Johannes "John" Van Hoorn

• baptism: 1663 Jan 17; Cornelis Janszen Van Hoorn, Anne Marie Jans; Johannes; Jan Corneliszen Van Hoorn
~• known in his day as: Jan Corneliszen Van Hoorn

• owned the land that eventually became Madison Square Garden

• Merchant in NYC owned hundreds of acres of land in New Jersey

• seems to have bought this Manhattan land from free black Marietie Petersen in the last years of her life. Marietie was a free black whose parents' generation were among the first slaves in New Amsterdam. (see timeline)

• http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11480246/family?cfpid=-276765304

• Even though he was a member of the Dutch Ref. Church where freed slaves were members he traded in slaves once the British took over New Amsterdam.

The Gravenraedt / Gravenrod family was in business with his in coastal and Carribean trade. SEE: Story of piracy, Andrew Gravenrod's sloop (The Katherine (?)): Pirates of Maryland: Plunder and High Adventure in the Chesapeake Bay by Mark Donnelly, Mark P. Donnelly, Daniel Diehl, Daniel Diehl Stackpole Books, May 14, 2014

In this book we read of Captain Kidd and his partner (Turner) who used Andrew's vessel for piracy purposes:

Gravenrod's Sloop detained on the Severn River in Maryland (1699) This may have been the sloop Katherine of which Andrew was the captain.

We read in the Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1770‬, Volume 25 on page 77 of the detention of Andrew (Andries) along with the pirate Turner. (Turner was held and Grevenraedt was released.

Proceedings, July 1699

It would be worth investigation to see if this Grevenraedt was one of the sea captains involved with the transportation of slaves back from the West Indies. We read in In the Shadow of Slavery p.29 " Between the 1670s and 1690s, the Philipse and Van Horne clans, two of the New York colony's elite families, traded with pirates for slaves from Madagascar...." Note that the Grevenraedts and Van Hornes were linked by marriage through the Meyer family. Johannes Van Hoorn who was a contemporary, married Catherine Meyer; and Catherine Meyer's grandmother was a Gravenraedt. Keeping that genealogy in mind and discovering, too, that Andries Graevenraedt (aka Gravenrod) is documented to have met a group of (William Kidd's) pirates on the way back from Madagascar, we see possible confirmation of this connection. That is, there is a pattern or circumstances that would suggest that Andries might have acted as an agent for the Van Hoorn slave trade.
see also Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont

Altough Andries Grevenrod was acquitted of piracy, it could be that he wasn't all that innocent of dealing with pirates.

I'd like to see the sources for the book In the Shadow of Slavery

p.29 

They are: Kruger: Born to Run, 78-79 Foote: Black Life, 32-37 Graham Hodges: Root and Branch, 38-40

DRC baptism

1663 Jan 17; Cornelis Janszen Van Hoorn, Anne Marie Jans; Johannes ; Jan Corneliszen Van Hoorn

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