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Year Book of the Holland Society of New-York POUNDED im »/4. / H71 PUBLIC LIBRARY Hl. FORT WAYNE 1915 & ALLEN CO., IND. 472086 GENEALOGY COLLECTION l UCLIBnABY lllliiiiifiWi1ii'i»ffi!iiilii i? 3 1833 01147 7434 MAY 2 2 1940 YEAR BOOK OF The Holland Society OF New York 1915 BERGEN BOOK 3rd Volume PREPARED BY THE RECORDING SECRETARY 3* Executive Office 90 West Street new york city Copyright 1915 BY The Holland Society of New York CONTENTS BERGEN RECORDS (3RD Book): page The First Settlers of Bergen 1 Burials in Bergen 21 Church Members in Bergen 57 Minutes of the Consistory 79 Index 83 ADMINISTRATION: Constitution 93 By-laws 100 Badges 104 Accessions to Library in z: MEMBERSHIP: Former Officers 117 List of Members 129 Necrology 159 MEETINGS: 472086 Poughkeepsie 173 Smoker 176 Hudson County Branch 185 Banquet 187 Annual Meeting 230 New Officers, 1915 , 240 In Memoriam 254 Press of F. A. Bassette Company Springfield. Massachusetts ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE William L. Brower, President—Portrait Frontispiece Communipaw—Heading Cut I The First Schoolhouse in Bergen—Initial Letter. I Register of Members—First Page 56 Town of Bergen—Heading Cut 57 Edward Van Winkle, Recording Secretary—Por- trait 78 Bergen Hill—Heading Cut 79 Seward G. Spoor, Corresponding Secretary—Por- trait 82 Arthur H. Van Brunt, Treasurer—Portrait 92 Badge of the Society 104 Button of the Society no Isaac Franklin Russell—Portrait 116 Ernest M. Stires, D.D.—Portrait 158 Rear Admiral N. R. Usher—Portrait 172 The Van Vliet Homestead—Heading Cut 173 Eagle Tavern 185 William H. Carpenter, LL.D.—Portrait 192 — Banquet Menu " Restless" in Hell Gate 193 Hutspot Pot 194 Souvenir Tray 196 1 1 . ; y*ff|aS 1 ir 8 ". SB " Ej 1 Wfr wSm 111 it Immi^m- 1 wk^^ ^Ji B& '^t^^» l,v Bk&I Bk .* : '*M ;: • bS8BB I BBB 1 H9B PRESIDENT 1914 OF THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK THE FIRST SETTLERS OF BERGEN by Nicholas Garretson Vreeland HILE Gemonepan (Communipaw), the "Village on the Shore," was set- tled as early as 1630, the formally recognized Village of Bergen was not so known until 1660. Both of these, with other settlements, were officially incorporated as the Village of Bergen. What might be called the Village of Communipaw was, in reality, a row of houses 1 facing New York Bay from Mill Creek south- erly, later outlined by the present Phillips Street, with scattered houses between the shore and the hill to the westward. Jan Evertson Bout was the first known settler in this section, who in 1634 came there as an official of Michael Pauw, the Patroon. Six years later, Egbert Wouterson came into possession of "Jan de Lacher's Hook," later known as Mill Creek Point, the ancestral home of the Van Home family. Jacob Walling Van Winkle was a settler as early as 1641 but removed to Rensselaerswyck, returning nine years later. Bout sold in 1646 a portion of his farm to Michael Jansen, the common ancestor of the Vreeland family, and moved to Breuckelen. In 1 See heading cut. THE HOLLAND SOCIETY In 1655, the Indians drove out all of the Communi- paw people, killing or capturing nearly every white person. A few families escaped by boat to New Am- sterdam, among them that of Michael Jansen, who lived for three years on the corner of what is now Wil- liam and Stone Streets, and returned to Communipaw in 1658, where he lived until the year of his death in 1663. Constable Hook, named for Constable (gunner) Jacob Jacobsen Roy, was first occupied for residence in 1646. To Greenville came Dirck Jansen Dey, Claes Carstens and others prior to 1659. Other names are mentioned as among the early owners of land in this section, but many of these never settled upon the land, being possi- bly only speculators. Early in 1660 petitions were sent to the Governor and Council of New Netherland, for permission to settle upon the lands on the "Berg" (Hill) back of Communipaw, but Governor Stuyvesant was so fear- ful of the safety of the people, owing to the numerous Indian invasions, that he refused to give the permission desired. Later in the year, Michael Jansen, as repre- sentative of the district on the west side of the river in the council of "Nine Men," made such strong represen- tations to him, that he gave permission to form a settle- ment, provided it was protected by a strong palisadoed fence built around it. This was done, and the tract inside the fence was divided into thirty-two plots 1 facing the six roads which are now known as Bergen Avenue, Academy Street, Tuers Avenue, Newkirk Street,Vroom Street, and Van Reypen Street. This map was made by Jacques Cortelyou, the surveyor of New Amsterdam; but though the most diligent search has been prosecuted, no trace of it has been found, nor has there been