Captain Adriaen Crijnen Post

New Amsterdam Immigrant

• about - Adriaen Post

The Post Family© by Lorine McGinnis Schulze 1998

The Dutch word for seagull is “pos” and this seems to have been the correct way of recording the surname of the Post family. My 9th great-grandfather, Adriaen Crijnen (possibly Quirijnen), Post was most likely from The Hague, Netherlands. He and his wife Clara or Claartje Moockers, resided in Brazil in the West India Company’s colony. Adriaen’s daughter Maria (my 8th great-grandmother) was baptised in Recife Brazil in June 1649. By the time Brazil fell to the Portuguese in 1654, the family had left for the Netherlands. On 30 June 1650 the ship “New Netherland’s Fortune” sailed, arriving in New Netherland on 19 December 1650.

Adriaen and his family were on Staten Island by 1655. Adriaen was a representative of Baron Hendrick van der Capellen, the owner of one-third of Staten Island. As the superintendent of a group of twenty people who were to farm Staten Island, Adriaen set up a colony which flourished

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In the summer of 1655 the Peach Tree War began over Hendrick Van Dyke’s shooting of a Native woman stealing peaches from his trees in his orchard in Manhatten. As a result, the settlements on the lower Hudson River and around New York were destroyed by Iroquois attackers. On 15 Sept. 1655, the colony on Staten Island was burned to the ground by the Natives from Hackensack. Twenty-three people were killed and sixty-seven taken prisoner, among them Adrien, his wife, five children, and two servants. [Lorine%E2%80%99s note: Although this statement about 5 children was taken from Christoph’s book, I have not been able to find 5 children born to Adriaen and Clara before 1655. My research indicates Maria, Lysbet and possibly Adriaen were born pre 1655. Can any reader help me solve this puzzle of the two missing children who had to be born BEFORE 1655!!]

In Oct. 1655, Adriaen was released by the Hackensack chief Penneckeck to bargain with Petrus Stuyvessant for the release of prisoners. Adriaen made the journey between Manhattan and the Native headquarters at Paulus Hook, New Jersey several times before an agreement was reached. Fifty-six captives were released in exchange for powder, lead, guns, blankets and wampum. Among those freed were Adrian’s wife and children.

Returning to Staten Island Adrian was ordered by Van der Capellan to gather survivors and erect a fort. Trying to keep the group fed, he found a few cattle that the Natives had overlooked roaming in the woods That winter Adrian and his family camped in the company of some soldiers in the burnt-out settlement. They butchered some of the cattle they had found and obtained milk from others. Stuyvessant recommended to Post that he and “his people” and cattle move to the stockade on Long Island but Adrian stayed. By Spring of 1656 Adrian was ill and unable to perform his duties, so Clara Moockers Post requested that someone else be appointed as van der Capellen’s agent. In April of 1656 Clara petitioned Stuyvessant asking that the soldiers be allowed to stay, but Stuyvessant decided that since there were only 6 or 7 people on the island, a garrison was not required and they should all move to Long Island.20

Adrian regained his health and between 1657 and 1663 he had three children baptized at the Reformed Church. He was in the New Amsterdam courts often, being sued by creditors of Van Der Cappellen. He eventually left Staten Island and settled on the mainland of present-day Bergen, New Jersey. Fourteen original settlers of the Haqueaqununck [Acquackononk] Tract were

Hans DIEDERICKS,

Garret GARRETSEN,

Walling JACOBS,

Elias MICHIELSEN,

Hartman MICHIELSEN,

Johannes MICHEALSEN,

Adriaan POST,

Urah TOMASEN,

Cornelis ROELOFSEN,

Symon JACOBS,

John Hendrick SPEARE,

Cornelis LUBBERS,

Abraham BOOKEY, taking possession in 1683.

On 22 November, 1665, he took the oath of allegiance to the King as an ensign in the Bergen Burgher Guard. In May 1666 New Jersey governor Philip Carterett asked Adrian to be the interpreter at a meeting with the sachem Oraton to discuss a proposed land purchase. In May 1671 he served on a jury at an Admiralty court at Elizabethtown. On 7 June 1673 Adrian was elected one of Bergen’s two representatives to the New Jersey General Assembly. In 1675 he was made a Lieutenant in the Bergen Militia. He died and was buried 18 Feb. 1677 in the village of Bergen NJ.

In March 28 of 1679 “Captahem PEETERS, the Native Sachem and Chief, in the prescence and by the aprobation of Memiseraen, Midnenas, Ghonnajea, Natives and Sachems of said Country, and in consideration of a certain parcel of Coates, Blanketts, kettles, Poweder, and other goodes” conveyed the Tract known by the name of Haquequenunk unto Hans DIEDERICKS, Garret GAREETSEN, Waling JACOBS and Hendrick GEORGE.

From “The Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 to 1674” edited by Berthold Fernow:

1660: Barent Cruytdop, pltf vs Capt. Post, deft. Pltf demands from deft. fl 29.7 in Zeawant. Deft. admits the debt and says he never spoke to him about it til now. The W. court order deft. to pay the pltf. in six weeks.

1660: Barent Cruytdop, arrestant and pltf vs Capt. Post, arrested and deft. Defts 2nd default. pltf sues out the arrest issued against the deft. The court declare the arrest valid.

1661: Capt. Post, pltf vs Severyn Louwerens, deft. Pltf. demands from deft. 41 guilders, 5 stivers according to a/c. Deft’s wife coming forward produces an offset a/c and besides this some claim. Burgomasters and Schepens refer the matter in question to Thomas Hal and Frederick Lubbersen to hear parties, examine, and decide their affair and if possible reconcile them; if not to report their decision to the Court

1662: Tryntje van Hengelen, pltf vs Capt. Post deft. Deft. in default

1662: Tryntje van Hengelen, pltf vs Adriaen Post, deft. Pltf, pursuant to the decision of the arbitrators in the case, which she had before this W. Court against Post, places in the hands of the W. Court the judgement of the arbitrators for the sum of fl. 14:10. Deft. says the costs are not with it; was ordered also to pay the costs, which he obeys. Pltf demands from deft, in writing, the value of half an ox and cow, which he keeps from her, together with indemnity for damage to her grain according to valuation and estimate of the W. Court. Deft. demands copy of the demand. The W. Court order copy of the demand to be furnished to party thereunto to answer by the next Court day.

