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• Baptism: 16 Sep 1722, Albany, Albany, New York

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Near the junction of the Walloomsac and Hoosick rivers in the north part of the present town (of Hoosick) was a hamlet called St. Croix in colonial times, probably so named by French missionaries who evidently explored the country as far south as the Hoosick river and there established a mission. Aside from this mission the first permanent settlement here probably was made by Gerrit Cornelis Van Ness, a descendant of the family named as one of the grantees in the patent. - History of Hoosick, New York, Anderson, 1897

Gerrit married Catalyna "Catrina" De Forest on 12 Jun 1709 in Albany, Albany, New York. Catalyna (daughter of Philip De Forest and Tryntje Kip) was born on 25 Nov 1694 in Albany, Albany, New York; died on 27 Mar 1748 in Albany, Albany, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 25 Nov 1694, Albany, Albany, New York

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Governor Thomas Dongan granted Hoosac Patent on June 2, 1688, to Maria Van Rensselaer and Hendrick Van Ness of Albany, Garret Tunisson (Van Vechten) of Catskill, and Jacobus Van Cortlandt of New York City.
The Hoosac Patent covered 70,000 acres, including two miles in width on each bank of Skatecook Creek (Hoosac River); and extended up the river from the Devil’s Chimney opposite the Fallen-Hill in Old Schaghticoke to Falls Quequick (now the Village of Hoosac Falls); thence up the valley to the sandy island known as Nach-a-quick-quack, the Ashawagh, or the land between the junction of the Little Hoosac with the Big Hoosac.
Garrett Cornelius Van Ness, eldest son of Hendrick Van Ness, one of the proprietors of Hoosac Patent, was born December 2, 1702. He inherited St. Croix Manor, two miles square, on the northeast bank of the Hoosac, lying between the junctions of the Owl and Walloomsac. At the age of 22, in the year 1724, he married Sarah Van Valkenburgh of Albany, NY. He erected a sawmill and a grist mill on the present site of St. Croix Mills, near the junction of Little White Creek with the Walloomsac, a mile east of the site of Hoosac Junction, and built his manorial mansion on the terrace twenty rods above the Walloomsac ford. About the same time the Dutch stockade, on the site of the Jesuit's Fort St. Croix, was built on the high bluff a few rods east of the Van Ness Mansion. (Undoubtedly the St. Ange fur traders from France built a fort and chapel on this terrace in 1540 - 1542, and the Jesuits aided by Kryn’s Mohawks build another fort and chapel during the Mohawk and Hoosac War on the site in 1667 - 1669. On this same terrace the Dutch founded Fort St. Croix in 1724, and it was replaced by the English Stockade Fort in 1756.)
Cornelius Van Ness, Arendt Van Corlaer the 3rd., Adam Vrooman, Pitt Van Hogleboom, George Nicolls, Johannes De Ruyter, Juria Kreigger, Jan Oothout, Jacob Ouderkirk, Daniel and Albertus Brodt (Bratt), Rykert Borie, Jacob and Abram Fort, Johannes Van Denburgh, Johannes De Fonda, Jan Huyck, David and Stephen Van Rensselaer, Robert Leake (Lake), William Nicholas, Andrew Norwood, George Searles, Pieter Sur Dam and others, were founders of the Fort St. Croix in the year 1724. The only records of the St. Croix forefathers are found today on the Manitou Aseniah (Spirit-stones) marking the site of the Tioshoke Churchyard, northwest of Fort St. Croix terrace.
Simultaneous with the founding of the Fort St. Croix colony in 1724, tenantry from Fort Half Moon (located at the junction of St. Anthony Kill with the Hudson River at Stillwater) and Fort Schaghticoke (near the junction of the Tomhannac with the Hoosac Rivers) colonies pushed up the three branches of the Wanepimoseck Creek, leading towards Rensselaer’s plateau from (the present) Hart’s Falls (Schaghticoke Village), Valley Falls and Eagle Bridge. Philip Van Ness, a cousin of Garrett Cornelius Van Ness, founded the Tioshoke Colony on the north bank of the Hoosac, below the junction of the Owl Kill, about 1724, and later built a sawmill and grist mill. He was joined by Wouter Van Vechten, Lewis Van Woerdt, Johannes Quackenbush, Nicholas Groesbeck and Pieter and Ludovicus Viele, sons of Yocob Viele of the Knickerbacker Colony (located west of the ancient channel of Tomhannac Creek and south of the Hoosac River).
