Jan Albertsen

For the arrival of Jan in New Netherland see: http://www.immigrantships.net/v10/1600v10/dvos16621114.html

Jan and his wife and child had returned to New Netherland (having revisited Europe) when they were killed at Wiltwyck (Kingston NY).

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Source: The Daily Union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing
sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and county, with maps and illustrations specially prepared, by John F. Hall; Atlantic City, N.J.: Daily Union, 1900

page 369 ALBERTSON FAMILY

"As early as 1647, the name Albertson is mentioned in O’Callahan’s Register of New Netherlands. Jan Albertson, wife and six { ? this number needs verification} children, came from Stemeyck { Steenwyck}}, Holland, before 1650 {seems to be an incorrect date}. In 1663, Jan Albertson, his wife and one child, were killed by Indians. The register above mentioned records that William Albertson, son of Jan, received a commission as a soldier in 1653." {as reported by Capt. Charles Albertson in the 20th century}

"Jan Albantsen, from Steenwyck, and Wife and child" arrive on DE VOS (THE FOX)

Sailed from Amsterdam after 31 August 1662 arrived New Amsterdam 14 Nov. 1662

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/mm_shipamny.shtml

aftermath of attack on Wildwyck:

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/van_buren.htm search on "Cregier"

CHAPTER VII. of Ulster County Under The Dutch ; January 1, 1923 ; by Augustus Hasbrouck Van Buren
(probably) Augustus Hasbrouck Van Buren 1856–1930 or his son by the same name.

THE WAR OF 1663

IT was Thursday, the 7th of June, 1663. Away off in the distance the peaks of the Catskills pierce the blue of the sky. On the low lands the wheat is softly swaying in the breeze, a shimmering sea of green. The brook, just below the stockade, laughs and gurgles on its way to the creek and the river. The air is redolent with the perfume of spring. The corn fields are ready for the plow. The children are at play in the streets. The women about their household work. Albert Gys­bertsen and Tjerck de Wit are near the mill gate. Schout Swartwout with some men at work near his house. Dominie Blom with two carpenters are at work on the parsonage. Chambers just outside the stockade. A soldier or two lounged near the guard house. Most of the men were away at work in the fields. It is be­tween eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon. Sev­eral small bands of Indians sauntered through the gates almost unnoticed. Nearly four years had passed since the last trouble. The peace had not been broken.

The hatchet remained buried in the earth. No one thought of danger. Through the streets strolled the Indians, offering corn and beans for sale. They chat­tered with the women and laughed at the children at play. Suddenly a horseman dashed through the mill gate, shouting as he rode, "The Indians have destroyed the new village." Instantly the dread war whoop of the red men was heard. Then a scream, wild and piercing, the scream of a woman rang out. An Indian had snatched the little girl of Jan Albert's and buried his hatchet in her head. Crack, crack went the guns. Fire, some one shouted. A house on the south side of the village burst into flame. The wind was blowing from that direction. The Indians had fired the village. In a moment pandemonium reigned. Another house caught fire. Then another and another. The smoke rolled in red billows through the streets. The sparks fell in showers. The flames roared upward. The shrieks of the women and the wail of the children never ceased. Above it all rang out the wild yells of the Indians as they ran through the streets, slaughtering as they went. Through the palisades rushed Chambers. "Lock the gates." "Clear the gun," he shouted. In a few moments the handful of men turned on the Indians. It was too late. They were already outside the stockade driving the women and children before them. Mothers clasped their babes in their arms, shrieking, crying as they were forced along. On, on to the woods the Indians drove them. Their piteous wails floated back ever faint and fainter until the forest shut them from the sight of the helpless men in the village. The wind changed to the west. This was all that saved the village from being entirely consumed. The men began to return from the fields. What a scene of desolation greeted them. The homes of many were burned. The dead lay in the streets. The half burned bodies of wife and child smoked in the hot ashes of their homes. Well did Dominie Blom say:‑-"I am he who hath seen misery in the day of the wrath of the Lord. O my Bowels‑-my Bowels. I am pained at my very heart, and with Jeremiah, O that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep for the slain of my people; for the dead lay as sheaves behind the mower."

Here is the record of that day, written many, many years ago. No pen can give a more graphic picture.

"List of the Soldiers and Settlers, killed, wounded, or taken prisoners by the Indians at Wildwyck, on the 7th of June, 1663."

MEN

Barent Gerretsen, murdered in front of his house.

Jan Alberts, murdered in his house.

Lichten Dirrick, murdered on the farm.

Willem Jansen Seba, murdered before his door.

Willem Jansen Hap, murdered in Pieter van Hael's house.

Jan the Smith, murdered in his house.

Hendrick Jansen Looman, murdered on the farm.

Thomas Chamber's negro, murdered on the farm.

Hey Olferts, murdered in the gunner's house.

SOLDIERS

Hendrick Martensen, on the farm.

Dominicus, in Jan Alberts' house.

Christiaen Andriessen, on the street.

WOMEN

Lichten Dirrecks' wife burnt, with her lost fruit, be­hind Barent Gerretsen's house.

Mattys Capito's wife killed and burnt in the house.

Jan Albertsen's wife, big with child, killed in front of her house.

Pieter van Hael's wife shot and burnt in her house.

CHILDREN

Jan Alberts' little girl murdered with her mother.

Willem Hap's child burned alive in the house.

TAKEN PRISONERS

Master Gysbert's wife. (She was the wife of Gysbert van Imbroach, a surgeon, and the daughter of La Mon­tagne, vice director at Fort Orange.)

Hester Douwe.

Sara, the daughter of Hester Douwe.

Grietje, Dominie Laer's wife. (The wife of a Luthern dominie.)

Femmetje, sister of Hilletje, being recently married to Joost Ariaens.

Children

Tjerck Claessen de Witt's oldest daughter.

Dominie Laer's child.

Ariaen Gerritsen's daughter.

Two little boys of Mattys Roeloffsen.

KILLED IN THE NEW VILLAGE

Marten Harmensen found dead and stript naked be­hind the wagon.

Jacques Tyseen beside Barent's house.

Derrick Ariaensen shot in his house.

TAKEN PRISONERS

Men

Jan Gerritsen on Volckert's bouwery."

Spurious Pedigree

Bean's History of Montgomery County (PA) reads as follows:
"JACOB MORTON ALBERTSON. -The well known and worthy citizen of Norristown whose name forms the caption of these few paragraphs is of Holland Dutch descent, and of a family which has been represented in America for nearly two and a half centuries his remote ancestors having come to New Amsterdam now New York, in the "good ship 'Fox'" On the 16th day of the Ninth Month, 1640." {incorrect !}
the account is seen also in
The Daily Union History of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey: by John F. Hall (1900)