Tuesday 14 March 1662: Tryntie Van Hengelen, pltf vs Adriaan Post, deft. Deft in default. Pltf requests that the deft. shall be ordered to answer the demand entered against him on 28 Feb. last. The W. Court orders Adriaan Post to answer on the next Court day the demand, which Tryntje van hengelen has instituted against him.

1662: Adriaan Post answers the demand of Tryntje van Hengelen. The W. Court order copy to be furnished to partyto reply thereunto at the next court day.

1662: Tryntje van Hengelen, pltf vs Adriaan Post deft. Deft. in default

1662: Tryntje van Hengelen, pltf vs Adriaan Post, deft. Whereas parties dealy their suit entered against each other in writing before this W. Court, they were ordered to prosecute the same.

Tuesday 11 Dec. 1663 in the City Hall: Schepen Jacob Kip, arrestant and pltf vs Adriaan Post, arrested and deft. Pltf demands from deft. a balance according to a/c of 15 guilders in corn, and further as attorney of Albert Cornelis Wantenaar, the sume of 8 and 40 guilders 14 and a half stivers in seawant, demanding that the attachment shall stand good until he sahll have paid him, with the interest of the demanded 15 guilders. Deft. admits the debt, promising to pay within the time of two or three weeks the 15 and 8 and 40 guilders and 14 and ahlf stivers. The W. Court condemn the deft. to satisfy and pay the pltf the sum demanded in his individual capacity and in his quality as attorney; declaring meanwhile the attachment so long valid.

Baptisms from the Doopregister Hollanders in Brazilie 1633-1654

1649 6 June;Ouders [Parents]: Adriaen Crijnen Post en Clara Moocerks; Maria; Get [Sponsors]: Jan Gerretsen, Brecht Champers

1649 1 Aug: Ouders:Christiaen Janss en Janneken Christiaenss. Johannes. Get: Adriaen Post, yoe Ypessen, Rudolphina Carons

Baptisms from the Reformed Dutch Church, NY, NY:

1657 6 Jun; Capt. Adriaen Post; Margarita; Pieter Tenneman, Cornelia Van Buuren

1659 17 Mar; Adriaen Post-Capt.; Francoys; Dirck Van Scheluynen, Jannetje Steynmutsen

1660 29 Dec; Jan Lubbertszen, Magdaleentie; Marritie; Harmen Smeeman, Hans, Claertje Post

1663 21 Aug; Adriaen Post, Clara; Geertruyd; Nicolaes Booth, Fytie Michiels

1670 31 Jan; Jan Lubbertszen, Magdaleentie Jans; Dievertie; Adriaen Post, Maria Post

1675 2 Jun; Jurgie Thomaszen, Grietie Harmens; Jan; Adriaen Post, Catharina Michiels

Children of Adriaen Post and Claartje Moockers are:

+ 2 i. Maria 21 Post, baptised June 6, 1649 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, SA.

3 ii. Lysbeth Post, born Abt 1654.

+ 4 iii. Margarita Post, baptised June 6, 16572 in New Amsterdam, NY.

+ 5 iv. Francoys Post, baptised March 17, 1658/592.

+ 6 v. Adrian Post, baptism not found, died Bef June 1689 in Bergen NJ.

7 vi. Geertruyd Post, baptised August 21, 16632.

8 vii. Lysbeth Post, born Abt 1668.

Generation No. 2

2. Maria 2 Post (Adriaen Crijnen1) was born June 6, 1649 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, SA. She married (1) Jan Albertsen Bradt Abt 1674 in New Amsterdam, NY, USA, son of Albert de Noorman and Annatie Van Rottmer. She married (2) Eduwart Carbert November 26, 1699 in Albany NY USA.

Children of Maria Post and Jan Bradt are:

9 i. Adriaen3 Bradt, born 1674.

10 ii. Antje Bradt, born Abt 1677. She married Danilel Wilkenson 1696.

11 iii. Claartje Janse Bradt, born Abt 1678 in NY, USA. She married Cornelis Van Slyke22 February 10, 1695/96 in Schenectady, NY.

12 iv. Rebecca Bradt, born Abt 1682. She married (1) Claes Burger 1700 in NY, USA. She married (2) John Collinson 1703.

13 v. Johannes Bradt, born February 3, 1683/84.

14 vi. Andries Bradt, born January 10, 1685/86. He married Wyntie Rosa 1708.

15 vii. Pieter Bradt, born January 10, 1685/86; died 1687-1689.

16 viii. Barent Bradt, born September 11, 1687.

17 ix. Pieter Bradt, born November 11, 1688. He married Christina Bowman 1716.

18 x. Storm Bradt, born January 12, 1689/90 in Albany NY USA. He married Sophia Uziele February 2, 1711/12 in Kingston, NY3 [Lorine%E2%80%99s line].

4. Margarita2 Post (Adriaen Crijnen1) was born June 6, 1657 in New Amsterdam, NY4. She married Johannes De Hooges December 4, 1675 in Kingston NY, son of Anthony de Hooges and Aefje Bradt.

