ELEVENTH GENERATION
"Lt. Stillwell also accompanied Claiborne on the ill-fated expedition against the Pamunkey Indians at Kent Island in an attempt to regain the island as part of Virginia territory. He was charged with deserting his country, Virginia, and he lost his Virginia citizenship... [he] sought refuge among the Dutch in the New Netherlands Colony. There he married Anne Van Dyke of Staten Island.
"About 1648 he joined the English colony at Gravesend... He entered into a trade agreement with (2274) Anthony Jansen van Salee 1 April 1660... Jansen was dissatisfied and the ensuing dispute lasted until 2 March 1662 when the matter was settled by Peter Stuyvesant and his council in favor of Stillwell. In 1659, about a year earlier, Jansen had brought charges against Lt. Stillwell's 16-year-old son, Nicholas Stillwell III , for "insolence" to his servants."
-- http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13636586/person/-36330227/story/910d6e2e-92b8-42c3-8e41-133c5f3a167d?src=search
REF: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/15745283/person/728007330/story/bfb2ab7d-e080-43ab-ac88-83ea038a5fc0?src=search
Elizabeth Cornell (-1735) m. Nicholas Stillwell Sr. (1636-) 6 Dec. 1703 Gravesend, Kings, NY -- US & Int'l Marriage Records, ancestry.com
SRC: "A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lake of Gravesend, Long Island ; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family" c/o http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyoflakef00adam/genealogyoflakef00adam_djvu.txt
"We learn from the will of (2282) Thomas Spicer that his daughter, (1141) Anne married (1140) John Lake. This will is dated September 30, 1658, and proved November 4, 1658. Since three children of John and Anne (Spicer) Lake are mentioned in the will, itis evident that they had been married some years (1649?)."
"The book "Lists of Emigrants to America" by John Camden Hotten (published 1874) shows two entries for John Lake, both of whom took ship for America in 1635. One of these men, aged 16 years [i.e. b. 1618/19], travelled on the ship "Truelove" and the other, aged 18 [i.e. b. 1616/17 - prob. c. [c.] 6 July 1617 Wickford, Essex], sailed on the "Expedition". The declarations accompanying these embarkation lists state that all the people on board had taken the oaths of allegiance & supremacy, and were examined by the minister of Gravesend (England) 'touching their conformity to the orders and discipline of the Church of England.' The destination for both ships was Boston. Is there information to indicate or suggest either of the John Lakes mentioned above is the same (1140) John Lake who eventually settled with Lady Deborah Moody's group in New Amsterdam and married an (1141) Anna Spicer?"
-- Tom Holmes 2 May 2004 c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?john,lake,gravesend::lake::2273.html
"I'm also researching that Lake line. Only date I have for him is that he was born about 1619. So he could be the 16 year old that sailed on "truelove". I have a copy of "Early Settlers of Kings County" by Teunis Bergen and it doesn't mention a ship."
-- Rachel Mackin 28 Oct. 2004 c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/lake/messages/2352.html
"On 20 May 1652, “(1141iii) Metje” was baptized in the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church as the daughter of “(1140) Jan Leeck”3 [John Lake] with witnesses "Albert Albertszen", “Jan Hutjesse” [John Hutchinson],4 “(2283ii) Susanna Bresers” [her maternal aunt, Susan (Spicer) (Wathens) Brasier], and "Engeltje Mans".5 In the primary published account of the Lake family, Metje’s baptism is mentioned yet she is omitted in the listing of John Lake’s children.6 Consequently, most researchers have simply assumed that this baptismal record pertains to (1141iv) Margaret, another daughter of John and (1141) Ann (Spicer) Lake. However, Metje is typically identified as ...Mattie (Martha) whereas Margrietje ...Margaret.
Thus, John and Ann (Spicer) Lake did have a daughter named Martha. Was she identical with the wife of (1141iii[1]) Obadiah Wilkins and (1141iii[2]) John Griggs? ...In 1675, John Griggs sued William and Obadiah Wilkins for crop damage caused by their cattle in the past:
'...in ye yeare 68 Jo Griggs pl agt Obdiah for dammidges in his Corne att ye springe by cattle yt have beene putt in to ye ffield and yt ye sd damidg was prised & Judged to 3 Skiples of wheate & hee pduced Carson Johnson a wittness. Carson Johnson testifies yt in mrch last hee see 7:Cowes uppon his Corne (all Cowes) & yt Jo Lakes daughter fetcht ym off wch was more Cows yn ye deft had further ye deft testifies yt hee did not knowe whose Cows any of ym was:7
(570) John Lake Jr.’s only known daughter was born well after 1675, so it was certainly a daughter of John and Ann (Spicer) Lake who “fetcht” the cows of Obadiah Wilkins. Who else would have had the opportunity and the motivation to prevent Obadiah’s cows from causing more damage other than his wife Martha?
In 1682, as detailed above, Obadiah Wilkins added a codicil to his will in which he 'appointed these my friends whom I repose confidence in namely (2283vi) Samuel Spicer, William Williamson, (1141iv[1]) William Golding and John Tilton junr . . .” to watch over his children. Samuel Spicer was a brother of Ann (Spicer) Lake; William Goulding was the husband of the (1141iv) Margaret Lake ([1141iii] Martha's sister); and John Tilton Jr. was the brother-in-law of Samuel Spicer. If Martha was the daughter of John and Ann (Spicer) Lake, then Obadiah’s friends, Spicer and Goulding were also the uncle and brother-in-law of young widow Martha.
