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	Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Hendrick Van Rensselaer, (Capt.) & Maria Pafraet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Maria Van Rensselaer: She was born in Holland.
		Their son, Wouter Van Twiller, was Director General of New Netherlands from 1632 to 1638.
		Van Rensselaer, Florence, The Van Rensselaers in Holland and in America, New York, 1956, p.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~walt/gen/htmfile/7696.htm (141 words)

	Killian Van Rensselaer
		Van Rensselaer referred the matter to the governor and council, and the trial was considered of much importance by both the church and the civil authorities, since it involved their privileges and rights, as defined in the articles under which the province was surrendered to the English.
		--Henry's brother, Nicholas Van Rensselear, soldier, born in Rensselaer county, New York, in 1754; died in Albany, New York, in 1848, was a colonel in the Revolution, and served with gallantry on the heights of Stillwater.
		Catherine Van Rensselaer Bonney (Albany, New York, 1875).--Henry's brother, Nicholas, soldier, born in Rensselaer county, New York, in 1754; died in Albany, New York, in 1848, was a colonel in the Revolution, and served with gallantry on the heights of Stillwater.
	www.famousamericans.net /killianvanrensselaer (6092 words)

	Sullivan - History of New York State 1523-1927
		Wouter van Twiller, the Director-General of the Province, a nephew of the patroon, was authorized to administer the "oath of schout" to Rutger Hendricksz, though, as Van Laer states, it is doubtful if he ever did.
		Van Twiller was a nephew of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, and though the latter professed to have had no part in procuring the appointment for the young man, there seems no doubt that he looked upon it with favor.
		Van der Donck, Patroon of Colendonck and president of the Board of Nine Men, had been keeping a journal of certain investigations he had been making of the state of the people and of the actions of the Director-General, and this journal was to be the basis of a remonstrance to the States General.
	www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/sullivan/pg2.htm (9627 words)

	The Van Curlers
		Arendt Van (Corlear: Dutch Dialect) Curler came To the colony of New York in 1630 as an agent for his uncle Killian Van Renesselaer of Amsterdam Holland to be the overseer of a Patroonship of 200,000 acres of land in and around Albany, NY.
		Arendt Van Curler was born on the estate Corleaer in 1620, which is near the town of Nijkerk, in the Netherlands, and was the son of Hendrick Van Curler and Nellie Gerrits Van Curler.
		Van Renesselaer wrote to Arendt that he noted "that Bradt has bought a heifer for f200 which is much too high" because he purchased it in Holland and had to ship it from there taking a chance of it dying at sea.
	www.fortklock.com /vancurler.htm (2431 words)

	Wouter Van Twiller
		Van Twiller wrote a "courteous and respectful letter" to Governor John Winthrop, requesting that the matter be settled by the home authorities, meanwhile urging that until these proper persons could determine what should be done, the Plymouth colony refrain from settling there.
		Van Twiller served a process on Holmes as soon as he heard this news, and a few weeks afterward besieged the trading-house with seventy soldiers, but was forced to withdraw and leave the English in peaceable possession.
		Van Twiller re-shipped them "pack and sack for Point Comfort." He was again unsuccessful the same year with the Massachusetts colony.
	www.famousamericans.net /woutervantwiller (722 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Rensselaer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Her mother was Catherine Van Rensselaer, born in The Crailo, Greenbush (Rensselaer, N. Y.), November 4, 1734, died in the Schuyler Mansion, Albany, March 7, 1803, and was daughter of Johannes Van Rensselaer and Engeltie (Angelica) Livingston, the latter being the daughter of Robert Livingston, Jun., twelfth mayor of Albany.
		Van Rensselaer found it necessary to look critically after the interests of his Manor, for in order to secure good returns it was essential that the lands should be cultivated, and while speculators would buy lands, the farmers, or laborious tillers of the soil, were unwilling to contract for the fee.
		Van Rensselaer, urged by his party to uphold their moral force in the controversy, consented to stand as a candidate for the assembly, and despite his popularity was beaten.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/vanrensselaer-1.html (18122 words)

