CORNELIS: Had a son Johannes born in Napanoch, Rochester, NY. This Rochester is a town near present-day Accord, about 15 mi SW of Kingston, NY. Johannes was born in 1728 and lived in Upper Smithfield or Pike Co. and had a son named Peter." Peter was born in Pike Co. in 1766, and has been mentioned in a number of historical and government documents. He is reported living in Parkers Glen, PA at one point (4), but I don't know in what years. Parker's Glen is in Pike County on the Delaware River. It is located about 9 miles from the village of Milford, and about 3 miles up stream from Pond Eddy, PA. In 1810 and 1820 Peter lived across the river from Pond Eddy, PA in the Town of Lumberland Sullivan County, N.Y. (A). There he raised a family on 400 acres. Peter sold this land, lot 37 of the 7 division of the Minisink Patents, in 1834 to Patrick Smith; at the time he was living in Milford, PA. He eventually moved back to Sullivan Co. however, to live with his wife Hannah and daughter Mary Van Auken Clark in Highland Township (1850) near Barryville, New York. Peter had a son named Emanuel. Emanuel was born sometime between 1794 and 1802. Emanuel was my g-g-g-grandfather.* (i.e. Lorelei Maison Rockwell). He lived near Milford, PA and in 1821 moved his family to land he purchased "one mile south of Pond Eddy, PA on the Delaware River" (5).
More about Van Aken (Van Auken) Family from Lorelei Maison Rockwell: ."4 Indian attacks" in Van Aken / Van Auken Family.
Dirck Volkertsen (VOLCKERTZEN) was Norwegian ("de Noorman" often followed his name). One of earliest settlers in New Amsterdam, though exact date unknown. Probably brought by Dutch West India Co as expert on rendering pine pitch into tar. But tree in New Amsterdam were of wrong species. He was a ship carpenter by trade and also farmed. As so often happened he spent much time in court being sued or suing. One court appearance was for theft. Charged with one Gerritsen with stealing rope for company yacht. Dirck claimed he bought rope from Gerritsen "in good faith". He was acquitted.
Some time before 1632 Dirck married Christina Vigne, daughter of Guillaume Vigne and Adrienne Cuvelier. Dirck is listed as magistrate in 1681 and ensign of local militia in 1689. No record of date of death of Dirck or Christina.
[RAJ NOTE: Dirck is listed above as magistrate in 1681 and ensign of local militia in 1689. Same source says he died before 1680 in NY. My belief is that Dirck's grandson Dirick Volkertse was the person referred to in above statement.]
"One family legend has it he came....to New Amsterdam Colony from Bergen, Norway. Another has it that he came by way of Hoorn, a Dutch seaport."
Married (1) Abt 1649 Cornelis Hendricksen Van Dort (b abt 1629, NY); (2) Harman Hendricks Rosenkrans (b abt 1629, NY). One child by 1st husband; children by 2nd. Names, dates of ch unknown.
Married 11 Nov 1663, New York, NY Jean Lequire (b abt 1639, NY).
Jannetje Dircks married on 7 Oct 1674 in New York, NY to Pieter Schamp. Pieter chr 24 Jul 1636 in Gent, Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium, d 9 Jan 1694 in Bushwick, Kings, NY.
Valenciennes is now part of France but was part of war-torn southern Netherlands in 1590. Guillaume was a Walloon from Valenciennes, now in northern France, but in 16th century part of Spanish Netherlands. Due to harsh persecution of Protestant Walloons by the Spanish, Guillaume and Adrienne fled to the free Dutch provinces to Leiden, Holland. There their names were Dutchified to Guleyn & Ariaentje.
The Vignes were among first 30 French Walloon families Dutch West India Company sent to establish New Netherlands colony in North America in 1624. According to a diary entry of one Jasper Dankeaerts, their son Jan (born in 1614) was first male child of European parents in New Netherland. That means they came over in one of four Dutch trading vessels coming to Hudson River area in 1613. One vessel, TIGER, caught fire and was beached. Captain and crew built new ship, the Onrust (Restless) and left in spring of 1614. The Vignes apparently stayed on. There may have been a small trading post already established. By 1625 when New Amsterdam became permanently settled the Vignes had an established farm operation in Manhattan. Tradition says family cabin was where WallSt and Pearl St now intersect. Gaullaume died before 30 Apr 1632 when his widow married Jan Jansen Damen. "That Adrienne was a redoubtable charcter may be inferred from reports back to Holland that she played football in the street with Indian heads brought to New Amsterdam after Governor Kieft's unfortunate attacks on the Indians in 1643". Adrienne died in 1655.
Married: (1) Abraham VERPLANCK, b abt 1609; (2) Jan ROOS, b abt 1609, New York, NY.
From Notes on Jan Vigne's Father: " According to a diary entry of one Jasper Dankeaerts, their son Jan (born in 1614) was first male child of European parents in New Netherland."
Marr abt 1636 Cornelius Van Tienhoven (b abt 1613).
