Divertje Cornelis (1603 - bef. 1681)

Born 1603 in Holland, Nederland

Wife of Jan Arentszen Vanderbilt — married 1 May 1656 in Brooklyn, New Netherland

Descendants

Died before 7 Nov 1681 before age 78 in Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, Province of New York

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Biography

On 15 April 1634 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Kiliaen van Rens­selaer, the patroon of Rensselaerwyck in New Netherland (on both banks of the Hudson near Fort Orange [now Albany], New York), signed a contract with Lubbert Gysbertsen van Blaricum, a thirty-three year old rademaecker [wheelwright and wagon maker] under which Lubbert was "to betake himself with his wife and three children at his own expense," the patroon to pay expenses to the 'West India Company for passage on the ship de Eendracht [The Unity] then being made ready to sail to New Netherland. The contract provided for reimbursement of these expenses over a three year period, which was to begin upon Lubbert's arrival in New Netherland. During this period he could not quit the agreed upon service, could not work for others except through the patroon's agent, and could not enter into private trading in furs, etc. Lubbert's place of residence was to be chosen "with the advice and consent of ... the pa­troon's agents where he can most conveniently perform his work, namely his trade as a wagon maker or wheelwright, for which he shall take all the necessary tools with him from here at his own expense" (VRBM 285ff)

Lubbert's birthplace of Blaricum is about twelve English miles south­east of Amsterdam, in the district called Gooiland. The Van Rensselaer records give the name of his wife and the names and the ages of the chil­dren at the time they left The Netherlands; but for his wife, Divertje Cornelis, we do not have a birthplace nor her age in 1634 or at any other time. The eldest son, Gysbert, was ten years old in 1634, and had been born "Uij't de Beemster in Noordt Holland." This is the district north of Amsterdam along the IJsselmeer [Zuider Zee]. Thys was six, and had been born in "de Rijp in Noordt Holland." Jan was one and a half years old, and had been born in Edam. These last two birthplaces are within the Beemster area, so it seems safe to assume that, although Lubbert was born in Blaricum, he had lived during his married life in the Beemster area. It is likely that his wife had lived there before their marriage.

The last lighter with supplies and people for Rensselaerwyck left Am­sterdam on 24 April 1634 and sailed up the IJsselmeer to the Texel - the southernmost of the Vvest Frisian Islands, at the mouth of the IJsselmeer. A total of six men, one woman, and three children were bound for Rens­selaerwyck when de Eendracht sailed with favorable winds from the Tex­el early in May 1634. If the ship followed the usual route, she sailed down the North Sea and through the English Channel to Plymouth or some other port in south­ern England. There her water and other provisions would be replenished, and she would sail south until she entered the northeast trade winds. This route continued south, past the Madeira and Canary Islands, "until the butter melts," as one rule of thumb had it. This point was usually on or near the Tropic of Cancer. Thence the course was west, sailing before the trades. About a month after entering the trades, having reached a point about north of the Lesser Antilles, the ship would be turned northwest to the North American mainland and New Netherland. Such a circuitous course was adopted largely because it was faster and easier to sail with the trades than to fight the westerlies to the north of them. Similarly, returning ships normally went south to the vicinity of Ber­muda, whence the westerlies wafted them to Europe.

The voyage was probably far from pleasant for Lubbert and his family. The ship, being small, would pitch and lurch most of the time. There were no private sleeping quarters: passengers slept in the hold or on a pallet on deck. Passengers usually had to provide their own food and the means for preparing it, although, because of the small number aboard de Eendracht, passengers and crew may have been served from the galley. Food aboard ship consisted of salt beef, salt pork, and salt cod; ship's biscuits [hardtack]; oatmeal; dried peas; salt, suet, butter; beer, cider, and water. But biscuits soured and became wormy, the water became filthy, and much of the food became contaminated by the numerous rats and roaches. Occasionally the diet could be varied by catching a fish.

Lubbert's account at Rensselaerwyck was opened on 20 July 1634, which indicates that the trip from the Texel to Fort Orange took about two and a half months. The patroon had promised Lubbert "the fourth farm to be established," but we cannot tell from available records where Lubbert first lived or when he moved onto a farm. Later he did live on a farm at Bethlehem, just south of Albany on the west side of the Hudson River. We know very little about the life of his family at Rensselaerwyck, but he must have found it to his liking, for he stayed long beyond his stipulated three years. His account with the colony was closed in 1647, having run a total of thirteen years.

