Woodruff and others have (incorrectly) assumed that our Jan CORSZEN's name was derived from the traditional Dutch Patronymic and that he may have been the son of Kors JANSZEN and Margietje LAMBRUCHT who came to Recife, Brazil as early as 1641 from Holland. There seems to be no supporting evidence of this assumption.
See also Natl. Genealogical Society booklet DUTCH SYSTEMS IN FAMILY NAMING IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY (1954);
OLDE ULSTER MAGAZINE, v.I, p.231-234.

"Commissary DYCKMAN, plaintiff, against Hendrick Jochem and Lourens Jansz, defendants, on account of fighting and wounding of the person of Lourens Jansz, and against Lourens Jansz on account of assault in Hendrick Jochem's house and beating Hendrick Jochems' wife...."
Fort Orange Court Minutes, 14 Oct 1653.

On 9 Nov. 1653 at Fort Orange there were proceedings against "Hendrick Jochemsz, innkeeper, for smuggling a half barrel of good beer laid in last Saturday. Defendant acknowledges the fact but states that he has not been able to enter the same on account of the inconvenience of his wife being in childbed. Resolved this first time to overlook the matter, he to pay the excise without any fine, but that in the future he shall have to guard himself against repeating the offense, on pain of paying the full fine provided in such cases."
Heidgerd, Ruth P., THE SCHOONMAKER FAMILY.

The KIP family was closely associated with the CORSSE (COURSEN-deCOURCY). Johannes KIP and Helena Van BRUG witnessed a baptism of a dau. of Jan CORSZEN and Metje THEUNIS CRAY in 1687. The KIP family had a farm on the east River on what is still known as Kip's Bay. The KIPs were neighbors of the CORSA families of Westchester County, New York in the 18th century.
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT (5/22/54), #B-6124;
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I, p.142,156,156n,180n; v.II, pp.21n,213n;
Theo. L. Van Norden, THE VAN NORDEN FAMILY (1923), pp.72-73;
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.181-182.

In 1655, Dr. Gysbert Van IMBROCH, then for two years a shopkeeper at New Amsterdam, was permitted "to make a lottery of a certain number of bibles, testaments and other books."

"The VanAMBERG family arrived in America very early and we are informed by good authority that the name was originally HENDRICKSE or HENDRICKS."
Charles J. Bodine, "Old Families in Walden," WALDEN CITIZENS HERALD (Walden, N.Y. 1935 & 1940).

Three days following her second marriage, Magdalena (DIRCKS) ROSENKRANS was brought into court on charges of having insulted Mssr. LITSCHOE, a tavern owner and fire warden in the city. On her wedding day, while she and her sister were passing the tavern, she exclaimed "There is the chimney sweep in the door, his chimney is well-swept." Her defense was that she was only joking. LITSCHOE had considerable influence with the city magistrates, and the joking bride was found guilty and fined "two pounds flemish." "Tongue wagging" was not taken lightly during the consulship of Peter STUYVESANT, and sometime in the spring of 1657 Magdalena (DIRCKS) ROSENKRANS was notified that she and Geertje JACOBS, wife of Guert COERTEN, were banished from the colony and being sent to Amsterdam, Holland.

Harman Hendricksen ROSENCRANS secured a discharge from the military by special act of the Council on April 17th 1657; and, with a view to his new bride's exile to Holland, he sold her house and lot to Joost GODERIS, the porter, on 13 August 1657. In October of that year, Magdalena (DIRCKS) ROSENCRANS and Geertje JACOBS were placed aboard a ship bound for Holland and, after being detained in an English port, reached Amsterdam in the middle of March 1658.

In reply to a letter dated 22 Oct 1657 from Peter STUYVESANT, Governor of New Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, which owned New Netherland, wrote on 20 May 1658, "The two women of bad reputation, Magdalena DIRCKS and Geertje JACOBS, whom you sent back here on account of their dissolute life, shall not again receive our permission to return to New Netherland, and if they shall come there again by deceitful practices or under a false name, you may punish them, as they deserve it." However, by 13 June 1658, the Chamber reversed its stand and passed a formal resolution consenting to the return to their colony of Harman HENDRICKSEN and Magdalena DIRCKS, "alias the Flying Angel," on the condition they did not keep a tavern or sell intoxicants.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), p.65;
THE RECORDS OF NEW AMSTERDAM, v.VII, p.146;
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.2-14.