	The History of New York State, Book II, Chapter II, Part III
		In this manner came to an end the administration of Wouter Van Twiller; but, he appears to have been a man whom it was difficult to disconcert; for unaffected by the disgrace of his dismissal, he remained in the province for several years afterwards.
		After the death of Patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Van Twiller acted as one of the guardians or trustees of his sons during their minority; but there is no record of his return to Holland, although it is known that the ex-director-general died in his native land during the winter of 1656-57.
		Van Twiller's policy towards the Indians was firm and vigorous; his conclusion of a peace with the Raritans is to be highly commended, and he certainly showed no cowardice in his dealing with the Pequods.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/his/bk2/ch2/pt3.html (3579 words)

	The Olde Merchants NYC 1863
		OLD WOUTER VAN TWILLER Old Wouter Van Twiller, the first governor, was a merchant, or rather a merchant's clerk, being regularly brought up in the West Indian Company's counting-room, and that fact ranked him as the equal of an ordinary merchant.
		Wouter was born in Nieuwkirk, and probably when he ceased to be governor of our ancient New York he went back there.
		The Van Twiller family would in New York in 1861, only be allowed to date back to the 16th of April, 1633, when their ancestors landed from the ship "De Zoutburg," the first vessel of war that ever entered this harbor.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Business/Merchant/Wouter.html (2276 words)

	Genealogy Quest - Genealogical Gleanings II
		Francis Douthay, Adriaen van der Donck's father-in-law and an English Minister, was granted a colonie at Mespacht, not for himself alone as Patroon, but for him and his associates whose agent he was, and who at the time were residing at Rhode Island and at Cahanock and other places.
		Adriaen Van Der Donck has been about 8 years in New Netherland; he originally went thither as sheriff, in the employ of the co-proprietors in the Colionie of Renselaers wyck, but did not long hold that office; he resided in the Colonie, however, until the year 1646.
		Jacob Van Couwenhoven, when a lad, accompanied his father to the country, was taken by Wouter van Twiller into the Company's service as an assistant, and becoming afterwards a tobacco planter, the Company helped him, as is to be seen by the books, with necessaries; but they have been paid for.
	www.genealogy-quest.com /collections/glean2.html (987 words)

	Sullivan - History of New York State 1523-1927
		Van Dincklagen refused to be so disposed of; on the plea that he held his commission not from the Director but from Holland.
		Van der Donck might well come home in triumph with this grant of municipal government as the fruit of his three years of incessant labor in Holland and the people might well rejoice that they were at last to govern themselves.
		Van der Donck was admitted to the same honorable degree in the University of Leyden, and was afterwards an advocate in the Supreme Court of Holland.
	www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/sullivan/pg3.htm (8830 words)

	NYNY 1630-1639
		Wouter van Twiller, a nephew of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, arrives in New Amsterdam in the Soutberg accompanied by close to 100 soldiers, the first regular troops in the colony, to replace Bastiaen Jansz Krol as director-general.
		Dutch barber-surgeon Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, sent by an officer at Fort Orange (Albany) to explore the area where the Mohawk flows into the Hudson, notes flooding at the site of an Indian village on the southern bank.
		New Amsterdam governor Willem Kieft and the Privileged Trading Company grant a lease for a tract of and near Fort Amsterdam to former governor Wouter Von Twiller, to be used for cultivating tobacco.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1630.html (1347 words)

	The Dutch and English on the Hudson: Chapter 4
		In his new office Van Twiller was confronted with questions dealing with the encroachment of the patroons from within and of the English from without, the unwelcome visit of Eelkens, of whom we shall hear later, and massacres by the Indians on the South River.
		Van Twiller’s advocate, W. Griffis, quotes the Nijkerk records in proof that Van Twiller was born on May 22, 1606, which would fix his age at twenty-seven when he was sent out to the colony.
		The editor of the Van Rensselaer-Bowler manuscript states that Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was born in 1580, that his sister, Maria, married Richard, or Ryckaert, Van Twiller and that the Wouter of our chronicles was their son and therefore Van Rensselaer’s nephew.
	www.kellscraft.com /DutchEnglishOnHudson/DutchEnglishOnHudsonCh04.html (5092 words)

