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THE FOLLOWING IS PART OF A BRIEF SKETCH FOUND IN "PRE-REVOLUTIONARYDUTCH HOUSES AND FAMILIES IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN NEW YORK" BYROSALIE FELLOWS BAILEY, DOVER PUBLICATIONS, NEW YORK; 1968: !"CORNELIS HENDRICSE VAN NESS EMIGRATED TO BEVERWYCK IN 1642 ANDSETTLED AT GREENBUSH. HE MARRIED MAYKEN HENDRICKS BURCHGRAEFF, AND SECONDLY IN1664 MARITIE DAMEN, AS HER THIRD HUSBAND. AFTER HIS SECOND MARRIAGE, THEYLIVED IN ALBANY AND LATER IN SCHENECTADY. THEY BOTH DIED SHORTLY BEFORE1682." !NAME OF WIFE IS VAN DEN BURCHGRAEFF. !NYG&BS RECORD, VOL. 72, PG. 148, 150-153, 155. GENEALOGIES OF FIRST FAMILIES OF ALBANY, 1872, JONATHAN PEARSON, PG.128. VAN NESS MSS AT NY GEN. & BIOG. SOCIETY LIB, 1223 58 ST, NYC HUDSON-MOHAWK GEN. & FAMILY MEMOIRS, CUYLER REYNOLDS, VOL II, PG 1376ON VAN NESS FAMILY. VAN RENSSELAER BOUWIER MSS, TRANSLATED 7 ED. BYA.J.F. VAN LAER, 1908, PG 824-825. !#8 HENDRICK MD (2) 25 NOV 1688 VAN DAM, CATARINA #10 GERRIT MD (2) 14 FEB 1676-7 LOOCKERMANS, MARIETJE
!Compendium of American Genealogy V 6 .
!Compendium of American Genealogy V 6 . 1937, by Frederick Adams Virkus p 53 Immigrant from Holland in 1641. Indian commander at Ft Orange 1665-6 Captain. Occupation-brewer From Compedium - 691 from Nes on Island of Ameland , province of Friesland, North Holland lived with wife Maijgen, in Vianen, South Holland in 1625 and owned property at Sscheperswyck, near Leksmond, Vianen, Holland until 1661 Immigrated Aug 164I on the Ship Eyckenboom. Had a farm at Bethlehem from 1642-48 farm at Greenbush from 1650-58 A wealthy brewer of Ft Orange Magistrate in Rennelaerswyck Document of 1664 turning over property from Cornelis Van Nes to his children gives their names
Cornelis Hendrickse VAN NESS Birth: 1
Cornelis Hendrickse VAN NESS Birth: 1602 in Vianen, South Holland, Netherlands, On The Haverdijk Death: 1681 in Greenbush, Albany, NY/Fairfield, Essex, New York Sex: M Father: Hendrick Gerritse VAN NESS Mother: Anneke Gerritje WESSELS Occupation: Brewer, acting Indian Commissioner Changed: 17 Dec 2001 Mayken Hendrickse VAN DEN BURCHGRAEFF (Wife) Marriage: 31 JUL 1625 in Viaven, Havendijke, Zeeland, Netherlands Children: Gerritje Cornelis VAN NESS Hendrickje Cornelisse VAN NESS Hendrick Cornelis VAN NESS Gerrit Cornelis VAN NESS Jan Cornelis VAN NESS Maritie Van Eps DAMEN (Wife) Marriage: 21 MAR 1664 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Notes Individual: Full Context of Albany, New York Church Records, 1683-1700 1699-1700 Pieter, of Pieter Van Slyck and Johanna Hanssen. Wit.: Cornelis Van Nes, Marritje Van Nes. Event: Emigrated 1642 On the "Oaktree" from Vianen, Holland, to Fort Orange Cornelis was the third of Maria's three husbands. He was a brewer. Emigrated in 1642 to Fort Orange. He settled first on a farm at Bethlehem, then in 1650 on a farm near Greenbush. Cornelis was a member of the City Council of Fort Orange from 1652 to 1658, and in 1660, 1661, and 1663. He served as magistrate at Fort Orange in 1665 and 1666. He was the acting Indian Commissioner under the Dutch. He was also captain of the night watch at Rensselaerswyck in 1663. Non-standard gedcom data: 1 HONO 2 NOTE City Council of Fort Orange from 1652 to 1658, and in 1660, 2 NOTE 1661, and 1663
Person note sources
Genealogical Notes of NY and New England Families, Talcott, p 44, 343-4;
lived upon the Hazendyck, South Holland;
1625 land at Scherperswyck, near Leksmond, South Holland, Holland;
Ship Passenger Lists(NY- NJ) 1600-1825, Boyer, p 32, 60;
Sailed from Amsterdam 17 May 1641; Arrived at New Amsterdam, NY, Aug 1641; 1642-8
charged tithes, farm at Bethlehem, NY; 1649 Court action, New Amsterdam, NY; 22 Aug 1650
Greenbush, NY land bought;
Court Minutes of Rensselaerswyck, NY 1648-52, 14 sep 1648, Cornelis van Es/Nes & son
inlaw Pieter Claesz; p 53, insists that the director wronged his son inlaw, Pieter Claesz;
Court Minutes of Albany, Rensselaerswyck, and Schenectady, NY, vol. 1;
Family search, IGI 1992;
24 Mar 1664 he was magistrate of Rensselaerswyck, NY still a widower, with his children
applied for a division of their mothers estate;
Will 1681, Greenbush, Albany (now Rensselaerswyck), NY;
(Family search Ancestral File has death place as Fairfield, Essex, NY ?);
Mar: 1st Mayken Hendrickse Van Den Burchgraeff, 31 Jul 1625, Vianen, South Holland, Holland;
Mar. 2nd Maritje Damen, a widow of Dirk Van Eps, 2) Hendrick Andriese Van Doesburgh, abt
1664; deceased by 1681 will;
Sources of Information: J Pearsons Gen.
