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From Find a Grave:He was the son of Maas Van Buren. He married Catalyntje Martense Van Alstyne about 1635 at Houten, Utrecht, Holland, the Netherlands. She was a daughter of Martin (of Meppel) Van Alstyne. Cornelis and Catalyntje had five children. Two of these children were my ancestors since their descendants in future generations married each other. Hendrick was born Jan. 30, 1636/7 at sea from Holland to New Amsterdam, ancestor Marten was born 1638 - 1640 possibly at New Amsterdam, New...
The first generation of Van Burens to settle in America enjoyed modest success in a territory plagued by corruption, incompetence, quarrels, and rivalries—some petty, some deadly. That success was sadly cut short when, in the spring of 1648, Cornelis Maessen and his wife, Catelijntje, died, apparently on the same day (we know for sure they were buried on the same day). The primary source material from the time doesn’t explain the cause of their deaths, but the fact that they were both...
April 10, 1703In the name of God, Amen. Know all men by these presents that I, the undersigned, Mart Cornelise van Beuren, husbandman and inhabitant of the colony of Rensselaerswyck, in the county of Albany, hale and sound of body, having full possession of my mind, memory and speech, considering the frailty of life, desiring to dispose of my temporal effects, commend first of all my soul to the gracious hands of God, my Creator and Savior, and my mortal body to a Christian burial, annul and...
MARTIN VAN BUREN, WITH A SKETCH OF THE VAN BUREN FAMILY IN AMERICA.By Frank J. Conkling (Continued from Vol. XXVIII, p 125 of THE RECORD)Marten' Cornelissen (son of Cornells Maessen) was the ancestor of President Martin Van Buren. He deposed in 1660 that he was born in Houten in the Province of Utrecht, and was probably not more than two years of age when his parents came to this country. He was presumably married when in 1662 he sold his home, located "This side of Bethlehem " (less than two...
New York colonial documents state that Abraham Pietersen, of Haarlem took possession, in 1636, for the Dutch West India Company, of the Island of Quentensis in front of Sloops Bay (now known as Dutch Island ). In another place [the island] is described as the Island of Queteurs in front of Sloops Bay and Pequator's River and in 1664 they speak of the special possession of Abraham Pietersen, of Haarlem, still living on the Island of Quetenesse , in the Narricanese Bay near Rhode Island...