In 1683, (1141iii) Martha Wilkins resided next to (570)John Lake Jr. and two doors away from (1140) John Lake Sr.8 and, as shown above, the household of (1141iii[2]) John Griggs Jr. was listed as two doors away from that of Ann Lake in the 1698 census. On 25 May 1700, “J. Griggs” shared lots 38 and 39 on Hugh Garretson’s Neck or Gelder Neck with John Lake.9
...Martha’s father, John Lake, was not one of the original settlers of Gravesend and—despite claims to the contrary—his origins remain unknown. However, the descendants of Martha (Lake) (Wilkins) Griggs can claim a line of descent from an original Gravesend patentee—Martha’s maternal grandfather was Thomas Spicer...10
"In his will of 29 September 1658, Thomas Spicer left 'to [his daughter] (1141) Ann Lake, wife of (1140) John Lake, 60 gilders [sic] for the benefit of her three children,'12 one of whom would have been Martha. Martha (Lake) Wilkens Griggs died before Nov. 27,1715.
"FOOTNOTES:
"4 'In the Records of the Orphan’s Court (Holland Society Year Book, 1900) it is stated that Jan Jutsitson (Hutchison) died at the house of Henry Brasar [sic, Brasier, husband of Susan (Spicer) (Wathens) Brasier]. . . . By his will, dated Oct. 4, 1658, Jan Hutsitson willed to Jan, son of Joris Hom [George Holmes], 100 guilders; to Susanna, daughter of Henry Breser, his god-daughter, 120 guilders, and the balance of his estate to Mary, Rebecca, Susanna and Martje, children of Henry Bresar, . . .” (J.E. Stillwell, Stillwell Genealogy, 1:137).
"5 Probably identical with the Engeltje Mans, 'j.d. Van Coinxste, in Sweden,' who married Borger Joriszen, 'j.m. Van Hershberg, in Silesien' in the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church on 18 Dec. 1639 (Record 6 [1875]:33). 'Engeltje appears to have been a vigorous old lady of somewhat masculine disposition. She was frequently, as a witness or litigant, before the Court at Stady Huys, where she was much dreaded on account of her loquacity. . . .' (J.H. Innes, New Amsterdam and Its People, 1626-1902 [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1902], 234).
"6 Arthur Adams and Sarah A. Risley, A Genealogy of the Lake Family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey, Descended from John Lake of Gravesend, Long Island: With Notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family (privately printed, 1915), 9.
-- http://miller-malcom-familytree.net/Lakes by 20Perry Streeter.htm
"JOHN LAKE OF GRAVESEND
"Gravesend was settled in 1643 by a company of Englishmen under the leadership of Lady Deborah Moody. She was the widow of Sir Henry Moody and came over to Massachusetts about 1640. She settled first in Salem, but in 1641 she removed to Lynn, where she purchased land. Soon she became a follower of the teachings of Roger Williams, and on account of the persecution of the Massachusetts authorities removed with some of her followers to New Amsterdam. John Tilton, who is said to have come over with Lady Moody, was one of those who went to Gravesend with her. Besides those who removed from Massachusetts, Lady Moody found other Englishmen at New Amsterdam, who joined her in the Gravesend enterprise. The first town patent for Gravesend was granted by Governor Kieft, December 19, 1645, to Lady Moody, Sir Henry Moody, her son, John Tilton, etc., and their associates, thirty-nine in all. Among these associates were (1140) John Lake, William Goulding, and (2282) Thomas Spicer, all names familiar in Cape May County.
"Thomas Spicer was at Newport, R. I., as early as July 16, 1638, the date of his signing the compact. He was chosen Treasurer of Portsmouth in 1642, and in 1643 appears in Manhattan. Since John Lake was his son-in-law, it is probable that he also was at Newport and joined Lady Moody on her way to New Amsterdam ; though he may not have married (1141) Anne Spicer until after the settlement of Gravesend."
-- Adams, Arthur and Risley, Sarah A., "A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lade of Gravesend, Long Island ; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family" c/o http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyoflakef00adam/genealogyoflakef00adam_djvu.txt
1140. John Lake /Jan Leeck
1141. Anne Spicer
REF: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4brownfamily&id=I022
1683/84 Gravesend, Kings, NY
ABT 1715
s/o Lt. N & Abi Hopton
s/o Jer & An Teu Nyssen
s/o Hns Mansson & Ella Olofsdr Stille
[b. ABT 1702]
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=erwin123&id=I54314
1 Stillwell, “Gravesend Settlers,” 65.
2 Ibid.(from the same place as above), 100.
3 Record 5 (1874):98.
7 Gravesend Town Records; Book 4: Court Minutes 1662-1669, Town Records of Kings County Translations/Transliterations, 56; image from the library of The Holland Society of New York, courtesy of David M. Riker.
8 DHNY, 2: 508-11. That the 1683 Rate List was recorded in approximate order of residence is an assumption but the order observed is consistent with that found in the 1698 census.
9 Truesdell, citing Gravesend Town Records, 3:91.
10 Stillwell, “Gravesend Settlers,” 46...
12 David McQueen, “Kings County, N.Y., Wills,” Record 47 (1916):327-28, citing Gravesend Town Records 3:112."
"In 1656, with Nelis Matthuysen, [(1143[1]a) Jan] was employed by the inhabitants of Harlem to build the Dutch Church at that place... There is a record of a Deed conveying land at Gravesend, L.I., to Johannes Brower from John Gulick... Excise Acct., Jan. 16 to July 22, 1667, p. 247 Ch. Rec. N. A., Dec. 20, 1665 p. 248-270... There is no further trace of him and he probably died without children."
INDEX
1142. Claes Claeszen Smit
1143. Geertruyd Willekens
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cw4peter&id=I024484
s/o J
ABT 1707 Gravesend, Kings, NY
= siblings
LAKE & SMIT LINES continued
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