Cornelis [unknown patronymic] van der Wel

Birth Date unknown (late 1500s?)
Death Date unknown
Birthplace unknown

Mother’s Name (Aeltje?)

Birth Date unknown (late 1500s?)
Death Date unknown
Birthplace unknown

Laurens Cornelisz[en] van der Wel

born approx. 1611 (multiple records match this birth year), in Katwijk, South Holland, the United Provinces (the Netherlands). Katwijck baptism records begin in 1613.
in New Amsterdam at least by 1640 (see notes below)
died after 30 August 1656 (sponsors baptism in New Amsterdam)
died after August 1660, when he is mentioned (see notes below) as still living in Smits Vly (just north of wall in Manhattan, at modern Maiden Lane and Pearl Street)
Presumed buried in Manhattan, New York

Laurens had a brother, Evert, who appears in the records of the New Netherland colony; they are described as brothers in a few places. Apparently both are skippers, and one will sometimes appear in court while the other is doing business in Europe, sometimes in cases that involve both of them.

We see Laurens described as skipper on at least three ships, apparently all WIC ships: Angel Gabriel, Maid of Enkhuizen, and Green Pineapple. There were probably others. He is described in colony records as a former Mediterranean sailor. Other skippers share the same name: Lourens Corneliszen from Flensburg (east side of Jutland, opposite Husum but on the Baltic side of the peninsula, in Schleswig; see Amsterdam Notarial Archives, 8.4.1652), another from Lijster (22.11.1657 will of Jan Simonsz, sailor on the ship Muijden, with the East India Co.), another from Stockholm (51 years old in 1683 when the ship Mevrou Maria has to put men off in a sloop during a storm; eight drown).

Tetje Tijsen

registered to marry 17 Jan 1637 in Amsterdam, Netherlands (see Amsterdam Stadsarchief)
born in Haerlem, Netherlands, approx. 1610 (see marriage record below)
Death Date and place?
Presumed buried in Manhattan, New York

Marriage record reads: Lourens Corneliss van Catwijck oud 26 jaer woont aan de N.Z. Voorburgswall, ???maker, & Tetje Tijsen van (Haerlem?) oud 27 jaer, geen ouders hebbende, woont aan de N.Z Voor[burgs]wall

He signs his name; she signs with a mark.

I cribbed the links to the Amsterdam archive, and the transcription, from the Wikitree page listed below in Sources. (Bronvermelding Bijzonderheden: Opmerking: Huwelijksintekeningen van de KERK. Ondertrouwregister Amsterdam 1636-1637, archiefnummer 5001, inventarisnummer 445 Gemeente: Amsterdam Periode: 1636-1637)

Tetje may have a brother Claes, who is also a skipper. Claes Thyszen marries Susanna Pieters 21 January 1652 in New Amsterdam, and Laurens Corneliszen sponsors the baptism of their third child, a son named Gerrit. Skipper Claes also is there for the baptism in New Amsterdam of two boys born to Skipper Laurens Cornen, who sounds a lot like Laurens Cornelissen, 20 August 1651.

From the list of witnesses at baptisms, Tetje may also have a sister Gijsje Tijssen.

Cornelis (I)

4 October 1637, at the New Church in Amsterdam, Tetje Tijssen and Laurens Cornelisz baptize Cornelis (https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5001/42). Witness name looks like Gijsje Tijssen. This baby presumably died young; another baby named Cornelis is baptized 5 April 1648.

Aefje

26 June 1639, at the New Church in Amsterdam, Tetje Tijssen and Laurens Cornelisz baptize Aefje (https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5001/42). Witness name again looks like Gijsje Tijssen. (Amsterdam archief Baptism Aefje Laurens 26 June 1639 Bronvermelding DTB Dopen Amsterdam 1637-1646, archiefnummer 5001, inventarisnummer 42 Gemeente: Amsterdam Periode: 1637-1646 Religie: Hervormd)

20 November 1655, New Amsterdam: banns posted for Lúcas Andrieszen, Van N. Amsterdam, en Aefje Laurens Van Amsterdam (Manhattan Marriages, p. 20).

