Jan Fransse Gerridt van Visbeck van Hoesen

Jan and wife Volkie fled the netherlands so they wouldn't have to renounce their Protestant religion.They set sail on the "Den Harlinck" and arrived in New Amsterdam on 7/7/1639. By 1645 they had settled at Fort Orange and then Beverwyck (now Albany). He bought land in Claverack on 6/5/1662 from a natives named Pamatepiet and tatankenaut for 500 guilders in beavers> It was several hundred acreas along the Hudson River, including the site on which City of Hudson now stands.

JAN FRANSSE VAN HOESEN'S WILL

In the name of God, Amen. (On this day appeared) Jan Fransz van Hoesen and Volckie Jurriaens of. van Noortstrant, husband and wife, residing in Albany (known to the undersigned witnesses), he, van Hoesen, lying abed sick and she, Volckie Jurriaens, being sound of body, but both of them being in full possession and having the full use of their faculties, mind, memory and understanding, as far as outwardly appeared and could be observed, which appears, considering the shortness and frailty of human life, the certainty of death and the uncertain hour thereof, and wishing therefore to forestall the same by proper disposition of their temporal estate to be left behind, declared that without inducement, persuasion, or misleading on the part of any one, they had made, ordained and concluded this, their joint, reciprocal and mutual last will and testament, in form and manner as follows:

First and foremost they commend their immortal souls when they shall leave their bodies to the gracious and merciful hands of God, their Creator and Redeemer, and their bodies to a Christian burial; and whereas they, the testators, acknowledge that before the date hereof they had neither jointly nor severally made or executed any testamentary disposition, legacies, donations, or other bequests whatsoever, therefore, the said testators hereby declare that they hereby nominate and institute the survivor of both of them as his or her sole heir to all the property, real and personal, claims, credits, money, gold, silver, coined or uncoined, jewels, clothing , linen, woolens, household effects, etc., nothing excepted or reserved, which he or she who dies first shall vacate at death and leave behind, to do therewith as with his or her own free property , without contradiction or gainsay by any one, provided that the survivor of the two shall be held to bringup the six minor and unmarried children, namely, JURIAEN, aged 23 years; MARYA, aged 14 years; CATARINA, aged 12 years; JOHANNES, aged 10 years; JACOB, aged 8 years; and VOLCKERT, aged 7 years, until they are of age to marry; to rear them in the fear of the Lord and to train them and have them trained in an honest trade or profession whereby in due time they may earn their living and then, when they reach their majority, to turn over them as much as their two married children, to wit, Styntie Jans and Annetie Jans, have received, or the value thereof, with which the said testators consider that the survivor of them may suffice. Therefore, the survivor of the two shall be held to bind therefor especially their real and immovable property, such as houses and lands, both the house and lot situated here near the fort and the land lying below the fort. Furthermore, the testators hereby exclude and shut out the honorable orphan-masters and ever one else from the guardianship of the aforesaid children,and the administration of their estate, not being willing that they shall meddle therewith, and in their place they nominate and appoint the survivor of both of them as guardian.

We, the undersigned, declared for the honest truth that what is hereinbefore written is the last will and desire of the aforesaid testators, stated clearly and with due understanding of its meaning by both of them, which they caused to be reduced to writing as hereinbefore stated, and that, when the writing had progressed as far as above, the testator, Jan Fransz van Hoesen, wanted to get up from his bed and sit near the fire, where, on being taken there and put in a chair, he suddenly and unexpectedly gave up the ghost and died. Actum in Albany, on Monday the 20/30th of November 1665, at about eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

Cornelus Tonisen Bos Anthony Jansz D.V. Schelluyne, Secretary

Jan Fransz Van Hoesen was born in 1609 in Husum, in Schleswig-Holstein as Jan Fransz (John, son of Fransz). He was a sailor. He married, in Amsterdam, May 15, 1639, Volkje Juriaens van Norstrant. Their Church banns of April 30, 1639 are translated “Appeared as before, Jan Franz from Housom, sailor, age 30 years, living in the Corte Tuijnstraat, having no parents but had as a witness, his cousin Anna Jans, and Volckje Juriaens d[aughter] from Noorstrant, age about 21 years, of the same [street], having no parents but witnessed by her acquaintance, Isaack Pietersen." Volckje was born about 1618; she was from the Island of Nordstrand off the coast near Husum. She has a sister, Annetje Juriaens, wife of Andries Herbertz Constapel, who was at Rensselaerswyck from 1640 to 1662.

