Magdalena ‘The Flying Angel’ Dircks

Magdalena Dircks

• Magdalena (Maddeleen) "The Flying Angel" Dircks aka Rosencrans, Volkertsen
• Volkertsen is not her surname, but her father's patronymic name
• Born about 1634 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland
• Died after 27 Jan 1726 after about age 92 in Kingston, Ulster, Province of New York
• Daughter of Dirck Volckertszen and Christina Vigne
• Wife of Cornelisz (Hendricksz) van Dort — married 24 Oct 1652 (to 15 Sep 1655) in New Amsterdam (now New York), New Netherlandmap
• Wife of Herman (Hendricksen) Rosencrans — married 3 Mar 1657 in New Amsterdam (now New York), New Netherland

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• Born on the Vigne Bouwerie farm, a little north of Wall St. (Brooklyn, King Co., N.Y.). [This is "fact" is self-conflicting, Vigne Bouwerie is north of Wall St. which is in Manhattan NOT Brooklyn - Alex Moes]
• Nicknamed 'The Flying Angel' because of the trouble she got into & the tavern that she & her husband owned.
• Name aka 'Maddeleen Dircks'.

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NA DRC marriages 1639-1801

• 1652 24 Oct; Cornelis Hendrickszen, van Dort; Magdaleen Dircks, van N. Amsterd
• 1657 03 Mar; Herman Hendrickszen, van Bergen in Noordwegen; Magdaleen Dircks, wid Cornelis Caper

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Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dircks-2

Child of Cornelis Hendricks Van Dort is:

• i. Marritie, bp 4 Feb 1654

Children of Harman Rosencrans and Magdalen Dirckse are:

• i. Alexander Harmensen2 Rosencrans, born Bef. April 12, 1659 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY; died Bet. March 27, 1745 - 1754 in Walpack, Sussex Co., NJ.
• ii. Antje Harmense Rosencrans, born Bef. August 27, 1662 in Ulster Co., NY6.
• iii. Rachel Harmense Rosencrans, born Bef. October 21, 1663.
• iv. Harmanus Harmensen Rosencrans, born Bef. May 02, 16667.
• v. Anna Haemense Rosencrans, born Bef. October 09, 1667.
• vi. Christina Harmense Rosencrans, born Unknown in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY; died Unknown.
• vii. Hendrick Harmensen Rosencrans, born Unknown in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY; died Unknown.
• viii. Dirck Harmensen Rosencrans, born Unknown in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY.
• ix. Sarah Harmense Rosencrans, born Unknown; died Bet. January 17, 1725/26 - October 21, 1726 in Ulster Co., NY.

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Biography

Married: (1st) on 24 October 1652 to Cornelis Hendrickszen Van Dort; He was killed by Indians in the Bushwick attack of September 15, 1655, leaving an infant daughter named in a record of 1657 as being then about 3 years old. Several recorded episodes of Magdalena's early and more mature life tend to indicate she inherited from her father something of his independent and turbulent spirit. Her second husband, Harman RosenKranz seems to have been endowed with somewhat similar charateristics, to the end that for a number of years the tendency to dissent from vested authority kept them in occasional turmoil.

Among Magdalena's descendents there have been many who achieved honor in their communities. Ancestress of a host of America's fighting men, including Colonel John Rosenkrans of Revolutionary War fame and William S. Rosecrans, the famous Civil War general.

Harmon Hendrickson Rosecrans arrived in New Amsterdam sometime during the mid-1600's and married the widow Magdalena Dircks Van Dort there in early 1657.

On their wedding day, Magdalena (who was possibly slightly inebriated) made fun of an innkeeper who also happened to be a political appointee (the fire warden). The innkeeper took offense, brought charges against the pair, and had them deported to Holland. Harmon received a discharge from his military obligations by a special act of the Council, and was sent back to Holland with his new wife.

Fortunately for the many thousands of us living here today, Harmon and Magdalena were allowed to return to New Amsterdam in June of 1658. They were not permitted to remain in New Amsterdam. They settled in Mombaccus, near Kingston, NY, and took up farming. Today, Mombaccus is known as Rochester Township

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On 28 Mar 1657 this item appeared in the

On 28 Mar 1657 this item appeared in the Schepen Register: Madalena Dircks, widow of Hendr. Van Dordt, decd., about to marry Haring Hendricksen, of Bergen in Norway. She has one minor child by her deceased husband, named Maria Cornelis, now about three years old. Sets apart for her child 500 Carolus guilders. Mortgages her house and lot at New Amsterdam, where she lives, next to Evert Duyckingh's.

