Goosen Gerritsen Van Schaick

  Noted events in his life were:

• Misc: petitioned to lay out a new village called the Great Esopus, 6 Apr 1662. together with Volckert Jansen Douw, Philip Pieterse, and andries Herbitsen he petitioned the Director General and Council for permission to lay out a new settlement at the Great Esopus. Having duly considered this, the Council resolved on April 6, 1662 to lay out a new settlement on the Esopus and to accompodate the petitioners as much as occasion shall permit. This settlement was some miles from the site of the present city of Kingston ans is now named Hurley.

Schuyler, Montgomery, [View Citation] [View Image] The Schuyler family : an address read before the New York branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, April, 1925 New York?: unknown, 1926 pg 7

• Misc: 11/19/1648. He took the oath as member of the court. Like other members of his family in Holland he became a brewer in Albany. He was also a trader and large landwoner, one of several to receive the Half moon patent which covered most of Saratoga County. He became quite wealthy and the members of this family wer well-knmown, wett to do and distinguished. Through out the history of albany, the Van Schaick's were one of the most prominent familes there.

Welling, Jane Betsey, [View Citation] [Table of Contents] They were here too : genealogies of the owners of the inn at Easton Corners and related families of southern Washington County and environs, state of New York Greenwich, N.Y.: Washington County Historical Society, 1963-1971 pg 222

• Misc: had a son Levinius. Levinius Van Schaick son of Goosen Gerritsen, was alderman in Albany when that office was one of power and distinction. by virtue of this position he was on the council for many years at the time of the peter Schuyler mayoralty.

Welling, Jane Betsey, [View Citation] [Table of Contents] They were here too : genealogies of the owners of the inn at Easton Corners and related families of southern Washington County and environs, state of New York Greenwich, N.Y.: Washington County Historical Society, 1963-1971 pg. 222

• Misc: had a daughter in law Gerrit Van Slichtenhorst.

• Misc: had a son Sybran g. Van Schaick. Sybrant was a Colonel during the Revolutionary War. He also served as mayor in 1756 -1761

• Misc: had a son in law Pieter Schuyler. Philip Pieterson and his brother David Pieterson Schuyler were the first immigrants from this family. They were intimate friends of Von Sclicheten hurst, the director of the Dutch West Indian Company. Philip was enamored with Margarita, the daughter of Van Sclicheten. On December 12, 1650 Philip married Margarita Von Sclichetenhurst daughter of Brant Arent Von Sclichtenhurst.

The Schuyler brothers were highly connected in Holland, in their home city. They had a country seat near Dordrecht; ancient pieces of silver plate with the family arms and year marks engraved on them are still in possession of descendants of the family.

David Schuyler married Catalyn Ver-Planck He died on February 9, 1690 during the burning of Schenectady. In 1660 David was a resident of Beverwyck (albany). December 22, 1660 he bought a lot from Anneke Bogardus on which he built a house. On October 1673 he was appointed magistrate of albany, the same year he was made a justice of the peace. In 1686 again he was made alderman. He then moved to a larger house at the corner of Broadway and Steuben Street. His garden planted with flowers and shrubs ran to the banks of the Hudson river He was elected alderman for three successive years. He was a successful business man and accumulated great wealth. he had a close relationship withhis brother Philip. In his will he gave his son Peter his house and the lot on the hill, presumbably the house on State street just above Pearl Street on the south side. Peter was first married to Engilitie Van Schaick who died. He then married Alida Van Sclichtenhurst the widow of Engilitie's brother Gerrit Goosen Van Schaick.

Cowen, Phoebe Susanna Strong, [View Citation] [Table of Contents] The Herkimers and Schuylers : an historical sketch of the two families with genealogies of the descendants of George Herkimer, the Palatine, who settled in the Mohawk Valley, N.Y., in 1721 Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1903, pg 75-77 His

• Misc: is the ancestor of Franklin Delanor Roosevelt.

