Notes on Jacob Walingse Van Winkle
AKA Jacob Walichs II. One source gives his immigration date as before 1633, but if you judge by his childrens' birthplaces you can guess he immigrated in 1647 or 1648.
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SOURCE HAS WRITTEN A BOOK ON THE VAN WINKLES
"A GENEALOGY OF THE VAN WINKLE FAMILY 1630-1993
DESCENDANTS OF JACOB WALICHS OF HOLLAND"
SOME RECORDS SHOW HE WAS BORN IN 1617
SOURCE SHOW INFORMATION JACOB WAS BORN ABOUT 1598
AND MARRIED ABOUT 1642.
ANOTHER SOURCE DATES JACOBS BIRTH AT 1600.
ANOTHER SPELLING FOR TRINTJE IS TRYNTJE.
HIS AND TRINTJE'S CHILDREN WERE FIRST TO BE BORN IN AMERICA.
THERE WERE SIX CHILDREN. SIMON IS THE 5 TH CHILD.
SOURCE SHOWS A MIDDLE NAME OF WALLINGSEN FOR JACOB
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JACOB and SYMON WALICHS
1. Jacob Waligh, Walings, Walingen or Walingsen and his brother Symon were
among the very first farmers to permanently locate in New Netherland.Symon's
untimely death cut short this branch of Walicks family, who were residents of the
Village of Winkel in North Holland, located about fifteen miles northwest of Hoorn,
as far back as the beginning of the fourteenth century. Jacob, the progenitor of
the Van Winkle family in New Netherland, was the occupant of one of the six
Company-Bouweries on Manhattan Island started by the Dutch West India Company
in 1624 and continued by the Company in May, 1630, under new management.
An inventory of Jacob's possessions on July 2, 1631, indicates that he had
on his farm six saddle horses, two stallions, six cows, two bulls and twenty-two sheep,
and that he was successful with breeding of cattle. He made a trip to Holland for
the purpose of further stocking his farm, in 1633, in the ship De Soutbergh on its return trip,
after bringing the new Governor, Wouter Van Twiller, to New Netherland in April, 1633.
While at Hoorn he united with the Dutch Church by certificate on December 18,1633.
His stay in Hoorn was short, for in the fall of the next year Jacob Walingsen returned
to New Netherland on De Amsterdam in June, 1635,a little over a year prior to
the expiration of his lease of the Company's-Bouwerie No. 5, During his absence
the bouwerie was managed by Claes Cornelisz Swits. After the expiration of his lease,
Jacob Walinsen entered into a contract with Patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, August 15,1636,
and settled on a farm at Rensselaerswyck. On October 1, 1650, he returned to Manhattan,
although offered the choice of several farms if he would remain in the colony.
"The Twelve Men," the first representative official body within the limits
of New York and New Jersey. This Board was advisory to Governor Kieft
and represented the inhabitants of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Pavoniain the consideration
of the general treatment of the Indians.on the Connecticut River, but, because
of the lack of support of his contemporaries and failure to obtain permission
of the West India Company, owing to fear of Indian attack, the project
was abandoned.October 23, 1654, he secured a grant of land at Pavonia,
now Jersey City,New Jersey, where the family has been continuously represented
for eleven generations. Trintje Jacobs, and six minor children, three girls
and three boys.Michael Jansen Vreeland and Burgomaster Van der Grift
were appointed guardians of the children.
Another source of information:
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Jacob and Symon Walichs were among the early settlers of New Netherlands.
The date is not fixed with any certainty, but the existence of two early maps,
and an inventory list of farm animals from the Killean Van Rensselaer records,
confirms that Jacob arrived prior to 1630. One Van Winkle writer who has researched
early Dutch records has Jacob settled in New Amsterdam from 1624.'
It is also possible that Jacob visited New Netherlands about 161819
s a deckhand on a Dutch vessel but this is unsupported.
The name Walichs is spelled in many different ways in the old records
of the early Dutch and English settlers, sometimes in several ways in
one document. Walings, Walling, Walinghs, Waelingh, Wallens, Waelingen,
Walichsz, Walichs, Walichsen, Wolichs and Walingen were all used.
He was known as Jacob Walingen in Holland, and sometimes
as Jacob van Hoorn in New Amsterdam. He was Jacob Walingen
in Rensselaerwyck. "Walichs" is found in the early records of Holland
and is also the version found in the heraldry book which describes
the Shield which is attributed to the family.
