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Gerrit Van Ness

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Greenbush, Rensselaerwyck, NY
Death: 1743 (61-62)
Immediate Family:

Son of Hendrick Cornelissen van Ness and Annetje Everts Van Ness
Husband of Cathalntje De Forest
Father of Philip van Ness; Catherine Groesbeck; Mayeke Van Ness and Sarah Van Ness
Brother of Simon Hendrickse Van Ness; Antje van Ness; Cornelius Van Ness; Mayken (Hendrick) Wendell; Jan Hendricks van Ness and 2 others

Managed by: Mildred (Joan Gardner) Yates
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About Gerrit Van Ness

  • wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com.....,
  • ID: I10444
  • Gerrit Van Ness was born about 1681. He was the son of Albany area resident Hendrick Van Ness and his first wife, Anna Everts Van Ness. This Gerrit lost his mother at an early age and his father re-married in 1688. In December 1702, he was twenty-one when he testified in an Albany court. His older uncle and namesake was an Albany resident who died in 1715.
  • In June 1709, he married a somewhat younger Catharina De Foreest at the Albany Dutch church. By 1724, five children had been christened in Albany where both parents were regular baptism sponsors.
  • In April 1710, the Albany government contracted with him to set up new stockadoes and dig ditches.
  • In 1720, his name was included on a list of Albany freeholders living in the third ward. The same-named individual on the freeholders list for 1742 probably was his nephew.
  • Gerrit Van Ness buried his wife in March 1743. Into his sixties, he probably died some time thereafter. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/vn/gevness901.html
  • Father: Hendrick Cornelisse VAN NESS b: 1626 in Vianen, South Holland
  • Mother: Annetie EVERTS b: CA. 1645 in Rensselaerwyck, Albany, New York
  • Married: 12 JUNE 1709 in Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, Marriage 1 CATELYNTJE DE FOREST

Children

  • Has Children Philip VAN NESS b: 8 DEC 1717

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Gerrit Van Ness's Timeline

1681
1681
Greenbush, Rensselaerwyck, NY
1712
October 19, 1712
Albany, New York, United States
1717
December 8, 1717
Albany, New York, United States
1743
1743
Age 62
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