Harmen Bastiaense Visscher (abt. 1619 - abt. 1692)

Born about 1619 in Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Descendants

Died about 1692 at about age 73 in Albany, Albany County, Province of New York

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Biography

"Harmen Bastiansz; appears first in the accounts of the colony [Rensselaerswyck] in 1647, but was in New Netherland as early as Sept. 13, 1639, when with Evert Evertsz Bischip and Sibout Claesz he leased a sawmill on Nooten Island, now Governor's Island. He was a carpenter and with Dirck Jansz [Croon], build a house in Beverwyck on the site of the present National Commercial Bank, which he seems to have occupied from 1650 to 1652 and which on Jan. 25, 1652, was transferred to the name of Dirck Jansz. Feb. 9, 1652, Director van Slichtenhorst promised him indemnity for any loss he might incur by proceeding with the building of his house contrary to the orders of Johannes Dyckman. Harmen Bastiaensz was in 1667 surveyor of Albany; Pearson and other writers refer to him as Harmen Bastiaensz Visser." ^[1]

Birth

Born about 1619 in Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Born about 1625

Death

Died about 1692 in Albany, Albany County, New York, USA

Church records

1. 1652 07 Jul Tjerck, Harmen Sebastiaenszen. Wit.: Willem Frederickszen, Jan Ver Beeck, Geertruydt Nannincks. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and A. J. F. Van Laer. Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts: Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1630-1643, and Other Documents Relating to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1908.
2. ↑ Thomas Grier Evans. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.

• Van Laer, A.J.F. Minutes of the Court of Albany, Rensselaerswyck and Schenectady, 1675-1680. Vol. II. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1928.

• Bielinski, Stefan. "The People of Colonial Albany." nysm.nysed.gov/albany. Accessed July 09, 2015. https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/v/habvisscher4064.html

• NJGS. "Fischer." njgsbc.org. Accessed 08 Jun 2016. http://njgsbc.org/files/BCFamilies/BCFam-Fisher.pdf PDF

• Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed May 23, 2016. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm Harmen Bastianszen

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Visscher-36 created through the import of ReevesFamilyMaster_2012_2012-09-25.ged on Sep 25, 2012 by Keith Reeves.

• Thank you to Al Adams for creating WikiTree profile Visscher-65 through the import of 3206623.ged on Dec 6, 2013.