MARINUS VAN AKEN who was from Cadzand Holland, settled in the Town of Esopus near Kingston, N.Y., about 1683. He had a son named Cornelius who was born in Kingston, N.Y. about 1690 (1). Cornelius had a son named Johannes who was born in Napanoch, Rochester, N.Y. (2). This is not the Rochester of western N.Y. but a town near, what is now called, Accord, N.Y.. Accord is near Rt. 209, about 15 miles south west of Kingston near Kerhonkson, N.Y. Route 209 follows what was once known as the 'old mine road'. The 'old mine road' was built along what was an ancient indian trail that connected the Hudson River (near Kingston) and the Delaware River (near Port Jervis, N.Y.). Cornelius and his family, including Johannes, moved down the 'old mine trail' to the fertile Delaware Valley and settled, prior to 1734, in Pike Co., PA.. They lived on a tract of land known as 'Theesacht' or Rosetown (3). This land is located between Matamoras, PA and Milford, PA near Rt. 84, and the intersection of Rt. 6 with Rosetown Road.
From: "Van Etten Van Atta Files":
The origin of the Kuykendall name is Dutch. Genealogists such as Dr. George Benson Kuykendall, author of "History of the Kuykendall Family" (1919), have traced the name to an area near Wageningen overlooking the Rhine river.
Drawing from sources such as the Archives of the State of New York, the Holland Society, and records from 17th century Holland, Dr. Kuykendall explains that the name Kuykendall was not used as a surname in the modern sense until our Dutch ancestors had been in this country over fifty years. During the 17th century in Holland, only people of great prominence or social position used the family name as we do today; instead, they preferred the father's given name with the suffix "sen" attached. For example, our ancestor who immigrated from Holland to Fort Orange, New York, was called Jacob Luursen because his father was named Luur. Consequently, the name of Jacob's son was written as Luur Jacobsen in Dutch Reform Church records in 1650.
When he arrived in the New World in 1640, Jacob signed his full name as Jacob Luursen Van Wageningen, the word "van" meaning "from", thus establishing that he was from Wageningen, Holland, although some genealogists believe he was actually born in Land Van Kuyk, a county about 12 miles south of Wageningen. This area, probably known at the time as Kijk-in-t-dal, lies on a high bank above the Rhine river and it said to have a beautiful view of the Rhine valley. "Kijk" is an old Dutch word for "view" and it is pronounced as if it were spelled "Kuyk" or Kike." Mr. Van Laar, a New York State Archivist in 1919, maintained that in in the Dutch dialect of the Wageningen area, "Kijkinstdal" may have been spelled "Kuykendall" or Kuukendal." Other genealogists familiar with Dutch names support this view.
Of Aachen, Rhineland, Preuben, Germany
Probably died in Germany
Aart Pietersen Tack was divorced by Annetje Arians Van Amsterdam on Aug 21, 1664. According to Eva Alice Scott, "on August 14, 1661, Aart Pietersen Tack and Annetje Adriensen had a son baptized, naming him Cornelis. In August (day of month is torn away), 1663, Aart Pietersen Tack and Grietjen Vooght had a daughter baptized, naming her Grietjen. The witnesses were Jacobus Jansen and Barber Andries. (Hoos Bapt#26). These two records...would seem to shed some light on the question of what became of Aart Pietersen Tack, whose property was sold, apparently in his absence, and whose wife, Annetje Arians, is said, in the record of her marriage to Jacob Jansen, to have been deserted by him. Jacob Jansen, one of the witnesses at the second baptism, would seem to be none other than Jacob Jansen De Lange, i.e. Jacob Jansen van Etten." This passage appears as footnote on page xii and xiii of EAS, Introductory to "Jacobus Jansen Van Etten".
From: "Jacob Jansen Van Etten" by Robert B. Van Atta, we receive the following analysis:
"The nature of her first husband Aert Pietersen Tack's difficulty emerges through a sequence of court cases beginning in 1662. There were several problems with employees over wages, and that November he mortgaged the grain crop to be harvested the following year. Tack apparently left before the fall of 1663, either as the result of the Indian raid or under cover of it. His wife harvested the grain and was enjoined by creditors from using the harvest (except that which the court ordered her paid for her work in harvesting).
In May 1664, further evidence of Tack's indebtedness, in this case for cattle, appeared. In July, the court took steps to condemn Tack's property for his absenting himself and to sell it to satisfy a list of creditors. In October of 1664, Jacob Jansen VanEtten, a farmhand of Tack, sued for wages due him. The following month, Jacob himself was sued to collect a debt of wheat which he admitted but explained that he couldn't pay due to being sick with fever. He was granted time until the Tack estate was settled, when he presumably could collect wages due him".
Of Kingston, Ulster, NY
Jacob married [1] Adrientje Tietsoort. They had one child, Margrita. Wife, Adriaentje died shortly after child was born.
Jacob married [2] Zara Westvaal (Sara Westfall). Ten children are listed. Of these we have record in Hoes Baptisms of five.