard and Gerhard Levering came from Muhlheim on the Ruhr,91 a town also far down the Rhine, near Holland, which, next to Crefeld, seems to have sent the largest number of emigrants. The following year a fire caused considerable loss, and a little church was built at Germantown. According to Seidensticker it was a Quaker meeting house, and he shows conclusively that before 1692 all of the original thirteen, except Jan Lensen, had in one way or another been associated with the Quakers. In 1687 Arent Klincken arrived from Dalem, in Holland, and Jan Streypers wrote : "I intend to come over myself," which intention he carried into effect before 1706, as at that date he signed a petition for naturalization.92 All of
90 Ashmead MSS.
91 Jones' Levering Family.
92 Jan Strepers and his son-in-law, H. J. Van Aaken, met Penn at Wesel in 1686, and brought him from that place to Crefeld. Van Aaken seems to have been a Quaker Sept. 30th, 1699, on which day he wrote to Penn : " I understand that Derrick Sypman uses for his Servis to you, our Mag- istrates at Meurs, which Magistrates offers their Service to you again. So it would be well that you Did Kyndly Desire them that they would Leave out of the High Dutch proclomation which is yearly published through- out ye County of Meurs & at ye Court House at Crevel, that ye Quakers should have no meeting upon penalty, & in Case you ffinde freedom to De- sire ye sd Magistrates at Meurs that they may petition our King William (as under whose name the sd proclomation is given forth) to leave out ye word Quackers & to grant Leberty of Conscience, & if they should not obtaine ye same from the said King, that then you would be Constrained for the truth's Sake to Request our King William for the annulling of ye sd proclomation Concerning the quackers, yor answer to this p. next shall greatly oblige me, Especially if you would write to me in the Dutch or German tongue, god almayghty preserve you and yor wife In soule and body. I myself have some thoughts to Come to you but by heavy burden of 8 Children, &c., I can hardly move, as also that I want bodyly Capacity to Clear Lands and ffall trees, as also money to undertake some- thing Ells." An English translation of this letter in the handwriting of Matthias Van Bebber is in my collection.
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the original Crefeld purchasers, therefore, came to Penn- sylvania sooner or later, except Remke and Sipman. He, however, returned to Europe, where he and Willem had an undivided inheritance at Kaldkirchen, and it was agreed between them that Jan should keep the whole of it, and Willem take the lands here. The latter were two hundred and seventy-five acres at Germantown, fifty at Chestnut Hill, two hundred and seventy-five at the Trappe, four thousand four hundred and forty-eight in Bucks County, together with fifty acres of Liberty Lands and three city lots, the measurement thus considerably overrunning his purchase.
About 1687 came Jan Duplouvys, a Dutch baker, who was married by Friends ceremony to Weyntie Van Sanen, in the presence of Telner and Bom, on the 3d of 3d month of that year. Dirck Keyser, a silk merchant doing busi- ness in Printz Gracht, opposite Rees Street, in Amsterdam, and a Mennonite, connected by family ties with the lead- ing Mennonites of that city, arrived in Germantown by way of New York in 1688. If we can rely upon tradition, he was a descendant of that Leonard Keyser, the friend of Luther, who was burned to death at Scharding in 1527, and who, according to Ten Cate, was one of the Walden- ses.93 Long after his coming to Germantown he wore a coat made entirely of silk, which was a matter for disap- proval, if not a subject for envy. His father was Dirck Gerritz Keyser, a manufacturer of morocco, and his grand- father was Dircksz Keyser. His mother was Cornelia, daughter of Tobias Govertz Van den Wyngaert, one of the most noted of the early Mennonite preachers, the learned author of a number of theological works, of whom there is a fine portrait by the famous Dutch engraver A. Blootelingh. Here seems to be an appropriate place to
93 See Pennypacker Reunion, p. 13.
THE SETTLEMENT OF GERMANTOWN.
