– of Dutch descent in Marstrand, Norway (later ceded by Sweden)

– Presently the Hudson River

– For the Van Tweenhuysen Company for beaver furs

– Piloting the St. Pieter

– Adriaen Block serves as a supercargo on his first trip to the region

– Presently the Hudson River

– Block’s third trip to the region

– Sent by the Van Tweenhuysen Company for beaver furs

– Piloting the ship Fortuyn

– Hendrick Christiaensen serves as a supercargo

– from Amsterdam with their two children Sara and Tryntje, their third child Lijntje dies before the trip

– They settle in the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, which extends on either side of the Hudson River which includes what is now Rensselaer, New York

– Janson and Jans have two more children in Rensselaerwyck; Sijtje and Jan

– Jansen farms for Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the founder of the manor and one of the original directors of the Dutch West India Company

– while living there Roeloff is appointed magistrate by Van Rensselaer but is never sworn in nor serves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Rensselaerswyck

https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/na/rensselaerswyck.html

Rensselaerwyck Manor Records, A Preliminary Inventory

– They have one more child, Annitjen, soon after , and Jansen dies

The area presently bounded by Canal Street to the north, Warren Street to the south, near Broadway to the east and the West Side Highway to the west comprising about 62 acres

The head of the farm is now Saint Johns Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John’s_Park

Today the edge of the Hudson River is two to three blocks further west than pictured on this map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_van_Twiller

After a Swiss immigrant is killed by a Weckquaesgeek acquaintance over a personal matter in 1641 Director General Willem Kieft uses the lack of the Weckquaesgeek to produce a suspect as justification for attacks on Weckquaesgeek and Tappan refugee camps.

– On February 25, 1643, Dutch soldiers kill 129 Indians including women and children at Communipaw (Jersey CIty) during the Pavonia Massacre

– Fall that same year a force of 1,500 natives invades New Netherland, kills many, destroys villages and farms

– Englishman John Underhill, hired by Kieft, kills  500-700 Weckquaesgeek that winter, in retaliation

– Underhill  recruits militia on Long Island and kills about 1000 natives there and in Connecticut

– Heavy fighting continues for two years while many Dutch settlers return to Europe

– Both sides agree to a truce in August, 1645

– In 1647 Kieft is fired by the West India Company, recalled to explain his conduct and dies in a shipwreck on the return voyage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_Underhill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavonia_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Kieft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War

Everardus Bogardus, the domine of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, who is an adversary to Kieft and would often denounce his policies from the pulpit, accompanies him as he sets sail from New Amsterdam on August 17. The two have agreed to have their charges and countercharges heard and judged by the Classis of Amsterdam (the Dutch Reformed Church assembly for its church boards).

Both men drown when the he ship wrecks in the Bristol Channel near Whales before reaching its destination.

Stuyvesant leaving New Amsterdam

– On September 6, 1664 his delegates sign the official Articles of Capitulation

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

– Dutch rule ends