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Rensselaerswyck Settlers 1630-1658 |
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Rensselaerswyck Settlers 1630-1658 |
Name: Claes Claesz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht [Unity]. Sailed from the island of Texel [one of the West Frisian Islands, in the North Sea just offshore from the coast of the Netherlands] on March 21, 1630; arrived at New Amsterdam [now New York City] on May 24, 1630.
Location: Vlecker [Flecker, an island off the south coast of Norway]
Comments: sailed with Roelof Jansz in 1630 and served as farm hand on de Laets Burg. His name does not appear in the records of the colony after 1634.
Name: Wolfert Gerritsz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630; arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Amersfoort
Comments: occasionally referred to as Wolfert Gerritsz van Couwcnhoven, Couwcnhoven being a farm or estate about four miles northwest of Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht. He was engaged by the patroon in Jan. 1630 to superintend the establishment of farms in the colony and to purchase cattle. He was to serve for four years, each year from April to November, but at his request was released by the patroon in 1632. He lived at the Manhatans.
Name: Jacob Goyversen (Goyverttsen)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630; arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Vlecker ["Flecker", Norway]
Comments: None
Name: Pieter Hendricksz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630; arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Soest [presumably the village of that name in the province of Utrecht, but possibly the city of Soest in Westphalia]
Comments: was engaged in 1630 as a shepherd or plow boy, for the term of four years, at 15 florins a year. He served under Rutger Hendricksz and probably left the colony in 1634.
Name: Rutger Hendricksz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630; arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Soest
Comments: was engaged in 1630 for four years, at f120 a year, and in 1632 appears as farmer on Rensselaers Burg, on Castle Island. He was appointed schout in 1632, but probably never qualified and seems to have left the colony in 1634.
Name: Barent (Beerent) Jansz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630;
arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Not recorded, but given in one list as from Desens, and in another
as from Esen, neither of which place names can be definitely identified.
Comments: sailed in 1630 as farm servant to Brant Peelen. His name does not
appear in the records of the colony after 1634.
Name: Roelof Jansz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630;
arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Masterland [Marstrand, on the coast of Sweden]
Comments: sailed in 1630 with his wife Annetje Jans, his daughters Sara and Trijntje
and another child born before in New Netherland. He was a farmer on de Laets Burg
and was appointed schepen July 1, 1632. He probably left the colony in 1634.
Name: Seger (Zeeger) Jansz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630;
arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Nykerck [in the Dutch province of Gelderland]
Comments: sailed in 1630 and served as farm hand under Rutger Hendricksz,
on Rensselaers Burg. On October 3, 1636, he is referred to as having been drowned.
Name: Brant Peelen
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel on March 21, 1630;
arrived at New Amsterdam on May 24, 1630.
Location: Nykerck [province of Gelderland]
Comments: was engaged as farmer in Jan. 1630, for the term of four years, at
wages of f110 a year, and in 1632 was appointed schepen. He was married twice,
first to Lubbertje Wouters (by whom he had three children, Lysbeth Brants,
Geert Brants and Gerritje Brants) and second, at New Amsterdam on July 3, 1643,
to Marritje Pieters, widow of Claes Sybrantsz, who had two children,
Sybrant Claesz and Aeltje Claes. Lysbeth and Gerritje Brants came to the
colony by the ship Waterhondt in 1640. One of them married
Claes Jansz Calff. Brant Peelen died before May 1, 1644, when Cornelis
Segersz van Voorhout succeeded him on his farm, called Welys Burg, on
Castle Island.
Name: Marinus Adriaensz (Marijn Adriaensz, Maryn Adriaensen, Marin Adriaensz,
Marinus Ariaens)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel shortly after
July 7, 1631.
Location: Veere [in the province of Zealand]
Comments: entered into a contract with Kiliaen van Rensselaer, January [sic] 12, 1631,
to serve as tobacco planter for the period of three years, if possible, on the
farm on the north side of Fort Orange, "which he began to clear before his
departure." He sailed with his wife Lysbet Thysen and one child and several
farm laborers by the ship Eendracht in July [sic] 1631. In 1632
he was appointed schepen, and in the same year he is referred to as a farmer
on Godyns Burg, situated south of Fort Orange. His name does not occur in
the account books of the colony; he probably left the colony at the end of
his term in 1634.
Name: *Claes Brunsteyn
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed [sic] from the Texel shortly
after July 7, 1631.
Location: Straelsundt [Stralsund, in Pomerania]
Comments: entered into an agreement with Marinus Adriaensz, May 27, 1631,
but did not sail [sic] for the colony.
Name: *Andries Christensz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed [sic] from the Texel shortly
after July 7, 1631.
Location: Flecker [in Norway]
Comments: entered into a contract with the patroon for the erection
of a sawmill, July 2, 1631, but did not come to the colony [sic].
Name: Jasper Ferlyn (Ferlin, Ferlijn) van der Gouw
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel shortly
after July 7, 1631.
Location: Middelburgh [in the province of Zealand]
Comments: entered the service of Marinus Adriaensz as tobacco planter,
February 17, 1631, for the term of three years, beginning on his
arrival in the colony. His name does not appear in the account
books of the colony; he probably left at the end of his term in 1634.
Name: *Cornelis Goverts (Gerritssz)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht, which sailed from the Texel shortly
after July 7, 1631.
Location: Flecker [in Norway]
Comments: was engaged to sail by the Eendracht in 1631 but failed to go.
Name: Laurens Laurensz (Lourenssen, Loerens)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel shortly
after July 7, 1631.
Location: Coppenhagen [Copenhagen, Denmark]
Comments: also referred to as Laurens Laurensen, noorman [Norseman]. He and
two other Scandinavians were engaged, July 2, 1631, for three years,
to erect a sawmill in the colony. Laurens Laurensz was appointed schepen
in 1632, and in July of that year he is referred to by the patroon as
miller on de Laets kil, which is the present Mill Creek in the city
of Rensselaer. Laurens Laurensz's name does not appear in the business
accounts of the colony for 1634; he probably left at the end of his
term of service.
Name: Cornelis Maessen (Maersz, Maertsz, Martsen, Maesen) [This is the founder of the
Van Buren family in America.]
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel shortly
after July 7, 1631.
Location: Buyrmalsen [Buurmalsen is a hamlet near the town of Buren, in
the Dutch province of Gelderland.]
Comments: sailed for New Netherlands as a farm laborer in 1631, having been
engaged by the patroon on May 27, for the term of three years. He went back
to Holland shortly after August 2, 1634, on which date he is charged in the
colony with f12:18 for clothes and brandy. On August 15, 1636, he entered
into a new contract with the patroon, and in the same year, he sailed by the
ship Rensselaerswyck, accompanied by his wife Catalijntje Martense and
a servant by the name of Cornelis Teunisz, from Westbroeck. During the voyage,
on January 30, 1637, a son, Hendrick Cornelisz., was born; his birth is
recorded in the ship's log. Cornelis Maessen arrived in the colony the second
time on about April 17, 1637. From that time until his death, he occupied a farm on or near Papscanee Island. Cornelis
Maessen and his wife were buried on the same day, April 8, 1648; their effects were sold at
auction on Shrove Tuesday of 1649.
Name: Barent Thonisz (Berent Thonis, Thonissen, Tonisz, Theunisz, Thomassen)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel shortly after
July 7, 1631.
Location: Heijligesont [Hellesund, on the south coast of Norway]
Comments: he and two other Scandinavians were engaged, July 2, 1631, for the
period of three years, to build a sawmill in the colony. The name of Barent
Thonisz does not appear in the account books of the colony; he probably left
at the end of his term in 1634.
Name: Jan Tyaerts (Thyerts, Chierts, Teersz, Terssen, Treersz)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel shortly
after July 7, 1631.
Location: Franicker [in the province of Friesland, now in the northern part
of the Netherlands]
Comments: was engaged as a farm laborer, May 27, 1631, for the period of
three years, at f60 a year, and sailed with Marinus Adriaensz on the
Eendracht in July of that year. In the account books he is entered
as a farm hand of Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen, from June 1, 1635 to
July 19, 1637. He probably left the colony soon after the last-named date.
Name: Hendrick Fredericksz (Frerixsen)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Soutberg. Sailed from the Texel shortly after
July 20, 1632; arrived at New Amsterdam in April 1633.
