Pieter Laurensz van Buskirk

Peter Laurens Van Buskirk

• Birth: Jan 1 1666
• Death: July 31 1738
• Parents: Laurens van Buskirk, I, Jannetje Jans
• Wife: Trintje Hanse
• Children: Jannetje Van Buskirk, Laurens Pietersen Van Buskirk, Jannetje Van Buskirk, Johannes Hans Van Buskirk, Willemtje Van Buskirk, Antje Van Buskirk, Jacobus Van Buskirk, Rachel Van Buskirk, Anna Van Buskirk

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Buskirk-4

Peter Van Buskirk was born on January 1, 1666, in Bergen, New Jersey to Laurens Van Buskirk and Jannetje Jans. He married Trentje Hans Hermanse in 1690 in Hackensack, New Jersey. They had 11 children in 20 years. He died on July 20, 1738, in Bergen, New Jersey, at the age of 72, and was buried in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Pieter Van Buskirk (c. January 1, 1655 – July 21, 1738[1]), also spelled Boskerck, is considered the first settler in the Constable Hook area of Bayonne, New Jersey. Van Buskirk built a home and farm around the year 1700 on a bluff overlooking the shore of Upper New York Bay on what became known as Van Buskirk's Point at the confluence of the bay and Kill van Kull. Van Buskirk started a small family cemetery next to his house in 1736. His wife, Tryntje died on October 31 of that year and is buried in the cemetery. Pieter Van Buskirk died two years later and was also buried in the cemetery.[1]

Notes

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The Van Buskirk Family Cemetery, founded by Dutch settlers in 1736, is located on Constable Hook near Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey. This Van Buskirk Graveyard is now completely surrounded by a tank field on industrial property owned by Bayonne Industries, Inc, which restored the once forgotten family burial ground.

History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constable_Hook

Van Buskirk family

In 1646, the Dutch West India Company, under the leadership of Director-General William Kieft, gave a land grant to Jacob Jacobsen Roy who was a chief gunner or constable in Fort Amsterdam in New Amsterdam. the capital of New Netherland. The area, "Konstapel's Hoeck" in Dutch, takes its name from Roy's title. Roy, however, never cultivated or settled on the land.[2]
The first settler is believed to be Pieter Van Buskirk (Boskerck). Born around January 1, 1665, Van Buskirk built a stone house overlooking Upper New York Bay on Constable Hook at what became known as Van Buskirk's Point around the year 1700. Van Buskirk started a small family cemetery next to his house in 1736. His wife, Tryntje died on October 31 of that year and was buried in the cemetery. Pieter Van Buskirk died two years later on July 20, 1738 and was also buried in the cemetery.

References

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LK57-J9Y
• Pieter's birth and death information are available at https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LK57-J9Y/pieter-laurense-van-...
• https://co.bergen.nj.us/images/About_Bergen_County/History_of_Berge... History. At the time of first European contact, Bergen County was inhabited by Native American people, particularly the Lenape groups of the Tappan, Hackensack and Rumachenanck (later called the Haverstraw). Today, some of the Ramapough Mountain Indians who reside in the northwest of the county trace their ancestry back to the Lenape and Munsee peoples. The area comprising today's Bergen and Hudson counties was part of New Netherland, the 17th century North American colonial province of the Dutch Republic. It had been claimed after Henry Hudson (sailing for the Dutch East India Company) explored Newark Bay and anchored his ship at Weehawken Cove in 1609. Early settlement attempts by the Dutch included Pavonia (1633), Vriessendael (1640) and Achter Col (1642) but these settlements were repelled in Kieft's War (1643-1645) and the Peach Tree War (1655-1660). Settlers again returned to the western shores of the Hudson in the 1660 formation of Bergen, which would become the first permanent European settlement in the territory of the modern state of New Jersey. During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, on August 27, 1664, New Amsterdam surrendered to the English Navy. The Province of New Jersey was then formed in 1674. In 1679, Bergen was included in a judicial district with Essex, Monmouth and Middlesex counties, while the territory was called East Jersey, a proprietary colony (as opposed to a royal colony). In 1683, Bergen (along with the three other counties) was officially recognized as an independent county by the Provincial Assembly. Initially, Bergen County consisted of only the land between the Hudson and the Hackensack Rivers, extending north to the border between East Jersey and New York. In January 1709, the boundaries were extended to include all the current territory of Hudson County (formed in 1840), and portions of Passaic County (formed in 1837). The 1709 borders were described as follows: "Beginning at Constable's Hook, so along the bay and Hudson's River to the partition point between New Jersey and the province of New York; along this line and the line between East and West Jersey" to the Pequaneck River; down the Pequaneck and Passaic Rivers to the sound; and so following the sound to Constable's Hook the place of beginning." The line between East and West Jersey here referred to is not the line finally adopted and known as the Lawrence line, which was run by John Lawrence in September and October, 1743.