THIRTEENTH GENERATION
4544. L.I. Van Sickelen (/Van Sicklon)
4546. Anthony ("The Turk") Jansen (Van Salee)
4547. Grietje (Reiners/) Reyniers (/Reinies)
Fez, Morocco |
(4546) Anthony Jansen Van Salee came to New Amsterdam and bought land about 1630, on what now is lower Manhatten of New York City, NY. A Hollander from Salee, a seaport in Africa, (4546) Anthony was the son an admiral in the fleet of the Sultan of Morocco. Since the Dutch built ships for the Sultan, the Dutch Court of New Amsterdam went out of the way to defer to the Admiral's son until both he and his wife became intolerabley arrogant and insulting to both the Court and his neighbors. He was eventually banned from New Amsterdam and moved to Long Island. His home was called "Turks Plantation" Upon the death of his wife, Anthony moved back to New Amsterdam, where he converted his house into an Inn which he and his second wife operated in their elderly years. Although his real estate was no longer extensive, Anthony was listed among the wealthy men to be assessed in the 1674 tax list of New Amsterdam. In his later years
Anthony was at times "summoned because of his being an aged and worthy man esteemed for his knowledge of the old boundaries of land on Long Island." Anthony was described as a "man of prodigious strength" and as "a man of great vigor." | |||
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| (4546) Anthony's first wife, (4547) Grietje Reyniers, is described as "the first prostitute of New Amsterdam". She had been a barmaid in Amsterdam before marrying Anthony, and was cited by the New Amsterdam courts for various breaches of conduct. A fictional treatment of these people in New Amsterdam can be found in "The Drowning Room", by Michael Pye (unfortunately, not a book that sticks to the facts as closely as one would wish). There is a lot of factual information about van Salee in New Amsterdam in The Washington-McClain Ancestry, by Charles A. Hoppin, vol. 3. SRC: Douglas Barricklow dlbdb@open.org
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4548. Jan Cornelissen Van Hoorn
11 July 1649 RDC New Amsterdam, New York, NY
NOTE: (4550) Thymen Jans Lymen may have come to New Amsterdam with Director Twiller. He did not find favor with Kieft, the following director, who with the council admonished him for faulty repairs. Thymen replied that if the ships' captains did not tell him of the problems and the council did not fund the repairs, what could they expect?
| NOTE: (4551ii[2]) Jacob Leisler led the Dutch rebellion and retook New York from the English in 1689. When the English retook New York about 18 months later, Leisler was hanged for treason. -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~walt/gen/htmfile/7710.htm |
9092. Admiral Jan Janse (/Jansz /Jansen) (Van Haarlem)
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9096. Cornelius Christiaense Van Horn
REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/PRF/pedresource_file_frame.asp?recid=80475865
9102. Johan unknown (not Webber)
9103. Trijn Roeloffs van Maesterland
Mar. 1638 New Amsterdam, NY
"(9103[2]) Everardus' parents are unknown, but perhaps they died in the plague of 1617–18 since Evert, his brother Pieter, and two half-brothers were placed in the town orphanage. He and his brother, (1111viii[1]) Cornelis, adopted the name of Bogaert in early adulthood.
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2952365&id=I580744590 c/o Linda Stuhler lstuhler@rochester.rr.com
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NOTES: Marstrand [57.53N 11.34E] founded in 1225, was called "Maesterland" when it was a Dutch commercial outpost in the days of the Hanseatic League -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~walt/gen/htmfile/3854.htm
Many sources show the father of (4551) Martje Jans as the granddaughter of William the Silent through his (presumed) illegitimate son Wolfert Webber. This is unlikely since (4551) Martje was born in Norway, whereas Wolfert and all his other presumed children (b. ABT 1601-1618) were born in the Netherlands, and because neither Jans sister ever used the patronymic "Wolferts". -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~walt/gen/htmfile/3854.htm On 11 August 1647, as (9101ii[2]) Domine Bogardus was about to sail to The Netherlands, (4551[2]) Dirck Cornelissen van Wensveen, (4551) Martje's husband, gave (9101ii[2]) Bogardus, the other son-in-law of (9101) Tryntje Jonas, a power of attorney to collect from the West India Company the sum of 245 guilders, 2 strivers, and 8 pennies "as appears on the Book of Monthly Wages, No. F, folio 17," which was due at the death of "(9101) Trijn Jonas van Maesterland, in her lifetime, midwife here in New Netherlands." ...That power of attorney was lost on 27 [29] September 1647, when the Domine was drowned. "[(9101) Trijn's] family was at Rensselaerwyck when Kiliaen van Rensselaer complained 23 Apr 1634 in a letter that (9101ii[1]) Roelof Jansen was drawing too heavily on his accounts because his mother-in-law was giving things away." --http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/17th/dny_9.htm | |||
 Anneke Jans |
(9101ii) Anneke Jans, an impoverished widow with five children after the untimely death of her first husband, became a lady of leisure after marrying the new Domine of New Amsterdam. But her position as the wife of a parson was severely tested immediately by (4546) Anthony "The Turk" Jansen and his wife, (4547) Grietje Reyniers. Mrs. Lamb's version of this case is as follows: | ||
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`Mrs. Bogardus went to pay a friendly visit to a neighbor; but on getting into the 'entry', discovered that Greitje Reiners, a woman of "questionable reputation" (well-earned, according to court testimony) was in the house, and thereupon turned about and went home. (4547) Grietje was greatly offended at this snubbing from the Dominie's lady, and followed her, making disagreeable remarks. While passing a blacksmith's shop, where the road was muddy, Mrs. Bogardus raised her dress a little, and Grietje was very invidious in her criticisms. The Dominie thought fit to make an example of her; hence the suit. Grietje's husband being in arrears for church dues, Bogardus sent for him and ordered payment, and not getting it, finally sued for the amount.' (See Lamb, History of the City of New York, 1. p. 86)." -- http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~cschmd1/Anneke.htm
These "arrears in church dues" may have stemmed from fact that (4546) Anthony was new to Christianity. He had been raised as a Moslem, and kept a Qur'an in his posession all his life. Domine Bogardus was able to legally use the "arrears" to spite (4546) Van Salee, because citizens of New Netherlands were all required to support the state church (Dutch Reformed).
Fate turned against the Domine and his wife in 1645, when New Amsterdam got a new Goveror, Director General William Kieft. In that year, Bogardus opposed Kieft's policy in regard to the Indians, and denounced him for drunkenness and rapacity. Before being brought to trial, the Domine compromised with Kieft, but the old difficulties soon re-appeared. In 1646 the Director and Council of New Amsterdam summoned Bogardus to appear and answer charges against him. Kieft also fell out of favor, and was obliged to resign. When he set sail for Holland, after the arrival of Governor Stuyvesant in 1647, Bogardus boarded the same vessel to answer the charges brought against him before the classis in Amsterdam. The vessel entered Bristol Channel by mistake, and struck upon a rock, going down with eighty persons -- among them, Bogardus and Kieft. This happened on September 27, 1647.
(4546) Anthony "The Turk" and his wife were later exiled to Long Island, where they apparently settled down and raised Christian children. | |||
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