Jan Fransz assumed the surname van Husum or Van Hoesen (spelling was not standardized back then, so the name is spelled a variety of ways over time) while in Amsterdam.

In Amsterdam on March 28, 1639 Jan Franssen van Hoesen, age about 31 years, previously a sailor in New Netherland in the service of the West India Company, together with six others, signed an agreement with Kiliaen van Rensselaer concerning immediate passage to and settlement in the colony of Rensselaerswyck. The colonists guaranteed to remain for four years. More interestingly, the document makes reference to sailing "in God's Name with the ship that now lies ready. " How long the ship lay ready or whether it waited seven weeks for the prospective bridegroom is a question. Quite probably it did, for at least four [Jan Cornelisz, Hendrick Albertsz, Sander Leendertsz [Glen], and wife Cathalina Jacobs] of those signing the agreement have been shown to have sailed on the ship den Harinck in May 1639. They arrived in New Amsterdam on July 7, 1639 and appeared in the accounts of Kiliaen van Rensselaer beginning in that year. A bioghraphical sketch is given for those who came by the ship den Harick is given on page 821 of the VAN RENSSELAER BOWEIR MANUSCRIPTS.

It is not clear what occupation Jan Franse followed when they first arrived in the Colony of New Netherland nor are we sure where they lived. He may have continued to be sailor and they might have lived in New Amsterdam. Sander Leendertsz, one of those who signed with the patroon when Jan Frans signed, “sailed the two yachts of the patroon from 1641 to 1645; it may be Jan Franz worked with him. He shows up on the records in Beverwyck beginning in 1650. There are few records known for Beverwyck now Albany, prior to 1648 when the the Court records begin. The Doop Book, or Book of Baptisms of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York, [Then New Amsterdam] which were begun in 1639, contain an entry showing the baptism of a child of Jan Franse Van huysen on September 30,1640. The child’s name is given as Fransje, the diminutive je at the end of a name implies the child is a daughter. But some writers indicate the child was a son. Jan Fransz van Hoesen was again in Amsterdam on March 10, 1647, when he gave a power of attorney to Jan Janss van Brestyn, cooper, to claim from Abraham Plank at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland seventeen beaverskins which were due him. He had permanently settled in the Hudson area, however, by 1652, when he was granted a lot in Albany, seemingly on the northeast corner of today's Broadway and State Street. An adjoining garden lot above the town's stockade by the River was granted him in the following year, and the two parcels were confirmed by patent on May 11, 1667. In 1662 he bought land at Claverack from the Indians. This included the present city of Hudson and extended from Stockport Creek southward along the River to Kishna's Kil at South Bay and eastward beyond Claverack Creek. The land was patented May 11, 1667 57 and was transferred, in whole or in part, to his heirs in accordance with contracts of May 30, 1667 and June 22, 1694. 58 A house built here by a son or grandson stood in ruins in 1925 on land of the Knickerbocker Cement Company, east of Hudson, and a lintel bearing a 1729 date was still in the Cement Company offices.

After his death in 1665, his widow married Gerrit VISBEECK. (RED FLAG: FamilySearch shows Gerrit Visbeeck as the MOTHER of his widow. )

This outline of the Van Hoesen Family is based on work by Schermerhorn, Becker, and Clark.. The latter estimated that Jan Fransse van Hoesen was the grandfather of a third of Justus Falckner's congregation and the ancestor of 15% of the present population of Green County.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72460718/jan-fransse-van_husum Born only as Jan Fransse (a patronymic name meaning “John, son of Francis”) in the town of Husum, which was under Danish rule at the time (now Germany). He received the surname "van Husum" by the Dutch Reformed Church while living in the Netherlands just before getting married and setting sail to America. After his arrival in America his surname was misinterpreted into many variations including Van Husem, Van Huysen, Van Huisen, Van Hoese, and Van Hoesen. According to the book Van Hoose, Van Hooser, Van Huss Family in the United States by Joyce Lindstrom all of his children had the surname Van Hoesen but this may not be the case with all of them, Dutch Reformed Church records (christening, marriage and death) found on ancestry.com show that some of Jan’s descendants retained the name Van Husum.

