Hendrick Cornelisse Van Ness

Hendrick Cornelisse Van Ness[1, 2, 3]

Male 1638 - 1717  (79 years)

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  • Name Hendrick Cornelisse Van Ness 
    Born 1638  Vianen, South Holland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Arrival 1641  New York, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    _FSFTID L5YY-TTS 
    _UID CEB9C8E9175247C79E881889DF7AA378EA68 
    Died 9 May 1717  Albany, Albany, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I640  Strong History
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2018 

    Father Cornelis Hendrickse Van Ness,   b. 1600, Vianen, South Holland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1681, Greenbush, Albany, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Maycke Hendrickse Van Der Burchgraeff,   b. 1602, Lakerveld, Zederik, Zuid, S. Holland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1664, Renssalaerwyck, New Amsterdam, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married 31 Jul 1625  Harvendijk, Zeeland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F57  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Annetje Everts,   b. 1638, Albany, Albany, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 16 Nov 1688, Albany, Albany, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 50 years) 
    Married 21 Oct 1663  Kingston, Ulster, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Simon Van Ness,   b. 1666, New City, Rockland, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1733, Fairfield, Essex, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     2. Anna Van Ness,   b. Abt 1668,   d. Yes, date unknown  [unknown]
     3. Cornelis Hendrickse Van Ness,   b. Abt 1670,   d. Yes, date unknown  [unknown]
     4. Evert Van Ness,   b. 1672, Renssalaerwyck, New Amsterdam, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1730, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     5. Gerrit Van Ness,   b. 1681, Kingston, Ulster, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Sep 1758, Albany, Albany, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     6. Jan Johannes Van Ness,   b. 21 Oct 1685, Albany, Albany, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1747, Albany, Albany, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
    Last Modified 14 Jan 2020 
    Family ID F161  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Catryn Vandam,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 1663  Kingston, Ulster, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Married 25 Nov 1688 
    Last Modified 14 Jan 2020 
    Family ID F327  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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

  • Sources 
    1. [S107] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Source number: 1753.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DH1.

    2. [S85] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Place: New York, New York; Year: 1641; Page Number: 60.

    3. [S180] New York, Genealogical Records, 1675-1920, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1934) - Extracts; Publication Place: New York; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Page Number: 7.