Also on 28 Mar 1657 Madalena Dircks, widow registered to marry (2) Harmen Hendricks [Rosenkrans]. Then on 23 May 1661 Joost Goderis declared he was indebted to the estate of the decd. Cornelis Hendricks Van Dort in the favor of the children of the decd. and Madaleen to the amount of 500 guilders

Magdalena must have been quite a character. Harold Doud reports in his "Ancestors and Descentents of Captain Peter Westbrook of New Jersey and his Wife Lydia Vredenburgh," that Magdalena appeared in court several times. "Magdalena made her first of many appearances in court records shortly after her (first) husbands death. The city orphan masters appointed Magdalena's uncle, Jan VIGNE, the supposed first child born of European parents in New Netherland (see VIGNE line), guardian of the fatherless child as required by law. Magdalena did not like this appointment and went to court to have it changed. She asked that another uncle, Abraham VERPLANCK, be appointed in his stead. Uncle Jan did not object. He told the court that he would be glad to get back to his own business, that of running his brewery.

"Madalena had her second involvement with the law on the day of her second marriage. She and her sister, both probably under the influence of the day's libations, were passing by the tavern when she caught sight of the tavern keeper, one Litshoe, who incidently was also a city Fire Warden. Magdalena made some remark which the Fire Warden resented and had her brought to court for slandering a city official. She was fined two 'pounds Flemish.'

"This was not the end of the affair. Apparently slandering an official or 'tongue-wagging' was a serious offense or perhaps Magdalena was guilty of additional offenses for which there are no extant records. At any rate, very shortly thereafter she was deported to Holland as an undersireable character to-gether with another 'tonue-wagger,' one Geertrje Jacobs, and a Lutheran Minister who incurred the displeasure of Governor Stuyvesant.

"Apparently Harman accompanied his bride into exile for the next year we find the authorities in Holland permitting their return to the colony of Harman Hendricksen and Magdalena Dircks, 'alias the Flying Angel,' provided they did not keep a tavern or sell liquor. Where Magdalena got the alias, 'Flying Angel,' no one to-day knows but some surmise that she may have kept a tavern in Holland under a Flying Angel sign.

"Shortly after their return to the colony Harman and Magdalena decided, or had it decided for them, that their future lay elsewhere than in New Amerstam. They moved to the Esopus area where Harman's experience as a soldier was undoubtedly welcome in view of the frequent threats from the surrounding Indian tribes. Harman became an 'adelborst' in the local militia. An 'adelborst' was an under-officer of some kind. The word is some-times translated as 'cadet' and some-times as 'corporal.' This compiler's Dutch dictionary, published some sixty years ago, translates it as 'midshipman' or 'naval cadet' but that is surely not right in this case.

"Magdalena almost became a widow again in 1659 during the so-called First Esopus War. A party of eighteen settlers was attacked by the Indians and fourteen of them, including Harman, were taken prisoners. Five of them were slowly tortured to death by fire and other means. Others were held for ransom. One, a son of Evert Pels, took the fancy of a squaw and was adopted into the tribe...... and married the squaw. Harman and only Harman, managed to escape.

"Harman was having a hard time making a living working as a day laborer and trading on the side. Times were hard and he sometimes had difficulty collecting his wages, even some;times having to go to court to do so. He himself was cited as being in arrears with his church dues and was being sued for other debts. One creditor, armed with a writ of attachment against him, could find no assets to attach and went to New York (New Amsterdam had become New York when the English took over the colony in 1664) and collected the debt from Magdalena's Uncle Abraham. Magdalena herself was not above taking in washing to help with the family finances. In 1664 she went to court to impound a trunk belonging to the barber in payment for three schepels of wheat which he owed her for washing his clothes.

"When the English took over New Netherland in 1664 a garrison was stationed at Esopus, or Kingston, as it was now called. The soldiers were quartered upon the inhabitants. One Richard Cage was billeted with the Rosenkrans family. He left them in 1665 without paying for some washing which Magdalena had done for him. She went to court to collect and was awarded a judgment of eight guilders or five schepels of wheat. Cage did not pay but instead stole Harman's goats and served them up at a dinner given for some of his soldier friends. That force may have been used in the theaft is evidenced by the following item contained in a bill of grievances which the settlers submitted to Governor Nicolls: 'Harman Hendricx was wounded in the Legge by Richard Cage in so much that said Harman is lame unto this present day, and that only because his Goates were eaten by the souldiers.'

"The Cage affair was not the only trouble the Rosenkrans had with the English garrison. The new garrison commander, Captain Broadhead, was determined that the Dutch settlers, now British subjects, should conform to English ways. he particularly objected to the Dutch observance of New Year's Day on Jan. 1st in accorance with the new Gregorian Calendar which they followed. The English still adhered to the old Julian Calendar date, Mar. 25th. On New Year's Day New Style 1667 the Dutch were celebrating at a party when Captain Broadhead broke in and began to upbraid the host for the wrong-time celebrating. Magdalena, who was present, launched herself into the argument and during the ensuing exchange of insults called the captain's sister a whore. He had her dragged off to the guardhouse. The outcome is not clear but she probably had to pay a stiff fine.

