Jan Cornelissen van Rotterdam

Holland Society of New York Sep 1662 , New Amsterdam (New York) Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, p. 153-4

1662 Sept. 4. Cornelis Van Langevelde, as husband and legal guardian of his wife, Maritie Jansen, daughter and heiress of Jan Corlissen dec’d, of Rotterdam, alias Joncker, who had been murdered by the Indians in 1643, appoints as attorney Andries Jeremiassen Spieringh, merchant, about to depart for Holland. In said capacity said Spieringh will demand and collect whatever is due to deceased’s estate from Cornelis Pieters Willemsen, residing in the village of Goudriaan, near Thienhoven, in the Alblasserwaert, brother-in-law of the aforesaid Jan Cornelisen of Rotterdam, and from Grietje Adriaensen, widow of Adriaen Cornellisen Joncker, widow of the brother of said Jan Cornelissen, living near Gorkum, in the hamlet named the Haes. Witnesses, Jacobus Van de Water, Claes Van El

SUBJECT INDEX TO ARTICLES IN THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 1983-2005 (VOLUMES 114-136) VAN ROTTERDAM Scott, Kenneth, “Jan Cornelissen Van Rotterdam” 114:13-16

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_... The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. — by I. N. Phelps Stokes New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928 pg. 192 (C) 14: Plan. van Jan van Rotterdam (H.) 14: Planta van Jan van Rotterdam

Jan Cornelissen van Rotterdam was a settler of good family, as is shown by the fact that he and his brother, Adriaen Cornelissen, were both designated as "Joncker," in a power of attorney made September 4, 1662, by Jan Cornelissen's daughter, Maritje, then the wife of Cornelis van Langevelde, appointing Andries Jeremiassen Spieringh her agent to recover her father's estate in Holland.—Van der Veen's Records, in Min. of Orph. Court, II: 25-6.

Jan Cornelissen had occupied a plantation on Long Island before May 17, 1639.— N.Y. Col. Docs., XIV: 20-21. On July 7, 1639, a lease was made by Volckert Evertsen and Gerrit Jansen to Willem Willemsen for a plantation on the North River "heretofore occupied by Jan van Rotterdam and at present by Barent Dircksen Swart."—Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 8. This was in all probability a portion of No. 14 on the Manatus Maps.

In the Indian uprising of February, 1643, Jan van Rotterdam was killed, and on August 31, 1643, his widow, Aeltje Jans van Bremen, married Pieter Collet.—Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 12. She died in 1645, leaving three children, whose affairs seem to have been managed from Holland; the Amsterdam Chamber, by a resolution of April 25, 1652, authorising a grant to Claes Jansen Backer of land "formerly in the possession of Jan van Rotterdam."—Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 277.

The three children, Jan, Marretie, and Cornelis, were "bound out" and, on May II, 1657, were in the care, respectively, of Cornelis Jansen Clopper, Isaac Kip, and Evert Duyckingh, three well-known burghers of New Amsterdam, with whom they had lived "for a longer or shorter period."—Min. of Orph. Court, I: 32-3-[*]

The lower farm was granted to AUard Anthony and Paulus Leenderts van der Grift, February 16, 1662.—Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 234. This tract, called 53 morgen, became vested in Jellis Jansen Mandeville, June 21, 1679.—Liber Deeds, XXVI: 474; Liber B: 185. It lay between 14th and 24th Streets, Eighth Avenue and the Hudson River. It later became known as the Yellis Mandeville Farm.

The upper plantation at the Great Kill—the stream which fell into the Hudson River near the foot of 42d Street—is surrounded by a dotted boundary line, which seems to enclose the valley of the Kill. It lies, generally speaking, between 37th and 47th Streets, west of Tenth Avenue. The house stood near the spot where Robert Burrage Norton afterwards built, on the bank of the river near 43d Street. The topographical situation may be noted on Randel's Map of Farms (PI. 86).

• A manuscript translation by O'Callaghan of the records of the Orphanmasters Court is preserved in the City Clerk's Library, and bears the title: Minutes of the Orphan Court of the City of New Amsterdam in New Netherland From its Erection in 1655 to 1668. Another translation, by Berthold Fernow, has been published in two volumes by the Colonial Dames of the State of New York. A calendar of the original Dutch Minutes has also been made, by Dingman Veersteg, and may be found in the Holland Society Year Book for 1900. All these translations have been cited in the present work.