Young Cornelius Van Ness in the year 1750, after his marriage with Alida Van Woerdt, a sister of Captain Lewis Van Woerdt of Tioshoke, returned from New York City to St. Croix Manor, to reside there with his father.
The French and Indian War was first announced in Central Hoosac on May 28, 1754, by a party of French and Indians, who encamped at the Barnhart and Bowen, Falls Quequick sawmills. The Van Ness, Van Corlaer, Van Woerdt, Vrooman, Oothout, Onderkirk, Bratt, Van Derrick, De Ruyter, Letcher, Bachus, De Fonda, Huyck, Van Deel (Diel), Vosburgh (Vose), Van Hogleboom and Kreigger families made their escape to Fort Massachusetts ahead of the war-party. The enemy later burned both St. Croix and Dutch Hoosac and marched up the valley. The Dutch Burghers on their way to Fort Massachusetts sent a warning to the English proprietors at West Hoosac hamlet, now Williamstown, and Captain Elisha Chapin assigned them the West Hoosac homesteader’s barracks. Upon arrival of the English, therefore, they found their quarters crowded with the “Dutch clutter” and several families were forced to journey on to their Connecticut homes. This led to a bitter military jealousy and the Connecticut settlers built a fort on the Square in West Hoosac, not only a refuge from the French and Indians but from the Dutch.
Fort Massachusetts was located on the Upper Hoosac about where Williamstown is now located. August 20, 1746, it was burned by a force of Indians and French from Canada. Some of the English were killed and the rest taken to the prison-pens of Quebec. Fort Massachusetts was rebuilt on the Hoosac meadows in the year 1747. The exterior of the blockhouse was finished June 1, 1747, and according to the historian Perry, was about one hundred and twenty-five feet square. The barracks were seventy feet in length by thirty feet in width, with a seven foot post and low roof. The house was divided into two departments, subdivided into rooms each with a fire place.
The St. Croix Manor was occupied by four generations, descended from Patroon Van Ness, between 1724 and 1818. In 1912 the homestead was owned by Nicholas Hathaway, a grandson of Peter Gooding, a lineal descendant of Garret Cornelius Van Ness. The will of Cornelius Van Ness, son of the elder patroon, bears the date August 25, 1791, and he left the Van Ness Bible to his daughter, Sara Van Ness, later the wife of Jacob Van Valkenburgh of Hoosac. It contains a “Memorandum of the Births and Dying Days”, of the Van Ness and Van Valkenburgh families. Alida Van Woerdt-Ness, wife of Patroon Cornelius Van Ness, died May 24, 1778, thirteen and a half years before himself. They left five sons and one daughter; Garret, Jacob, Johannes, Peter, Hendrick, and Sara Van Ness. The Van Ness Bible descended to Edgar P. Ladd from his aunt Sarah Van Valkenburgh, the seventh daughter of Sarah Van Ness and Jacob Van Valkenburgh. Edgar P. Ladd is the grandson of Henrietta Van Valkenburgh, fourth daughter of Sarah Van Ness and the wife of Samuel Coons. The daughter, Mary Coons, married Hiram Ladd and became the mother of Edgar P. Ladd of Salem, NY. - “The Hoosac Valley - Its legends and Its History” by Grace Greylock Niles

Hendrick married Annetje Everts on 21 Oct 1663 in Kingston, Ulster, New York. Annetje was born in 1638 in Albany, Albany, New York; died before 16 Nov 1688 in Albany, Albany, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Philip, fifth son of Isaac and Sarah (du Trieux) De Forest, was born in New Amsterdam, in 1652. He became the founder of the Albany branch of the De Forests. He married, January 5, 1676, Tryntje, daughter of Isaac Kip, and removed to Albany. He served as high sheriff, and held many offices. He died in 1727, and was buried August 18 of that year. - Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 448