Aefje Laurens is daughter of Schipper Laurens Corneliszen van der Wel (or van der Wal), who appears with “sijn huis vr.,” his wife, at the baptism of Aefje’s first daughter, Lysbeth, on 30 August 1656. Tetje may be a diminutive of Lysbeth, or the daughter may be named for a different relative.

30 August 1656, New Amsterdam: Lucas Andrieszen and Aefje Laurens baptize Lÿsbeth, with sponsors Schipper Laurens en sÿn huis vr. (Manhattan Baptisms, p. 43). From the name of the first daughter, we would normally guess that Aefje’s mother, wife of Schipper Laurens [Corneliszen], is named Lÿsbeth.

17 October 1657, New Amsterdam: Lucas Andrieszen and Aefje Laurens baptize Jannetje (named for his mother), witnesses Laurens Corneliszen (her father?) and Jannetje Sebÿns (the baby girl’s grandmother and namesake) (Manhattan Baptisms, p. 47)

9 June 1669, New York: Lucas Andrieszen and Aechtie Laurens baptize Laúrens (named for her father, presumably Skipper Laurens Corneliszen; he is not here for the baptism, so he may be deceased); witnesses Jan Joosten (his business partner), Marritie Andries (his sister) (Manhattan Baptisms, p. 95)

Gap in baptisms: We know (see notes below) that Schipper Lourens is in New Netherland at least 1640-1641, and he leaves records of his presence there in Nov 1642 and Feb-Apr 1643. By Dec 1643 he is referred to as gone from the colony (temporarily); he appears to be back in New Amsterdam by the end of June 1644, and he stays at least through the end of September. The couple may have had and baptized children in other places during this time. (We don’t know whether they traveled together, though we know that by 1656 Tetje is in New Amsterdam for the baptism of her first granddaughter.)

Lijsbet

11 March 1646, at the Old Church in Amsterdam, Lourens Cornelissen and Tietje Thijsen baptize Lijsbet (https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5001/8). Witnesses are Marritje Pieters and Eerritje Ariaens.

Cornelis (II)

5 April 1648 at the New Church in Amsterdam, Tetje Tijssen and Laurens Cornelisz baptize Cornelis (https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5001/43). Witness is Aeltje Buijssen (perhaps mother of one of the parents?)

Thÿs & Dirck

20 August 1651 at New Amsterdam in New Netherland, Laurens Kornen, Schippr., baptizes Thÿs and Dirck (2 kinder). Witnesses are Claes Thyssen, Schippr., and Jeuriaen and Engeltie Mans. (Source New Amsterdam Baptisms, p. 30.)

On 15 September 1658, Laurens Corneliszen and Ytie Huyberts sponsor the baptism of Gerrit, son of Claes Thyssens (j.m. van Amsterdam when he married Susanna Pieters Smit 21 Jan 1652)

On 17 August 1659, Laurens Corneliszen and Susanna Bording sponsor the baptism of Grietie, daughter of Hendr. Hendricksen and Aeltie Claes.

On 25 March 1640, Laurens Corneliszen, Susanna Ederinne and Tryntie Van Kamp sponsor the baptism of Gerrit, son of Jan Suyderken

A different Laurens Corneliszen is a young man from Denmark, who on 5 March 1676 registers to marry Margriet Barents in Manhattan; they have at least three kids 1677-1687 (Cornelis, Grietje, Marritje).

Notes

In August 1660, according to Janny Venema’s Beverwijck (pp. 263-265, citing ERA 3, p. 33, as well as Innes, New Amsterdam and Its People, p. 305, and, for skipper Laurens Cornelisz, Frijhoff, Wegen van Evert Willemsz, pp. 699, 742, 751, 776), Laurens Cornelis van de Well lives in a house and lot in Smits Vly at Manhattan owned by Sander Leendertsz (Glen, van Dysart, from Fifeshire in Scotland; Innes calls him Alexander Lindesay, pp. 303-304); Sander gives Captain Thomas Willet a power of attorney to sell the property, although it does not sell until the fall of 1675.

