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• Birth: 1630, Holland
• Arrival: 1654, New York, New York
• Death: 13 Jul 1694, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey

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After coming here he was occasionally referred to in the Dutch records as van Boskerck. As he came from Holstein, where the Lutheran was the State Church, and the German language was prevalent, we would have expected this designation to have been given a German form, as von Buschkirk, but as a matter of fact, even in the German Evangelical Church records, it always appears as in the Dutch, van Bosckerk, later van Buskirk, pronounced Booskirk. The Philadelphia branch of the family adopted the last-mentioned form nearly two hundred years ago, and ever since have been known as Van Booskirk...The etymology of the Dutch name indicates a reference to a Wood or Woods-Church, Bosch-Kerk, or Church-in-the-Wood or Church-in- the-Bush, rather than in the forest. Bosch-Kapelle, or Woods-Chapel is the name of a village of 1,000 inhabitants in Zeeland, Holland. No account has been found of any town or village in Holland called Bosch-Kerk. In the German Church records no attempt has been made to translate the name into the German, Bursh-Kirche, or Wald-Kirche, but it has been transferred bodily from the Dutch, as above, indicating that it was already regarded as a proper name. [Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. III, p. 160] - http://www.rogerbissell.com/id21ddd.html
Laurens Andriessen came from Holstein, Denmark in 1655. His name first appears in records of New Amsterdam, June 19, 1656 in a deed for a lot of land on Broad Street. He was then unmarried and a turner by trade, afterwards, however, becoming a draper. He took the oath of allegiance November 20, 1665 and married September 12, 1658 Jannetje Jans (widow of Christian Barentsen Van Horn)
In July 1658 Laurens was sent by the Orphans Master at New Amsterdam to South River (Delaware) to assist the widow of Christian Barentsen Van Horn, a carpenter, who died as the result of a malady that took many lives in that area. Four and a half months later Laurens and Jannetje married on December 12, 1658 according to the marriage registry of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam. Some say the same date but list Old Dutch Church, Staten Island, NY.
Arrived in New Netherland before 1654, via Holland. Bought a lot on Broad St. 29 Jun 1656. Was a dry goods merchant. Moved to Hackensack by 1688. 1662, bought land on the shore of the Hudson. Became a judge and Justice of the Peace. Helped set up a Lutheran Church when the English established religious freedom. He was called van Buskirk because he lived next to a church by the woods. He was sometimes called Laurens de Dreyer (turner) because he was also apparently a turner by trade. (Source: Immigration Library, Scandinavian Immigrants of New York.)

Laurens Andriessen Van Buskirk was born in 1630 at Holstein, Denmark; now Germany. He married Jannetje Jans on 12 Dec 1659 at Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, New York County, New York. Laurens Andriessen Van Buskirk died on 13-Jul-1694 at Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. He was buried after 13 Jul-1694 at Constable Hook, Bergen County, New Jersey. - Title: Shoemaker, Irene English; Van Buskirk, A Legacy from New Amsterdam.

In 1658, he married Jannetje Jans, the widow of Christian Barentsen Van Horn at the Dutch Church on Staten Island. Laurens acquired a sizable fortune through this union, as well as, four healthy stepsons.
Shortly after the establishment of Bergen (Jersey City), he purchased 170 acres in the nearby settlement of Minkakwa, again from Claus Carstensen. Minkakwa was located in the Greenville section of present day Jersey City, an area along the west bank of the Hudson, which is presently the Conrail railyard. This land was purchased in 1662, and it is probable that he moved there almost immediately, for in that same year, he was one of the petitioners for a clergyman to be installed at the Bergen settlement. In this petition, each petitioner pledged a yearly sum that they were willing to pay to the clergyman to constitute his salary. Louerens Andries, as his name is signed on the document, was not able to commit to a specific amount, declaring that he would donate an amount at his own discretion. This indicates that he was not as well off at this time as some of the other signers. He was willing to donate to the yearly salary for a clergyman, but he was not wealthy enough to commit to a number. Depending on how successful he was in a given year, would determine how much he could afford to spare.
Laurens also purchased lands on Bergen Neck. This included a large tract of Constable Hook, a portion of present day Bayonne. His son, Peter, built a house here in the late 1600’s, which stood, with alterations, until 1910, when it was torn down to make room for an oil company which had purchased the land.
In 1664, Laurens was appointed to a committee which petitioned Peter Stuyvesant and his Council for the authorization to construct blockhouses at each of the entrances to the settlement of Bergen. This was, no doubt, prompted by the Indian uprising which had recently occurred at Wildwick (Kingston), New York and Niew Dorp (Hurley), New York, coupled with a double murder closer to home. On the 18th of October, in the previous year, two “Christians” had been killed by Indians, while on their way from the village of Gamonepa (Jersey City - near the Morris Canal Basin) to Bergen. Though this turned out to be an independent and isolated incident, the colonists had no way of knowing this at the time. The Director General and his Council gave their consent to the petition, and the blockhouses were built under the direction of the committee.
In the latter part of 1664, the British took over the New Netherlands colony with the arrival of Colonel Nicolls and a fleet of four warships. The Dutch surrendered without a fight. Laurens, as did the rest, took the oath of allegiance to the British Crown and continued business as usual. In 1670, he was by act, appointed as “Recorder and Marker” for Minkakwa, empowered to assure all horses and cattle were properly marked. Six years later, he was made “Marker General” and “Ranger” for the town of Bergen, empowered to deputize at his discretion, individuals to roam the local woodlands to round up stray domestic animals.
In 1671, he was appointed by Governor Carteret, to his Council, the upper house of the proprietary government. This commission usually went to men of means and to those who showed marked loyalty to the royal government.
On February 16, 1677, Laurens was commissioned a member of the Bergen Court. Three years later he was made President of the Court. He also served as Bergen’s first Coroner, as Justice of the Peace, and Judge to the Court of Common Right at various times during his life.
In 1676, he purchased, with others, a large tract of land located between Overpeck Creek and the Hackensack River, known then as New Hackensack. To this land he moved as early as 1688. Here, he lived till the end of his life, in 1694. He and his wife were buried on the land he had purchased on Constables Hook, in the family cemetery. - ancestry.com unknown author

