Wyckoff; van Nes & van den Burchgraeff of Laeckervelt Manor

[Perry Streeter]

All of the following quotes are from Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry: and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: Priv. print., 1932). Wyckoff descendants and researchers looking for less humble origins in Europe should delve deeper into the ancestry of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff’s wife, Grietje van Nes, daughter of Cornelis Hendricsz van Nes and Maijgen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff.

“Pieter Claesen van Norden arrived at Fort Orange (Albany) from Holland with his master, Simon Walichz, in the year 1637. The vessel that sailed from Amsterdam, Holland, on September 25, 1636, was the Rensselaerswyck, which arrived at New Amsterdam on the following March 4, 1636-37, and proceeding up the Hudson River, reaching Fort Orange on April 3, 1637. Pieter Claesen van Norden was a passenger on it. According to the account books of the colony of Rensselaerswyck, Pieter Claesen’s services began April 3, 1637. [Van Rensselaer-Bowier MSS, p. 810.] [page 101]

“…Pieter Claesen and his sons assumed the surname of Wyckoff circa 1687.” [page 120]

“This emigrant [Cornelis Hendricksz van Nes] represents an inviting prospect for an inquiry in Holland… If one may judge by his material position and his prominence in public office in America, his career in the Netherlands should not only be of record there, but should be of some interest and importance, locally at least.” [page 183]

“Maijgen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff was the only daughter of Henrick Adriaensen van den Burchgraeff who died in Holland before June, 1635, when her mother, his widow, Annetje Janse, made a will.” [page 184]

“Maijgen’s widowed mother, Annetje Janse, of Laeckervelt, a manor near Vianen in Holland, bequeathed her in 1635, for the term of her life, the annual income from land at Scherperswijck—the name of the southern part of the polder of Leksmond, near Vianen, in the province of South Holland.” [page 185]

Perry

[marlow...@frontier.com]

Perry,

I don't know if this can be believed or not as it is out of the book entitled, " The Old World Progenitors of the Wykoff Family", on page 72 it states Cornelius van Ness , was a merchant of Walcheren in Holland. I may have some other data but I would have to look it up. I got a lot of Dutch ancestries from the library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Marianne Dillow

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[marlow...@frontier.com]

I don't know what book I got this from because it has been years ago, but it states Cornelise Hendrickse van Ness , 1625, resided upon the Havendyck, in Holland.

I also don't know which book this is out of either but it goes with your record below but it also says Mayken Hendrickse Burchgraeff , wife of Cornelius Hendrickse Van Ness, a daughter of Hendrick Adriaense Burchgraeff and Annete Janse, of Laeckervelt, Holland, received a legacy from her parents in 1630 of 3 morgens of land in Scherpenwyck, Holland. She died previous to 1664.

The Burchgraeff line is in An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent but it looks like the data cannot be counted on but Hoppin in The Washington Ancestry of MCclain, Johnson, etc III:3209 is mentioned. It says here that she owned land at Laeckervelt near Vianen and also in Scherperswijk near Leksmond, a town from which the family originally originated. She was living there as a widow in 1635.

[Perry Streeter]

For more information (in Dutch) on the ancestry of Mayke Hendricksdr van den BURCHGRAEFF, wife of Cornelis Hendricksz van NES, see...

http://genealogieburggraaf.nl/h2/h2-0001.htm

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All of the following quotes are from Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry: and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: Priv. print., 1932). Wyckoff descendants and researchers looking for less humble origins in Europe should delve deeper into the ancestry of Pieter Claesen Wyckoffs wife, Grietje van Nes, daughter of Cornelis Hendricsz van Nes and Maijgen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff.

Pieter Claesen van Norden arrived at Fort Orange (Albany) from Holland with his master, Simon Walichz, in the year 1637. The vessel that sailed from Amsterdam, Holland, on September 25, 1636, was the Rensselaerswyck, which arrived at New Amsterdam on the following March 4, 1636-37, and proceeding up the Hudson River, reaching Fort Orange on April 3, 1637. Pieter Claesen van Norden was a passenger on it. According to the account books of the colony of Rensselaerswyck, Pieter Claesens services began April 3, 1637. [Van Rensselaer-Bowier MSS, p. 810.] [page 101]

Pieter Claesen and his sons assumed the surname of Wyckoff circa 1687. [page 120]

This emigrant [Cornelis Hendricksz van Nes] represents an inviting prospect for an inquiry in Holland If one may judge by his material position and his prominence in public office in America, his career in the Netherlands should not only be of record there, but should be of some interest and importance, locally at least. [page 183]

Maijgen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff was the only daughter of Henrick Adriaensen van den Burchgraeff who died in Holland before June, 1635, when her mother, his widow, Annetje Janse, made a will. [page 184]

Maijgens widowed mother, Annetje Janse, of Laeckervelt, a manor near Vianen in Holland, bequeathed her in 1635, for the term of her life, the annual income from land at Scherperswijckthe name of the southern part of the polder of Leksmond, near Vianen, in the province of South Holland. [page 185]

Perry

[marlow...@frontier.com]

Perry,

I would love to read it but I only speak and write English and sometimes that isn't so hot either. :) Is there someone who can translate this.?