New Amsterdam and Its People describes the skipper with a little more color, also mentioning the house he probably built at the northwest corner of (modern day) Maiden Lane and Pearl Street around 1641 (p. 298); he got the lot on 7 September of that year. He describes himself as “Skipper under God [a common expression for the captain of a ship] of the ship the ‘Angel Gabriel,’ of about one hundred lasts burden.” Director-General Kieft, in his annoyed 2 January 1646 letter to Domine Bogardus (p. 299), describes Skipper Laurens as “a man of profligate character, who had violated his oath, had committed perjury and theft . . . had slandered the Director [Kieft].” Kieft is annoyed that the Domine took the skipper under his wing; we might infer that the skipper was Reformed, not Lutheran.

Innes says that Skipper Laurens sells his house in the Smits Vly in spring 1643, with about half of his acre of ground, for 1600 guilders, to Frederik Lubbertsen, who likely occupied it from that point forward. (This conflicts with Venema, but the document she refers to may cite Schipper Laurens as an original or previous tenant, by whose name the property is known, as appears to be the case in other Beverwijck documents describing properties.) According to Innes (p. 303), the other half of the land he had on Pearl Street sat vacant and unimproved until the Director and Council granted it to Sander Leendertsz in 1646; Sander built a house on it right away.

On 8 March 1640 (CM IV, p. 70), Cornelis Cornelissen, chief boatswain, pleads before the New Amsterdam council for Laurens Cornelissen, “skipper of the Engel Gabriel,” to take him back into service. Laurens says he is master of his ship and does not want to take Cornelis.

On 6 November 1642 (CM IV, p. 169), before the New Amsterdam council, Laurens Cornelissen asks Paulus Jansen (from Vlissingen) to finish his work spading Laurens’s land. Paulus says the land is unworkable. This comes up again on 14 December (p. 179).

On 13 November 1642 (CM IV, p. 171), Laurens Cornelisz, 31 years old, appears before the New Amsterdam council, at the Fiscal’s request, to testify about a conversation he heard on 27 October, in which Hendrick Jansen at the house of Burger Jorisz may have called Director Kieft a rascal. This case goes on for some time.

In February 1643 the New Amsterdam Council hears a case about Hendrick van Dyck, ensign, who in a tavern sat and drank with Markus Jansen from Sebu, who was under house arrest (CM IV, pp. 182-183). Borger Jorisz (who is the tavern keeper) testifies, as does Laurens Cornelisz, “aged about 32 years.”

On 14 April 1643 (Register of the Provincial Secretary Vol. II, pp. 114-115), Skipper Laurens sells his house to Fredric Lubbersen for 1600 guilders, “payable in three instalments.” The “director” will pay 600 guilders in a bill of exchange immediately, “if the said director remain the country this year,” he will pay another 400 guilders in merchandise, and the remaining 600 guilders “Fredric shall pay in two years.” Lubbersen acknowledges receipt of the house (“except that Laurens Cornelissen must still deliver as many brick as will be necessary for an oven in which one can conveniently bake one and a half schepels of grain”) on 29 May. An incomplete deed is filed, then canceled, apparently on 30 May, together with a receipt for the first payment (pp. 131-132), amounting to 1000 guilders.Van Laer’s transcription suggests that the skipper signs his name “Louris Cornelis.”

Schipper Laurens does not appear to stick around forever in the colony; he is a sailor and probably travels back and forth, very possibly making his home in Europe. (Aefje, his daughter, says she is from Amsterdam.) But note that Hendrick van der Walle is present in the colony at some time and may be a brother (or other relative). See Register of Solomon Lachaire 1661-1662 [notary], O’Callaghan, E.B. (translator), Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, editors and indexers, 1978, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore (from the New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch series of the Holland Society), pp. 186, 188, 191, 193, 211, where he owns a lot in New Amsterdam 1662.