Divertje, his wife, witnessed the baptism of young Hal­magh Roelofsen Van Houten in New Amsterdam on 25 June 1648. The boy's father, Roelof Cornelisen Van Houten, had lived at Rensselaerwyck, and his mother, Geertje Van Ness, had been a neighbor of Lubbert's fam­ily at Bethlehem. From these facts we may safely conclude that Lubbert and his family moved from the vicinity of Albany to New Amsterdam in late 1647 or early 1648. On 5 December 1654 Lubbert Gysbertsen was given a Dutch patent for fifty morgens [100 acres] of land on Bergen Neck, below Cavan Point, now in the Greenville area south of Jersey City, New Jersey. Just south of him was his son-in-law, Jan Cornelis Buys, with twenty-five morgens, and then his son Jan Lubbertsen, also with twenty-five morgens. A little farther south were the twenty-five morgen farms of his sons Lubbert and Gysbert Lubbertsen and his son-in-law Hendrick Jansen Oosteroom. Just when these farms were first occupied is not known, but Lubbert Gysbertsen and others were living in New Jersey, presumably on this same land, before the patents were granted. An evidence of this is the fact that Lubbert's granddaughter Tryntje Oosteroom, who was baptized in New Amsterdam on 16 August 1654, was given in her marriage record as born in New Jersey.

On 15 September 1655, after an Indian had been killed in New Am­sterdam for stealing fruit from an orchard, a large war party of Indians terrified the occupants of New Amsterdam for several hours, all of the Dutch soldiers being at the time on the Delaware, fighting the Swedes. The Indians then went across the Hudson where, within a few hours, they burned the Dutch bouweries and plantations and killed or captured everyone who had not fled. They then moved down Bergen Neck and over to Staten Island, which was also devastated. The following account differs slightly from some earlier reports: ... in three days' time about 50 Christians were killed and murdered, more than one hundred, mostly women and children, captured, of whom we afterward ran­somed 60 to 70 at great expense, the rest being still in their hands, 28 bouweries and some plantations and about twelye to fifteen thousand schepels or grain burned, 500 to 600 head of cattle either killed or taken by the barbarians; ... [they] have suffered through these barbarous Indians a damage of more than two hundred thousand guilders and more than 200 persons besides those who were killed or are still in captivity, have lost their possessions and haw nothing left to procure food and clothing for themselves and their families must be a charge upon this city ... (CD NY 13:50; 31 October 1655)

It seems probable that Lubbert was killed during this Indian raid, for the following entry appears in the minutes of the Court of Schepens and Burgomasters of New Amsterdam under date of 1May 1656: Jan Corns Buys, alias Jan Damen, and Lubbers Gysbertsen widow, request per­mission to tap, as they have been driven from their houses by the last trouble with the Indians. "Whereon is endorsed:- Petitioners' request is granted like others (RNA 2:93). At least, he died some time between 5 December 1654, when his patent was granted, and 1 May 1656, when his widow and his son-in-law re­quested permission to open a tavern. Lubbert was about fifty-five years old when he died, and seems to have been the leader of the group that settled Bergen Neck, as he received twice as much land as his compan­ions, who were mainly his sons and sons-in-law.

Divertje Cornelis, Lubbert's widow, apparently did not move back to the west side of the Hudson when the settlers were permitted to return to their land holdings. She married second Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt and lived on Long Island, at or near Midwout [Flatbush]. Her date of death is not known, but her widower married 11 December 1681 (by banns of 7 November at Flatbush and 11 November at Bergen) Magdaleentje Hannsen, widow of Harman Eduarsz. Harman Eduarsz' first wife had been Jannetje Hendricks Oosteroom, one of Divertje's granddaughters. Lubbert Gysbertsen and his wife Divertje Cornelis had seven children, the sequence of birth of the last four being uncertain:

1. Gysbert Lubbertsen2 b. abt 1624
2. Thys Lubbertsen2 b. abt. 1628
3. Jan Lubbertsen" b. abt. 1632
4. Eybetje Lubberts2 b. abt. 1635
5. Tryntje Lubberts2 b. abt. 1637
6. Genet Lubbertsen" b. abt. 1639
7. Hans Lubbertsen2 b. abt. 1641^[1]

