Michiel Bastiaensen van Kortryk

New Amsterdam - Immigrants

Michiel Bastiansen Van Kortryk (son of Bastian Van Kortryk)321 was born 1620 in Leerdam, Holland, and died date unknown. He married unknown on Bef. 1653 in Schoonrewoerd, Holland.

Includes NotesNotes for Michiel Bastiansen Van Kortryk:

Also known as Chiel Kortright, Michiel Bastiansen Van Kortryk resided

several years at Harlem, NY, and leased a farm in 1669 from John Archer

at Fordham. In 1675 he leased the farm of the widow Tourneur from Jochim

Pieters and Van Keulens Hook. In 1677 he moved to land at Spuyten Duyvel

on Manhatten Island.

More About Michiel Bastiansen Van Kortryk:

Immigration: April 16, 1663, Leerdam, Holland.

More About Michiel Bastiansen Van Kortryk and unknown:

Marriage: Bef. 1653, Schoonrewoerd, Holland.

Children of Michiel Bastiansen Van Kortryk and unknown are:

  1. Reyer Michielszen Van Kortryk, b. 1654, Schoonrewooerd, Gelderland, Holland, d. date unknown.

  2. Metje Michielszen Van Kortryk, b. 1655 in Schoonrewooerd, Gelderland, Holland, d. date unknown.

  3. Annetje Michielszen Van Kortryk, b. Abt. 1658, Schoonrewooerd, Gelderland, Holland, d. date unknown.

  4. Bastien Michielszen Kortright, b. 1662, Schoonrewooerd, Gelderland, Holland, d. date unknown.

  5. Aefie Michielszen Van Kortryk, b. 1665, Harlem, NY, d. date unknown.

Note: Michiel had a son-in-law named Hendrick Kiersen.

Notes:

Michiel Bastiaensen, who came in 1663, with his wife and children, the first four born in the town of Schoonrewoerd, in Gelderland, Holland, lived several years at Harlem, but on May 1st, 1669, leased a farm from John Archer, at Fordham, for five years, and on Jan. 1st, 1675, with his son-in-law, Hendrick Kiersen, hired from the widow Tourneur her farm upon Jochim Pieters and Van Keulens Hook, with house, barn, orchard,

meadows, stock and tools, for three years from May 1st, ensuing.

On Oct. 26th, 1677, they leased 74 acres of land at Spuyten Duyvel

from Jan Dyckman and Jan Nagel, for a term of twelve years, agree-

ing to pay each a hen for the first seven years, 150 guilders for the next

three years, and for the last two years, 200 guilders.

This was the first successful effort to make improvements in that

section of Manhattan Island, on which there was not another white man's

hearthstone north of Harlem village.

In October 1673, he was elected a magistrate at Fordham, and was

on the roll of the Night Watch at Harlem, as well as being identified

with the Dutch church there.

His children were Reyer, born 1653 ; Metje, 1655, married Hendrick

Kiersen; Annetie, 1658, married John Odell (ancestor of the Fordham

Odells) ; Bastiaen, 1662; and Aefie, 1665, born in New York, who mar-

ried Jacques Tourneur.

Jan Bastiansen embarked with his brother, Michiel, and their respective

families 16 April 1663 in the ship "DeBonte Koe" (the Spotted Cow), Jan

Bergen, master. Each adult was charged 39 florins, children under ten,

except infants, half price.

(brothers) Jan and Michiel emigrated to New Amsterdam with their respective wives and children on the "De Bonte Koe" boat in April 1663.

from The Cortright Family by Abbott:

“ Kortryk was a Flemish town yet farther down the Lys, which within the previous century had witnessed cruel persecutions, and during the existing war (how great its calamities) had changed hands four times in five years. But one of its families had escaped these last troubles by leaving some years before ; we refer to the ancestors of the Kortright(or Courtright) family, in its day, one of the most wealthy inlanded possessions in Harlem, now part of New York City. The large emigration to New Netherland from the exposed borders nearest the Spanish possessions, and especially the insular district having on the south the river Waal, and on the north the Rhine and Leek,furnished Harlem with several substantial families. Central of the district mentioned, upon the small river Linge, which empties into the Waal, stood the city of Leerdam, giving name to acountry in which it was situated, a level, grazing country, otherwise called the Prince's land, because inherited by a son of William of Orange. To Leerdam had retired the family of Sebastian, or Bastian Van Kortryk, about all we know of this Kortright progenitor with his royal Spanish name.

Two sons of Bastian, of whom we must speak, Jan and Michiel, were born at Leerdam; but the first married and settled some further up the Linge, at a busy little village within sight of Wolfswaert Castle, as also of the ruined abbey of Marienwaert and called Beest, its bailiwick of the same name joining westerly to the Prince's land, but within the Gelderland border. Michiel, or as often called, 'Chiel Kortright, the other son of Bastian, had also married and been living in the Prince's land, near Schoonrewoerd, a pretty village two miles northerly from Leerdam.