In New Amsterdam, the West India Company established bouweries
and plantations that it leased to its settlers. Private property did not exist
under the Company system at the time and was probably one of the reasons
that Jacob and Symon eventually sought property in what eventually
became New Jersey. Bouweries were large farms that were selfsufficient
in all agricultural needs., including farm animals for food and work.
Plantations were smaller and were dedicated to one or two crops such as corn,
tobacco, or grains that were sold to the company or on the open market.
Jacob and his partner Claes Cornelissen farmed Bouwerie No. 5 from about ?1624
until 1636 when their lease expired and both men left. Claes secured a farm of his own;
he was killed in 1641 by the Indians, as was his son Cornelius in 1655.
Symon's first presence in New Netherland is confirmed only by the records
of the Dutch Church at Hoorn: "December 18, 1633. Have come over with certificate
from other churches to our congregation Symon Walingen of New Netherland,
Jacob Walingen of New Netherland." This would strongly indicate that those accounts
which suggest that Symon did not leave Holland until Jacob made his first return trip
to the old country in 1633, must be considered as wrong. Whether he arrived with Jacob
or at some later date, but before 1633, is unknown.
This document is the only record that establishes a tenuous, and possibly unfounded,
relationship between Jacob and Symon as brothers. The use of the relationship throughout
the rest of this text is based solely on this early record.
Since surnames were not yet in vogue, place names were often applied
to differentiate individuals with the same first names; the surname usually being
the name of the town or village with which they were identified. Jacob is likely to
have emigrated from Winkel by way of the port of Hoorn, while Symon is assumed to
have had some association with the village of de But located near Utrecht.
Jacob and Symon traveled to Holland in 1633 on the ship den Soutbergh
to secure additional cattle for the Company farms under the sponsorship
and financing of Killean Van Rensselaer. As to why tenant farmers should
be selected to return to Holland for such an undertaking is unknown but
it is apparent that each must have had some favor with van Rensselaer
or his agent in New Netherlands
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that warranted this selection. The Patroon's later statements about Symon
and his efforts to keep Jacob at Rensselaerwyck seem to confirm this. Jacob
departed Hoorn on the ship de Konig David (the King David) and arrived back
in New Amsterdam in June 1635. No known record explains this extended
absence but Bouwerie No. 5 was managed by his partner Claes Corelisson during
this penod. Symon is reported to have sailed from Holland on the Rensselaerwyck
on 1 October 1636 and landed at Rensselaerwyck but this conflicts with
a report that he returned the year before with Jacob.
It is certain that Symon is named in the Rensselaenvyck records of 1636.
One theory says that Jacob farmed in New Netherlands at Bouwerie 14 for some time.
The other is that he sailed to Rensselaerwyck in 1635 and then returned
to New Netherlands before January 1639. His presence in New Nelerlands
is confirmed by his court testimony in January 1639 that he was a resident
of New Netherlands and that he was 40 or 41 years old.
He was testifying against the Captain of de Konig David who had attempted to abandon
a passenger in Virginia during the 1635 trip to New Netherlands.
Jacob is mentioned in papers as a part of Governor Kieft's governing council
of" Twelve Men" in Manhattan in August of 1641.
These individuals advised the governor on the general treatment of the Indians.
He may not have been on the council itself as
has been stated by others; there is some dispute, but he could not have
been at Rensselaerwyck, as the other theory contends, at the same time he
was advising Governor Kieft in New Netherlands.
That he occupied Farm 14 is also disputed but there is no other record
of where he was dunng this period.
He and a number of associates petitioned The Dutch West India Company in 1649
to lead an expedition to settle lands along the Fresh
(Connecticut) River. It was denied and a demonstration was held by some residents
of New Netherlands on July 28, 1649.2 Whether Jacob was in New Netherlands
or in Rensselaerwyck at this time is not known.
He was reported in Rensselaenvyck on 12 May 1650. It has been established that
1 October 1650 is the time that he left Rennselaerwyck.
The Patroon offered him inducements to remain there
but Jacob insisted on returning to New Netherlands.
No reasons are recorded for his wanting to return.
He secured a patent for land in Pavonia near Communipaw,
not far distant from where Symon was killed.
