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Jacob Stoffelsen (c. 1602 - c. 1657) was an early settler to New Netherland and one of the first European residents of what would become Hudson County, New Jersey.'
Origins immigration,Dutch West India Company
editStoffelsen, the son of Stoffel Cornelisse and van Lijne Jans was baptized on December 3, 1602 in Zierikzee, Zeeland, Netherlands. He is believed to have emigrated around 1630.[1][2]
In 1635 Stoffelson was appointed Commissary of Stores and Overseer of the WIC's laborers. On March 22, 1639, reported to incoming Director of New Netherland that the Company's slaves had earlier built Fort Amsterdam (completed in 1635) and that they normally engaged in cutting timber for construction and firewood, clearing land, burning lime and doing agricultural work.
In 1641, Jacob Stoffelsen was selected as one of the Twelve Men - the first representative assembly in the colony. He was greatly respected by the colonists and Native Americans alike. In 1645, Stoffelsen become a member of the Eight Men/ He later was a member, pro hoc vice, of the council to consult to the director on Indian affairs. During Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's administration, Stoffelsen was confirmed as a Small Burgher of New Amsterdam.[3]
Harsimus
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Bergen, along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers, that would become contemporary Hudson and Bergen counties in northeastern New Jersey. Though it only officially existed as an independent municipality from 1661, with the founding of a village at Bergen Square, Bergen began as a factorij at Communipaw circa 1615 and was first settled in 1630 as Pavonia, with settlements at Harsimus, Paulus Hook, Hoboken and Vriessendael. They were along the banks of the North River (Hudson River) across from New Amsterdam, at the tip of Manhattan Island, under whose jurisdiction they fell.
As seen on the Manatus Map of 1639, the land holdings on the west bank of the Hudson. numbered 27 and 28 are described as the “plantation of Van Vorst”, named for the original superintendent of patroonship of Michael Reyniersz Pauw [4] Van Vorst later leased the bouwerij, or homestead from the company. He died sometime around 1638.[5] Van Vorst's widow Vrouwtje Idese, soon after married Stoffelsen and he moved to Harsismus where he resided until his death in 1677.[3]
was spared in the Kieft's War https://books.google.nl/books?id=j1sKi0KPTewC&pg=PA476&lpg=PA476&dq=Stoffelsen+new+netherland&source=bl&ots=eGPmWQtVH9&sig=zgC1obufbLKZbS57t7d3h79GF3c&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1l4Tw4fLUAhVHLVAKHfI8DEsQ6AEIVTAH#v=onepage&q=Stoffelsen%20new%20netherland&f=false
In the history of slavery in New Jersey, Stoffelson is mentioned as the first slave-owner in the state, though WIC labourers had worked plantations before.
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References
edit- ^ Blok, P.j.; Molhuysen, P.C. (1933), Stoffelsen, Jacob, vol. 9 (digitaal ed.), Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW) via Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis en de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren., p. 1077, 1078
- ^ Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), vol. 9 (digitaal ed.), Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis en de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren., 1933, p. 1078, 1079,
STOFFELSEN (Jacob), zoon van Stoffel Cornelisse en van Lijne Jans, gedoopt te Zierikzee 3 Dec. 1602, overl. in Nieuw-Nederland enkele jaren na 1657...Door het ontbreken van zoo goed als alle documenten van vóór 1638 kan slechts bij wijze van onderstelling aangenomen worden, dat hij daar omstr. 1630 geland is. Voor het eerst wordt hij vermeld in voorjaar 1638 als Willem Kieft, de opvolger van den gouverneur Wouter van Twiller, ter belooning zijner goede diensten als werkbaas, zijn salaris tot 36 gld. 