Jan Baptiste Lootman

◦Jan was one of the earliest settlers of Esopus (later renamed Wiltwyck or Wildwyck and then Kingston, by the British), appearing as a signer of an agreement to form a village there at the end of May, 1658. Drafted by Peter Stuyvesant, the agreement required the settlers to demolish their dwellings and rebuild at a location selected by the Lord General. The location would be surrounded with "palisades of sufficient height … to be better able to protect ourselves and our property against the hostile assaults of the savages …"

◦Occupation: baker

Jan de Backer, otherwise known as Jan Lootman, the baker at Esopus.

"Director Stuyvesant soon learned that he had not made the enclosure of the village sufficiently large, and on the 5th of may, 1661, went up to Esopus and marked out an additional number of lots, the receivers of which were required to enclose "with good, stout and dutiable palisades" the full breadth on the outside. The addition was over double the size of the first enclosure, thirty-on lots being numbered and assigned:… 6 Jan de Backer…"