Location: Bunnick [near Utrecht]
Comments: was engaged as farm laborer for Gerrit Theusz de Reux and sailed with
him, being then 26 years of age. In the accounts of the colony he is charged
with supplies from 1638 to 1643 and is credited with wages earned in cutting
straw, thatching roofs, threshing and other work, between 1638 and 1650.
In May 1638, he acted as foreman on de Reux's farm.
Name: Cornelis Jacobsz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Soutberg. Sailed from the Texel shortly
after July 20, 1632; arrived at New Amsterdam in April 1633.
Location: Martensdyck [near Utrecht]
Comments: was engaged as farm laborer for Rutger Hendricksz, on Rensselaers
Burg, and sailed with Gerrit Theusz de Reux, being then 23 years of age. His
name does not appear in the account books of the colony.
Name: Marcus Mensen (Mens, Meussen)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Soutberg. Sailed from the Texel shortly after
July 20, 1632; arrived at New Amsterdam in April 1633.
Location: Culenburgh, or Cuylenborch [now Culemborg, in the Dutch province of Gelderland]
Comments: was engaged as farm boy for Brant Peelen, on Welys Burg, and sailed
with Gerrit Theusz de Reux, being then 17 years of age. The entries of his
account in the colony, April 17-Aug. 18, 1637, are canceled.
Name: Gerrit Theusz de Reux (de Reus)
Sub-Heading: By the ship Soutberg. Sailed from the Texel shortly after
July 20, 1632; arrived at New Amsterdam in April 1633.
Location: Not recorded
Comments: was engaged by the patroon as farmer on a farm to be established
on Blommaerts kil, June 15, 1632, but had previously been in charge of a
farm of the West India Company on the island of Manhattan. He sailed with
four farm laborers on the Soutberg, which brought Wouter van Twiller
to New Netherlands. Before sailing, de Reux was appointed schepen of the
colony. In April 1634, he had succeeded Roelof Jansz, from Masterland,
on de Laets Burg. He died before Aug. 4, 1639.
Name: Cornelis Teunisz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Soutberg. Sailed from the Texel shortly after
July 20, 1632; arrived at New Amsterdam in April 1633.
Location: Meerkerck [province of South Holland]
Comments: was engaged as farm laborer for Gerrit Theusz de Reux and sailed
with him, being then 20 years of age. His first account in the colony
runs from February 2 to August 20, 1637; he next appears in 1640, and
later is said to have arrived on the ship Harinck; presumably therefore,
he visited Holland shortly after August 20, 1637, and returned to the colony
aboard the Harinck in 1639. He is charged with three years' hire
of two horses from 1640 to 1643, and is credited with wages earned in cutting
and hauling timber. His name does not appear in the records of the colony after 1643.
Name: Hendrick Carstensz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel at the beginning
of May 1634.
Location: Norden [in East Friesland]
Comments: served under Brant Peelen from July 20, 1634, for four years,
at f25 a year, and again for three years, at f140 a year. He does not appear
in the records of the colony after 1643.
Name: *Hendrick Conduit
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht, which sailed from the Texel at the beginning
of May 1634.
Location: Coninghsbergen [Koenigsberg, in East Prussia]
Comments: made a contract with the patroon on April 15, 1634, but failed
to come to the colony.
Name: Lubbert Gijsbertsz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel at the
beginning of May 1634.
Location: Blaricum [near Naarden, in the province of North Holland]
Comments: wheelwright; made a contract with the patroon on April 15, 1634,
and sailed with his wife Divertgen Cornelis and three sons, Gijsbert, Theus and Jan,
aboard the Eendracht. His account in the colony runs from July 20, 1634
to 1647.
Name: Robbert Hendricksz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel at the beginning
of May 1634.
Location: Not recorded
Comments: is credited in the accounts with wages at f11 a month, from
December 16, 1634 to June 23, 1635; with f30 for splitting 3,500 pallesaeten
(stockade posts) for the farm on Castle Island; and with f62:8 for splitting
5,000 similar posts for the new farm of Cornelis Teunisz. His account was
closed June 23, 1635.
Name: Jan Jacobsz
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel at the
beginning of May 1634.
Location: Not recorded
Comments: credited with 13 1/2 months' wages at f11 a month for service
as farm hand under Brant Peelen on Castle Island, with f100 for threshing
and with 12 months' wages at f13 a month. His service ended apparently
April 17, 1637.
Name: Jacob Albertsz Planck
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel at the
beginning of May 1634.
Location: Edam [in the province of North Holland]
Comments: bound himself, March 4, 1634, to serve as schout and agent of the
colony for three years from the date of his arrival and sailed with his
son Abraham Jacobsz Planck and one servant aboard the Eendracht.
In a letter dated October 3, 1636, he is called "officer and commis".
Planck's accounts run from August 12, 1634, to November 26, 1637, but
apparently he did not leave Rensselaerswyck until after van Curler's arrival
in 1638. On September 20, 1639, he certified at Amsterdam to the sale
of Papscanee Island by the Indians, on April 23, 1637. Planck was the second
person to receive an appointment as schout, Rutger Hendricksz, from Soest,
having been appointed as such in July 1632, but in all probability Planck
was the first schout who took the oath and held court.
Name: Cornelis Anthonisz van Schlick
Sub-Heading: By the ship Eendracht. Sailed from the Texel at the
beginning of May 1634.
Location: Breuckelen [near Utrecht]
Comments: generally referred to as Cornelis Teunisz, often as Broer
Cornelis and occasionally as Cornelis Teunisz, alias Broeder; signs his name
Cornelis anthonnisen van schlick. He was a carpenter and mason and sailed
aboard the Eendracht in 1634, having entered into a contract with
the patroon on April 5 of that year. His account in the colony begins
August 12, 1634. He was before October 1636 in charge of a farm, which
until 1648 he seems to have worked on shares; he is charged with an annual
rent of f600 from 1648 to 1652 and with an annual rent of f500 from 1652 to 1661.
The indications are that during all these years he occupied the same farm,
which appears to have been located some distance north of the fifth, now Patroon's,
creek and to have adjoined the farm called de Vlackte, later known as the
Schuyler Flatts. Between 1643 and 1648, Cornelis Teunisz spent much of his
time at the Manhatans; On August 6, 1646, de Hooges urges him to come
up the river to see how the harvest proceeds and intimates that he might
come to the colony at least once a year to look after his farm. While at
the Manhatans, August 22, 1646, he received from Director Kieft a patent
for land at Catskill, in return for services rendered in bringing about
general peace and in ransoming prisoners in the hands of the Indians.
He was appointed the patroon's voorspraecke, or representative, May 12, 1639,
and as such filled the place of officer jointly with Arent van Curler
and Pieter Cornelisz, until the arrival of van der Donck in 1641. On
September 23, 1650, he was chosen to go with van Curler and others on
an embassy to the Maquaes, and in 1658, 1660 and 1661, he was a member
of the court of the colony.
Name: Albert Andriesz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Frederikstad, [in the southeast of Norway]
Comments: hence, in the early records, his designation as Noorman. After 1670, he became known as Albert Andriesz Bradt. Aug. 26, 1636, he joined Pieter Cornelisz and Claes Jansz in an agreement with the patroon for the erection of a mill in the colony. In this agreement he is given as tobacco planter, 29 years of age. He sailed with his wife Annetje Barents on the Rensselaerswyck, Oct. 8, 1636, and appears first in the colony under date of April 17, 1637. Soon after his arrival he left Pieter Cornelisz and established himself as tobacco planter. From May 4, 1652, to May 4, 1672, he is charged with an annual rent of f250 for two mills and land on the Normans Kill. Annetje Barents died before June 5, 1662, leaving him eight children of whom the eldest was born on the Rensselaerswyck and named Storm. This son later adopted the name of van der Zee. Albert Andriesz married the second time Geertruy Pietersz Vosburgh. He is said to have died June 7, 1686.
Name: Arent Andriesz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: tobacco planter; a brother of Albert Andriesz, from Frederikstad, and like him designated as Noorman. He appears to have come over with his brother on the Rensselaerswyck and to have stayed with him in the colony for one year. His wages began April 2, 1637, at f75 a year. Between 1638 and 1646, he is various times credited with tobacco furnished to van Curler and de Hooges. May 1, 1658, he obtained a lease for land opposite Beverwyck.