Parents

• Pieter Cornelius 1580 – 1686
• Divertje Cornelius 1603 – 1638

Family

• Lubbert Gysbertsen VanBlarcom 1601 – 1655

1. Altje Lubbertse 1610 – 1640
2. Altje Lubbertse VanBlarcom 1620 – 1640
3. Gysbert Lubbertsen VanBlarcom 1624 – 1676
4. Rebecca Lubberts VanBlarcom 1626 – 1663
5. Jan Lubbertsen VanBlarcom 1628 – 1711
6. Matthew Lubbertse 1628 –
7. Thys Lubbertsen VanBlarcom 1628 – 1693
8. Eybe Lubbertse 1635 – 1663
9. Tryntje Lubbertse 1637 – 1666
10. Tryntji Lubbertsen VanBlaricum 1637 – 1666
11. Gerrit Lubbertsen VanBlarcom 1639 – 1687
12. Hans Lubbertsen VanBlarcom 1641 – 1735
13. Johannes Lubbertsen VanBlarcom 1641 – 1661

• Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt 1627 – 1705

Research Notes

Parents

From the NYGBR, Divertje Cornelis has a documented name in the New Netherland records: The Van Rensselaer records give the name of Lubbert's wife and the names and the ages of the chil­dren at the time they left The Netherlands; but for his wife, Divertje Cornelis, we do not have a birthplace nor her age in 1634 or at any other time. The eldest son, Gysbert, was ten years old in 1634, and had been born "Uij't de Beemster in Noordt Holland. This is the district north of Amsterdam along the IJsselmeer [Zuider Zee].

Divertje was formerly connected as the daughter of Pieter Cornelius and Divertje Cornelius. Those names are problematic in multiple ways, mostly patronymically, and appear to have been replicated in numerous source trees from a likely faulty source. It is not at all clear how Divertje could possibly have the known names of parents, and yet have no known birth date from any record. These claimed parents have been disconnected from this profile.

Sources

1. ↑ Zabriskie, George Olin. The Van Blarcom Family of New Jersey. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. CXIX No. 3, July 1968.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

• Ancestry Family Trees: This citation provides evidence for Divertje Cornelis

• Family Data Collection - Individual Records:Family Data Collection - Individual Records about Divertje Cornelius Name: Divertje Cornelius Spouse: Lubbert Gijsberts Parents: Pieter Corneius, Mrs Cornelius Birth Place: Kings Co, New York, NY Birth Date: 1603 Source Citation: Birth year: 1603; Birth city: New York; Birth state: NY. Source Information: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. : 1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth

• New York, Genealogical Records, 1675-1920: New York, Genealogical Records, 1675-1920 about Divertje Cornelis Name: Divertje Cornelis Residence Date: 1672 Residence Place: New York City, New York, New York, United States Source Citation: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1878) - Extracts; Publication Place: New York; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Page Number: 144.: 1 citation provides evidence for Name

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Divertgen Cornelis Name: Divertgen Cornelis Arrival Year: 1634 Arrival Place: New York, New York Source Publication Code: 714 Primary Immigrant: Cornelis, Divertgen Annotation: Contains passenger listings mentioned in Lancour, A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825 (1963), nos. 72-76, 78B, 79, 81-83, 83 note, 85, 87A, 88, 89, 98(1), 100, 102(1A), 104-106, 107A, 110-111, 111 corr., 112-114. Includes index to ship names, place names, and about 10,000 personal names, with variant surname spellings. Tepper, in nos. 9120, 9135, 9143, 9144, and 9151, has similar lists. Source Bibliography: BOYER, CARL, 3RD, editor Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825). Newhall, CA: the editor, 1978. 333p. 4th pr. 1986. Reprint. Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD, 1992. Page: 48 Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.: 1 citation provides evidence for Name, Arrival

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Divertje Cornelis Name: Divertje Cornelis Gender: Female Birth Year: 1603 Spouse Name: Lubbert Gysbert Blarcom Spouse Birth Year: 1600 Marriage Year: 1623 Number Pages: 1 Source Citation: Source number: 390.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: TLB. Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to Gordon Wolfe, Douglas Lockwood, Steven Mix and others for contributions to this profile.

• Thank you to Karen Pelling for creating Cornelis-10 through the import of Peterson.ged on 22 September 2010.

• This person was created on 14 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.

• WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-90690 created through the import of export.ged on Jul 19, 2011 by Chérie Woodlief.