Sebastian Bastiaensen Van Kortryk

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SEBASTIAN "BASTIAEN"1 VAN KORTRYK was born 1586 in Belgium, and died WFT Est. 1625-1677.

Children of SEBASTIAN "BASTIAEN" VAN KORTRYK are:

 i.   DAUGHTER2 VAN KORTRYK, d. Unknown. 

2. ii. JAN BASTIAEN VAN KORTRYK, b. 1618, Leerdam, Flanders; d. WFT Est. 1662-1710, New York.

3. iii. MICHIEL BASTIAENSEN VAN KORTRYK, b. 1620, Leerdam, Flanders; d. WFT Est. 1621-1710.

 iv.   JACOB VAN KORTRYK, b. Abt. 1622; d. WFT Est. 1623-1712. 

Notes:

BASTIAN VAN KORTRYK,

A Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615.

(Se)bastian Van Kortryk was born in 1586 in Kortryk, West Flanders, Belgium. He emmigrated to the Netherlands about 1615 and settled at the town of Leerdam. It is not currently known who his wife was.

Children:

1. Jan Bastiaensen Kortrijk/Kortregt/Courtwright was born is 1618 in Leerdam, Gelderland, South Holland. He settled near Leerdam at Beest (Beesd). On April 16 1663 he, brother Michael, and their families embarked on the ship "De Bonte Koe," Jan Bergen , Master. Each adult was charged 39 florins, and children under 10, except infants, half price. The total transportation cost for Jan Bastiaensen, his wife and children was 204 florisn, 10 stivers.

He may have been the "Kortryck" who owned a bowery on Staten Island in 1674. He spent part of his time in Harlem, but is last mentioned there 8 June 1677 when he was a witness to a power of attorney given his old friend, Jan Louwe Bogert to Hendrik Jansen Baker, to collect money due Bogert on Brooklyn property sold to Thomas Lamberts.

He died after 1677 probably in New York. The name of his wife is unknown presently.

2. Michiel Bastiaensen Van Kortryk, aka Chiel Kortright, was born in 1620 in Leerdam, Gelderland, Netherlands. He resided near Schoonrewoerd, a village two miles north of Leerdam. He resided several years at Harlem and leased a farm in 1669 from John Archer at Fordham. In 1675 he leased the farm of the widow Tourneur upon Jochim Pieters and Van Keulens Hook. In 1677 he moved to land at Spuyten Duyten on Manhatten Island. He married to an unknown woman and was the father of Reyer, Metje, Annetie, Bastien and Aefie Michaelsen.

Source: cheska@ix.netcom.com

Notes:

14080 Bastiansen Van KORTRYK born 1586 Courtral, Flanders, Belgium,

emigrated about 1615 to Leerdam, NL.

7040 Jan Bastiansen KORTRIK born 1618 Leerdam, Gelderland, NL, came to

America 1663 on the ship "De Bonte Koe," died after 1677 probably in NY;

married to an unknown woman.

3520 Laurens Jansen KORTREGT born 1651 Leerdam, Gelderland, NL, died

1727 Readington, NJ; married 1672 Esopus, NY to Mary ROOSA, dtr of

Albert Heymans ROOSA..

1760 Jan "John" LOW baptized 29 Apr 1685, died 1729 Readington, NJ;

married 20 Jun 1707 Jannetie CORSEN

880 Teunis LOUW baptized 3 Apr 1728 Harlengen, Somerset Co., NJ; m. ca.

1752 Maayke HALL.

440 Thomas LOWE born about 1755, baptized 6 Feb 1755 Readington,

Hunterdon, NJ, died 16 Aug 1819 in Columbus, Chenango Co., NY buried Aug

1819 in East Hill Cem., Sherburne, Chenango Co., NY married 15 Jun 1777

in Ref. Dutch Ch., Albany, NY to Geertje "Charity" VOSBURGH born 12 Oct

1758 in Rhinebeck Flats, Dutchess Co., NY christened 17 Dec 1758 in

Rhinebeck Flats, Dutchess Co., NY died 5 Nov 1820 in Chenango Co., NY

buried Nov 1820 in East Hill Cem., Sherburne, Chenango Co., NY

220 Thomas Witbeck LOWE born 25 Mar 1791 in Albany, , NY christened 30

Apr 1791 in Dutch Reformed, Church, Albany, NY died about 1837 in Shelby

Co., IN married to Elsa "Elsey" CURTIS born 1782 in NY died 1850 in IN

110 Willard W. LOW born 14 Jun 1814 in NY died 23 Jan 1870 in Hancock

Co., IN buried in Little Sugar Creek, Hancock Co., IN married 13 Feb

1834 in Shelby Co., IN to Diantha DRAKE born 8 Feb 1813 in Warren Co.,

OH died 9 Apr 1841 in Shelby Co., IN buried Apr 1841 in Pelham Cem.,

Shelby Co., IN.

55 Phoebe LOW born 9 Mar 1837 Shelby Co., IN died 4 Aug 1911

Hiattville, Bourbon Co., KS married 12 Aug 1852 Hancock Co., IN to Capt.

Robert Preston ANDIS (1830-1917).

Source: Joan Sholl Francis GENEALOGICAL NOTEBOOK - TRA CING LINES OF DESCENT databse: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ig m.cgi?op=GET&db=joanfran&id=I05 209 See: COURTRIGHT - KORTRIGHT Family, descendants of Bastian Van Kortry k, a native of Belgium who emigrated to Holland about 1615, by John H. Abb ott. 147p. 1922.

