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THE 
 
 DIRECT ANCESTRY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE LATE JACOB WENDELL, 
 
 OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 
 
 WITH A 
 OF THE 
 
 EARLY DUTCH SETTLEMENT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PROVINCE OF NEW NETHERLAND. 
 
 1614 — 1664. 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES RINDGE STANWOOD, 
 
 OF BOSTON. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION. 
 
 DAVID CLAPP & SON.- 
 
 1882. 
 
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/CORNELL^ 
 
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 \ LIBRAR Y 
 
 COPYRIGHT, 1882, 
 BY JAMES RINDGE STANWOOD. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS :— 
 1. - The City of New Amsterdam in 1640 (£roin Montamis) 
 
 2. 
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 5. 
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 13. 
 
 The Seal op The Pkovince op New Netherland, 1623 . 
 The Seal of the Patroon Estate of Boensselaerswyck 
 The Late Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Albany 
 Original Seal of the Early Church of Fort Orange 
 The Wiendell Arms 
 
 Steel Frontispiece. 
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 12 
 13 
 13 
 18 
 
 Autograph of Evert Jansen Wendel (New Amsterdam, 1640) , the 
 First Settler of the Name 
 
 Autograph of Johannes Wendel, op Albany (Beverwyck) , 1649 . 
 Autograph of Abraham Wendell, op New York, 1678 
 Autograph of John Wendell, of Boston, Mass., 1703 . 
 Autograph op John Wendell, op Portsmouth, N. H., 1731 
 Autograph op Jacob Wendell, op Portsmouth, N. H., 1788 . 
 Portrait on Steel of Jacob Wendell, op Portsmouth, N. H., 1788 
 
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 I. Sketch of Events Incident to the Settlement 
 OF THE Pkovince of New Netherland 
 
 II. The Direct Ancestry of the Late Jacob Wendell, 
 OF Portsmouth, N. H., with Tabular Pedigree 
 
 III. Appendix 
 
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 35 
 
 OAi.OfM:. 
 
PEEFAOE 
 
 In the introductory sketch of. the period included within the years 1614-1664, it 
 has been essayed briefly to portray the sway of the United Provinces over New 
 Netherland, the limits of which originally extended from Chesapeake Bay to Cape 
 Cod, but were subsequently greatly modified. At the end of that time, embracing a 
 period of half a century, the influence of England had become preponderant in 
 America, and the rapidly growing commercial importance of the valuable territory 
 held by the Dutch did not escape the notice of that power. The English Crown, un- 
 der cover of enforcing the Navigation Law of 1663, resolved to add the coveted region 
 to its dominion, and the following year Charles and his ministers seized the province, 
 the present site of three great states of the American Union. 
 
 In presenting the genealogical data contained within thesp pages, the author 
 desires to state that this little volume does not purport to follow the history 
 of the various branches of a name whose ramifications are both numerous and 
 extensive. It is designed simply to condense in a convenient hand-book for 
 genealogical reference, the record of the direct ancestry of the late Jacob Wendell, of 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire. That gentleman, the author's grandfather, of revered 
 memory, deceased August 27, 1865. He was descended in the sixth generation, 
 through Johannes, 1649, from Evebt Jansen Wendel, of Albany — the First Settler 
 of the name, who came to America in 1640 — by his first wife, Susanna Du Trieux. 
 
 The descendant of any of those early families who settled along the banks of the 
 Hudson under the gentle rule of Holland, recurring with honest pride to more than 
 two centuries of honorable lineage, realizes his indebtedness to past generations. 
 And as he searches their annals, inscribed in quaint Netherland-Dutch, in the very 
 curious and interesting Notarial Papers, he adequately appreciates the services 
 rendered to his kinsmen by Professor Jonathan Pearson, of Union College. The 
 laborious and studious researches of this gentleman among the Dutch manuscripts 
 at Albany, and the result of years of patient investigation, are exhibited in his 
 valuable contributions fi)r the genealogies of the First Settlers of that ancient 
 borough. Of the material aid furnished by these the author has gladly availed him- 
 self, and additionally of the courtesy of Professor Pearson, who has kindly allowed 
 the proof-sheets of this pamphlet to receive his examination and approval. 
 
 JAMES EINDGE STANWOOD. 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts, 
 August 6, 1882. 
 
SKETCH OF EVENTS INCIDENT TO THE SETTLE- 
 MENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW 
 NETHERLAND. 
 
 The Effect in Holland of the Discoveries along the Shores of America. Special 
 Trading License granted to the Merchants of Amsterdam and Hoorn. The 
 United New Netherland Company. Petition for the Incorporation of the Dutch 
 West India Company. Opposition of the Barneveld Party. The fall of Barne- 
 veld, and subsequent Grant of the Company's Charter by the States General. 
 " The Might to Trade with Hudson's Country." Colonization of Fort Orange 
 by the Walloons. Introduction of the Feudal System. " 2'he Charter of Free- 
 doms and Exemptions." The Patroons and their Privileges. The Reformed 
 Protestant Dutch Church of Fort Orange. England seizes New Netherland. 
 The Grant from the Crown to the Duke of York and Albany. The Capitulation 
 signed by Governor Stuyvesant. 
 
 ''PHE historical period at which we are to glance, embraces the 
 -*- record of the early settlement of the Knickerbockers, descend- 
 ing from that primitive time when the Province of New Nether- 
 land flourished, where now stretch the great commonwealths of New 
 York, New Jersey and Delaware.* It is illustrative of that inter- 
 esting epoch, which commemorates a civilization that has now passed 
 from among us ; of the peaceful days when the Dutch held rule over 
 all that broad and fertile domain, which acknowledged the sway of 
 the States General of Holland. 
 
 The eventful tidings brought by Hendrik Hudson of his discove- 
 ries along the shores of America, greatly stimulated the maritime 
 enterprise of the merchants of the Netherlands, who speedily sought 
 and obtained legalized authority to trade with that region. This 
 permission was granted by the States General (March 27, 1614), in 
 
 * Van der Donck, writing in 1649 of New Netherland, says : " It is situate on the North 
 side of America, in the latitude of thirty-eight and one-half degrees, or thereabouts. It is 
 bounded on the North-east by New England ; on the South-west by English Virginia. The 
 Coast extends mostly South-west and North-east, and is sandy alongside the Ocean. The 
 North-west region is still partly unexplored. The South Bay"and South Biver, called by 
 many the second great river of Now Netherland, lies in the latitude of 38° 15'. It has two 
 heights or capes, the Northern, called Cape Mey, the Southern, Cape Cornelis, and the 
 Bay itself is called now Port Mey, now Godyn Bay. In the beginning, before any men- 
 tion was made of the English, after our people had first discovered and explored the most 
 Northerly Part of New Netherland, they erected an Escutcheon on Cape Cod, and took 
 possession. The Boundaries, as we understand, extend from thence to Cape Henlopen," 
 2 
 
8 THE PROVINCE OF NEW NETHERLAND. 
 
 an Octroy, giving to the first discoverers " of any new passages, ha- 
 vens, countries or places," by citizens of the United Netherlands, the 
 exclusive right and privilege of making the first four voyages to such 
 territory. At this period the United Provinces of Holland, their in- 
 dependence achieved from the proud dominion of Spain, enjoyed a high 
 degree of prosperity.* The leading cities, with their great wealth and 
 commercial prestige, occupied influential rank in Europe, and assured 
 to the youthful republic a prominent and respected position. The 
 action of the States General was promptly availed of, therefore, by 
 a number of the wealthy citizens of Amsterdam and Hoorn, who 
 proceeded to despatch at once several vessels to the coast of Ameri- 
 ca for purposes of discovery and trade, f 
 
 Among the leading navigators who at that time visited our shores, 
 the most prominent were Adriaen Block, Hendrik Christiaensen and 
 Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, who explored the region from Cape Cod to 
 Cape Henlopen, and have left to our day their names impressed upon 
 various points along that coast.:]: A few months after the passage 
 of the Octroy, the States General formally confirmed its action, by 
 granting to The United New JSTetherland Company, as provided 
 by that ordinance, the exclusive right to trade with the settlements 
 along the coast of America for a period of three years, on or before 
 January 1, 1615. Immediately thereafter, a building or block house 
 was erected by Christiaensen for the use of the Company upon an 
 island in the Hudson, just below the present Albany, to which was 
 
 * The Seven United Provinces of Holland, otherwise styled the Northern Netherlands, 
 dated their separate organization from the celebrated compact formed at Utrecht, in 1579, 
 when they revolted from the rule of Philip the Second, ot Spain, under the lead of Wil- 
 liam the Silent. From that time until the revolution of 1794, they iire to be considered as 
 one nationality ; each province, however, was governed by its own laws, and held substim- 
 tially the rights of a sovereign state, sending deputies to a general assembly at the Hague, 
 called the States General, which was invested with supreme legislative power, and presided 
 over by an executive officer who was known as the Stadtholder. At this time Holland, or 
 the Seven United Provinces, was composed of 'the divisions of Gelder, Holland, Zealand, 
 Utrecht, Friesland, Overyssel and Groeningen, together with the territory denominated the 
 Country of Drent, and Didck Brabant. 
 
 t Among the first vessels despatched for trading purposes to the Hudson, which the Dutch 
 had already begun to call the Mauritius, in honor of Prince Maurice, were the galiots For- 
 tune and Tiger, fitted out in 1612 by three influential and enterpiising merchants of Am- 
 sterdam, Hans Hongers, Paulus Pelgrom, and Lambrccht van Tweenhuysen, who entrust- 
 ed their command to Hendrik Christiaensen and Adriaen Block, then just returned from tlieir 
 joint voyage of discovery thither. Subsequently other merchants of North Holland joined 
 in the trade. The Tiger was accidentally burned while at Manhattan, in the fall of that 
 year, whereupon Block set about building a small yacht out of the timber furnished by the 
 forests. The vessel was named the Onrust (the Restless), and was launched in the spring 
 of 1614, from the foot of what afterwards became Beaver Lane. " This pioneer craft," says 
 De Laet the historian, " was 44J feet long, llj feet wide, and ot about 16 tons burden." 
 See Appendix, Note A. 
 
 J Block Island, at the month of Long Island Sound, derives its title from this persever- 
 ing and indefatigable explorer, while the memory of Mey is perpetuated in the cape which 
 bears his name. 
 
THE PROVINCE OF NEW NETHEELAND. » 
 
 given the name of Fort Nassau,* and soon after a second trading 
 post was built upon the lower end of Manhattan Island, which was 
 the commencement of the subsequent settlement of New Amsterdam. 
 The sources of trade with the Indian tribes skirting the coast proved 
 abundant, and the returns remunerative to such a degree, that when, 
 in 1618, the trading privilege of the New Netherland Company ex- 
 pired, its exportation of valuable peltries from the country was very 
 extensive, and it became importunate for a renewal of its franchise.! 
 The prospect of obtaining this, however, was for a long time very 
 doubtful, through reason of the reluctance of the States General to 
 longer delegate to a corporation the substantial monopoly of affairs in 
 America, but at length the fierce Arminian controversy, which sO' 
 violently agitated Holland in 1618-1619, afforded the associated 
 merchants an opportunity to press their scheme with better chances 
 of success. J 
 
 The outcome of this celebrated ecclesiastical contention, resulting, 
 as well known, in 1619, in the utter and complete overthrow of 
 the Arminian element by the Calvinistic party, assisted very ma- 
 terially the petition of the Belgian§ merchants, as it involved the 
 discomfiture and downfall of their most powerful opponent. He 
 was John of Barneveld, || the fearless Advocate, the incorruptible 
 
 * " Fort Nassau," says Brodhead, " a trading house on Castle Island, on the west side 
 of the river, was meant by the Dutch to combine the double purpose of a warehouse and a 
 military defence for the resident traders. It was thirty-six feet long, by twenty-six in 
 width, enclosed by a stockade fifty -eight feet square, the whole surrounded by a moat 
 eighteen feet in width. It was armed with two large guns and eleven swivels or patereroes, 
 and garrisoned by ten or twelve men. It was the first island below Albany, and after 1630, 
 was known as Van Rensselaer's or Patroon's Island." 
 
 t Upon January 1, 1618, the Special Trading License granted in 1614 to Gerrit Jacob 
 Witsen and twelve other leading merchants of the cities of Amsterdam and Hoorn, under 
 the title of the United New Netherland Company, for " the exclusive right to trade with 
 Hudson's Country," expired by limitation. It expressly forbade any other party from 
 sailing out of the Provinces to that territory, within the time specified, under pain of con- 
 fiscation of vessels and cargoes, and a fine of fifty thousand Netherland ducats to the bene- 
 fit of the grantees of the charter. It was a distinct act of sovereignty over the country be- 
 tween New France (or Canada) and Virginia, which was called New Netherland, a name 
 which it continued to bear for nearly half a century. See Appendix, Note B. 
 
 + The termination of the Spanish war and the rise of Arminianism, says Motley, were 
 almost contemporaneous. Party lines were sharply drawn by the Stadtholder and his fol- 
 lowers, who were opposed to the truce, and many bitter accusations made against those 
 who had favored peace, among which was the charge that they were in sympathy with the 
 religious views formulated by Arminius, which were condemned as rank heresy by the 
 Calvinists. "There are two factions in the land," said Maurice, "that of Orange and 
 that of Spain, and the two chiefs of the Spanish faction are those political and priestly Ar- 
 minians, Uytenbogaert and Oldenbarneveld." 
 
 § During the protracted struggle against Spanish persecution, made by the inhabitants of 
 the Low Countries, Holland became the asylum of a very large proportion of the promi- 
 nent and wealthy traders of Belgium. They infused fresh and increased commercial strength 
 into the country of their adoption, and acquired upon its soil great prestige. To these ex- 
 iled Belgians, of whom perhaps the most prominent was William Usselincx, of Antwerp, 
 belongs the origination of the plan for the foundation of the Dutch West India Company. 
 
 II John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, was the most prominent figure of the States 
 General, and the foremost citizen of the Netherlands, a man who had no superior in states- 
 manship, in law, in the science of government, in intellectual force and ability. Born at 
 
10 THE PROVINCE OP NEW NETHEELAND. 
 
 patriot and statesman, the founder of the Dutch Eepublic. He ad- 
 hered firmly to his advocacy of conservative political measures, as 
 well as religious toleration, and at this period, as the head of the 
 party known by his name, was assailed by his enemies with the great- 
 est rancor. His unpopularity with the Belgian faction was greatly 
 increased by his prominent identification with the Dutch East India 
 Company, in whose behalf he strongly opposed granting a charter 
 to a rival organization. These reasons, combined with the ill-con- 
 cealed hostility of the Stadtholder,* who hated him bitterly, at length 
 resulted in his arrest, protracted imprisonment, and final arraign- 
 ment before the Synod of Dordtrecht,t v^hich pronounced him 
 guilty (May 13, 1619) of various acts inimical to the State, and 
 sentenced him to the block. 
 
 With the death of Barneveld, and the flight to voluntary exile in 
 France of Hugo Grotius, his able and influential compeer, the pow- 
 erful party which had followed his lead was temporarily disarmed, 
 and its organized opposition to the charter asked for was suspended. 
 Shortly thereafter, the persevering efforts of William Usselincx, 
 united with the good offices of the Stadtholder before the States 
 General, resulted in the grant of its franchise to the Dutch West 
 India Company, | with the extraordinary privileges and immuni- 
 ties asked for, and it was formally guaranteed the mercantile control 
 of the American and African shores of the Atlantic. 
 
 Amersfoort, in 1547, of the ancient house of Oldenbarneveldt, he had served his country 
 strenuously from youth to old age, with an abiding force of duty, a steadiness of purpose, 
 a broad vision, a firm grasp, and an opulence of resource, such as not one of his compatriots 
 could even pretend to rival. His histoiy was virtually the history of the Dutch Republic, 
 and without his presence and influence, the record of Holland, France, Spain, Britain and 
 Germany might have been essentially modified." — Motley. 
 
 * Maurice, Prince of Orange, the son of William the Silent. He was an ambitious gene- 
 ral, and had acquitted himself with great credit in the fierce struggle with Spain, just closed. 
 He had opposed the conclusion of the treaty of truce with that power, with all the strength 
 he could command, and upon its success arrayed himself at the head of the Orange party, 
 and became Barneveld's greatest enemy, notwithstanding the fact that he had owed his ele- 
 vation to the ofiice of Stadtholder largely to the efforts of the Advocate. 
 
 + The Synod of Dordtrecht convened" at the Hague Nov. 13, 1618, and held one hundred 
 and eighty sessions. It pronounced the Arminians " heretics, schismatics, teachers of false 
 doctrine," and declared them " incapable of filling aay clerical or academical post." It fur- 
 ther proclaimed the Netlierland Confession and Heidelburg Catechism to be infallible. — 
 
 X The charter establishing the Dutch West India Company bears date June 3, 1621. The 
 central power of this vast association was divided among five branches, or chambers, estab- 
 lished in the different cities of the Netherlands, the managers of which were styled Lords 
 Directors. Of these, that of Amsterdam was the principal, and to this was intrusted the 
 management of the affairs of New Netherland. The remaining chambers were located re- 
 spectively in the Meuse, North Holland, Zealand and Friesland. Each of these chambers 
 was a separate society, with members, directors and vessels of its own. The combined cap- 
 ital of the Company was six millions of florins (about two and a half million dollars). 
 Apart from the exclusive trade of Africa, from the tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good 
 Hope, and of the coast of America, from the Straits of Magellan to the extreme north, the 
 Company was authorized to erect forts and defences, to administer justice and preserve 
 order, declare war and make peace, with the consent of the States General, and with their 
 approbation, to appoint a governor or director-general, and all other officers of the province. 
 — O'Callaghan. 
 
THE PROVINCE OP NEW NETHEELAND. 
 
 11 
 
 The Amsterdam Chamber,* to which had been assigned the inter- 
 ests of New Netherland, proceeded to erect the territory into provin- 
 cial dignity, and to initiate efforts towards 
 its development. The Company's char- 
 ter dated nominally from 1621, but it was 
 not until two years later that it was con- 
 firmed in legal corporate privileges. 
 When, in 1623, all obstacles to its sway 
 had been removed, it commenced in earn- 
 est the attempt to colonize its new domin- 
 ion, transporting many emigrants thither 
 from France, Belgium and the German states, who sought the right of 
 settlement under the liberal provisions of its charter, f The first arrivals 
 were Walloons, or French Protestants from the borders of Belgium, 
 the majority of whom settled on Long Island. A few, however, ascend- 
 ed the Hudson, and in 1623, upon the western bank of that stream, 
 founded a trading settlement, to which, in honor of the Stadtholder, 
 Prince Maurice, they gave the name of Fort Orange. This year 
 may be considered to have been the first of actual colonization in the 
 Province, the traders who had up to that time journeyed thither, hav- 
 ing moved from place to place in their traffic with the Indians, and 
 remained only temporarily in the settlement. 
 
 Peter Minuit,| the first Governor General appointed by the West 
 India Company to represent its authority, arrived at Manhattan in 
 1626, and at once assumed the duties of his position. Until he 
 came, the powers of government had been vested in a subordinate 
 officer known as Director, of whom Adriaen Joris was the first, Cor- 
 nells Jacobsen Mey the second, and William Verhulst (Minuit's 
 immediate predecessor) the third. The province prospered greatly 
 
 * At this period the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber were Johannes de Laet (the his- 
 torian), Killiaen Van Rensselaer, Michael Paauw, Peter Evertsen Hulft, Jonas Witsen, Hen- 
 drik Hamel, Samuel Godyn, and Samuel Blommaert. The States General granted it a 
 seal in 1623, with the armorial distinctions-of a Count. The seal was a shield bearing a 
 Beaver proper, surmounted by a Count's coronet, with the legend Sigillum Novi Belgii. 
 
 t Despite the vehement protests of England's minister at the Hague, against " any fur- 
 ther settlements or occupations by the Dutch on Hudson's River," the West India Compa- 
 ny proceeded to transport colonists thither freely. The first comers were thirty families of 
 Walloons, inhabitants of the frontier between France and Belgium, extending from the 
 Scheld to the river Lys, many of which people, as they professed the reformed faith, had 
 sought asylum in Holland from the persecutions of Spain. Part of these colonists settled 
 on Long Island, at the Waal-bogM, or Walloons Bay, while the remainder founded Fort 
 Orange. The first white female child born in the province was of Walloon parentage. 
 