Adrian Post was the pioneer of this family, and he arrived in this country from the Hague, Holland, in 1650, and settled in Communipaw. (Staten Island) He was very prominent in public affairs in Staten Island till 1655 and then settled in New Jersey. He was elected ensign of the first militia company, under Captain Caspar Steynmets. His son Adrian married, in 1677, Catrintje Gerrits, daughter of Gerrit Gerritsen Van Wagenen. The other sons went out to Acquackanonck (NJ) and the numerous families of that name in Bergen and Passaic Counties are descended from these. The Post homestead site on the shores of New York Bay is still occupied as a home, in which, until very recent years, resided a lineal descendant of one of Bergen's First Settlers." Adriaen and Claartje resided in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, SA, one of the West India Company's colonies. By the time Brazil fell to the Portuguese in 1654, the family had already left for the Netherlands. On June 30, 1650, the ship "New Netherlands Fortune" sailed, arriving in New Netherland (New York) on December 19, 1650. Adriaen and his family were on Staten Island bt 1655. Adriaen was a representative of Baron Hendrick van der Capellen, the owner of one-third of Staten Island.

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Jan Albertse Bradt, married Maria Post who was baptized in 1649 in Recife, Brazil. Maria's parents Adriaen Crijnen Post and Claretje Moockers were from the Hague, Netherlands and lived for a while in the West India Company's colony in Recife, Brazil. The family sailed for the colony of New Netherland on 30 June 1650. Captain Post led a group in settling the successful colony on Staten Island as he had cultivated friendly relations with the Indians there. The colony was attacked and burned by Hackensack Indians on 15 Sep 1655 as a result of the Peach Tree War. Among the sixty-seven prisoners were Adriaen, Claartje, their five children (Adrian, Maria, Lysbeth, and two unknown children), and two servants of the Post family. Chief Penneckeck sent Adriaen to bargain with Peter Stuyvesant for the prisoners’ release that October. Adriaen traveled to and from Manhattan and the Natives’ base at Paulus Hook, New Jersey several times before a negotiation was made. Many of the prisoners, including Claartje and the children, were exchanged for ammunition, wampum, and blankets. By van der Capellen’s orders, Adriaen and the other survivors returned to Staten Island to build a fort. He gathered the cattle that had survived the attack, butchering some and using others for milk, in an effort to feed his group. By the next spring, Adriaen was too ill to perform his duties. Claartje asked that someone else be appointed agent to van der Capellen and, in April, she petitioned Stuyvesant to keep soldiers on the island. Stuyvesant decided against it since there were so few people there. When Van der Capellen heard of the great havoc made by the Indians in his colony, he instructed Captain Post to gather together the survivors and to erect a fort on the Island and also to keep the people provisioned. This, however, was impracticable, as the Captain with his starving family during the ensuing winter were obliged tocamp out under the bleak sky without any protection or means of defense. The authorities recognized the insurmountable difficulties in the way of protecting the colony, and decided to withdraw the soldiers and abandon him to his fate unless he would remove with his people and his patron’s cattle to Long Island. (N.Y. Col. Doc.,XIII, 60-1.) The creditors of Van der Capelle, seeing the desperate condition of the colony, he began to harass Post for the payment of the Baron’s debts, and suit was brought by Jacob Schellinger and others against him as agent for the Baron for payment of a note; and Janneke Melyn claimed as hers some of the few cattle still in Post’s possession. The attempt at colonizing Staten Island by individual enterprise having failed, the Island was purchased by the West India Company, to whom nineteen persons presented a petition, August 22, 1661, for tracts of land on the south side, in order to establish a village, which was allowed by the Company, Captain Post being one of the grantees. (N.Y. Col. Docs.,XIII., 206) It is probable, however, that he did not avail himself of the grant, but removed to Bergen (now Jersey City, N.J.) about this time, if, indeed, he was not already a resident there. In 1662, he was one of petitioners to have a clergyman settled at Bergen, and promised to contribute twenty florins therefore yearly. (N.Y. Col Docs MSS XIII, 233.) The family later moved to what is now Bergen, New Jersey, becoming some of the first settlers of the Acquackononk Tract. Adriaen remained active in public life. As an ensign in the Bergen Burgher Guard, he took an oath of allegiance on 22 November 1665. Philip Carteret, the governor of New Jersey, requested Adriaen as an interpreter in a meeting to purchase land from the sachem, Oraton, in May 1666. Adriaen also served on jury at the Admiralty Court at Elizabethtown in May 1671, was elected as a representative of Bergen to the New Jersey General Assembly on 7 June 1673, and became a Lieutenant in Bergen’s militia in 1675. Adriaen was buried 18 February 1677 in Bergen, Hudson, New Jersey.

