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Anna Cathryn Golden / Smit ((Smit))

Dutch: Anna Catharijn .
Also Known As: "Catharyn Goulding", "Goulder", "Ann Catharyn Willekens"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: New City, Rockland, New York, United States
Death: November 25, 1672 (48-49)
Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA
Place of Burial: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Capt. Claes Claeszen Smit and Geertruyd Willekens
Wife of William Goulding or Golden, Sr. and Severt Smit
Mother of William Goulding; Joseph Goulder or Goulding , Sr.; Isaac Goulder; Hester Goulder; Jacob Goulden and 6 others
Sister of Neeltje Claessen Smit; Ellinor Claes Smit; Neeltje Claes Klass and Hendrick Claessen Smit
Half sister of Jochem Gulick

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About Anna Catharyn Smith

Church records

1644 Jun 04 Welem Gelder, en Anna Catharijn. [2]


Anna's son Joseph was born in 1654 in New Amsterdam Anna Catharyn b. between 1615 and 1625


Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.12.

Married 1st Smith. Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 40:82.

Child by Mr. Smith:

  1. John Smith2 b. before 1644 Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.12.

Married William Goulding at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, on 4 June 1644. Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.12.

"In court proceedings, Feb. 7, 1647, Huyck Aertsen vs. William Goulder, wherin for purchase of a house and plantation, with corn, and that Goulder's wife received the corn; also that he had asked her, when she lost her husband, Smith, whether she held to the bargain, which she took amiss." (NYDCM p.107). Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 40:82.

More about her husband William Goulding:

Born between 1610 and 1620, d. before 30 June 1682 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, online at www.americanancestors.org, 1995), Sketch of Thomas Applegate.

Genealogical Society of New Jersey, Genealogies of New Jersey Families, From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (2 Vols.) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Richard W. Cook, "The Golder Family," 1:236.

H. Clifford Campion Jr., "William Golding (Gelder, Golden, Goulding) of Cape May County", Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy Vol. 2, page 239 (1944).

According to William H. Stillwell's "History of Gravesend" (p.37), William Goulding was born in Ireland about 1613, embarked from London, August 2, 1635 in the George for Virginia and was probably one of George Holmes' party which tried to put a settlement on the Delaware River; was captured by the Dutch and brought to New Amsterdam. Campion says a William Golding was a taxpayer in the Barbadoes and may have been the same person later in Gravesend. Salter in History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties says it is supposed that William Goulding was one of Lady Deborah Moody's friends who left Massacusetts on account of Puritan persecution. What is known is that William Goulder signed a certificate of election in 1643 at New Amsterdam (NYCHD Vol. 1, Holland Doc. III, p.192).

Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 29:49. "History of Gravesend" (Mss., Long Island Historical Society).

On 15 Sep 1646, appearing before Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, were Mr. Govert Loockmans and Dirck Cornelissen, of Wensveen, having power of attorney from their co-partners in Holland, who declared that they sold to Willem Goulder a parcel of land situated on the island of Manhatans, on the East River, bounded to the westward by Mr. Allerton and Philip de Truy; extending from the height next to the strand along said Allerton's and de Truy's land in length twenty-eight rods to the cripplebush; in breadth along the cripplebush eighteen rods, one foot, thence toward the height by the strand in length thirty rods along the land og Loockmans and associates; and in breadth along the strand on the height eighteen rods, one foot; which parcel of land contains in all five hundred and twenty-four rods, five feet, for which Willem Goulder shall pay to the vendors the sum of two hundred guilders in three installments... Signed by Govert Loockermans, the mark of Dirck Cornelissen and signed Will. Goulder. Witnesses: Jacob Hendricksz Kip and Adriaen van Tienhoven.

Arnold J.F. Van Laer, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647, New York Historical Manuscripts, Vol. 2 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974), page 325-6, 148f.

On 14 March 1649 Ambrose London conveyed to William Goulding a plantation in Gravesend, Long Island. Douglas Richardson, "Major Ambrose London of New York, Virginia and Maryland", The American Genealogist Vol. 58, p. 160 (1982): 58:161.