 J Peter Minuit,of Wesel, in the Kingdom of Westphalia, arrived at Manhattan May 4, 
 1626. " The name of Governor Minuit," says Valentine, " is forever identified with the 
 province, through his purchase (May 6, 1626) of the entire island of Manhattan, now New 
 York city, covering an estimated area of twenty-two thousand acres, for a chestful of beads 
 and trinkets given to the Indians, of about the value of sixty guilders, or twenty-four dol- 
 lars. Henceforth the title became vested in the West India Company." See Appendix, 
 Note C. 
 
12 
 
 THE PROVINCE OF NEW NETHERLAND. 
 
 under his vigorous and energetic control,* and the commercial im- 
 portance of which it gave abundant promise might have lavishly re- 
 paid the Company for the large outlay which had been necessary in 
 its behalf, had not that corporation been subsequently most unfor- 
 tunate in the policy it elected to pursue, through legislation which 
 proved detrimental and embarrassing to the interests of the valuable 
 territory intrusted to its care.f 
 
 In 1629 an act was passed by the West India Company, under 
 the title of " Freedoms and Exemptions granted to all such as shall 
 found Colonies in New Netherland." It provided that any member 
 of the Company who should colonize forty-eight adult persons within 
 the period of four years, in any part of the province, should hold 
 the title of Fatroon,X and enjoy the privilege of selecting any tract 
 
 of land, which he might desire, except 
 on Manhattan Island, not, however, to 
 exceed sixteen miles in length. Under 
 this remarkable charter, the first Patroon 
 estate was purchased from the Indians by 
 Samuel Godyn and Samuel Blommaert§ 
 in June of that year, extending along 
 the South (now the Delaware) river. In 
 April, 1630, Killiaen Van Rensselaer, || 
 a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, and 
 
 * The imports into New Netherland in 16'24 amounted to $10,654, and the exports, sole 
 ly of skins and furs, to aboat^H.OOO, while seven years later (in 1631) the imports had risen 
 to $23,000, and the exports to $27,204. " It is computed," says Valentine, •' that the 
 slothful and loo"5e administration of Van Twiller caused a great unnecessary expense to the 
 Company, the expenses of the province between 1626 and 1644, over and above the returns 
 received therefrom, aggregating over $200,000." 
 
 t The introduction of the feudal system into New Netherland, through the famous char- 
 ter of " Freedoms and Exemptions " granted June 7, 1629, was most unfortunate for the 
 future of the Company. The lands selected for each estate " might extend twelve miles in 
 length, if confined to one side of a navigable river, or six miles on each side, and might 
 run as far into the country as the situation of the occupiers will permit." Each patroon was 
 promised " a full title by inheritance, with the right to dispose of his estate by will." In case 
 any patroon " should in time prosper so much as to found one or more cities," he was 
 " to have power and authority to establish officers and magistrates there." — Holland Doc. 11. 
 
 t The Patroons of New Netherland were Samuel Godyn and Samuel Blommaert, of 
 Swanandael, Killiaen Van Rensselaer, oi Rensselaerswyck, Michael Paauw, ot Pavonia, Myn- 
 dert Myndertsen Van Keren, of Achter Col to Tapaan, Cornells Melyn, of Staaten Island, 
 Adriaen Van dev Uonck, of Colendonck, Hendrib Van der Capello, of One Third of Staaten 
 Island, Cornells Van Wcrckhoven, of Nevesinek and Tapaan, City of Amsterdam, of South 
 River. — Neio Netherland Register. 
 
 ^ The patroon estate of Godyn and Blommaert consisted of a tract of land on " the south 
 corner of the Bay of South River, extending northward about thirty-two miles from Cape 
 Henlopen to the mouth of the said river, and inland about two miles in breadth, being known 
 as Swanandael. — Brodhead. 
 
 II The domain purchased for Killiaen Van Rensselaer, by Sebastian Jansen Krol, consisted 
 of "a tract of land on the west side of the North, or Hudson's River, extending northward 
 from Beeren Island (now Barren Island, 12 miles south of Albany) to Cahoos, and stretch- 
 ing two days journey into the interior." It embraced in all nearly three quarters of a mil- 
 lion acres, and was known as Rensselaerswyck. It contained the entire territory comprised 
 
THE PROVINCE OF NEW NETHEELAND. 
 
 13 
 
 Director in the Company, purchased an extensive tract of country 
 surrounding Fort Orange, which he proceeded to colonize, and 
 gave the name of Rensselaer swyck. It is to the efforts of this pa- 
 troon that is due the settlement of the learned and v^orthy Dominie 
 Johannes Megapolensis, the first minister of the Reformed Protest- 
 ant Dutch Church of Fort Orange.* The call asking for the ser- 
 vices of this divine in America is signed by the president and scribe 
 of the Classis of Amsterdam, in Classical 
 Assembly at that city, March 22, 1642. It 
 states that " by the state of navigation in the 
 East and West Indies, a door is opened, 
 through the special providence of God, also in 
 New Netherland, for the preaching of the Gos- 
 pel of Jesus Christ, for the Salvation of men." 
 
 This ancient parish, a cut of whose thi7'd edifice, formerly stand- 
 ing upon a site now indicated by the junction of the present Broad- 
 way and State Street, in Albany, then known respectively as Han- 
 delaer and YonTcer, we have printed in the 
 margin, is yet in vigorous existence, occupy- 
 ing the structure known as the North Dutch 
 Church in that city.f We also are fortunately 
 enabled to give a fac-simile of the seal of the 
 early church of Fort Orange, around which 
 cluster so many interesting historical associa- 
 tions. It is still in use, the quaint device in- 
 scribed upon it remaining unchanged, while the Society's present 
 corporate title is The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, in the 
 City of Albany. 
 
 in the present counties of Albany, Columbia and Rensselaer. Killiaen Van Rensselaer, its 
 first patroon, died in 1646. An impression of the official seal of this vast manorial property 
 is given upon page 12. See Appendix, Note D. 
 
 * This venerable organization, for an imprint of whose unique seal the author is indebted 
 to the courtesy of Joseph W. Russell, Esq., of Albany, one of the trustees of the ancient 
 parish, dates its foundation from a very early period. Its first regular pastor was Dominie 
 Megapolensis, settled in August, 1642, and who served until 1650. 
 
 t " The first church was built in 1643, near the fort, in what is now called Church Street," 
 says the Rev. Dr. E. P. Rogers, pastor of its lineal descendant, the North Dutch Church, in 
 1857. "It was a plain wooden building, thirty-fouv feet long by nineteen wide, furnished with 
 a pulpit ornamented with a canopy, pews for the magistrates and church officers, and nine 
 benches for the people. Here services were conducted until 1656, when the corner-stone of 
 another and more commodious building was erected upon a site now the junction of State 
 Street and Broadway, for which an oaken pulpit and a boll were specially imported from 
 Holland, the former of which is still preserved in the North Dutch Church in Albany. 
 Some sixty years later, in the pastorate of the Dominie Petrus Van Driessen, a new building 
 was put up, being built around the old church, which was taken down by degrees, as the 
 walls of the later structure were raised. It was built of stone, with a steep pyramidal 
 roof, and a belfry surmounted by a weathercock. Eaeh of its windows contained the coat 
 of arms of some one of the families of the congregation, stained upon the several panes. 
 
14 THE PEOVmOE OF NEW NETHEELAND. 
 
 A long period of time elapsed, following the recall of the astute 
 Minuit to Holland in 1632, during which Van Twiller, Kieft and 
 Stuyvesant successively held, with varying fortune, administrative 
 sway over the province. But a crisis was at hand in the affairs of 
 New Netherland, which was destined to work an eventful change in 
 the future of the promising colony. In 1658 came the death of 
 Cromwell, succeeded by the downfall of the Commonwealth, and the 
 restoration of the line of Stuart to the English throne signalized the 
 adoption of an aggressive policy towards the Dutch settlements in 
 America. 
 
 King Charles the Second, heedless of existing treaties, saw in the 
 flourishing settlement only a coveted opportunity to increase his rev- 
 enues, by annexation to the dominions of the Crown, and needed not 
 the representations made by several of his loyal subjects, to resolve 
 to possess himself of the fertile plantations along the shores of the 
 Hudson.* He accordingly authorized (March 12, 1664), by royal 
 patent, the grant to his " trusty and well-beloved James, Duke of 
 York and Albany, all that island or islands commonly called by the 
 several name or names o( Matowacks, or Long Island, situate, lying 
 and being towards the West of Cape Cod and the narrow Higan- 
 setts, abutting upon the mainland between the two rivers there called 
 or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's River, 
 together also with the said River called Hudson's, and all the land 
 from the West side of Connecticut to the East Side of Delaware Bay, 
 
 On the west side were the seats occupied by the governor and the magistrates of the city, 
 wliile upon the right and left of the pulpit, were the members of the consistory. The seats in 
 the body of the house were occupied by the females, while the prominent burghers and heads 
 of families sat upon the seats around the walls, and the galleries were reserved for the 
 younger male members of the congregation. In front of the desk of the pulpit was placed 
 the hour-glass. It was the custom for the dominie to enter during the singing, and before 
 ascending to the pulpit to stand a moment at the foot of the stairs in silent prayer. The 
 church dissolved its ecclesiastical connection with the religious courts of Holland in the 
 pastorate of Dominie Eilardus Westerlo, in 1772. The religious services were continued 
 in tlie Dutch language until 1782, when they were first used in English. The old stone 
 church stood till 1805, when its site was sold to the corporation of Albany, and in the 
 spring of 1806 the building was taken down." See Appendix, Note E. 
 
 * It so happened that three persons had just iefore this time come over to London, who 
 were admirably qualified to stimulate English animosity against the Dutch colonists in 
 America. These persons were John Scott and George Baxter, who cherished no '• good 
 opinion of the law " under which they had smarted in New Netherland, and Samuel Mave- 
 rick, a zealous Episcopalian, who had formerly lived in tribulation in Massachusetts. All 
 three made zealous professions of loyalty. The result of these witnesses' labors was to sat- 
 isfy Lord Clarendon, already influenced by the arguments of Sir George Downing, the 
 English envoy at the Hague, that New Netherland belonged to the King, and that it had 
 been " only usurped " by the Dutch, who liad " no color of right to pretend to its posses- 
 sion." The Chancellor's opinion, although utterly inconsistent with truth and reason, was 
 conclusive. Yet Charles and his ministry were for some time perplexed whether they 
 should view the Dutch " intruders " as subjects or aliens. At the risk of war it was resolved 
 that the principle announced by Queen Elizabeth and affirmed by Parliament in 1621, 
 should be repudiated and reversed, and New Netherland seized at all hazards. — Brod- 
 head. 
 
THE PEOVINCE OF NEW NETHEELAND. 15 
 
 and also all those several islands called or known by the names of 
 Martin's Vinyard, and Nantuhes, otherwise Nantuckett."* 
 
 Preparations were speedily made to substantiate the Duke's claim 
 ; to the territory thus granted, and in the last days of August, 1664, 
 an English squadron cast anchor off Coney Island, | bearing sum- 
 mons to Stuyvesant| to surrender his authority to Richard NicoUs, 
 duly commissioned as the first English governor. The indomitable 
 Director-General proudly spurned the demand, and determined to 
 defend the Company's possessions to the last, but the odds against 
 him were too heavy , § and finally, realizing the hopelessness of success- 
 ful resistance, was persuaded by his Council to avoid useless slaugh- 
 ter || and avail himself of the liberal terms offered. Upon the morn- 
 
 * The inland boundary most consistent with this description was " a line' from the head 
 of Connecticut river to the source of Hudson's river, thence to the head of the Mohawk 
 branch of Hudson's river, and thence to the east side of Delaware Bay." The grant was 
 intended to include all the land which the Dutch held there Brodhead. 
 
 t By the orders of the King, an expedition was speedily fitted out against New Nether- 
 land, consisting of the Guinea, 36 guns, the Elias, of 30 guns, the Martin, of 16 guns, and 
 the transport William and Nicholas, of 10 guns. The fleet, conveying four hundred and 
 fifty troops of the line, set sail from Portsmouth for America on May 25, 1664. — O'Callaghan. 
 
 t Petrus Stny vesant, a native of Friesland, had formerly been Director of the Company's 
 colony at Curacoa, and received later (July 28, 1646) the appointment of Governor General 
 of the Province of New Netherland, assuming the office May 11, 1647. He was brave and 
 energetic, and the man of all others best calculated to retrieve the fortunes of the colony. 
 But he was also haughty and imperious, and his despotic love of power soon weakened the 
 affection with which he was regarded on his first arrival. With all his faults, however, he 
 was the man for the times, and his firm and vigorous rule contrasts favorably with the ill- 
 judged and capricious conduct of his predecessor. Although loyal to the Company until its 
 dominion ended over the province, he was at heart attached to the interests of the people, 
 with whom he identified himself, after the forced surrender of the city, by taking up his 
 residence among them as a private citizen, dying in August, 1671, and being buried in his 
 family tomb, under a church whose site is now occupied by the parish of St. Mark, in New 
 York city. — Booth. See Appendix, Notes F and G. 
 
 ^ Although there were at this time fifteen hundred souls in New Amsterdam, there were 
 not more than two hundred and fifty men able to bear arms, besides the one hundred and 
 fifty regular soldiers. The city, entirely open along both rivers, was shut on the northern 
 side by a breastwork and pahsades, which, though sufficient to keep out the savages, afibrd- 
 ed no defence against a military siege. A council of war had reported Fort Amsterdam un- 
 tenable, for though it mounted twenty-four guns, its single wall of earth, not more than 
 ten feet high and four thick, was almost touched by the private dwellings clustered around, 
 and was commanded, within a pistol shot, by hills on the north, while there were scarcely 
 six hundred pounds of serviceable powder in store. The lesson in St. Luke's Gospel taught 
 Stuyvesant how vain it was, with ten thousand men, to resist him that came with twenty 
 thousand. Yet there was one balm for the director's wounded spirit. NicoUs had volun- 
 tarily proposed " to redeliver the fort and city of Amsterdam in New Netherland, in case 
 the difference of the limits of this province be agreed upon betwixt His Majesty of England 
 and the High and Mighty States General." Full power to agree upon articles with the 
 English commandant or his deputies was therefore given by the Dutch director and his 
 council, to Counsellor Johannes de Decker, Commissary Nicholas Varlett and Dominie 
 Samuel Megapolensis, representing the provincial government, and Burgomaster Cornelius 
 Steenwy ck, old Burgomaster Oloff Stevensen Van Cortlandt and old Schepcn James Cous- 
 seau, representing the city. — Brodhead. 
 
 II The twenty-four articles of capitulation declared all the inhabitants of New Netherland 
 to 'be " free denizens," and secured to them their property. Any persons " might come 
 from Holland and plant in this country," while " Dutch vessels may freely come thither, 
 and any of the Dutch may freely return home, or send any sort of merchandize home, in 
 vessels of their own country. All the Dutch are to enjoy the liberty of their consciences in 
 divine worship and church discipline, as well as their own customs concerning their inher- 
 itances," while " the town of Manhattan might choose deputips with free voices in all pub- 
 lic affairs." Owners of houses in Fort Orange were " to enjoy their property as all people 
 do where there is no fort." The articles were to be ratified " at eight o'clock upon the morn- 
 3 
 
16 THE PROVINCE OF NEW NETHERLAND. 
 
 ing of Sept. 6, the white flag of parley was displayed from the walls of 
 Fort Amsterdam,* while a few hours later, at the bouwerie of Stuy- 
 vesant, were settled the articles of capitulation, by virtue of which, 
 New Netherland passed into English hands, and became a part of the 
 territory of the British crown. Early the following Monday, Sept. 
 8, the little Dutch garrison, the ensign of Holland flying at its head, 
 marched from the fort with the honors of war. And as Stuyvesant 
 led his troops down Beaver Street to the place of embarkation, the 
 reign of Charles, of that name the Second, of Great Britain, France 
 and Ireland, King, was proclaimed in his new domain. Fort Orange 
 and the town of Beverwyck submitted upon the 24th of the same 
 month, and the settlement changed its name to that of Albany, the 
 Duke's Scotch title. The change of rulers was regarded by the in- 
 habitants of the province with comparative indifference, from the 
 fact that the government of the Company had become irksome and 
 annoying, through its arbitrary exactions and monopoly of the most 
 valuable sources of trade. They were additionally reconciled to the 
 English supremacy by the action of Deputy Governor Nicolls, who 
 declared the estates of the Dutch West India Company confiscated, 
 and had them sold at public vendue. 
 
 The control of the settlement was destined, however, temporarily to 
 return to its former proprietors shortly after, when in 1672 England 
 declaredwar against Holland. Upon August 6, 1673, nine years after 
 the capitulation, a Dutch fleet entered the harbor, and lying off Staten 
 Island^, the redoubtable Evertsenf and Benckes demanded the capitu- 
 lation of Fort James, formerly Fort Amsterdam, which had been 
 given the name of the new grantee, f The English commandant, 
 taken unawares, and being unprovided with adequate means of 
 defence, reluctantly hauled down his flag, and once again the 
 
 ing of September 8, at the old mill." (This mill, says Valentine, was on the shore of 
 the East River, near tlie foot of what is now known as Roosevelt Street.) " The furt and 
 town called New Amsterdam, upon the isle of Manhattoes, were to be snrrendered, the 
 troops to march out with their arms, drums beating, colors flying, and lighted matches." 
 
 * The site of Fort Amsterdam was the space enclosed by the streets now called State, 
 Bridge, Whitehall and Bowling Green, in New York city. 
 
 t Admiral Evertsen was the eldest son of the famous Admiral Cornells Evertsen, and one 
 of the most efficient officers who sailed under the colors of the Dutch Republic. 
 
 J The following is the text of the summons served npon Manning, the English command- 
 ant of Fort James, defending the town of New York, in 1073, which we quote from Valen- 
 tine : " Sir : The force of war now lying in your sight, is sent by the High and Mighty 
 States, and His Serene Highness the iprince of Orange, for the purpose of destroying their 
 enemies. We have sent you therefore this letter, together with our trumpeter, to the end 
 that upon sight thereof you surrender to us the Fort called James, promising good quarter; 
 or by your refusal we shall be obliged to proceed both by land and water in such manner 
 as we shall find to be most advantageous for the High and Mighty States. Dated in the 
 Ship Swanenburg, anchored between Staaten and Long Island y" 9"i Augt (July 30, 0. S.), 
 1673. Cornells Evertse. Jacob Benckes." See Appendix, Note H. 
 
THE PROVINCE OF NEW NETHERLAND. 17 
 
 tri-color of the Netherlands waved above their early province. The 
 name of New York gave place for a time to that of JSTew Orange, 
 and that of Albany to Willemstadt, while Anthony Colve, appointed 
 by the council of war, assumed the duties of governor. It was a 
 fleeting triumph only, and the renewed supremacy of the Dutch was 
 limited to a short period, for with the signature of the Peace of 
 Westminster, in the following year, the settlement was formally re- 
 stored to English control, and the authority of Holland over the 
 colony it had founded faded away. 
 
