Evert Evertszen Pels

Baptism

In the paperwork of their wedding Evert is recorded as being 25 years old from Statijn. This is interpreted as making his birth 1616 in Stettin, Pomerania (modern day Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland).

Marriage

Jannetjen and Evert Evertsz Pels registered their intent to marry (banns) in Amsterdam November 31, 1641.

Jannetjen and Evert Evertsz Pels married in Amsterdam December 15, 1641.

Emigration

In 1642, Evert Evertsz Pels and his wife left Amsterdam for the Colony of Rensselaerwyck in New Netherland by the ship De Houttuyn, where Evert is listed as a beer brewer and apparently a freeman.

Children

1. Annetje (Everts) Van Ness, c. 1646 Renselaerwyck
2. Evert Evertsen Pels, c. 1648 Papscanee Island
3. Claartje Pels, 1651 New Amsterdam
4. Maria Evertse (Pels) Roosa, c. 1655 Greenbrush,
5. Lysbeth Evertsen Pels, c. 1657 Greenbrush,
6. Sara Evertsen Pels, c. 1659 Greenbrush,
7. Rebecca Evertsen (Pels) Barheit 1661 Esopus
8. Symon (Simon) Evertsz Pels 1665 Esopus

Death

Evert died on June 29, 1686 in Kingston, Ulster, New York.

links

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142599070/evert-evertsen-pels

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At the time of his marriage, Evert was a sailor. In 1642, Evert and Jannetje left for the Colony of Rensselaerwyck in New Netherland by the ship De Houttuyn, where Evert is listed as a beer brewer and apparently a freeman. Evert served this colony in this capacity as a brewer. In 1643, a Wolphert Nys bound himself for two years as a servant to the Pels family. In 1649, Evert bought property on the island of Manhattan and , in 1651, leased a farm on the North River. On 28 Nov 1651 and 21 May 1652, he was among those who took an oath of fidelity to the Patroon, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer. Evert is found in the records as the owner or skipper of a yacht. Evert freed Jannetje’s sister Marritje from her indenture (see information on the Jacob Barentsen Cool family) 19 February 1659. In 1678, it was written that Evert had also once lived on the Mill Creek in Greenbush. [2]

• Evert Pels, from Stettin, Pomerania, his wife and a servant came from Amsterdam, Holland, to the colony of Rensselaerswyck in 1642. While still in Amsterdam, on June 5, 1642, he was engaged as a brewer for the term of six years, they were to travel to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck to work the Patroon, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, [who remained in Holland but had engaged others to administer the Colony for him and his partners, who formed a Board of Directors for the Colony.] Evert Pels and his wife came on the ship Den Houten. and landed in New Amsterdam, now New York City. They then went up the Hudson River to Beaverwyck, now Albany, New York. *
• Evert Pels was a freeman. He paid his own way to the Colony and was therefore not indentured to the patroon for a number of years as were those who bound them selves as servants to the patroon for a number of years in exchange for passage to the Colony. The document, dated June 3, 1642, that gives the details of Evert Pels emigration does not give the name of his wife, Jannetje Symons., but we now know that she is the wife who came with him from Amsterdam. Nor does the memo give the name of the servant who came with them. Evert Pels was a very enterprising man.
• After his 6 year contract as a brewer was finished; on Feb. 28, 1648, he leased a farm on Papscanee Island for six years, at f560 a year, but after building a new house and barns, he transferred the lease Jan 14, 1649, to Juriaen Bestvall and Jochem Kettelheym. [Both of whom had come to the New Netherlands on the same ship as Evert These were two men who had come to the colony by contracting with the patroon to work for 6 years as laborers.
• Their time was now served and they were able to lease a farm and work for themselves.] Evert Pels turned the farm over to them on March 25, 1649. Nov. 18,1649, he leased jointly with Willem Fredericksz (Bout),a farm in Greenbush, for which he is charged in the accounts with an annual rent of f400, from May 1, 1649 until 1661 when he moved to the Esopus; the same day they also leased the saw-and grist-mill in Greenbush, for which he is charged with an annual rent of f125, from May 1, 1649, till May 1, 1658. He also owned a sloop on the river and a lot on Broadway in Manhattan, which he sold in 1656. In 1657 he sent down to New Amsterdam 2100 beaver skins. He advised the Director of the colony on Horses and other farm animals.

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GEDCOM Note

He was born to his Dutch parents, Schepen Evert Pels and Jannetje Schepmoes in Steltjen (Stettin). Stettin is the former capital of German Pomerania. It is now Szczecin, Poland. Appeared as before him, a sailor, aged 25 years, living in the Hasselaersteeg, having no parents (living in Amsterdam), accompanied by his uncle Pieter Smit, and Jannetje Sijmons, daughter, aged 18 years living in the same place accompanied by her mother Claertje on November 31, 1641. He was engaged June 5, 1642 by Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, as a brewer for the colony for a term of six years. That same month, he sailed from the Texel, Holland, on the ship, "den Houttuyn", with his wife and servants. "A free man", he bought with him four large barrels, containing two "lasts" and eleven "muds" of malt of brewing. His arrival in Nieuw Amsterdam (now New York City) is given as August 4, 1642. In 1643, a Wolpert Nys bound himself for two years as a servant to the Pels family. In 1649 Evert Pels bought property on the island of Manhattan and, in 1651, leased a farm on the North River. On November 28, 1651 and May 21, 1652, he was among those who took an oath of fidelity to the Patroon, Kiliaen Van Renesselaer. He is found in the records as the owner or skipper of a yacht. In 1678, it was written that he had also once lived on the Mill Creek in Greenbush. The Pels Family later left Rennsselaerwyck and settled in Wiltwyck (later called Kingston, New York). On September 1, 1659, he is reported as being a member of a scout party that attacked a group of Native Americans involved in a drunken brawl near Wiltwyck. He was appointed as one of the first schepens (magistrates) is settlement in 1600. In 1662, his appointment as a commissary was continued by Petrus Stuyvesant. In 1665, he was appointed a commissary of Kingston by the English Governor Richard Nicolls. He was again selected as a commissary in 1667. In 1669, he applied for and was granted the position of corn-measurer and watchman at the Rondout. He was reappointed to these positions in 1670. Later, during the summer of 1672, rumors reached Kingston that Dutch ships had arrived in New York City to retake the colony from the English. Evert Pels was one of two men dispatched to investigate the truth of the rumor. They were indeed true and the colony of New York temporarily became a possession of the Netherlands once more.