Sources of Information: J Pearsons Gen. lst Settlers of ASlbany p l129; Gen Notes of N.Y. & N.E Fam. p 343 Cornelis was also sealed to his parents 11 May 1990 AZ.
!Aulls - Bryan & Allied Families:Leslia
!Aulls - Bryan & Allied Families:Leslia Bryan, pg 118
NOTES! Third husband of Maria Damen md 2
NOTES! Third husband of Maria Damen md 21 Mar 1664 Hon Cornelius Van Nes/Van Ness (or Van ES) of Amersfort, d 1684 emigrated 1641 to Renesselaerwyck, and Albany. Widower of Mayken Hnedricks(e) Burchgraeff (van den Burchgraeff) who d bet 1658-1664, she was the d/o Hendrick Asriaensz(van den Burchgraef) and Annetje Jans (his second wife). Van Ness came to Albany (Rensselaerswyck) NY in 1641 probably on the "den Eyckenboon". He had lived at Vianen on the Haverdijk, South Holland, 1625. He was a principle farmer at Rensselaweswyck, and battled with van Slichtenhorst. He was a brewer, had a house, lot and brewery, Greenbush, 1650. Councilor of Rensselaeswyck 1652-1658 1660 - 1663. Granted 50 morgens of land at Amerfoort ( Flatlands) 23 May 1659. 16 Jun 1664 granted 21 morgens of land at Schenectady, where he lived with Marritje in 1677. "Antenuptial Contract of Cornelis Van Nes and Maria Damen" found in Notarial Papers 1 and 2, 1660-1696 vol 3 of Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Coloney of Rensselaerswyck NY. This contract is dated 1664 and appears right after the contract where Marritie settles the inheritance rights of Jannetie, her dau by Hendrick Andriesz van Doesburg. In part the antenuptial contract states: "....The Honorable Cornelis van Nes, councillor of the Coloney of Rensselaerwyck, widower of the late Mayken van den Burchgraeff d/o Hendrick van de Burchgraeff, future bridegroom - and the virtuous Maria Damen widow of the Late Hendrick Andriesz Van Doseburgh dwelling in Beverwyck, future bride..... Marritie Damen m1 in Amesterdam Netherlands 1636 Dirck Evertsz van Eps ( thanks to Kees for his wonderful find and the source doucmentation) Lorine Mcginnis Schultz. m2 1649 in Amsterdam Netherlands Hendrick Andriesz van Doesburgh (Again thanks to Kees for sending to the list and providing a URL where we could view the actual documents) m3 1664 in the Albany NY area Cornelis Van Nes (antenuptial contract as cited above) She had only three living children, as evidenced by the agreement made between her heirs concerning the division of her property after her death. The document is dated 5 Aug 1686 and names the 3 children. Jan Van Eps; Lysbeth ( Elizabeth) Van Eps and Jannettie Hendrickse Van Doesburgh.
Married 1st 31 July 1625 at Havendijke,
Married 1st 31 July 1625 at Havendijke, Neth. Mayken Hendrickse BURCHGRAEFF. Married 2nd 21 Mar 1664 Maritie DAMEN. J. Pearson gen. First Settlers of Albany p.129. Gen Notes of N.Y. & N.E. Families p.343.
"The Island at the Center of the World"
One of van Nes's companions on the Oak Tree was a major figure in the colony's early history, Adriaen van der Donck. Van der Donck is the leading historical character in Shorto's lively 2004 book about New Netherlands. Here's the New York Times review.
THE ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, by Russell Shorto (384 pp. New York: Doubleday, 2004).