Name: Thijs Barentsz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: shoemaker; charged with supplies from June 5, 1637, to 1643, when he was indebted to the amount of f341:14. Jan. 18, 1652, he was ordered to pay his account within a month.
Name: Maurits Jansz van Broeckhuysen
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: was a young relative of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and came out as farm hand by the Rensselaerswyck. May 12, 1639, he was authorized to establish himself as farmer on de Laets Burg, on the farm formerly occupied by Gerrit Theusz de Reux. In the accounts he is credited with four years' salary, at f110 a year, beginning April 3, 1637. One half year's wages are charged to Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen. His account closes Sept. 7, 1641. Feb. 12, 1642, he is referred to by Kiliaen van Rensselaer as having lately returned from New Netherland.
Name: Carsten Carstensz (Christen Christensz)
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: commonly referred to as Carsten Carstensz Noorman; is first entered in the accounts under date of April 17, 1637, hence probably came on the Rensselaerswyck. Before 1644, he was employed as a farm laborer, sawyer, stave splitter, mill hand and roof thatcher. Afterwards he leased a garden, which in 1650 was granted to Gijsbert Cornelisz, from Weesp.
Name: Gijsbert Claesz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: also referred to as Gijsbert Claesz Jongen (the boy); was a carpenter by trade and like Jacob Jansz, from Amsterdam, is credited in the accounts with four years' wages from April 2, 1637, at f40 a year. Both men appear to have been employed by Albert Andriesz and probably came over with him on the Rensselaerswyck. His account closes Sept. 5, 1641.
Name: Pieter Claesz (Niclaesz)
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Nordingen, or Norden, [in East Friesland]
Comments: is credited with six years' wages from April 3, 1637, and in Aug. 1644 is mentioned as servant of Symon Walichsz. He probably arrived with the latter on the Rensselaerswyck. He is charged with rent, at f11 a year, from 1643 to 1645, and in 1648-49 appears to have occupied a farm at Bethlehem. He left the colony before June 5, 1649. He was the son in law of Cornelis Hendricksz van Nes.
Name: Crijn (Quirijn) Cornelisz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Houten, [near Utrecht]
Comments: His accounts in the colony run from April 20, 1637, to Aug. 21, 1639 and from Jan 1, 1641, to 1648. May 30, 1640, he is referred to by the patroon as about to sail from Holland. Presumably, therefore, he came out on the Rensselaerswyck in 1637, went back to Holland in 1639 and returned to the colony by den Waterhondt in 1640, accompanied by Cornelis Crijnen, Jan Crijnen, Jan Cornelisz and Jan Reyersz, all from Houten. He served at first under Gerrit Theusz de Reux and from Jan. 1, 1641, to Jan. 1, 1642, as farm hand on a farm in Greenbush, which he thereafter seems to have occupied as farmer, jointly with Pieter Teunisz, from Brunswijck. In April 1648, he was repeatedly ordered to settle his accounts and Nov. 18, 1649, his farm was leased to Evert Pels and Willem Fredericksz [Bout]. With Christoffel Davids, he also occupied, till stubble time 1649, six morgens of land in Greenbush, which in 1650 were leased to Teunis Dircksz van Vechfen. Nov. 2, 1651, Crijn Cornelisz and Hans Jansz, from Rotterdam, received permission to erect a sawmill on a creek on the west side of the river, a little north of Beeren Island.
Name: Pieter Cornelisz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Munnickendam, [in the province of North Holland]
Comments: occasionally referred to as Pieter Cornelisz Meulenmaecker (mill wright); sailed by the Rensselaerswyck, Sept. 25, 1636, after having entered in company with Claes Jansz, from Naerden, and Albert Andriesz, from Frederikstad, into an agreement with the patroon for the erection of a sawmill in the colony. In this agreement, dated Aug. 26, 1636, his age is given as 43 years. His account in the colony begins May 4, 1637, and closes May 3, 1649, but from the log of the Rensselaerswyck he is known to have sailed up the river as early as March 24, 1637, and from other documents it would seem that he left the colony in 1646. Oct. 3, 1636, he was appointed councilor and schepen, and May 12, 1639, he received a commission as receiver of tithes and supercargo of the colony's vessel. Jan. 31, 1646, Pieter Cornelisz made a contract with Antony de Hooges for building a horsepower mill in Greenbush, the mill on the fifth creek being most of the time out of order and too inconvenient for the inhabitants on account of het heen en wedervaeren (the sailing back and forth).
Name: Roelof Cornelisz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Houten, [near Utrecht]
Comments: brother of Crijn Cornelisz, from Houten; is charged with supplies furnished to him in 1638 and may have arrived with Crijn Cornelisz in 1637. He was at various times employed in splitting wood and in thatching roofs of houses and in 1646 is charged with hire of horses and cows and rent of land.
Name: Goossen Gerritsz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Westerbroeck [Westbroek, province of Utrecht?]
Comments: was engaged for six years, three years at f50 a year and three years at f80 a year. His wages in the colony began April 8, 1637; he probably came by the Rensselaerswyck. In 1646, he is charged with f19:9 received in Holland on Nov. 3, 1645. In Oct. 1648, on the repeated solicitation by the director to accept the place of gerechts persoon (member of the court), he pleaded to be excused on the ground that he did not consider himself fit for the office, that he was not possessed of a house and lot and therefore not bound to serve, and that he had not yet settled all his accounts with the patroon. His objections however were overruled and he was urged once more to accept the office, the court, in case of refusal, threatening to proceed to other measures. He finally yielded, on condition that he be first allowed to make a trip to the Manhatans. This was granted and Nov. 19, 1648, he took the oath as member of the court. At his urgent request he was released from his office on Jan. 5, 1651. In the accounts he is charged from 1648 to 1652 with f32 a year for ground rent of a house and license to trade and, jointly with Rutger Jacobsz, from May 1649 to May 1650 with f450 for the lease of the brewery. July 18, 1650, he was granted permission to become a tapster and Sept. 9, 1650, he was with Arent van Curler appointed trustee of a fund for the building of a school. From May 1, 1655, to May 1, 1658, he and Thomas Jansz are charged with an annual rent of f40, for a small piece of land situated opposite den sack. July 19, [1659?] he entered into an agreement with Jeremias van Rensselaer regarding the purchase of hides of cattle to be killed in the colony, showing that by that time he was engaged in the tanning business. After 1660, he is occasionally referred to as Goossen Gerritsz van Schaick.
Name: Robert Harmensz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: his account in the colony runs from April 17, 1637, to 1638. He is credited with wages earned in repairing a fence, splitting wood, thatching and grinding, and would seem to have been in the employ of Gerrit de Reux. He came probably by the Rensselaerswyck.
Name: Adriaen Huybertsz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: is credited with six years' wages at f100 a year, from April 8, 1637; like others whose term of service began at that date, he came probably by the Rensselaerswyck. For four and one half years he was employed by Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen. In 1652, he is charged with five years' rent, at f300 a year, for a farm on the fifth creek, which he seems to have taken over from Rutger Jacobsz., and for the same length of time with f20 a year for trading privileges.
Name: Rutger (Ruth) Jacobsz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Schoonderwoert [Schoonrewoerd, province of South Holland]
Comments: served as farm hand on the farm of Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen, for the term of six years, beginning April 8, 1637, at f100 a year, and probably came on the Rensselaerswyck. Feb. 9, 1643, he was engaged as foreman on de groote Vlacte (the great Flats) at f220 a year, a suit of clothes, two shirts and two pairs of shoes, his term of service to begin April 7, 1643. From Jan. 1, 1645, he appears as lessee of a farm on the fifth creek, which in 1647 seems to have been taken over by Adriaen Huybertsz. From 1648 to 1654 he is charged with an annual rent of f125 for a sawmill on the fifth creek, taken over from Andries de Vos, and for the same period he is charged, jointly with Barent Pietersz, with an annual rent of f550 for a saw- and grist-mill, also on the fifth creek. He owned a yacht from about 1648, and April 4, 1649, agreed to pay f32 a year, for three years, for rent of his house lot and the right to the fur trade. Oct. 18, 1650, he and Goossen Gerritsz were authorized to brew beer, on condition of paying a duty of one guilder for every barrel of beer and of brewing, free of charge, the beer needed for the households of van Slichtenhorst and de Hooges. Rutger Jacobsz is credited with f36 for nine months' salary as racts vriendt (councilor) and again with salary as councilor, at the rate of f50 a year, from Dec. 18, 1649, to Oct. 18, 1651, when at his urgent request he was released from his duties and succeeded by Jan Baptist van Rensselaer. Rutger Jacobsz married June 3, 1646, at New Amsterdam, Trijntje Jans, from Breestede [Bredstedt, in Schleswig], and died before Dec. 9, 1665.
