Cornelis Vanderveer, of Flatbush

In his article on the Vanderveers, Mr. Lester Dunbar Mapes [Genealogies of Long Island Families (Hoff), II:636–hereafter GLIF], refers to the will of Jan Vanderveer, dated 7 October 1776, proved 8 April 1782, and the mention of his daughter, Femmetje, baptized 10 April 1737, Flatbush, "wife of Guiliam Cornell." This abstract mentions no grandchildren and Mr. Mapes does not further identify this Guiliam Cornell. However, from Pelletreau [Fams of Hist Lineage], we have a birth date for Femmetje Vanderveer of 4 April 1737 and a death date of 26 February 1808. Pelletreau further states that she married (1) William Wyckoff and (2) Gilliam Cornell. The Alice Meigs Collection of the Jamaica Public Library provides the baptismal record of one child born to Gilliam Cornell and Femmetje Vanderveer: Margarietje Cornell, baptized 20 August 1769 at the Newtown Reformed Dutch Church, Queens, Long Island, named for her grandmother Margarietje Strycker.

Biography

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Cornelius Vanderveer1,2

• b. 11 January 1697, d. 22 January 1782
• Father*: Jan Corneliszen Vanderveer3 b. bt 1670 - 1675
• Mother*: Femmitje Bergen3 b. bt 1669 - 1679
• Cornelius Vanderveer was born on 11 January 1697 (calculated from age at death).1
• Another source says Cornelius Vanderveer was born on 22 January 1696/97.1
• He married Jannetje Wyckoff, daughter of Garret Pietersen Wyckoff and Sarah Catharina Nevius, on 25 April 1722.4,1
• Cornelius Vanderveer died on 22 January 1782; "aged 85 years, 11 days."1
• He was buried at Flatbush, Kings Co., Long Island, New York.1
• Also known as de Vier.5
• Also known as Cornelis Van De Vere.6
• Also known as Cornelius Vanderveer.7,8
• Erroneously called Cornelius Aertse Vanderbilt.7,9
• Surname is also spelled Van Der Veer.1
• Between 1723 and 1732 Cornelius Vanderveer and Jannetje Wyckoff resided at Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.1
• Cornelius Vanderveer was a member of the at Reformed Dutch Congregations, Freehold and Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, on 23 August 1731 "at Friholt" (Freehold).10
• In 1735 Cornelius Vanderveer and Jannetje Wyckoff resided at Kings Co., Long Island, New York.1
• His will was dated on 7 June 1775 proved 8 Apr 1782, called Cornelius Vanderveer of Flatbush.11

Family: Jannetje Wyckoff b. 1 Jan 1701, d. 31 Oct 1774

1. Catrina Vanderveer1
2. Jan Vanderveer1
3. Garret Vanderveer1
4. Cornelius Vanderveer1
5. Peter Vanderveer1

Citations

1. [S1868] Lester Dunbar Mapes, "Early Generations of the Vanderveer Family", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.68 (1937): 68:209. Hereinafter cited as "Vanderveer, NYGBR 68 (1937)."
2. [S1612] William Forman Wyckoff, Wyckoff Family in America: A Genealogy (Summit, N.J.: Wyckoff Association in America, 1950), p.419. Hereinafter cited as Wyckoff Family in America.
3. [S1868] Lester Dunbar Mapes, "Early Generations of the Vanderveer Family", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.68 (1937): 68:206. Hereinafter cited as "Vanderveer, NYGBR 68 (1937)."
4. [S1868] Lester Dunbar Mapes, "Early Generations of the Vanderveer Family", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.68 (1937): 68:205. Hereinafter cited as "Vanderveer, NYGBR 68 (1937)."
5. [S1998] "Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 22-38 (1947-1963): 22:88. Date: 21 Apr 1723; A daughter; parents: (blank, the names Hendrick and Cornelius both written here but crossed off) de Vier; no witnesses recorded. Hereinafter cited as "RDC Freehold-Middletown Recs., GMNJ."
6. [S1998] "Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 22-38 (1947-1963): 23:11. A child; parents: Cornelis Van De Vere, (blank) Wiikof; no witnesses recorded. Hereinafter cited as "RDC Freehold-Middletown Recs., GMNJ."
7. [S4932] Frederick Doren Stone, Laura M. Stone and Harry Macy Jr., "Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt, His Children and Grandchildren", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 144, no. 4; Vol. 145, no. 1 (2013, 2014): page 256. Corrects the identifcation of the husband of Jannetje Wyckoff from Cornelis Vanderbilt (as originally claimed by T. G. Bergen) to Cornelis Vanderveer. Hereinafter cited as "Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt."
8. [S1612] William Forman Wyckoff, Wyckoff Family in America: A Genealogy (Summit, N.J.: Wyckoff Association in America, 1950), p.17. Identifies Jannetje Wyckoff's husband as Cornelius Vanderveer. Hereinafter cited as Wyckoff Family in America.
9. [S1409] Teunis G. Bergen, Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island (New York: S.W. Green's Sons, 1881), page 319. Incorrectly identifies Cornelis as a son of Aris Vanderbilt. See NYGBR 144 (2013):256 for correction. Hereinafter cited as Kings Co.. Https://archive.org/details/registerinalphab00berg.
10. [S1998] "Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown", Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 22-38 (1947-1963): 23:93; 24:20, "Church Members." This list, begun at 23:93, is continued at 24:19 with the explanation that the list is "actually a group pf signatures (many of them not holograph, however) to the declaration below, which it does indeed follow in the original record book." Those signing the declaration were 1-Acknowledging Dom. G. Haeghoort as their legal regular pastor and teacher, according to the constitution of the Low Dutch Reformed Church. 2- That they will display and conduct themselves willingly in all respects as members of the Reformed Low Dutch congregation at Friholt and Middletown under the supervision of their pastor Do. Haeghoort. 3- That they will contribute freely from time to time according to their means, whatever is needed to carry on the church and services. In effect, those signing the declaration could be described as Members of the Low Dutch Reformed Congregations of Freehold and Middletown. The first couple of dozen or so names appear at 23:93, 94, as "Church Members," and then are repeated at 24:20 with the above clarification.. Hereinafter cited as "RDC Freehold-Middletown Recs., GMNJ."
11. [S1868] Lester Dunbar Mapes, "Early Generations of the Vanderveer Family", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.68 (1937): 68:210. Hereinafter cited as "Vanderveer, NYGBR 68 (1937)."