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Jan Albertse Bradt, married Maria Post who was baptized in 1649 in Recife, Brazil. Maria's parents Adriaen Crijnen Post and Claretje Moockers were from the Hague, Netherlands and lived for a while in the West India Company's colony in Recife, Brazil. The family sailed for the colony of New Netherland on 30 June 1650. Captain Post led a group in settling the successful colony on Staten Island as he had cultivated friendly relations with the Indians there. The colony was attacked and burned by Hackensack Indians on 15 Sep 1655 as a result of the Peach Tree War. Among the sixty-seven prisoners were Adriaen, Claartje, their five children (Adrian, Maria, Lysbeth, and two unknown children), and two servants of the Post family. Chief Penneckeck sent Adriaen to bargain with Peter Stuyvesant for the prisoners’ release that October. Adriaen traveled to and from Manhattan and the Natives’ base at Paulus Hook, New Jersey several times before a negotiation was made. Many of the prisoners, including Claartje and the children, were exchanged for ammunition, wampum, and blankets. By van der Capellen’s orders, Adriaen and the other survivors returned to Staten Island to build a fort. He gathered the cattle that had survived the attack, butchering some and using others for milk, in an effort to feed his group. By the next spring, Adriaen was too ill to perform his duties. Claartje asked that someone else be appointed agent to van der Capellen and, in April, she petitioned Stuyvesant to keep soldiers on the island. Stuyvesant decided against it since there were so few people there. When Van der Capellen heard of the great havoc made by the Indians in his colony, he instructed Captain Post to gather together the survivors and to erect a fort on the Island and also to keep the people provisioned. This, however, was impracticable, as the Captain with his starving family during the ensuing winter were obliged tocamp out under the bleak sky without any protection or means of defense. The authorities recognized the insurmountable difficulties in the way of protecting the colony, and decided to withdraw the soldiers and abandon him to his fate unless he would remove with his people and his patron’s cattle to Long Island. (N.Y. Col. Doc.,XIII, 60-1.) The creditors of Van der Capelle, seeing the desperate condition of the colony, he began to harass Post for the payment of the Baron’s debts, and suit was brought by Jacob Schellinger and others against him as agent for the Baron for payment of a note; and Janneke Melyn claimed as hers some of the few cattle still in Post’s possession. The attempt at colonizing Staten Island by individual enterprise having failed, the Island was purchased by the West India Company, to whom nineteen persons presented a petition, August 22, 1661, for tracts of land on the south side, in order to establish a village, which was allowed by the Company, Captain Post being one of the grantees. (N.Y. Col. Docs.,XIII., 206) It is probable, however, that he did not avail himself of the grant, but removed to Bergen (now Jersey City, N.J.) about this time, if, indeed, he was not already a resident there. In 1662, he was one of petitioners to have a clergyman settled at Bergen, and promised to contribute twenty florins therefore yearly. (N.Y. Col Docs MSS XIII, 233.) The family later moved to what is now Bergen, New Jersey, becoming some of the first settlers of the Acquackononk Tract. Adriaen remained active in public life. As an ensign in the Bergen Burgher Guard, he took an oath of allegiance on 22 November 1665. Philip Carteret, the governor of New Jersey, requested Adriaen as an interpreter in a meeting to purchase land from the sachem, Oraton, in May 1666. Adriaen also served on jury at the Admiralty Court at Elizabethtown in May 1671, was elected as a representative of Bergen to the New Jersey General Assembly on 7 June 1673, and became a Lieutenant in Bergen’s militia in 1675. Adriaen was buried 18 February 1677 in Bergen, Hudson, New Jersey.

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Jan Albertse Bradt, married Maria Post who was baptized in 1649 in Recife, Brazil. Maria's parents Adriaen Crijnen Post and Claretje Moockers were from the Hague, Netherlands and lived for a while in the West India Company's colony in Recife, Brazil. The family sailed for the colony of New Netherland on 30 June 1650. Captain Post led a group in settling the successful colony on Staten Island as he had cultivated friendly relations with the Indians there. The colony was attacked and burned by Hackensack Indians on 15 Sep 1655 as a result of the Peach Tree War. Among the sixty-seven prisoners were Adriaen, Claartje, their five children (Adrian, Maria, Lysbeth, and two unknown children), and two servants of the Post family. Chief Penneckeck sent Adriaen to bargain with Peter Stuyvesant for the prisoners’ release that October. Adriaen traveled to and from Manhattan and the Natives’ base at Paulus Hook, New Jersey several times before a negotiation was made. Many of the prisoners, including Claartje and the children, were exchanged for ammunition, wampum, and blankets. By van der Capellen’s orders, Adriaen and the other survivors returned to Staten Island to build a fort. He gathered the cattle that had survived the attack, butchering some and using others for milk, in an effort to feed his group. By the next spring, Adriaen was too ill to perform his duties. Claartje asked that someone else be appointed agent to van der Capellen and, in April, she petitioned Stuyvesant to keep soldiers on the island. Stuyvesant decided against it since there were so few people there. When Van der Capellen heard of the great havoc made by the Indians in his colony, he instructed Captain Post to gather together the survivors and to erect a fort on the Island and also to keep the people provisioned. This, however, was impracticable, as the Captain with his starving family during the ensuing winter were obliged tocamp out under the bleak sky without any protection or means of defense. The authorities recognized the insurmountable difficulties in the way of protecting the colony, and decided to withdraw the soldiers and abandon him to his fate unless he would remove with his people and his patron’s cattle to Long Island. (N.Y. Col. Doc.,XIII, 60-1.) The creditors of Van der Capelle, seeing the desperate condition of the colony, he began to harass Post for the payment of the Baron’s debts, and suit was brought by Jacob Schellinger and others against him as agent for the Baron for payment of a note; and Janneke Melyn claimed as hers some of the few cattle still in Post’s possession. The attempt at colonizing Staten Island by individual enterprise having failed, the Island was purchased by the West India Company, to whom nineteen persons presented a petition, August 22, 1661, for tracts of land on the south side, in order to establish a village, which was allowed by the Company, Captain Post being one of the grantees. (N.Y. Col. Docs.,XIII., 206) It is probable, however, that he did not avail himself of the grant, but removed to Bergen (now Jersey City, N.J.) about this time, if, indeed, he was not already a resident there. In 1662, he was one of petitioners to have a clergyman settled at Bergen, and promised to contribute twenty florins therefore yearly. (N.Y. Col Docs MSS XIII, 233.) The family later moved to what is now Bergen, New Jersey, becoming some of the first settlers of the Acquackononk Tract. Adriaen remained active in public life. As an ensign in the Bergen Burgher Guard, he took an oath of allegiance on 22 November 1665. Philip Carteret, the governor of New Jersey, requested Adriaen as an interpreter in a meeting to purchase land from the sachem, Oraton, in May 1666. Adriaen also served on jury at the Admiralty Court at Elizabethtown in May 1671, was elected as a representative of Bergen to the New Jersey General Assembly on 7 June 1673, and became a Lieutenant in Bergen’s militia in 1675. Adriaen was buried 18 February 1677 in Bergen, Hudson, New Jersey.