 So, after a period of fifty years, closed the Dutch dominion in 
 America. An eventful half century had ended, replete with its re- 
 cord of struggle and trial, of victory lost and won. The emblem 
 of the Dutch Republic had been lowered forever over the great de- 
 ^ " .dency which it had suffered to slip from its grasp, and the very 
 name of its former trans-Atlantic province had ceased to exist. 
 New Netherland of the past vanished from the histories of the world, 
 and, transformed, became thenceforth New York, fairest of all the 
 Anglo-American plantations ; and as the splendid possession of an 
 English prince, a new era of prestige and prosperity dawned upon 
 it. Yet, despite the loyal adhesion yielded by the colonists to the 
 new rule so abruptly thrust upon them, their natural attachment for 
 the Fatherland remained warm and true. Steadfast and unswerving 
 in tlieir new allegiance, they ranked among the worthiest subjects of 
 the mightier power which had brought them to its sway, while their 
 posterity through successive generations has looked proudly back to 
 Holland, the land of their kinsmen, and carefully treasured the 
 J:raditions of the early time. 
 
THE DIRECT ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL, 
 OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H. 
 
 EVERT JANSEN^ WENDEL,* the first ancestor of the name who 
 came to these shores, was born in the year 1615,t in the city of 
 Embden,t East Friesland (now Hanover), upon the confines of the 
 United Provinces of Holland. § It was from thence that he emigrated 
 
 under the Dutch West India Company to New Netherland, in America, 
 reaching that province in 1640. He was resident at New Amsterdam, 
 on the island of Manhattan (the present site of the city of New 
 
 * The use of patronymics was common among the Dutch, the father's name being 
 annexed to that of the son or daughter, with the terminations se or sen, used indiscrimin- 
 ately. Thus, for instance, the name oi Evert Janse Wendel, Anglicised, means Evert Wen- 
 del, son o{ Jan (equivalent to Johannes, or John). 
 
 + It is to be understood by the reader that all dates mentioned in this sketch previous to 
 1751, are Old Style. 
 
 * " The Earldom of Embdane," says Jodocus Bondius, in an old London work of emi- 
 nence, of the print of 1635, " is so called from the chieffe Cittie thereof, and now it is called 
 East Friesland, because it confineth on Friesland. For the Frieslanders did not heretofore 
 possess it, but the Chaveians, of which Plinny and Ptolemie make two sorts, the greater 
 and the lesser, so called in regard of their strength. The greater are those that do inhabit 
 the Bishopricke of Bremes, the lesser are the Embdanians and Oldenburgians. The Em- 
 perour Fredericke the third. Anno 1466, when this province was governed by divers Prse- 
 fects, did make it a Countie (Earldom), and gave it to one Vdalrich. Afterward it had 
 Earles continually, even untill our Time. There are two Walled Citties in that Countie, 
 Embda and Arichum. Embda, or Embdena, commonly called Embden, is the chieffe Cittie 
 of this Countrie, and a famous Mart Tovme, seated by the mouth of the River Amisis, 
 having a Convenient Haven, the Channell whereof is so deepe that great ships may come 
 in under sayle, so that for wealttf, for the publicke and private buildings, and for the Mul- 
 titude of Cittizens, it is known, not onelyin Germanic, but also in All Parts of Europe. One 
 of the chieffest Ornaments is the Earle's sumptuous Pallace, the great Church, and the 
 Praetor's house. Heere is wonderfull Plenty of All Things, both for Necessity and Plea- 
 sure, which the Haven and the Convenancie of importation of Goods, and also the natural 
 fertility of Friesland doth yeeld. The Cittie is so called from the River Ems, which Taci- 
 ttis calleth Amisia, which divides East from West Friesland." 
 
 § Although Evert Janse' Wendel is recorded upon apparently excellent authority as 
 having been of Embden, the author, after the most careful research, announces his con- 
 viction that <^e/amiiy «o»»eM)as»io<»a<t»e io <Ao<p/ace. From as thorough a scrutiny as 
 possible of all information in the matter to which he has gained access, he Is of the opinion 
 that the first representatives of the family in Embden were originally natives of ancient 
 Hhynland or Delftland (the present South Holland), who fled thence, as did many other 
 Dutch families of the period, from the religious persecutions of the Duke of Alva, then 
 Regent of Philip II. in the Netherlands. Notwithstanding the fact that the author has yet 
 received no response to the inquiries which he has caused to be instituted in Holland, he 
 believes that the early seat of the name may unquestionably be traced to that portion of 
 the country named above, and he indicates as the most probable localities the cities of 
 Delft, Haerlem, Leyden or Rotterdam. 
 
TABULAR CHART OF THE ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL, OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H. 
 
 COMPILED BY JAMES RINDGE STANWOOD. 
 
 Susanna Du Trieux 
 
 EVERT JANSEN WENDEL= 
 
 Of the City and Province 
 of Embden, otherwise styled 
 East Friesland, emigrated to 
 New Netherlands in America, 
 
 A.D. 1640, under the 
 Dutch West India Company. 
 
 Maritje Abrahamse Vosburgh. 
 
 Thornas, 
 d. num. 
 
 Abraham, 
 
 m. 
 
 Maykes Vak Nes. 
 
 Klsje, Maeitie Jillisse MEYEK=!johannes=ELizABETH Staets. 
 
 bapt. 1647. [bapt. 1649; 
 
 died 1691. 
 
 Elsie, 
 
 m. .Tuly .3, 1696, 
 
 Abeaiiam Staets, jr., 
 
 of Claveiack. 
 
 Maritie, 
 
 m. June 23, 1729, 
 
 Jan Joiiannese Oothout, 
 
 of Albany. 
 
 Diewer. Hieronymus, 
 
 bapt. 1653. bapt. 16dS ; i 
 
 m. 
 
 ; AKIAANTJE HARMENSE ViSSCHEE. 
 
 Philip. 
 
 bapt. 16S7; 
 
 m. 
 
 Maeia Hakmesse Visschee. 
 
 I 
 
 Evert, 
 
 bapt. ;66J; 
 
 m. 
 
 Elizabeth Sanders. 
 
 Isaac. 
 
 Suf-anna, 
 
 m. Aug. 18, 1686, 
 
 Johannes Teller, 
 
 of Schenectady. 
 
 Diewertje, 
 
 m. (1) 
 
 Myndert Wemp; 
 
 m. (2) June 21, 1671, 
 
 Johannes Sanderse Glbn. 
 
 Katarina De Key^ 
 
 I 
 Abrjiliam, 
 
 bapt. 
 Dec. 27, 1678. 
 
 d. 
 Sept. 28, 1734. 
 
 Susanna, 
 m. 
 Jacobus Davidtse Schuyler. 
 
 Catalyntje, 
 
 m. 
 
 Jacobus Davidtse Schuyler. 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 m. 
 
 Johannes Ten Beoeck. 
 
 .Johannes, 
 
 bapt. March 2, 1684; 
 
 m. 
 
 Elizabeth Walters. 
 
 Ephraim, 
 bapt. June 3, 1685; 
 m. 
 Anna 
 
 Isaac, 
 bapt. Jan. 28, 1687; 
 m. 
 Cataly-na V-AN Dyck. 
 
 I I 
 
 Sarah, Jacob, 
 
 bapt. bapt. Aug. 6, 1691 ; 
 
 Nov. 11, 1688. m. 
 
 Sarah Oliver. 
 
 Elizabeth QuiNCY=John=MEECY Skinner. 
 bapt. 
 May 2, 
 1703; 
 d. Dec. 15, 1762. 
 
 I 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 bapt. Aug. 20, 1704; 
 
 m. .April 15, 1725, 
 
 Eu.MUND QUIWJY. 
 
 Abraham, 
 bapt. March 3, 1706; 
 m. 
 Jane Phillips. 
 
 Helena De Key, 
 bapt. Sept. 21, 1707; 
 m. 
 John Kogees. 
 
 Catharina, 
 bapt. March 27, 1709; 
 
 m. 
 William Bulfinch. 
 
 Jacobus, 
 bapt. Aug. 31, 1712 
 
 Lucretia, 
 bapt. July 18, 1714; 
 
 m. 
 Samuel Sturgis. 
 
 Theunis De Key, 
 bapt. June 24, 1716. 
 
 Theunis De Key, 
 bapt. Oct. 30, 1717. 
 
 Hendrikus, 
 bapt. Aug. 3, 1719. 
 
 Sarah, 
 
 bapt. Jan. 20, 1721 ; 
 
 m. 
 
 John Dennie. 
 
 -Mary, 
 m. 
 Peter Oliver 
 
 Jacob, 
 b. Nov. 2.-!, 1726. b. 
 
 Abraham, 
 Sept. 23. 1727; 
 d. unm. 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 b. Oct. 16, 1729; 
 
 m. 
 
 Solomon Davis. 
 
 Sarah Wentworth 
 
 'John=DOROTHY Sheeburne. 
 b. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 10, 
 
 1731. 
 
 d. 
 April 
 
 29, 
 1808. 
 
 Dorothy, 
 b. March 19, 1733; 
 
 m. 
 Richard Skinner. 
 
 Edmund, 
 b. May 13, 1736; 
 
 m. 
 Knight. 
 
 Jacob, 
 b. Oct. 19, 1736. 
 
 Henry Flynt, 
 b. Dec. 23, 1737. 
 
 Josiah, 
 
 lost at sea, 
 
 Jan. 21, 1762. 
 
 Catharine, 
 m. 
 Solomon Davis. 
 
 I 
 Sarah. 
 
 I 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 b. April, 1714; 
 
 m. 
 
 Elizabeth Teivett. 
 
 Sarah, 
 b. May 1,1745; 
 
 m. (1) 
 
 John Geeey ; 
 
 m. (2) June 18, 1786, 
 
 Gen. John Fiskk. 
 
 Isaac. 
 
 Sarah Wentworth, 
 
 b. Oct. 5, 1754; 
 
 m. Dec. 31, 1784, 
 
 Edward Sargent. 
 
 I I 1 I I I 
 
 Elizabeth, John. Daniel Wentworth, Edmund, Elizabeth, Helena De Key, 
 
 b. Oct. 11, 1756; b. Oct. 25, 17.57 ; b. Feb, 16. 1760; b. July 16, 1762; b. April 9, 1764. b. Feb. 28, 1766; 
 
 d. July 16, 1750. d. Aug. 16, 179». d. Jan. 27, 1780. d. May 14, 1763. m. 
 
 BEN.JAMIN Sherburne. 
 
 Edmund, 
 b. March 4, 1769; 
 
 Elizabeth Cotton. 
 
 Hannah, 
 b. March 3, 1770; 
 d. April 17, 1771. 
 
 George Wentworth, 
 
 b. March 22, 1771 ; 
 
 m. Aug. 15, 1796, 
 
 Rebecca Sherburne. 
 
 Dorothy Sherburne, 
 b. Feb. 11, 1780; 
 m. Aug. 7, 1802; 
 Reuben Shaplev Randall. 
 
 Mary, 
 b. Sept. 30. 1781; 
 d. March 20, 1787. 
 
 Daniel, 
 b. Nov. 25, 1783; 
 d. March 24, 1807. 
 unm. 
 
 Abraham, 
 b. March 18, 178.", ; 
 
 m. 
 Susan Gardner. 
 
 Isaic, 
 b. Nov. 1, 1786; 
 m. 
 Ann Austin Whittiek. 
 
 JlEHETAJEL RiNDGE ROGERS=JaCOb, 
 
 'f 
 
 b. Dec. Ill, 1788; 
 d. Aug. 27, 1866. 
 
 Mary Sherburne, 
 b. Aug. 7, 1790: 
 d. Aug. 19, 1790. 
 
 Henry Flynt, 
 b. July 10, 1791; 
 d. Aug. 25, 1796. 
 
 Mark Rogers, 
 b. June 18, 1817; 
 m. June 13, 1849. 
 C.\TnAEiNE (Gates) Thaxtee. 
 
 Mehetabel Rindge, 
 
 b, June 30, 1818; 
 
 d. Oct 3, 1847. 
 
 m. Oct. 28, 1844, 
 
 Isaac Henry Staswood. 
 
 Caroline Quincy, 
 
 b. Dee. 24, 1820; 
 
 inherited the 
 
 homestead in 
 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 J acob, 
 b. Sept. 23, 1S22 ; 
 d. March 20, 1826. 
 
 I 
 Mary Evert, 
 b. Dec. 26. 1824; 
 d. April 29, 1826. 
 
 I 
 
 Jacob, 
 b. July 24, 1826; 
 m. Oct. 24, 1854, 
 Mary Bertodi Barrett. 
 
 Mary Evert, 
 I b. Aug. 28, 1828; 
 m. June 29, 1862. 
 
 WlLllLIAM HOBBS GOODWIN. 
 
 George Blunt, 
 
 b. Jan. 31, 1831; 
 
 d. Sept. 25, 1881; 
 
 m. Feb. 7, 1861, 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Thompson. 
 
ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 19 
 
 York), for nearly five years subsequent to his arrival,* at the end 
 of that time removing to the growing settlement upon the Mauritius 
 (as the Dutch called the Hudson), which had risen around the early 
 trading post of Fort Orange.f The exceptional facilities for traffic with 
 the Indians inhabiting the great tract of forest country extending thence 
 far into the interior, made this place, the commercial centre of the great 
 Patroon estate of Rensselaerswyck, a most attractive location for such set- 
 tlers in the new province as came thither for the purposes of trade, 
 rather than with agricultural intent, although great encouragement was 
 also offered to this interest through the efforts of the patroon. t Here 
 Wendel settled, and obtained the requisite license to deal with the Indians§ 
 in beavers and peltries, his first habitation being evidently one of the few 
 houses gathered closely under the guns of Fort Orange.|| These first dwell- 
 ings, constituting the earlier portion of the settlement, were removed by or- 
 der of Governor Petrus Stuy vesant in 1 652, when he claimed all land with- 
 in " two hundred and fifty Ehynland rods "H of the fort, as the property of 
 the Dutch West India Company. 
 
 Due compensation, however, to the owners of the confiscated property 
 was not omitted, as new patents of land were thereupon granted them upon 
 the site of the later settlement, where now stands the city of Albany. From 
 the records of that city, we ascertain that the grant to Wendel at that 
 time by the worthy governor consisted of " a certain lotte of grounde situ- 
 ate lying and being on y° South side of y" Citty, on y" East side of y "^ Hill, 
 abutting to y" North of y" Land and Orchard belonging to Isaac Casperse." 
 It is stated by Professor Pearson that his residence was at a later 
 period in a house situated at the corner of James and State (then 
 Yonker) Streets, in A.lbany, at or about 1700.** He lived in the town 
 during a long period of years, closed by his death in 1709, at an ad- 
 vanced age, and was, we believe, buried under the old church then stand- 
 
 * In 1642 Evert Janse' Wendel lived on Beaver Lane, in New Amsterdam, between the 
 Breedweg (Broadway) and Brugh Straat (Broad Street). 
 
 t The site of the trading-post, or block-hoase, of Fort Orange, was on the river side be- 
 tween Denniston and Lydius Streets, in the present city of Albany. The settlement of Be- 
 ver-wyclt (or Beaver-town), which at first clustered closely around it, was afterward, in 
 Governor Stuyvesant's time, changed farther to the North. — Brodhead. 
 
 % Killiaen Van Rensselaer', the first patroon, judiciously applied his large resources in this 
 direction. He caused a number of farms to be set off on both sides of the river, on which 
 he caused dwelling-houses, barns and stables to be erected, which were stocked with cows, 
 horses, oxen and sheep. Some of these farmers were then valued, and the places assigned 
 them at an annual rent, payable semi-annually in grain, beavers and wampum. — MunseU's 
 Annals. 
 
 § Under the rights confirmed to the Patroons by the " Charter of Freedoms and Exemp- 
 tions," all settlers were bound by oath not to trade with the Indians in furs within the do- 
 main of any patroon, unless duly licensed to carry on such trade from that potentate. They 
 were obliged to bring all the furs they purchaseil to the patroon's magazine, to be sent to 
 Holland by him, he retaining, as his shave, one half the profits. 
 
 11 In 1646 the settlement of Beverwyck did not contain over twelve houses. 
 
 IT The Rhynland rod was twelve feet, each foot containing 12.36 Bnglish in. 
 
 ** Evert Janse' Wendel lived in a house situate on the west corner of James and State 
 Streets, which was occupied by his son Thomas in nii.— Pearson's " First Settlers of 
 Albany." 
 
20 ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 
 
 ing at the junction of Yonker and Handelaer Straats (the present State 
 Street and Broadway) in Albany. It was his fortune to fill various offices 
 of trust and station in the settlement, among which were the positions 
 of Regerenden Dijahen of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, in 1656, 
 and Magistrate of Fort Orange in 1660-61. 
 
 Evert Janse' Wendel was married (July 31, 1644) by the Dominie 
 Everhardus Bogardus, in the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at New 
 Amsterdam,* to Susanna, the third daughter of Philip Du Trieux,t " Mar- 
 shal of New Netherland," and his wife Susanna, of Smit's Valley, in New 
 Amsterdam,^ and by her he had issue six children, from whom, together 
 with the offspring of his second subsequent marriage, through matrimonial 
 alliances formed in succeeding generations, may be traced the lineage of the 
 present representatives of the name, and others affiliated therewith, through- 
 out New England and the Middle States. Issue : 
 
 i. Thomas,'' bapt , eldest son, who inherited his father's house on the 
 
 Yonker Straat (now State Street) in Albany, and who died there 
 
 unmarried, 
 ii. Abraham,^ bapt. , who m. (April 13, 1698) Mayken Van Nes, of 
 
 Albany. 
 
 iii. Elsje,^§ bapt. , 1647. 
 
 3. iv. Johannes,^ bapt. , 1649, who m. first, Maritie Jillisse Meyer, of 
 
 Albany, and second, Elizabeth Staets, of Albany. 
 
 V. DiEWER,^ bapt. , 1653. 
 
 vi. HiERONYMCS," bapt. 1655, who m. Ariaantje Harmense Visseher,|| of 
 
 Albany. 
 
 * The first record of a structure fitted for religious uses in New Amsterdam appears in 
 162.5, when a mill for grinding corn, worked by horse power, was erected within the fort, 
 the second story of which was so arranged as to afford accommodations for public worship. 
 The church erected by Governor Kieft in 1642, was of " rock stone, seventy-two feet long, 
 and fifty-two broad, and was built by artisans from Connecticut." At this time most of the 
 houses in New Amsterdam were built of wood, even the chimneys of many of them being 
 made of boards, plastered together at the ends, and the roofs thatched with reeds. The 
 first church-yard, where the ashes of most of the inhabitants of New Amsterdam now lie, 
 was upon the west side of Broadway, upon the rise of ground above Bowling Green, not 
 far north of the present Morris Street. 
 
 t " Philip Du Trieux (or Du Truy)," says Professor Pearson, in his First Settlers of 
 Schenectady, " a Walloon, born in 1585, came to New Amsterdam under Minuit's adminis- 
 tration, and was granted in 1640 a patent for land in Smit's Valley. His wife was Susanna 
 De Scheene, who was living as late as 1654. Issue : Rebecca, who married Symon Syra- 
 monse Groot ; Sarah, who married Isaac De Foreest ; Susanna, who manied Evert Janse 
 Wendel ; Rachel, who married first Hendrik Van Bommel, second Dirk Janse De Groot ; 
 Abraham, Isaac, and lastly Jacob, who married Lysbeth Post, of New York. This ancient 
 name has now become transformed into our modern Truex." 
 
 J The boundary of the city was principally defined by the stockades erected in 1653, 
 on the present line of the way then known as lan^ de Wall, now Wall Street. Along the west 
 side of the road, on tlie shore of the East river, several citizens had established their resi- 
 dence at a very early period. This road, between the city gate and the ferry, at the pre- 
 sent site of Peck Slip, was known as de Smit's Valey, or the Smith's Valley. The origin 
 of this name is ascribed to the fact that Cornelias Clopper, a blacksmith, established him- 
 self on the present corner of Maiden Lane and Pearl Street. The Smit's Valley was for a 
 long time the name of that part of the town lying between Wall Street and the present 
 Franklin Square, and was designated by the Dutch as the Valey or Vly. It was one of the 
 original straats established on the first survey of the city, made in 1656. — Valentine. 
 
 i) It was the custom of the Dutch to carry their children to the church for baptism, and 
 this rite was often performed on the very day of birth, while, except in rare instances, it 
 was generally observed within seven days from that time. The entry, therefore, on the 
 Doop Bock, was commonly accepted as the date of birth. 
 
