412. John Richardson was born 1698/1699 in South Carolina. He died 1781 in Orange Co., South Carolina. John married Amarenthia Smith on 1729 in Santee, Orangeburg, South Carolina. [Parents]
413. Amarenthia Smith was born 1712/1713 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia. She died in South Carolina. [Parents]
464. Captain Thomas Stone was born 1677 in Charles County, Maryland. He died 1727. Thomas married Martha Hoskins.
Thomas signed a will 25 May 1727 in Proved 7 Nov 1727 Inventory 23 Nov 1728. [Parents]
see pg 16
Newman, Harry Wright, The Stones of Poynton Manor : a genealogical history of Captain William Stone, gent. and merchant, third proprietary governor of Maryland, with sketches of his English background and a record of some of his descendants in the United States Washington, D.C.: The author, 1937, 53 pgs.
465. Martha Hoskins. [Parents]
466. Samuel Hanson was born 1684 in Littleworth Plantation, Port Tobacco, Maryland. He died 1740 in Maryland. Samuel married Elizabeth Story. [Parents]
see pg 231 (14)
Newman, Harry Wright: Charles County gentry : a genealogical history of six emigrants, Thomas Dent, John Dent, Richard Edelen, John Hanson, George Newman, Humphrey Warren, all scions of armorial families of old England who settled in Charles County, Maryland, and their descendants showing migrations to the South and West Washington D.C.: The author, 1940, 335 pgs.
467. Elizabeth Story was born 1689. She died 1764. [Parents]
468. Samuel Hanson is printed as #466.
469. Elizabeth Story is printed as #467.
470. William Hoskins married Violetta Harrison.
480. Pieter Claesen Wyckoff was born 26 Jan 1625 in Boda, Oland Island, Sweden. He died 30 Jun 1694 in America and was buried in Flatlands Dutch Reformed Churchyard, Long Island. Pieter married Grietje Van Ness on 26 Aug 1648 in Renssalear, New York.
Pieter was Simon Walischez Pieter was 12 years old at start 3 Apr 1637 - 1643 at Rensselaer Estate. He immigrated 7 Apr 1637 to Ship Rensselaerwick Ft. Orange, New Netherland. [Parents]
When the Brits took over the Dutch Colony, they had difficulty with the Dutch names. The family name "Wyckoff" came when Peter chose it for the Brits ease. It was a combined name because of who he was. "Wyk" means "Parish" and "hof" means "court". Pieter had gained influence and sat as a Judge.
Peter Wyckoff House is located at 5902 Canarsie Lane, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
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PIETER CLAESEN WYCKOFF
Material transcribed by Barbara L. Van NorsdallPieter Claesen was 12 or 13 years old when he boarded the ship Rensselaerswick in Amsterdam, Holland. Was he travelling alone? Or was he with his parents, whose records just did not survive? Or was he with an uncle or guardian? Or was he an orphan who indentured himself to gain a better life? His birth place is listed as Boda, Smaland, on Oland Island, Sweden. Carinia Knecht a native of Sweden who comes from this area states that Oland Island was a merchant port with a large colony of Dutch traders. (This last from http://www.henryhendricks.org/)
The following is extracted from:
The Wyckoff family in America : a genealogy.
Summit, N.J.: Wyckoff Association in America, 1950, 656 pgs.
--------------------------------------------------------------When the Brits took over the Dutch Colony, they had difficulty with the Dutch names. The family name "Wyckoff" came when Peter chose it for the Brits ease. It was a combined name because of who he was. "Wyk" means "Parish" and "hof" means "court". Pieter had gained influence and sat as a Judge.
Peter Wyckoff House is located at 5902 Canarsie Lane, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
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PIETER CLAESEN WYCKOFF
Material transcribed by Barbara L. Van NorsdallPieter Claesen was 12 or 13 years old when he boarded the ship Rensselaerswick in Amsterdam, Holland. Was he travelling alone? Or was he with his parents, whose records just did not survive? Or was he with an uncle or guardian? Or was he an orphan who indentured himself to gain a better life? His birth place is listed as Boda, Smaland, on Oland Island, Sweden. Carinia Knecht a native of Sweden who comes from this area states that Oland Island was a merchant port with a large colony of Dutch traders. (This last from http://www.henryhendricks.org/)
The following is extracted from:
The Wyckoff family in America : a genealogy.