"Kortryk was a Flemish town yet farther down the Lys, which within the pre vious century had witnessed cruel persecutions, and during the existing w ar (how great its calamities !) had changed hands four times in five year s. But one of its families had escaped these last troubles by leaving so me years before, we refer to the ancestors of the Kortright, or Courtrigh t, family, in its day one of the most wealthy in landed possessions in Har lem. " From James Riker's "History of Holland", 1881, NY; pg. 74.

"To Leerdam had retired from the religious troubles in Flanders, as befo re noticed, the family of Sebastian, or Bastiaen van Kortryk, about a ll we know of this Kortright progenitor with his royal Spanish name. Two s ons of Bastiaen, of whom we must speak, Jan and Michiel, were born at Leer dam ; but the first married and settled some farther up the Linge, at a bu sy little village within sight of Wolfswaert Castle, as also of the ruin ed abbey of Marienwaert, and called Beest, its bailiwick of the same na me joining westerly to the Prince’s Land, but within the Gelderland border ." James Riker's "History of Harlem", 1881, NY; Ch. 5, pg. 106

Michiel Bastiaensen came to America with his brother Jan Bastiaensen, both sons of Sebastian (Bastian) Van Kortright. They first went to Stuyvesant's Bowery, but soon afterward came to Harlem, NY. Michiel Bastiaensen liv ed several years at Harlem, but on 1 May 1669 leased a farm from John Archer, at Fordham, for five years, and on 1 Jan 1675, with his son-in-law, He ndrick Kiersen, hired from the widow Tourneur, her farm upon Jochim Piete rs and Van Keulens Hook for 3 years from May 1st ensuing. On 26 Oct. 167 7, they leased 74 acres of land at Spuyten Duyvel from Jan Dyckman and J an Nagel, for a term of 12 years. This was the first successful effo rt to make improvements in that section of Manhattan Island. The family( of Jan and Michiel) came to be known by several surnames - Kortright, Ry er and others, the last not to be confused with the Ryersons belongi ng to Marten and Adrian Ryerson. Source: Fri Nov 22 12:11:53 1996; Donna S peer Ristenbatt; E- mail: der@success.net via The Olive Tree http://olivet reegenealogy.com/nn/17th/dny_4.shtml

According to Riker's History of Harlem [1904], Sebastian's parents retired and then moved to Holland to Leerdam (Prince's Land because it was owned by Prince William of Orange) in circa 1615.Sebastian had two known sons Jan and Michiel were born there Leer1618 and 1620 respectively.

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Harlem (city of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals... by James Riker (c.1881), pp.106-9:

"The large emigration to New Netherland from the exposed borders nearest the Spanish possessions, and especially the insular district having on the south the river, Waal, and on the north the Rhine and Leek, furnished Harlem with several substantial families. Central of the district mentioned, upon the small river Lingo, which empties into the Waal, stood the city of Leerdam, giving name to a county in which it was seated — a level, grazing country, otherwise called the Prince's Land, because inherited by a son of William of Orange, from his mother, Anne of Egmont. To Leerdam had retired from the religious troubles in Flanders, as before noticed, the family of Sebastian, or Bastiaen van Kortryk — about all we know of this Kortright progenitor with his royal Spanish name. Two sons of Bastiaen, of whom we must speak, Jan and Michiel, were born at Leerdam; but the first [Jan] married and settled some farther up the Linge, at a busy little village within sight of Wolfswaert Castle, as also of the ruined abbey of Marienwaert, and called Beest, its bailiwick of the same name joining westerly to the Prince's Land, but within the Gelderland border.

"The spirit of emigration reaching this locality, many of its people began to pack up and leave for New Netherland, in which they had a safe precedent in no less a personage than the village pedagogue — much reverenced was he and looked up to in those days — for, in the spirit of his deceased senior, Mathias Bartholomeus Schacts, late pastor at Leerdam...

"Michiel, or, as often called, 'Chiel Kortright, the other son of Bastiaen, had also married and been living in "the Prince's Land, near Schoonrewoerd;" the latter a pretty village two miles northerly from Leerdam, whence there had been some emigrating to the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck, at the instance of the Patroon, who had a seat and estates at Vianen, but four miles from Schoonrewoerd...

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

"Each bit of news wafted home from time to time in friendly letters served to quicken interest in the new country which had caused so many vacant tenements and broken families about Beest and Schoonrewoerd. Yet 'Chiel Kortright tarried some years at the latter place, till blest with three or four children; when he and his elder brother, Jan Bastiaensen, whose three sons, born at Beest, his humble home in a bend of the Linge, were now fast approaching manhood, yielded to the flattering offers held out to colonists, and agreed to leave together for that distant land. The contagion had also seized some of the neighbors at Schoonrewoerd, one of whom was Jan Louwe Bogert, a young man with wife and two children, and whose kinsman, Theunis Gysberts Bogert, of Heykoop, two miles north west of Schoonrewoerd, had been already ten years in America.

"Proceeding to Amsterdam, they all embarked, April 16th, 1663, in the Brindled Cow, Jan Bergen, master, in which ship there also sailed several French refugees from Mannheim, in the Palatinate, who will command further notice."

He lived in the Flemish town of Kortrijk on the Lys. He and family were refugees of the wars in Europe in the early 1600s. He left there and moved to Holland in the town of Leerdam.