 II The name of Visscher, according to Professor Pearson, was originally de Vuselaer, 
 which has been still further corrupted into the modern Fisscher. 
 
ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 21 
 
 vii. Philip,** bapt. , 1657, who m. (June 17, 1688) Maria Harmense 
 
 Visscher. of Albany. 
 viii. Evert,* bapt. , 1660, who m. Elizabeth Sanders, of Albany, and 
 
 died June 16, 1702. 
 
 His first wife dying, Evert Janse' Wendel was again married (1663) to 
 Maritje Abrahamse Vosburgh,t of Beverwyck, widow of Tomas Jansen 
 Mingael, by whom he had further issue, to wit : 
 
 ix. Isaac* 
 
 X. Susanna,* bapt. . who m. (Aug. 18, 1686) Johannes Teller, of 
 
 Schenectady. 
 xi. DiEWERTJB,*J bapt. , who m. first, Myndert \Vemp,§ of Schenectady, 
 
 and second (June 21, 1671), Johannes Sander.se Glen, of Schenectady. 
 
 Upon the death of his second wife, Evert Janse^' Wendel, according' to the 
 records, married Ariaantje , but left no issue by her. 
 
 2. Johannes Wendel'^ {Evert Janse^), the fourth child of his father by 
 his first wife (Susanna Du Trieux), was the direct ancestor of that branch 
 of the family which it is our purpose to trace. Born in New Amsterdam 
 ill 1649, he was 
 baptized in the Re- 
 formed Protestant 
 Dutch Chh. there, 
 upon February 2 
 of that year. He 
 received such edu- 
 cational advantages as were attainable at that time, and at an early period 
 became a general trader in Albany. He was successful and prosperous 
 in his alFairs, becoming a wealthy merchant, and achieving a very con- 
 siderable degree of prominence in the colony. He lived upon the Yonher 
 Straat (or present State Street), in that city, and was called repeatedly 
 to positions of responsibility and station. He was magistrate in 1684, 
 captain in the colonial service in 1685, alderman of Albany in 1686, and 
 in 1690 was empowered, in company with others, with discretionary 
 
 * Excellent portraits of descendants of this Philip' Wendel, in the next two generations, 
 are now in possession of Mrs. Harriet Parke, of Albany, a representative of this branch. 
 
 t The daughter of Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh, of the Wynant's Kil, fur trader. He was 
 the son of Pieter Jacobse Vosburgh, the First Settler of the name who came out from Hol- 
 land. He received a patent of land in Rensselaerswyck, from Governor Petrus Stuyvesant, 
 in 1652, south of the stockades of Beverwyck, and west of Fort Orange. The original 
 grant is now in possession of Mrs. Harriet Parke, of Albany. He married Geertiuyd Pie- 
 terse Coeymans, and died about 1660, leaving issue of four sons and several daughters. 
 The ancient township of Coeymans, in the County of Albany, indicates the place of resi- 
 dence of the first representatives of the latter family. 
 
 X Tlio baptismal diminutive, ie orje, was frequently annexed by the Dutch to the name 
 of a child, as a term of endearment, for instance, as in this case: Diewertje, signifying in 
 English, little Deborah. 
 
 ^ Myndert Wemp, of Schenectady, was appointed Justice of the Peace by Leisler in 1689, 
 and was killed at the massacre there Feb. 9, 1690. — Pearson's First Settlers of Schenectady, 
 
 'Oi^^:i>j^ 
 
22 ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 
 
 authority to treat with the Five Nations,* and to superintend affairs relat- 
 ing to the defence of Albany.f By the matrimonial alliances which he 
 formed, he added materially to what was already a handsome estate of his 
 own, controlling extensive tracts of country along the Mohawk valley, also 
 in the vicinity of the present Saratoga, and in other parts of the province. 
 He died in 1691, leaving a willt which was proved February 9 of that 
 year, of which we have appended a copy to this sketch. He was married 
 first to Maritie Jillisse, the daughter of Gillis Pieterse and his wife Elsie 
 Hendrikse Meyer, of Beverwyck, by whom he had issue two children, to 
 wit : 
 
 i. Elsie,' bapt. , who m. (July 3, 1696) Abraham Staets, jr., of 
 
 Claverack.§ 
 ii. Maritie," bapt. , who m. (June 23, 17S9) Jan Johannese Oothout, 
 
 of Albany. 
 
 Upon the decease of his first wife, Johannes' Wendel married Elizabeth, || 
 only daughter of Major Abraham and his wife Katrina (Jochemse) StaesIT 
 (Staets), of Eensselaerswyck, by whom he had further issue, to wit : 
 
 * These distinguished nations, the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagos, the Cayugas 
 and the Senecas, at the time of the settlement of New York by the Dutch, were firmly 
 bound and concentrated in one, and held the ascendancy over all the North American 
 tribes. Their territory proper extended from Hudson's river on the east to Niagara on the 
 west, from Lake Ontario on the north to the Alleghanies on the south. At one time their 
 actual domain extended from the Sore! south by the great lakes to the Mississippi west, 
 thence east to the Santee, and coastwise back to the Hudson. They were called by the 
 French Iroquois (a word according to Charlevoix) derived from Hiro, sigjnifying " I have 
 said it," and " Aowe," a term denoting sadness when spoken slowly, and joy when spoken 
 rapidly. The English called them " The Confederates, or Five Nations, the Dutch Maqtias, 
 while they themselves knew their title as Mingoes." " It is asserted by a writer in 1741," 
 says Dunlap, that the confederated Iroqnois, or " Five Indian Nations, was established, as 
 the Indians say, one age, or one man's life, before the Dutch settled along the Hudson, and 
 he gives the names of the chiefs who formed the confederacy, to wit: the Mohawk was 
 Toganaioita, the Oneida Otatschertis, the Onondago Tatotarpa, the Cayuga Togahajon, 
 The Senecas had two chiefs present, Gannatarico and Satagarureges. The neutral tribes 
 were either annihilated or incorporated with the Iroquois at or about I6h\. The Five Indian 
 Nations were each composed of three tribes, designated individually by the name of some 
 animal, as for example, the Mohawk Nation (which inhabited the valley of the Mohawk) 
 consisted of the Tortoise, the Bear and the Wolf. That part of the Mohawk river which 
 approaches the Hudson marks the situation of the Mohawk tribe. The names of the coun- 
 ties of Oneida and Onondaga give us the location of those two nations, Onondaga, or " the 
 Swamp under the hill," being the great council ground of the confederated tribes. The Cay- 
 ugas have impressed their name upon the country of their abode, while the Seneca river 
 points us to territory of that, the farthest of the union, which stretched along the borders 
 of Lake Erie. 
 
 t In 1688 Albany was supposed by the French to have had three hundred inhabitants 
 capable of bearing arms. The population in 1698 was three hundred and seventy-nine men, 
 two hundred and twenty-nine women, and eight hundred and three children. 
 
 + " February •, iSQi- Y« Will of Capt. Joh:= Wendel proved by Oaths of Baient Lewis 
 and Gerrit Lansingh, and ye goedvrouw Elizabeth nominated sole executrix."— Ba^roc* 
 from Albany Records. 
 
 ^ Claverack, settled by the Dutch at a very early period, received its name, according to 
 Judge Miller, from its situation between four cliffs or hills upon the Hudson, and four 
 others upon its eastern boundary, in the Dutch vernacular, Klauffer-acht, or " the place 
 of eight cliffs," while according to another authority the bluffs fronting the river were called 
 the Klamers, or Clovers, and as the limits of the town extended thence, it was called Klau- 
 ver-rach, or Clover -reach. 
 
 II After the death of Capt. Johannes' Wendel (1691), his widow, Elizabeth (Staes) Wen- 
 del, married (April 26, 1695} Capt. Johannes Schuyler, of Albany. — Pearson's First Set- 
 tlers of Albany. 
 
 H I^ajor Abraham Staes (Staets), surgeon, came to Rensselaerswyck from Holland in 
 1642, with Dominie Megapolensis, in the galiot Bouttuyn. He became one of the Council 
 
ANCESTKT OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 23 
 
 3. iii. Abraham,' bapt. Dec. 27, 1678, heir-at-law, who m. (May 15, 1702) 
 
 Katarina, daughter of Theunia and Helena (Van Brugh) De Key, 
 
 of New York. 
 
 iv. Susanna,' bapt. , who m. Jacobus Davidtee Schuyler, of Albany. 
 
 V. Cataltntjb," bapt. , who m. Jacobus Davidtse Schuyler, of Albany. 
 
 vi. Elizabeth,' bapt. , who m. Johannes Ten Broeck, of Albany. 
 
 vii. Johannes,'* bapt. Mar. 2, 1684, who m. Elizabeth Walters, of Albany. 
 
 viii. EpHEAiM,' bapt. June 3, 1685, who m. Anna . 
 
 ix. IsAAC,'t bapt. Jan. 28, 1687, who m. Nov. 28, 1717, Catalyna Van Dyck, 
 
 of Albany. 
 X. Sarah,' bapt. Not. 11, 1688, and who was living at the time of her 
 
 father's decease in 1691. 
 xi. Jacob,'J bapt. Aug. 5, 1691, who removed to Boston, Mass., and who 
 
 m. (Aug. 12, 1714) Sarah Oliver, of Cambridge. 
 
 3. Abraham' Wendell§ {Johannes,^ Evert Janse^), eldest son and heir- 
 at-law of his father Johannes" by his second wife (Elizabeth Staets), was 
 born in Albany in 1678, 
 and when of age removed 
 to New York, where he 
 became an importer of con- 
 siderable degree, engaged 
 in trade with the leading 
 
 in 1643, and President of the board in 1644, at a salary of 100 florins (about $40). He ob- 
 tained license to trade in furs, and had also a considerable bouwerie (farm), at the same 
 time pursuing the practice of his profession. He was the ancestor of the Stoats of the pre- 
 sent day. He raaiTied Katrina Jochemse, by whom he had issue five children, to wit : 
 
 Jacob, who m. Ryekie ; Abraham, b. 1665, who m. Elsie Wendel ; Sarmiel, who m. 
 
 first, , second (May 7, 1709), Catharina Hawarden; Joehem, who m. Antje Barentso, 
 
 and Elizabeth, who m. Johannes^ Wendel.— 76id. 
 
 * This Johannes' Wendell, to whom, by the will of his father Johannes,^ descended 
 Steen Rabie (or Stone Arabia) the present site of Lansingburgh, N. Y., had a son Johannes 
 (born February 8, 1708) who removed to Boston, Mass., where he married (Nov. 11, 1731) 
 Mary, first child of James and Rebecca ( Lloyd) Oliver. He died at Boston, February, 
 1772, leaving a will, of which his widow was appointed sole executrix. 
 
 t Hendrik Van Dyck, first of the name in this country, came to New Amsterdam from 
 Holland in 1645. He lived, according to Valentine, in 1680, upon the Heere Straat (the 
 present Broadway). He was in the service of the Dutch West India Company, and at a 
 later period officiated as attorney-general under Stuyvesant. He died in 1688, leaving a 
 wife (Diewertje Cornelise Van Dyck) and issue. 
 
 X Jacob' Wendell (bapt. Aug. 5, 1691), the youngest son of Johannes' and Elizabeth 
 (Staes) Wendel, was the first of the name to remove to New England, and came to Boston 
 when a youth, receiving his business education in the counting-house of Mr. Jolm Mico, a 
 well known Boston merchant of the period. At the close of this connection he entered 
 into business upon his own account, accumulated a handsome estate, and became one of the 
 most prominent citizens of his day. He was uncle to John^ Wendell, the son of his eldest 
 brother Abraham, who came to Boston at a later period, and became associated with him 
 in business. He was of his Majesty's Council from 1737 to 1760, commander of the An- 
 cient and Honorable Artillery 1735 and 1745, and in 1733 director of the first bfinking 
 institution in the province. In evidence of the fact that he was not forgetful of the early 
 Dutch settlement, where dwelt so many of his kindred, may be mentioned the possession, 
 by the old church in Albany, of an antique christening basin of coin silver, bearing the 
 following inscription : De Gift van Jacob Wendell tot Baston, voor de Duytse Kerch tot Al- 
 bany, Anno 1719. The Hon. Col. Wendell lived at the corner of School and Common (the 
 present Tremont) Sts., and married (Aug. 152, 1714) Sarah, daughter of Dr. James and Mercy 
 (Bradstreet) Oliver, of Cambridge, by whom he had issue twelve children, four sons and 
 eight daughters. His son Oliver (born March 5, 1733) married (1762) Mary, daughter of 
 Edward and Dorothy (Quincy) Jackson. Sarah Wendell, his daughter, married the Rev. 
 Dr. Abiel Holmes, of Cambridge, and their fourth child (born Aug. 29, 1809) is Dr. Oliver 
 Wendell Holmes. Margaret, the twelfth child of Hon. Jacob' Wendell, married (June 12, 
 1760) William Phillips, of Boston, and their third child, John Phillips (born Nov. 26, 1770), 
 married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hurd) Walley, whose eighth child (born 
 Nov. 29, 1811) is our present fellow citizen, Wendell Phillips, in whose possession is an 
 admirable portrait, by Smibert, of the Hon. Jacob' Wendell, his ancestor. 
 
 § In this generation the family changed the orthography of their name to Wendell. 
 4 
 
24 ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 
 
 cities of Holland, and also with those of New England. Inheriting a 
 large share of the handsome estate of his father, he increased his pos- 
 sessions very materially by marriage, and was an extensive land owner in 
 the province. He was a merchant of liberality and generous charaoter, and 
 a worthy citizen. Retiring from business later in life, he removed to Boston, 
 Mass., with his family, dying there (September 28, 1734), and was buried 
 in the family tomb of his son, John* Wendell, numbered 55 in the_ Gran- 
 ary Burial Ground on Tremout Street in that city. He married* (May 15, 
 1702) Katarina, eldest daughter of Theunis and his wife Helena (Van 
 Brugh)t De Key,t of New York, by whom he had issue of twelve children, 
 to wit : 
 
 4. i. John,* bapt. May 2, 1703, who m. (Nov. 10, 1724) Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of Hon. Edmund and his wife Dorothy (P'iynt) Quincy, of Brain- 
 tree, Mass. 
 
 ii. Elizabeth,* bapt. Aug. 20, 1704, who m. (April 15, 1725). Edmund 
 Quincy, of Boston, and died there Nov. 7, 1769. 
 
 iii. Abraham,* bapt. March 3, 1706, who m. Jane Phillips, and died April 
 17, 1741. 
 
 iv. Helena De Ket,* bapt. Sept. 21, 1707, who m. John Rogers, and died 
 at Jamaica, West Indies. 
 
 * This bi-anch of the Wendells may trace descent on the maternal side from Anneke Janse, 
 through this marriage of Abraham^ Wendell with the great-granddaughter of that celebrat- 
 ed character, 
 
 t The Hon. Johannes Pieterse Van Brugli, born in the city of Haerlem in Holland, in 
 1624, and prominently connected with the Dutch West India Company, lived in New 
 Amsterdam, of which he was Burgomaster in 1656, and again in 1673, when the Dutch 
 retook the city from the English, and named it New Orange. He was a wealthy merchant, 
 and a member of the Groot-Burgerrecht, or Great Citizenship, of New Am^tcrdam in 1657, 
 which then numbered only twenty. According to historians of the period he resided upon 
 The water zyde, the location of his house being upon the west side of the present Pearl 
 Street in New York, between Wall and William Streets. He married (March 29, 1658) 
 Katrina Roeloffse, daughter of the celebrated Anneke (or Annetje) Janse, hy whom he had 
 issue as follows ; fletoia (bapt. April 4. 1659); Helena (bapt. July 28, 1660), who married 
 (May 26, 1680) Theunis De Key ; Anna (bapt. Sept. 10, 1662), who married (July 2,' 1684) 
 AndriesGrevcnraet; Catharina (bapt. April 19, 1665), who married (March 19, 1688) Hen- 
 drik Van Rensselaer; Petrus (bapt. July 16, 1666), who married (Nov. 2, 1688) Sara 
 Cuyler; JbAajwies (bapt. Nov. 22, 1671), who married (July 9, 1696) Margarita Provoost ; 
 and lastly, Maria (bapt. Sept. 20, 1673). who married Stephen Richards. 
 
 J The family of De Key was represented at an early period among the settlers of New 
 Amsterdam. The first mention of the name in connection with the colony is found in the 
 archives of the Dutch West India Company at the Hague, from which it appears that Jacob 
 De Key, of Haerlem, Holland, was one of the Lords Directors of the Amsterdam Cham- 
 ber, previous to 1634. Willcm De Key was Receiver General of New' Amsterdam in 1644, 
 and was, we beheve, the first of the name upon Manhattan. Jacob Thcunisen DeKev is found 
 in New Amsterdam prior to 1660. He was, probably, a brother of Willem. and lived in 1664 
 upon Beurs Straat, in that city, occupying a house upon the present east side of wliat is now 
 Whitehall Street, between Pearl and Beaver. " He was esteemed," says Valentine, " as a 
 citizen of probity and honor, and was prominent in the councils of the church. He died in 
 the possession of a large property, leaving, among other issue, two sons, Theunis and Jaco- 
 bus, from whom descend the representatives of the name." Theunis lived upon the Heeren 
 Gracht (the present Broad Street), and married (May 26, 1680) Helena Van Brugh, by whom 
 he had issue twelve children, to wit: Katanna (bapt. March 15, 1681), who married Abra- 
 ham Wendell ; Helegonda (bapt. Nov. 1, 1682), who married Jacobus Bavaril; Jacnbtm 
 (bapt. Aug. 31, 1684), who died Nov. 29, 1719; Lucretia (bapt. Aug. 8, 1686), who died 
 June 11, 1711; Johannes (bapt. March 4, 1688), died July 10, 1689; JoAaniici (bapt. Nov. 
 13, 1689), died 1756; Helnm (bapt. Dec. 6, 1691), died same year ; Rachel (bapt. April 9, 
 1693), died 1694; Rendrikus (bapt. Sept. 22, 1695), died 1719; Petrus (bapt. 1697), died 
 1717 ; Helena (bapt. April 22, 1699), died 1700 ; and lastly Helena (bapt. Feb. 1, 1702), who 
 married (Sept. 1, 1727) Samuel Sheffield, and at his death again married (Aug. 11, 1744) 
 Gil. Haeghoort. A quaint silver-mounted cane, with the inscription, Teunis De Key, 1697, 
 is in the possession of Miss Caroline Quincy Wendell, of Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 25 
 
 V. Catharina,' bapt. March 27, 1709, who m. William Bulfinoh, of 
 Boston. 
 
 vi. Jacobus,* bapt. Aug. 31, 1712. 
 
 vii. Ltjcretia,* bapt. July 18, 1714, who m. Samuel Sturgis, of Barnsta- 
 ble, Mass., and died there March, 1752. 
 
 viii. Tbeunis De Key,* bapt. June 24, 1716, who died young. 
 
 Jx. Theunis De Kby,* bapt. Oct. 30, 1717. 
 
 X. Hendrikus,* bapt. Aug. 3, 1719. 
 
 xi. Sarah,* bapt. Jan. 20, 1721, who m. John Dennie, of Boston, Mass. 
 
 xii. Mary,* who m, Peter Oliver. 
 