Name: Claes Jansz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Nykerck, [province of Gelderland]
Comments: is credited with four years' wages, at f120 a year, beginning April 2, 1637, and with carpenter work done between 1642 and 1644 on houses of van Curler, van der Donck, Megapolensis and others. Aug. 30, 1646, Antony de Hooges ordered Nicolaes Coorn, officer of the colony, to seize grain on the farm of Broer Cornelis and to turn the same over to Claes Jansz, from Nykerck, in payment of wages earned by him on de Vlackte while Broer Cornelis was at the Manhatans, as per account of Ruth Jacobsz.
Name: Dirck Jansz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Edam, [in the province of North Holland]
Comments: He and Reynier Thijmensz, from Edam, entered into a contract with Kiliaen van Rensselaer on Aug. 26, 1636, to sail by the ship Rensselaerswyck and to settle in the colony as free colonists, for a period of four years. He is charged in the accounts with supplies from May 9, 1637, to 1642. Under date of May 29, 1643, he is referred to as deceased. He was a member of the council of the colony in 1637.
Name: Jacob Jansz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Amsterdam
Comments: was a carpenter by trade and was engaged for the term of four years, beginning April 2, 1637, at wages of f40 a year. He appears for part of this period to have been employed by Albert Andriesz; in the harvest of 1640, he served under Cornelis. Teunisz, from Breuckelen. May 1, 1640, he received f32 extra pay for "faithful service to the patroon." In 1641 he was employed by van Curler to do some copying and from that date till Aug. 20, 1643, when his account was closed by van Curler, he was engaged with other carpenters in building houses and barns.
Name: Thomas Jansz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Bunnick, [near Utrecht]
Comments: was engaged as farm hand for the term of six years, beginning April 8, 1637, at f110 a year, and served under Brant Peelen and Symon Walichsz. He probably came by the Rensselaerswyck. From May 1, 1646, to 1650 he occupied a farm, for which he is charged with an annual rent first of f180 and then of f130; April 11, 1650, van Slichtenhorst leased to him an additional piece of land formerly occupied by Hendrick Albertsz, and from that time till 1652 he is charged with rent of f180 a year. From May 1, 1655, to May 1, 1658, he and Goossen Gerritsz are charged with rent and tithes for a small parcel of land on the east side of the river opposite den sack. In 1656, the accounts contain the name of Thomas jansen Timmerman. This man is probably to be identified with Thomas Jansz Mingael, the carpenter, who appears to have been a resident of Beverwyck, and not a settler of Rensselaerswyck.
Name: Jean Labatie (Lebatie, Lebattij, Labatyn, Labatis)
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: also referred to as Johan Labatie fransman (Frenchman); was engaged as a journeyman carpenter for the term of four years, beginning April 2, 1637, at f80 a year, and for part of the time was employed by Albert Andriesz. At the end of the four years, he engaged himself to the patroon for three years more, at f200 a year. Thereafter, van Curler intended to put him on the farm at the Great Flats to trade, but he probably left the patroon's service. In 1648, he is charged in the accounts with the patroon's Gerechticheyt (dues) for four years, beginning May 1, 1643, compounded at the rate of f25 a year, which may indicate that be was engaged in the Indian trade, as in 1650 he is spoken of as being well versed in the Maquaes language. June 15, 1647, he received permission from the West India company to erect a house in Fort Orange and to brew therein; in 1649, he is referred to by van Slichtenhorst as being in command of the fort, which may have reference to a temporary absence of Carel van Brugge, who was appointed commis Nov. 6, 1647, and is supposed to have acted in that capacity till 1651. Sept. 23, 1650, Jean Labatie, inhabitant of Fort Orange, was summoned to the house of Director van Slichtenhorst and asked to accompany van Curler, Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen, Thomas Chambers and Volckert Hansz on an embassy to the Maquaes to renew the covenant of friendship, but he refused to go, saying that it made little difference to those in the fort whether they were at war or at peace with the Indians. Aug. 26, 1652, Labatie and Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen, jointly leased the farm formerly occupied by Cornelis Teunisz, but in the accounts Labatie is not charged with rent for this farm and it is likely that he never occupied it. July 20, 1654, Labatie took over the farm on Castle Island formerly leased to Jan Barentsz Wemp, for which from stubble time 1654 to May 1, 1655, he is charged with f150 and thereafter with an annual rent of f300. Feb. 20, 1672, Labatie settled his accounts with Jeremias van Rensselaer.
Name: Arent Pietersz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: generally referred to as Arent Pietersz Jongen (the boy); was engaged for six years, beginning April 3, 1637, three years at f45 and three years at f75 a year, and served at different times under Albert Andriesz, Cornelis Teunisz and Teunis Dircksz. He is probably the same person as Aert Pietersz alias Solder, or Solder Pietersz, who was furnished with supplies in 1642 and who appears as late as 1651. The nickname Solder would seem to indicate that he was in charge of a graan zolder, that is, a grain loft, or granary. July 8, 1649, Aert Pietersz was summoned before the court to state whether he would fulfil his promise to seecker vrouwmens, genacmt Blancke ael (a certain woman, called fair Alida) and in reply declared that he would marry her at the first opportunity.
Name: Jacob Pietersz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Utrecht
Comments: in one account referred to as Jacob Pietersz van Uijtrecht alias Veeltjc, and in another as Jacob Pietersz Veeltje; was engaged for six years, from April 8, 1637, at f100 a year, and served under Brant Peelen. He left the colony on, or before, Nov. 16, 1644.
Name: *Hans van Sevenhuysen
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: sailed by the Rensselaerswyck as smith's helper to Cornelis Thomasz, but was arrested in England for killing his master in a tavern at Hfracombe, Dec. 8, 1636.
Name: Arent Steffeniersz (Steevenniersz, Steveniersen)
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: hog dealer; entered into a contract with Kiliaen van Rensselaer before Oct. 4, 1636, and sailed by the Rensselaerswyck. March 22, 1637, he married at the Manhatans the widow of the murdered smith, Cornelis Thomasz. Arent Steffeniersz is charged with supplies in the colony from April 17, 1637, to 1644. In 1639, he accompanied Pieter Cornelisz, from Munnickendam, to the Manhatans to get lime and iron.
Name: Cornelis Teunisz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Westbroeck (Westerbroeck, Wesbroeck, Wijsbroeck)
Comments: also referred to as Cornelis Theunisz bos, Cornelis Theunisz vanden bos. Cornclis Theunissen schoester, and Kees schoester; signs his name Cornelis thonison bos. He came probably from the village of Westbrock, in the province of Utrecht, and would seem from the designation schoester, to have been a shoemaker by trade. He sailed with Cornelis Maessen [Van Buren] by the Rensselaerswyck, in 1636, and served him in the colony for six years, beginning April 8, 1637, at wages of f100 a year. As early as April 8, 1648, he and Teunis Dircksz van Vechten are mentioned as guardians of the minor children of the late Cornelis Maesen. March 25, 1649, Cornelis Teunisz, from Westbroeck. Volckert Hansz and Cornelis Vos were warned not to engage in illicit trade with the Indians; April 3, 1649, their license was revoked for not observing the ordinance. July 13, 1650. Cornelis Teunisz was ordered to send Jan Hagemans, a free trader, away from his house; April 1, 1650, he was granted the use of a garden between the first and second creeks. He was a magistrate of Fort Orange, prior to Aug. 19, 1662.
Name: Reynier Thijmensz (Tijmense, Timansz, Tymansen)
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Edam, [province of North Holland]
Comments: He and Dirck Jansz, from Edam, entered into a contract with Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Aug. 26, 1636, to sail by the Rensselaerswyck and to settle in the colony as free colonists for the period of four years. His account in the colony begins May 7, 1637, and closes Sept. 12, 1643. In an extract from his contract his name is given as reijnier thomassen.
Name: *Cornelis Thomasz
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Rotterdam
Comments: engaged as smith, Oct. 4, 1636, and sailed with his wife by the Rensselaerswyck. Dec. 8, 1636, he was stabbed to death by his helper, Hans van Sevenhuysen, in a tavern at Ilfracombe. His widow was married to Arent Steffeniersz, March 22, 1637, at New Amsterdam. Burger Jorisz took his place as smith of the colony.