''And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes -- a fresh, green breast of the new world,'' F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote on the greatest last page in American letters. On the grounds of Jay Gatsby's abandoned Long Island estate, Nick Carraway broods over the ''transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent . . . face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder'' before he lets himself be borne back to the Midwest, along ''the dark fields of the republic.''
And yet, Henry Hudson's entrance into New York Harbor has never gained full iconic status in the American experience. When it comes to the old Dutch colony of New Netherland and its capital, New Amsterdam, which took root on Manhattan Island in 1624, we tend to accept at face value Washington Irving's comic Knickerbocker caricatures, depicting a bunch of fat, bumptious graspers -- a colony full of overgrown hobbits. Surely such a people could not have contributed anything to the national character remotely approaching the influence of, say, those dour Puritans up in Massachusetts.
Russell Shorto, in his masterly new history, ''The Island at the Center of the World,'' begs to differ. The author of ''Gospel Truth,'' about the search for the historical Jesus, among other books, Shorto has taken up nearly as intrepid a pursuit here. ''If what made America great was its ingenious openness to different cultures,'' he writes, ''the small triangle of land at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is the birthplace of that idea: This island city would become the first multiethnic, upwardly mobile society on America's shores, a prototype of the kind of society that would be duplicated throughout the country and around the world.''
New Netherland was supposed to be just one more in a series of trading posts that the audacious new Dutch republic was germinating around the world, a private fief of the Dutch West India Company designed to pump more wealth into the extraordinary cultural and economic boom then transforming the mother country. But somehow, as Shorto puts it: ''New Netherland refused to remain a trading post. It was unique among the way stations of the Dutch empire in that it insisted on becoming a place'' -- and one that seemed almost magnetically drawn to the center of world events. From its very inception, New Amsterdam was a remarkably restless, ambitious, polyglot little seaport. ''It was Manhattan, in other words,'' he says, ''right from the start.''
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What Shorto has hit upon is nothing less than the true dichotomy at the heart of the American story, the fact that most of our ancestors came to this land for material as well as idealistic reasons (to properly recognize the experience of African-Americans, people brought here against their will, one must actually make it a triptych, but that is another story). Both motivations were complex. While Shorto concedes the innate ''messiness'' of colonial Manhattan, a place where at one point a quarter of all buildings were devoted to the production or consumption of alcohol, religious dissenters flocked to the Dutch colony to escape persecution up on Massachusetts Bay. Meanwhile, the Puritans' ''shining 'city on a hill' became Manifest Destiny, and morphs easily into a cheap battle cry.''
A new foundation myth requires a new progenitor. The Dutch republic was nearing the end of an 80-year war for national independence and religious freedom, and while tolerance at the time meant something closer to ''putting up with'' than ''celebrating'' diversity, as Shorto observes, the Dutch had developed a very modern appreciation of free thought, epitomized by the fact that this remarkable little country published an estimated one-half of all the world's books over the course of the 17th century.
Yet it is one thing to describe the cultural golden age of the nation that produced New Amsterdam and another to prove its influence upon the realized American nation. Shorto centers his story on the battle between two critical players in Dutch Manhattan, Peter Stuyvesant and Adriaen van der Donck. Stuyvesant, the wily, flinty soldier who had lost a leg fighting for the company on St. Martin, was mainly concerned with thwarting both the encroachments of the expansionary New England colonies and the demands for self-government from his subjects within. Van der Donck is a less well known but even more intriguing figure; a lawyer with the soul of a poet, punctilious enough to attach eight footnotes to a single sentence, but also a man capable of living for months among the Indians, and who kept breaking into rapturous descriptions of the New World in his neglected classic, ''A Description of New Netherland.'' Van der Donck's quest to remake New Netherland in the republican image of the mother country set him inevitably in opposition to Stuyvesant.
Ultimately, both men's aims would be frustrated, but their conflict forced the West India Company to grant the colony a charter, under which most citizens of New Amsterdam came to enjoy exceptional rights and freedoms, living as real stakeholders in an opportunity society. These liberties would survive the English takeover of the colony in 1664, and Shorto convincingly traces a direct line from their achievement straight to the New York State Legislature's decision in 1787 not to ratify the Constitution unless ''a bill of specific individual rights were attached to it.''
Why has the Dutch side of our national story remained so obscure for so long? In part because the historical records of New Netherland have literally been buried by the winners in one moldy archive after another, and not the least entertaining part of Shorto's book is his narrative of how these records managed to survive over 300 years of flood, fire and indifference. He generously credits the research other scholars have done to bring these invaluable materials back to the surface, as they translated some 12,000 sheets of rag paper from the 17th-century Dutch.