 4. John* Wendell [Abraham,'' Johannes," Evert Janse^), eldest son of 
 Abraham" and his wife Katarina (De Key) "Wendell, was born in New 
 York in 1703, and baptized in the Eeformed Protestant Dutch Churcb 
 there, May 2 of that year. He was educated in that province, remaining 
 there for some years, but subsequently removed to Boston, Mass., where he 
 entered upon business. He was a merchant and importer, doing an exten- 
 sive traffic with foreign parts, being associated in copartnership with bis, 
 uncle, the Hon. Jacob" Wendell, 
 the firm having a large whole- 
 sale warehouse located in 1754 
 upon Merchants Row,* then the 
 commercial centre of the West 
 India trade, situated at that time 
 upon the edge of tide-water. The firm of Jacob" Wendell & Co. was, 
 however, a great sufferer by the destructive fire which visited Boston on 
 March 20, 1760, sustaining, in common with numerous others, heavy losses 
 from which it never fully recovered. John* Wendell was a citizen of high 
 standing and respectability, and the contemporary in mercantile circles of 
 William Phillips, Benjamin Greene, Josiah Quincy, John Erving, Thomas 
 Hancock and others, and while he does not appear to have been called to 
 public station, took, notwithstanding, great interest in the advancement of 
 colonial affairs. He was repeatedly commissioned in the military establish- 
 ment of the province, and ranked as a field officer at the time of his death. 
 He was identified with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company from 
 1733, was Ensign of that corps in 1735, and its commander in 1740. His 
 mansion stood in 1760, upon the corner of Queen (the present Court) and 
 Trea-mountf (now Tremont) Streets, facing in that day upon the latter. 
 
 * The commercial street upon which the warehouse of the firm of Jacob' WendeU & 
 Co. was located iu 1754, dates the formal adoption of its name to a meeting of the select- 
 men of the town of Boston, held May 3, 1708, at which the following vote was passed ; Or- 
 dered, that the Streets, Lanes and Alleys of this Town, as they are now bounded and named, 
 be recorded in the Town Book." In a transcript of this record we find it declared that " the 
 Way leading from Madam Butler's corner, at y^ Lower End of King (the present State) 
 street, to the Swinging Bridg, and from thence to j" Lower End of VVoodmansie's Wharfe, 
 shall be called Merchants Row." The bridge referred to crossed the cove running inland at 
 that day above the present Faneuil Hall, known as the Town Dock, in the vicinity of the 
 present Faneuil Hall Square. 
 
 , t The street denominated in the early records Trea-mount or Tra-mount, which forms 
 the lower end oj the Tremont Street of our day, was defined in 1708 as " The Way leading 
 from y« mansion house of ye Lite Simju Lynde Esq'., by Capt. Southiaclcs, extending as 
 
26 ANCESTEY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 
 
 The building now standing upon that site, at present occupied by lawyers' 
 offices, and the store of Messrs. S. S. Pierce & Co., is the identical struc- 
 ture, although it has since undergone very material alterations.* A tablet 
 •inserted in the Court Street end commemorates the fact of its occupa- 
 tion by Washington upon the occasion of his visit to Boston in 1789. 
 John* Wendell married (November 10, 1724) Elizabeth, second daughter 
 of Hon. Edmund and his wife Dorothy (Flynt) Quincy,t of Braintree, by 
 whom he had issue of fifteen children, to wit : 
 
 i. Jacob," b. Nov. 23, 1725. 
 
 ii. Abraham,* b. Sept. 23, 1727, who died unmarried at Boston, April 13, 
 
 1752. 
 iii. Elizabeth,* b. Oct. 16, 1739, who m. Solomon Davis, of Boston. 
 5. iv. John,' b. Sept. 10, 1731, who m. (June 20, 1753) Sarah Wentworth, 
 
 of Portsmouth, N. H., and at her death again m. (Aug. 20, 1778) 
 
 Dorothy Sherburne, of Portsmouth , N. H. 
 V. Dorothy,* b. March 19, 1733, who m. Richard Skinner, of Marblehead, 
 
 vi. Edmund,* b. May' 13, 1735, who m. Knight, at Antigua, West 
 
 Indies, and died there (March 2, 1793), leaving no issue. 
 
 vii. Jacob,* 2d, b. Oct. 19, 1736, who died in Boston. 
 
 viii. Henry Eltnt,* b. Dec. 23, 1737, who died on the voyage from Jamaica, 
 West Indies. 
 
 ix. Josiah,* b. , who was lost at sea on the voyage from Monte Oristo, 
 
 Jan. 21, 1762. 
 
 X. Oathakinb,*J b. , who m. Solomon Davis, of Boston, and died there 
 
 April 7, 1805. 
 
 xi. Sarah,* b. . 
 
 xii. Thomas,* b. April — , 1744, who m. Elizabeth Trivett, of Marblehead, 
 Mass. 
 
 xiii. Sarah,* b. May 1, 1745, who m. John Qerry, of Marblehead, Mass., 
 and at his death again m. June 18, 1786, Gen. John Fiske, of Sa- 
 lem, Mass. 
 
 xiv. Isaac,* b. . 
 
 XV. A child,* unnamed, stillborn. 
 
 far as Collo. Townsends corner." It will thus be seen that it extended only as far south 
 as School Street, its continuation being the way past the burial-ground (the Granary) , 
 which was tlien known as Common Street. 
 
 * Among the letters of the late Jacob Wendell, of Portsmouth, N. H., I find the follow- 
 ing reference to .Tohn Wendell's residence in Boston. He says : " My grand-father's house 
 in Boston was at the head of Prison Lane, next to old Dea. Henchman's, at the corner going 
 to the Common, by Captain Emery's estate on Tremont Street. Deacon Henchman's house 
 was later occupied by Rev. S. K. Lothrop. The prison, as well remembered by many of 
 the present generation, stood upon the present site of the Court House, and the part of 
 Court Street extending by the front of the prison, from Washington Street to Tremont, was 
 called Prison Lane." 
 
 t The Hon. Edmund Quincy, a citizen of great prominence and influence in the province, 
 who married (1701) Dorothy, daughter of Rev. Josiah and Esther (Willet) Flynt, of Brain- 
 tree. He was the grandson of Edmund Quincy (born in England, 1602), who arrived in 
 Boston, Mass., Sept. 4, 1633. He graduated at Harvard College in 1699, and subsequently 
 was in the public service nearly all his life. He was of His Majesty's Council, Colonel of 
 the Suffolk Regiment of yeomaniy, a magistrate of the province, and one of the Justices of 
 the Supreme Court. In 1737 he was appointed Agent for the province at the Court of Great 
 Britain, to settle the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, but died 
 in London, England, February 23, 1738. His death was deeply lamented by his country- 
 men, and the General Court of Massachusetts, as an acknowledgment of his public services, 
 granted to his heirs a thousand acres of land in the town of Lenox, and ordered a monument 
 to be erected over his grave in Bunhill-flelds, London, at the expense of the province, with 
 an inscription terminating thus : " He departed the delight of his own people, but of 
 none more than the Senate, who as a testimony of their love and gratitude, have directed 
 this epitaph to be inscribed on his monument.'' 
 
 X Solomon Davis married two sisters successively. 
 
ANCESTEY OP THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 27 
 
 John* Wendell, upon the death of his first wife Elizabeth, was again mar- 
 ried (1751) to Mercy Skinner, of Marblehead, but we find no record of 
 his having had issue by her. He died Dec. 15, 1762. 
 
 5. JoHN^ Wendell {John* Abraham,^ Johannes^ Evert Janse'), fourth 
 son of John* and his wife Elizabeth (Quincy) Wendell, was born in Boston 
 September 10, 1731. He received the requisite preparation for Harvard 
 College, entered that institution at the age of fifteen, and was graduated 
 thence in 1750. Shortly afterwards he removed to Portsmouth, in the 
 Province of New Hampshire, where he established himself as a real estate 
 lawyer and conveyancer, and 
 became subsequently possess- 
 
 ed of large landed interests. ^^r/f^^,j^y^O^^^,^_^^i^^ 
 He held professional and 
 social relations with many of the leading citizens of the time, who were 
 prominent during the Revolutionary period, among whom we note the 
 names of Hancock, Quincy, Otis, Langdon, Livingston, Morris, Hamil- 
 ton, Jay, and Ethan Allen, while he was the warm personal friend of Hon. 
 Elbridge Gerry, Gen. Philip Schuyler, Gen. Peter Gansevoort, Gen. John 
 Sullivan and Thomas Dudley. He was a man of vigorous mind and ener- 
 getic disposition, and it may be justly said of him that he contributed freely 
 from his moderate fortune, as well as by his pen, towards sustaining the 
 stand early taken in the province against the arbitrary exactions of the 
 Crown. Although repeatedly solicited to occupy official station, he persis- 
 tently declined so doing, preferring to remain apart from public life, and 
 unbiassed in his political opinions. He was a ready speaker and writer, 
 and a man of considerable scholastic taste, in recognition of which he re- 
 ceived the degree of Master of Arts from Yale College in 1768, and from 
 Dartmouth in 1773. He died in Portsmouth, April 29, 1808, in his sev- 
 enty-seventh year. John^ Wendell married (June 20, 1753) Sarah, eldest 
 daughter of Daniel* and Elizabeth (Frost) Wentworth, of Portsmouth, by 
 whom he had issue of eleven children, to wit : 
 
 i. Sarah Wentworth,' b. Oct. 5, 1754, who m. (Dec. 31, 1784) Edward 
 
 Sargent, of Portsmouth, 
 ii. Elizabeth,* b. Oct. 11, 1755 ; died July 16, 1756. 
 iii. John,' b. Oct. 25, 1757 ; died Aug. 15, 1799, unmarried, 
 iv. Daniel Wentworth,' b. Feb. 15, 1760 ; died Jan. 27, 1780. 
 V. Edmund,' b. July 15, 1762 ; died May 14, 1763. 
 vi. Elizabeth,' b. April 9, 1764. 
 vii. Helena De Ksr,' b. Feb. 28, 1766, who m. Benjamin Sherburne, of 
 
 Portsmouth, 
 viii. Edmund,' b. March 4, 1769, who m. Elizabeth Cotton. 
 
 * Daniel Wentwortli (born Jan. 5, 1715), a merchant of Portsmouth, N. H., who died 
 there June 19, 1747. He was a descendant through Lieut. Governor John of Portsmouth 
 (born Jan. 16, 1671), and Samuel of Dover (born 1641), of Elder William Wentworth 
 (born 1616), of Alford, co. Lincoln, the first English emigrant of the name to America, 
 who settled at Exeter, N. H., in 1639. — Wentworth Genealogy. 
 
28 ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 
 
 ix. HANNAH,«b. March 3, 1770; died April 17, 1771. 
 
 X. George Wbntworth,' b. March 33, 1771, who m. (Aug. 15, 1795) 
 
 Rebecca Sherburne. 
 xi. A child,^ unnamed, stillborn. 
 
 Upon the decease of his first wife (Nov. 17, 1772) John' "Wendell again 
 married (Aug. 20, 1778) Dorothy, second daughter of Judge Henry and 
 his wife Sarah (Warner) Sherburne,* of Portsmouth (b. Aug. 20, 1752), 
 by whom he had further issue, to wit : 
 
 xii. Dorothy Sherburne,* b. Feb. 11, 1780, and who m. (Aug. 7, 1803) 
 
 Reuben Shapley Randall, 
 xiii. Mart,* b. Sept. 30, 1781, and died March 20, 1787. 
 xiv. Daniel,' b. Nov. 35, 1783, and died unmarried March 34, 1807. 
 XV. Abraham,' b. March 18, 1785, who m. Susan Gardner, of Portsmouth, 
 
 and died there March 27, 1865. 
 xvi. Isaac,' b. Nov. 1, 1786, who m. (1809) Ann Austin Whittier, of Dover, 
 
 N. H. ; removed (1830)to Bustleton, Pa., and died there. 
 6 . xvii. Jacob,' b. Dec. 10, 1788, who m. (Aug. 15, 1816) Mehetabel Rindge 
 
 Rogers, of Portsmouth, and died there on Aug. 27, 1865. 
 xviii. Marv Sherburne,' b. Aug. 7, 1790, who died Aug. 19, 1790. 
 xix. Henry Flynt,' b. July 10, 1791, who died Aug. 25, 1796. 
 
 6. Jacob Wendell' {John^ John* Abraham," Johannes," Evert Janse^), 
 the sixth child of John by his second wife, Dorothy (Sherburne) Wendell, was 
 born in Portsmouth, N. H., December 10, 1788. Educated in his native 
 town, he entered business life on leaving school, and acquired, within a com- 
 paratively short period, such thorough mercantile training and familiarity 
 
 with commercial matters, as enabled him) 
 y^^ /^^/^ / ^/ ^ few years later, to become a merchant 
 
 V^^^i'^^^^'V/^S^^-^^^^'^^ and importer on his own account, in the 
 / Eussian and West India trade. In this 
 * pursuit he was remunerated by abundant 
 
 returns, and, with judicious and conservative management, he rapidly ac- 
 cumulated what was for those days a handsome property, becoming a prom- 
 inent and respected citizen. 
 
 The responsibilities of affairs unquestionably tend, in a greater or less de- 
 gree, towards absorption of the social and domestic tastes. Too often 
 is the man of business, engrossed in watchful scrutiny of his interests, and 
 
 * The Hon. Henry Sherburne (liorn April 4, 1709), a citizen of abundant wealth, promi- 
 nent station and influence in the Province of New Hampshire, who married (Oct. 2, 1740) 
 Miss Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Hill) Warner, of Portsmouth. He graduated 
 at Harvard College in 1728, was Clerk of the Courts of the Province from 1729 to 1739, and 
 from 1745 for twcnty-uno years representative from Portsniouth to the Provincial Assem- 
 bly, of which he was Spealicr the hist ten years. He was delegate to the Colonial Congress 
 at Albany in 1754, in 1765 was made Chief Justice of tlie Superior Court, and in 1766 
 was appointed Counsellor. He wns great-grandson through Henry (born 1674), Samuel 
 (l)orn 1638), of the first American ancestor, Henry Sherburne (born 1611), who emigrated 
 from Hampshire, England, to the Piscataqua in 1632, who was the second son of Joseph 
 Sherburne, of Odiliam, Hampshire (died 1621), who was the lineal descendant in a younger 
 branch, through Henry (boin 1555), of Oxford; Hug/i (born 1534), of Haighton ; Rich- 
 ard (born 1510), of Bayley and Haighton ; Richard (born 1488), of Wiswall, the second 
 son of Sir Richard Sherburne, Knight, of Stonyhurst, in the town of Aighton, Lanca- 
 shire (born 1465), the ninth in regular descent, to whom had fallen that princely inheri- 
 tance. — MS. of Edward Raymond Sherburne. 
 
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ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 29 
 
 wrapped in contemplation of fresh plans for added influence and profit, in- 
 clined to subordinate to an indifferent place those cheering and brightening 
 associations of home and its surroundings, which do so much to render life 
 desirable and happy. This could not be said of Mr. Wendell. He possess- 
 ed strong points of character. He was energetic, clear-headed and prudent, 
 of sterling integrity and honor ; devoted to his business, and unceasingly 
 faithful to its demands upon him ; but he did not allow it to mar or lessen 
 the force of social ties. He was a loving and affectionate husband and fa- 
 ther, a generous brother and an indulgent friend, and it was in the congenial 
 domestic circle that he sought and found his respite from the care and bus- 
 tle of business life. 
 
 It was in 1815 that he embarked with his brother Isaac° Wendell and 
 others in the enterprise of establishing and operating some of the earlier mills 
 founded in New Hampshire for the manufacture of cotton cloth.* The indus- 
 try of weaving textile fabrics was then in its infancy upon this side the Atlan- 
 tic, very little being known here at that period of the improved machinery 
 patented in Great Britain, which was prohibited by the government 
 from exportation abroad. The embryo manufacturers purchased, through 
 Daniel Webster, then resident in Portsmouth, several fine water privileges, 
 the first acquisition being the estate in Dover, known as the Waldron 
 farm, upon which they erected successively several structures. In the fall 
 of 1821, the first mill was ready to commence operations, and its machinery 
 was started in control of a skillful supei'intendent, under such favorable 
 auspices, and with such satisfactory results, that two years later another mill 
 was built upon the Salmon Falls river, upon a site purchased of Mr. 
 Gershom Horn, which was the pioneer factory of the Great Falls corpo- 
 ration. 
 
 For some time everything went prosperously. The mills earned a hand- 
 some profit upon the capital invested, the stock advanced to a premium, 
 
 and all seemed to augur well for the future, when the notable commercial 
 
 • , _ 
 
 * This undertaking was first initiated by some gentlemen of Dover, at what was Itnown 
 as the Upper Factory, where they were at that time spinning yarn and also malting nails. 
 Isaac Wendell, ray father, entered warmly into the enterprise, and enlisted in its interests, 
 and in those of the new mills established at Dover, and subsequently at Great Falls, his 
 brother Jacob Wendell and others, with his partner, John Williams, of Dover. The loca- 
 tion and rise of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company dates from 1823, the legislative 
 act granting it incorporation bearing date June H of that year. The inspection of me- 
 chanical details in the factory at Dover was intrusted to William Blackliurn, an experi- 
 enced weaver from the city of Manchester, in England, while Isaac Wendell occupied 
 the position of agent, and exercised a general supervision over the interests of the mills. 
 Of the working capacity of these factories some idea may bo gained when we state that the 
 first year (1821) tliree thousand spindles were put in operation in the wooden mill at Dover, 
 since removed, while the total number operated at both places exceeded thirty thousand. The 
 bricks necessary for these buildings were made on the ground, while much of the iron work 
 needed was furnished by a small furnace erected on tlie Bellamy river. The mills made 
 shirtings, print cloths and sheetings, and the annual production was very large. Twelve to fif- 
 teen hundred operatives were employed on the corporation, while the amount of money dis- 
 bursed monthly, exclusive of the cost of cotton, amounted to a large sum. In 1825 the 
 Company attempted the manufacture of woolen cloth and carpets, ei'ecting a mill for that 
 purpose, but it soon relinquished this project, and put the new factory also upon cotton. — 
 MS. of Ann Elizabeth Wendell. 
 
30 ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 
 
 panic of 1827-28 swept the country, and one mercantile crash succeeded 
 another. The destruction of all confidence in business credit and financial 
 strength was rapid and wide-spread, involving on all sides extended com- 
 mercial ruin, among which was the failure of the Great Falls Manufactur- 
 ing Company, and the consequent precipitation of heavy losses upon Jacob' 
 Wendell, with others, which were terribly severe. The shock of this ca- 
 lamity, though it very seriously and almost hopelessly crippled him finan- 
 cially, did not, however, cause him utter discouragement. "While over- 
 whelmed by the sudden and terrible revulsion of fortune, his spirit was not 
 crushed, and accepting the unwelcome circumstances in which he was placed, 
 he devoted his energies, for the long years which were to come, towards 
 the amelioration of the catastrophe. 
 
