Waling Jacobse Van Winkle

Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle (1648-1728) inherited Pavonia land from his father. On 03 January 1658 Governor Stuyvesant formally purchased disputed Pavonia land from the Indians and this included Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle]'s land that son Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle inherited. On 16 August 1660 Bergen was founded (in 1871 it became Jersey City, NJ) and it included what had been Pavonia (houses inside palisades and farms outside palisades. This is the first permanent organized settlement in what would become New Jersey. In 1664 the English took over the government and named the area that included Bergen "the province of New Jersey". The Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] grant at Pavonia/Bergen/NJ was confirmed by English Governor Carteret on 31 March 1668. On 15 March 1671 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle married his step-sister Catharyna Michielse Van Yderstyne (born 1650) in a double wedding with his mother and her fourth groom Caspar Steynmets at Bergen DRC and they settled at Bergen, NJ and began their family. They would have 9 children and the first 2 were baptized at the New York DRC and the next 7 were baptized at the Bergen DRC. The "birth" dates for these children on the Family Group page are actually their baptism dates. On 15 August 1671 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle was elected schepen (judge) at Bergen, NJ. A schepen was to be honest, intelligent, a landowner, a lover of peace, and a professor of the Reformed Religion. On 28 March 1679 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle and his brother Symon Jacobsen Van Winkle were two of the fourteen buyers of the Acquackanonk Patent (a large tract of land in the vicinity of present-day Passaic and Paterson) from Indian Chief and Sachem Captahem. [This purchase was confirmed on 16 March 1684. On 06 May 1692 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle conveyed part of this purchase to Cornelisse Van Waggim and on 14 October 1702 he conveyed part of this purchase to son-in-law Hermanus Gerritsen Van Wagenen.] By 30 June 1682 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle and his family lived at Barbadoes Neck and owned land there (500 acres) on the "east bank of the Passaic, [opposite and below the drawbridge,] where he had an extensive farm [embracing much of the present Rutherford"]. This was probably part of Acquackanonk at this time [as the bounds of Acquackanonk then were sometimes construed to extend across the river into the present Bergen County] and may have been part of the Acquackanonk Patent. In 1692 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle represented Acquackanonk (elected 02 March 1692) at the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey and in 1693 he represented Barbadoes Neck there. On 30 June 1695 his home is listed as New Barbadoes, Essex, NJ. Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle was one of the founders of the Acquackanonk Dutch Reformes Church (later the First Reformed Church of Passaic) and he was named as elder there in May of 1696 and on 20 May 1701. Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle's will was dated 01 November 1707 and it was proved 12 September1729 (Trenton, NJ, liber B, p.133). It lists Acquackanonk as his home and gives his land to his sons with the provision that they pay their sisters appropriately. He stipulates that "all my children shall divide my said estate equally".