There is some controversy over the actual nature of Laurens' trade. The first mention of him in the records of New Amsterdam refers to him as Laurens de Draijer which, Nelson says, is Dutch for: the turner. As Nelson puts it:
The Dutch word for "turner" is draijer -- drawer, probably referring to the early use of the draw-knife in shaping vessels, shoes and other articles from wood...In many translations from the Dutch records, this designation of his occupation has been simply transferred to the English without interpretation, and as the name is thus entered also in the indices, the searcher for references to Laurens van Boskerck may easily overlook such allusion. [Proceedings, Vol. III, p. 161]
Laurens brought with him to America a Dutch assistant named Frederick Arenta Bloem, whom he hired in Amsterdam in 1654 and who, in order to get married, broke his contract with Laurens while it still had a year to run. As Laurens complained in court, while trying to force Bloem to work out the rest of the contract, he just "ran away from him last Sunday morning without words or reason." Nelson surmises from all of this the following:
Laurens Andriessen, having acquired in Holstein the art and mastery of the trade of turner, went up to Amsterdam, there to follow his vocation in turning wooden bowls and dishes and eke shoes for the thrifty Dutch Huysvrouwen of that fair city, finally setting up for himself and having an assistant, in the person of the inconstant Frederick Arentsen. With dreams of increasing his business and so bettering their fortunes, he turned himself westward from Old Amsterdam to Nieuw Amsterdam, where he speedily acquired such fame for the excellence of his work that he was commonly known by way of preeminence as de Draijer -- the Turner, of the little town. [Proceedings, Vol. III, pp. 163-4]
Nelson also takes aim at what he says is a misconception, based on a supposed error in reading early records, namely, that Laurens changed his occupation to draper, i.e., a dealer in cloth and dry goods. As Nelson points out, "in a thinly settled neighborhood where every family spun its own wool and wore its own cloth!," that would have made no sense at all. [Proceedings, Vol. III, p. 164]
Nevertheless, Mrs. Shoemaker cites a study of the earliest Danes in America, done some years ago for the Danish government by a Professor P. S. Vig, in which the claim is made that Laurens "established himself in the dry goods business in New Amsterdam and also bought some land etc." She bolsters Professor Vig's claim by referring to several records that mentioned Laurens as "de Draper."
Mrs. Shoemaker also says that a native Holland teacher of Dutch, French, and German claims there is not any such word as Draijer. Instead, according to this unnamed authority, a maker of wooden articles is called a "houtwerker" in Dutch. (Van Buskirk Legacy, p. 1) It probably remains for an expert, unbiased linguist to settle this issue.
New Amsterdam records make no mention of our ancestor from November 1656 to December 1658, when he wedded Jannetje (Janica) Jans, the widow of Christian Barents Van Horn. There was some speculation that Laurens had been with or near the Van Horns during their ill-fated attempt to settle on the Delaware River. Also, coincidental or not, Jannetje petitioned the Orphan Masters to settle her deceased husband's estate on December 12, 1658, the same day as her marriage to our Laurens, which took place at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam. (Was this a dowry?)
The Vice Director of the Colony, Jacob Alrichs, sent notice of Christian's death to the Orphan Masters at New Amsterdam, along with an inventory of the estate and a request that Christian's widow be assisted. As Nelson described it, in rather droll fashion: The requisite "assistance," it will be observed, was promptly furnished by our friend Laurens Andriessen, who married the fair and not inconsolable young widow four and a half months after her sad bereavement. [Proceedings, Vol. III, p. 167]
By 1662, Laurens and his family moved across the Hudson River to what would later become Bergen County, New Jersey. They lived in a house on the shore of New York Bay. Laurens was very active in civic affairs, serving as a Juror, a Judge of the Court of Common Right, a Justice of the Peace, the county Coroner, and a member of the governor's Council, which was the upper branch of the Provincial Legislature. - http://www.rogerbissell.com/id21ddd.html

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in Van Buskirk Family Burial Ground - Bayonne City - no longer in existence. Once located in the yard at the rear of the Van Buskirk Homestead, Constable Hook.