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Jan Albertse Bradt, married Maria Post who was baptized in 1649 in Recife, Brazil. Maria's parents Adriaen Crijnen Post and Claretje Moockers were from the Hague, Netherlands and lived for a while in the West India Company's colony in Recife, Brazil. The family sailed for the colony of New Netherland on 30 June 1650. Captain Post led a group in settling the successful colony on Staten Island as he had cultivated friendly relations with the Indians there. The colony was attacked and burned by Hackensack Indians on 15 Sep 1655 as a result of the Peach Tree War. Among the sixty-seven prisoners were Adriaen, Claartje, their five children (Adrian, Maria, Lysbeth, and two unknown children), and two servants of the Post family. Chief Penneckeck sent Adriaen to bargain with Peter Stuyvesant for the prisoners’ release that October. Adriaen traveled to and from Manhattan and the Natives’ base at Paulus Hook, New Jersey several times before a negotiation was made. Many of the prisoners, including Claartje and the children, were exchanged for ammunition, wampum, and blankets. By van der Capellen’s orders, Adriaen and the other survivors returned to Staten Island to build a fort. He gathered the cattle that had survived the attack, butchering some and using others for milk, in an effort to feed his group. By the next spring, Adriaen was too ill to perform his duties. Claartje asked that someone else be appointed agent to van der Capellen and, in April, she petitioned Stuyvesant to keep soldiers on the island. Stuyvesant decided against it since there were so few people there. When Van der Capellen heard of the great havoc made by the Indians in his colony, he instructed Captain Post to gather together the survivors and to erect a fort on the Island and also to keep the people provisioned. This, however, was impracticable, as the Captain with his starving family during the ensuing winter were obliged tocamp out under the bleak sky without any protection or means of defense. The authorities recognized the insurmountable difficulties in the way of protecting the colony, and decided to withdraw the soldiers and abandon him to his fate unless he would remove with his people and his patron’s cattle to Long Island. (N.Y. Col. Doc.,XIII, 60-1.) The creditors of Van der Capelle, seeing the desperate condition of the colony, he began to harass Post for the payment of the Baron’s debts, and suit was brought by Jacob Schellinger and others against him as agent for the Baron for payment of a note; and Janneke Melyn claimed as hers some of the few cattle still in Post’s possession. The attempt at colonizing Staten Island by individual enterprise having failed, the Island was purchased by the West India Company, to whom nineteen persons presented a petition, August 22, 1661, for tracts of land on the south side, in order to establish a village, which was allowed by the Company, Captain Post being one of the grantees. (N.Y. Col. Docs.,XIII., 206) It is probable, however, that he did not avail himself of the grant, but removed to Bergen (now Jersey City, N.J.) about this time, if, indeed, he was not already a resident there. In 1662, he was one of petitioners to have a clergyman settled at Bergen, and promised to contribute twenty florins therefore yearly. (N.Y. Col Docs MSS XIII, 233.) The family later moved to what is now Bergen, New Jersey, becoming some of the first settlers of the Acquackononk Tract. Adriaen remained active in public life. As an ensign in the Bergen Burgher Guard, he took an oath of allegiance on 22 November 1665. Philip Carteret, the governor of New Jersey, requested Adriaen as an interpreter in a meeting to purchase land from the sachem, Oraton, in May 1666. Adriaen also served on jury at the Admiralty Court at Elizabethtown in May 1671, was elected as a representative of Bergen to the New Jersey General Assembly on 7 June 1673, and became a Lieutenant in Bergen’s militia in 1675. Adriaen was buried 18 February 1677 in Bergen, Hudson, New Jersey.

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There are a few books written about him using this spelling and spelling his wife's name Claartje (Clara) Moockers.

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1. CD V715-01, Vol. 15, World Family Tr

1. CD V715-01, Vol. 15, World Family Tree, @1996, Broderbund Software,Inc., Pedigree File #1528. 2. CD V725, Vol. 25, World Family Tree, @1998, Broderbund Software,Inc., Pedigree File #2704. 3. "Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vol V", 1916. 4. "Year book of Holland Society of NY Vols", 1915. 5. "The New Jersey Post Family, Descendants of Adriaen Crijnen Post andClara (Claartje) Mookers", by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, Copyright1996-1998.

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[John Louder deces.FBK.FTW] [Br%C3%B8derbund

[John Louder deces.FBK.FTW] [Br%C3%B8derbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #4659, Date of Import: Nov 24, 2001] According to Nugen Family in USA Margaretia Post was "probably" daughter of Jan Jansen Postmaelwho came from Friesland in Holland and married Janitje Le Sueur, daughter of Francois LeSeuur and settled in Harlem, NY. Later moved to Kingston where son married Cornelia Ysselsteyn in 1702.

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Adriaen Cryjnen POST was one of the foun

Adriaen Cryjnen POST was one of the founders of Bergen NJ. FortBergen is now Jersey City NJ. His daug Maria md Jan Albertse Bradt s/o Abert (de Noorman) Bradt

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1. History of Patterson, N.J. by William

1. History of Patterson, N.J. by William Nelson. 2. N.J. 1, Vol. 22, p. 569.

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Also given as Adrien Crijnen POST with w

Also given as Adrien Crijnen POST with wife Clara Claretje MOOKERS; immigration was in 1650 with marriage in 1645 in Holland. Listed as immigrating from Holland, possibly via Brazil. 1. Records of John Becker, 75 Roselawn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4R1E7, jbecker@interlog.com. 2. IGI [Jan Post].