"After about 1675 Harman and Magdalena's court appearances mostly ceased and they began to prosper. The freedom from court fines and costs undoubtedly helped in this regard. Also they may have received a legacy from the estate of Magdaalena's father, Dirck Volkertsen, who probably died about this time. They began to acquire property and Harman seems to have conducted a successful lumber business. When he died in 1692 or shortly thereafter he left considerable property to be divided between Magdalena and their children. Magdalena outlived her husband many years. Just when she died is not known but she was still alive in 1726 when she was mentioned in her daughter, Sara's, will. (pp. 21-23 of Douds Book.)

Modified 26 August 2013 by Mildred Taylor

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She has been referred to as a very colo

She has been referred to as a very colorful character. Magdeena Dirksen.........An outspoken, spirited and forthright woman. Other women of the settlement seemed to be envious of her beauty and fashionability, was scoulded for once showing too much ankle while lifting her skirts over mud puddles. As a very old woman, she had a large "bunch" on her neck, and knowing how Indians dreaded deformities, she used to rush out at any Indians prowling around the place and shoo them away by pulling out that "bunch" - a family tradition related by a Rosec ans descendent of Ellenville, NY.

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1) 24 Oct 1652 Cornelius Hendrickson/van

1) 24 Oct 1652 Cornelius Hendrickson/van Dort *

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see my # 701:1

1221.0 MAGDALEEN DIRCKS ===
see my # 701:1

1221.0 MAGDALEEN DIRCKSEN VOLKERTSEN ROSENKRANS

1220.0 HARMON HENDRICKSEN ROSENCRANS He was born 29 Nov 1634 in Bergen, Bergen, Norway.(6:17; 10: ) He left Noord-Holland arriving on 28 Mar 1638 in America at the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam, now New York City, New York. (6:)

The banns of his marriage to Magdalena Dirksen Volkertsen were published , 1656: (both living at New Amsterdam). (6:1) He married MAGDALENA DIRKSEN VOLKERTSEN on 3 Mar 1656 in Bushwyck Creek area of New Amsterdam, now Brooklyn, New York, New York.(4: ; 6:1) She was born on c1636 in the Bushwyck Creek area of New Amsterdam.(6:1), the daughter of DIRCK VOLCKERTSEN and CHRISTINA VIGNE.(6:1) They had at least 9 children: (6:3,4)

.1 ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS 1659-1746 .2 ANNETJE 1662-c1670 .3 RACHEL HARMENSEN (ROSENCRANS) VAN GARDEN 1663-1709+ .4 HARMEN 1666-c1675 .5 ANNA (ROSENCRANS) DAVENPORT 1667-1708+ .6 CRISTINA (ROSENCRANS) CORTRIGHT 1671 -1726+ .7 SARA c1672-? .8 HENDRICK c1673-1721+ .9 DIRK R c1674-1716+.................THE MAIN LINE 660.0

About 1660 they moved to the Kingston area of Ulster County, New York where the next the next 7 children were likely born. Prior to 1683 he moved to Rochester, Ulster County where he farmed and had a mill.(3: )

Harmen died 25 June 1692 in Accord, Rochester, Ulster County, New York.(6:1,10)

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!Three days following her second marriag

!Three days following her second marriage, Magdalena (Dircks) Rosenkran was brought ino court on charges of having insulted Mssr. Litschoe, a tavern owner and fire warden in the city. On her wedding day, while she and her sister were passing the tavern, she exclaimed "There is the chimney sweep in the door, his chimney is well swept." Her defense was that she was only joking. Lischoe had considerable influence with the city magistrates, and the joking bride was found guilty and fined "two pounds flemish." "Tongue wagging" was not taken lightly during the consulship of Peter Stuyvesant, and sometime in the spring of 1657 Magdalena (Dircks) Rosenkrans was notified that she and Geertje Jacobs, wife of Guert Coerten, were banished from th colony and being sent to Amsterdam, Holland. Harman Hendricksen Rosencrans secured a discharge from the military by special act of the Council on 17 April 1657; and, with a view to his new bride's exile to Holland, he sold her house and lot to Joost Goderis, the porter, on 13 August 1657. In October of that year, Magdalena (Dircks) Rosencrans and Geertje Jacobs were placed aboard a ship bound for Holland and, after being deained in an English port, reached Amsterdam in the middle of March 1658. In reply to a letter dated 22 October 1657 from Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, which owned New Netherland, wrote on 20 May 1658, "The two women of bad reputation, Magdalena Dircks and Geertje Jacobs, whom you sent back here on account of their dissolute life, shall not again receive our permission to return to New Netherland, and if they shall come there again by deceitful practices or under false name, you may punish them, as they deserve it." However, by 13 June 1658, the Chamber reversed its stand and passed a formal resolution consenting to the return to their colony of Harman Hendricksen and Magdalena Dircks, "alias the Flying Angel," on the condition they did not keep a tavern or sell intoxicants. (Exerpt from SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK by John O. Evjen (1916), p. 65; THE RECORDS OF NEW AMSTERDAM, v. VII, p. 146; NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v. 90, pp. 2-14.) !Magdelena became one of the first thirty members of the Dutch Reformed Church at Hurley and was baptized "as an adult" on 24 June 1661.Less