Laurens Cornelissen must be gone from the colony (temporarily) by December of 1643; for unclear reasons the Fiscal asks his brother Evert to make a declaration regarding who owns what (Register of the Provincial Secretary Vol. II, pp. 185-186): “all the property which his brother Laurens Cornelissen left him belongs to the freighters and not to his brother, including the house of Fredric Lubbersen as well as the brandy and other goods; only, Evert Cornelissen declares that the yacht De Juffrou is his own and that his brother has no interest therein.” (Evert is still in the colony 18 December 1646; see a receipt he signs on behalf of Mr. Wytingh, pp. 385-386.) Possibly this is related to the 21 March 1645 dismissal (CM, pp. 259-260) of any claims against Evert Cornelisz by Abraham de Visser and Elias de Raet; the Director determines that the creditor should go to the Schipper himself for what is owed.

Skipper Laurens while in New Amsterdam prominently does not get along with Director Kieft. Accusations go back and forth about the skipper’s misdeeds; he does what he can to restore his reputation. Somewhat out of order (these need to be reorganized later), see A.J.F. Van Laer’s Register of the Provincial Secretary Vol. II, and Council Minutes 1638-1649 (Vol. IV of the same series of New York Historical Manuscripts, published in 1974 from original typescripts in New York State Library by the Genealogical Publishing Co. in Baltimore, for the Holland Society) for some of the accusations and responses.

On 29 June 1644, (RPS II pp. 225-226, referring to an earlier document dated 3 November 1643), Augustin Harmans and Laurens Cornelisz, representing Pieter Gabry (and sons) and Coenraet Coeymans in Amsterdam, show up to acknowledge that they have received 2,622 guilders from Kieft in payment of a bill, “to their full satisfaction.” Director Kieft seems to feel he does not need to pay this bill (RPS II, p. 239), and files a declaration to say so. He says “they are still not satisfied therewith, claiming exchange, re-exchange, damages and interest,” but really he prefers that the whole transaction be settled at (Old) Amsterdam.

A ship has a skipper, but also a pilot, as well as other crewmembers. The merchant who owns the cargo aboard sometimes appoints a “supercargo,” who travels on the ship to make sure nothing untoward happens to the goods. On 1 July 1644 (RPS II pp. 229-230), “at the request of Laurens Cornelissen,” Mr. Arent Corssen of Amsterdam, 30 years old, testifies that the supercargo on the most recent voyage of the Maid of Enckhuysen, Cornelis Groesz, many times said “at the Texel, in England, and on the voyage,” that the pilot had treated him poorly. (Van Laer supplies the pilot’s name, Jacob Egbertsen.) The supercargo is quoted: “Before I will go again with the pilot, I had rather go ashore from the ship than to be so ill-treated.”

On 7 July 1644 (RPS II pp. 233-234), Arent Corssen and Jacob Egbertsen, pilot of De Maecht van Enckhuysen, testify that “neither in Holland, nor during the voyage . . . nor elsewhere on shore,” have they ever heard the skipper “speak disparagingly of Mr. William Kieft, at present director of New Netherland, in regarding to any trading, or riding in and out [smuggling], which was done or carried on by the above mentioned director at Rochelle in France,” or say “the least thing prejudicial to the director in regard to other matters.”

On 7 July 1644 (RPS II p. 235), Juriaen Blanck and Thomas Willett testify “at the request of Laurens Cornelisz” regarding the sale of about 80 bushels of malt; Augustyn Hermans had sold them some, but Skipper Laurens said more malt had been promised than existed. They paid him a beaver skin to sell the malt to them, but not “a stiver cheaper” than they had agreed to pay before.

On 7 July 1644 (RPS II p. 234), Tryntjen Jonas, local midwife, testifies “at the request of Laurens Cornelisz” that when she was attending Hillegont Joris at the birth of a baby girl, she asked who the baby’s father was, and got the answer that “Jan, the pilot, is father of the child.” (It was supposed that if you asked right at birth, the mother would answer accurately.) Towards evening, when Tryntjen asked again, Hillegont said Laurens Cornelisz was the father.