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! "Bergen Records, 1666-1788" Versteeg &

! "Bergen Records, 1666-1788" Versteeg & Vermilye, pages see Index, 3 parts. Minke's sources: "Bergen Records, 1666-1788" Reprint. of Holland Soc. Yearbooks, 1913-1935, Gen. Pub. Co., Baltimore, Md. 1976. "New York Dutch Chr. Marr. " NYGB&S Collects., Vol IX, 1940. Map of Bergen, Gen.Soc. of NY, 1957, NYG&B, Vol. VI, 1875 & V. 1874. Minke states: Capt. Adriaen Post arrived 1650 & was active in public affairs on Staten Island until 1655, then settled at Communipaw. Acquired Lot 4B (Town ofBergen), 12 May 1668. 7 acres. Also Lot 100 (present Tonnelle Ave. & Van Reypen Pl. SW corner), Lot 117 on Hackensack River-21 acres, Lot 55 9.5 acres-Lot 35 North of Town of Bergen, 23 1/3 ac. Was agent for Baron Van der Capelle in charge of colonies on Staten Ils. which was destroyed by Indians 1655. ! Annals of Staten Island by JJ Clute pg 33 1650 Captain Adrian Post aboard the "New Netherland's Fortune" Pag 417 POST. See letters on file from Terry Pieschala, Myra D. Gromley. ! LDS Ancestral file: ! Margaret Elizabeth Ferrel Hayes & Her Ancestors" By Edward Hayes, pg. 91-92 Hayes shows three more children: Abraham, William & Elias (all chown on Harvey's List).

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!(A) Father's name, approximate birth year and place from the record for his daughter, Maria. He was married to Clara, surname unknown, abt 1652, of Albany, Albany, New York, and unsealed, MRIN 62. No marriage shows on the IGI in New York or Brazil. He is deceased, born over 110 years ago, death date and place unknown. Birth place unknown, unlisted on the IGI for New York or Brazil. PLEASE BAPTIZE, ENDOW, AND SEAL HIM TO SPOUSE. In Dutch, Clara is spelled Claartje. I requested and have proof of his baptism, endowment, and sealing to spouse.