Johannes de DECKER was Vice-Director at Fort Orange; Receiver-General and Member of the Council, in 1657, when he married to Margietje VanBELCAMP. He was one of the Dutch Commissioners signing the Treaty of Capitulation in Sept. 1664. The following month, he was charged with "Trafficke with powder and negroes unto fort Albany and other places upon Hudson River" without proper certification, and was banished from the colony. He returned to Holland, and later was pardoned by the Duke of York. He returned to New York in January 1671, and succeeded in obtaining a grant for 120 acres of land on Staten Island.
Daughters of the American Colonists, LINEAGE BOOK, vol.XII, pp.226-228, #11643; v.XIII, p.361-364, #12854.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.304n.

"In the name of the Lord Amen, be it known by the contents of this present instrument, that in the year 1657, on the 13th day of the month of August, appeared before me Johannes La MONTAGNE, in the service of the General Privileged West India Company, deputy at Fort Orange and village of Beverwyck, Roeloff SWARTWOUT, in the presence of his father, tomas SWARTWOUT, on the . . ., and Eva ALBERTSEN (BRATT), widow of the late Antony de HOOGES, in the presence of Albert ANDRIESSEN (BRATT), her father of the other side, who in the following manner have covenanted this marriage contract, to wit, that for the honor of God the said Roeloff SWARTWOUT and Eva ALBERTSEN after the manner of the Reformed religion respectively held by them shall marry; secondly, that the said married people shall contribute and bring together all their estates, personal and real, of whatsoever nature they may be, to be used by them in common, according to the custom of Holland, except that the bride, Eva ALBERTSE, in presence of the orphanmasters, recently chosen, to wit, Honorable Jan VERBEECK and Evert WENDELS, reserves for her a hundred guilders, to wit, for Maricken, Anneken, Catrina, Johannes, and Eleanora de HOOGES, for which sum of one hundred guilders for each child respectively (she) mortgages her house and lot, lying here in the village of Beverwyck; it was also covenanted, by these presents, by the mutual consent of the aforewritten married people, that Barent ALBERTSE (BRATT) and Teunis SLINGERLAND, brother and brother-in-law of the said Eva ALBERTSE, and uncle of said children, should be guardians of said children, to which the aforesaid orphanmasters have consented; which above written contract the respective parties promise to hold good, etc. --- "Done in Fort Orange, ut supra in the presence of Pieter JACOBSEN and Johannes PROVOST, witnesses, for that purpose called.
"Roeloff SWARTWOUT, (x) Eva ALBERTSE, Thomas SWARTWOUT,
"Albert ANDRIESSEN, Jan VERBEECK, Evert WENDEL, "Teunis CORNELISSEN
"Witnesses: Johanes PROVOOST, (+) Pieter JACOBSEN
"Acknowledged before me, La MONTAGNE, Deputy at Fort Orange."

Ensign SMIT, disgusted with the conduct of the people he was trying to protect, considered withdrawing the garrison as STUYVESANT had authorized him to do. CHAMBERS and others prevailed upon him to forestall such action, and on 29 September 1659, Kit DAVIS was dispatched down the river to inform STUYVESANT of the situation and obtain his instructions. The veteran soldier Harman Hendricksen ROSECRANS and seventeen others were sent to escort DAVIS to his canoe. While returning to the stockade, the group ran into an Indian ambush. Four soldiers broke for freedom, the other fourteen, including the leader, Sergeant LOUWRENS, surrendered without firing a shot and were taken prisoner. Five of the captives were forced to run the gauntlet and then tortured to death by slow fire --- among these Jacob STOL and Jan SLEGHT, the brewer's son. Seven were held for ransom. The thirteenth, a son of Evert PELS, was lucky enough to strike the fancy of an Indian maiden and be adopted into her tribe. Harmen Hendrick ROSENKRANS was the only captive to escape. Upon his escape from the Indians, Harmen Hendrick ROSENKRANS informed Ensign Dirck SMITH of their strength.
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.2-14.

Albert's ANDRIESSEN's brother, Arent Andriesse BRADT (brother of Albert Andriesse BRADT), was an original patentee, in 1662, of Schenectady, and one of the first white men to settle this portion of the Mohawk valley, which is sixteen miles long and eight miles wide. Shortly after settling this land he died, leaving a widow, Catalyntje daughter of Andries de VOS, and six children: Jesie (Aeffie), age 13; Ariantje, age 11; Andries, age 9; Cornelia, age 7; Samuel, age 3; and Dirk, age 1. Their son, Andries Arent BRADT, by his wife Margreta Van SLYKE, had a son Arent BRADT (1680-1767), who married 1704, to Jannetje VROOM.

The two oldest sons, Nicholas and John DEPUY remained in the vicinity of New York.