One of the Dutch Reformed Church records show Jan’s grandson Johannes Hannessen Van Husum marrying Elisabeth Christina Lauxin on 11 April 1720; another Dutch Reformed Church baptism record shows Johannes & Elisabeth’s daughter (Jan’s great-granddaughter) being baptized as Jannitge Van Husum on 03 October 1721; another Dutch Reformed Church record shows Johannes & Elisabeth’s son (Jan’s great-grandson) being baptized as Valentine Velten Van Hoesen on 16 January 1726.

Eventually the spelling Van Husum did evolve into Van Hoesen with one of the lines becoming Van Hooser. Additionally some Van Hooser families started spelling their surnames as Van Hoose, Van Huss, and Van Hoozer all in the same time period as the American Revolutionary War; other spellings include Van Hoosier (with the popularity of Indiana’s nickname “The Hoosier State”) and Van Hoozier along with many other variations with and without the space (etc. Van Hooser / Vanhooser).

• The burial information was added by the memorial's creator, 'william campbell'. I do not have information as to whether Claverack Dutch Reformed Churchyard is or is not the burial site, nor do I know if there is a marker.

~ Micheal

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PIONEER SETTLERS OF NEW NETHERLAND

32 SHIP PASSENGER LISTS [74]

Van Hoesen, Jan Fransen, prob. from Husum, in Schleswig-Holstein (40).).

[76] SETTLERS OF RENSSELAERSWYCK

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Jan Fransz (Fransse) van Hoesen (Hoesem); was apparently in the colony as early as 1646, and in 1648 helped to erect a new barn for Jan Barentsz Wemp. By resolution of April assigned to him between the first and second creeks and Jan. 18 1652, he was given the use of the place of Willem Juriaensz, the baker, on condition that he let said Willem stay in his house "as long as he lives, or opportunity offers.î His wife was Volkertje Juriaens.

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Source: Columbia County, NY Web Site:

Original settlement was by the Dutch near Kinderhook, in the north-west corner of the county, followed by a Palatine German settlement at Germantown (then East Kamp) in the southwest corner of the county. The eastern border was settled in the 1750's by New Englanders from Massachusetts and Connecticut. In the 1780's a group of New England Quakers from Nantucket and surrounding areas created the city of Hudson.

The original land disbursement in Columbia County was in the form of Patents:

Patent Acres Date Purchased from Indians Date Patented Patentees

Van Hoesen (Hudson) 1662 1667 Jan Frans van Hoesen Marriage License of Jan Frans Van Husum and Volkje Jurians (English Translation)

Appeared as before, Jan Franz from Husum, sailor, age 30 years, living in the Corte Tuijnstraat, having no parents but assisted by his cousin, Anna Jans, and Volckje Jurianens, (daughter) from Noorstrant, age about 1 years, of the same (street) having no parents, but assisted by her acquaintance, Isaac Pietersen.

Requesting their three Sundays’ proclamation, in order to have the before mentioned marriage solemnized and consumated, in so far as there are no lawul objections made, and if ________ fully that they are free persons, not related by blood, whereby a Christian marriage culd be prevented, such grounds do not exist, their banns are allowed.

Jan Franse Van Hoesen History According to John P. Dern, Jan Franse and Volkie Jurianse were married May 15, 1639 in Amsterdam Holland. He was 31 years of age, was a sailor and had sailed on ships of the West India Company. She was 21 years of age and was from Noorstant. Neither of them had parents there at the Wedding Ceremony. On March 28, of that same year [1639], he, along with six others, had signed an agreement with Kiliaen van Rensselaer for immediate passage and settlement in the Colony of Rensselaerwyck. The colonists agreed to serve for four years. They were to sail on Den Harinck which was laying ready to sail. We do not know if the Ship waited until after the May 15 marriage date to sail or if Jan Franse and Vorlkie Jurianse were abord when it sailed. Records say tha the ship sailed from the Texel in May 1639 and arrived in New Amsterdam, July 7, 1639, and at least four of those signing the agreement are listed as being aboard. The Doop Book, or Book of Baptisms of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York, [Then New Amsterdam] which were begun in 1639, contain an entry showing the baptism of a child of Jan Franse Van huysen on September 30,1640 as follows. Page date OUDERS KINDERS GETUYGEN (PARENTS) (CHILDREN ) (SPONSORS OR WITNESSES) 11 30 Sept,1640 Jan Franszen, Van huysen Fransje Henrick Rosen, Burger Joris, Smidt; Sara Cornelis.