 He held. firm and pronounced religious convictions, being from early 
 years connected with the well known South Parish Society* of Portsmouth. 
 He united with its church membership during the memorable pastorate of 
 the Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker.f between whom and himself existed the most 
 cordial friendship, while the active interest he evinced in all relating to the 
 welfare and prosperity of the ancient parish in which he was brought up, 
 continued to the time of his decease. He had marked taste for historical 
 and antiquarian matters, and was a corresponding member of the New Eng- 
 land Historic, Genealogical Society from 1847. He was married (Aug. 
 15, 1816) to Mehetabel Rindge,t only daughter of Mark and Susanna Ro- 
 
 * The records of the religious organization known as The South Parish, of Portsmouth, 
 N. H., run bad? into the early annals of the province, being contemporary with that period 
 when Churcliman and Puritan strove zealously for ecclesiastical control of the settlements 
 along the Piscataqua. " Its first pastor, the Rev. John Emerson," says Rer. Dr. A. P. 
 Peabody, in a discourse descriptive of its history, in 1859, " was installed in March, 1715. 
 Its first house of worship was the building which had been erected in 1638, upon the hill 
 below the South Mill Bridge, at the present junction of Water and South Streets. This 
 was a substantial structure, sixty feet by thirty, with galleries, a low belfry and a bell, the 
 windows with diamond panes, set in lead. It originally had no pews ; the men and women 
 being seated on opposite sides of the main floor, according to their respective claims to pre- 
 cedence, and the boys and girls occupying places in opposite galleries. Pews were subse- 
 quently built in various parts of the house by individual worshippers. In 1731, the edifice 
 known as the Old South Meeting-house was built, on a site bequeathed to the parish by the 
 John Pickering who had been so largely instrumental in its separate oi-ganization." Here, 
 successive to the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Emerson, who died in office in 1732, were conducted 
 the ministries of Rev. William Shurtleff', Rev. Job Strong, and Rev. Dr. Samuel Haven. 
 In the pastorate of the next incuml)ent. Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, came that religious 
 change which stirred New England so profoundly, which may be defined as " the Channing 
 movement," initiated at Baltimore in 1819, and to which the parish, in common with many 
 others, thenceforth transferred its allegiance. The Old South was vacated in 1826, when the 
 society completed and occupied the present Stone Church, but it stood until 1863, being used 
 during a portion of the time for religious purposes, and was then taken down. 
 
 t The Rev. Nathan Parker, D.D., fifth minister of the South Parish. Born at Reading, 
 Mass., in 1782, he graduated at Harvard College in 1803, and Sept. U, 1808, was ordained 
 at Portsmouth, succeeding the Rev. Dr. Samuel Haven. He was a man of great ability 
 and talent, the peer of any clergyman of his time, and was greatly loved and esteemed by 
 all who knew him. After a most successful pastorate of twenty-five years, during which 
 the prosperity ol the parish was most materially increased, he died in office Nov. 8, 1833. 
 
 X The family of Rmdge is of English origin, the first representative of the name of whom 
 we have record in Massachusetts being found in the person of Daniel Rindge, first of Rox- 
 bury (1639), who removed to Ipswich in 1648. He married Mary Kinsman, and died in 
 February, 1661, leaving among other issue, three sons, Daniel, Roger and Isaac, of whom 
 the present bearers of the name are the descendants. Isaac married Elizabeth Dutch, and 
 their eldest son John Rmdge (born June 1, 1695), of Portsmouth, N. H. (1710), married Ann, 
 
ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL. 31 
 
 gers,* of Portsmouth, with whom he lived most happily for a long period of 
 years, only terminated by her death, which occurred April 30, 1859. They 
 were blest with a family of eight children, six of whom they lived to see grow 
 to years of maturity, and occupy reputable and useful relations in society. 
 Jacob' Wendell survived his wife six years, dying at the homestead on Plea- 
 sant Street, Portsmouth, Aug. 27, 1865. Issue : 
 
 i. Mark Rogeks,^ b. June 18, 1817, who removed to Boston, who m. 
 (June 13, 1849) Catharine (Gates) Thaxter, of that city,' and now 
 resident there. 
 
 ii. Mbhetabel Eindge,' b. June .SO, 1818, who m. (Oct. 38, 1844) Isaac 
 Henry Stanwood, of Woodville, Mississippi, and died in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio (Oct. 3, 1847), and was buried at Portsmouth, N. H., leaving 
 issue one child, James Rindge. 
 
 iii. Caroline Quincy,' b. Dec. 24, 1820, unmarried, who inherited the 
 homestead in Portsmouth, and resident there in 1882. 
 
 iv. Jacob,^ b. Sept. 23, 1832 ; died March 20, 1826, and was buried at 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 V. Mart Evert,' b. Dec. 25, 1824 ; died April 29, 1826, and was buried 
 at Portsmouth. 
 
 vi. Jacob,' b. July 24, 1826, who removed to Boston, who m. (Oct. 24, 
 1854) Mary Bertodi Barrett, of that city, resident (1882) in N. York. 
 
 vii. Mary Evert,' b. Aug. 28, 1838, who m. (June 29, 1853) William 
 Hobbs Goodwin, of North Berwick, Me., who removed to Jamaica 
 Plain, Mass., the following year, and now resident there. 
 
 viii. George Blunt,' b. Jan. 31,'l83I, who m. (Feb. 7, 1861) Mary Eliza- 
 beth Thompson, of Portsmouth, removed to Quincy, Mass., and who 
 died there, Sept. 35, 1881, leaving issue, and was buried at Ports- 
 mouth. 
 
 daughter of Hon. Jotham Odiorne, of Newcastle. The Hon. John Rindge was a merchant 
 of high standing and handsome estate. He served repeated terms in the provincial assem- 
 bly, was Commissioner to the Court of Great Britain in behalf of the province, to settle the 
 boundary line between New flanipshire and Massachusetts, in 1731-32, while he was of 
 his Majesty's Council in 1738-40. By his wife Ann Odiorne he had issue of thirteen child- 
 ren, to wit: Elizabeth, horn July 29, 1717, who ra. Mark Hunking Wentworth; Isaac, born 
 1719; George, born 1721 ; Ann, born Aug. 20, 1723, who m. Daniel Peirce ; Meheiabel, born 
 Sept. 22, 1725, who m. Daniel Rogers ; Jo)m, born-July 23, 1727 ; Daniel, born Sept. 18, 1729 ; 
 Daniel, born Oct. 5, 1731, who m. Olive Huske; William, born April 21, 1734; Isaac, born 
 Oct. 20, 173.1, who m. Sarah Parr ; Jotham, born Feb. 28, 1737, who m. Sarah Vanghan ; 
 Benjamin, l)orn May 31, 1739; and lastly, Oeorge, born 1740. 
 
 * Mark Rogers, of Portsmouth, tenth child of Hon. Daniel and Mehetabel (Rindge) 
 Rogers. He was a descendant through Daniel of Portsmouth, Rev. Nathaniel of Ports- 
 mouth, and Rev. John of Ipswich, of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, the first New England 
 ancestor of the family, who emigrated to Ipswich, Mass., In 1636, who was the son of 
 the Rev. John Rogers, of Dedliam, co. Essex, England, a renowned Puritan preacher. 
 Inasmuch as the impression has been long prevalent that this well-known divine was a 
 grand.son of the famous Marian proto-martyr, it is interesting to note the fact that the 
 closest researches by the late eminent genea'logist, Joseph Lemuel Chester, LL.D., himself 
 a descendant of the Rev. John Rogers, of Dedham, have utterly failed to substantiate the 
 claim. " Ho has so long been supposed," says Colonel Chester, " to have been a grandson 
 of the Martjr, that, especially in New England, where his descendants are very numerous, 
 it will be deemed little less than heresy when it is said that there is no reasonable ground 
 for supposing that he occupied that relation. He claims no such ancestry for himself, nor 
 does any one do so for him until the time of Hutchinson, whose history of the Colony of 
 Massachusetts was first published in London about 1760. That historian, noticing the 
 death of Nathaniel Rogers, the celebrated New England divine, says that ' he was the son 
 of Mr. John Rogers, a celebrated Puritan preacher of Dedham, England, descended from 
 the Proto-martyr of Queen Mary's reign,' and quotes Hubbard (History of New England) 
 as his authority for the entire paragraph. Strangely enough, Hubbard says nothing of the 
 kind, and in no place in his history gives the most distant hint of such a relationship." 
 Col. Chester adds that he is sorry thus to be compelled to destroy the pleasing delusion in 
 which the descendants of John Rogers of Dedham have so long indulged, but that numer- 
 ous class must console themselves with the reflection that their immediate ancestor was, 
 nevertheless, one of the best and most venerated men of his times. 
 5 
 
Will of Johannes' Wendel, of Albany. 
 
 Kn tlje 'Name of dSotS, Wimtn, the Twenty-third day of November, 
 1691, in the Third Year of our most Sovereign Lord and Lady, William 
 and Mary, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ire- ■ 
 land. King and Queen, I, Johannes' Wendel, of the City of Albany, Mer- 
 chant, although weak and sickly in body, yet of good, perfect and sound 
 Memory, praised be Almighty God therefor, do Make and Ordain this my 
 present Will and Testament, in manner and form following ; that is to say: 
 
 jFil'St, K erommenJJ myself and all my Whole Estate to the Mercy 
 and Protection of Almighty God, being fully Persuaded by His Holy Spirit, 
 through the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ, to obtain full Pardon 
 and Remission of all my sins, and to inherit everlasting life, to which, the 
 Holy Trinity, one coequal Deity, be all Honor and Glory forever. Amen. 
 And Touching such Temporal Estate of Lands, Houses, Goods, Chattels and 
 Debts, as the Lord hath been pleased, (far beyond my Deserts), to Bestow 
 upon me, I do Order, Give, Bequeath and Dispose the same in manner 
 and form following : 
 
 KmpritntS my Will is that my well-beloved wife, Elizabeth Wendel, 
 shall Have and Keep, Hold and Possess my Whole Estate, both Lands, 
 Houses, Lots, Goods and Chattels, and all my moveables during her Natu- 
 ral Life, out of which she is to Bring up, Educate and Maintain my Eleven 
 Children, vizt: Elsie and Mary Wendel, begotten by my first wife Marytje 
 Jillisse (Meyer), to which two daughters my Wife is to pay as soon as they 
 come to Age, or to be Married, Three Hundred and-forty Beavers, and the 
 other moveables due to them for their Mother's Portion, or Inheritance, 
 according to the Instrument made thereof, which I Will shall take its Effect 
 to all Intents and Purposes, and moreover have an Equal Share of my Estate 
 with my Other Children, and also to Bring up, Educate and Maintain my 
 Nine Children begotten by Elizabeth, my Present Wife, called Abraham, 
 Susanna, Catalyntje, Elizabeth, Johannes, Ephraim, Isaac, Sarah and Jacob 
 Wendel, and such other Children as it shall Please God to send me by her, 
 until they shall severally come of Age, or to be Married, but if my Wife 
 shall happen to re-marry, then my Will is that she give and Exhibit a Per- 
 fect Inventory upon Oath of all the Whole Estate, Eeal and Personal, which 
 is to be apprised by Indifferent and Judicious Men, and Equally Divided, 
 
WILL OF JOHANNES WENDEL OF ALBANY. 33 
 
 one Moiety thereof for the Behoof of my said Eleven Children, which half 
 I Will to be Equally Divided among them, or so many of them as shall then 
 be alive ; and the other Moiety for my said well-beloved Wife, which Por- 
 tions of my said Children she is to keep until they come to Age or be Mar- 
 ried, she giving sutiicient Security for the same. ^COt)itl0t(, Lands and 
 Houses be also Apprised and Allotted to my Sons, as hereafter is Specified, 
 they being accountable to the Children what the said Lands shall be Valued 
 above their Proportion in the Estate, viz': I do Give and Bequeath to my 
 Eldest Son Abraham, and to His Heirs forever, all my Seventh Part of 
 the Land commonly Called Saraghtogo, my share being that Farm that lies 
 to the Southward of the Fish Creeli, so called, which separates the land of 
 Robert Livingston and mine, being Bounded on the South by Dirk Wes- 
 sel's, with my Proportion of Wood-Land belonging thereunto, alway Pro- 
 vided the same Be Apprised by Indifferent Persons, when he shall come 
 to Age or be Married, he paying the surplusage what it be more valued 
 than His Portion with the other Children. I do Give and Bequeath unto 
 my son Johannes and to his Heirs forever, all my Land commonly Called 
 Steen Rabie, on the East side of Hudson's River, with all the Houses, Barns, 
 Yards and other appurtenances, the Island ■ called Walviseh Island and that 
 Belongs to said tract of Land, which is to be Apprised when he comes to 
 Age, and if the apprisement amounts to more than his Equal Share in my 
 Estate, he is to pay it to my other Children to make them equal. I do 
 Give and Bequeath to my Son Ephraim and to His Heirs forever, all my 
 Part, Share and Portion of the land Called Blenkenburgh, both at the Strand 
 and upon the Flatts or Plains, which i§ Also to be Apprised, as the other 
 Lands above mentioned, and if the apprisement amounts to more than the 
 Equal Proportion in said Estate, he is to pay it to my other Children, to 
 make them Equal with him. My Will is further, that if any of the said 
 Tracts of Land Bequeathed to my Sons aforesaid should happen to be ap- 
 prised less than their Portion in the Estate, that so much of the Estate be 
 paid to them as to make it up with the rest of the Children. I do Give unto 
 my well-beloved Wife, my House which I now live in, situate and being 
 between the widow of Jacob Glen and Peter Davidtse Schuyler, which is to 
 be apprised and deducted out of the Moiety of the Estate which she is to 
 have ; and if she remains a Widow, she is to Keep, Hold, Enjoy and Pos- 
 sess the Whole Estate during her Natural Life, and to Give to my said 
 Children such Portions and Outfitts as she shall see meet when they come 
 to Age, or to be Married, and after my Wife's decease the Whole Estate, 
 Real and Personal, to be Equally Divided among my Sons and Daughters, 
 Excepting that I do give to my Eldest Son, Abraham, the Sum of Three 
 Pounds current money of this Province, besides his Portion with the Rest 
 of my Children, wherewith he is to Rest Satisfied of any Pretence that he 
 might make as my Eldest Son, and share then as the others do, and 
 
34 WILL OF JOHANNES WENDEL OF ALBANY. 
 
 whereas I have Ordered my Sons Abraham, Johannes and Ephraim, Lands 
 for their Portion as above is Expressed, if any of the said Sons should hap- 
 pen to Dye before they come to Age, then niy Sons Isaac and Jacob are 
 to have the same successively on the said condition. 
 
 ILUSitlS) I do Make, Constitute, Ordain and Appoint my dear and well- 
 beloved Wife Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament, who is 
 to have the Administration of my Goods and Chattels as Administratrix, as 
 by the Laws of this Government are Admitted to do. I do Nominate 
 and Appoint my beloved brother-in-law M' Jacob Staets, and M' Joh : 
 Lansingh, to be Tutors and Trustees over my said wife and Children, and 
 to Aid and Assist my Wife in the Administration of said Estate. 
 
 Kn fflSaftneSS toi)ertOf, I have Hereunto sett my Hand and Seal, in 
 Albany, at my Dwelling House, the Day and Year first above written. 
 
 Signed and Delivered in the Presence of 
 
 Barent Lewis, ) 
 
 Gerrit Lansingh. j 
 
 [Reprinted, with additions, from the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1882.] 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 [Note A.] 
 THE OCTROY, OR GENERAL CHARTER OF 1614. 
 
 [From the Acie Boek of the States General in the Royal Archives at the Hague.] 
 
 The States General of the United Netherlands : To all who shall see these 
 presents or hear them read, Greeting ; BE IT KNOWN, Whereas, we understand it 
 would be honorable, serviceable and profitable to this Country, and for the promotion 
 of its prosperity, as well as for the maintenance of seafaring people, that the good 
 Inhabitants should be excited and encouraged to employ and occupy themselves in 
 seeking out and discovering Passages, Havens, Countries and Places that have not 
 before now been discovered nor frequented ; and being informed by some Traders 
 that they intend with God's merciful help, by diligence, labor, danger and expense, 
 to employ themselves thereat, as they expect to derive a handsome profit therefrom, 
 if it pleased Us to favor, privilege and charter' them, that they alone might resort and 
 sail to and frequent the Passages, Havens, Countries and Places to be by them newly 
 found and discovered, for six voyages as a compensation for their outlays, trouble 
 and risk, with interdiction to all directly or indirectly to resort or saU to, or frequent 
 the said passages, havens, countries or places, before and until the first discoverers 
 and finders thereof shall have completed the aforesaid six voyages : 
 
 Therefore, We having duly weighed the aforesaid matter, and finding as hereinbe- 
 fore stated, the said understanding to be laudable, honorable and serviceable for the 
 prosperity of the United Provinces, and wishing that the experiment be free and open 
 to aU and every of the Inhabitants of this country, have invited and do hereby invite, 
 all and every of the Inhabitants of the United Netherlands to the aforesaid search, 
 and therefore, have granted and consented, grant and consent hereby that whosoever 
 any new Passages, Havens, Countries or Places shall from now henceforward discover, 
 shall alone resort to the same or cause them to be frequented for four voyages, with- 
 out any other person directly or indirectly sailing, frequenting or resorting from the 
 United Netherlands to the said newly discovered and found passages, havens, coun- 
 tries or places, until the first discoverer shall have made or cause to be made the said 
 four voyages, on pain of confiscation of the goods and ships wherewith the contrary 
 attempt shall be made, and a fine of Fifty Thousand Netherlands Ducats, to the profit 
 of the aforesaid finder or discoverer. 
 
 Well understanding that the discoverer, on completion of the first voyage, shall be 
 holden within fourteen days after his return from said voyage, to render unto Us a 
 pertinent Report of the aforesaid discoveries and adventures, in order on hearing 
 thereof. We may adjudge and declare, according to circumstances and distance, with- 
 
36 APPENDIX. 
 
 in what time the aforesaid four voyages must be completed. Provided that we do 
 not understand to prejudice thereby, or in any way to diminish our former Charters 
 and Concessions : And if one or more Companies find and discover, in or about one 
 time or one year, such new Passages, Countries, Havens or Places, the same shall 
 Conjointly enjoy this Our Grant and Privilege ; and in case any differences or ques- 
 tions concerning these or otherwise should arise or occur from this our Concession, 
 the same shall be decided by Us, whereby each shall have to regulate himself. And 
 in order that this Our Concession shall be made known equally to all. We have or- 
 dered that these be published and affixed at the usual places in the United Countries. 
 Thus done at the Assembly of the Lords States General at the Hague, the XXTII"> 
 of March XVI" and fourteen. Was parapheered. 
 
 J. VAN Oldenbaenevelt^'. 
 Under stood — By order of the Lords States General. 
 
 (^Signed) C. Aebssbn. 
 
 N. Y. Col. Mss. Holland Doc. I. 
 
 [Note B.] 
 
 THE SPECIAL TRADING LICENSE GEANTED TO THE UNITED NEW 
 NETHERLAND COMPANY. 
 
 [From tlie Minute on half a sheet of paper, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague, File Loopende.] 
 
 The States General of the United Netheklands to all to whom these presents 
 shaU come. Greeting : Whereas, Gerrit Jacobi WiUsen, antient Burgomaster of the City 
 Amsterdam, Jonas Witssen, Simon Morrissen, owners of the ship named the Little Fox, 
 whereof Jan De With has been Skipper ; Hans Hongers, Paulus Pelgrom, Lambrecht 
 Van Tweenhuyzen, owners of the two ships named the Tiger and the Fortune, whereof 
 Aedriaen Block and Henrick Corstiaenssen were Skippers ; Artwlt Van Lybergeu, 
 Wessel Schenck, Hans Claessen and Berent Sweertssen, ovmers of the ship named the 
 Nightingale, whereof Thys Volckertssen was Skipper, Merchants of the foresaid City 
 Amstelredam, and Pieter Clementssen Brotacer, Jan Clementssen Kies, and Cornelis 
 Volcjca-tssen, Merchants of the City of Hoorn, owners of the ship named the Fmiuyn, 
 whereof Cornelis Jacobssen Mey was Skipper, all now associated in one Company, 
 have respectfully represented to Us, that they, the petitioners, after great expenses and 
 damages by loss of ships and other dangers, had during the present year, discovered 
 and found with the above named five ships, certain New Lands situate in America, 
 between New France and Virginia, the Sea Coasts whereof lie between forty and forty- 
 five degrees of latitude, and now called New Netherlaud : And whereas We did in the 
 month of March last, for the Promotion aud Increase of Commerce, cause to be pub- 
 lished a certain General Consent and Charter setting fortli that whosoever should 
 thereafter discover new havens, lands, places or passages, might frequent, or cause to 
 be frequented, for four voyages, such newly discovered and found places, passages, 
 havens or lands, to the exclusion of all others from visiting or frequenting the same 
 from the United Netherlands, until the said first discoverers and finders shall, them- 
 selves, have completed the said four voyages, or caused the same to be done within 
 
APPENDIX. 37 
 
 the time prescribed for that purpose, under the penalties expressed in the said Octroy, 
 etc, they request that We would accord them due Act of the aforesaid Octroy in the 
 usual form : 
 
 Which being considered. We therefore in Our Assembly having heard the pertinent 
 Eeportofthe Petitioners, relative to the discoveries and finding of the said new 
 Countries between the above- named limits and degrees, and also of their adventures, 
 have consented and granted, and by these presents do consent and grant, to the said 
 Petitioners, now united unto One Company, that they shall be privileged exclusively 
 to frequent, or cause to be visited, the above newly discovered lands, situate in Amer- 
 ica between New France and Virginia, whereof the Sea Coasts lie between the fortieth 
 and forty- fifth degrees of Latitude, now named New Netherland, as can be seen by a 
 Figurative Map hereunto annexed, and that for four Voyages within the term of three 
 years, commencing the first of January, sixteen hundred and fifteen next ensuing, or 
 sooner, without it being permitted to any other person from the United Netherlands 
 to sail to, navigate or frequent the said newly discovered lands, havens or places, 
 either directly or indirectly, within the said three years, on pain of confiscation of the 
 vessel and Cargo wherewith infraction hereof shall be attempted, and a fine of fifty 
 thousand Netherlands Ducats for the benefit of said discoverers or finders ; provided 
 nevertheless, that by these presents We do not intend to prejudice or diminish any of 
 our former Grants or Charters ; And it is also Our intention, that if any disputes or 
 differences arise from these Our Concessions, they shall be decided by Ourselves. We 
 therefore expressly command all Governors, Justices, Officers, Magistrates, and In- 
 habitants of the aforesaid United Countries, that they allow the said Company 
 peaceably and quietly to enjoy the whole benefit of this Our Grant and Consent, 
 ceasing all contradictions and obstacles to the contrary. For such We have found to 
 appertain to the public service. 
 