Moses, youngest son of Nicholas DEPUY and Catryntje de VOS, married Maritje WYNCOOP, daughter of Cornelis WYNKOOP and Maria Janse LANGENDYCK, and took up a large tract of land in the vicinity of Rochester, Ulster County, New York.

ROOSA's petition was forwarded to STUYVESANT only a few weeks prior to the massacre of 7 June 1663, when New Dorf (Hurley) was completely destroyed and many houses in Wiltwyck (Kingston) were burned.
Bertha Jane Thomas Libby, GENEALOGY OF JANE ELIZABETH WHEELER THOMAS (1974), pp.149-155.

Note: Isaac VERMILYE (recorded as Isaac WURMEL on civil records) apparently also had spent some time at Mannheim between 1637 and 1660.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.105.

Family tradition says that at the time of the Massacre of Wiltwyck, 7 June 1663, Jochem Hendricksz SCHOONMAKER (1655-1730) was on his way to visit his maternal uncle, Volckert Jansen DOUW, at the New Village (Hurley), when he was captured by a Wappinger Indian named Wamassaun. During his captivity he suffered from the brutality of the Indians who amused themselves by throwing burning coals and ashes from their pipes upon his head, thereby scarring it in many places so it was his practice always thereafter to wear a red stocking cap.
THE SCHOONMAKER FAMILY, Part One, p.7.

A relief force was dispatched from Fort Amsterdam, and during the last days of July, guided by an escapee, Rachel de la MONTAGNE, wife of Gysbert Van AMBOURGH the surgeon, an expedition of 210 men captured the Indian fort up the Rondout valley (at Wawarsing) where she had been held. In early September 1663, Lieut. van KOUWENHOVEN and Captain KREGIER attacked a new fort that the Esopus Indians were building and killed fifteen Indian warriors, including sachem Papequanaehen, and seven of their women and children. In the two or three months following, there were two or three raids on other Indian sites; and through an exchange of prisoners, most of the missing Christians were accounted for. The Esopus tribes fragments were scattered among their neighbor tribes.
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.12-14.

During the trial in October, Schout SWARTWOUT alleged that Magdalena (DIRCKS) ROSECRANS interfered with him in the discharge of his duty when he was arresting Aeltje CLAES (Van SLEGHTENHORST) for telling him that the paper he was serving on her husband would be used in the privy. Magdalena's story was that she had simply protested: "Swartwout, why do you want to put this woman in prison? Why do you want to disgrace her? She is neither a whore nor a thief, and there is a private place here from which she cannot run away." KREGIER, who presided over the Council of War, was apparently a friend of ROSECRANS. KREGIER officially requested the release of the accused men, stating that he had reached an agreement with brewer SLEGHT and pointing out that SWARTWOUT had not complied diligently with KREGIER's orders to have the stockade repaired. The charges against Magdalena DIRCKS were apparently dropped. Shortly thereafter, however, Magdalena, appeared back in court, however, to support a charge by Eschje GERRITS that Sergeant NIESSEN, who was in command during KREGIER's absence, was unlawfully possessed of a pillow of Eschje's. The sergeant said Magdalena's declaration was false, based on words uttered by his wife while sick and delirious, and demanded that Magdalena be sworn. The outcome of the case is not known, but it is interesting to note that NIESSEN's wife was later convicted of petty thefts in New Amsterdam.
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.12-14,92-93.

In a hearing of a complaint against Frederick PHILLIPSEN, Nicholaes MEYER, Luykas ANDRIESZEN and others to the Council of New Netherland, the following testimony was given: "8th Xober, 1663 - Also send a convey down in the morning with grain to the river side, which on returning brought up the Wappinger Sachem and his wife, Splitnose, the Indian last taken by us. Which Sachem brought with him two captive Christian children, stating to us that he could not, pursuant to his previous promise of the 29th of November, bring along with him the remainder, being still five Christian captives, because three were at their hunting grounds and that he could not find them, but that another Indian was out looking for them; the two others are in his vicinity; the squaw who keeps them prisoner will not let them go, because she is very sick and hath no children, and expects soon to die; and when he can get Albert Heyman's oldest daughter, who is also at the hunting ground, and whom he hath already purchased and paid for, then he shall bring the remainder of the Christian captives along. For the two Christian Children which he hath brought with him; an Indian child is given him, being a little girl, and three pieces of cloth, with which he was content."
Hood, Dellman O. THE TUNIS HOOD FAMILY (Portland, Oregon 1960), p.17.