Van Hoesen (Hoesem) Jan Franse 1, an early resident of Fort Orange and Beverwyck; 1662 bought land at Claverac of the Indians; d. about 1667. His w ife was Volkie Jurriaanse, sister of Annatie Jurriaanse wife. of Andries Herbertsen Constapel; after his death she married Gerrit Visbeeck. Letters of administration were issued to his son Jurriaan, Aug. 2, 1703. The following children were living in 1694:

Summary Jan Fransz Van Hoesen was born in 1609 in Husum, in Schleswig-Holstein. He was a sailor. He married, in Amsterdam, May 15, 1639, Volkje Juriaens van Norstrant. Their Church banns of April 30, 1639 are translated “Appeared as before, Jan Franz from Housom, sailor, age 30 years, living in the Corte Tuijnstraat, having no parents but had as a witness, his cousin Anna Jans, and Volckje Juriaens d[aughter] from Noorstrant, age about 21 years, of the same [street], having no parents but witnessed by her acquaintance, Isaack Pietersen." Volckje was born about 1618e. She was from the Island of Nordstrand off the coast near Husum. She has a sister, Annetje Juriaens, wife of Andries Herbertz Constapel who was at Rensselaerswyck from 1640 to 1662. In Amsterdam on March 28, 1639 Jan Franssen van Hoesen, age about 31 years, previously a sailor in New Netherland in the service of the West India Company, together with six others, signed an agreement with Kiliaen van Rensselaer concerning immediate passage to and settlement in the colony of Rensselaerswyck 52 The colonists guaranteed to remain for four years. More interestingly, the document makes reference to sailing "in God's Name with the ship that now lies ready. " How long the ship lay ready or whether it waited seven weeks for the prospective bridegroom is a question. Quite probably it did, for at least four [Jan Cornelisz, Hendrick Albertsz, Sander Leendertsz [Glen], and wife Cathalina Jacobs] of those signing the agreement have been shown to have sailed on the ship den Harinck in May 1639. They arrived in New Amsterdam on July 7, 1639 and appeared in the accounts of Kiliaen van Rensselaer beginning in that year. A bioghraphical sketch is given for who came by the ship den Harick is given on page 821 of the VAN RENSSELAER BOWEIR MANUSCRIPTS. It is not clear what occupation he followed when they first arrived in the Colony of New Netherland nor where they lived. He may have continued to be sailor and they might have lived in New Amsterdam. Sander Leendertsz, one of those who signed with the patroon when Jan Frans signed, “sailed the two yachts of the patroon from 1641 to 1645, it may be Jan Franz worked with him. He shows up on the records in Beverwyck beginning in 1650. There are few records known for Beverwyck now Albany, prior to 1648 the the Court records begin. The Doop Book, or Book of Baptisms of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York, [Then New Amsterdam] which were begun in 1639, contain an entry showing the baptism of a child of Jan Franse Van huysen on September 30,1640. The child’s name is given as Fransje, the diminutive je at the end of a name implies the child is a daughter. But some writers indicate the child was a son. Jan Fransz van Hoesen was again in Amsterdam on March 10, 1647, when he gave a power of attorney to Jan Janss van Brestyn, cooper, to claim from Abraham Plank at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland seventeen beaverskins which were due him. 55 He had permanently settled in the Hudson area, however, by 1652, when he was granted a lot in Albany, seemingly on the northeast corner of today's Broadway and State Street. An adjoining garden lot above the town's stockade by the River was granted him in the following year, and the two parcels were confirmed by patent on May 11, 1667. 56 In 1662 he bought land at Claverack from the Indians. This included the present city of Hudson and extended from Stockport Creek southward along the River to Kishna's Kil at South Bay and eastward beyond Claverack Creek. The land was patented May 11, 1667 57 and was transferred, in whole or in part, to his heirs in accordance with contracts of May 30, 1667 and June 22, 1694. 58 A house built here by a son or grandson stood in ruins in 1925 on land of the Knickerbocker Cement Company, east of Hudson, and a lintel bearing a 1729 date was still in the Cement Company offices. 59 After his death in 1665, 60 his widow married Gerrit VISBEECK. The following outline of the Van Hoesen Family is based on work by Schermerhorn, 61 Becker, 62 and Clark.. 63 The latter estimated that Jan Fransse van Hoesen was the grandfather of a third of Justus Falckner's congregation and the ancestor of 15% of the present population of Green County.