Modified 26 August 2013 by Marilyn Forgey1

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!Three days following her second marriag

!Three days following her second marriage, Magdalena (Dircks) Rosenkran was brought ino court on charges of having insulted Mssr. Litschoe, a tavern owner and fire warden in the city. On her wedding day, while she and her sister were passing the tavern, she exclaimed "There is the chimney sweep in the door, his chimney is well swept." Her defense was that she was only joking. Lischoe had considerable influence with the city magistrates, and the joking bride was found guilty and fined "two pounds flemish." "Tongue wagging" was not taken lightly during the consulship of Peter Stuyvesant, and sometime in the spring of 1657 Magdalena (Dircks) Rosenkrans was notified that she and Geertje Jacobs, wife of Guert Coerten, were banished from th colony and being sent to Amsterdam, Holland. Harman Hendricksen Rosencrans secured a discharge from the military by special act of the Council on 17 April 1657; and, with a view to his new bride's exile to Holland, he sold her house and lot to Joost Goderis, the porter, on 13 August 1657. In October of that year, Magdalena (Dircks) Rosencrans and Geertje Jacobs were placed aboard a ship bound for Holland and, after being deained in an English port, reached Amsterdam in the middle of March 1658. In reply to a letter dated 22 October 1657 from Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, which owned New Netherland, wrote on 20 May 1658, "The two women of bad reputation, Magdalena Dircks and Geertje Jacobs, whom you sent back here on account of their dissolute life, shall not again receive our permission to return to New Netherland, and if they shall come there again by deceitful practices or under false name, you may punish them, as they deserve it." However, by 13 June 1658, the Chamber reversed its stand and passed a formal resolution consenting to the return to their colony of Harman Hendricksen and Magdalena Dircks, "alias the Flying Angel," on the condition they did not keep a tavern or sell intoxicants. (Exerpt from SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK by John O. Evjen (1916), p. 65; THE RECORDS OF NEW AMSTERDAM, v. VII, p. 146; NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v. 90, pp. 2-14.) !Magdelena became one of the first thirty members of the Dutch Reformed Church at Hurley and was baptized "as an adult" on 24 June 1661.

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!A History of the Fulkerson Family from

!A History of the Fulkerson Family from 1630 to the Present by Laila Fulkerson Thompson, page 8-9,16.

Modified 26 August 2013 by rsimpson

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!1. MARRIAGE: Reformed Dutch Church Reco

!1. MARRIAGE: Reformed Dutch Church Records, New York, New York, NY !2. Baptised as an adult 24 Jun 1661, Ref. Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster, NY.

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Married (1) Abt 1649 Cornelis Hendrickse

Married (1) Abt 1649 Cornelis Hendricksen Van Dort (b abt 1629, NY); (2) Harman Hendricks Rosenkrans (b abt 1629, NY). One child by 1st husband; children by 2nd. Names, dates of ch unknown.

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On 28 Mar 1657 this item appeared in the

On 28 Mar 1657 this item appeared in the Schepen Register: Madalena Dircks, widow of Hendr. Van Dordt, decd., about to marry Haring Hendricksen, of Bergen in Norway. She has one minor child by her deceased husband, named Maria Cornelis, now about three years old. Sets apart for her child 500 Carolus guilders. Mortgages her house and lot at New Amsterdam, where she lives, next to Evert Duyckingh's.

Also on 28 Mar 1657 Madalena Dircks, widow registered to marry (2) Harmen Hendricks [Rosenkrans]. Then on 23 May 1661 Joost Goderis declared he was indebted to the estate of the decd. Cornelis Hendricks Van Dort in the favor of the children of the decd. and Madaleen to the amount of 500 guilders

Magdalena must have been quite a character. Harold Doud reports in his "Ancestors and Descentents of Captain Peter Westbrook of New Jersey and his Wife Lydia Vredenburgh," that Magdalena appeared in court several times. "Magdalena made her first of many appearances in court records shortly after her (first) husbands death. The city orphan masters appointed Magdalena's uncle, Jan VIGNE, the supposed first child born of European parents in New Netherland (see VIGNE line), guardian of the fatherless child as required by law. Magdalena did not like this appointment and went to court to have it changed. She asked that another uncle, Abraham VERPLANCK, be appointed in his stead. Uncle Jan did not object. He told the court that he would be glad to get back to his own business, that of running his brewery.