It would appear likely that since Jacob and Claes had the farm together that they
were unmarried at the time. In Claes' case this does not hold true at least after 1630,
and probably from his first arrival, since his son Cornelius who secured his own patent
in 1645 had to have attained his majonty by then. Claes probably left a wife and
at least the one son in Holland, and sent for them about the time he leased his own farm.
Nothing is currently known about Trintje before her marriage. Her date of birth
is assumed based on several factors: the minority of all six children at Jacob's death
in 1657 and for whom the Court appointed guardians to protect their rights, the marriage
of their daughter Marritje in 1663, the birth of their last child in 1656, and the birth
of additional children to Tnintje on her subsequent marriages, makes
it likely that she was born about 1620.
The date and place of their marriage is unknown. Three dates are suggested.
While it seems very likely that Trintje was, in fact, considerably younger than Jacob,
and providing that her presumed birth date holds true, she would have been 13
or 14 for a sometimes suggested marrage in 1634, an
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age which was not common among the Dutch. He was in Holland during this period.
A date of 1640 is also suggested and this marriage would likely have taken place
in New Netherlands since he was known to be there in 1641.
There is no reported record that she was already in New Netherlands, but neither is
there any ship record indicating her travel from Holland either as a single female
or as Jacob's wife at any time.
Again, the record becomes unclear and sometimes confusing. Jacob is generally presumed
to have made another trip to Holland about 1642. He likely marned soon after his arrival,
and that he remained there long enough for their first two and possibly three children to
be born in Holland. There is no support or known reason for Jacob's remaining in Holland
for this long a penod, especially if he was still in employment or favor with
Patroon van Rensselaerwyck.
This marriage date is not otherwise unreasonable for either Holland or New Netherlands.
Their fourth child Jacob was born in New Albany; that is certain.
Assuming that the children were born in a sequence of twenty four
to thirty months based on the last three, the year 1642 as a mamage date is quite possible
while leaving unresolved the birth locations of the first several children.
Jacob Walichs was living on April 17,1657, when he was confirmed in his rghts as a small burgher.
He died within four months at Pavonia, New Netherlands (now Jersey City, New Jersey).
Following his return to the colony in either 1635 or 1636, Symon settled at Rensselaerwyck.
In October 1636, Van Rensselaer wrote "..these two farmers who have been very helpful to me,
namely Cornelius Maessen and Symon Walichs, you will give a fair choice of the men who are coming.
"He was mentioned for release from tithes for the years 1640 through 1642.
Symon maintained a farm on Papscanee Island until May 1647. Sometime after May 1647,
he moved to the Pavonia Patent where he was killed by an Indian outside his home at
Paulus Hook, Pavonia Patent (New Jersey) in 1649 where he probably had a farm.
At his death, Symon's name was recorded as Symon Vant Bilt (van der Bilt).
Proof of Jacob Walichs' early presence in New Netherland is shown by the church record
at Hoorn in 1633. The earliest record comes from Killean Van Rensselaer's inventory of
the farm animals in New Netherland in May 1630 and signed by the Patroon in Holland
on 2 July 1631. It lists by farm and by name each tenant who had mares, stallions, cows,
bulls and sheep and what the disposition of the animals between the Company and the tenant
was to be. It is this document that identifies Jacob Walichs as a tenant on Bouwene No. 5.
A map dated 1639 by Joan (Johann, Johannes) Vingboom is the document that shows
the location of the Company farms and other structures and landmarks
of New Amsterdam and environs. It leaves out certain landmarks known in 1639,
but it does show the bouweries leased from the West India Company
on Manhattan Island including Bouwene No. 5 which,
according to the Killean Van Rensselaer papers dated 1631,
was occupied by Jacob Walich and Claes Cornelissen, and which they held
until the lease expired. The Vingboom map shows that this farm is vacant in 1639.
Early family history in Holland is taken from material wntten by Daniel Van Winkle
in the 1913 Van Winkle genealogy.
"Among the early inhabitants of the village of "Winkel" we find the family of Walich. They were
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land owners of considerable extent, for in 1326 the cities and villages of Drechterland were
ordered to erect a Dyke "from Wervershoef to Walichsdyke and thence to Sterlock."
As the sections of the Dykes were designated under the names of the owners of the lands
they bounded, the Walich land was at least in part limited by the Dyke called Walichsdyke.