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Date of birth of Menno.
record a bibliographical incident of real value which de- serves to be preserved. For many years the scholars of Europe, interested in the period of the Reformation, had disputed over the dates of the birth and death of Menno Simons, one coterie contending for 1492-1559 and their opponents for 1496-1561. One of the principal authori- ties was Gerhard Roosen, a preacher of Hamburg, who lived to a great age and died in the beginning of the 18th century, and whose testimony was regarded as of impor- tance because his grandmother had personally known Menno. But the whole subject was left in vague uncer- tainty. In 1881 a man in Ohio wrote to me that he had an old book, for which he wanted two dollars. It came, and behold ! it turned out to be a copy of the works of Menno, printed in 1646, which had belonged to Gerhard Roosen, and in his hand, written in 1671, in his 60th year, was an account of a visit which he, with Tobias Govertz Van den Wyngaert and Peter Jans Moyer had made to the grave of Menno. It proceeded to say that he was born in 1492 and died in 1559, and was buried in his own cabbage garden. These facts were at once embodied in a paper by Dr. J. G. DeHoop Scheffer, the historian of the Reformation in Holland, which was printed in Amster- dam, and thus was the New World able to furnish informa- tion which settled an Old World historical controversy. Who wrote the letters of Junius may yet find an answer here.
The residents in 1689, not heretofore mentioned, were Paul Wolff, a weaver from Fendern in Holstein, near Hamburg ; Jacob Jansen Klumpges, Cornelius Siverts, Hans Millan, Johan Silans, Dirck Van Kolk, Hermann Bom, Hendrick Sellen, Isaac Schaffer, Ennecke Kloster- mann, from Muhlheim, on the Ruhr; Jan Doeden and An- dries Souplis. Of these Siverts was a native of Friesland,
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The Settlement of Germantown.
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THE SETTLEMENT OF GERMANTOWN.
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the home of Menno Simons.94 Sellen, with his brother Dirk, were Mennonites from Crefeld, and Souplis was ad- mitted a burgher and denizen of the city of New York, with a right to trade anywhere in his Majesty's dominions. The antecedents of the others I have not been able to as- certain. Hendrick Sellen was very active in affairs at Ger- mantown, being the attorney in fact for Jan Streypers, gave the ground for the Mennonite church there, was a trustee for the church on the Skippack, and in 1698 made a trip across the sea to Crefeld, carrying back to the old home many business communications, and, we may well suppose, many messages of friendship. August 22, 1709, he had a pint of wine and a roll with Pastorius. He was naturalized in 1709, and owned two hundred and ninety- one and a-half acres of land, on which he built an oil mill in 1714, but before April 16, 1739, he had sold it and re- moved to Komupoango, in Pennsylvania. An effort at naturalization in 1691 adds to our list of residents Reynier Hermanns Van Burklow, Peter Klever, Anthony Loof, Paul Kastner, Andris Kramer, Jan Williams, Herman Op de Trap, Hendrick Kasselberg, from Backersdorf,in the county of Brugge, and Klas Jansen. The last two were Mennonites, Jansen being one of the earliest preachers. Op deTrap, or Trapman, as he is sometimes called, appears to have come from Muhlheim, on the Ruhr, and was drowned at Philadelphia in 1693. Gisbert Wilhelms died the year before.
John Goodson, writing to his friends John and S. Dew in London, the 24th of 6th mo., 1690, says : " And five miles off is a town of Dutch and German people that have set up the linnen manufactory which weave and make many thousand yards of pure fine linnen cloth in a year, that in a short time I doubt not but the country will live happily."95
94 Raths Buch.
95 Some Letters . . . from Pennsylvania, London, 1691.
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The Settlement of Germantown.