Name: Teunis Cornelisz van Vechten
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Not recorded
Comments: his first account in the colony, entered under the name of theunis Cornelissen van der vechten Jongen, runs from April 8 to Nov. 14, 1637. He appears next in 1641 as having been three years in the service of Michiel Jansz. It is not unlikely therefore that he arrived as a boy, on the Rensselaerswyck, early in 1637, went back to Holland in the winter of that year, and returned to the colony in 1638, with Michiel Jansz and Teunis Dircksz van Vechten, both of whom came by het Wapen van Noorwegen. He probably came from Vechten, a small village southeast of Utrecht. In the Schult Boeck vande goederen vant'schip den Waterhondt, 1640-41, his name is indexed as Teunis Cornelissen van Westbroeck, but this is probably a clerical error, due to confusion with Cornelis Teunisz van Westbroeck. Between 1647 and 1656, he is referred to as Thunis Cornelissen alias jonge Poetien, toenis Cornelisz poyntgen and tunis Cornelisen Jonge poentie. Teunis Cornelisz served under Michiel Jansz till May 1, 1646, and then succeeded him on the farm called de Hoogeberch, which he occupied till May 1, 1648. Oct. 15, 1648, Director van Slichtenhorst leased to him for six years the south end of het greenenbos (pine woods) with six morgens of old land forming part of the farm of Teunis Dircksz van Vechten, but, owing apparently to animosity on the part of Teunis Dircksz, he was allowed to leave the farm Jan. 27, 1650, and was promised a house in some other part of the colony. Jan. 29, 1650, he complained that the house which he occupied was uninhabitable on account of smoke and Mar. 17, 1650, Director van Slichtenhorst sold to him for f125 a small house south of the fifth creek, formerly occupied by Barent Pietersz and Jan Gerritsz, deceased.
Name: Symon Walichsz (Walichs, Walichsen, Walinchsz, Walings, Walingen, Waelingen)
Sub-Heading: By the Rensselaerswyck. Sailed from the Texel, October 8, 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637
Location: Wijngaerden, [in the district of het Bildt, in the province of Friesland]
Comments: entered into a contract with the patroon Aug. 15, 1636, and sailed by the Rensselaerswyck. His account in the colony begins April 17, 1637. He occupied a farm on Papscanee Island till May 1, 1647, when it was leased to Evert Pels, for six years, at f560 a year. Jan. 14, 1649, Evert Pels had the lease transferred to Juriaen Bestval and Jochem Kettelheym. Symon Walichsz agreed to buy Pieter van der Linden's plantation on Manhattan Island, Oct. 7, 1648, and was killed by the Indians near Paulus Hook, at Pavonia, in March 1649.
Name: Burger Jorisz
Location: Not recorded
Comments: was at New Amsterdam in 1637 and was secured as smith of Rensselaerswyck to take the place of Cornelis Thomasz, who had been killed by his helper Hans van Sevenhuysen, on the voyage out at Ilfracombe, Dec. 8, 1636. The terms upon which Burger Jorisz was engaged are as follows: "Inasmuch as Cornelis Tomassen dicd and Arent Steveniersen, who married the widow does not understand smith's work, the council of the colony have decided to turn the iron and coal and all the tools over to Burger Jorisen Smit at 50% advance in price, and to let him do the work at the rates paid by freemen at the Manhatans, to wit: pound work at six stivers, nails at 10 stivers a hundred, braces at 12 stivers, double braces at 28 stivers and other work proportionately, and this till the patroon makes different arrangements. In the year 1637, the 26th of May, and was signed, Jacob Albertsen Planck, Pieter Cornelissen, X the mark of Dirck Jansen." Burger Jorisz' account in the colony runs from June 4, 1637, to Aug. 18, 1639, when he turned over his tools to Rcyer Stoffelsz and moved to the Manahatans. Dec. 18, 1639, he married at New Amsterdam, Engeltje Mans, from Sweden. In the marriage records of the Reformed Dutch church of New York, Burger Jorisz is given as from Hersberg, in Silesien (Hirschberg, in Silesia).
Name: Frans Altersz (Aldersz, Albertsz)
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck [The Herring]. Sailed from the Texel shortly after September 21, 1637; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 28, 1638
Location: Not recorded
Comments: cooper; sailed by den Harinck, Sept. 1637, in the stead of Jan Willemsz Schut. His board on the ship is charged to Symon Walichsz. He is credited with wages for 39 months and 15 days, at f14 a month, beginning April 27, 1638, and is charged with supplies till 1642. Nov. 20, 1644, a bill of Frans Altersz, for cooper's work, signed by Symon Walichsz, is sent to Arent van Curler, then on his way to Holland.
Name: Jacob Jansz (Gardenier)
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck. Sailed from the Texel shortly after September 21, 1637; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 28, 1638
Location: Campen [Kampen, in the province of Overyssel]
Comments: carpenter; generally referred to as Jacob Jansz flodder; appears first in the accounts of the colony as knecht (helper or servant) of Claes Jansz Ruyter and not unlikely sailed with him on den Harinck, in Sept. 1637. In the spring of 1642 he was at Amsterdam and applied to the patroon for permission to do carpenter work in the colony; the same year he is in the accounts charged with supplies. In 1647 he had a saw- and gristmill in Greenbush which on Nov. 18, 1649, was leased to Evert Pels and Willem Fredericksz. From 1653 to 1654 he appears as lessee of a mill at Bethlehem and Feb. 2, 1654, he obtained the lease of the saw- and gristmill on the fifth creek, for the term of eight years, beginning May 18, 1654. In the first two volumes of deeds in the Albany county clerk's office, he is referred to as Jacob Jansz Gardenier, alias Flodder.
Name: Claes Jansz
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck. Sailed from the Texel shortly after September 21, 1637; arrived at New Amsterdam, March 28, 1638
Location: Naerden, [province of North Holland]
Comments: also referred to as Claes Jansz Ruyter, and as Claes de Ruijter; was a house carpenter by trade and 33 years of age in 1636. Aug 26, 1636, he entered, jointly with Pieter Cornelisz and Albert Andriesz, into an agreement with the patroon for the erection of a sawmill in the colony, but for some reason failed to accompany his partners on the Rensselaerswyck in 1636, and sailed by den Harinck in Sept. 1637. In May 1640, he and his wife Pietertje Jans were apparently living at the Manhatans. He is credited in the accounts with 60 weeks' board of Arent van Curler.
Name: Gijsbert Adriaensz (Arentsz, Aertsz)
Sub-Heading: By den Calmer Sleutel [Sleutel means "key"]. Sailed from the Texel at the end of December 1637
Location: Bunnick, [near Utrecht]
Comments: sailed on den Calmer Sleutel, at the age of 22, and was engaged as farm servant for six years, at wages ranging from f80 to f110 a year. He served for four years, beginning April 2, 1638, on the farm of Brant Peelen; for 3/4 year on the farm of Teunis Dircksz; and for 1 1/4 years, jointly with Sander Leendersz, in running the colony's yacht Rensselaerswyck. He was a brother of Rutger Adriaensz, the tailor, who appears first in 1646.
Name: Arent van Curler (Corler)
Sub-Heading: By den Calmer Sleutel. Sailed from the Texel at the end of December 1637
Location: Nykerck, [in the province of Gelderland]
Comments: sailed as assistant to Jacob Albertsz Planck by den Calmer Sleutel,
at the age of 18 years. May 12, 1639, he was commissioned secretary and
bookkeeper of the colony, and from 1642 to 1644 he held the office of
commis. He sailed for Holland by het Wapen van Rensselaerswyck
[the Rensselaerwyck Arms], Oct. 20, 1644, having married, probably in 1643, Anthonia Slachboom, or Slaghboom, whom O'Callaghan, apparently on the strength of van Curler's statement, History of New Netherland, 1:464, has identified with Teuntje Jeuriaens, the widow of Jonas Bronck. Sept. 30, 1647, while van Curler was still in Holland, he obtained a lease for six years of the farm called de Vlackte, but May 5, 1649, this lease was transferred to Jacob Jansz, from Stoutenburch. Van Curler returned to New Netherland probably at the end of 1647 and on the arrival of Director van Slichtenhorst, early in 1648, was nominated as Gecommitteerde, but various circumstances prevented his accepting the office and taking the oath till Jan. 5, 1651. In the accounts he is credited with an annual salary of f200, as Gecommitteerde & raetsvrint, from July 1, 1652 to July 1, 1655, and with an annual salary of f200, as gecommitteerde, from 1655 to 1658. Sept. 9, 1650, on the petition of the inhabitants of the colony, Arent van Curler and Goossen Gerritsz were appointed trustees of voluntary contributions for the erection of a school, and Sept. 23, 1650, van Curler was chosen to go with others on an embassy to the Maquaes. He became one of the leaders in the settlement of Schenectady in 1661-62, and was drowned on Lake Champlain in 1667.