Laurens married Jannetje Jans on 12 Dec 1658 in Reformed Dutch Church, Staten Island, New York. Jannetje (daughter of Tuman Jansen Jans and Neeltje Weber, daughter of Tuman Janse Jans and Neeltje Weber) was born in 1629 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; died before 19 Mar 1693 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey; was buried in Constable Hook, Hudson, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

Laurens married Jannetje Jans. Jannetje was born in 1629 in Holland; died on 13 Jul 1694 in Bergen, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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in Van Buskirk Family Burial Ground - Bayonne City

Andries married Jannetje Van Der Linde in 1680 in Bergen, New Jersey. Jannetje was born on 16 Dec 1663 in New York, New York; died on 27 Jun 1716 in Constables Hook, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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Laurens married Hendrickje Van Der Linde in 1691 in New Amsterdam, New York. Hendrickje (daughter of Joost Van Der Linde and Fytje Van Gelder) was born in Dec 1663 in New Amsterdam, New York; died in May 1724 in Bergen, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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Pieter Van Buskirk (circa January 1, 1665 - July 20, 1738), also spelt Boskerck, is considered the first settler in the Constable Hook area of Bayonne, New Jersey. He was the son of Laurens Andriessen Van Buskirk and Jannetje Jans, pioneer settlers in New Amsterdam. Van Buskirk built a home and farm around the year 1700 on the shore of Upper New York Bay on what became known as Van Buskirk's Point at the confluence of the Kill van Kull and New York Harbor. Van Buskirk started a small family cemetery next to his house in 1736. His wife, Tryntje died on October 31 of that year and is buried in the cemetery. Pieter Van Buskirk died two years later and was also buried in the cemetery. For over 200 years, Van Buskirk and his descendants lived in his farmhouse. Today, the farm and the cemetery are gone. Both were demolished in 1906 by the Standard Oil Company, which purchased the land to expand their refinery. A different cemetery that was opened by James Van Buskirk still exists today. Part of the cemetery still exists due to a "restoration project" of the 1980s. The cemetery is surrounded by property owned by International-Matex Tank Terminals which operates a marine terminal together with storage and handling for bulk liquid products. - wikepedia.com

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in Van Buskirk Family Burial Ground - Bayonne City

Pieter married Tryntje Hans Harmanse in 1690 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. Tryntje was born in 1671 in Constable Hook, Hudson, New Jersey; died on 13 Oct 1736 in Bergen, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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Records on Thomas Van Buskirk reflect that he was a landowner in Bergen, Sussex and Hunterdon Counties, NJ and lived all of his life in Bergen Co. and Hunterdon Co. He was appointed a justice of the peace and an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Bergen Co., January 21, 1714/15; he was again appointed a justice of the peace for the same county , August 25, 1725. He was serving as a Justice of the Peace in Bergen Co. as late as 1730. He was also involved in military activities as he was referred to as colonel in 1724. His will was proved October 20, 1748 at Trenton.

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in Schamp Family Burying Ground

Major married Marietje Hendrickje Van Der Linde about 1688. Marietje and died. [Group Sheet]

Major married Margrietje Brickers about 1693. Margrietje and died. [Group Sheet]

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Fytje married Arie Banta on 28 Jul 1712 in Hackensak, Bergen, New Jersey. Arie and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 7 Aug 1695, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey

Joost married Trintje Martese Pouwelse in 1717. Trintje (daughter of Marten Pouluse and Margrietje Westervelt) was born before 23 May 1699 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey; died in 1748. [Group Sheet]

Joost married Elizabeth Die on 30 Mar 1748 in New York, New York. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet]

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Andries married Jacomyntje Davidse Demarest on 26 Jan 1717 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. Jacomyntje was born in Sep 1697 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey; died in 1750 in Bergen, New Jersey, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Jan married Geesje Jurrianse Westervelt on 1 Apr 1721 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. Geesje was born on 4 Aug 1700 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey; died in 1748 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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Jacobus married Jannetje Schutz on 5 Jun 1727. Jannetje and died. [Group Sheet]

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Laurens married Sara Terheun on 7 May 1726 in Hackensak, Bergen, New Jersey. Sara was born about 1708; and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 28 Oct 1705, New York, New York