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1 _UID 4E516B7E9103D611828100606E3BD45C3FA5 !YEARBOOK OF HOLL SOC OF N.Y. 1915, BURIALS OF BERGEN DUTCH CHURCH,N0. 41 YEARBOOK OF HOLL SOC. OF N.Y. 1914, MARRIAGES OF BERGEN DUTCH CHURCH,NO 29.90 YEARBOOK OF HOLL. SOC OF NY.Y. 1913 BIRTHS OF BERGEN DUTCH CHURCH NO212 COLL OF NY GEN & BIOG SOC VOL II, BAPTS OF NY PROT REF DUT CH, PG 46,51, 70,97 COLL OF NY GEN Y BIOG SOC, VOL X MARRIAGES OF NY PROT REF DUT CH PG31,38 MSS OF INNES GETTY COLL. (VOL. OADIC TO QUILHAT) NYGS LIB 122 3. 58STNYC COLONIAL HIST OF NY.Y VOL 18 PG 45 & 46 CAPT POST , WIFE & 5 CHILDRENWERE CAPTURED BY INDIANS IN SEP. 1655. HISTORY OF LAND TITLES OF HUDSON CO, C.H. WINFIELD CALENDAR OF NY HISTORICAL MSS 1630-1664,ED BY E.B. O'CLAEAGHAN, PGS153, 161, 164, 166, 168, 170 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HIST OF NY., VO I PG 637-638; VOLII PG 597 HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, E.B. O'CLAEAGHAN, VOL II PG 291 NY G & B REC, VOL 56, PG 257. GENEALL. MAG. OF N.J., VOL 10, PG 1-4 HISTORY OF CAPTAIN ADRIAN POST This brief history of an event in the life of Captain Adrian Postwas found at the SLC Genealogical Library, 2nd floor in the book, NEWYORK HISTORICAL RECORDS, under the section "Colonial Settlements onthe Hudson River." Captain Adrian Post, his wife, five children and servants werecaptured in the attack by the Indians on New Amsterdam and the othersettlements Sept. 15, 1655. MINUTES OF THE APPEARANCE BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF STEPHEN NECKER, WHO HAD BEEN TAKEN PRISONER WITH 5 OTHERS, BY INDIANS AND IS SENT TO DEMAND A RANSOM. 13TH October. Stephen Necker appeared before the Council and reported that Peter,the chimney-sweep with five others, of whom he was one, had sailed tothe aforesaid chimney-sweep's plantation to fetch some animals fromthee; after they had been there about half an hour they were attackedby about 30 savages, he does not know of what nation, who took themall prisoners; four of them had been wounded and he with CornelisMourissen (afterwards shot in the back with an arrow, which has beencut out by the barber) have been sent here by the savages, to ask fortheir ransom the following articles, which the savages had marked withnotches on a stick: 20 coats of cloth 40 knives 20 handfuls of powder 10 pairs of shoes 10 bars of lead 10 pairs of socks 10 kettles 10 addices 2 muskets 10 hatchets 20 strings of wampum 20 tobacco pipes 3 swords MINUTES OF A MESSAGE BROUGHT FROM THE INDIANS AT PAULUS HOOK THAT THE PRISONERS WILL BE RELEASED IN TWO DAYS. 13TH October. Peter Cock, who conducted Captain Post and others to Paulus Hook,reports that the Indians had told him, the prisoners shall all be herein two days, come over, then you will see it. Also, that the savagesare not satisfied, that Captain Post had not come over at the fixedtime and that they say, you Dutch people lie so much, that you cannotbe trusted. Date as above. RESOLUTIONS NOT TO PAY THE RANSOM, DEMANDED BY THE INDIANS. 13TH OCTOBER. It having been considered in Council, whether the ransom demanded bythe savages should be paid for the four persons, who have been takenprisoners by the Indians today and for others, who might yet becaptured, when they, like the former, without knowledge, even contraryto orders of the Director General and Council go to distant and lonelyplaces, it was after some debating pro et contra resolved, concludedand decided in the negative, because, as soon as the other savages,who have 73 of our people as prisoners, would hear, that so much hasbeen paid for 4 they would demand a considerable sum, and for otherpregnant reasons to be brought forward in due time. Date as above. ORDINANCE AGAINST PERSONS GOING INTO THE COUNTRY IN SMALL PARTIES, PASSED OCT 16, 1655. ORDER FOR THE SAFETY OF AMESFOORT AND THE BAY. 16TH October 1655. Thereas this day appeared before us with Captain-Lieutenant BrianNuton, Elbert Elbertsen, Martin Jansen, and Albert Albertsen, allinhabitants of the village of Amesfoort, who report that some of theirtownsmen have re moved and others in the village are unwilling to workwith them and help carry the general burden of the village in keepingup the guard, therefore the Director General and Council having takenit into consideration, it is concluded and resolved, that theabsentees, who have their houses on the aforesaid Bay, as well asthose, who are present, must help carry and contribute to the generalburdens of the village and its safety, as well in maintaining themilitary garrisoned there as safeguard as in watching and patrollingwith the others. The Director General and Council further ordered,that the absentees must keep for each bonwery at least one stout man,properly provided with musket and side arms and that until furtherorders, each bonwery shall provide two soldiers with sufficientprovisions for their board and in case of refusal, the above saidCaptain Lieutenant Brian Nuton, Elbert Elbertsen and Marten Jansen areordered and authorized to hire a man for each bonwery and to put thesoldiers in board with some one at the charge and expenses of thosewho disobey or refuse; the Director-General and Council beingresponsible, at the expense of the refusing parties, for the just andlawful expenses, subject to the decision of two impartial. men. Thusdone at Fort Amsterdam in New-Netherlands date as above. (signed) P. Stuyvesant, Lamontagne, C. Van Tienhoven LETTER TO CAPTAIN ADRIAN POST, ORDERING HIM TO INQUIRE WHAT THE INDIANS PROPOSE TO DO WITH THEIR PRISONERS. 16TH Oct. 1655. Captain Post. Whereas the savages often impose upon us by displayingthe flag and lure us over the river for trivial matters, which makesour people tired to cross and re-cross, without getting an answer fromthem in regard to our prisoners, therefore your Worship or somebodyelse, who knows the Indian language, must ask the Sachem Pennekeck,Oratany and others, what they really mean and intend and whether theywill return the prisoners or not and when and that they must not causeany further de lay or lie to us. Done at Amsterdam in New Netherlandsdate as above. ORDINANCE FORBIDDING ALL PERSONS GOING ACROSS THE RIVER OR COMMUNICATING WITH THE INDIANS, WITHOUT A PASS,PASSED, 18 OCT., 1655. MINUTES OF THE RETURN OF 14 PRISONERS (MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN) BYPENNEKECK, CHIEF OF ACHKINKESHAKY. 18TH Oct. 1655. Instructions giving to Captain Adriaen Post by the HonorableDirector-General and Council of New Netherlands. Whereas the said Captain Adriaen Post brought us yesterday 13 or 14of our Christian prisoners, who had been surrendered to him by theSachem Pennekeck, with the message that he thus showed to theDirector-General his kind heart and affection and expected in returnby the Director-General's favor and friendship some powder and lead,therefore the aforesaid Captain Post is authorized and directed, tocross over again and answer the said Sachem in our name as follows:(THE REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE WAS MISSING.) MESSAGE OF THE INDIANS SENT WITH SOME PRISONERS AND ANSWER THERETO. 21ST October 1655. Some powder and lead for 28 of our prisoners having been brought overto the Indians by Adriaen Post and Claes Jansen Ruyter, accompanied byPieter Wolphertsen, pursuant to the resolution of the 19th October,they return this day and bring the said 28 prisoners according to thepromise made by the Indians; and report, that the Sachem pennekeck haddirected them to tell the Honorable Director- General, that ClaesJansen de Ruyter must return again today and bring with him a quantityof goods, as powder, lead, duffels, guns, wampum etc. to ransom theprisoners, who were still among them, 20 to 24 persons, else he wouldgo with them into the interior. It was resolved, to send theaforesaid persons over again and to ask how much they would take forthe whole batch of prisoners or for each single one. Date as above. ANSWER OF THE INDIANS TO THE FOREGOING. 26TH October 1655. Today, the 26th of October, Captain Adriaen Post and Claes Jansen deRuyter came over from Pau lus Hook and reported, that they had had aconference there with the chief of Achkinkeshaky and his people andother savages of Mochgeychkonk. They declared on their word of honorto the Council and related, that the said chief Pennekeck had, in thename of the other savages, directed them to tell and request theHonorable Director-General, that, if his Honor would be pleased tosend him and his people 75 pounds of powder and 40 bars of lead inthree kegs, either as ransom or as present, they would immediatelysurrender the 28 prisoners. The Honorable Director-General and Council and the Burgomasters ofthis City having heard the report of the aforesaid persons and havingfurther seriously considered the inconvenience of the capturedChristians, whose imprisonment rather ties our hands, they have withcommon advice and consent resolved (however unwilling), for the sakeof the prisoners' preservation and in the hope to recover them and thebalance of the prisoners, to give to the savages the demanded lead andpowder as ransom for the captives, as no other means can at present bediscovered to recover them, and the more so, as they are scatteredhere and there among the Indians in the distant interior and to proveto them our sincere good will, it is resolved to send them as apresent 25 pounds of powder and 10 staves of lead over and above theransom. Date as above: present were the Noble Director General, theHonorable Lamontagne and the Honorable Fiscal Tienhoven. PROPOSITIONS MADE BY THE INDIANS OF LONG ISLAND, REQUESTING A CONTINUANCE OF THE PEACE WITH THEIR TRIBE. 27TH November 1655. Today appeared before the noble Honorable Director General PetrusStuyvesant and the Lieutenant of the train bands, Peter Wolphertsen,understanding the Indian language, seven Indians from Long Island,among whom one Adam, who spoke very good English and six others withhim, who made the following statement both in English and in Indian: 1. That they have been sent by the chief of Marsepain, cal

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!1. DEATH-BURIAL: The Holland Society