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Philip married Tryntje Kip on 5 Jan 1676 in New York, New York. Tryntje (daughter of Isaac Hendricksen Kip and Catalyntje Hendricks De Suyers) was born on 13 Sep 1656 in New York, New York; died in 1703 in Albany, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• Departure: 17 May 1641, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Arrival: 20 Aug 1641, New Amsterdam, New York; aboard the ship "den Eyckenboon" (In the Oak Tree)

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He is mentioned with Andries de Vos and Corneilis Segers van Egmont as being the prionciple farmers of Rensselaerswyck colony whose terms all other farmers must accept in 1643. Cornelis, his wife and son-in-law Peter Claes, had arguments with Director Brant Aertsz van Slichtenhorst of Rensselaerswyck. These arguments resulted in several law suits, and Van Ness was forced to apologize for the slanderous language he used against the Director. In 1648. On 25-Aug-1650 Cornelis Van Ness leased for eight years a farm in Greenbush, Renssselaerswyck. Cornelius Hendrick Van Ness held the position of of Councilor of Rensselaerwyck between 1652 and 1658. He was granted a patent fo 50 morgens of land at Amerrsfoort (Flatlands, Long Island), where in 1664 his daughter Grietie and her husband, Peter Claes, later called Wyckoff, lived on 23 May 1659. He held the position of of Councilor of Rensselaerwyck between 1660 and 1661. He held the position of of Counciler of Rensselaerwyck in 1663. He was granted a patent of 21 Morgens of land in Schenectady on 16 Jun 1664. He left a will in 1677 at Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York. He and Maritie Damen resided at Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, in 1677. On 12 Nov 1684 the last record of Cornelis Van Ness, he is referred to as "old Van Nes."
"Cornelis Van Ness who settled in the Albany, NY area in 1642. He was Councilor of Rensselaerwyck from 1652 to 1655 and was a magistrate of the court. A brewer, he owned land in the Flatlands, had servants,and was considered one of the principal farmers....he came to the colony in 1641. He was a man of eduction and ability and was influential in the affairs of the colony. He owned a farm near Greenbush, but he was no farmer. His main income was derived from his brewery and from his mercantile and political activities. He and his son-in-law, Pieter Claesen, engaged in the prolonged controversy with van Slichtenhorst, the autocratic director of the colony, which ended only when Pieter Claesen left the colony in June 1649, and van Slichtenhorst was arrrested on 18 April 1652, by order of Pieter Stuyvesant." - Wyckoff House & Association, Inc Bulletin, Volume LXV, 2002 anniversery issue, p 28
Immigrant ancestor of the van Ness family in America. In 1625 he resided at Vianen upon the Haverdijk, Zuid Holland Province, Netherlands. He came to the New World in 1640 or 1641 on the ship Oaktree, probably in the company of Andries de Vos ,and established himself at Rensselearwyck. He is mentioned in 1643, with Andries de Vos and Cornelis Segers van Egmont, as being the principal farmers of the Colony, whose terms all the other farmers must accept. A record dated March 4, 1649 contains the phrase, "in the first part of the year 1643, as the wedding guests were going over the ice to the wedding of thedaughters of van Es ..."

In April 1649, Cornelis made preparations to leave the Colony, but for some reason stayed, and on August 25, 1650, he leased for 8 years at .22f pounds per year a farm at Greenbush, formerly occupied by Cornelis van Vechten. The farm contained nine morgens of land, and he had three horses. He served as Councilor of Rensselaersyck from 1652 to 1658 and again in 1661 and 1663, at an annual salary of .50 pounds. On May 23 1659 he was granted a patent of 50 morgans at Amersfoort (Nieuw Amersfoort (Flatlands)), Long Island, where in 1664 his daughter, Grietie, and her husband, Pieter Claes Wyckoff, lived. On March 21, 1664 at the occasion of his second marriage he made an agreement with his children by his first wife to turn over to them certain property in satisfaction of their share in their mother's estate, his sons and daughters being mentioned and the latters' husbands.

His brewery in Greenbush was mentioned in joint ownership with Jan Oothout, his son-in-law. On June 16, 1664 he was granted a patent for 21 morgens of land in Schnectady. He and his wife, Marietie Damen, are recorded as owners of Lot No. 7, N. side of State St., Albany, between James St and Broadway, 1668 -1679. Maritie Damen, his wife, is mentioned June 8, 1670, as the owner of land called Canstagoine (patent from Richard Nichool).