"Madalena had her second involvement with the law on the day of her second marriage. She and her sister, both probably under the influence of the day's libations, were passing by the tavern when she caught sight of the tavern keeper, one Litshoe, who incidently was also a city Fire Warden. Magdalena made some remark which the Fire Warden resented and had her brought to court for slandering a city official. She was fined two 'pounds Flemish.'

"This was not the end of the affair. Apparently slandering an official or 'tongue-wagging' was a serious offense or perhaps Magdalena was guilty of additional offenses for which there are no extant records. At any rate, very shortly thereafter she was deported to Holland as an undersireable character to-gether with another 'tonue-wagger,' one Geertrje Jacobs, and a Lutheran Minister who incurred the displeasure of Governor Stuyvesant.

"Apparently Harman accompanied his bride into exile for the next year we find the authorities in Holland permitting their return to the colony of Harman Hendricksen and Magdalena Dircks, 'alias the Flying Angel,' provided they did not keep a tavern or sell liquor. Where Magdalena got the alias, 'Flying Angel,' no one to-day knows but some surmise that she may have kept a tavern in Holland under a Flying Angel sign.

"Shortly after their return to the colony Harman and Magdalena decided, or had it decided for them, that their future lay elsewhere than in New Amerstam. They moved to the Esopus area where Harman's experience as a soldier was undoubtedly welcome in view of the frequent threats from the surrounding Indian tribes. Harman became an 'adelborst' in the local militia. An 'adelborst' was an under-officer of some kind. The word is some-times translated as 'cadet' and some-times as 'corporal.' This compiler's Dutch dictionary, published some sixty years ago, translates it as 'midshipman' or 'naval cadet' but that is surely not right in this case.

"Magdalena almost became a widow again in 1659 during the so-called First Esopus War. A party of eighteen settlers was attacked by the Indians and fourteen of them, including Harman, were taken prisoners. Five of them were slowly tortured to death by fire and other means. Others were held for ransom. One, a son of Evert Pels, took the fancy of a squaw and was adopted into the tribe...... and married the squaw. Harman and only Harman, managed to escape.

"Harman was having a hard time making a living working as a day laborer and trading on the side. Times were hard and he sometimes had difficulty collecting his wages, even some;times having to go to court to do so. He himself was cited as being in arrears with his church dues and was being sued for other debts. One creditor, armed with a writ of attachment against him, could find no assets to attach and went to New York (New Amsterdam had become New York when the English took over the colony in 1664) and collected the debt from Magdalena's Uncle Abraham. Magdalena herself was not above taking in washing to help with the family finances. In 1664 she went to court to impound a trunk belonging to the barber in payment for three schepels of wheat which he owed her for washing his clothes.

"When the English took over New Netherland in 1664 a garrison was stationed at Esopus, or Kingston, as it was now called. The soldiers were quartered upon the inhabitants. One Richard Cage was billeted with the Rosenkrans family. He left them in 1665 without paying for some washing which Magdalena had done for him. She went to court to collect and was awarded a judgment of eight guilders or five schepels of wheat. Cage did not pay but instead stole Harman's goats and served them up at a dinner given for some of his soldier friends. That force may have been used in the theaft is evidenced by the following item contained in a bill of grievances which the settlers submitted to Governor Nicolls: 'Harman Hendricx was wounded in the Legge by Richard Cage in so much that said Harman is lame unto this present day, and that only because his Goates were eaten by the souldiers.'

"The Cage affair was not the only trouble the Rosenkrans had with the English garrison. The new garrison commander, Captain Broadhead, was determined that the Dutch settlers, now British subjects, should conform to English ways. he particularly objected to the Dutch observance of New Year's Day on Jan. 1st in accorance with the new Gregorian Calendar which they followed. The English still adhered to the old Julian Calendar date, Mar. 25th. On New Year's Day New Style 1667 the Dutch were celebrating at a party when Captain Broadhead broke in and began to upbraid the host for the wrong-time celebrating. Magdalena, who was present, launched herself into the argument and during the ensuing exchange of insults called the captain's sister a whore. He had her dragged off to the guardhouse. The outcome is not clear but she probably had to pay a stiff fine.

"After about 1675 Harman and Magdalena's court appearances mostly ceased and they began to prosper. The freedom from court fines and costs undoubtedly helped in this regard. Also they may have received a legacy from the estate of Magdaalena's father, Dirck Volkertsen, who probably died about this time. They began to acquire property and Harman seems to have conducted a successful lumber business. When he died in 1692 or shortly thereafter he left considerable property to be divided between Magdalena and their children. Magdalena outlived her husband many years. Just when she died is not known but she was still alive in 1726 when she was mentioned in her daughter, Sara's, will. (pp. 21-23 of Douds Book.)

