Rensselaerwyck – New Netherland / Rensslelaer – New York – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:38:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 Roeloff Jansen and Anneke Jans emigrate to New Netherland ../../../roeloff-jansen-and-anneke-jans-emigrate-to-new-netherland/ ../../../roeloff-jansen-and-anneke-jans-emigrate-to-new-netherland/#respond Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:25:03 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2904 c 1630

– 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

 

 

 

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