A Beautiful and Fruitful Place

Selected Rensselaerwijck Papers, Volume 2

Elisabeth Paling Funk, Martha Dickinson Shattuck, Elisabeth Paling Funk, Martha Dickinson Shattuck

• Publisher: Excelsior Editions
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781438435978
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: History

New Netherland's distinctive regional history as well as the colony's many relationships with Europe and the seventeenth-century Atlantic world are featured in the second collection of papers from the widely praised annual Rensselaerwijck Seminar. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic critique and offer the latest research on a dynamic range of topics: the age of exploration, domestic life in New Netherland, the history and significance of the West India Company, the complex era of Jacob Leisler, the southern frontier lands of the colony, relations with New England, Dutch foodways in the Hudson Valley and their use of beer, the endurance of the Dutch legacy into 19th century New York, and contemporary genealogical research on colonial Dutch ancestors. Cogent and informative, these papers are an indispensable source for better understanding the lives and legacies of the long ago New Netherland colony.

Notes

INTRODUCTION

1. Nancy Anne McClure Zeller, ed., A Beautiful and Fruitful Place: Selected Rensselaerswijck Seminar Papers (Albany, NY: New Netherland Publishing, 1991). In his introduction to this volume, Dr. Charles T. Gehring, director of the New Netherland Project, explains that the title was borrowed “from Johannes de Laet's New World, book III, in which the author uses the above phrase to sum up a passage quoted from Hudson's Journal.” The introduction also provides important historical information regarding New Netherland, the New Netherland Project, and the annual Rensselaerswijck Seminar. This volume is now out of print. Its complete text is available on the website of the New Netherland Project and New Netherland Institute at www.nnp.org.

HOME IS MORE THAN A ROOF

1. Anne Grant, Memoirs of an American Lady, vol. 1. (Boston, 1809), 90.

2. Engineer J. G. Kam, Where was that house in Warmoestraat. Published by the Municipal Office for the Preservation and Conservation of Historic sites and Monuments and the author (Amsterdam, 1968).

3. Peter Kalm, Travels in North America. Reprint (New York: Dover Publications, 1987), 341.

4. Ibid., 341–42.

5. Grant, Memoirs of an American Lady, vol. 1, 30.

6. Henk J. Zantkuijl, “The Netherlands Town House: How and Why it Works.” In Henk J. Zantkuijl, Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609–1776 (Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1987), 166–79.

7. The meaning of the word schoorsteen was clarified by Prof. Dr. Gr. R. Meiselke in his inaugural speech for the University of Leiden.

8. Zantkuijl, “The Netherlands Town House: How and Why it Works,” 166–70.

9. Kalm, Travels in North America, 613.

THE TRADES IN THE VILLAGE OF GRAFT

1. Donna Merwick, “Dutch Townsmen and Land Use: a Spatial Perspective on Seventeenth-Century Albany, New York.” The William and Mary Quarterly. 27, no. 3 (January 1980): 53–78.

2. A. Th. van Deursen. “Werkende Vrouwen in een Hollands Dorp.” De Zeventiende Eeuw 4 (1988): 3–16.

3. Ibid., 7.

4. Gemeente Archief Alkmaar (Municipal Archives of Alkmaar; hereafter abbreviated as GAA), Nederlandse hervormde gemeente te Graft-De Rijp (Dutch Reformed Parish of Graft-De Rijp; hereafter abbreviated as NHG) 142, November 20, 1683 (Maertien Lammers).

5. GAA, Rechterlijk Archief (Court Archives; hereafter abbreviated as RA) 6428, September 22, 1644.

6. A.M. van der Woude. Het Noorderkwartier, vol. 2. (Wageningen, Netherlands: Afdeling Agrarische Geschie-denis, Landbouwhogeschool, 1972), 300.

7. GAA, RA 6433 (1656).

8. GAA, NHG 225, January 26, 1657.

9. GAA, Oud Archief Graft (Old Archives of Graft; hereafter abbreviated as OAG) 546, register of the fishing-ground leasings near the lock of Graftdijk. The leaseholder, Jelle Jacobsz., was a schoolmaster; see Rijksarchief Haar-lem (National Archives of Haarlem; hereafter abbreviated as RAH), Oud Rechterlijk Archief (Old Court Archives; hereafter abbreviated as OR) 6106, November 29, 1647.