 Given under Our Seal, Paraph and Signature of Our Griffier at the Hague, the 
 Xia of October, 1614. 
 
 N. Y. Col. Mss. Holland Doc : I. 
 
 [Note C] 
 
 THE FIEST INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED BY THE WEST INDIA COM- 
 PANY FROM ITS COLONY OF NEW NETHERLAND. 
 PURCHASE OF MANHATTAN ISLAND. 
 
 [From the Original in the Koyal Archives at the Hague, File West Indie,] 
 
 High and Mighty Lobds : 
 Yesterday arrived here the ship The Arms of Amsterdam, which sailed from New 
 Netherland, out of the River Mauritius,* on the 23''<l September. They report that our 
 people are in good heart, and live in Peace there ; the Women also have borne some 
 children there.f They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the 
 Value of 60 guilders ; 'tis 11,000 morgens in size. J 
 
 * The Dutch name for the Hudson, given in honor of the Prince of Orange. 
 
 t The birth of the first white child in the Province, a female, occurred June 9, lfi25. 
 
 X The Rhynland rod was the Dutch measure for land, and contained twelve feet, each foot 
 containing 12.S(j inches English. There are five 'rods to a Dutch chain, and six hundred square 
 Dutch rods constitute a morgen.— Peter Fauconnier^s Survty Book, 
 
38 APPENDIX. 
 
 They had all their grain sowed by the middle of May, and reaped by the middle 
 of August. They send thence samples of summer grain ; such as Wheat, K,ye, Barley, 
 Oats, Buckwheat, Canary seed, Beans and Flax. 
 
 The Cargo of the aforesaid Ship is : 
 
 7246 Beaver Skins. 36 Wild Cat Skim. 
 
 178i Otter Skins. 33 Mincks. 
 
 676 Otter Skins. 34 Rat Skins. 
 
 48 Minck Skins. Considerable Oak Timber and Uickory. 
 
 Herewith, High and Mighty Lords, be commended to the Mercy of the Almighty, 
 your High Mightinesses obedient, 
 
 {Signed:) P. Schagen. 
 
 In Amsterdam, the 5"» November, A* 1626. 
 Received the 7"^ November, 1623. 
 
 To the High and Mighty Lords, 
 My Lords the States General 
 at the Hague : 
 
 N. Y. Col. Mss. Holland Doc. .- /. 
 
 [Note D.] 
 
 PATENT TO KILLIAEN VAN RENSSELAEE FOR A TRACT OF LAND 
 
 ON HUDSON'S RIVER. 
 
 [From the Royal Archives at the Hague, File West Indie.] 
 
 Anno 1630, adi 13"> of August. We, the director and Council of New Netherland, 
 residing on the Island Manhataa and in Eort Amsterdam, under the authority of their 
 High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands and the In- 
 corporated West India Company, Chamber of Amsterdam, do hereby acknowledge 
 and declare, that on this day, the date underwritten, before us appeared and presented 
 themselves : Koftomack, Naioanemit, Albantxeene, Sar/iskwa and Kanaomack, owners and 
 proprietors of their respective parcels of laud, extending up the (Hudson's) River, 
 South and North, from said Fort unto a little South of Moeneminnes Castle, to the 
 aforesaid proprietors, belonging jointly and in common, and the aforesaid Naieanemit's 
 particular land called Semesseerse, lying on the East Bank opposite Castle Island off 
 unto the aboveraentioned Fort ; Item, from Petanook, the Millstream, away North to 
 Negagome, in extent about three miles, and declared freely and advisedly for and on 
 account of certain parcels of cargoes, which they acknowledge to have received in their 
 hands before the execution hereof, and by virtue and bill of sale, to hereby Transport, 
 Convey, and Make over to the M' KiUiaen Van Rensselaer, absent, and for whom. We, 
 ex officio and with due stipulation, accept the same ; namely : the respective parcels 
 of laud hereinbefore specified, with the timber, appendencies and dependencies thereof, 
 together with all the action, right and jiuisdiotion to them the Grantors, conjointly 
 or severally belonging ; constituting and surrogating the said M' Rensselaer in their 
 stead, state and right, real and actual possession thereof, and at the same time giving 
 him full, absolute and irrevocable power, authority and special command to hold in 
 quiet possession, cultivation, occupancy and use tanguam actor et procurator in rem 
 
APPENDIX. 39 
 
 swam ac^rp?)na»i, the land aforesaid, acquired by said M' Van Rensselaer, or those 
 ■who may hereafter acquire his interest ; also to dispose of do with and alienate it, as 
 he or others should or might do with his other and own Lands and Domains acquired 
 by good and lawful title, without the grantors therein retaining, reserving or holding 
 any, the smallest part, right, action or authority, whether of property, command or 
 jurisdiction, but rather hereby resisting, and renouncing therefrom forever, for the 
 behoof aforesaid; further promising this their conveyance, and whatever may by 
 virtue thereof be done, not only forever to hold fast and irrevocable, to observe and to 
 fulfil, but also to give security for the surrender of the aforesaid land, oUigans et 
 renuncians a bona fide. 
 
 In Testimony is this Confirmed by our Usual Signature, with the ordinary Seal 
 thereunto appending. Done at the aforesaid Island Manahatas and Fort Amsterdam, 
 on the day and year aforesaid. 
 
 (Signed) Petee Minuit, Director, 
 
 PiETEB Btivelt, Jaoob Elbeetss. Wissinck, 
 Jan Janssen Bkouwer, Symon Dirckss.Pos, 
 Retneb Haembnssen. 
 Jan Lampe, Sheriff. Council. 
 
 There was besides : 
 This conveyance, written with mine only hand, is, in consequence of the Secretary's 
 absence, executed in my presence, on the thirteenth day of August, XVI° and thirty, 
 as above Signed. 
 
 Lenaet Cole, 
 
 Deputy Secretary. 
 After collating with the Original, dated, signed and sealed as above, this copy is 
 found to agree with it. 
 
 In Testimony, 
 
 Adeiaen Look, 
 
 Notaris Pvhl. 
 Amsterdam, the V"! September, 1672. 
 N. Y. Col. Mss. Holland Doc. I. 
 
 [Note E.] 
 
 THE LATE REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH IN ALBANY. 
 
 (Removed 1806.) 
 
 The author has condensed the following interesting atid curious data relative to the ancient 
 
 edifice named, above, from MunselVs Collections for the History of Albany, 
 
 and the Church Records. 
 
 In 1805 the site of the old church (of which we have given a cut supposed to be 
 correct upon page 13 of this book), was sold to the city for five thousand dollars, and 
 in the spring of 1806 the building was taken down, and the materials used in the 
 construction of a church on Beaver Street. A great deal of interest stUl attaches to 
 this venerable edifice, and its demolition was viewed with painful emotions by many 
 of the old people, who had been so long accustomed to worship there. The site had 
 been selected for the church just a century and a half previous. The one erected in 
 6 
 
40 APPENDIX. 
 
 1643 had before 1656 become inadequate to the aocommodation of the community, and 
 it had been determined in the preceding year to erect a new buUding. To assist this 
 good work the Patroon and co- directors subscribed 1000 gmlders, or $400, and ISOO 
 guilders were appropriated from the fines imposed by the court at Port Orange. 
 
 In the early part of the summer of 1656, Eutger Jaoobsen, one of the magistrates, 
 laid the corner ston« of the sacred edifice in presence of the authorities, both of the 
 town and colonic. A temporary pulpit was at first erected for the use of the minister, 
 but the settlers subscribed twenty-five beavers to purchase a more splendid one in 
 Holland. The Chamber of Amsterdam added seventyrflve guilders to this sum, for 
 " the beavers were greatly damaged," and with a view to inspire the congregati.on with 
 more ardent zeal, presented them the next year (1657) with a bell. "When, in 1715, 
 the original structure was beginning to decay, and the congi-egation becoming too 
 numerous for its dimensions, the foundations of a new one were laid around it, and 
 the walls carried up and enclosed before the first was taken down, so that the custom- 
 ary services were interrupted only three Sabbaths. The edifice which had been con- 
 structed in this extraordinary manner occupied almost the entire width of the present 
 State Street, and extended partly across Broadway. 
 
 Many of the present day recollect the small, square, stone buQding, with its. peaked 
 roof and small windows. The internal arrangement of this church was in keeping 
 with its external appearance ; and those of the present day who object to gaudy 
 places of worship would probably be startled with the announcement that it was a 
 gaily painted and a richly ornamented church. The pulpit was of an octagon form, 
 constructed of dark oak, resembling black walnut, richly varnished and polished, 
 four feet in height and three in diameter. The ceiling and the front of the gallery 
 were painted sky-blue, and the windows covered with richly colored glass, bearing 
 the insignia of the coat-of-arms of the most influential members of the church.* The 
 pews on the ground floor, with the exception of three, were for the exclusive use of 
 the female members of the congregation ; and of the reserved three, one was appro- 
 priated for the use of the governor, the second for the magistrates and officers, and 
 the third for infirm male members of the congregation. AU the male members, except 
 those for whom special provision was made, were compelled to sit in the gallery. 
 The women were many of them attended by negro servants, particularly in the win- 
 ter, when they carried foot-stoves containing coals for the purpose of keeping their 
 feet warm. As these coals expired, they were renewed from the stoves which heated 
 the church. The latter were placed on each side of the church, over the side aisles, 
 just beneath and projecting beyond the galleries. They were elevated about eight 
 feet from the floor, upon four upright posts. 
 
 The lioster (sexton) having finished ringing the bell, standing under the cupola in 
 the middle aisle, wound the end of the rope around a high post standing there for the 
 purpose, and went into the gallery to inspect his fires. The stoves were approached 
 by climbing over the gallery on each side. The last sextan was Cornells Vsm Schaick. 
 He is represented as having an exalted idea of the dignity of his calling, and did not 
 allow himself to be jostled by any one who passed him while engaged in ringing the 
 bell, without resenting it. He always carried a switch of some kind when he passed 
 through the galleries, and cut right and left with it among the boys. The stove doors 
 were always closed by him with a tremendous bang. AU the aisles but the middle 
 one were narrow. The men below sat upon elevated benches around the wall, with 
 their hats on, and were accustomed to smoke their pipes during sermon time. Those 
 who occupied the first tier of seats in the gallery hung their hats upon nails which 
 
 * Oup out of the Wendell arms, which appears on the tabular chart, accurately represents 
 them aa stained upon one of the windows at the east end of the church. 
 
APPENDIX. 41 
 
 studded the ivhole front of the galleries, presenting a novelty which ■was rendered 
 more curious by the variety of their style, color and condition. The roof was ceiled 
 with boards upon the rafters, from the walls to the cupola. The entrance was through 
 a porch on the south side, and the entrance to the galleries was made by ascending 
 several steps on the east side of the porch. In this porch the sexton kept his grave- 
 yard tools, and there seems to have been an interior door for his use, connected with 
 the galleries. 
 
 When the church was demolished, very few of the armorial bearings upon its 
 stained windows escaped destruction ; still, a few relics were preserved. Among 
 these is one of its small windows, also the weather-vane, and one of the bags in which 
 the contributions were taken. But above all, the old pulpit is still in existence, in 
 the possession of the First Church, and forms a very interesting relic. It was sent 
 over from Holland in 1656, and continued in the service of thechurch ISO years. This 
 pulpit was occapied by a long line of ministers, of whose successive pastorates the 
 following is the best account which we are able to give, down to 1882. The church 
 now consists of three congregations, of which the oldest is the present First Reformed 
 or North Dutch Church, which stiU retains the old corporate title of The Repokmed 
 Protestant Dutch Chuboh in the City of Albany. 
 
 1642-1649. Dominie Johannes Megapolensis. 
 
 1652-1683. " Gideon Schaats. 
 
 1671-1680. " Wilhelmus Van Nieuwenhuyseu. 
 
 1683-1699. " Godfredius DeUius. 
 
 1695-1700. " Johannes Petrus Nucella. 
 
 1700-1710. " Joh:Lydius. 
 
 1710-no pastor " Gualterus Dubois, (occasional) . 
 
 17U- " " " Petrus Vas, (occasional). 
 
 1712-1738. " Petrus Van Driessen. 
 
 1733-1744. « Cornells Van Schie. 
 
 1746-1759. " Theodorus Frielinghuyzen. 
 
 1760-1790. " Eilardus Westerlo. 
 
 1776-1779. Rev. John H. Livingston, (occasional) . 
 
 1787-1804. " John Bassett. 
 
 1796-1802. " John B. Johnson. 
 
 1805-1820. " John M. Bradford. 
 
 1823-1834. " John Ludlow. 
 
 1835-1839. " Thomas E. VermUye. 
 
 1842-1845. " Duncan Kennedy. 
 
 1866-1862. " Ebenezer P. Rogers. 
 
 1862 . " Rufus W. Clark. 
 
 CALL OF THE DOMINIE JOHANNES MEGAPOLENSIS, FIRST PASTOR 
 OF THE REF. PROT. DUTCH CHURCH OF FORT ORANGE. 
 
 Whereas, by the state of the navigation in the East and West Indies, a door is 
 opened- through the special providence of God, also in New Netherland, for the preach- 
 ing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the Salvation of men, as good fruits have been 
 already witnessed there through God's mercy ; and Whereas, the bretheren of the 
 Classis of Amsterdam have been notified that M'. Killiaen Van Rensselaer hath within 
 the said limits in the North River, as Patroon or Lord, founded a Colonic named 
 Rensselaerswyck, and would fain have the same provided with a good, honest and pure 
 preacher, therefore they have observed and fixed their eyes on the reverend, pious 
 and well-learned Doctor Joannes Megapolensis, junior, a faithful servant of the 
 Gospel of the Lord, in the congregation of Schorel and Berge, under the Classis of 
 
42 APPENDIX. 
 
 Alkmaar, whom ye have also called, after they had spoken with the said Lord, Kil- 
 liaen Van Eensselaer, in the same manner as they, with his Honor's approbation, do 
 hereby call him to be sent to New Netherland, there to preach God's word in the said 
 colony, to administer the Holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper; to set 
 an example to the congregation, in a Christian- like manner, by public precept ; to 
 ordain Elders and Deacons according to the form of the holy Apostle Paul, (I Timothy 
 IH-I.) ; moreover to keep and govern, with the advice and assistance of the same, 
 God's Congregation in good discipline and order, all according to God's Holy 
 Word, and in conformity with the Government, Confession and Catechism of the 
 Netherland Churches and the Synodal Acts of Dordrecht, subscribed by him to 
 this end, with his own hand, and promised in the presence of God, at his ordination, 
 requesting hereby aU and every who shall see and read these, to respect our worthy 
 brother as a lawfully called Minister, and him to esteem by reason of his Office, so that 
 he may perform the duty of the Gospel, to the advancement of God's Holy Name, and 
 the conversion of many poor blind men. May the Almighty God, who hath called 
 him to this Ministry, and instilled this good zeal in his heart, to proclaim Christ to 
 Christians and Heathens in such distant lands, strengthen him more and more in this 
 his undertaking, enrich him with all sorts of spiritual gifts ; and bless overflowingly 
 his faithful labors ; and when the Chief Shepherd, Christ Jesus, shall appear, present 
 him with the imperishable Crown of Eternal Glory. Amen. 
 
 Thus given in our Classical Assembly at Amsterdam, this XXII'l day of March, 
 1642. Signed in the name and in behalf of the whole body. 
 
 "WrLHELMUS SoMMEKUs, Loco FroBsidis. 
 Zloahak SwALMius, ScTiba Classis, 
 Jonas Abebi.s, Elder. 
 
 Examined and approved by the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber 
 of Amsterdam, VI* June, 1642. 
 
 {Signed) Chables Looten, Elias De Baet. 
 
 Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of Albany. 
 
 [Note F.] 
 THE WEST INDIA COMPANY'S COMMISSION TO PETER STUYVESANT. 
 
 [From the West Indie file in the Royal Archives at the Hague.] 
 
 The Commissioners on behalf of the General Incorporated West India Company 
 in the United Netherlands : To all those who shall see these presents or hear them 
 read, Health : BE IT KNOWN, Whereas, We have deemed it advisable for the pro- 
 motion of the affairs of the General Incorporated West India Company, not only to 
 maintain the trade and popiilation of the Coasts of New Netherland and the places 
 situate thereabout, together with the Islands of Curacao, Buenaire, Aruba and' their 
 dependencies, hitherto encouraged thither from this Country, but also to endeavor to 
 make new treaties apd alliances with foreign princes, and to inflict as much injury as 
 possible on the enemy in his Forts and Strongholds, as well by Sea as by Land ; for 
 which purposes it becomes necessary to Appoint a person Director : 
 
APPENDIX. 43 
 
 We therefore, confiding in the probity and experience of Petrus Stuyvesant, for- 
 merly intrusted with our affairs at, and the government of, the aforesaid Island of 
 Curacao, and places thereunto depending, being well pleased with his services there, 
 have Commissioned and Appointed and by these presents do Appoint and Commission 
 the said Petrus Stuyvesant, Director over the aforesaid Countries of New Netherland 
 and the places thereunto adjoining, to administer, with the Council as well now, as 
 hereafter to be Appointed with him, the said office of Director, both by water and 
 land, and in Said Quality to attend oarefuUy to the advancement, promotion and 
 preservation of friendship, alliances, trade and commerce; to direct aU matters ap- 
 pertaining to Traffic and War, and to maintain in good order everything there for the 
 service of the United Netherlands and the General West India Company ; to establish 
 regularity for the security of the places and forts therein ; to administer law and 
 justice, as well civil as criminal ; and moreover to perform all that concerns his 
 Office and Duties in Accordance with the Charter, and the general and particular In- 
 structions herewith issued, and to be hereafter given to him, as a good and faithful 
 Director is bound and obliged to do by his Oath taken at the hands of the President 
 of our Assembly ; which done, we Order and Command all other officers, common 
 soldiers, together with the inhabitants and natives residing in the aforesaid places as 
 subjectf, and all whom it might concern, to acknowledge, respect and obey the said 
 Petrus Stuyvesant as our Director in the Countries and places of New Netherland, 
 and to afford all help, countenance and assistance in the performance of these 
 presents, as We have found the same to be for the advantage of the Company. 
 