Capt. BRODHEAD tended to embroil himself with the Dutch/French settlers, even with his neighbors at the New Dorp (Hurley), where he had rented a farm. One day he arrived at the store of Louys DuBOIS while a fight between the feisty Albert Hymanse ROOSA and five English soldiers was going on. ROOSA had entered the store in search of a man to repair his plough-colter and, being badgered by the soldiers, who were in there drinking brandy, he had thrown the colter at one who was drawing his sword, scoring a near miss. Three of the soldiers had chased him outside. BRODHEAD's presence ended the outside engagement, but BRODHEAD didn't go inside to stop the beating the other two soldiers were giving the storekeeper, DuBOIS, and his wife. It was the English soldiers that preferred charges; and the Wiltwyck magistrates, with BRODHEAD sitting as observer, held ROOSA for further examination.
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.94-102.

"Cornelis Barentsen SLEGHT is beaten in his own house by his Souldr. George PORTER, and after this by the other Souldrs. forced to prison, and was by some souldrs. at his imprisonment used very hard."

"Cornelis Barentsen SLEGHT, beinge by Capt. BROADHEAD very ill treated, in his own house, was afterwards by the said Capt. forced to prison, and his armes by force taken out of his house, which still doe Remain by the said Capt. BROADHEAD."
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.31, p.165.

In spite of (or perhaps because of) the worsening hatreds between the Dutch/French settlers at Hurley and the English, Harman ROSECRANS, in February 1667, sixteen months after the issuance of the judgment against Richard CAGE or CUGGE, demanded of the court an attachment of the English soldier's assets. Magdalena (DIRCKS) ROSECRANS proceeded to locate and tie up sums of money owed CAGE.

Angered by these legal maneuvers, the English Soldier decided to revenge himself on the washerwoman who wouldn't be cheated of her pay. He butchered and served the ROSENCRANS goats at a dinner for his friends and, when Harman ROSENCRANS protested, he used his sword on Harman.
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90,p.96.

In the burghers' bill of grievances at Esopus, 25-27 April 1667, it is recorded that "Harman Hendricx (ROSENKRANS) was wounded in his Legge by Richard CAGE in so much that the said Harmen is lame unto this present day, and that only because his Goates were eaten by the soldiers." His wife was taken to prison by Capt. BRODHEAD, who had thrown a glass of beer in her face, called her many bad names, and carried her to the Guard house a prisoner. BRODHEAD admitted to his transgression, but said that Harmen's wife had called his siter a whore, hence the quarrel.
See John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), p.55.

The wife of Nicholas DUPUE appears on the 1667-1675 baptism records of her children in the Dutch Reformed Church of N.Y.C. as "Catharina deVOS" and "Catharina REYNARDT." "Reynard" is the French and "Vos" is the Dutch for the English word "Fox."
Leroy Beck DePUY, DEPUY/DEPUE FAMILY HISTORY (1984), p.4;
"Dutch Systems in Family Naming," p.18, Reprint from the NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY (1953).

In September 1665, soon after New Netherland had become a Province of Great Britain, the English Governor, Richard NICHOLLS, had visited Kingston and placed Captain Daniel BRODHEAD in command at that place. Owing to BRODHEAD's tyrannical conduct, and the many acts of oppression and cruelty by the English soldiers under his command, the inhabitants rose in open hostility in 1667, and in a petition to Governor NICHOLLS for redress, they set forth numerous deeds of cruelty by the soldiers; vis:

"Albert Heymans ROOSA, going with his plouw yron towards the SMITS, was assaulted by five souldrs. whoe wounded him very much, whereupon the souldiers said --?-- the sd. Albert Heymans going --?-- without any reason --?-- brought him to --?-- Imprisonment was most grievously --?-- wounded by Richard HAMER"

Governor NICHOLLS on 16 April 1667 appointed a Commission to inquire into their troubles, and in his letter of instructions, he says: "Albert Heymans and Anthony D. ELBA have spoken most malicious words, and I look upon them as great incendiaries and disaffected persons; if their words be proved they shall not be suffered to live in this government; if they have been actors in the late riot, pitch upon them two for ringleaders, and give order to inventory and secure their estates by the Schout and Commissaries." These troubles are called the "Mutiny at Esopus" in the histories of the time. The Commission appointed by Governor NICHOLLS sat at Esopus for three days. Captain BRODHEAD, admitting the truth of the charges against him was suspended from his command and he died three months afterwards, on 14 July 1667 at Esopus. Antony d'ELBA, Cornelis Barentsen SLEGHT, Albert Heymans ROOSA, and Albert ROOSA's son Ariaen, "were found guilty of a rebellious and mutinous riot, and were taken to New York for sentence. Lieutenant Hendrick SCHOONMAKER, who had also been arrested, was found to have acted under duress and was released. NICHOLS, by advice of his council on the 3rd of May, sentenced Albert Heymans ROOSA to be banished for life out of the government." This sentence of the burghers was subsequently modified, and he returned to Esopus.
Schoonmaker, Marius, THE HISTORY OF KINGSTON (1888), pp.52-57;
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.31, p.165.