In 1692 culminated the dissensions among the Quakers caused by George Keith and the commotion extended to the community at Germantown. At a public meeting Keith called Dirck Op den Graeff an " impudent rascal "- and since the latter was a justice of the peace in the right of his position as a burgess of Germantown it was looked upon as a flagrant attack upon the majesty of the law. Among those who signed the testimony of the yearly meet- ing at Burlington 7th of 7th mo., 1692, against Keith, were Paul Wolff, Paul Kastner, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Andries Kramer, Dirck Op den Graeff and Arnold Kassel. The certificate from the Quarterly meeting at Philadelphia, which Samuel Jennings bore with him to London in 1693, when he went to present the matter before the Yearly Meeting there, was signed by Dirck Op den Graeff, Rey- nier Tyson, Peter Schumacher and Caspar Hoedt. Pas- torius wrote two pamphlets in the controversy. On the other hand, Abraham Op den Graeff was one of five per- sons who, with Keith, issued the Appeal, for publishing which William Bradford, the printer, was committed, and a testimony in favor of Keith was signed by Hermann Op den Graeff, Thomas Rutter, Cornelis Siverts, David Scherkes and Jacob Isaacs Van Bebber.96 The last named furnishes us with another instance of one known to have been a Mennonite acting with the Friends, and Sewel, the Quaker historian, says concerning Keith: "And seeing several Mennonites of the County of Meurs lived also in Penna., it was not much to be wondered that they who count it unlawful for a Christian to bear the sword of the magistracy did stick to him."
Caspar Hoedt, then a tailor in New York, married there 6th mo. 12th, 1686, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Nico-
96 Potts' Memorial, p. 394.
Letters from Pennsylvania. I35
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The Settlement of Germantown.
las De la Plaine and Susanna Cresson, who were French Huguenots. James De la Plaine, a relative and probably a son of Nicolaes, came to Germantown from New York prior to August 28th, 1692, on which day he was married by Friends' ceremony to Hannah Cook. Susanna, a daughter of Nicolaes, became the wife of Arnold Kassel 9th mo. 2d, 1693.97
On the 2d of November, 1693, Paul Wolff conveyed a half acre on the east side and another half acre on the west side of the street " for a common burying place." In 1694 it was determined that on the " 13th and 14th days of the 3d and 4th months a fair or open year market shall be held, and such shall be written to the printer in New York to have it put in his almanac." 98
A tax list made by order of the Assembly in 1693 names the following additional residents, viz : Johannes Pettinger, John Van de Woestyne and Paulus Kuster. Kuster, a Mennonite, came from Crefeld with his sons Arnold, Jo- hannes, and Hermannus, and his wife Gertrude. She was a sister of Wilhelm Streypers. He was by trade a mason and he died in 1707.
In 1695 Isaac Ferdinand Saroschi, a Hungarian, the first of a long line of late followers, who had formerly been a preceptor in the house of Tobias Schumberg at Winds- heim, came to Germantown, but after wandering around for two years causing trouble and " Hungarorum more nur eleemosinas et donativa colligiret " he returned to Europe with no very good opinion of the country.
George Gottschalck from Lindau, Bodensee, Daniel Geissler, Christian Warmer and Martin Sell were in Ger- mantown in 1694, Levin Harberdinck in 1696, and in 1698
97 Notes of Walter Cresson.
98 Rath's Buch.
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Reynier Jansen.
Jan Linderman came from Muhlheim, on the Ruhr. Dur- ing the last year the right of citizenship was conferred upon Jan Neuss, a Mennonite and silversmith,99 Willem Hendricks, Frank Houfer, Paul Engle, whose name is on the oldest marked stone in the Mennonite graveyard on the Skippack under date of 1723, and Reynier Jansen. Though Jansen has since become a man of note, abso- lutely nothing seems to have been known of his anteced- ents, and I will, therefore, give in detail such facts as I have been able to ascertain concerning him. On the 2Ist of May, 1698, Cornelius Siverts, of Germantown, wishing to make some arrangements about land he had inherited in Friesland, sent a power of attorney to Reynier Jansen, lace maker at Alkmaer, in Holland. It is consequently mani- fest that Jansen had not then reached this country. On the 23d of April, 1700, Benjamin Bergam Kindly Furly, of Rotter- dam, the agent of Penn at that city, gave a power of attorney to Daniel and Justus Falkner to act for him here. It was of no avail, however, because as appears from a confirmatory letter of July 28th, 1701, a previous power " to my loving friend Reynier Jansen," lace maker, had not been revoked, though no intima- tion had ever been received that use had been made of it. It seems then that between the dates of the Siverts and Furly powers Jansen had gone to America. On the 29th of November, 1698, Reynier Jansen, who after- ward became the printer, bought of Thomas Tresse twenty
99 Penn bought from him in 1704 a half-dozen silver spoons, which he presented to the children of Isaac Norris, while on a visit to the latter .- See Journal.