10. Mention of tailors in: GAA, RA 6430, November 1 1668; RA 6498, June 5, 1633; GAA, OAG 515, 41.

11. The Dutch ending sz. is an abbreviated form of the patronymic szoon.

12. GAA, OAG 41, “Register van de huysen die getimmert sun sedert den jare 1583 ende 1584 tot Graft” (“Register of the houses built between 1583 and 1584 in Graft”).

13. GAA, Notarieel Archief (Notarial Archives; hereafter abbreviated as NA) 1641, no. 54, May 25, 1681.

14. GAA, NHG 225, January 18, 1689.

15. GAA, NHG 225, October 10, 1655. An unnamed man sells a pair of shoes for one guilder and two stivers, “with a pair of clogs included in the price.”

16. GAA, NA 1612, f. 524, attestation of December 20, 1695. Dirck Claesz. Schoen was at that time sixty-one-years-old.

17. GAA, OAG 515.

18. GAA, OAG 186, May 23, 1687, May 30, 1690, October 10, 1693, 1 February 16,. 1703; GAA, NHG 142, June, 10 1686.

19. GAA, OAG 186, March 14, 1696; GAA, NHG 142, October 28 1685, and November 16, 1692.

20. GAA, NHG 628, May 1647.

21. GAA, OAG 188, November 16, 1697.

22. GAA, OAG 188, June 11, 1690.

23. GAA, OAG 94, July 9, 1608.

24. GAA, OAG 94, September 14, 1623.

25. GAA, OAG 94, October 14, 1611.

26. GAA, RA 6428, July 26, 1640.

27. GAA, OAG 95, August 15, 1680.

28. Several inspections concerning fire protection are mentioned in GAA, OAG 93.

29. GAA, NHG 142 from 1684 annually lists the costs of candles bought on behalf of the Church. On the average 250 pounds of candles per annum are bought for slightly over fifty-seven guilders.

30. Th.H. F. M. Nieuwenhuis. Keeshonden en Prins-mannen—Durgerdam, Ransdorp en Holisloot: Drie Waterlandse Dorpen in de Patriottentijd en de Bataafs—Franse Tijd (1780–1813). (Amsterdam. Netherlands: 1986), 138.

31. GAA, OAG 7, f. 210, 14 14, 1601.

32. The contract of 1567 with later alterations is to be found in GAA, OAG 94, April 9, 1619.

33. GAA, OAG 94, April 29, 1608 and February. 17, 1617.

34. GAA, OAG 8, f. 117, May 24, 1619.

35. A. Th. van Deursen. Het Kopergeld van de Gouden Eeuw, vol. 1. (Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1978), p. 15.

36. GAA, OAG 94, March 15, 1651.

37. Nieuwenhuis, 52.

38. GAA, RA 6430, March 5, 1704.

39. Van der Woude, Het Noorderkwartier, vol. 2, 300.

40. Although in the more industrialized Wormerveer female bakers were employed. See S. Lootsma, Historische Opstellen over de Zaanstreek, vol. 1. (Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands: 1939), 80.

41. Lootsma 53.

42. GAA, RA 6470, May 22, 1670. At this auction of the estate of the stallholder Anne Maertens Poes, drawers, racks, caskets, and cupboards were sold for prices varying from one to eight stivers.

43. GAA, RA 6493, f. 227 v., July 5, 1695. Trijntje Hillebrants begins a shop with a capital of 426 guilders.

44. GAA, NHG 225, March 6, 1653.

45. GAA, RA 6430, March 24, 1695.

46. GAA, RA 6430, March 5, 1704.

47. See for panniers and baskets GAA, RA 6469, February 1, 1667 (auction of the goods of the late Jan Hermansz. Backer) and January 13, 1668. See also for C. T. Backer.

48. Johannes A. Faber. “Inhabitants of Amsterdam and their Possessions 1701–1770.” AAG Bijdragen 13 (1981): 152; Nieuwenhuis, 47; D. J. B. Ringoir. “Plattelandschirurgijns in de 17e en 18e Eeuw: de Rekeningboeken van de 18e Eeuwse Durgerdamse chirurgijn Anthonij Egberts.” (Diss. Bunnik, Amsterdam, 1977), 332.