 Done in our Assembly of the XIX., on behalf of the General Incorporated West 
 India Company, in Amsterdam, this V» May, 164S. 
 
 {Signed.) Henriods van deb Capelle tho Rys^el^'. 
 
 By order of the Same, 
 
 GySBERT RtTDOLPHI. 
 
 N. Y. Col. Mss. Holland Doc. VI. 
 
 [Note G.] 
 
 MINUTE OF PETER STUYVESANT' S HAVING BEEN SWORN IN AS 
 
 DIRECTOR OF NEW NETHERLAND. 
 
 [From the West Indie Notulen, in the Boyal Archives at tho Hague.] 
 
 Resolution of the States General : 
 
 Saturday, the 28* July, 1646. 
 Petrus Stuivesant appeared before the Assembly as Director of New Netherland 
 and Director of Curacao, and some other islands mentioned in his Commission, and 
 took according to a certain formulary, the proper Oath, and amongst other things 
 swore specially that he would conform to his Instruction given him by the Assembly 
 of the West India Company, which Instruction is pursuant to their High Mighti- 
 nesses' order dated the XXVI"' instant, exhibited at their High Mightinesses' As- 
 sembly, and a copy thereof enregistered in the Acte Boek. 
 
 N. Y. Col. Mss. Holland Doc. VI. 
 
44 APPENDIX. 
 
 [Note H.] 
 
 At a Meeting of the 
 Commanders and HonW" Council of War, 
 holden on the 19"" t""" 1673. 
 
 THE COMMISSION OF THE HONnie GOVERNOE GENERAL ANTHONY 
 
 COLVE, RECORDED THIS DAY BY ORDER OF MESS" 
 
 THE COMMANDERS. 
 
 [Translated from the Minutes of Council, in the Original Dutch Record.] 
 
 The Honorable Council of War over a squadron of ships now at anchor in Hudson's 
 River, 'New Netherland, for and in the Name of their High Mightinesses the States 
 General of the United Netherlands, and His Serene Highness the Prince of Orange. 
 
 To aU who shall see or hear these, GREETING : 
 
 Whereas it is necessary to appoint a fit and able persoft as Governor- General to 
 hold the supreme command over this conquest of New Netherland, with all its ap- 
 pendencies and dependencies, beginning at Cape Hinlopen, or the south side of Dela- 
 ware Bay, and fifteen miles more southerly, including said bay and South River, as 
 they were formerly possessed by the Directors of the City of Amsterdam, and after 
 by the English government, in the name and on behalf of the Duke of York ; and 
 further from the said Cape Hinlopen along the Great Ocean to the East End of Long 
 Island and Shelter Island, and thence westward to the middle of the Channel called 
 the Sound, to a Town called Greenwich on the main, and so to run landward in 
 northerly; provided that such line shall not come within ten miles of the North River, 
 conformable to the provisional settlement of the boundary made in 1650, and afterwards 
 ratified by the States General, February 23, 1656, and January 23, 1664 ; with all the 
 Lands, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Kills, Creeks, Fresh and Salt Waters, Fortresses, 
 Cities, Towns and Plantations' therein comprehended. 
 
 Wherefore, being sufficiently assured of the capacity of Anthony Colve, Captain of a 
 Company of Dutch Infantry, in the Service of Their High Mightinesses the States- 
 General of the United Netherlands, and His Serene Highness the Prince of Orange, 
 by virtue of our Commission granted us by their before mentioned High Mightinesses 
 and His Serene Highness, we have Appointed, Commissioned and Qualified, and we 
 do by these presents Commission and Qualify the said Captain Anthony Colve to be 
 Governor-General of this Country and Forts thereunto belonging, with all the appen- 
 dencies and dependencies thereof, to Govern, Rule and Protect them from all Invasions 
 of enemies, as he, to the best of his abilities, shall judge most necessary. We there- 
 fore charge all high and low officers, Justices, Magistrates, and other Commanders, 
 Soldiers, Burghers, and all the Inhabitants of this Country, to Acknowledge, Honor, 
 Respect and Obey said Anthony Colve as their Governor-General, for such we have 
 judged necessary for the service of the Country. All subject to the Approbation of 
 our Principals. 
 
 Thus done at Fort Willem Hendrik, the 12* day of August, 1673. 
 
 (^Signed) Jacob Benckes, 
 
 COENELIS EVEKTSE, JuU'. 
 
 N. Y. Col. Msa. XXIII. Office of the Secretary of State. 
 
INDEX 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PERSONS BEARING THE NAME OF WENDELL. 
 
 Wendel, Abraham," 20 
 
 Wendell, Abraham,^ 23-25, 27, 28, 32-34 
 
 Wendell, Abraham,* 24 
 
 Wendell, Abraham,' 26 
 
 Wendell, Abraham,* 28 
 
 Wendell, Ann Elizabeth,^ 29 
 
 Wendel, Ariaantje, 21 
 
 WendeU, Catalyntje,' 23, 32 
 
 Wendell, Catharina,* 25 
 
 Wendell, Catharine,' 26 
 
 Wendell, Catharine Gates — see Thaxter 
 
 Wendell, Caroline Quincy,' 24, 31 
 
 Wendel, Diewer," 20 
 
 Wendel, Diewertje," 21 
 
 Wendell, Daniel Wentworth," 27 
 
 WendeU, Daniel,6 28 
 
 Wendell, Dorothy,' 26 
 
 Wendell, Dorothy Sherburne — see Sher- 
 burne 
 
 Wendell, Dorothy Sherburne,' 28 
 
 Wendel, Elsie" (Elsje), 20 
 
 Wendel, Elsie,» 22, 23, 32 
 
 Wendel, Elizabeth (Staes) — see Staets 
 
 Wendell, Elizabeth,' 22, 23, 32 
 
 Wendell, Elizabeth,* 24 
 
 Wendell, Elizabeth (Quiucy) — see 
 Quinoy 
 
 Wendell, Elizabeth,' 26 
 
 Wendell, Elizabeth,* 27 
 
 Wendell, Edmund,' 26 
 
 WendeU, Edmund,« 27 
 
 WendeU, Edmund,' 27 
 
 WendeU, Ephraim,' 23, 32-34 
 
 Wendel, Evert Janse,' 18-23, 25, 27, 28 
 
 Wendel, Evert," 21 
 
 Wendell, George Wentworth,' 28 
 
 WendeU, George Bliiut,' 31 
 
 WendeU, Hannah, « 28 
 
 Wendel, Hieronymus," 20 
 
 WendeU, Hendrikus,* 25 
 
 WendeU, Henry Flynt,' 26 
 
 WendeU, Henry Flynt,« 28 
 
 Wendell, Helena DeKey,* 24 
 
 WendeU, Helena DeKey,' 27 
 
 Wendel, Isaac," 21 
 
 Wendell, Isaac," 23, 32-34 
 
 WendeU, Isaac,' 26 
 7 
 
 WendeU, Isaac,' 28, 29 
 
 WendeU, Hon. Jacob," 23, 25, 32, 34 
 
 WendeU, Jacob,' 26 
 
 WendeU, Jacob,' 26 
 
 WendeU, Jacob,' 26, 28-31 
 
 WendeU, Jacob,' 31 
 
 Wendell, Jacob,' 31 
 
 WendeU, Jacobus,* 25 
 
 Wendel, Johannes," 20-23 ; wiU of, 32-34 
 
 WendeU, Johannes," 23, 32-34 
 
 Wendell, John,* 24, 25, 26 
 
 WendeU, John,' 26, 27, 28 
 
 Wendell, John,' 27 
 
 WendeU, Josiah,' 26 
 
 Wendell, Katarina (De Key) —see 
 
 DeKey 
 WendeU, Lucretia,* 25 
 Wendel, Maritje Abrahamse — see Vos- 
 
 burgh 
 Wendel, Maritie Jillisse — see Meyer 
 Wendel, Maritie" (Mary), 22, 32 
 WendeU, Margaret,* 23 
 WendeU, Mary,* 25 
 WendeU, Mary,' 28 
 Wendell, Mary Bertodi — see Barrett 
 WendeU, Mary Elizabeth — see Thompson 
 WendeU, Mary Evert,' 31 
 Wendell, Mary Evert,' 31 
 WendeU, Mary Sherburne,' 28 
 WendeU, Mark Rogers,' 31 
 WendeU, Mehetabel Rindge (Rogers) 
 
 — see Rogers 
 WendeU, Mehetabel Rindge,' 31 
 Wendell, Hon. Oliver,* 23 
 Wendel, PhUip," 21 
 Wendell, Sarah," 23, 32 
 WendeU, Sarah,* 25 
 WendeU, Sarah,* 23 
 WendeU, Sarah,' 26 
 WendeU, Sarah,' 26 
 WendeU, Sarah (Wentworth) — see 
 
 Wentworth 
 WendeU, Sarah Wentworth,' 27 
 WendeU, Theunis (Teunis) De Key,* 25 
 WendeU, Theunis (Teunis) De Key,* 25 
 Wendel, Thomas," 19, 20 
 WendeU, Thomas,' 26 
 
MISCELLANEOUS INDEX. 
 
 Allen, Col. Ethan, 27 
 Barrett, Mary Bertodi, 31 
 Bareutse, Antje, 23 
 Blackburn, William, 29 
 Bayard, Jacobus, 24 
 Bogardus, Dominie Everhaidus, 20 
 Bulfinoh, William, 25 
 Casperse, Isaac, 19 
 Chester, Col. Joseph Lemuel, 31 
 Clopper, Cornelius, 20 
 Coeymans, Geertruyd Pieterse, 21 
 Cotton, Elizabeth, 27 
 Cuyler, Sarah, 24 
 Davis, Solomon, 26 
 ■ Dennie, John, 25 
 De Foreest, Isaac, 20 
 De Groot, Dirk Janse, 20 
 De Key, Helena ("Van Brugh), 23, 24 
 De Key, Helena, 24 
 De Key, Helegonda, 24 
 De Key, Jacob, 24 
 De Key, Jacobus, 24 
 De Key, Jacob Theunisen, 24 
 De Key, Johannes, 24 
 De Key, Lucretia, 24 
 De Key, Hendrikus, 24 
 De Key, Katarina, 23, 24, 25 
 De Key, Petrus, 24 
 De Key, Rachel, 24 
 De Key, Theunis, 23, 24 
 De Key, WiUem, 24 
 De Scheene, Susanna, 20 
 De Vyselaer — see Visscher 
 Dudley, Thomas, 27 
 Du Trieux, Abraham, 20 
 Du Trieux, Isaac, 20 
 Du Trieux, Philip, 20 
 Du Trieux, Rachel, 20 
 Du Trieiix, Rebecca, 20 
 Du Trieux, Sarah, 20 
 Du Trieux, Susanna, 20 
 Du Truy — see Du Trieux 
 Dutch, EUzabeth, 30 
 Erving, John, 25 
 Emerson, Rev. John, 30 
 Fiske, Gen. John, 26 
 Fisscher — see Visscher 
 Five Indian Nations, 22 
 Flynt, Dorothy, 26 
 Flynt, Esther (Willet), 26 
 Flynt, Rev. Josiah, 26 
 Gansevoort, Gen. Peter, 27 
 Gardner, Susan, 28 
 Gerry, Hon. Elbridge, 27 
 Gerry, John, 26 
 Glen, Jacob, 33 
 Glen, Johannes Sauderse, 21 
 Grevenraet, Andries, 24 
 Greene, Benjamin, 25 
 
 Great Falls Manufacturing Co., 29, 30 
 
 Goodwin, William Hobbs, 31 
 
 Groot, Symon Symmonse, 20 
 
 Haeghoort, G^., 24 
 
 Hamilton, Alexander, 27 
 
 Hancock, John, 27 
 
 Hancock, Thomas, 25 
 
 Haven, Rev. Dr. Samuel, 30 
 
 Hawarden, Catharina, 23 
 
 Hondius, Jodocus, 18 
 
 Holmes, Rev. Dr. Abiel, 23 
 
 Holmes, Dr. Oliver WendeU, 23 
 
 Horn, Gershom, 29 
 
 Hubbard's Hist. New England, 31 
 
 Hutchinson's Hist. Massachusetts, 31 
 
 Huske, OUve, 3 1 
 
 Jackson, Edward, 23 
 
 Jackson, Dorothy (Quincy), 23 
 
 Janse Anneke (or Annetje), 24 
 
 Jay, Hon. John, 27 
 
 Kieft, Gov. WiUem, 20 
 
 Kinsman, Mary, 30 
 
 Knight, 26 
 
 Langdon, Gov. John, 27 
 
 Lansingh, Gerrit, 22 
 
 Lansingh, Joh :, 34 
 
 Lewis, Barent, 22 
 
 Livingston, Philip, 33 
 
 Livingston, William, 27 
 
 Megapolensis, Dominie Johannes, 22 
 
 Meyer, GilKs Pieterse, 20 
 
 Meyer, Maritie Jillisse, 20, 32 
 
 Mico, John, 23 
 
 Mingael, Tomas Jansen, 21 
 
 Morris, Robert, 27 
 
 New Amsterdam, first church in, 20 
 
 New England Hist. Gen. Society, 30, 34 
 
 Odiome, Ann, 30, 31 
 
 Odiome, Hon. Jotham, 31 
 
 Old South Meeting-house, 30 
 
 Oliver, Dr. James, 23 
 
 Oliver, James, 23 
 
 Oliver, Mercy (Bradstreet) , 23 
 
 Oliver, Rebecca (Lloyd), 23 
 
 Oliver, Sarah, 23 
 
 Otis, James, jr., 27 
 
 Oliver, Peter, 25 
 
 Parr, Sarah, 31 
 
 Parke, Harriet, Mrs., 21 
 
 Parker, Rev. Dr. Nathan, 30 
 
 Peabody, Rev. Dr. A. P., 30 
 
 Pearson, Prof. Jonathan, 19-23 
 
 Peirce, Daniel, 31 
 
 Phillips, Jane, 24 
 
 Phillips, Hon. John, 23 
 
 Phillips, Wendell, 23 
 
 PhilUps, WiUiam, 23, 25 
 
 Pickering, John, 30 
 
 Post, Lysbeth, 20 
 
INDEX. 
 
 49 
 
 Provoosi, Margarita, 24 
 
 Quincy, Dorothy (Flynt), 24, 26 
 
 Quincy, Edmund, the English Puritan, 26 
 
 Quincy, Hon. Edmund, 24, 26 
 
 Quincy, Edmund, 24 
 
 Quincy, Elizabeth, 24, 26, 27 
 
 Quincy, Josiah, 26, 27 
 
 Eandall, Reuben Shapley, 28 
 
 Bef. Prot. Dutch Church in Albany, 20, 
 21, 23, 39-42 
 
 Richards (Richard), Stephen, 24 
 
 Eindge, Ann, 31 
 
 Rindge, Benjamin, 31 
 
 Rindge, Daniel (of Roxbury, 1639), 30 
 
 Rindge, Daniel (of Ipswich) , 30 
 
 Rindge, Daniel, 31 , 
 
 Rindge, Elizabeth, 31 
 
 Rindge, George, 31 
 
 Rindge, Isaac, 30 
 
 Rindge, Isaac, 31 
 
 Rindge, Hon. John (1695), 30, 31 
 
 Rindge, Mehetahel, 31 
 
 Rindge, Roger, 30 
 
 Rindge, John, 31 
 
 Rindge, Jotham, 31 
 
 Rindge, "William, 31 
 
 Rogers, Hon. Daniel, 31 
 
 Rogers, John, the Proto-martyr, life, 31 
 
 Rogers, Rev. John, of Dedham, Eng., 31 
 
 Rogers, Rev. John (of Ipswich) , 3 1 
 
 Rogers, John, 24 
 
 Rogers, Mark, 30, 31 
 
 Rogers, Mehetahel (Rindge)— seeRindge 
 
 Rogers, Mehetahel Rindge, 28, 30 
 
 Rogers, ReT. Nathaniel, the Puritan, 3 1 
 
 Rogers, Rev. Nath'l (of Portsmouth), 31 
 
 Rogers, Susanna, 30 
 
 Roelofifse, Katrina, 24 
 
 Ryckie ,23 
 
 Sanders, Elizabeth, 21 
 
 Sargent, Edward, 27 
 
 Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 27 
 
 Schuyler, Jacobus Davidtse, 23 
 
 Schuyler, Captain Johannes, 22 
 
 Schuyler, Pieter Davidtse, 33 
 
 Sheffield, Samuel, 24 
 
 Sherburne, Benjamin, 27 
 
 Sherburne, Dorothy, 26, 28 
 
 Sherburne, Edward Raymond, 28 
 
 Sherburne, Henry (of Oxford, 1655), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Henry (of Portsmouth, N.H. 
 1674), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Henry, the English Emigrant 
 (1611), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Hon. Henry (1709), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Hugh (of Haighton, 1534), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Joseph (Odiham, Hants.), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Rebecca, 28 
 
 Sherburne, Sir Richard, Bart, (of Stony- 
 hurst, Lancashire, 1465), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Richard (of Wiswall, 1488), 
 28 
 
 Sherburne, Richard (of Bayley and 
 Haighton, 1610), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Sarah (Warner), 28 
 
 Sherburne, Samuel (of Portsmouth, N.H. 
 
 1638), 28 
 Shurtleff, Rev. William, 30 
 Skinner, Mercy, 27 
 Skinner, Richard, 26 
 South Parish Society, of Portsmouth, 30 
 Staats — see Staets 
 Staes — see Staets 
 Staets, Major Abraham, 22 
 Staets, Abraham, jr., 22, 23 
 Staets, Elizabeth, 20, 22, 23 
 Staets, Jacob, 23, 34 
 Staets, Jochem, 23 
 
 Staets, Katrina (Tryntje) Jochemse, 22 
 Staets, Samuel, 23 
 Stan wood, Isaac Henry, 31 
 Stanwood, James Rindge, 31 
 Strong, Rev. Job, 30 
 Sturgis, Samuel, 26 
 Stuyvesant, Gov. Petrus, 18, 21, 23 
 Sullivan, Gen. John, 27 
 Teller, Johannes, 21 
 Ten Broeok, Johannes, 23 
 Thaxter, Catharine (Gates), 31 
 Thompson, Mary Elizabeth, 3 1 
 Trivett, Elizabeth, 26 
 Truex — see Du Trieux 
 Tan Bommel, Hendrik, 20 
 Van Brugh, Anna, 24 
 Van Brugh, Catharina, 24 
 Van Brugh, Helena, 24 
 Van Brugh, Hon. Johannes Pieterse, 24 
 Van Brugh, Johannes, 24 
 Van Brugh, Maria, 24 
 Van Brugh, Petrus, 24 
 Van Dyok, Catalyna, 23 
 Van Dyok, Diewertje Cornelise, 23 
 Van Dyck, Hendrik, 23 
 Van Nes, Mayken, 20 
 Van Rensselaer, Hendrik, 24 
 Van Rensselaer, Killiaen, First Patroon, 
 
 19, 38-42 
 Vaughan, Sarah, 31 
 Visscher, Ariaantje Harmense, 21 
 Visscher, Maria Harmense, 21 
 Vosburgh, Abraham Pieterse, 21 
 Vosbxirgh, Maritje Abrahamse, 21 
 Vosburgh, Pieter Jacobse, 2 1 
 Walters, Elizabeth, 23 
 Walley, Sarah (Hurd), 23 
 WaUev, Sarah, 23 
 Walley, Thomas, 23 
 Warner, Hon. Daniel, 28 
 Warner, Sarah (HiU), 28 
 Webster, Hon. Daniel, 29 
 Wemp, Myndert, 21 
 Wentworth, Elizabeth (Frost), 27 
 Wentworth, Lieut. Gov. John, 27 
 Wentworth, Mark Hunking, 31 
 Wentworth, Sarah, 26 
 Wentworth, Samuel, 27 
 Wentworth, Elder William, the English 
 
 Emigrant, 27 
 Wesselse, Dirk, 33 
 WiUiams, John, 29