Summit, N.J.: Wyckoff Association in America, 1950, 656 pgs.
--------------------------------------------------------------"Pieter Claesen, founder of the Wyckoff Family in America, came to Fort Orange, Province of New Netherlands, 7 April 1637, on the ship Rensselaerswick. In the log of that ship is the following: "This ship sailed from Amsterdam, Holland, 25 Sept. 1636, anchored off the seaport, The Texel, 8 Oct. 1636, reached New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, 4 March 1637, and Tuesday 7 April, 1637, about three o'clock in the morning we came to anchor before Fort Aeranien, the end of our journey upward." The Rensselaerswick was outfitted by Killian van Rensselaer, a diamond merchant of Amsterdam, who had a speculative contract with the West India Company for the grant of a large body of land near the headwaters of the Hudson River, under which he was required to transport men and animals to the new country. There is no complete list of the passengers on this ship, but among those named are Pieter Cornelissen from Monnickendam, North Holland; Pieter Claesen Van Norden, and Simon Walischez. These three did not remain in New Amsterdam, but went on to Fort Orange. (In the 'Old World Progenitors of the Wyckoff Family', Published about 1945, it states that they waited for the ice to get out of the Hudson River and on March 26 the ship continued of its journey.) Here Pieter Cornelissen became prominent in the affairs of the colony. He may have been an uncle of Pieter Claesen, although the two are not mentioned together in the records of the Van Rensselaer estate.
"Pieter Claesen was one 38 laborers sent on the Rensselaerswick to be assigned ... to the Rensselaer estate, and ... he was assigned to Simon Walischez. (he was assigned to work for six years.) ...he was to receive 50 Guilders per year for the first three years and 75 Guilders for the last three years. Pieter Claesen was 18 years old when he made his settlement with the van Rensselaer estate. (This would be about 1643.) Soon after this he rented a farm for himself and married Grietje van Ness, the daughter of a prominent citizen of the colony. ... With his wife and two children he went to New Amsterdam in 1649. Here he remained until 1655, when he signed a contract "to superintend the Bowery and cattle of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amersfoort (Flatlands)" and moved into the house on Canarsie Lane in Flatlands, Brooklyn, now known as the Wyckoff Homestead.
{This insert is copied from Gloria D.Marashai pages at Family Tree Maker. Succeeding generations of the family lived in the house until 1902. Following the sale of the house, several owners occupied and or used the house and property and much of the land was sold. These owners made few structural changes to the house. The Association attempted to buy the house without success until 1961. A deal was worked out with the City whereby the house and property was given to the City of New York which restored the house as early Dutch farmhouse and leased it back to the Association in perpetuity. The Wyckoff House was declared a National Landmark in 1966. (The house still exists and is a museum. It is on a by-way known as Canarsie Lane leading off from Kings Highway near its juncture with Clarendon Ave.)}
It is an old Dutch farmhouse that is probably the oldest complete house in the English part of the United States. The house consists of a main building fronting north and a smaller addition on the west end, built somewhat later ... The main building is one story high with a roomy garret and has the characteristic overhanging roof. In the garret, the oak timbers bear the marks of the axes that hewed them and the numbers cut in the beams to guide those who put the fame together. The floor of the garret is of well laid oak boards that form the ceilings of the rooms below ... In the main part there are two fireplaces, on at each end, ... and in the western addition is a Dutch oven and a third fireplace large enough to take in whole logs. There are two outside doors opening north and south. On the north is the original Dutch door, divided horizontally in the middle and hung on heavy wrought-iron hinges. ... In spite of its great age, the house is still solid and sturdy, with no evidence of weakness in its floors or frame. The description of the house is from 'The Wyckoff Family is America, A Geneology' 2nd Edition, 1950, The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc.)
"Pieter Claesen prospered and became one of the most influential citizens of the little frontier settlement. He bought land ... from time to time, but he never owned the house in which he lived. He became a local judge, ... justice of the peace, and was influential in establishing the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church at the juncture of Flatbush Avenue and King's Highway. His remains are said to have been buried in land now covered by the alter of this church.
