Pieter Van Alen (abt. 1634 - 1674)

Born about 1634 in Oldenzaal, Overijssel, Netherlands [uncertain]

Descendants

Died Jan 1674 at about age 40 in Albany or Kinderhook, New York

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Biography

Pieter van Alen (a.k.a. Van Allen, van Aalen and other variant spellings) is said to have been born in Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1633,^[1] but the suggestion that he was born in Utrecht may result from confusion with another man of similar name ( Pieter van Halen). Innes Getty identified him as a brother of Laurens van Alen and son of Johannes van Alen and Catharina van Meirborch, suggesting that he was baptized in Oldenzaal, Overijssel in the Netherlands between about 1634 and 1640. However, Getty noted that there was only circumstantial evidence that New Netherland settlers Laurens and Pieter van Alen were brothers.^[2]

He emigrated to New Netherland, where he was recorded in Beverywyck (now Albany, New York) in 1660.^[1] Another New Netherland settler by the name of Pieter van Halen arrived in New Netherland at about the same time and was active at Wildwyck (Kingston). Evidence that these are two different men and not the same person is found in a 1662 Kingston (New York) record of Pieter van Halen acknowledging a debt to Pieter van Alen.^[3]

Pieter Van Alen was married to Maria Teller at Beverwyck in 1666. She died a few years after the marriage and he married Maria Loockermans as his next wife in 1670. ^[4]

Pieter Van Allen died in January 1674.^[1]

After Pieter Van Alen's death, his widow used the name Maria Lookermans when she petitioned the courts to pursue her husband's debtors.^[5]

Research Notes

From the Van Allen Family Register courtesy of the Albany County Historical Association:^[6]

"His occupation was that of trader with Indians and he resided in Beverwyck. His father’s name was Pieter Laurensee Van Alen b. 1628 His mother’s name was Josina Dingman"

Pieter Van Allen was a trader and tailor at Beverwyck, 1658-74. Died in January 1674, and two years later his farm in Kinderhook was sold to Harnan Janse.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Bielinski, biography of Pieter Van Allen.
2. ↑ Getty, page 5.
3. ↑ The Dutch Records of Kingston, Book 1. Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. XI, 1912. pages 24-25.
4. ↑ Frijhoff, p. 37. Some other researchers identify Maria Teller as the wife of Pieter Van Alen who survived at his death and later married Gerrit Van Ness, but Frijhoff determined that Maria Teller died just a few years after her marriage, and that Van Alen married Maria Loockermans as his next wife in 1670.
5. ↑ Bielinski, biography of Maria Teller V. A. Van Ness
6. ↑ Family History: "Van Allen Family Register" Repository: New York Heritage Digital Collections URL: [1] Accessed: 18 Apr 2024. Page 53.
7. ↑ Book: Joel Munsell, Collections on the History of Albany: From Its Discovery to the Present Time ; with Notices of Its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased
   United States: J. Munsell, 1871, page 174
   Google Books (accessed 18 April 2024)

• Bielinski, Stefan. Pieter Van Allen. The People of Colonial Albany. New York State Museum. Revised March 30, 2014.
• Bielinski, Stefan. Maria Teller V. A. Van Ness. The People of Colonial Albany. New York State Museum. June 20, 2004.
• Bielinski, Stefan. Gerrit Van Ness. The People of Colonial Albany. New York State Museum. October 26, 2010.
• Frijhoff, Willem. Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) and His Relatives: How an Adolescent from Turnhout Worked His Way up in the New World. Translation of article "Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld," published in Taxandria, Jaarboek van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van de Antwerpse Kempen, LXXXII (2011), 5-68. Published at [2] (Internet archive version) by New Netherland Institute; retrieved 29 November 2014. 52 pages. Revised version, dated 7 January 2016, was accessed on the New Netherland website on 3 May 2016.
• Getty, Innes (from manuscript by Harry Van Alen). "The Van Alen Family in America," first installment. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record v. 81, January 1950, pp. 4-17.

Acknowledgments

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