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| Notes for Lubbert Lubbertson Van WESTERVELT | ||||||||||
| First Westervelt to come to America. Sailed with wife and 4 children. Arrived in New Amsterdam (New York) in the ship "Da Hoop" (Hope) on April 8, 1662 (others say May 24, 1662). Reynolds Genology & Fan Hist of So. NY and Hudson River Valley Gen R 974.4 R462 Vol 1. Westervelt: This old Dutch name is derived from a locality in Holland, meaning the "Western field," and was brought to America in 1662 I. In the year 1662, Lubbert Lubbersen Van Westervelt and Gessie Roelofs Van Houten his wife, and 6 children, as immigrans, came from Meppel, in the province of Drenthe, in Holland, reaching New Amstrdam about May 1st. They crossed in the Dutch West Indies Ship "Faith." In December 1662, they settled in Flatbush, where he purchased a farm. Their children were: Lubbert, Roelof, John, Juriaen, Margretie, and Mary. It is probable that Lubbert Lubbertsen had a 2nd wife as the records of Dutch church in NY show the baptism on March 2, 1681, of Aeltie, daughter of Lubbert Lubbertsen and Hiletie Paulus. (Note: this is Lubbert Jr.'s child) Tallman Westervelt' Book of 1905 Lubbert: a native of Meppel in the province of Drenthe, emigrated to this country 1662 on the ship "Hoop" with wife, children, and brother, and settled in Flatbush. In the early 1670's he removed to Hackensack. The following is located in Tallman Westervelt's book of 1905 Lubbert, the emigrant, brother of Willem Lubbertsen, also settled on Long Island immediately after his arrival in New Amsterdam, for on Dec 15, 1662, he applied to the Schout and Schepens of Flatbush for a building plot on the west side of the village and on the south side of the main road, s per Liber B, folio 10 of Flatbush records. Oct 1673, he sold his farm lands obtained in 1662 to Cornelis Janse De Seen, for he sum of 4,000 guldens, and from this it may be inferred that he discontinued the life of a planter for a time and resided in the house purchased from Jan Miserol in 1670. No evidences is found of his having made any further purchases of lands on Long Island. To the above cited conveyances he signed himself LUBBERT LUBBERTS. Prior to 1676, he removed from Flatbush, L.I., to Hackensack, N.J., then a sparsely settled community. He and his wife transferred their church membership from Flatbush to the congregation at Bergen, Oct 2, 1676; as no organization existed in Hackensack at so early a period. The marriages of his children, Lubbert, Roelof, Jan, Margrietje and Maritie are all recorded in the Bergen church. The civil history of Hackensack antedates the church organization but a few years. Then backwards, up to 1641/2, when it was a trading post, there is almost a perfect blank. At that time a colony was established about five or six hundred paces from the village of the Hackensack Indians, under their sachem, Oritany, but constant or serious pillages soon led to the ruin of the settlement. Its name is thought to signify a confluence of rivers, referring probably to the Passaic and Hackensack. The word is spelled in a variety of ways: Haghkinsack, Hackquinsack, Hachensack, Hackingsack, Hackensack, Yaccinsack, Ackensack, Hagensack, Hackensackey, Hackingkeshacky, achenkeshacky. In the old church records it is called Ackensack. At the organization of the Dutch Church at Hackensack, July 29, 1686, the Reverend Peter Taschemaker states at the opening of the records of this congregation, that he found 33 members, all of whom had formerly connected themselves with churches on Long Island or at Bergen, which was orgnized in 1662. Among this number are found the names of Lubbert Lubertse, the elder,and his wife Geesie (Grace) Roeloise; also those of his son, Lubbert, the younger, with his wife, Hilletie Pauwelse, and daughter Maritie. Aug 1687, his sons Roelof, Jurrien and daughter Margrietje, became members. The locality where Lubbert, senior, resided at Hackensack has not been ascertained. A most exhaustive examination of the records for deeds in the Proprietor's office, at Perth Amboy, and the Secretary of State's office, at Trenton, N.J. failed to give the desired information. That he was a man of some property is known from the fact that he disposed of his lands on Long Island for 4,000 guldens ($1,600), then a considerable sum, and without doubt he made further purchase of lands in New Jersey. Lubbert was born about 1620 and married about 1645: he died soon after 1686. No mention is made of him, either in church or civil records, subsequent to that year. Of his personal appearance, characteristics, nothing is known except that he was a man in good circumstances for the times in which he lived, having reached the years of about "three score and ten". | ||||||||||
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