Jan Pierterse Stryker

From some papers I have:

"Jan Strycker, eldest son of Pieter and Annetje (Barends) Strycker, was born August 6, 1684 in Flatbush, Long Island and died there on August 17, 1770. He married first Margrieta Schenck in 1704/5. She was baptized, according to page 28 of the Kingston Baptismal Register of the Kingston, Ulster County, New York Dutch Church, by R.R. Hoos: 'Margrietje, dau. of Joanes Schenck and Magdalena De Haes Schenck on June 12, 1687. Witnesses: Hendrickus Beekman and wife.'

"[The book] Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, by Teunis G. Bergen, page 251 says Johannes Schenck was born September 19, 1656; married Mary Magdalena, daughter of Hendrick De Haes; died 5 February 1747/8. Mary Magdalena was born at Middleburg, in the Netherlands, 7 October 1660, and died 10 April 1729. They emigrated about 1683 from Middleburg on the Island of Walcheron in Zeeland, and is supposed to have been a relative of Roolof and Jan Martense Schenck of Flatlands, but of this the evidence is not conclusive. They resided at first in the city of New York; then in Ulster County; next in Flatbush of which town he was clerk from 1691 to 1694, and from 1700 to 1712; and also schoolmaster from 1700 to 1712; and finally removed to Bushwick of which town he was supervisor in 1719.

"In 1703 he bought a tract of 640 acres on the Raritan, said to be in the boundaries of the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1707 he bought a plot of buildings on the West side of the main road in the village of Flatbush, which he sold to his son-in-law Johannes Janse, cooper. In 1712, he bought from Tunis Titus a mill and plantation of 83 acres in Bushwick, to which he moved. His will is dated 4 January 1745, probated in 1748, and recorded on page 230 of Lib. 16, New York Surrogate office.

"In the book The Genealogical Record of the Stryker Family, by Wm. S. Stryker, 1887, page 16 and 17, it says that Jan Strycker was one of the Sachems of the Tammany Society. He was a member of Captain Domenicus Vandervere's Company, Kings County Militia, in 1715. He resided in Flatbush and seems to have had considerable landed property.

"Jan Strycker married second, Sara Bergen who was baptised at Brooklyn, New York, June 2, 1678, the daughter of Michael Hansen Bergen and Femmetje Nyssen DeNyse. She died July 15, 1760, in Flatbush, Long Island."

If you go to Google books and look up "Genealogical Record of the Strycker Family" you can find this complete book to read more about the Strycker family members.

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Here is what was in the will of Jan Pieterse Strycker, who called himself John by the end of his life:

"In the name of God, Amen, October 24, 1768. I, John (Jan) Strycker, of Flatbush, in Kings County, being weak in body. After all debts are paid, I leave to my son Peter my silver-hilted sword for his Birth Right before any division. I leave my youngest son Michel my Great Dutch Bible 'which heretofore belonged to his grandfather, Michel Hanso Bergen.' Also, all my farming tools and all my real estate, wherever situated, except 7 acres in Flatbush, being the place where my grandfather, Jan Strycker, deceased, lived, bounded West by the street, South by Dominicus Vanderveer, North by the School Pasture, and East to be bounded by a line drawn from the School Pasture to said Dominicus Vanderveer's orchard, the same course, with the easterly line of said School Pasture. And he shall pay to my executors 400 pounds for my 10 children, viz: Peter, Johannes, Antye, Magdalena, Abraham, Sammetye, Jacobus, Margaritie, Michel, and Femitie, 'each one just tenth,' and to be paid in three years. And 3 years later he shall pay 400 pounds to said children.

"I also leave to my son Michel all my right in the Flatbush Patent in the undivided lands conveyed to me by my father Peter Strycker, November 16, 1733. Also 1/2 of cattle and horses and my weaving loom. The lot reserved above I leave to my children, also the rest of my real estate. And whereas my slaves have faithfully served me they shall have the choice of which of my children they will live with. I make my son Michel, and my brother Peter Strycker, and Cornelius Vanderveer, executors."

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