Benjamin married Susanna Demarest on 21 Mar 1725 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. Susanna was born on 18 Apr 1703 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey; died on 6 Sep 1747 in Woodbridge, Middlesex , New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 20 Jul 1707, New York, New York

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Jannetje married Johannes Van Horn. Johannes and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 7 Dec 1718, Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey

Laurens married Lee Westervelt. Lee and died. [Group Sheet]

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Hendrickje married Abram Westervelt. Abram and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 20 Jan 1723, Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey

Martin married Marytje Conklin. Marytje and died. [Group Sheet]

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Johan married Esther (Hester) Van Horn on 15 Aug 1751 in New York. Esther (daughter of Dirck Cornelisen Van Horn and Lea Banta) was born before 10 Feb 1734 in Albany Co., New York; died on 4 Apr 1807 in Cambridge, Washington, New York. [Group Sheet]

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John married Esther (Hester) Van Horn on 15 Aug 1751 in New York. Esther (daughter of Dirck Cornelisen Van Horn and Lea Banta) was born before 10 Feb 1734 in Albany Co., New York; died on 4 Apr 1807 in Cambridge, Washington, New York. [Group Sheet]

John married Helen Die Dye in 1750. Helen was born in 1734; and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: 1778, Cambridge, Washington, New York; Served in the American Revolution
• Residence: 1790, Cambridge, Albany, New York
• Residence: 1800, Cambridge, Washington, New York
• Residence: 1810, Cambridge, Washington, New York
• Residence: 1820, Cambridge, Washington, New York

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Revolutionary War service as follows: Served in the Second Company, Fourteenth Regiment, New York, in active service from July 23 to October 13, 1779, from May 17 to June 17, 1780, and from October 10 to November 24, 1781. He was under Captain Jacob Yates, March 4, 1780, Colonel Peter Yates regiment, and under Colonel Lewis Van Woert. (See "New York Rev. War Rolls.")
Martin Van Buskirk lived outside of Cambridge, New York in the hamlet of Buskirk's Bridge from before 1778 until his death in 1828. Buskirk's Bridge named for Martin Van Buskirk was also known by the Indians as “Ty-o-shoke" or variously spelled by the early settlers as Tiossiook, Tiassick or Tiashoke. This hamlet is simply known as Buskirk, New York in modern times. This area was part of the original 70,000 acre Hoosick Patent which Hendrick Van Ness (Maria's gr gr grandfather) was one of the original four grantees in 1638.
On the Hoosick river, and partly in the town of Cambridge, is the village of Buskirk's Bridge. The place derived its name from Martin (Van) Buskirk, an early settler, who built the first bridge across the stream (in 1802 or 1804). He was also a pioneer tavern-keeper, his house on the Cambridge side having a wide reputation. Philip Van Ness, John Quackenbush, and Colonel Lewis Van Wort, of Revolutionary times, were among the early prominent settlers near Buskirk’s. There was a store kept by Carpenter, and afterwards by Allen, which enjoyed a large trade in those days. - History of Washington Co. New York, 1874
Martin Van Buskirk was one of 3 original commissioners of the Northern Turnpike Road Company in 1799. The company was incorporated to build a road from Lansingburgh through Cambridge to Salem and ending at the Vermont state line. Tolls were collected at several points. This road opened up travel and commerce as well as bolstering the development of Cambridge. The road is now known as Rt. 22 and many of the original marble mile markers encased in stone still exist along the route.
Revolutionary War service as follows:Served in the Second Company, Fourteenth Regiment, New York, in active service from July 23 to October 13, 1779, from May 17 to June 17, 1780, and from October 10 to November 24, 1781. He was under Captain Jacob Yates, March 4, 1780, Colonel Peter Yates regiment, and under Colonel Lewis Van Woert. (See "New York Rev. War Rolls.")

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in Island Hill (Buskirk) Cemetery

Martin married Mariah Van Ness on 8 Feb 1780 in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York. Mariah (daughter of Philip Van Ness and Lanah Ten Broeck) was born on 4 Dec 1760 in Tiossick, Rensselaer, New York; died on 17 Feb 1842 in Buskirk, Rensselaer, New York; was buried in Hoosick, Rensselaer, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Dirk married Rachael Scherp on 25 Apr 1775 in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York. Rachael was born on 9 Jan 1755; died in 1839. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 31 Jul 1768, New York, New York

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• Baptism: 31 Jul 1768, New York, New York

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• Baptism: 2 Oct 1771, Paramus, Bergen, New Jersey

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• Baptism: 23 Jan 1774, Schaghticoke, Rensselaer, New York

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Maple Grove Old Cemetery

Cornelius married Christian Brandt. Christian was born on 18 Sep 1776; died on 20 Sep 1848; was buried in 1848 in Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer, New York. [Group Sheet]

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