Samuel Edsall, Sr.

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Early DRC records

1. 1656 Oct 01; Michiel Janszen, Fytie Wessels; Johannes; Nicolaes Backer, Samuel Etsal, Anna Wessels, Anna Elisabeth Maskop
2. 1659 Mar 03; Laurens Andrieszen, Jannetje Jans; Andries; Samuel Etsal, Tryn Harders
3. 1660 Sep 12; Samuel Etsal, Jannetje Wessels; Johannes; Herman Wesselszen, Henrica Wessels
4. 1663 Mar 05; Jan Cornelis de Ryck, Marritje Gerrits; Cornelis; Samuel Etsal, Pieter Hessels
5. 1666 Apr 07; Elias Michielszen, Grietie Jacobs; Michiel; Samuel Etsal, Sytie Hertmans
6. 1670 Sep 27; Jeuriaen Thomas, Ryckie Hermans; Gerrit; Pieter Hesselszen, Janneken Etsal

Note: Samuel Etsal married Jannetje Wessels and she becam known as Jannetie/Janneken Etsal

Castello Plan

Block C , NO·9

Thomas Fransen, a public carman, purchased this house from Samuel Edsal, September 4, 1658. In October, 1661, he bought Claes Jansen de Ruyter's house, on Pearl Street (Block J, NO.7). He then removed there.

See also: The Iconography of Manhattan Island, vol. 6, p. 385.

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 3 Samuel Edsall was the first generation American and a descendant of Charlemagne, that became the most Patriotic Sussex County New Jersey Family, who’s sons and grandsons served in the Revolutionary War, and has furnished Soldiers to every war our nation has waged.