In 1654 John Bowne sold land in Gravesend, Long Island to William Goulding, which had been bought of Richard Gibbons. John E. Stillwell Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants, Vol. 3 (New York: n.pub., 1914), page 32. Bowne of Monmouth County.

In 1656 William Goulding resided at Gravesend, Long Island. Robert Charles Anderson.Great Migration.org A Survey of New England:1620-1640, online

Sketches of emigrant ancestors., Stetch of Thomas Applegate. Benjamin Franklin Thompson, The History of Long Island From Its Discovery to the Present Time (Two Vols.) (New York: Gould Banks & Co., 1843), 2:177.

William Goulding of Gravesend owed Nicholas de Mayer of New Amsterdam for a debt of his son-in-law, John Appelgald, which he agreed to pay 17 June 1662. Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 40:82.

On 17 Oct 1664, William Golding, James Grover and John Bowne were granted a warrant to purchase land near the mouth of the Raritan from the Nevesink Indians.

Peter R. Christoph and Florence A. Christoph, Books of General Entries of the Colony of New York, 1664-1673, New York Historical Manuscripts, English (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982), page 53. "Lands lyeing and being on the maine extending from Changororissa neare the mouth of the Raritans River, unto Poutopecke...".

By a deed dated 20 March 1649, William Goulder bought land in Gravesend. He was town clerk at Gravesend ca. 1666, signing as "Will Goulding-Clarke." On 5 May 1652, Ann Goulder, wife of William Goulder, was a defendant in an action of defamation. She was found guilty and warned but was again accused on 13 Sept. 1652. This time she was ordered that "Ann shall sitt in ye Irons halfe one hower & after bee taken out & stand in a publicke place with a pap one her breast w her hands bound behinde her..."

Deeds dated 12 Jan 1660 and 13 Feb 1660 for land in Gravesend were signed by Will Goulder alias Goulding. On 20 march 1665, John Smithe of Gravesend conveyed land known as No. 35 to his father-in-law William Goulder alias Goulding. Will Goulding reconveyed this land on 21 March 1666/67. On 15 June 1669, will Goulding, Clarke, attested to a conveyance which had been witnessed by Joseph Goulding, his marke.

William Goulding was one of twelve men to whom the Monmouth patent was granted in 1665. In the original division of town lots in Middletown, 1667, he was given Lot 25, and also outlands. He sold his town lot and meadows to Richard Hartshorne by deed dated 23 April 1670, recorded 25 Nov. 1672. He is called Will Golding in the records of Freehold, N.J.

Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 29:50.

William Goulding died before 30 June 1682; when Ralph Cardall petitioned for an appeal from a judgment in favor of William Goulding's estate (NYCEM p.100).

Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 40:82.

Children by William:

  1. Isaac Gooding d. b 1716
  2. Margaret Goulder b. 2 Apr 1646
  3. Avis Goulding b. before 1647, d. 3 Feb 1716/17
  4. William Goulding b. between 1650 and 1660, d. between Jan 1712 and Jun 1712
  5. Hester Goulding b. between 1650 and 1660
  6. Joseph Goulder b. ca. 1654, d. between 16 Feb 1684 and 1 Apr 1684
  7. Nicholas Goulding b. between 1655 and 1665
  8. Jacob Gouldt b. between 1655 and 1665
  9. Richard W. Cook, "The Goulder Family", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 29, 30, 40 (1954, 1955, Ammended 1965): 29:51.

"Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:87.

Robert Charles Anderson.Great Migration.org A Survey of New England:1620-1640, online Great Migration. Sketches of emigrant ancestors., Stetch of Thomas Applegate.

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.

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Anna Catharyn Smith's Timeline

1623
1623
New City, Rockland, New York, United States
1640
1640
Hertfordshire, England
1646
April 2, 1646
New Amsterdam, Kings County, New York, USA
April 2, 1646
New Amsterdam, Kings, New York, USA
1652
June 1, 1652
Gravesend, Kings County, New York, USA
June 1, 1652
Gravesend, Kings, New York, USA
1654
March 21, 1654
New York, United States
1654
1656
1656
Gravesend, Kings, New York Colony
1660
1660
Gravesend, Kings, New York, USA