	The Ancestors of Maria Vanderveer
		Grietje's father Cornelis van Ness, son of Hendrich van Ness, was doubtless a native of the village of Nes on the island of Ameland in the province of Friesland, North Holland.
		VAN NES, CORNELIS, probably from Nes, a village in Friesland, obtained a patent May 23, 1659, for 50 morgens at Flds adjoining land of Wolfert Gerritse Van Couwenhoven.
		Cornelis Van Nes in 1668, 27 yrs after he arrived in USA, still held title to 6 acres of land in the Netherlands whcih he was renting to a cousin.
	www.stipak.com /vanderveer/maria/bios/4.HTM (2994 words)

	Wouter van Twiller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A painting of Wouter van Twiller by Washington Allston.
		Wouter van Twiller was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1633 until 1638.
		During his term in office Van Twiller purchased what is now Governors Island from a tribe of Indians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wouter_van_Twiller (225 words)

	Flatlands Historic Hubbards Lane
		K is named after, and which was visited by President Clinton in 1998) Wolfert Gerretsen (Van Kouwenhoven), as in the community called Gerretsen Beach, and Wouter Van Twiller, then Governor, bought over 15,000 acres of land for farming.
		Van Pelt was the town Constable in 1783, and was a fisherman.
		Van Pelt is also important because his house survived to this day.
	www.brooklynonline.com /history/hubbard.html (1302 words)

	Washington Irving - Wouter Van Twiller
		His surname of Twiller is said to be a corruption of the original Twijfler, which in English means doubter; a name admirably descriptive of his deliberative habits.
		On the contrary, he was a very wise Dutchman, for he never said a foolish thing; and of such invincible gravity that he was never known to laugh, or even to smile, through the course of a long and prosperous life.
		Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller a true philosopher, for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles33n/essays-studies-36.shtml (586 words)

	JenkinsManuscript.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is no evidence that CORNELISl van VORST ever left his original holding; he may have been entitled to occupy his bouwery until the spring of 1639, as at that time his widow renewed the lease on it with Governor Kieft for twenty years.
		Note B. The coat of arms of the VAN VOORST family of Utrecht, as shown by Arent van Buchell, noted antiquarian and genealogist of Utrecht, in his manuscript genealogy of the VAN VOORST family, bears in gold a jumping fl ram; the helmet is in profile with fl and gold coverings.
		Wouter van Twiller, who had been a clerk in the Company's warehouse at Amsterdam, was a son of the sister of Kiliaen van Rensselaer.
	upstel.net /johns/Stafney/WC_DOCS/Jenkins.htm (14689 words)

	bellairsia : index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As should come as no surprise, Van Twiller is another cleverly used regional name.
		Van Twiller was a clerk in the warehouse of the Dutch West India Company and employed to ship cattle along the Hudson river.
		Van Twiller was somewhat acquainted with the geography of New York, having made two voyages to the country from his native Holland, and the condition of its affairs and was chosen in 1633 to become the West India company governor of New Netherlands (famousamericans.net)(Columbia Encyclopedia).
	www.bellairsia.com /v/v_van_twiller_ny.html (169 words)

	Settlers of Rensselaerswyck - Biographies J-Z
		He was probably a younger brother of Wouter van Twiller, or perhaps, of Aert Goossens van Twiller, who on July 26, 1663, executed in the colony a power of attorney to Mr.
		Peel van Hennedela, shout at Nieukerck, to demand of his brother in law Aert Janz, shoemaker at Nieukerck, an accounting of the estate of his deceased father Goosen van Twiller and his mother Emmeke.
		Jan van Twiller was one of the Gecommitteerden (commissioners) in the colony in 1649, and at that time boarded with van Slichtenhorst.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nycoloni/renbioset2.html (4266 words)

	Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Cornelis Maessen Van Buren & Catalyntje Martensen
		Cornelis Maessen Van Buren was born in Burmalsen, Provence of Guelderland, Holland, in—say—1610, and died in Papsknee, New York, in 1648.
		Christÿna Van Buren [#961]: She was born in Albany, New York, on May 19, 1644, and died in New York on November 26, 1729.
		On October 24, 1646, Cornelis purchased a piece of property described as: "A house and plantation at the North River on the Island of Manhattan, next to Wouter van Twiller and Thomas Hall." It was located between the present Christopher and 14th Streets with boundaries near to those streets and doubtless having North River frontage.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~walt/gen/htmfile/1922.htm (700 words)

