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Christopher Janse Abeel

Also Known As: "Stoffel"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands
Death: 1684 (62-63)
Beverwyck, Albany County, New York, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Jan Abeel and N.N. Roose
Husband of Neeltje Janse Abeel
Father of Magdalena Beekman; Maria Duycking; Hon. Johannes Abeel and Elisabeth Bancker

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Christopher Janse Abeel

Christopher Janse Abeel, the progenitor of this family in America, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1621. Both his father and mother fell victims to the great plague which scourged all Europe in 1633, when he was twelve years of age. Soon after his mother was taken ill, she sent for a trustworthy neighbor and friend, and placed in her keeping all the ready money she had with instructions to keep it until the lad should become of age. He was placed in charge of the master of an orphanage, and grew to manhood well equipped for the duties of life, having been taught in the meantime the trade of a carpenter.

On reaching his majority, the faithful friend, true to her trust, delivered to him the principal with the accumulated interest, and with this little fortune he purchased a stock of hardware and started for America, settling in Beaverwick, now Albany, about 1647. His name first appears on the records of the town in the conveyance of a piece of property, April 23, 1652. In 1665, as a master builder, he erected the First Reformed Dutch Church, which took the place of the crude log house in which the first settlers worshiped. Two years after this Abeel was elected deacon of the church, and a vote of thanks was tendered him for faithful service as treasurer of the poor fund. In 1665 he made a voyage to Holland to receive a legacy from a deceased great uncle. Passport was made in the name of the Honorable Stoffel Jans Abeel. He was a magistrate of Albany and filled other important positions, and in ordinary documents, as was the custom, he omitted the surname, but to all important legal documents he attached the full name.

He died in 1684.

He married Nov. 22, 1660, Neiltje Jans Croom (or Kroom), a native of Holland.

They had issue:

  • Magdelena, married Gerardus Beekman;
  • Marie, born 1666; married Garret Duyckinck;
  • Johannes born 1667;
  • Elizabeth, born probably 1670; married Evert Bancker.

Abstract of will

4 Dec 1678 - 6 Sep - ABEEL, Stoffel Jansen, of New Albany, and wife Neeltje. Children Magdalena, 17 years old and married, Maria, 14 years, Johannes, 11 years, and Elizabeth. Real and personal estate. Executors and guardians the survivor with brothers-in-law Teunis Cornelissen van der Poel and Adriaen Gerritsen Papendorp. Witnesses Jan Verbeeck, Leendert Philippsen and Adriaen van Ilpendam, Notary Public. Albany Co. Records, Court Minutes, 1680-5, p. 169. Calendar of NJ Wills page 12 [2]

===References===

  • Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan ... By William Benford Aitken. Page 53 GoogleBooks
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Christopher Janse Abeel's Timeline

1621
1621
Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands
1623
1623
Age 2
Noord-Holland, Netherlands
1650
1650
Age 29
1662
1662
Beverwijk, Nieuw-Nederland
1664
1664
Albany, Albany County, New York, Colonial America
1667
March 23, 1667
Albany, Albany County, Province of New York
1671
March 1671
1684
1684
Age 63
Beverwyck, Albany County, New York, Colonial America