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Not the son of Aris Janse Vanderbilt & Hillitje Hillegonde Vanderbilt

Origins

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(1) Frederick Doren Stone, Laura M. Stone and Harry Macy Jr.,"Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt, His Children and Grandchildren," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 144, No. 4 (Oct. 2013), pp. 245-260, Vol. 145, No. 1 (Jan. 2014), pp. 65-75:

The Vanderbilt name has often appeared in print, but mostly in connection with Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and his descendants. The rest of this large family has received much less attention. The first brief attempts at a genealogy of the early generations were made by Teunis G. Bergen in his Bergen Family and Early Settlers of Kings County, providing a basis for subsequent accounts. Most notably, in 1991 Jean MacNeish Rand published Some Descendants of Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt, starting with Bergen's genealogy and tracing the later generations except for the Commodore's family.

Bergen made a number of errors in reconstructing the family, most of which have never been corrected. While he mentioned some of his sources, his work is largely undocumented. Rand did list her sources, but rarely connected them to specific data. Both authors also omitted many relevant records, which were not as accessible as they are today.

The present article covers the life of the American founder, Jan Aertsen, his children, and his Vanderbilt grandchildren. It references the relevant records that have been found and corrects errors in prior accounts of the first three generations.

As explained below, when Jan Aertsen first came to New Netheriand he appears to have gone by van Utrecht, after his native province, but later became known as van de Bilt, presumably after his native town. In the area where he lived for many years (which later was part of Kings County) there were two other Jan Aertsens, one with the surname Middagh and another who did not adopt a surname. As Middagh and Vanderbilt were sometimes recorded as simply Jan Aertsen, this can present a problem to the researcher, but every attempt has been made to distinguish those records that pertain to Vanderbilt, who fortunately was often recorded with his adopted surname or signed documents with his distinctive windowpane mark. . . .

ARIS JANSEN VANDERBILT . . . was baptized in New Amsterdam 20 April 1653, witnessed by Albert Janszen, CornelIs Janszen Coely, Lysbeth Thysens, and Belitje Cornelis. His death date is not known, but he was alive in Flatbush in 1720. He married in Amersfort (Flatlands) 21 October 1677 HILLEGONDE/HILLITJE REMSEN, born in Beverwijck (Albany) 16 September 1653, death date not known, daughter of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck and Jannetje Rappelje of the Wallabout, Brooklyn. She was a sister of Rem Remsen, who married Aris's sister Marretje.

In their accounts of Aris's family, Teunis Bergen and Jean Rand each listed eleven children, but both accounts are incorrect. In addition to being unaware of Aris's youngest child Catalyntje, Bergen and Rand misidentified three other alleged children. Hendrick was actually a grandson (son of Jan). Two others, Cornelis and Catharine, were Vanderveers rather than Vanderbilts:

• The alleged son Cornelis was said to be born 11 January 1697, died 22 January 1782, married Jannetje Wyckoff, and had a daughter Cornelia baptized in Somerville, New Jersey, 15 October 1738. Rand omitted the daughter, whose alleged baptism cannot be found, but she indicated (without citing a source) that the only Jannetje Wyckoff of that generation was said to have married a Cornelis Vanderveer. In fact, a 1937 RECORD article on the Vanderveer family shows a Cornelis Vanderveer of Flatbush who married Jannetje Wyckoff and died 22 January 1782, aged 85 years, 11 days, giving him a calculated birth date of 11 January 1697 - the exact birth and death dates that Bergen gave for Cornelis "Vanderbilt." In his account of the Vanderveers, Bergen omitted this Cornelis, presumably because he had mistakenly made him a Vanderbilt. There is no evidence that Aris Vanderbilt had such a son.

Bergen gave Aris a supposed daughter Catharine, born 1 March 1713, who married Jacobus Lefferts. Rand noted that in 1713 Aris's wife Hillitje would have been 60, so she suggested that Catharine might have been an "unknown grandchild or adoptee of Aris." The 1937 RECORD article noted above shows that Cornelis and Jannetje (Wyckoff) Vanderveer had a daughter Catharina, born 21 March 1723, who married Jacobus Lefferts. She was buried in Flatbush near her parents as "Catharina VanderVeer Huysvrouw van Jacob Lefferts." Despite the difference in birth dates, this is almost certainly the Catharine mentioned by Bergen. In his Genealogy of the Lefferts Family, on page 51, he has Jacobus Lefferts marrying Catharine Vanderveer, but on page 88 he calls the same Jacobus's wife Catharine Vanderbilt. There is no evidence of a Jacobus Lefferts who married a Catharine Vanderbilt in this time period, or that Aris Vanderbilt had a daughter by that name.

References

1. https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/l/a/c/Ellsworth-J-La-coste-/BOOK-0001... “ Children of Aris Vanderbilt and Hilletje Van der Beeck are: 17 x. Cornelius Aertse Vanderbilt, born 1697 in Brooklyn, New York; died 1782 in New York.He married Jennetye Wyckoff.”