In March of 1677, Henry PAWLING charged Magdalena (DIRCKS) ROSECRANS and her son-in-law, Leendert COOL, with slandering him by referring to him as a "Knave" in the course of their gossiping. There followed a bitter court fight in which there were many accusations and recriminations on both sides, involving PAWLING, the ROSECRANS, Tjerck De WITT, Louys DuBOIS, Sarah ROELOFFS, and others.
See NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.94-102,149-164.

"Done in Albany, without craft or guile, on the 30th of October, 1677.
"Albert Andriess Brat
"Philip Schuyler
"Dirck Wessels
"Acknowledged before me, Robert Livinstone, Secr."
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.29-30;

To Joost Van OBLINUS, one lb. nails delivered....
To Johannes VERMILJE, Beer, Wine and rum, etc....
To Nicholas BAYARD for services, old account....
etc.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.371-372.

On 8 October 1684, in a prenuptial marriage contract, "Elsje Jans, having the greatest affection for her children, gives all her possessions after her death to Jochem, Eghbert, Hendrick Engeltje Hendrix and Pieter Adriaens." Engeltje Hendrix, wife of Nicolaes ANTHONY, is to inherit her share, that is, her grandmother's small closet, 2 pewter saucers, and a cow. Witnesses were Yan STOL and Jan VanVLIEDT. An inventory on the estate of Cornelis BArentsen SLEGHT, a house and brewery, an orchard, hop-garden, 3 Morgens of land across the Great Bridge, household furniture, described. "The money in Holland shall be inherited by the children. --- The heirs of the deceased Tryntie Tysen BOS, in love and friendship with our father, Cornelis Barentsen SLEGHT, have agreed to divide their mother's property in the following way: Cornelis Barentsen SLECHT to retain the amount, 75- Sch. of wheat, paying therefore 5% interest per annum, for which purpose he mortgages his real property, consisting of 3 morgens of land opposite the great bridge, house, orchard, brewery, and hop garden. The entire property shall be inherited by Hendrick, Jocomyntie, Mattys, Pietronella SLECHT, at his death, except the 200 sc. wheat to Elsje Jans, Cornelis Barentsen's second wife. Signed Cornelis SLECHT and Jan ELTING; witnessed by Mattys SLECHT and Jochem Hendricksen.

Nicholas DUPUY was living on Beaver St., New Amsterdam in 1686 before removing to Bergen, New Jersey.

(Note: Since there seems to be more than a coincidental relationship between our HELMICKS and families associated earlier with our DeCOURSEY ancestors in Northampton Co., Penna. and New York, we might speculate that our Nicholas HELMICK was not of the German "Pennsylvania Dutch", but was of Belgian-Walloon/Dutch stock. in the 18th century people traveled in groups to settle new lands. Many of the families that settled in the district of West Augusta, Virginia followed the "Long Grey Trail" from the Forks of the Delaware River in Northampton County, Penna. Among these were the families of HORNBECK, KITTLE, POLING, ROSENCRANCE, SCHOONOVER, VANDEVER, WESTFALL, and others with which both our HELMICK and DECOURSEY ancestors were associated. - Bill DeCoursey).

"The plaintiff complains of the defendant according to declaration for nineteen Schipples of Wheat. Pietenella van AKEN, wife and attorney (attorney in fact) of the said Marinus van AKEN, comes and defends the force and injury, and sayth not to be indebted to the plaintiff and put him upon his contry, and the plaintiff in like manner,--- etc." The jury found for the plaintiff (Rachel SLIGHTENHORST), and the defendant (Marinus van AKEN) by his attorney (Mrs. van AKEN) "moves to arrest the verdict of the jury, saying there was other evidence."

Although not an attorney at law, Pietenella (de PREZ) van AKEN of her own knowledge, or lack of it, or upon the advice of someone who was present and thought he knew, moved to "arrest the verdict" of the jury contrary to the law and practice.
Supreme Court, Province of New York, 1691-1704, pp.108-109;
VAN AKEN/VAN AUKEN NEWSLETTER (May 1988), v.5, p.17.

Another DOLSEN family are descendants of Jan Van DALFSEN, from Haarlem, Holland, who bringing certificates from that place, with wife, Anna Van RAASVELT, joined the church in New York, 27 February 1702.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.599n-600n;
Eager's ORANGE COUNTY, p.412.