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The Settlement of Germantown.
acres of Liberty Lands here, and on the 7th of February, 1698-99, the right of citizenship, as has been said, was conferred by the Germantown Court upon Reynier Jan- sen, lace maker. These events fix with some definiteness the date of his arrival. He must soon afterward have re- moved to Philadelphia, though retaining his associations with Germantown, because ten months later, Dec. 23d, 1699, he bought of Peter Klever seventy-five acres in the latter place by a deed in which he is described as a mer- chant of Philadelphia. This land he as a printer sold to Daniel Geissler Oct. 20th, 1701. Since the book called "God's protecting providence, etc.," was printed in 1699 it must have been one of the earliest productions of his press, and the probabilities are that he began to print late in that year. Its appearance indicates an untrained printer, and a meagre font of type. He was the second printer in the middle colonies, and his books are so rare that a single specimen would probably bring at auction now more than the price for which he then sold his whole edition. He left a son, Stephen, in business in Amsterdam, whom he had apportioned there, and brought with him to this coun- · try two sons, Tiberius and Joseph, who, after the Dutch manner, assumed the name Reyniers, and two daughters, Imity, who married Matthias, son of Hans Millan, of Germantown, and Alice, who married John Piggot. His career as a printer was very brief. He died about March Ist, 1706, leaving personal property valued at £226 Is, 8d., among which was included " a p'cell of books from Wm. Bradford £4 2s. od."100
We find among the residents in 1699, Evert In den Hoffen from Muhlheim on the Ruhr, with Hermann, Ger-
100 Raths Buch. Exemp. Record, Vol. VI., p. 235. Deed Book E 7, p. 550. Germantown Book, pp. 187, 188. Will Book C, p. 22.
THE SETTLEMENT OF GERMANTOWN.
AN Abstrait or Abrisament of the Lacus MADE nul Paft by WILLIAM PENN Ablolure
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"The For each day of October and Continued by Ad- Murat 2. till the Twenty Seventh of November in the Year 1700.
Printed at Philadelphia by Reynier Funfen 1701
ABSTRACT OF LAWS PRINTED BY REYNIER JANSEN 1701.
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hard, Peter, and Anneke, who were doubtless his chil- dren, some of whom are buried in the Mennonite grave- yard on the Skippack.
Four families, members of the Mennonite Church at Hamburg, Harmen Karsdorp and family, Claes Berends and family, including his father-in-law, Cornelius Claes- sen, Isaac Van Sintern and family, and Paul Roosen and wife, and two single persons, Heinrich Van Sintern and the widow Trientje Harmens started for Pennsylvania, March 5, 1700, and a few months later at least four of them were here.101 Isaac Van Sintern was a great grand- son of Jan de Voss, a burgomaster at Hanschooten, in Flanders, about 1550, a genealogy of whose descendants, including many American Mennonites, was prepared in Holland over a hundred years ago. In 1700 also came George Muller and Justus Falkner, a brother of Daniel, and the first Lutheran preacher in the province. Among the residents in 1700 were Isaac Karsdrop and Arnold Van Vossen, Mennonites, Richard Van der Werf, Dirck Jansen, who married Margaret Millan, and Sebastian Bartlesen; in 1701 Heinrich Lorentz and Christopher Schlegel; in 1702 Dirck Jansen, an unmarried man from Bergerland, working for Johannes Kuster, Ludwig Chris- tian Sprogell, a bachelor from Holland, and brother of that John Henry Sprogell, who a few years later brought an ejectment against Pastorius, and feed all the lawyers of the province, Marieke Speikerman, Johannes Rebenstock, Philip Christian Zimmerman, Michael Renberg, with his sons Dirck and Wilhelm, from Muhlheim, on the Ruhr, Peter Bun, Isaac Petersen and Jacob Gerritz Holtzhooven, both from Guelderland, in Holland, Heinrich Tibben, Willem Hosters, a Mennonite weaver from Crefeld, Jacob
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