Taking full advantage of these newly recovered sources, Shorto makes frequent, deft excursions from New York to the Netherlands and England, Brazil and Curaçao; and the slave coast of Guinea to the Spice Islands and the German battlefields of the Thirty Years' War; and to Hartford and Boston and that hotly contested colonial prize, New Jersey. He portrays a formidable cast of historical actors -- the cunning, murderous fanatic who was Cromwell; the Stuarts, with all their dogs and horses and mistresses. Poor Henry Hudson, so caught up in his quest for the Northwest Passage that he was still asking, ''What do you mean by this?'' when his starving, freezing sailors finally set him and his young son adrift to die in a small boat, in the bay that would come to bear his name.
New York history buffs will be captivated by Shorto's descriptions of Manhattan in its primordial state, of bays full of salmon and oysters, and blue plums and fields of wild strawberries in what is now Midtown. Here the reader may learn, among many other historical tidbits, what the Dutch really paid for Manhattan (it wasn't $24), or the key role that Flushing played in securing freedom of conscience, or why the Knicks wear blue-and-orange uniforms, or how Yonkers, the Hutchinson River and Saw Mill River Parkways, Greenwich Village and Staten Island got their names. Yet Shorto never overwhelms one with trivia, and he writes at all times with passion, verve, nuance and considerable humor.
If there is a flaw in ''The Island at the Center of the World,'' it may be Shorto's underplaying of how the patroon system -- a semifeudal arrangement the West India Company allowed to be grafted onto its holdings -- undermined democracy in upstate New York even well into the 19th century. Yet over all, Shorto's basic premise is undeniable. The legacy of tolerance from the Dutch colony in Manhattan would be extended, as he writes, ''into the very heart of the continent, crossroads settlements transformed into cities, lights winking on in the dusk of the endless landscape, each with its cluster of founding ethnic groups: Toledo, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Chicago, Green Bay'' -- deep into the dark fields of the Republic, indeed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/books/they-took-manhattan.html
1. First Settlers of Albany by J. Pearso
1. First Settlers of Albany by J. Pearsons, p. 129. 2. Gen. Notes of N.Y. & N.E. Families by Talcott, pp. 102,343.
"Genealogical Notes of New York and New
"Genealogical Notes of New York and New England," GS#974.7,D2t
IGI says he was born in Zeeland and ance
IGI says he was born in Zeeland and ancestral file says he was born in Holland. I found information he died at Albany, New York but the ancestral file says he died at Fairfield, Essex, New York. In 1641 Cornelis Van Nes came to Rennselaerwyck as a plantation manager and later seraved as a magistrate on the dutach court. Later his son Hendrick would serve on that court. Sources: Wycoff Bulletin June 1985 NYGB Vol 72 Roses Revisited Book 1987 Pioneer Settlers for New York Book xv 1934 Amer Gen Comp Book Vol 1-7 paper-Pre Rev. dutch houses by R.F. Bailey 1936 ancestral file 1993/1994 IGI
!1. # 2 page 545 Pippenger Family His.
!1. # 2 page 545 Pippenger Family His.
SOURCE: "The Wyckoff Family in America"
SOURCE: "The Wyckoff Family in America" publ by The Wyckoff Family in America; Summit, N.J.; 2nd Edition; 1950; Pg 4, 10, 11 / Calendar of Wills; 1626-1836; Albany, NY; comp by Berthold Fernow, 1896 Cornelis van Ness, member of Council of Rensselaerswyck Colony secures to ch of 1st wife, Mayeke Hendricx van den Burchgraeff / The Ancestors & Descendants of Simon Van Ness & Hester Delamater, by David M. Riker, 442 Woodcrest Dr, Mechanicsburg, PA [ca 1981-84] FHL Film #1697542 / Fam Group Sheet submitted by Margaret Pack Bowden, Box 209, West Yellowstone, Montana [Pre-1959?]SOURCE: "The Wyckoff Family in America" publ by The Wyckoff Family in America; Summit, N.J.; 2nd Edition; 1950; Pg 4, 10, 11 / Calendar of Wills; 1626-1836; Albany, NY; comp by Berthold Fernow, 1896 Cornelis van Ness, member of Council of Rensselaerswyck Colony secures to ch of 1st wife, Mayeke Hendricx van den Burchgraeff / The Ancestors & Descendants of Simon Van Ness & Hester Delamater, by David M. Riker, 442 Woodcrest Dr, Mechanicsburg, PA [ca 1981-84] FHL Film #1697542 / Fam Group Sheet submitted by Margaret Pack Bowden, Box 209, West Yellowstone, Montana [Pre-1959?]
Came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 16
Came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1641. Settled where Albany , New York is.
native of village of Nes
native of village of Nes on the Island of Ameland in province of Friesland, North Holland. Later lived near Utrecht in South Holland, home of Killian van Rensselaer; thus he emigrated with his wife to the colony of Rensselaerswick on upper Hudson River, New York, in 1641.
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