"When the British took over the Dutch colony, they had difficulty with the Dutch names and demanded that the Dutch families take surnames by which they could be identified. ... Pieter Claesen had been a local judge and the name came from this fact, the "Wyk" meaning a parish and "hof" meaning a court. Thus the name would mean Pieter Claesen of the town court. (However) a member of the Wyckoff family, wandering through a Dutch town during WW II, was surprised to see the name Wyckoff on a place of business, which suggests that the name may have been taken because of some old world association. (And) Dr. Max Wickhoff of Vienna, Austria, in a letter dated 20 December 1929, writes that his family came from Friesland (Netherlands) in the seventeenth century and that he believes that the Austrian Wickhoffs and the American Wyckoffs derive from the same Friesian gentry, living in the Austrian Netherlands, which then comprised a large part of Holland, Belgium, and East Friesland. He also refers to the house in the province of Drente which is called Hof in der Wijk, of Wijkof. "Hof" would here mean house of farmstead and "Wijk" would designate the locality. (See Hoppin 'Washington Ancestry and Forty Other Families', Vol III, page 122. There are many spellings of the name, but the original spelling is Wijckoff and the nearest approach to that is Wyckoff."
Pieter is listed as Pieter Claasz as a witness to the marriage record of his son Cornelis Pieterse and Geertje Simons Van Arsdalen at North Utrecht, marriage records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church on the Town of Flatbush, Kings Co., New York.
The introduction to the Wyckoff book states that Pieter Claesen and his wife, Grietje van Ness, had eleven children, six boys and five girls. Some of the information regarding the children comes from information posted to Rootsweb by Jane Kennard Gilman.
Mark Alan Thomas in Vol 1, No 2 of Vanguard has him identified as Pieter Claasz Wijckoff (aka: Pieter Claesen van Norden) married to Griertje Cornelis van Nes (aka: Grietje Hendriks van Ness).
The church at Beverwyck was burned together with the church records, among which, it is thought were the records of the marriage of Pieter Claesen and Grietje Van Ness and the births of their first two children, Nicholas and Margrietje. (This from Gloria D. Marashai, Family Tree Maker.)
The Wyckoff book states that the Wyckoff family had a high standing the in the Dutch colony, as is shown by the families into which they married. All were families of importance.
If Pieter Claesen was the son of Claes Cornelissen then Margaret Van Der Goes would have been his mother.
Bryce Stevens in a posting to Dutch-Colonies mail list at Rootsweb.com, Nov 22, 1998 documented the distinction between Claes Cornelissen van Schouw and the father of Pieter Claesen (van Norden) (Wyckoff). This distinction was made by Charles Arthur Hoppin, in "The Washington Ancestry and Records of McClain-Johnson & Forty Other Colonial American Families", volume III, pages 173-182, 1932. He cites ship's lists, baptismal records and court orders to explain the confusion. Hoppin points out that Pieter Claesen van Norden emigrated from Norden, Germany, 1636, whereas Claes Cornelisz van Schouw emigrated from Schouwen, Holland, about 1640. These villages are about 125 miles distant from one another."
The author of this genealogy has seen the transcript of the ships logs where it states Pieter Claesen van Norden, but it does not state from Germany. Nicole Castle in a posting to Dutch-Colonies mail list at Rootsweb.com, dated 9 Feb 2000 states "includes both Pieter Clasen, from Nordingen, East Friesland and Pieter Cornelisz. ...A document dated September 14, 1631 that refers to Claes, his (deceased) wife Margaret van der Goes, and their son Pieter Claesen. After his wife's death in August of 1631 Claes sells all of his property and trading interest to his brother Jacob and brother-in-law Carl Carlsson Bonde".
In "The Old World Progenitors of the Wyckoff Family, A Genealogy" William Forman Wckoff, page 13 "In the Van Rensselaer Bowier manuscript it is said that Pieter Claesz came from Nordingen, East Friesland. It has been contended that Nordinge, Gelderland, near Hengelo, would be the correct location."