49. GAA, NA 1642, no. 36, February 23, 1693.

50. In 1676, a house plus boat and baker's equipment yielded 450 guilders in Westgraftdijk, GAA, NA 1641, no. 9, May 18, 1676.

51. GAA, NHG 225 contains a variety of prices.

52. GAA, NA 1613, f. 16, attestation of April 3, 1659.

53. GAA, OAG 515.

54. GAA, NA 1641, during the period 1677–682.

55. Ringoir 1977, 13.

56. GAA, NA 1614, no. 27, Feb. 26, 1693, and no. 59, July 8, 1694; GAA, NA 1615, no. 94, November 9, 1702; GAA, NA 1643, no. 17, May 4, 1705.

57. See GAA, NA 1614 and 1615.

58. GAA, RA 6491, f. 2, October 10, 1654.

59. Van Deursen 2, 72.

60. GAA, RA 6498, August 16, 1677.

61. Ringoir, 25.

62. Ringoir, 389.

63. GAA, RA 6430, March 24, 1695, records a rumor about an alleged case of adultery, spread by Pieter van den Bosch while shaving his customers.

64. Ringoir, 320.

65. GAA, NA 1613, f. 19, attestation of May 15, 1659.

66. GAA, NA 1613, f. 19, attestation of May 15, 1659.

67. Processes of this kind are recorded, for instance, in GAA, RAA 6428, December 20, 1635 (24 guilders); 6429, June 12, 1664 (24 guilders); 6430, May 21, 1665 (50 guilders); and December 1, 1695 (18 guilders).

68. GAA, RA 6430, Augst 28, 1670, and October 20, 1689.

THE PRO-LEISLERIAN FARMER

1. E. B. O'Callaghan, ed., “Introductory,” in The Documentary History of the State of New York, 4 vols. (Albany, N.Y., 1849–1851), vol. 2: n.p.; hereafter: Docs. Rel. N.Y).

2. Ibid., 378, 379.

3. Attributed to Nicholas Bayard, “A Modest and Impartial Narrative of several Grievances and Great Oppressions That the Peaceable and most Considerable Inhabitants of … New-York … Lye Under, By the Extravagant and Arbitrary Proceedings of Jacob Leysler and his Accomplices,” in Narratives of the Insurrections, 1675–1690, ed. Charles M. Andrews (New York: 1915), 319–54, passim. Andrews notes that the account was neither modest nor impartial. See also “A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New York, 1698,” in ibid., 360–72, a letter thought to have been written at the request of Bayard and other anti-Leislerian members of the Privy Council; and “Loyalty Vindicated, 1698,” ibid., 375–401, where the other side of the issues dividing New York in the Rebellion are clarified.

4. Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church: New Amsterdam, New York City, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 15 vols. (New York, 1940), vol. 9, 56. They married on February 7, 1685. A census of the New York Reformed Dutch Church membership in 1686 places them in the Out-ward for that year. George O. Zabriskie, “Daniel De Clark (De Klerck) of Tappan and His Descendants,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 96: 4 (October 1965), 195. In all, twenty-two men sat on the Committee of Safety, with seven constituting a quorum. Correspondence with David W. Voorhees, July 19, 1999.

5. Information about Peter Haring is found in the records of the New York Reformed Dutch Church and the Tappan Reformed Church; the Notes and Proceedings of the New York Legislative Assembly; the Orange County Census of 1702; the records of the Board of Supervisors of Orange County (located in the George Budke Collection, New York Public Library); and documents relating to the Tappan Patent. For a fuller discussion of the Leislerian farmers o...

Table of contents

• Title page
• Introduction
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1988: “Domestic Life In New Netherland”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1989: “The Age Of Leisler”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1990: “New Netherland And The Frontier”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1991: “The Persistence Of The Dutch After 1664”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1992: “The Dutch In The Age Of Exploration”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1993: “Manor Life And Culture In The Hudson Valley”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1994: “Family History: Two Branches Into New Netherland Research”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1995: “ ‘Neighbourlie Correspondencye’: Relations Between New Netherland And New England”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1996: “The Staffs Of Life: Bread And Beer”
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1997: “The West India Company And The Atlantic World”
• Notes