Name: Elbert Elbertsz (Albertsz)
Sub-Heading: By den Calmer Sleutel. Sailed from the Texel at the end of December 1637
Location: Nykerck, [in the province of Gelderland]
Comments: was a weaver by trade and sailed by den Calmer Sleutel, at the age of 18 years. In 1646 he married Aeltje Cornelis, the widow of Gerrit Wolphertsz.
Name: Gerrit Hendricksz
Sub-Heading: By den Calmer Sleutel. Sailed from the Texel at the end of December 1637
Location: Nykerck, [province of Gelderland]
Comments: shoemaker; sailed with Arent van Curler by den Calmer Sleutel, at the age of 15 years. He was engaged for six years, at wages ranging from f40 to f100 a year; his first three years' wages, from April 2, 1638, to April 2, 1641, are charged to Albert Andriesz. He does not appear in the records of the colony after 1642.
Name: Claes Jansz
Sub-Heading: By den Calmer Sleutel. Sailed from the Texel at the end of December 1637
Location: Nykerck, [province of Gelderland]
Comments: was a tailor by trade and sailed with Arent van Curler by den Calmer Sleutel, at the age of 17 years.
Name: Adriaen Cornelisz
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen [the Arms of Norway]. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Barsingerhorn, [province of North Holland]
Comments: also referred to as Adriaen Cornelisz Berghoorn and Adriaen Cornelisz van Barsingerwout; was engaged May 10, 1638, for three years, as foreman under Maurits Jansz, and sailed on het Wapen van Noorwegen. His wages in the colony, at f140 a year, began Aug. 14, 1638. He does not appear after 1643.
Name: Jan Dircksz
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Amersfoort, [in the province of Utrecht]
Comments: is entered in the accounts as Jan dircksen Engelsman van Amersfoort, showing that he was a native of England; was engaged as farm laborer, for six years, at wages ranging from f30 to f50 a year. His service in the colony began Aug. 16, 1638, and he appears at first as servant of Michiel Jansz, so that he probably arrived with the latter on het Wapen van Noorwegen. In 1644, he was employed by Reyer Stoffelsz. Nov. 19, 1648, Claes Gerritsz testified that Ruth Jacobsz ordered him to beat Jan Dircksz Engelsman, if he proved refractory.
Name: Claes Gijsbertsz
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Not recorded
Comments: was, apparently in 1641, in the service of Michiel Jansz and may have come out with him by het Wapen van Noorwegen, in 1638.
Name: Symon Jansz Henypot
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Munnickendam
Comments: son in law of Pieter Cornelisz; sailed by het Wapen van Noorwegen and was apparently in the colony for a short time in 1639.
Name: Michiel Jansz
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Schrabbekercke ['s Heer Abtskerke in the province of Zealand]
Comments: came with his wife and two servants by het Wapen van Noorwegen in 1638. He was originally engaged as farm hand, but before his departure from Holland was promoted to farmer; he served as foreman in 1638 and 1639, and from 1640 to 1646 was farmer on the farm called de Hoogeberch. July 27, 1646, he received permission to leave the colony and to reside at the Manhatans, on condition that his accounts be settled. Oct. 8, 1648, the court ordered him to prepare a full statement of his accounts by Saturday next, or sooner, "if his voyage should thereby be delayed." Oct. 10, a similar order was issued and a few days later Director van Slichtenhorst asked that the court impose on Michiel Jansz the penalty of death or such other sentence as it shall see fit for the sale of ammunition to Indians during the war, together with a fine of f50 for beavers sent to Fort de Hoop, 1644, without paying duty. May 29, 1649, the court once more ordered Michiel Jansz to render a detailed account and July 27, 1650, he was asked to sign the account rendered by him.
Name: Willem Meynten (Meijntten, Mijnten, Menten)
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Not recorded
Comments: served as a farm laborer under Cornelis Maessen [Van Buren] for the period of six years, beginning Aug. 14, 1638, at wages ranging from f40 to f60 a year. Thereafter, he carted stone for the foundation of the house of Domine Megapolensis, graded the latter's garden and did other day labor. In Sept. 1648, he seems to have been in the employ of Teunis Dircksz van Vechten.
Name: Jan Michielsz
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Edam, [province of North Holland]
Comments: was a tailor by trade and arrived by het Wapen van Noorwegen, accompanied by his young son, for whom the patroon paid one year's board to the Orphan Masters at Edam. April 30, 1648, the court of the colony granted the petition of Jan Verbeeck and Jan Michielsz to exercise their trade as tailors, with one helper, to the exclusion of all others. In 1651, Jan Michielsz built a small house in the village and agreed to pay eight beavers a year for ground rent and the right to exercise his trade.
Name: Rijck (Rijckert) Rutgersz
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Not recorded
Comments: was engaged for six years, beginning Aug. 16, 1638, at wages of f120 a year. From 1640 to 1644, he served under Teunis Dircksz van Vechten, with whom he would seem to have come on het Wapen van Noorwegen. He leased Bethlehem's Island, Nov. 29, 1648, for the term of six years, but left the island, March 17, 1650, perhaps as the result of a quarrel with Christoffel Davids, who struck him on the head with a club on March 3, 1650. Jan Reyersz, from Houten, succeeded him on the farm.
Name: Abraham Stevensz
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Not recorded
Comments: in the earliest accounts referred to as Abraham Stevensz Jongen (the boy), later as Abraham Stevensz Croaet (the Croatian), and in 1650 as Abraham Stevensz de Capeteijn (the captain); he is credited with six years' wages from Aug. 14, 1638, two years at f30 a year, two years at f40 a year, and two years at f50 a year; for 4 1/2 years he served under Teunis Dircksz van Vechten. In 1646, he is referred to as maet (partner) of Claes Teunisz, alias Uylenspiegel. Abraham Stevensz leased the Valeije or maizeland, behind the farm of Broer Cornelis, Feb. 3, 1650, at an annual rent of one and a half beavers, taking upon himself all expenses; at Easter 1654, he turned the lease over to Barent Pietersz.
Name: Teunis Dircksz van Vechten
Sub-Heading: By het Wapen van Noorwegen. Sailed from the Texel in May 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam. about August 4, 1638
Location: Vechten, a small villagenear Utrecht
Comments: arrived with his wife, one child and two servants by het Wapen van Noorwegen, in 1638, but appears as early as July 20, 1632, as farmer on Pieter Bijlvelt's farm at the Manhatans. He is occasionally referred to as Teunis Dircksen Poentie. He worked in 1638 and 1639 as a farm laborer, but from 1640 to 1663, and perhaps later, occupied a farm at the south end of Greenbush, adjoining the farm at one time occupied by Teunis Cornelisz van Vechten and later by Cornelis Hendricksz van Nes. He had in 1648 and 1649 a half interest in the colony's brewery, in Greenbush, which was offered for sale on March 7, 1650. In Feb. 1651, he was prosecuted for calling Director van Slichtenhorst, in the presence of many people, een ouwde graeuwe dief en schelm (an old gray thief and a rascal); for calling Domine Megapolensis an informer and threatening to stab him with a knife; for selling his wheat at f11 a mudde, contrary to the orders of the patroon; for ordering Willem Menten four times during the night of Sept. 18, 1648, to fire off a musket in the brewery, thereby causing Monsr. Labatie and some soldiers of the fort to cross the river; for calling Teunis Cornelisz a thief and a rascal and striking him on the head for having leased the six morgens of his, Teunis Dircksz', farm which the authorities of the colony had reserved; for fighting with Pieter Hartgers and Abraham Staas; and for letting two horses stand in front of Jan Verbeeck's house, in severely cold weather, without cover or food.