!1. DEATH-BURIAL: The Holland Society YearBook, 1915, Burials of Bergen Dutch Reformed Church, #41. 2. MARRIAGES: Hol. Soc. YB, 1914, Marriages of Bergen Dutch Ref. Ch., Entries #29 & 90. 3. BIRTH-CHR: Coll. of NY G&B Society, Vol. II, Baptisms of NY Reformed Dutch Ch., Vol. I, pp. 46, 51, 70, & 97. 4. MARRIAGES: Coll. of NY G&B Soc., Vol. IX, marriages pp. 31, 35. 5. FAMILY HISTORY: Innes Getty MSS Coll. Vol. Oades-Quilhot, at NYG&B Lib. 6. FAMILY HISTORY: C.H. Winfield, History of Land Titles of Hudson Co., NJ 7. COLONIAL HISTORY: Doc. Relating to the Colonial Period of NY; pp. 637- 39 in Vol. I; Vol II; p. 597. 8. COLONIAL HISTORY: E.B. O'Callaghan; History of New Neth.; Vol. II; p.291. 9. COLONIAL HISTORY: Calender of NY Historical MSS, Dutch; 1630-1664; Pt. I; E.B. O'Callaghan, ed.; pp. 153; 161; 164-66; 168; & 170. 10. COLONIAL HISTORY: NYG&B Record; Vol. 56; p. 257 f.n.; Post; Article by Howard S. F. Randolph. 11. FAMILY HISTORY: Dirk P. DeYoung's "Post Family of NJ."; in the Genealogical Mag. of NJ; Vol. 10; pp. 1-4; Jan. 1935.

12. Capt. Post and his wife 5 chil. were taken captives by the Indians; Capt. Post became a go-between the Indians & the Dutch Govt. for the release of the "christians" still in the hand of the Indians. Calendar of NY Historical MSS, Dutch, 1630-166, Pt. l, Ed., E.B. O'Callaghan, p. 153. 13. Capt. Adriaen Post was an agent for Hendrick van der Capelle, Lord of Issel & Hasselt, Burgomaster of City of Zutphen, etc. and left Neth. in May of 1660 for Staten Island. The Colonie had over 90 souls with 11 bouweries. Indian uprising in Aug 1655 burned & killed over 40 people and about 100 women and children taken prisoner. Ref. see #7 above. Albany Record; p. 158; and E.B. O'Callaghan; History of New Netherlands; Vol. II, p. 291.

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Adrien Post was Sent to Colonize "[Captain Adrien Post] was sent over to this country from Holland in 1650, as the Superintendent of a Colony of twenty or more people, men, women and children, with farming implements, in the ship "Ne

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ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;

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see page 10 of "The QUACKENBUSH Family in America" Niskayuna NY

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! Barbara Perricelli, 2855 Penfield Rd.,

! Barbara Perricelli, 2855 Penfield Rd., Macedon, NY 14502-9202 He and his wife were first settlers of Staten Island, NY

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Hist of Paterson, N.J. by Wm. Nelson.

Hist of Paterson, N.J. by Wm. Nelson.

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! "Margaret E. Ferrel Hayes" By Edward H

! "Margaret E. Ferrel Hayes" By Edward Hayes Hayes: 1677 Adrien Jr. received a patent to land in Beergen from British. He too was an ensign, second in command of the Bergen militia, & often was referred to as Captain Post. Also he was one of the patentees of the Aquackannonck patent. (only the first and the last are listed by Harvey) were: Adriaen III, m. Hendricke Ackerman, Gerrit, Claertie, Pieter, Johannes.

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Adriaen Crijnen (possibly Quirijnen), P

Adriaen Crijnen (possibly Quirijnen), Post was most likely from The Hague, Netherlands. He and his wife Clara or Claartje Moockers, resided in Brazil in the West India Company's colony. Adriaen's daughter Maria (my 8th great-grandmother) was baptised in Recife Brazil in June 1649. By the time Brazil fell to the Portuguese in 1654, the family had left for the Netherlands. On 30 June 1650 the ship "New Netherland's Fortune" sailed, arriving in New Netherland on 19 December 1650. Adriaen and his family were on Staten Island by 1655. Adriaen was a representative of Baron Hendrick van der Capellen, the owner of one-third of Staten Island. As the superintendent of a group of twenty people who were to farm Staten Island, Adriaen set up a colony which flourished. In the summer of 1655 the Peach Tree War began over Hendrick Van Dyke's shooting of a Native woman stealing peaches from his trees in his orchard in Manhatten. As a result, the settlements on the lower Hudson River and around New York were destroyed by Iroquois attackers. On 15 Sept. 1655, the colony on Staten Island was burned to the ground by the Natives from Hackensack. Twenty-three people were killed and sixty-seven taken prisoner, among them Adrien, his wife, five children, and two servants.

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No source documents of Adriaen's birth included, if someone has one please include it. Also no proof given showing he arrived aboard the New Netherlands Fortune in 1650. I've only found 1 record for that ship with just a few passengers and he's not one of them. I have also not seen any documented proof of his parents.

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! Confirmation Date : 2 Apr 1961 Ogden 63rd Ward Ogden, Utah Ben Lomond South Stake By: Grandfather Alexander Elmer Archibald Baptismal information : Baptized By : Father Norman R. Barber Div: Kent Peterson

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1. CD V717, Vol. 17, World Family Tree,

1. CD V717, Vol. 17, World Family Tree, @1996, Broderbund Software,Inc., Pedigree File #1597. 2. CD V705-01, Vol. 05, World Family Tree, @1996, Broderbund Software,Inc., Pedigree File #2892. 3. Data extracted from the Vanderpool Newsletters, Vol. 5, dated 1978. 4. Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vol V, 1916, the Year book ofHolland Society of NY Vols 1915. 5. "The New Jersey Post Family, Descendants of Adriaen Crijnen Post andClara (Claartje) Mookers", by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, Copyright1996-1998.

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Indian Uprising on Staten Island Indian Uprising on Staten Island In 1655, a colony on Staten Island, under Baron Hendrick Van der Capellen, was destroyed by indians. The colonists were taken prisoner. This colony was heade