The name Cornelis van Ness is mentioned frequently in various records and last appears November 12, 1684, when he is termed "old van Ness". His first marriage is evident from the records published in ERA III:278. It is there stated that on July 31, 1625, Cornelis Hendricksz van Ness and Marigen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff made on that date a post-nuptual agreement, probably shortly after their marriage. They were living at Vianen, on the Haverdijk. Vianen is a small city on the River Lek. Marigen was from the neighboring town of Lekmond and the daughter of Hendrick Adriaensz van den Burchgraeff (who died prior to 1635) and Annetje Jans. (Annetje Jans was a rich landowner at Laeckervelt near Vianen). Marigen died prior to 1664, when on March 14, 1664, Cornelis made an prenuptial contract with his wife to be, Maritie Damen, widow of Dirck van Eps and Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh. Maritie Damen van Ness died July 3, 1682.

Was in the colony in 1641, and probably came with Andries de Vos, on den Eyckenboom. From 1642, he is charged with tithes of a farm at Bethlehem, which he seems to have occupied til the fall of 1648, when van Slichtenhorst brought actions against him for calling him a liar and a cheat and for throwing oat straw on the dump heap out of spite against the director and to the detriment of the next lessee. In April 1649, he made preparations to leave the colony, but for some reason stayed and Aug. 25, 1650, he leased, for eight years at f225 a year, a farm in Greenbush, formerly occupied by Teunis Cornelisz van Vechten, together with six morgens of land belonging to the adjoining farm of Teunis Dircksz van Vechten. Van Nes served as raets persoon (councilor) of Rensselaerswyck, at an annual salary of f50, from 1652 to 1658, and again in 1660, 1661 and 1663. He lived with his wife Maijgen Hendricksen, at Vianen, province of South Holland, in 1625, and owned land at Scherperswyck, near Leksmond, in the neighborhood of Vianen, as late as 1661. - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/shey.html

Cornelis married Maycke Hendrickse Van Der Burchgraeff on 31 Jul 1625 in Harvendijk, Zeeland, Netherlands. Maycke (daughter of Hendrick Adriense Van Der Burchgraeff and Annetje Janse) was born in 1602 in Lakerveld, Zederik, Zuid, S. Holland, Netherlands; died on 24 Mar 1664 in Renssalaerwyck, New Amsterdam, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Mayken’s mother, Annetje Janse, of Loeckervelt, in 1630 left her a legacy of three morgens of land in Scherpenwyck, Netherlands.

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Isaac, son of Jesse and Marie (du Cloux) De Forest, was baptized at Leyden, Holland, July 10, 1616. With his brother, Henry, then thirty years of age, Isaac, who was ten years his junior, quitted Amsterdam, October 1, 1636, in a small vessel called the"Renssalaerwyck," which belonged to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first patroon. They reached New Amsterdam in safety and settled upon the broad fertile flat called "Muscoota," now the site of Harlem, upper New York City. Henry had a grant of two hundred acres; Isaac, a strip of one hundred acres along the Harlem river and part of the later day Morris Park. Henry, the wealthier and apparently the abler of the two brothers, died July 26, 1637. The interests of his widow were safeguarded by Dominie Evarardus Bogardus, as her attorney. She married again. Isaac was still unmarried, and for several years remained at Harlem raising tobacco and selling it at New Amsterdam for transport to Holland. On June 9, 1641, he married "Sarah du Trieux of New Amsterdam, spinster," daughter of Phillip du Trieux and Jaqueline Noiret, founders of the Truax family of America. He became a wealthy tobacco dealer and brewer of New Amsterdam, and was appointed in 1658 by Governor Stuyvesant and council a "great burgher." When the English fleet took New York in 1664 he was one of the persons of distinction seized and held. His will is dated June 4, 1672. He died in 1674. His widow died in 1692.- Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 447

