Captain Goosen Gerritse van Schaick

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ChartsAncestors of Edward Ambrose Cooke
Captain Goosen Gerritse van Schaick, whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), was born, say 1618.1 He died at Albany, Albany Co., New York, in 1676.2,3

Goosen married (1) Geertie van Nieuwkerk, daughter of Brant Peelen van Nieuwkerk, say 1648;4,2,3 he married (2) Annetje Lavesen, whose parents are also unknown (or untraced); at Albany, July 1657.4,2,3

First appears in Albany in 1652.

Before he married his second wife in 1657, he made a contract to reserve from his estate 6000 guilders for his four eldest children by his first wife, that being her separate estate.

Owned land at Esopus in 1663. See deed book C in county clerks office and Vol I common council Minutes.

In 1664, he and Phillip Pieterse Schuyler had permission to purchase the Halve Maan of the Indians to prevent "thoseof Connecticut" from purchasing it. Also that year he bought a lot 6R by 4R from his stepfather Reyer Elbertse, on the north corner of Columbia Street and Broadway.

In 1668 he and Annatje made a joint will as he was leaving for Holland and mentioned the currently living children.

In 1675 he and Pieter Lassingh purchased Harmen Rutger's brewery on the Exchange block.5,2

Family 1

Geertie van Nieuwkerk d. 1656
Children
  • Gerrtje Goosense van Schaick4,2,3 b. say 1649
  • Gerritse van Schaick4,2,3 b. 1650, d. 11 Nov 1679
  • Sybrant van Schaick4,2,3 b. 1653, d. bef. 1686
  • Anthony Goosense van Schaick+4,2,3 b. 1655, d. 31 Jan 1736/37

Family 2

Annetje Lavesen
Children
  • Gerritje van Schaick4,2,3 b. 1657
  • Engeltie van Schaick2,3 b. 1659
  • Livinus van Schaick3,2 b. 1661
  • Cornelis van Schaick3,2 b. 1663
  • Margarita van Schaick3,2 b. 1665
  • Barent van Schaick3,2 b. 1668
This person was last edited on14 Dec 2017

Citations

  1. [S1330] Estimated from approximate date of marriage.
  2. [S386] Jonathan Pearson, Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800 (1872; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1984), 131-133, further cited as Pearson, Genealogies of the First Settlers of Albany.
  3. [S422] "Van Schaick (First Three Generations)," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 2 (1871), at 191, further cited as "Van Schaick."
  4. [S57] S. V. [Sebastian Visscher] Talcott, Genealogical Notes on New York and New England Families, (Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1883), 353, further cited as Talcott, New York and New England Familes.
  5. [S57] Talcott, New York and New England Familes.