On 9 July 1644 (RPS II p. 228), “at the request of Laurens Cornelisz,” Pietertjen Jans and Annitjen Ruys appear before the secretary of New Netherland, to testify that when Hillegont Joris gave birth to a girl, “in the presence of the woman in the tavern and Borger [Jorissen]’s wife,”  they asked Hillegont who the baby’s father was. Hillegont answered “Jan, the pilot of the Sevenster,” and then when they asked whether it might be Laurens Cornelisz, “she protested” and swore “that she had never had any carnal conversation with [Laurens] and that he had never sought such from her.”

On 1 July 1644 (RPS II p. 229), Marritjen Lives and Engeltje Mans (wife of Borger Jorisz) confirmed the same basic account.

On 14 July, after all these preliminary declarations have been entered, the Fiscal’s case against Schipper Laurens comes to a formal trial (CM IV, p. 227). The director (Kieft?) asked four parties to pass a sentence after considering the evidence; basically they suggest that any improprieties were minor, and they sentence him to “pay a fine of one anker of wine for the benefit of the Fiscal and his friends,” then dismiss the balance of the charges.

On 21 July (CM IV, pp. 229-230), the council again looks over the case and can “not find that any exception can be taken” against the director; this time they come down against Skipper Laurens. (The original charges must be in a record somewhere; I don’t have them on this page. See for example 30 June 1644, p. 223.) On 28 July (pp. 230-231), Skipper Laurens “persists in his statement that he received a box of pearls from [Kieft], but can not prove the same,” so they say he must recant in court and beg forgiveness or “he shall be banished from this country until he prove at Amsterdam that he brought over pearls for the honorable director.” Something is garbled here: Either he says he brought the pearls, or he says the director gave him the pearls. The Schipper appeals to Amsterdam. The court says the goods that have been confiscated will stay with the Fiscal, and the Schipper is further fined 20 fl. in cash. Having taken an oath, the Schipper is acquitted of the accusation of adultery with Hillegont Joris.

On 29 July 1644 (RPS II pp. 227-228), Cornelis Melyn, at the request of the Fiscal, attests that on 20 June he bought “from Laurens Cornelisz, master of the ship De Maecht van Enckhuysen, a barrel of train oil for eight beavers.” (Typically eight guilders counts for one beaver.) His wife Jannitjen Melyns says on the same day she bought “some pieces of lace amounting to between eighty and ninety guilders.”

On 1 September 1644, Schipper Laurens is still in town. Frederick Lubbersen (CM IV, p. 236) sues him “for delivery of what belongs to the house” that Lubbersen bought from the Skipper (see 14 April 1643). According to van Laer’s note, the house and lot front on the East River (which he identifies with Maiden Lane). From the entry on 2 September, it appears that some kind of structure of branches has been damaged by other parties; Lubbersen wants a dike built. “Skipper Laurens promises voluntarily to build the dike in front of Frederic’s lot and his own,” showing that Laurens still owns half the lot he sold. Apparently some of the Skipper’s money, which Fredrick is supposed to pay him for the house (?)(p. 237) has been attached; the Skipper requests that the attachment be removed so that he can be paid. Director Kieft refers to the beavers “sent to Holland by [the Skipper’s] brother, and he wants to get an accounting showing that the deal in Holland was done right before he releases any money being held for security.

On 8 September 1644 (CM IV, p. 237), Skipper Laurens requests “that Elslandt and his wife” shall explain the disposition of “three pieces of beaver, and six fishers.” This apparently is not related to the case directly above? Or maybe it is: “Laurens Cornelisz says in court that he received 25 beavers from his brother and sent them over to his masters at Amsterdam.” This probably is the complaint that is described on 21 March 1645 when (pp. 259-260) any obligation of Evert Cornelisz is discharged.