Isaac married Sarah duTrieux on 9 Jun 1641 in New Amsterdam, New York,. Sarah (daughter of Philip de Trieux and Jaqueline Noiret) was born in 1625 in New Amsterdam, New York, USA; died on 9 Nov 1692 in New Amsterdam, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 10 Jan 1627, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
• Arrival: 1637, New York, New York

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He was baptized at the New Church, Amsterdam, Holland, on Jan 10, 1627, andcame to America with his parents. He was admitted to the Rights of a Great Burgher in New Amsterdam on April 11, 1657, but unlike his father and brothers did not enter upon a political career. The only office he held in New Amsterdam was that of stamper, to which he was appointed Feb. 20, 1674, and on Oct. 27, 1675 he was nominated for magistrate of New Harlem. He was a yacht Captain engaged in river trade between New Amsterdam and the settlements at Esopus (Kingston) and Fort Orange (Albany). His descendents settled in Rhinebeck. - unknown

Isaac married Catalyntje Hendricks De Suyers on 8 Feb 1653 in New Amsterdam, New York. Catalyntje was born about 1633 in New Amsterdam, New York; died before 26 Sep 1675 in New Harlem, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Hendrick married Geertje de Jonge in 1600 in Vianen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Geertje was born in 1572 in Netherlands; died in 1602. [Group Sheet]

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Hendrick married Annetje Janse in 1599. Annetje was born in 1577 in Lavereld, Zuid Holland, Netherlands; died on 12 Jun 1635 in Lekesmon, South Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet]

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• Arrival: 1621, Virginia

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Jesse, son of Jean and Anne (Maillard) De Forest, was born about 1575. There is no important information concerning him after December 1, 1623, when in a tax list of Leyden, Holland, opposite his name is the entry "gone to the West Indies," which may have meant anywhere in North or Central America. Up to 1606 he appears as a merchant residing at Sedan, France, and in 1615 he appears in the Walloon registers of Leyden, where he was residing in 1620, the time of the departure of the Pilgrim fathers for America. He conceived the design of planting a colony of his own people in the New World, and this design he carried from year to year and from state to state until he had brought it to execution. He gathered a colony of fifty or sixty Walloon and French families, "all of the Reformed faith," and prayed the King of England to grant them a settlement in Virginia and "to maintain them in their religion" by undertaking their protection and defence. The petition or demand was signed by fifty-six men, mostly heads of families, the first of whom was Jesse De Forest. They prayed the King that he would grant them a territory of sixteen miles in diameter where they might cultivate fields, meadows, vineyards, etc., and article seventh of the petition reads:

"Whether they would be permitted to hunt all game, whether furred or feathered; to fish in the sea and rivers, and to cut heavy and small timber, as well for navigation as for other purposes, according to their desire; in a word, whether they might make use of everything above and below ground, according to their will and pleasure, saving the royal rights and trade in everything with such persons as should be there to privilege."

The petition was not acted upon favorably. He continued his enrolling, and looked for aid from Holland in getting the colony to America. Here Jesse De Forest disappears from distinct sight. It seems clear, however, that his first and perhaps only colonizing venture, was to that part of South America which the Dutch called the "wild coast," or Guinea. To this region two successive bands of settlers were despatched from Leyden in 1623. The fleet which Jesse De Forest accompanied sailed out of the Neuse, twenty miles south of Leyden, December 23, 1623. Nothing further is known of him. He was a man of fixed purpose, which he carried into execution, but whether he sleeps beside the Oaypok or beside the Hudson is not known. He had aroused and directed the emigrants who founded New York as well as those who established a dwelling place in Guinea and among the Carribean Islands. He married Marie du Cloux, and their seventh recorded child, Isaac, is the founder in America of the De Forests of Schenectady. - Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 447

Jesse married Marie du Cloux on 21 Sep 1601 in Sedan, France. Marie (daughter of Nicaise du Cloux and Marie Aubertin) was born on 17 Nov 1576; died in 1622. [Group Sheet]

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Philip married Jaqueline Noiret. Jaqueline and died. [Group Sheet]

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Henry married Tryntie Lubberts on 20 Apr 1624 in Noord, Sint Anthonis, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Tryntie was born in 1599 in Swoll, Zwoffen, Overijssel, Netherlands; died on 4 Jul 1657 in New Amsterdam, New York. [Group Sheet]

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