Harmen Albertse Vedder

  Noted events in his life were:

• Emigration, Abt 1640.

• Occupation: factor for the de Wolff Company (a trading company), 1664.

• Family Origin. Harmen Albertse Vedder:
! SOURCE: Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendents of the First Settlers pf the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982 - reprint of 1873 edition published in Albany, NY. NOTES: Was a trader in Beverwyck before 1657, when he sold to property to Rutger Jacobsen. The price of the house and lot was 2,325 guilders. In 1660 he returned to Holland; in 1661 as agent for Dirk De Wolfe, merchant of Amsterdam, he erected a salt kettle on Coney island, which being claimed by the inhabitants of Gravesend, he brought a suit before the governor and council to make good his claim to it, and being beaten, abondoned the enterprise. In 1663 he leased his bouwery at Schnectady to Symon GROOT for 6 yrs, at 500 gulders rent. In 1664 Harmen VEDDER, William TELLER and Sander Leendertse GLES petitioned Gov. Stuyvesant to have their lands surveyed at Schenectady. In 1668 he was in Holland with other merchants from the provience of New York and made purchase of goods and chartered the ship "king Charles" and his petition to the king of England for permission to send the same to New York was granted. In 1667 he lived in Albany in a house belonging to Dirk DeWolfe of Amsterdam, who had returned to Holland. Due to the absence of Mr DeWolfe, Gov. Nicolls ordered the house and lot to be confiscated. In 1672 Harmen bought property from Dirk Hesselingh - the bouwert No 8 on the Bouwlandt. It comprosed 12 morgens and 130 rods of land. In 1673 he was appointed one of the three magistrates of Schenectady; in 1674 was "schout" of the village, and with the magistrates was reprimanded for not showing due respect for the magistrates of Willemstadt (albany), and for pretending to the privilege of Indian trade; he was particularly complained of because of his conduct towards Capt. Schuyler and was warned "to regulate himself accordingly."

"VEDDER, HARMEN ALBERTSE, the first settler, was a trader in Beverwyck before the year 1657, when he sold to Rutger Jacobsen his house and lot gelegen in de doorpe beverwyck, breet voor en achter ses en dertich voet, lanch vier en sestich voet en met aen ganch van vyfte voet end breet lanch tot aen kil welcke gansch is gelegen tusschen goossen gerritsen en den vercooper &c. This lot was on the south side of State Street, between Green and Pearl Streets, and extended back only to the Rutten kil, now arched over and used as a sewer. The price of this house and lot was 2,325 guilders. In 1660 he returned to Holland; 1661 as agent for Dirk De Wolfe, merchant of Amsterdam, he erected a salt kettle on Coney Island, which being claimed by the inhabitants of Gravesend, he brought a suit before the governor and council to make good his claim to it, and being beaten, abandoned the enterprise; 1663 leased his bouwery at Schenectady to Symon Groot for 6ys., at 500 guilders rent; 1664 Harmen Vedder, William Teller and Sander Leendertse Glen petitioned Gov. Stuyvosant to have their lands surveyed at Schenectady; 1668 being in Holland with other merchants from the province of New York, he purchased goods and chartered the ship King Charles and petitioned the king of England for permission to send the same to New York, which was granted; 1667 he lived in Albany in a house belonging to Dirk De Wolfe of Amsterdam, who, having returned to Holland, Gov. Nicolls ordered the house and lot to be confiscated; 1672 he bought of Dirk Hesselingh de bouwery (daer den voorz; Dirk Hesselingh op woont op Schenechtede), soo het landt, also huys, schuer ende twee berghen, &c., soo als het de voornoemde Hesselingh van Jarriaen Teunissen gecocht heeft gehadt, &c., to be delivered to Harmen Vedder the coming May 1, 1672, together with the seed in the ground; this bouwery, No. 8 on the Bouwlandt, comprised 12 morgens and 130 rods of land and now forms the homestead of Col. D. D. Campbell of Rotterdam; 1672 Harmen Vedder and Barent Ryndertsen sold to Claese Janse Van Bookhoven and Ryck Claese Van Vranken een sekere stuck landts geleeghen over de Rivier aen Canastagioene, consideration 550 skiples of wheat; 1673 he was appointed one of the three magistrates of Schenectady; 1674 was schout of the village, and with the magistrates was reprimanded for not showing due respect for the magistrates of Willemstadt (Albany), and for pretending to the privilege of Indian trade; he was particularly complained of because of his conduct towards Capt. Schuyler and was warned "to regulate himself accordingly." His village lot on the north side of Union Street, was the same as occupied by the late Doct. Alexander G. Fonda, 51ft. front and 404ft. deep Amsterdam measure, extending to Front Street; be purchased it of the heirs of Reinier, son of Domine Schaets of Albany, after his massacre by the French and Indians in 1690. His son Johannes occupied it after his death, which probably took place about the year 1715, for on the 3d of May that year, Arient Vedder, his brethren and sister petitioned the common council of Albany for the renewal of a release ("burnt at Schenectady when it was cut off") of a lot owned by their late father Harmen Vedder deceased, lying on the south side of the city of Albany. The following Ch. of Harmen Vedder were living in 1715: Harmanus; Arent; Albert, b, May 10, 1671; Johannes; Corset; Angenietje, wife of Jan Danielse Van Antwerpen". (June 14, 2002 LCSS). ancestry.com PUTNAM, GRISWOLD, SCHULZ, HILFIKER

Albert and Johannes were carried away by the French and Indians, to Canada, Feb. 9, 1690; ancestry.com Putnam, Griswold, Schulz, Hilfiker

Harmen married Anna Provost. (Anna Provost died on 8 Feb 1703.)