On 29 September 1644 (CM IV, p. 239), Michil Jansen brings a complaint against Laurens Cornelisz, saying that Michil’s servant, Andries, owed Michil 90 fl., but Laurens “conveyed the servant out of the colony without [Michil’s] consent. Laurens says he didn’t realize that Andries was under contract until he was already under way. Michil says (is this the guy from Sebu, from above?) that Laurens should have brought Andries to the court at Manhattan when he found out.

At some point between fall 1644 and spring 1645 the skipper takes his ship back to Amsterdam. The next time we see him is in the Amsterdam Notarial Archives.

On 15 March 1645, in the Amsterdam Notarial Archives, with Augustin Hermans and others, he attests to a contract made in New Netherland for merchant and helmsman, on the Maagd van Enchuijsen, of which Laurens is the Schipper.

On 5 April 1645, again the Amsterdam Notarial Archives, he makes a statement as skipper on the Maeght van Enchuijsen, over an issue of wine that was poured; Augustin Hermans is named again (along with others).

On 6 April 1645 comes another statement in the Notarial Archives about the wine; someone certifies that the producer never tapped wine from the barrels in the ship.

On 21 April 1645 we see further comment from the skipper on the Haen, a WIC ship; this refers again to the Maeght van Enchuijsen, an anker of French wine, and Director Kieft.

On 24 April 1645 in the Notarial Archive we see him referred to again as schipper op de Maeght van Enchuijsen. Note that we have seen him now on two ships, the Engel Gabriel in 1640 and for the past few years the Maid of Enkhuizen. Some skippers apparently own their own ships; it appears (maybe) that Schipper Laurens more typically works under contract to ship owners (for example the WIC), sailing their ships back and forth. It appears that he has a crew who stick with him—at least some of them—as he goes from ship to ship.

In March 1646 Lourens Cornelissen and Tietje Thijsen baptize a daughter in Amsterdam, so we can guess he is still home in Amsterdam around June 1645.

At the very beginning of 1646 Director Kieft and his council begin a complicated proceeding against Domine Everardus Bogardus, who has fallen into poor favor (CM IV, pp. 291 and following). They complain about his sermons, about his friends, his character, specific actions and overall bad politics. On p. 293, in the long list of conduct unbecoming, the complaint mentions how Bogardus took the side of Laurens Cornelissen. The complaint also says the minister drinks too much.

Kieft apparently had a large bad side, and it was easy to get onto it. He gets replaced, as all directors do, and life seems to get simpler for the skipper.

By 1648 Skipper Laurens appears to have skipped to a new ship, The Green Pineapple, where on 2 April 1648, in the Amsterdam Notarial Archive, he is referred to as Lourens Cornelis van Catwijck, Schipper. A few other crew members mentioned are Johannes Struck, Isaac Oostendorp, and Cornelis Groessens. Note that Cornelis Groesen also served on the Maid of Enkhuijzen; see his testimony on 1 and 8 July 1644 regarding the treatment of the supercargo on the voyage to New Netherland (CM IV, p. 226, described above). Note also that Isaac Oostendorp also sails with Claes Thijssen from Ditmarschen; see 7.11.1647 WIC ship Haerlem, as recorded in Amsterdam Notarial Archive, regarding a trip to Brazil; Thijs Jellesz is also mentioned.

On 6 May 1648, Schipper Laurens Cornelissen is again mentioned, though the document in the Notarial Archive does not make clear what ship he’s on. This is with Matheus Groesen, probably a brother of Cornelis Groesen, so probably it’s the Green Pineapple.

On 27 May 1648 in the Amsterdam Notarial Archive, the schip de Pijnappel is mentioned again, called a kaag, or barge. Matheus Groesen comes up again.

Since Tetje Tijssen and Laurens Cornelisz baptize their son Cornelis in Amsterdam in April 1648 (see above), and their two sons Thÿs and Dirck in New Netherland in August 1651, we might estimate that this is the time when she moves from Amsterdam to the colony, bringing their children. The skipper seems to have kept a house on Manhattan since 1641, and she may have gone back and forth with him on some voyages, but all of their children up to 1648, as far as we know, were baptized in (Old) Amsterdam. (Records show he sold the Manhattan house in 1643 but continued living there until at least 1660; see above.) Other than their marriage record, we don’t have much clue of where they lived in Amsterdam: He does not appear to have bought a house or lot there.