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Harman Hendrick/Rosencrantz * 3 Mar 1657

Harman Hendrick/Rosencrantz * 3 Mar 1657

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2nd Herman Hendrick/Rosencrans 1657

2nd Herman Hendrick/Rosencrans 1657

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Life Sketch

THIS IS THE MAIN RECORD FOR Magdalen Dircks (Volkertsen is not her surname, but her father's patronymic name) See this 1904 published genealogy, pp. 50-51 for her ancestry: http://www.archive.org/details/courtrightkortri00abbo

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baptized Jun 24 1661 in Reformed Church

baptized Jun 24 1661 in Reformed Church of Kingston, NY

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baptized Jun 24 1661 in Reformed Church

baptized Jun 24 1661 in Reformed Church of Kingston, NY

Modified 26 August 2013 by drosencrance2704026

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Info from an Ancestral Book compiled by Harold Doud Magdalena made the first of many court appearances shortly after the death of her first husband. The city orphan masters appointed Magdalena's uncle, Jan Vigne, guardian of the fatherless child as re

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!Magdalena md. (1) Cornelius Hendrickson

!Magdalena md. (1) Cornelius Hendrickson Van Dort, 24 Oct 1652, and (2)

Modified 26 August 2013 by b7-dmottesen27638

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Marriage: Reformed Dutch Church Records,

Marriage: Reformed Dutch Church Records, New York City, New York. Baptised as an adult 24 June 1661 in the Reformed Cutch Church at Kingston, Ulster, New York. Records of Varla Wright - varlajw@msn.com

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Cornelis/Hendrickson Van Dort

Cornelis/Hendrickson Van Dort

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!Magdalena md. (1) Cornelius Hendrickson

!Magdalena md. (1) Cornelius Hendrickson Van Dort, 24 Oct 1652, and (2)

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Magdalena Dircks was born about 1636 on

