Nicolaes Emanuel van Angola

Origins near the "Fresh Water Pond", Chatham Square or Out Ward, Manhattan

Cohen p. 26: Three of the colored* landowners living near the Fresh Water in the 1670s were John De Vries {aka Jan de Vries (II) - a half brother of > }, Claes Emmanuels {the subject of this profile} , and Augustine Van Donck .

It is significant the surnames {with variant spellings} Vries, Mann, and Donck became mainstays of the future NY/NJ border area. To this day (2016) , there is a large population of people living in the ares with these surnames in their trees.

• "Both Claes and his wife Lucretia were associated with Stuyvesant's Bouwery (farm)" David Stephen Cohen p.31

• they had five children.
• Of Interest: Lucretia's particularly beautiful mother Lare Criolyo had been married to Peter Stuyvesant's associate, the full-blooded Dutch husband Capt. Jan de Vries who died in the wreck of the Princess Amelia near Swansea, Wales. • Lare's 2nd husband Lovyse (aka Louis) was a slave of Pieter Stuyvesant. Together they had triplets , one of whom later married Nicolaes Van Angola.

Claes Emmanuel = Nicholaes in this citation.

patronymics

Imitating the Dutch, the African slaves adopted the use of patronymics.

• "Claes" and his half brother Jan de Vries II moved from the Bowery to the Tappan Patent , up the Hudson River.

• some of "Claus Manuel's" property was bought by Blauvelt in 1706

• other records seem to record Claes as "Clause Maunde" See: Tappan Patent Notes

It would be interesting to know more about the land sale to Blauvelt in 1706: Was Claes still alive? He would have been closing in on age 60...

• Claes Manuel died and his children, Lewis (Lovyse), Elizabeth and Manuel Claessesn, had inherited his share.

Fabend account

see timeline: Claes entered a deal with others in combination in the 8th ave - Astor Place region that was known as Sand Hills

continuing:

"The Tappan Patent Perhaps his inheritance from his brother in Hoorn in 1680 spurred Jan Pietersen Haring to put together a group of ten families, including his own, to acquire the Tappan Patent, 16,000 acres extending from West Nyack on the north to today’s Oradell reservoir in Bergen County on the south,  and from the hills of the Nyack Range overlooking the Hudson River on the east to the Hackensack River on the west. "