's maands verhoogt. Hij kan in die functie de opvolger geweest zijn van Waling Jacobsen van Winkel, wiens nakomelingschap thans in de duizenden loopt. In 1640 ontving hij zijn aanstelling tot plaatsvervangend lid van den raad van N. Nederl. Was de verhouding tusschen den eersten predikant op Manhattan, Ds. Jonas Michaelis (dl. l, kol. 1333) en den gouverneur Peter Minuit al zeer slecht geweest, zij verbeterde er niet op onder hun opvolgers Kieft en Ds. Bogardus (dl. I, kol. 386). Deze beschuldigde den landvoogd door den geheel onvoorbereid aangevangen oorlog tegen de roofzieke Indianen de kolonie op den rand van den ondergang gebracht te hebben. S. schaarde zich aan de zijde van den predikant. Hij nam een werkzaam aandeel aan den strijd tegen den gouverneur, wat hem op het verlies zijner betrekking en van zijn raadszetel kwam te staan. Kieft en Bogardus, op een zelfde vaartuig naar Nederland ontboden (1647), zijn beiden bij een schipbreuk omgekomen. S. was gehuwd met Vrouwtje Eydens, de weduwe van den voormaligen schout van Pauw's stichting Pavonia, Cornelis van Vorst, wiens boerderij lag in Hobockan Hockey (nu Hoboken). Bij den gruwelijken overval der Indianen (1655) is zij waarschijnlijk omgekomen, ook S.'s mooie groote huis werd daarbij verwoest. Hij hertrouwde in 1657 met de weduwe van Jacob Walingsen van Winkel, zoon van Waling voornoemd. Tot voogden over haar zes minderjarige kinderen werden aangesteld Paulus Leendertsen van de Grift, burgemeester van N. Amsterdam, en Michiel Jansen Vreeland, grondbezitter van zeeuwsche afkomst en stamvader van een zeer talrijke amerikaansche familie. Uit dit tweede huwelijk sproten twee kinderen. Son of Stoffel Cornelisse and van Lijne Jans, christened in Zierikzee 3 Dec. 1602, died In New Netherlands a few years after 1657 ... Due to the lack of good documents before 1638, it can only be assumed that he landed about in 1630. He is mentioned for the first time in spring 1638 when Willem Kieft, successor to Governor Wouter van Twiller, rewarding his good services as a job boss, raised his salary to 36 guilders. He may have been the successor to Waling Jacobsen van Winkel, whose descendants are now in the thousands. In 1640 he received his appointment as deputy member of the board of New Nederland. The relationship between the first minister on Manhattan, Ds. Jonas Michaelis (Col. 1333) and Governor Peter Minuit had already been very bad and did not improve with their successors Kieft and Ds. Bogardus (Dl. I, Col. 386). They accused the governor of bringing the colony to the verge of destruction in the completely unprepared war against the predatory Indians. Stoffelsen sided with the minister. He took an active part in the struggle against the governor, which led him to the loss and his seat. Kieft and Bogardus, embarked on the same vessel to the Netherlands (1647) and both died in a shipwreck. Stoffelson was married to Vrouwtje Eydens, the widow of the former supervisor of Pauw's patroonship Pavonia, Cornelis van Vorst, whose farm was in Hobockan Hockey (now Hoboken). During the raids of the Indians (1655) she probably died: Stoffelson's beautiful big house was also destroyed. He married in 1657 with the widow of Jacob Walingsen van Winkel, son of Waling mentioned above. Until guardians of her six minor children were appointed Paul Leendertsen van Grift, Mayor of New Amsterdam, and Michiel Jansen Vreeland, landowner of Zeeland descent and ancestor of a very numerous American families. From this second marriage, two children were born.
- ^ a b "Jacob Stoffelsen". www.courts.state.ny.us. Historical Society of the New York Courts - New York Legal History / Colonial New York Under Dutch Rule: 1609-1664; 1673-1674. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Earliest known Manhattan map made in 1639". The New York Times. March 25, 1917. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ http://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchistory/Pages/V_Pages/Van_Vorst_Homestead_Site.htm
- ^ Reiss, Oscar (1997), Blacks in Colonial America, McFarland, ISBN 9780786403394
- ^ Karnoutsos, Carmela. "Underground Railroad". Jersey City Past and Present. New Jersey City University. Retrieved 2014-08-22.