Magdalena Dircks was born about 1636 on the Vigne bouwerie (farm), a little north of Wall Street. In the summer of 1638 her family moved to a nearby house at 125 Pearl Street, just south of Wall Street along the East River. By 1645 they had sold this house and moved further up Pearl Street to Smit's Vly. There they built and lived in several houses, on the East River flats just north of Maiden Lane. (It is recorded that Sergeant [and Fire Warden] Daniel Litschoe bought the first Pearl Street house in 1648 to be converted into a tavern, and in 1651 traded this building to begin a new tavern in the old Vigne house after the death of Magdalena's grandmother's second husband, Jan Jansen Damen.) Magdalena married Cornelius Hendrickson Van Dort in the early 1650's. He was also known as "Cornelius Caper" or "Kees de Caper" in reference to his trade as a sailor. He was also allegedly a privateer (a pirate commissioned by a government to capture foreign ships), as "caper" was another term for pirate. It is known that he was in the boat-building business as well. During a period when tensions rose with the British colonies, he constructed cannon mounts for Fort Amsterdam and refurbished one of the government's small ships in preparation for possible war. Van Dort was known as a doer and a darer. By his industriousness he took his young family out of relative poverty and moved them into their own home on Slyck Steght (now South William Street). He was the only sailor brave enough to venture (for a reward) into the treacherous whirlpool of Hellgate to retrieve Thomas Young's stranded ketch. He was not in the government militia, apparently, as he did not go along with Peter Stuyvesant's 600-man army to drive the Swedes out of their Delaware colony in the summer of 1655. At dawn on the 15th of September, while this army was gone, a fleet of 64 Indian canoes showed up at Manhattan Island. These Indians had been at peace with the colonists for nearly ten years, with a few exceptio ns. Many of them were known to the Dutch settlers through long-standing trade and social contacts. The Indians disembarked and began roaming through the settlement, saying they were looking for members of a tribe with whom they were at war. To the men remaining on the island, it appeared as though the Indians knew Stuyvesant was gone and that it was an opportune time to wipe out the Dutch settlement. A number of self-appointed home guardsmen, including Cornelius Hendricksen and led by Magdalena's uncle, Cornelius Van Tienhoven, went to the shore to order the Indians to remove themselves to nearby Governor's Island. The Indians appeared to be complying, but as their canoes pulled away a number of them turned and let loose a fusillade of arrows and musket balls. Three of the guardsmen were hit. Magdalena's husband was carried to his house on Slyck Steght, either dead or dying. This was the opening round of the war of 1655. Within the next few weeks, most of the New Netherland settlement was burned or looted, a hundred colonists were killed and another 150 were captured for ransom. Before Hendricksen's death, he and Magdalena had one daughter, Maria Cornelis. Magdalena was now without means and unable to support her daughter. She raised funds using her house and property (apparently spared in the war) as collateral, and pledged the money to the orphan court for raising the girl as an orphan. The court then authorized Magdalena's aunt and uncle, Maria (Vigne) and Abraham Ver Planck, to raise Maria Cornelis as their ward. Magdalena married Harmans Hendricksen Rosenkranz two years later, in February 1657. He was born in 1612, making him 24 years older than her. Harmans had been a soldier for the Dutch West India Company in Brazil, and had the nickname "Harmans the Portuguese," although he was neither Portuguese nor Dutch. His father was Hendrick Rosenkranz of Bergen, Norway. The Dutch had forced their way into 100-year-old Spanish-Portuguese Brazilian colony in 1630, by c apturing the sugar-growing district at Pernambuco. The Portuguese landowners rebelled against the Dutch in 1644, forcing hundreds of Dutch soldiers and civilians to escape by ship. Peter Stuyvesant, then governor on the Dutch island of Curacao in the West Indies, sent 130 of the soldiers and 90 of the civilians north to New Amsterdam. Most remained long enough to help the New Netherlands colony restore peace with the local Indian nations, before they eventually returned to Holland. Harmans was one of those who chose to stay and make a living in the New World. The day of their wedding, with Magdalena probably drinking beer or wine, was marked by a foretelling incident. She and her younger sister Sarah were passing by Fire Warden Litschoe at his tavern (the old Vigne house north of Wall Street). Together they sang out mockingly, "There is the chimney sweep in the door, his chimeny is well-swept." On the first day of March, 1657, the two young ladies were called into court for "presuming to insult the Fire-Wardens of the city on the public highway and to make a street riot." It is reported that Magdalena's new husband was ashamed of her and that she had to defend herself alone. In her defense, she claimed she and her sister Sarah had only called him a "chimney sweep" - which they always called him when he came to inspect their chimney. She was fined two Dutch pounds for insulting a city official. Things didn't get any better that year, either for her reputation or that of her extended family in New Amsterdam. Her father, Dirck, was sued in court for stabbing Jan de Perie in a knife fight that arose over a game of dice. Her uncle, Van Tienhoven, had mysteriously disappeared while pending a court of inquiry into his malfeasance in office. Her uncle Jan Vigne had been denied reappointment as a city magistrate, and her other uncle Abraham Ver Planck had nearly been banished from the colony for insulting and threatening a burgomaster. Magdalena and Harmans owned a tavern, p robably named "The Flying Angel." Their tavern was, more likely than not, one of the more notorious establishments in the city, and "The Flying Angel" fittingly became her nickname. Magdalena was notified, within about six weeks after her "street riot" trial, that Peter Stuyvesant was issuing her the "yellow ticket" for deportation to Holland later that year. One other woman, Geetje Jacobs, faced the same fate for gossiping that the blacksmith's wife and another man had been "discovered in something disgraceful." [Deportation and banishment were common forms of punishment in those days. Another woman was sent to Holland after she offended public decency by lifting her dress and exposing her backside to another woman while arguing in the street.] Harmans prepared for the deportation by securing a discharge from the army on April 17th, and selling Magdalena's Slyck Stegh house to Joost Goderis on August 13th. The deportation occurred not long after October 22, 1657, the date of Peter Stuyvesant's letter to the Dutch West India Company officials explaining the reasons for the deportations. Two ships, the Waegh and the Hoop, made the voyage together and transported the women across the Atlantic. They were delayed at an English port through the winter and did not arrive in Holland until March of 1658. It is not clear whether Harmans went with Magdalene or sailed on a later ship, but he was in Amsterdam by June of 1658. The Dutch West India Company officials, having had a few months to get acquainted with Magdalene, wrote back to Peter Stuyvesant on May 20, 1658, "The two women of bad reputation, Magdalena Dircks and Geertje Jacobs, whom you sent back here on account of their dissolute life, shall not again receive our permission to return to New Netherland, and if they shall come there again by deceitful practices or under a false name, you may punish them, as they deserve it." The Company had a change of heart in just a few weeks, perhaps due to Harman's intervention a nd long record as a Company soldier, because on June 13th they decided that Harman Hendricksen and Magdalena Dircks, "alias the Flying Angel," could return to New Netherland - provided that they did not keep a tavern or sell intoxicants. The passenger list of the ship Bruynvisch in late June 1658 show that "Harman Dircksen from Norway with wife and child" sailed from Holland to New Amsterdam. Magdalena must have been pregnant when she was deported. Her son, Alexander, was most likely born while she was in exile - either in England by March of 1658, or in Holland between March and June of 1658. Following their return they moved away from Manhattan, and up the Hudson River to the Dutch settlement at Esopus near modern Kingston, NY. Named for the local Indian tribe, Esopus was basically a collection of farms surrounding a small fort. There were not enough settlers to defend the settlement against the harassment and attacks of the Esopus tribe, so the colony had to be abandoned from 1655 to 1657. The Esopus Indians continued to wage a low-level conflict with the settlers after their return in 1657, occasionally burning farms and killing settlers and livestock. Peter Stuvesant posted a contingent of 50 soldiers at the fort on October 19, 1658, after the Indians refused to sign a peace treaty. Relations between whites and Indians continued to be rocky. The Esopus tribe agreed to peaceful relations a few months later, but incidents continued to occur. The settlers could not work in their own fields without being escorted by soldiers from the town's small garrison. Magdalena began setting up her new home and Harmans began to establish a business, as he took out "small burgher" papers in New Amsterdam on November 22, 1658, for the right to engage in trade. The cost of this privilege was 20 guilders, which he promised to pay in beaver pelts within eight days. They returned to Manhattan for a visit in the following spring. Alexander was baptized at the (only) Dutch church