Marianne

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[Perry Streeter]

All of the quoted material below on the armigerous van Nes family from which Cornelis Hendrickse van Ness (father-in-law of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff of Norden and New Netherland) *probably* descended was excerpted from William J. Hoffman, M.S. (Delft), F.G.B.S, “An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent: Van Ness—Van Den Burchgraeff,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (April 1941: 148-154). As indicated below, additional research in the available records might confirm that Cornelis yield a specific line of descent from of Gerrit van Nes who resided at Gorichem in the mid 1500s.

“Cornelis Hendrickse van Ness, came probably with Andries de Vos to Rensselaerswyck in 1641.”

“From the records published in ERA III:278 we learn that on July 31, 1625, Cornelis Hendricksz van Nes and Marijgen Hendricks (van den Burchgraeff) made on that date a post-nuptial agreement, probably shortly after their marriage. They were then living at Vianen, on the Havendijk. Vianen is a small city on the river Lek. Hendrick’s wife was from the neighboring town of Leksmond.”

“Acting on the suggestion made in the statement by Hoppin in Vol. III, p. 184, of The Washington Ancestry of McClain, Johnson, etc, relative to Cornelis Hendricksz van Ness, namely: “The emigrant presents an inviting prospect for an inquiry in Holland,” I herewith present the data which I have collected as a result of such an inquiry.”

“Americana on p. 372 of 1933 volume shows a van Ness coat [of arms], namely: Argent two bars Gules and Charles D. Allen lists an armorial van Ness bookplate in his American Bookplates. The authority for these arms is not given in these publications, but it seems worth while [sic, worthwhile] to investigate by which family this coat [of arms] was borne in the Netherlands.

“Acting on the suggestion made in the statement by Hoppin in Vol. III, p. 184, of The Washington Ancestry of McClain, Johnson, etc, relative to Cornelis Hendricksz van Ness, namely: “The emigrant presents an inviting prospect for an inquiry in Holland,” I herewith present the data which I have collected as a result of such an inquiry.”

"A seal with these arms was used by Joris van Nes on a record dated Jan. 9, 1546, when he was rentmeester, steward of the lord of the manor of Goudriaan. The same arms appear on the seal of Adriaen van Nes on Sept. 12, 1593, when he was stadhouder der leenen, or steward-supervisor of the property held in tenure from the seignory of Noordeloos.”

“The towns of Goudriaan, Noordeloos, Gorinchem and Vianen… are all situated in the same small district in the eastern part of the province of South Holland and are only a few miles apart.

"Among the Schepen Records of Gorinchem there are two, dated respectively Jan. 20, 1550, and Mar. 23, 1552 (F xiv, Vol. 13), from which the following genealogical fragment can be assembled, together with data from other records as indicated below.”

“I. Gerrit van Nes had the following 4 sons:
i. Joris van Nes, schout, or sheriff of Noordeloos (see his seal mentioned above) mentioned in 1550…
ii. Hendrick van Nes, died between Jan., 1550 and March, 1552, the dates of the records mentioned above. His brother Frans van Nes was the guardian over his (unnamed) children. One of his sons was possibly Cornelis Hendricsz van Nes from Noordeloos mentioned Dec. 1, 1559…
iii. Frans van Nes was living at Noordeloos in 1552…
iv. Cornelis van Nes had died prior to Jan. 20, 1550. He married 4 times… He had the following children…

“It is my conviction that the American settler belonged to the same van Nes family of which I have given a genealogical fragment. They and the ancestor of the American family lived in and were identified with towns situated within a five mile radius. The similarity of Christian names is striking and in the family at Noordeloos there is even mentioned the same combination of given name and patronymic as borne by the American founder. A further search in the judicial archives of Vianen might bring documentary proof of the connection. But on the strength of these considerations it seems reasonably certain that the American family is entitled to bear the arms as shown in the illustration herewith.”

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All of the following quotes are from Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry: and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: Priv. print., 1932). Wyckoff descendants and researchers looking for less humble origins in Europe should delve deeper into the ancestry of Pieter Claesen Wyckoffs wife, Grietje van Nes, daughter of Cornelis Hendricsz van Nes and Maijgen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff.

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