Name: Christoffel Davids
Location: Not recorded
Comments: also referred to as Kit davitsz; according to his own statement, he was born in England and on Sept. 3, 1658, was 42 years of age (Mortgages, A, p. 93, Albany county clerk's office). He appears first in the colony in 1638 and between 1642 and 1647 is various times credited with tobacco furnished to Arent van Curler and Antony de Hooges. Till stubble time 1649, he was with Crijn Cornelisz in possession of six morgens of land in Greenbush, and July 22, 1650, he leased the Dominees Hoeck, on the west side of the river, opposite Papscanee Island, for six years, at an annual rent of f50, in addition to tithes, Christoffel Davids to build his own house and fences and the patroon to furnish the live stock. March 3, 1650, an action was brought against him for striking Rijck Rutgersz on the head, for beating his servant and for wounding Jan Dircksz, from Bremen.
Name: Willem Juriaensz
Sub-Heading: By de Liefde [the Charity]. Sailed from the Texel September 25, 1638; arrived at New Amsterdam, December 27, 1638
Location: Not recorded
Comments: commonly referred to as Willem Jeuriaensz Backer (the baker), once, in 1646, as Willem Jeuriaensz, alias Capitaijn, and again, in 1650, as Capiteijn (captain). He made a contract with Kiliaen van Rensselaer, May 7, 1638, and sailed by "the ship of the West India Company," presumably de Liefde.
He is credited from about 1641 to Oct. 8, 1647, with wages earned by baking on the farms of Symon Walichsz and Gerrit de Reux and on the farm called de Vlackte; also, in 1643, with boards furnished to various farmers, apparently from the sawmill of Carsten Carstensz, in which he may have had an interest. At first he probably worked with Harry Albertsz, baker, who sailed for Holland about April 1641. Willem Juriaensz was sentenced to banishment from the colony for various misdeeds on Feb. 4, 1644, and again on Aug. 29, 1647, for attacking de Hooges with a knife, but in each case respite was granted on condition that he refrain from molesting people. In 1650 new charges were brought against him and July 18, 1650, he was once more sentenced to banishment from the colony, the court resolving July 27, 1650, that he be brought in irons on board the yacht of Rutger Jacobsz and taken to the Manhatans. Aug. 4, 1650, he was released to settle his affairs, on promise that he would comply with the last sentence, but whether on account of his old age (in 1650 he is described as fully 70 years of age), or for other reasons, nothing more seems to have been done in the matter. Nov. 30, 1651, Willem Juriaensz declared that he refused to fulfil his contract with Jan van Hoesen, dated Jan. 30, 1650, and Jan. 18, 1652, the court gave Jan van Hoesen permission to occupy the erf (lot, or bakery) of Willem Juriaensz, on condition that the latter be allowed to dwell in his house as long as he lived ofte de gelegenheijt presenteert (or an opportunity for removing to another place presented itself). Cf. O'Callaghan, History of New Netherland, 1:437-38.
Name: Jacob Aertsz (Arentsz)
Location: Utrecht
Comments: referred to as Jacob Aertsz Wagenaer, and also as Jacob Adriaensz Wagenaer (the wagoner): sailed on den Calmer Sleutel, Dec. 1637, at the age of 25, as farm servant for Albert Andriesz. He served for 1 1/4 years at the Manhatans and June 26, 1639, began his service in the colony, for the term of six years, at wages ranging from f90 to f120 a year. He is charged in the accounts with supplies furnished by Albert Andriesz, but is entered as servant of Cornelis Maessen [Van Buren]. April 2, 1648, the court ordered him to serve Evert Pels for one year, so as to complete his term. Feb. 23, 1649, he appeared before the court on the charge of having the preceding day, with Jacob Adriaensz Raedemaecker (wheelwright) and Harmen Bastiaensz, prevented Director van Slichtenhorst from arresting Jacob Toenijs, servant of Jan Verbeeck, in the Greenen Bos.
Name: Jan Cornelisz
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck. Sailed from the Texel in May 1639; arrived at New Amsterdam. July 7, 1639
Location: Leyden
Comments: tobacco planter and carpenter, sailed by den Harinck in 1639; he is usually referred to as Jan Cornelisz Timmerman and appears to have been a master carpenter who had other carpenters in the colony in his employ. July 18, 1641, the patroon designates him as the person who may build the proposed church. His account runs from 1639 to 1647. In 1646 he offered to repair the mill dam on the fifth creek for f550, but his bid was thought too high and rejected.
Name: Sander Leendertsz Glen
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck. Sailed from the Texel in May 1639; arrived at New Amsterdam. July 7, 1639
Location: Not recorded
Comments: sailed with his wife, Catalijn Donckesz, by den Harinck, in 1639. March 11, 1649, they acknowledged their signatures to contracts of March 28, 1639, and Feb. 23, 1645, and stated that they sailed the two yachts of the patroon from 1641, for three years, "but not when they tapped liquor." The nature of the two contracts is not disclosed. Sander Leendertsz is credited with wine and beer furnished between 1644 and 1646, and charged with f32 a year from 1647 to 1652, for ground rent and the right to trade with the Indians. Aug. 2, 1649, Director van Slichtenhorst notified Sander Leendertsz and other skippers not to transport colonists to the Manhatans without his consent.
Name: Andries Hendricksz
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck. Sailed from the Texel in May 1639; arrived at New Amsterdam. July 7, 1639
Location: Not recorded
Comments: arrived by den Harinck and served for four years, beginning Aug. 14, 1639, under Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen.
Name: Marten Hendricksz
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck. Sailed from the Texel in May 1639; arrived at New Amsterdam. July 7, 1639
Location: Hamelwaerde [Hamelwarden, near Freiburg on the Elbe, Hanover]
Comments: came on den Harinck and was engaged for six years as farm hand at f100 a year, beginning Aug. 14, 1639. He was for three years and 8 1/2 months employed by Michiel Jansz, and for two years and 3 1/2 months by Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen. From Nov. 1, 1645, to March 1, 1646, he was in the service of Antony de Hooges. He is credited with 26 weeks' board of Hans Vos, the court messenger, and in 1651 appears to have had an interest in the brewery, with Evert Pels. In 1657, he is referred to as Marten de bier Craaker and Marten de bierkracker. He is perhaps the same person as Marten Hendricksz Verbeeck, who on Feb. 1, 1652, obtained a lot next to Jacob Simonsz Klomp, the rent to commence Easter 1653.
Name: Barent Pietersz Koijemans [Coeymans]
Sub-Heading: By den Harinck. Sailed from the Texel in May 1639; arrived at New Amsterdam. July 7, 1639
Location: Not recorded
Comments: came by den Harinck and was engaged for six years, beginning Aug. 14, 1639, at f30 a year for the first two years, f40 for the next two years and f50 for the last two years. He worked for four years under Pieter Cornelisz, the millwright, and is in the accounts referred to as the latter's jonghen (boy). Early in Oct. 1645, Barent Pietersz and Jan Gerritsz entered into an agreement with de Hooges for sawing boards at the patroon's mill on the fifth creck; Oct. 11, 1646, the agreement was canceled and a new one entered into whereby the two men jointly took charge of the sawmill, and Jan Gerritsz alone of "both the mills" [sawmill and grist-mill?], the contract to last till the end of Jan Gerritsz' term of service. May 18, 1648, [perhaps the date of Jan Gerritsz' death], Barent Pietersz and Rutger Jacobsz leased the sawmill and grist-mill on the fifth creek, at an annual rent of f550. From Dec. 14, 1648, to Dec. 14, 1654, the same men are charged with f125 a year for water rights of a sawmill on the fifth creek, which Rutger Jacobsz took over from Andries de Vos. Dec. 14, 1654, the same water rights were leased to Barent Pietersz and Teunis Cornelisz Spitsenberch for f150 a year, and Aug. 3, 1656, the two men obtained permission to erect a third mill on the fifth creek for which they are charged f100 a year, from Aug. 1, 1657. After 1645, Barent Pietersz is sometimes referred to as Burent de Molenaer (the miller). Jan. 19, 1651, he is called swaeger (brother in law) of Andries de Vos. A brother by the name of Lucas Pietersz is mentioned in the court proceedings in 1650.