discovered any list of the names of the original patentees. In accordance with Dutch custom, a church and school were established and service was conducted by volunteers until 1663, when a peti- tion to the Council of New Netherland 2 was signed by the 1 See map in Holland Society 1 See pages 13-19 of Holland So- Year Book 1914, page 3. ciety Year Book 1913. BERGEN RECORDS 3 the Magistrates of Bergen, asking that a clergyman be formally assigned, and annexing as evidence of the good faith of the petitioners a subscription list of four hundred and seventeen guilders, in seawan, as a nucleus for the support of the proposed institution. The names of the subscribers give us our earliest clue to the names of the more prominent earliest settlers of Bergen, which title then officially covered not only the settlement inside the palisades but also the districts of Communi- paw, Greenville, and Bergen Point; actually all of the present Hudson County reaching from Kill van Kull on the south to the Bergen woods on the north, with the exception of the people of Harsimus and Paulus Hook, who, by reason of propinquity, worshipped in New Amsterdam. This conclusion is more readily assured because none of the names of the settlers of these last named sections appeared on the petition. We think that we may safely deduce, therefore, that the names appearing on this list 1 covered a great pro- portion of the First Settlers of Bergen, especially as we later trace up the future history of each one and his connection with the future ruling families. Taking them up in the order written, we find at the top Tielman Van Vleck, Michael Jansen, Harman Smeeman and Caspar Steynmets. These were the Magistrates of Bergen and were given the preference, which was emphasized by their becoming the largest contributors. TRANSPOSITION OF FAMILY NAMES At the time of the settlement of New Netherland, surnames were comparatively unknown; many of the family names now in use were not known in the old country as such; out of our list only the names Post, Van Vleck and Steynmets existed as recognized family names, the others being used for a generation only, to be replaced optionally by the father's name, his occu- pation, or the name of the old home town. The sons took for their last names the names of their fathers, with the syllable "sen" (son) annexed. Thus, Michael Jansen, 1 See complete list on pages and of Holland Society Year Book 14 15 | 1913. — 4 THE HOLLAND SOCIETY Jansen, son of Jan or John; Gerrit Gerritsen, son of Gerrit; and so on. Sometimes the occupation of the father was continued in his son's name, thus: Jan Bleecker; John the Bleacher, and again the home town was often tacked on to the surname. In the Vreeland family is found first Michael Jansen, son of Jan or John van Vreeland; then Michael Jansen van Schrabbekerke, the last being the familiar name of the church home town in Zeeland with which he was connected. Upon landing here, he first went to Rens- selaerswyck, opposite Albany, and settled on the "Hooge Berg" (High Hill) farm; when he left there to come to New JerseyJieiwas put down as Michael Jansen van der Burgh. Being a plain Dutchman, however, he dropped all the extra titles and stuck to the plain Jansen all the rest of his life. His children were all Michelsons, and it was not until the third generation in this country that the real and original family name was used by all of the Vreelands. While the choice of family patronymics varied, a method prevailed in the choice of the first name of the children. The first son was almost always named for his paternal grandfather, the second after his maternal grandfather, and after these the uncles were honored. The girl's maternal grandmother was first honored, then the paternal grandmother and so on. This makes it comparatively easy for the genealogist to locate family lines. Certain names were maintained through many generations, such as Adrian, among the Posts; Garret among the Garretsons or Van Wagenens primarily the same family; Michael among the de- scendants of the original Michael Jansen Vreeland; Walling in the Van Winkle family; Henry among the Brinkerhoffs, and so on. In one family we find Elias Adrian and Adrian Elias alternating with each succeed- ing generation for a hundred years and more. Some- times one can tell by the middle name pretty near who the father was. Thus, John Jacobs was son of Jacob, and so forth. Adrian has been perpetuated in the Adriance family; Reyer in the Ryerson; Pieter in the Petersons; The Dutch Jurriaen, taken for a corruption of ; BERGEN RECORDS 5 of Yurrie, by easy gradations became Yerry, Jerry and Jeremiah or in other instances Uriah ; Yerry's son would be called Yearance, and here we have another family name.
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