The children of Jan Fransz van Hoesen and Volkje Juriaens van Noorstrant. 1. Franje Van Hoesen, baptised 30 September 1640 at New Amsterdam. Not found in any other records, it is assumed that this child died young. 2. Jurriaan Jansz 2 Van Hoesen, (1642-1711) eldest living son, age 23 in 1665; died at Calaverak, June 1711, age 68.  3. Styntje Jansz 2 Van Hoesen, married Jan Thys Goes. 4. Anna Jansz 2 Van Hoesen,married Luycas Gerritse Wyngaert. 5. Maria Jansz 2 Van Hoesen, age 14 in 1665, married HedrickCoenraetse Burgaert of Kinderhook 6. Catharina Jansz 2 Van Hoesen, age 12 in 1665, died before 1737; she married Francis Herdyck (1657e- 1742e) whom her father had taken into the home a young boy and was raised with the family. They lived in Claverack, opposite Loonenburg. 7. Johannes Jansz 2 Van Hoesen, (1655- ) age 10 in 1665, died after 1714. Married first Jannitje Janse de Ryck, daughter of Jan Cornelius De Ryck, married second 1709, Willempje Viele Schermerhorn Winne (Her third marriage). 8. Jacob Jansz 2 Van Hoesen, (1657- ) born in Rensselaerswyck or Albany, age 8 in 1665, married Judith Klauw, daughter of Frans Peiterse Klauw; lived on Hudson near New York City. 9.+ Volckert Jansz 2 Van Hoesen, (1658-1725), born at Claverack, age 7 in 1665, moved to Loonenburg; married Marytje Dirckse Benson, daughter of Dirck Benson and Catalina Berck. Inherited Claverack land across the Kleykuls Kill, along the Kalebergh.

JAN FRANSSE VAN HOESEN'S WILL

In the name of God, Amen.  (On this day appeared) Jan Fransz van  Hoesen and Volckie Jurriaens of. van Noortstrant, husband and wife,  residing in Albany (known to the undersigned witnesses), he, van  Hoesen,  lying abed sick and she, Volckie Jurriaens, being sound of  body, but both of them being in full possession and having the full  use of their faculties, mind, memory and understanding,  as far as  outwardly appeared and could be observed, which appears, considering  the shortness and frailty of human life, the certainty of death and  the uncertain hour thereof, and wishing therefore to forestall the  same by proper disposition of their temporal estate to be left  behind, declared that without inducement, persuasion, or misleading  on the part of any one, they had made, ordained and concluded this,  their joint, reciprocal and mutual last will and testament,  in form  and manner as follows:

First and foremost they commend their immortal souls when they shall  leave their bodies to the gracious and merciful hands of God, their  Creator and Redeemer, and their bodies to a Christian burial; and  whereas they, the testators, acknowledge that before the date hereof  they had neither jointly nor severally made or executed any  testamentary disposition,  legacies, donations, or other bequests  whatsoever, therefore, the said testators hereby declare that they  hereby nominate and institute the survivor of both of them as his or  her sole heir to all the property, real and personal, claims,  credits, money, gold, silver, coined or uncoined,  jewels, clothing ,   linen, woolens, household effects, etc., nothing excepted or  reserved, which he or she who dies first shall vacate at death and  leave behind, to do therewith as with his or her own free property ,  without contradiction or gainsay by any one, provided that the  survivor of the two shall be held to bringup the six minor and  unmarried children,  namely, JURIAEN, aged 23 years; MARYA, aged 14  years; CATARINA,  aged 12 years; JOHANNES, aged 10 years; JACOB, aged  8 years; and VOLCKERT, aged 7 years, until they are of age to marry;  to rear them in the fear of the Lord and to train them and have them  trained in an honest trade or profession whereby in due time they may  earn their living and then, when they reach their majority, to turn  over them as much as their two married children, to wit, Styntie Jans  and Annetie Jans, have received, or the value thereof, with which the  said testators consider that the survivor of them may suffice.   Therefore, the survivor of the two shall be held to bind therefor  especially their real and immovable property,  such as houses and  lands, both the house and lot situated here near the fort and the  land lying below the fort.  Furthermore, the testators hereby exclude  and shut out the honorable orphan-masters and ever one else from the  guardianship of the aforesaid children,and the administration of  their estate, not being willing that they shall meddle therewith, and  in their place they nominate and appoint the survivor of both of them  as guardian.