On 21 December 1655, under Peter Stuyvesant, Lourens Cornelissen van der Wel, “skipper and former Mediterranean sailor,” is appointed to a three-person board of arbitrators to evaluate a tricky case regarding shipping damages (Council Minutes 1655-1656, tr. & ed. Charles T. Gehring, 1995 Syracuse University Press for The Holland Society, New Netherland Documents Series Vol. VI, p. 165). Dr. Gehring clarifies in a note that the term used in the original was “Straetsvaerder, literally one who sails through the Strait of Gibraltar to trade in the Mediterranean region.”

On 11 October 1655, Jan van Twiller in Rensselaerswyck sends “your sword and baldric” to Robert Vastrick, “Merchant on the island Manhatans,” adding that is is going “by Luykas van d[e] Wellen.” (Correspondence of JvR, p. 21.) It is entirely possible that he refers to Lucas Andriessen, who is about to post banns to Aefje Laurens, daughter of Skipper Lauren Corneliszen Van der Well. See next note; on 13 October Lucas appears to be absent from New Amsterdam. He is back by 20 November to post banns.

We see some evidence that by 1656 Skipper Laurens is sailing between New Amsterdam and the (more heavily Swedish) villages on the Delaware River. On 19 June and again on 26 June 1656 we find the Skipper before the council at New Amsterdam discussing with Jan (Johan) Danielsson, “former chief gunner at New Sweden,” how the Skipper had accepted 8 beavers and 1 otter (common currency in the colony) from “the Swedish clergyman” (Lars/Laurentis Carlsson Lock, a Lutheran domine who ministered to the congregations on the Delaware), with which to obtain various supplies in New Amsterdam, but he had not bought more than 14 pounds of gunpowder; Danielsson says he has been empowered by the minister to collect the change (pp. 28-29, Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in Pennsylvania, Vol. 1: The Log Churches at Tinicum Island and Wicaco, Peter Stebbins Craig, Editor, published by the Swedish Colonial Society, Philadelphia, 2006; for these two entries, Craig cites Berthold Fernow, Records of New Amsterdam, 2:117 and 2:126).

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Sources

From The DeWitt Genealogy: Descendants of Tjerck Claessen DeWitt, of Ulster County, New York, by Mary V. DeWitt.

Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer 1651-1674, translated and edited by A.J.F. van Laer, Albany, 1932, University of the State of New York.

Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1630-1643, and Other Documents Relating to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1908.

The Lutheran Church in New York, 1649-1772: Records in the Lutheran Church Archives at Amsterdam, Holland, translated by Arnold J.H. vanLaer: New York, 1946, The New York Public Library; introduction, also informative, is by Harry J. Kreider.

The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini, Vol. V: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, Jan. 8, 1664 to May 1, 1666, Inclusive, Berthold Fernow (editor), Knickerbocker Press, New York (under the authority of the City of New York), 1897.

Records of New Amsterdam (7 volumes), edited by Berthold Fernow, originally published New York, 1897; republished 1976 by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore.

Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Baptisms from 25 December, 1639, to 27 December, 1730,Edited by Thomas Grier Evans, 1901, New York, printed for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; reprinted 1968 by the Gregg Press, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York (Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. II), 1901, New York, Thomas Grier Evans, editor, reprinted 1968 by the Gregg Press, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909, Compiled from Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions, Vol. II; by I.N. Phelps Stokes; Robert H. Dodd, New York, 1916; the volume includes detailed biographical sketches, with sources noted, in describing owners and inhabitants of each house in Lower Manhattan, based on the De Sille list from the Castello Plan.

I normally don’t recommend online-only sources to anyone, since they are frequently riddled with misinformation and seldom list reliable original sources for their claims, but in this case, a lot of the information on the page was correct, and the sources were made clear: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cornelisz-149

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