He arrived in Boston in the year July 1648 by ship Tryall, Reading, Berkshire County, England, where the family traditions ascribe his nativity. Samuel Edsall had daughters, Anna and Judith. He conveyed land to his sons-in-law, Benjamin Blogg and William Lawrence." From Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, New York, From Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700. In 1657 he was admitted a small burgher in N. A., and in 1664 took the oath of allegiance in N. Y. to the English. In 1664 he owned and resided on a farm at Constable's Hoek, Bergen, N. J., to which place he probably removed from Newtown. In 1668 he was a member of the Council of Gov. Carteret; in 1677 he was taxed in N. Y., and in 1687 a justice of the peace in Queens Co. Oct. 1, 1690, he was commissioned a justice of the peace of Kings Co., as per. Col. Man. Issue:--Annetje, bp. July 12, 1656; Judith, bp. May 15, 1658; Johannes, bp. Sept. 12, 1660--all in N. A.; Ann; Julia; and Richard. (See p. 72 of Winfield's Hudson Co.) Signed his name "Samuel Edsall. His father was John Edsor Samuel Edsall and was a hatter and a fur-trader. "The hats of that day were the broad-brimmed and steeple-crowned hats of fur, and it is likely that he carried on that occupation in connection with his trade in furs." In 1655, he paid a voluntary tax of one beaver. Beavers were a favorite form of payment in all dealings in the colony. By 1664, Samuel Edsall had become a substantial merchant and owned much land. In 1665 and 1666 he purchased from the Indians the sites of Elizabethtown and Newark, New Jersey, for their first settlers.(His great-great grandson, Rev. John Berrien Fish, was born in Elizabethtown.) Edsall engaged in trading ventures in the Virginias for tobacco, served as a juror and arbitrator in New York, and acted as an interpreter between the Governor and the Indians. In 1679 he moved to Brookhaven, Long Island, and returned to New Jersey in 1682-83 He settled in New Amsterdam and became active in commerce & politics. Lived in Queens and served on councils of Stuyvesant & Leissler. (other source says, He was a member of the judiciary and served on the councils of Governors Cartaret and Leisler.) Initially involved in furtrade & fishing. Negotiated with the indians on behalf of the government for the lands that Newark and Elizabeth , NJ are founded upon. He was a Hatter and served on the council of Governor Stuyvesant. He bought a house from Stuyvesant in Queens between Bridge & Pearl streets and built a Dutch style house on the property with bricks brought down the Hudson River from Albany. He married 4 times. His third wife was Ruth Woodhull, daughter of Richard Woodhull of Northampton, England. He died circa 1701/02. 1 Samuel Edsall, whose descendants are now found in New-York, New Jersey, and other states, was a native of Reading, in Berkshire, Eng.; and after his arrival at New Amsterdam, m. in 1655 Jannetie Wessels, from Aernhem. Here he perused the business of a beaver-maker or hatter. He acquired large plantations at Bergenand Hackensack, in New Jersey, to the former of which placed here moved "in Col. Nicoll's time", and in 1668 was appointed one of the council for that province. Through a long term of years he was an active public man. His zealous support of the unfortunate Leisler, incurred the hatred of the opposite party, though he enjoyed in a large degree the respect of the people of Newtown, among whom he had previously fixed his residence. Here he m. his second wife, Jannetie (Annetje Struyker Berriens), widow of Cor. Berrien. He was still serving in the magistracy at Newtown in 1700; but the time of his decease is uncertain. Mrs. Hopper transferred the property to Harman Smeeman, a Dane. But the latter did not keep it long. He conveyed it to Samuel Edsall, who in 1674 deeded it to a Mr. Morris, whence the new name of Bronck's five hundred acres: Morrisania. Edsall: of the New Jersey Archives, New Jersey Historical Society, Trenton, NJ, 1916. The immigrant, Samuel Edsall, was a most remarkable man. He was born 16 Mar 1634 in Reading, England, and came to America aboard the Tyrall, landing in Boston in July 1648 at the age of 14. In 1657 Samuel was made a burgher of the city of New Amsterdam. He had a hatter’s shop at what is now 47 Pearl Street in New York. During the next few years he made trading expeditions to Long Island, up the Hudson, in New Jersey and along the Delaware River. He learned various Indian dialects and was highly esteemed as an interpreter in later years . He was one of the founders of Bergen, NJ where he owned a farm which he leased in 1663. In 1664 he purchased 500 acres in Bronx Land which he later sold. He had now become a substantial merchant and landed proprietor. In 1665 and 1666 he purchased the sites of Elizabeth Town and Newark from the Indians for their first settlers. In 1667 he moved to Bergen where he became President of the town, a member of its court of judicature and a member of the NJ Governor's Council. In 1669 he obtained a grant of 2,000 acres running along the Hudson about two and a half miles from Bergen to what is now Fort Lee, and extending inland to the Hackensack River. This was eventually inherited by his son Richard. For the next ten years he resided in New Jersey while trading tobacco in Virginia, acting as interpreter for the Governor, practiced in the courts, and continued to acquire lands in NJ and Pennsylvania. In 1679 he moved to Brookhaven, Long Island where he had a fishing enterprise and he became a freeholder and proprietor of that town while continuing on the Council of East Jersey and the magistracy of Bergen. In 1688 he moved to Newtown, Long Island, having married a widow of that place and he lived there until his death. He was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in Queens County, 13 Dec 1689. That same year a mob seized the fort in New York because they had many grievances against Governor Edward Andros who still supported James II although he had fled the throne and been succeeded by William and Mary. Their leader, Jacob Leisler, proclaimed support of William and Mary and appointed a council of eight men of substantial merit. Samuel Edsall was one of these. Leisler and the Council ruled for almost two years. Finally the Crown appointed a new Governor but Leisler refused to surrender his rule and he and his associates were arrested and tried for high treason. Samuel and one other were acquitted, six were found guilty but pardoned, and Leisler and his so n-in-law were hanged on 16 May 1691. Samuel was married four times. His first wife was Jannetje Wessells, a widow whom he married in New Amsterdam in 1655. By her he had six daughters who married well and two sons, one of whom, John Edsall, settled on the paternal estate in Bergen County and is the ancestor of the Edsalls who lived in that part of New Jersey. In 1678, Samuel married Ruth Woodhull, daughter of Richard Woodhull. (also spelled Odell) a prominent leader on Long Island and Edsall's partner in the fishing enterprise. Ruth died in 1688; Samuel died between 1701 and 1706. Samuel and Ruth had two children: Ruth and Richard. Their son Richard, baptized 1682, m1, 1712, Kezia Ketcham (who is the ancestor of the Edsalls of Queens Co) , m2, ca 1714, Anna Lawrence and m3 Helegonde DeKay (who is the ancestor of the Edsalls of Orange and Sussex Counties). She was born 1699, dau of Capt. Jacobus and Sarah Willett DeKay. Richard inherited the 2,000 acres in Hackensack, Bergen Co, NJ from his father. In 1734 Jacobus DeKay traded 60 acres in NYC (the present site of Columbia University) for a much larger tract in the Wawayanda Patent, then supposed to be all in Orange County. DeKay settled on the southern portion of his tract, which turned out to be in Vernon, Sussex Co, NJ, and Richard soon followed him, living there until he died. His first child by Ketchum was Philip Edsall, 1710-1791, who m Elizabeth Pomeroy, and, was a farmer, civil magistrate and elder in the Presbyterian Church in Newtown, Long Island. Some genealogies say Philip had no sons, but the 1790 Census for Newtown shows Philip Sr., Samuel, and Philip Jr. together. By DeKay, Richard had a daughter, Anne Edsall, bap. 30 Jul 1721 in the Dutch Church at Hackensack and six sons all baptized there as follows: Richard, 17 Mar 1723, Jacobus, 3 Jan 1725, Samuel, 14 Nov 1726, Thomas 27 Sep 1728, Thomas 27 May 1733, and John, 25 Nov 1733.

Family Members Parents John Edsor Samuel Edsall 1596 – unknown

Spouses Ruth Woodhull Edsall 1653–1688 (m. 1678)

Jannetje Janse Strycker Edsall (m. 1689)

Children Mary Edsall De Lanoy

Elizabeth Edsall Berrien unknown–1763

Samuel Edsall 1655 – unknown

Richard Samuel Edsall 1683–1762

Ruth Edsall Fish 1683–1763

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