	The Ancestors of Maria Vanderveer
		November 29th, 1658, Maria Verlett, widow of Johannes Van Beeck, was a merchant of New Amsterdam as early as 1652, who traded at Albany (Beverwyck), where, in 1654, he purchased property which he sold in 1659, in which year he is styled a merchant at Hartford, to which place he probably removed.
		Cornelis Maeson or Maersen purchased, Oct. 24th, 1646, the plantation of Volckert Evertsen on the North river, adjoining the plantation of Wonter Van Twiller and Thomas ??.
		The first account of Cosyn Gerritsen (Van Putten), is of March 30th, 1640, when he gave a power of attorney to Aert Gerritsen to collect money coming to him, probably a legacy, from the estate of his deceased aunt (Susanna Ellfertsen), of Hoom in Holland.
	www.stipak.com /vanderveer/maria/bios/3.HTM (10619 words)

	USA: West India Company
		In a letter to Kieft of May 1639, Van Rensselaer somewhat halfheartedly states, "I judge, however, that the land at the Manhatans must be bad, as the people with their cattle are going to other places where they expect to find better land."[28]
		He immediately ran into trouble with his predecessor, Wouter van Twiller, who claimed certain rights on the cattle of farm no. 1, the best farm, that was traditionally rented by the highest Company official in New Netherland, the director-general.
		On April 8, 1638, Kieft and his council decided that the cattle on no. 1 should remain for the behoof of Van Twiller, on condition that the cattle not be removed from Manhattan.
	odur.let.rug.nl /usa.990917/E/wic/wic04.htm (588 words)

	Dutch West India Company
		The positive outcomes of the Pauw grant were the construction of two houses at Pavonia, the first homes on the west side of the Hudson River, and the appointment of a superintendent, Cornelius Van Vorst, who remained as a settler to continue the nascent community for future development.
		After his tenure, three governors succeeded him: Wouter Van Twiller (1633-38); William Kieft (1638-1646); and Peter Stuyvesant (1647-1664).
		Van Twiller offered no direction for the settlement, had a reputation for being quarrelsome, and was only noted for expanding the brewery business in New Amsterdam.
	www.njcu.edu /programs/jchistory/Pages/D_Pages/Dutch_West_India_Company.htm (565 words)

	The History Box\|New York State Information Prior to 1901 History
		Quickly, however, individual directors discovered the advantageous facility with which the Indians might be brought to part with their lands, and in 1629 the patroon system, a system of feudal tenure on an extensive scale, was established.
		Kilan Van Rensselaer purchased a large tract of land in the neighborhood of Albany, and Michael Pauw bought Staten Island and Pavonia.
		The followers of the ascendant faction were rewarded with the grant of bank charters and valuable franchises, and, favored by the provisions of the Constitution, which gave the power of appointment to office and removal to a council of appointment.
	thehistorybox.com /ny_state/ny-_state_article00001.html (3083 words)

	Marilyn Weigner Associates, Inc. ...The Village Specialists Since 1982
		In the 17th Century, the South Village belonged to a single property owner, Wouter Van Twiller, who was appointed by the Dutch West India Co. in 1633 as Director General of the colony.
		Van Tw iller took this whole area as his personal farm.
		Van Twiller's successor, William Kleft, granted ownership to a Symon Congo, making Mr.
	www.marilynvillage.com /southvillage.htm (532 words)

	Anneke Jans Bogardus Family
		Anneke Bogardus, has come to light in the hands of one Miss Harriet Van Atten, of Glenville, Schenectady County, a direct descendant of Pieter Bogardus, a son of the old lady, to whom it is stated to have been given by her.
		On the strength of this, and pair of gold earrings that once belonged to her venerable ancestor as personal property, application was recently made to the Surrogate of Albany for letters of administration upon the personality of Mrs.
		She was among the first immigrants that came to settle the manor of Rensselaerswyck and arrived in 1630, with her husband Roeloff Jansen Van Maesterlandt, who came out with his family as farmer to the patroon at a salary of seventy-two dollars a year.
	rootie.geeknet.com /anneke.html (7037 words)

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