Name: Harry (Hendrick) Albertsz
Location: London, baker
Comments: his first accounts in the colony run from 1639 to April 2, 1641. He then left for Holland and in June 1642, at the age of 29 years, returned to the colony, on den Houttuyn, accompanied by his wife Geertruyt Dries, from Doesburch [in the province of Gelderland]. June 7, 1642, he signed a contract with the patroon for the place of ferrymaster. He died before April 11, 1650, when the land formerly occupied by him was leased to Thomas Jansz. He was succeeded as ferrymaster by Jacob Jansz Stol.
Name: Reyer Stoffelsz
Location: Not recorded
Comments: smith; was at New Amsterdam in 1638 and succeeded Burger Jorisz as smith of Rensselaerswyck on Aug. 18, 1639. He does not appear in the colony after 1647.
Name: Gijsje Berents [Barents]
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt [the Water Dog - perhaps an old word
for "seal" - modern Dutch zeehond, "sea dog"]. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Not recorded
Comments: wife of Pieter Jacobsz; is charged with board on den Waterhondt in 1640, and credited with 28 days' work done by her husband on the house of Arent van Curler. It is not unlikely that her husband was the same person as Pieter Jacobsz, constapel of Fort Orange, who on April 15, 1652, by order of Johannes Dyckman tore van Slichtenhorst's proclamation from the house of Gijsbert Cornelisz, the tavern keeper.
Name: Adriaen Teunisz van der Bilt
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Not recorded
Comments: was engaged for six years, beginning Sept. 24, 1640, three years at f90 a year and three years at f100 a year. He probably came by den Waterhondt, as farm laborer for Symon Walichsz. It is uncertain whether the words van der Bilt, represent a family name, or have reference to the village of de Bilt, near Utrecht, as Adriaen Teunisz place of origin. If used as a family name, it is probable that Adriacn Teunisz van der Bilt was the same person as Arijen Teunisz van Luijten [from Luyten-Ambacht, in North Brabant], who is charged with supplies in 1642.
Name: Lysbeth Brants
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Not recorded
Comments: daughters of Brant Peelen van Nykerck. They came by den Waterhondt.
Name: Gerritje Brants
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Not recorded
Comments: daughters of Brant Peelen van Nykerck. They came by den Waterhondt.
Name: Cornelis Cornelisz
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Schoenderwoerdt [Schoonrewoerd, in the province of South Holland]
Comments: served as farm laborer for six years, beginning Sept. 4, 1640, at wages ranging from f80 to f100 a year. He is probably the same person as Cornelis Vos, and Cornelis Cornelisz alias Vosje, who appears in the account books from 1642 to 1657. Jan. 29, 1649, Cornelis gent vossgen (Cornelis, called vossgen) leases a farm adjoining Rem Jansz, the smith, on the north.
Name: Jan Cornelisz
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Houten, [near Utrecht]
Comments: was engaged as farm hand for six years; three years at f100 a year and three years at f110 a year, his wages beginning Sept. 4, 1640. For the first year and eight months he was in the service of Symon Walichsz; the rest of his term he was in the service of Crijn Cornelisz, from Houten. He was probably a brother of Crijn Cornelisz and would seem to have come with him on den Waterhondt, in company with Cornelis Crijnen and Jan Crijnen.
Name: Cornelis Crijnen (Krijnen, Quirijnen)
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Houten, [near Utrecht]
Comments: is charged with board on den Waterhondt and credited with wages for mason's work on cellar of Domine Megapolensis and for spading of gardens. He was probably a son of Crijn Cornelisz, from Houten, whose surety he became July 7, 1646. Oct. 13, 1648, he was forbidden to leave the colony without furnishing two sureties for the payment of certain amounts owed by him, and April 29, 1649, he is referred to as having left the colony.
Name: Jan Crijnen (Krijnen)
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Houten, [near Utrecht]
Comments: Before Sept. 6, 1642, he was for a year and six months in the service of Symon Walichsz; after that date he appears to have been in the service of Crijn Cornelisz, from Houten. He was probably the latter's son and may have arrived with Cornelis Crijnen by den Waterhondt.
Name: Claes Gerritsz
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Schoennerwoorde [Schoonrewoerd, in the province of South Holland]
Comments: was engaged as farm laborer May 26, 1640, for six years, three years at f100 a year and three years at f110 a year. His wages in the colony began Sept. 24, 1640. He was at different times employed by Brant Peelen, Michiel Jansz, Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen, and on the farm called de Vlackte. In 1648, he was prosecuted by Director van Slichtenhorst for selling ammunition and bartering skins, contrary to his contract. Claes Gerritsz claimed that van Curler gave him permission to trade and the case dragged along till Nov. 10, 1651, when it was settled by arbitration.
Name: Nijs Jacobsz
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Not recorded
Comments: was engaged for six years, as farm hand, at wages ranging from f20 to f40 a year. His term of service began Sept. 4, 1640, and his board is charged to Crijn Cornelisz, from Houten; he doubtless came with the latter on den Waterhondt.
Name: Teunis Jacobsz
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Schoonderwoert [Schoonrewoerd, in the province of South Holland]
Comments: in one instance referred to as Tuenis Rut Jacobsz broeder (Tuenis, the brother of Rutger Jacobsz); was engaged as farm hand for the term of six years, beginning Sept. 4, 1640; three years at f90 a year and three years at f100 a year. He served apparently first under Symon Walichsz and then under Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen. He probably came by den Waterhondt. From 1650 to 1652 he is charged with f16 a year for a house lot. He married April 19, 1650, at New Amsterdam, Sara Denijs, from England.
Name: Jan Reyersz
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Houten, [near Utrecht]
Comments: was engaged for six years, beginning Sept. 4, 1640, at wages of f105 a year for the first three years and of f112 a year for the last three years. He served for 1 3/4 years under Cornelis Maesen and for the rest of his term under Crijn Cornelisz, from Houten. March 17, 1650, he took over from Rijck Rutgersz the lease of Bethlehem's Island, which was renewed on Feb. 15, 1653, for eight years, at a yearly rent of f230 and f45 for tithes.
Name: Dirck Teunisz
Sub-Heading: By den Waterhondt. Sailed from the Texel in June or July 1640
Location: Not recorded
Comments: son of Teunis Dircksz van Vechten; came by den Waterhondt.
Name: Gerrit Jansz
Location: Haerlem
Comments: also referred to as Gerrit Jansen Cuyper and Gerrit Jansz Kuijper (the cooper); seems to have done cooper's work in the colony as early as 1640, and is mentioned in the court proceedings under date of July 16, 1648. May 4, 1647, Antony de Hooges gave him a promissory note for f28, being the balance of money due to him for 'thaelen vant Geschut (bringing the ordnance).
Name: Cornelis Spierinck
Location: Not recorded
Comments: charged with supplies in 1642 and 1643 and credited with f107:15:8 for copying and other work in the service of Arent van Curler, in the course of 1 1/2 years, previous to the arrival of Antony de Hooges in the spring of 1642.
Name: Adriaen van der Donck
Sub-Heading: By den Eyckenboom [the Oak Tree].
Sailed from Amsterdam, May 17, 1641; arrived at New Amsterdam
in August 1641.
Location: Breda, [in the province of North Brabant]
Comments: son of Cornelis van der Donck, who appears in New Netherland
in 1655. Adriaen van der Donck was commissioned officer of justice,
or schout, of Rensselaerswyck, May 13, 1641, and sailed four days
later by den Eyckenboom. He occupied a farm on Castle Island
till Jan. 17, 1646, when the house was destroyed by fire and he and
his wife, the daughter of the Rev. Francis Doughty, temporarily
accepted the hospitality of Antony de Hooges. Feb. 23, after a quarrel
with de Hooges, he left the latter's house and moved to the fort
(see de Hooges' account of the quarrel, O'Callaghan,
History of New Netherland, 1:469-70, erroneously attributed
to van Curler, who was at the time in Holland). May 3, 1646,
van der Donck was still in the colony, but soon after he left
and established a sawmill and plantation on the Saegh kil,
in his colony of Colendonck, in the present city of Yonkers,
for which he had obtained a grant in 1645. Before leaving
Rensselaerswyck, he transferred to Cornelis Segersz van Voorhout
the remaining three years' lease of his farm on Castle Island.
He was succeeded as officer by Nicolaes Coorn. Early in May 1646,
in an account with Abraham Clock, de Hooges refers to van der Donck
as de Joncker, which is probably the earliest mention of the title
and which may have reference to his having recently become proprietor
of a colony. Adriaen van der Donck died in 1655.