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Harman Hendrick/Rosencrantz * 3 Mar 1657

Harman Hendrick/Rosencrantz * 3 Mar 1657

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2nd Herman Hendrick/Rosencrans 1657

2nd Herman Hendrick/Rosencrans 1657

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Cornelius/Hendricksen

Cornelius/Hendricksen

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!FAMILY RECORDS; Research by Barbara Sch

!FAMILY RECORDS; Research by Barbara Schomp Kirby: Correspondence; St. Martins Catholic Church, Gent, Belgium, Baptismal Ltr; St. Nicholas Church Records. !Research by Harold Doud, Fullerton, CA, courtesy of Millie Taylor, Jacksonville, FL: Scandanavian Immigrants in New York (1972 reprint) by Evjen, pp 68-79; The First Americans, Mrs. Rosecrans (NYGBR Vol 90 1959, pp 2-5; Register of Early Settlers of Brooklyn by Bergen, pp 373-4; New Amsterdam and It's People by Innes pp 240, 267-8, 318-24. The Dutcher Family (NYGBR Vol 41 Apr 1910 pp 112-3; Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York (NYGBR Vol 5 1874 pp 30, 34, 94, 151. Vol 6 1875 pp 145, 190); History of Brooklyn by Stiles Vol 2 p 321; Ancestors of Edward Irving Eldridge by Frost pp 114-5; Records of New Amsterdam (1976) by Berthold Fernow. Had one child with first husband, sex unknown. Had children with second husband, names & dates unknown.

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2 Herman/Hendricksen

2 Herman/Hendricksen

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!FAMILY RECORDS; Research by Barbara Sch

!FAMILY RECORDS; Research by Barbara Schomp Kirby: Correspondence; St. Martins Catholic Church, Gent, Belgium, Baptismal Ltr; St. Nicholas Church Records. !Research by Harold Doud, Fullerton, CA, courtesy of Millie Taylor, Jacksonville, FL: Scandanavian Immigrants in New York (1972 reprint) by Evjen, pp 68-79; The First Americans, Mrs. Rosecrans (NYGBR Vol 90 1959, pp 2-5; Register of Early Settlers of Brooklyn by Bergen, pp 373-4; New Amsterdam and It's People by Innes pp 240, 267-8, 318-24. The Dutcher Family (NYGBR Vol 41 Apr 1910 pp 112-3; Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York (NYGBR Vol 5 1874 pp 30, 34, 94, 151. Vol 6 1875 pp 145, 190); History of Brooklyn by Stiles Vol 2 p 321; Ancestors of Edward Irving Eldridge by Frost pp 114-5; Records of New Amsterdam (1976) by Berthold Fernow. Had one child with first husband, sex unknown. Had children with second husband, names & dates unknown.

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Christina, mother of Magdalena, married

Christina, mother of Magdalena, married Dirck Volkertsen the Norwegian who had seven children who took the name of Dircksen. Researched by Marge Gray, 1224 Knobb Hill Dr, Jacksonville ,FL 32221-6117. (904) 786-0342. mgray@jaxx-inter.net

References

1. Magdalena Dircks: The Flying Angel. http://www.fulkerson.org/ < link > retrieved 8 August 2022
2. A History of the Fulkerson Family from A History of the Fulkerson Family from 1630 to the Present by Laila Fulkerson Thompson, page 8-9,16.
3. GEDCOM Note 1) 24 Oct 1652 Cornelius Hendrickson/van Dort
4. GEDCOM Note MARRIAGE: Reformed Dutch Church Records, New York, New York, NY !2. Baptised as an adult 24 Jun 1661, Ref. Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster, NY.
5. GEDCOM Note Christina, mother of Magdalena, married Dirck Volkertsen the Norwegian who had seven children who took the name of Dircksen. Researched by Marge Gray, 1224 Knobb Hill Dr, Jacksonville ,FL 32221-6117. (904) 786-0342. mgray jaxx-inter.net
6. Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Sep 15 2018, 16:54:24 UTC
7. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dircks-2
   1. Samuel S. Purple. "Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York" In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. I. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.
   2. Thomas Grier Evans. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.
   3. Roswell Randall Hoes. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York: (formerly Named Wiltwyck, and Often Familiarly Called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from Their Commencement in 1660. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891.
   4. Wardell, Patricia A. "Magdalena Dircx" njgsbc.org. Accessed 19 Feb 2017. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/
   5. Fernow, Berthold. The Minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam, 1655 to 1663. Vol. I. New York: F.P. Harper, 1902. 4, 7, 29, 179, 192.