• Family Origin. Captain Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick who was born in Holland and married Gertsje Brantse Pelen Van Nieuwkirk. He was acting Indian Commissioner as magistrate of Beaverwyck and albany 1649-1664. He was a Lieutenant of Troop of Foot at fort Orange 1670. captain in 1676. His first wife died in 1656. Being about to depart for holland he and 2d wife made a will 1668. He died in albany 1676.

Hillhouse, Margaret P. [View Citation] [Table of Contents] Historical and genealogical collections relating to the descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse New York: T.A. Wright, printer and publisher, 1924 pg 550

Goosen Gerritsen Van Schaick was a brewer in what is now Albany, New York before or at least by 1649. he was acting Indian Commissioner in New Netherland, as Magistrate of Albany 1649-1664 and Lietenant of Troops at fort orange (albany) in 1670 and Captain in 1676 the year he died.

He married first Geertje daughter of Brantse peelen Van Nieukerke. She died in 1656, he married second Annatie Lievens. Before this last marriage he made a contract to set aside 6,000 guilders for his four eldest children by his first wife, that being her separate estate. It appears from the Albany records that he had a step-father Reyer Elbertse and a half-brother Gerrit Ryersen.

He was part owner of what is now Waterfor, New york and is styled Honorable in the early Albany records.

Frost, Josephine C. [View Citation] [Table of Contents] Ancestors of George Bartlett Hoffman and his wife Emma Teresa Cronk unknown: unknown, 1927 pg 36

the first Van Schaick to America - Captain Goosen Gerritsen Van Schaick who came from Scheyk near Westerbroek, holland on his own ship with his wife Geertje Brandtse Pielen Van nieuwkirk about 1634 landing at New Amsterdam on manahattan Island in an early wave of Dutch to claim hendrick Hudson's north river and Niew Nederland for the Dutch; hence up to Beverwyck in 1649 where he became a prosperous brewer as well as land owner and fur trder and is listed prominently by 1652.

Geertje Brandtse Van Nieuwkirk died 1656 at Beverwyck. Captain Goosen married again in 1657 Annetje Liewens or lievens whose father Jans Liewens owned much property in New amsterdam.

On September 11, 1665 Captain Goosens and Phillip petersen Schuyler were made patentees of lands at the mouths of the Mohawk to include islands known variously as Havers, peebles, Cohoes and Anthony's now called Van Schaicks. These lands were granted by the mohawk Chiefs with Governor Nichols permission to Goosen Gerritsen Van Schaick and Philip pieterse Schuyler to prevent those of Connecticut from purchasing it.

It is important to mention that the original Dutch grants were indefinite as to eastern boundary thought they were presumed by the Dutch to extend frm the Hudson eastward to the west bank of the Connecticut River and that the Hampshire Grants were similarly indefinite in their western extension for they were presumed by the New Englanders to extend to the Hudson River's east bank. This is the caus of the controversy and border fighting which brought Ethan allen fame to New Englanders and hatred by the Dutcvh until the Vermon border was finally suveyed and marked in 1812.

Welling, Jane Betsey, [View Citation] [Table of Contents] They were here too : genealogies of the owners of the inn at Easton Corners and related families of southern Washington County and environs, state of New York Greenwich, N.Y.: Washington County Historical Society, 1963-1971

pg 208

In 1649, Rutgers Jacobsen Van Schoenderwoerdt formed a partnership with Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick and founded a brewing business. According to the old records, he turned out an admirable quality of beer, so excellent that it was used by the churches of the time at the feasts or repasts which were given in connection with funerals and weddings.


Hamm, Margherita Arlina, [View Citation] [View Image] Famous families of New York : historical and biographical sketches of families which in successive generations have been identified with the development of the nation New York: Putnam, c1902

pg 106

Goosen married Geertje Van Nieukerke, daughter of Brantse Peelen Van Nieukerke and Unknown, about 1615. (Geertje Van Nieukerke was born about 1600 and died in 1656.)