We, the undersigned, declared for the honest truth that what is  hereinbefore written is the last will and desire of the aforesaid  testators,  stated clearly and with due understanding of its meaning  by both of them, which they caused to be reduced to writing as  hereinbefore stated, and that, when the writing had progressed as far  as above, the testator, Jan Fransz van Hoesen, wanted to get up from  his bed and sit near the fire, where, on being taken there and put in  a chair, he suddenly and unexpectedly gave up the ghost and died.   Actum in Albany, on Monday the 20/30th of November 1665, at about  eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

Cornelus Tonisen Bos Anthony Jansz D.V. Schelluyne, Secretary

The Dutch connection with North America began in September 1609, when Henry Hudson, an English Captain, in service to the VOC (Vereenigde OostIndische Compagnie) discovered with his ship "De Halve Maene" (The Half Moon) the river which today bears his name. He was in search of a NW passage to Asia. Shortly after the return of the Hudson expedition, Dutch merchants sent out new expeditions, the aim of all these expeditions was the fur trade with the Indians. In 1614, the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands granted a charter for three years to the New Netherlands Company of Amsterdam. The first Dutch settlement in North America was built in late 1614 on Castle Island (an island on the Hudson river little below the site of Albany, NY). This trading-post was called Fort Nassau, but this fort lay frequently under water and for that was abandoned in 1617 in favor of a new fort. In 1621 the new born West Indische Compagnie (West India Company) granted a charter that included the coast and countries of Africa from the tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope and also all the coast of America. In 1624 the first WIC expedition started, a ship with about thirty families of colonists (most of them were Walloons) reached the Hudson or Great River. They anchored near the abandoned Fort Nassau. Here later in 1624 a new fort called Fort Oranije was built on the west side of the river where Albany now stands. In the same year the Dutch began to build two forts, one on the South River (now the Delaware River) named Fort Nassau, and the other on the Fresh River (now the Connecticut River) which was called Fort De Goede Hoop. In 1626 a fort was built on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, this fort was called Fort Amsterdam and around it the town of Nieuw Amsterdam developed, it was destined to become the capital of the Dutch colony, in 1628 the population at Nieuw Amsterdam was 270 souls. Peter Minuit, director general of the company and a Walloon, purchased all of Manhattan Island from the local natives for 60 Dutch guilders, which some have calculated to equal $24. The village's growth was slow, but the population was diverse from the beginning. Since Holland of the day was one of the most prosperous and desirable places in the world, only a limited number of Dutch were attracted across the ocean. Instead, people of many different nationalities searching for economic opportunities found new hope in New Amsterdam. From its earliest times, the town was a melting pot. No one ever confused early Boston with New Amsterdam; the latter was a seafarers' town, complete with a full complement of taverns and smugglers. Dutch control of the New Netherlands lasted only about 50 years, but remnants of that time remain. Dutch settlers erected a stockade wall at what was then the northern edge of New Amsterdam, which later evolved into Wall Street. Dutch villages of Haarlem and Breukelen would later become New York boroughs. Early Dutch farms, called bouweries, provided the name for the section of the city that would later become the Bowery. In the countryside outside of New Amsterdam, things were somewhat different. To bolster Dutch control in the area, the West India Company created a patroon, or land-owner, system that granted huge parcels of land and feudal rights to individuals who could finance the settlement of 50 adults. Land ownership was denied to common workers, who became tenant farmers. One of the most famous patroonships was along the Hudson River; it was maintained by Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a Dutch diamond merchant. The result of this system was the concentration of large blocks of land and exclusive political power in the hands of a few. This society was immortalized in Washington Irving's History of New York. The patroon system lived on in New York into the early 19th century. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was sent to New Amsterdam to replace an unpopular governor, but his dictatorial style proved to be equally distasteful. Meanwhile, English settlers were expanding into the New Netherlands, forcing the Dutch out of New Hope in the Connecticut Valley and establishing new settlements on Long Island. In 1664, James, Duke of York and brother to King Charles II, asserted his claim to the entire region between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers. English troop ships arrived in New Amsterdam harbor and prepared for battle. Stuyvesant bellowed orders to the citizens to defend the colony, but could not motivate them. The New Netherlands became New York without a shot fired. Jan Fransse Van Husum came to the New Netherlands in 1639, making him our second earliest emigrant. From him come many descendants bearing some 30 varients of the name Van Husum; Van Husem, Van Huysen, Van Huisen, Van Hoese, Van Hoesen, Von Huss, Yon Huize, Vanhosen, Vanhouser, Vanhooser, Van Hoese, and our Van Hoose. He was born about 1608/9 in the city of Husum in the province of Schleswig in northern Germany, now called Schleswig-Holstein. He was called Jan son of Fransse. Schleswig-Holstein is the region of southern Jutland dividing Denmark from Germany. It is bound on the west by the North Sea and on the east by the Baltic. Clearly, Jan Fransse was not Dutch. He was Frisian-speaking most likely and an accomplished sailor. Off the coast of Husum, in the North Sea, lay an island by the name of Nordstrand or Nordstrant. Here, in 1618, was born to Wilhelm Jurianse [5378] a daugher, Volkie. When Nordstrand was destroyed by a storm in 1634, Volkie and her sister Annetje Juriaens survived and were taken to Husum. Here Jan Fransse and Volkie met, fell in love and married. The church banns of April 30, 1639 are translated thus: 'Appeared as before, Jan Franz from Housom (sic), sailor, age 30 years, living in Corte Tuijnstraat, having no parents but assisted by his cousin Anna Jans, and Volckje Juriaens age about 21, of same street, having no parents but assisted by her acquaintance, Isaack Pietersen.' They were married in the Dutch Reformed Church at Nieuwe Kerk at Amsterdam, Holland on May 15, 1639. Before they got married, they'd already made arrangements on March 28, 1639 with Kiliaen Van Renselaer concerning immediate passage to and settlement in the colony of Rensselaerswyck. The colonists agreed to remain there for four years. This document also stated that their "ship now lies ready," but they didn't set sail until after Jan Fransse and Volkje Juriens were married on May 15, 1639. After the wedding they set sail on the ship, "Den Harlinck" and arrived in New Amsterdam on July 7, 1639. Jan Fransse Van Husum was a sailor by occupation and acted as a commissioner for the West India Company. He was interested in shipping and purchased several lots and erected many buildings in Albany. They settled at Fort Orange which later became known as Albany, New York. While he lived there, he made several purchases of land. On March 10, 1647 he gave power of attorney to Jan Janse van Brestyn, cooper, to claim from Abraham Plank at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherlands seventeen beaverskins which were due him. By 1652 he had permanently settled in the Hudson area when he purchased a lot in Albany, which is located today on the northeast corner of Broadway and State Street. The following year he received another grant of land above the town's stockade by the river with an adjoining garden lot. On May 11, 1667 two more parcels of land were confirmed by patent. His principal land purchase was made on June 5, 1662 for several hundred acres of the Claverack land from the Mohican Indians. Klaver River means Clover Reach. This tract of land includes the ground on which the city of Hudson is built and also a part of Greenport. It extended along the Hudson River from Stockport Creek on the north to the mouth of Keshna's Kill on the south, which empties into the South Bay near Mount Merino and on the east of Claverack Creek. Here it met the boundary of the Van Rensselaer Patent, and the priority of the title was contested by the Patroon. After a long litigation, the court finally settled the title in favor of Van Hussem, and were conferred to him by a patent from Governor Nicoll at Albany on May 14, 1667. The purchase was originally made from an Indian named Pametepiet (or Pompoenick) with his signature being a mark, and another Indian named Tatan Kenant, whose signature was also a mark . The purchase price for this large amount of land was 500 guilders in beavers. On June 11, 1664, the sale was confirmed by another Indian and owner named Sickaneec~ (alias Tunis). Van Hussem's signature was also a mark. By the time this dispute was settled Jan Fransse was already dead, so the land was transferred, in whole or in part, to his heirs in accordance with contracts dated May 30 , 1667 and June 22, 1694 Ancestry.con Information provided by Warnerjo_1 on 1/13/2013 Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175882890825label=@S22@