"Unfortunately it has not been possible to secure a continuous record, and we are obliged
to rely on fragmentary data for the scant information here given. But few records from the
above date to 1610 have been found. At this latter date it is recorded that the church
at "Winkel" had for several successive years rented out, with other parcels of land,
"Peter Walig's verge near the Hoop. "This indicates that previous to the above date the
church had acquired, or received the tract of land in question from Peter Walig; as it was
the custom to enter upon the church records such property as it possessed under the name
of the previous owner.
"The names Waligs, Walichs, Walinghs, and Walighs appear interchangeably in the records
at "Winkel" seemingly according to the whim of the transcnber. In 1610 a lease of land
to Dirck Walighs was recorded and in 1613 one to Jan Dircks Walighs, the son of
the above mentioned Dirck.
"In 1611 there appears in the "Schellings book" at "Winkel" so called because taxation was
fixed on the basis of one shilling to every four hundred guilders worth of property, and this
book contained the names of all taxable inhabitants the names of "Tryn Jans Waligs"
(widow of Jacob Waligs) and "Pieter Jan Waligs, her son." In 1614 among the house owners
registered at "Winkel" is the name of Lysbet Jan Waligs, as owner of a house and lot situated
on the heights in the west end of Winkel.
"February 4, 1614, Jan Symons, as a sister's child and heir of the old Jacob Walichs, w
ho dwelt in his lifetime at "de Watering skant" (the side of the Canal) in the district of Niedorp,
and also in the the name of the other heirs of the said Jacob Walichs authorizes Dirck Boot,
lawyer at the court of Holland, in order to open at the said court, a lawsuit against Pieter Walich,
Claes Walich and Jacob Walich, "cum socijs," halfbrothers, and also against Tryn Willems,
the widowof the old Jacob aforesaid, &c. This evidently a transcript of Partition proceedings
of a friendly nature to dtermine and distnbutecertain property inherited from old Jacob Waligh
until this time held in common.
"Malch 9, 1621, Lysbeth declares before the judges and orphan fathers at Winkel 'that the
forepart of the house in which she dwells with her next named children, is the property
of her four children, viz., Walich Dirck Walich, Ian Dircks Walich, Dirck Dircks Walich
and Maritgen Dircks Walich, who paid for it with their own money that they received
from their uncle, Jacob Walich. The lower part of the property of Cornelis Pieters,
the brotherinlaw of her deceased husband. "While these memoranda are without
satisfactory definite data, it is evident the Walich family were residents of "Winkel"
in the 14th and 17th centunes, which fact fully explains and verifies the ongin of
the name "Van Winkle" according to the system of nomenclature in vogue at that time.
The Early Generations
1. Pieter Walichs
2. Jan Pieter Walichs
3. Pieter Jan Walichs
4. Jacob Walich married Tryn Willems
Pieter Walichs
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Claes Walichs
Jacob Walichs married Trintje Jacobs
5. Dirck Walichs married Lysbet
Walich D Walichs
Jan D Walichs
Dirck D Walichs
Maritje D Walichs
1.Van Winkle, Edward, Manhattan 1624 - 1679, pg 7.
2.Van Winkle,Edward, Personal papers. 3. Van Winkle, Daniel, A Geneology of the Van Winkle Family, 1913,1921.
Winkel, a village in the province of North Holland about 25 miles northwest of Hoorne. (83:248) He may have visited New Netherlands, now the Northeast coast of the United States, about 1618 as a deckhand on a Dutch vessel. He settled in New
Amsterdam (on the island of Manhatten) in c1624. (83:248) He and his partner, Claes Cornelissen, farmed until 1636 when their lease expired. Jacob and Symon, a brother or cousin, traveled to Holland in 1633 on the ship "den Soutbergh" to secure
cattle for the company.(for details on Symon see 83:248) He must have been a sailor for he spent many years on ships and was very well traveled between Holland and America.(83:248) Jacob arrived back in New Amsterdam in June 1635. He is mentioned
in papers as part of Govenor Kieft's governing Council of "Twelve Men" in Manhatten in Aug 1641. In 1641 he returned to Holland and on ? c1642 he married TRYNTJE "CATHERINE" JACOBS, daughter of JACOB ?? and ??. .(83:1/245,248) She was born
c1621.(83:1/245) They had 6 children: (83:1/245-249)
Dates:B.1598 D.1667
info:from Clark M.Leonard
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