Georgia O'Keeffe, American Painter, is a descendant of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff through his son Cornelis Wyckoff and Gertje Van Arsdalen, daughter of Sijmon Jansz Van Aersdale. This from a message posted to Dutch Colonies mail list, Rootsweb.com, 25 April, 2002, by Jean Boutcher.
Orville and Wilbur Wright and descended from Pieter Claesen Wyckoff and Griejte Cornelis Van Ness according to Richard Kitchen in a message posted to Wyckoff mail list 15 Feb 2002.
481. Grietje Van Ness was born about 1630 in Renssalear, NY. She died 1699/1703 and was buried in Flatlands Dutch Reformed Churchyard, Long Island. [Parents]
The following is extracted from the introduction to 'The Wyckoff Family in America' 3rd Edition, Gateway Press, 1980. The full introduction can be viewed at www.wyckoffassociation.org/book.asp:
"Griete Van Ness, who married Pieter Claesen, was the mother of this great family. She contributed much to the family she helped found. Even among the Dutch of that time there were distinctions of station, and she ranked high. Many of the plain people carried no family name. With them there was the coupling of the name of the father and child, like Pieter Claesen, meaning Pieter, son of Claes. Others of apparently higher social or property advantages carried a family name from one generation to another. Grietje van Ness was of this latter class. She was the daughter of Cornelis Hendrick van Ness and Maycke Hendrick Adriense van der Burchgraeff. Cornelius was the son of Hendrick Geritse van Ness of Ameland, Holland. Maycke was the daughter of Hendrick Adreincse van der Burchgraeff and Annetje Janse of Laeckervelt, Holland. ... The will of Annetje Jans, widow of Hendrick Adriens, dwelling at Laeckervelt, divides her estate between her son and her daughter Maycke, and provides that Maycke shall have the use of this estate during her lifetime, and that it shall then be divided among the six children of said Maycke, whom she names as follows:
Gerritie Cornelius, wife of Roeloff Cornelissen
Hendricke Cornelis, wife of Jan Jensen van Oothout
Hendrick
Gerrit
Jan
Grietje Cornelius, wife of Pieter Claesen of Amersfoot, Long Island"Maycke died before her husband, but he carried out her wishes. Thus Grietje van Ness, when she married Pieter Claesen, brought to him wealth as well as rank.
Cornelius van Ness, son of Hendrick van Ness, doubltess was a native of the village of Nes on the Island of Ameland in the province of Friesland, North Holland. He later lived in Veanin, near Ulrecht in South Holland, which was the home of Killian van Rensselaer, patron of the colony of Rensselaerswick on the upper Hudson River. To this colony came Cornelius van Ness and his wife Maycke Hendricke van der Burchgraeff in August 1641. He was a man of education and ability and was influential in the affairs of the colony. He owned a farm near Greenbush, but he was no farmer. His main income was derived from his brewery and from his mercantile and political activities. He and his son-in-law Pieter Claesen engaged in a prolonged controvery with van Slichtenhorst, the autocratic director of the colony which ended only when Pieter Claese left the colony in June 1649 and van Slichtenhorst was arrested, on 18 April 1652, by order of Pieter Stuyvesant, Director General of the colony. (See Hoppin, Washington Ancestry, Vol III, and AJF van Laer.)
Grietje outlived her husband, who died in 1694. She died between 1699 and 1703, and was buried beside her husband in Flatlands, Long Island."
484. Pieter Van Doorn was born about 1635 in Gravezande, Holland. He married Catherine Stelting.
Pieter resided in Flushing, Long Island.
485. Catherine Stelting died before 1 Dec 1657.
pg 34, 38
Honeyman, A. Van Doren
The Van Doorn family (VanDoorn, Van Dorn, Van Doren, etc.) in Holland and America, 1088-1908 Plainfield, N.J.: Honeyman's Publishing House, 1909, 825 pgs.
488. Rev John Watts was born 3 Nov 1661 in Leeds, Kent, England. He died 27 Aug 1702. John married Sarah Eaton. [Parents]
see pg 164
Davis, W. W. H.
History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1905, 1881 pgs.Second Pastor of the Lower Dublin, Baptist Church in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
489. Sarah Eaton was born 1655.
492. Robert Assheton was born about 1680.
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