The spirit of emigration reaching this locality, many of its people began to pack up and leave for New Netherland, in which they had a safe precedent in no less a personage than the village pedagogue, much reverenced was he and looked up to in those days, good Master Gideon Schaets, who had gone thither in 1652, to preach the Gospel and fill the office of schoolmaster for young and old. Every bit of news wafted home from time to time in friendly letters served to quicken interest in the new country which had caused so many vacant tenements and broken families about Beest and Schoonrewoerd. Yet 'Chiel Bastiaensen tarried some years at Schoonrewoerd, till blessed with three or four children, when he, and his elder brother, Jan Bastiaensen, whose three sons, born at Beest, his humble home in a bend of the Linge, were fast approaching manhood, yielded to the flattering offers held out by the colonists, and agreed to leave for that distant land.

Proceeding to Amsterdam, they all embarked April 16th, 1663, in the ship Bonte-koe (Brindle or Spotted Cow), Jan Bergen, Master, in which ship there also sailed several French refugees from Mannheim, in the Palatinate. Men, women and children, there were ninety odd passengers, the French composing a third. Each adult was charged 39 florins, children under ten, half price, and it cost Jan Bastiaensen (Kortright) for himself, wife and family, 204 florins, 10 stivers. The Bastiaensen brothers, upon their arrival, first went to Stuyvesant's Bowery, though they soon after came to Harlem. Jan Bastiaensen, (born 1618) as we have seen, came to this country from the County of Leerdam, or the Prince's land, in South Holland,in 1663, accompanied by his brother, Michiel Bastiaensen, (born 1620), both of whom afterwards lived in Harlem.

Jan was the "Kortryck" who owned a Bouwery on Staten Island in 1674. (N. Y. Col. Mss., XXIII, 403). He spent part of his time at Harlem, but is last mentioned there Jan. 8th, 1677, when he is witness to a power of attorney, given by his old Schoonrewoerd friend, Jan Louwe Bogert. His children were Cornelius, born 1645, Hendrick, 1648, Laurens,1651, and Belitie, 1659, who was, as were the others, "uit Holland" and who married, December 8th, 1678, Jacob Jansen Decker, of Esopus, with her brother Hendrick had gone to live. Michiel Bastiaensen, who came in 1663, with his wife and children, the first four born in the town of Schoonrewoerd, in Gelderland, Holland, lived several years at Harlem, but on May 1st, 1669, leased a farm from John Archer, at Fordham, for five years, and on Jan. 1st, 1675, with his son-in-law, Hendrick Kiersen, hired from the widow Tourneur her farm upon Jochim Pieters and Van Keulens Hook, with house, barn, orchard, meadows, stock and tools, for three years from May 1st, ensuing. On Oct. 26th, 1677, they leased 74 acres of land at Spuyten Duyvel from Jan Dyckman and Jan Nagel, for a term of twelve years, agreeing to pay each a hen for the first seven years, 150 guilders for the next three years, and for the last two years, 200 guilders. This was the first successful effort to make improvements in that section of Manhattan Island, on which there was not another white man's hearthstone north of Harlem village. In October 1673, he was elected a magistrate at Fordham, and was on the roll of the Night Watch at Harlem, as well as being identified with the Dutch church there. His children were Reyer, born 1653 ; Metje, 1655, married Hendrick Kiersen; Annetie, 1658, married John Odell (ancestor of the Fordham Odells); Bastiaen,1662; and Aefie,1665, born in New York, who married Jacques Tourneur. Michiel Bastiaensen (Van Kortryk), born ca. 1620, at Leerdam, married and removed to the village of Schoonrewoert, not far from Leerdam, where his children, Reyer, Metje, Annetie and Bastiaen were born, his fifth child, Aefie, born in Harlem. They all came in the Spotted Cow in 1663, with Jan Bastiaensen and his family, and soon came to Harlem, later making their home at Fordham. [1]

Footnotes

↑ The Courtright (Kortright) family : descendants of Bastian Van Kortryk, a native of Belgium who emigrated to Holland about 1615, p. 25 ↑ Source: #S35; Ancestry Family Trees, Text: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/8289550/person/173... Note: #N127 Source: #S40 Page: Database online. Text: Record for Michiel Bastian VanKortryk ↑ The Courtright (Kortright) Family, page 25. ↑ #S40 Database online. Record for Michiel Bastian VanKortryk. ↑ Source: #S40 Database online. Record for Bastiaen Van Kortryk ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record: ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record Mar 28,1689. ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record: 1683 17 Jun; ↑ The Spotted Cow (Brindled Cow) (Bontekoe) ↑ DE BONTE KOE (The Spotted Cow) ↑ Source: #S40 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Michiel Bastian VanKortryk ↑ James Riker. Revised History of Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or Notices of Its Founders before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles... New York: New Harlem Pub., 1904. 205.

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