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[lindsay.FTW]Pieter Strycker 10-241
1653-1717Information from "THE STRYCKER FAMILY," by William Strycker, 1887
He was one of the patentees of the town of Flatbush named in theDongan patent November12, 1685. He was High Sheriff of Kings County,Long Island, and Judge of the Court from 1720 to 1722. On December 27,1689, he was a Captain of Foot Militia. His residence in Flatbush was astately Holland brick building in quaint Dutch style, with the letters"P. S. ,1696," over the doorway. Its appearance indicated a home ofgenuine hospitality. His son Garret Strycker later lived on thisproperty.
On June 1, 1710, he purchased four thousand acres on Millstone Riverin Somerset County, New Jersey. This deed is still in existence. Itdoes not appear that he ever lived on this property, but his sons Jacoband Barent and his grandsons, the four sons of Jan, moved from Flatbushand settled in Somerset County, New Jersey . In connection with thispurchase of New Jersey land it is well to note that the Dutch land ownersin and around New York thought the rule of the British Crown veryoppressive. Looking across the harbor they saw the fine farms and thebenign rule of the proprietors of New Jersey, and they resolved that atleast some of their descendents should settle there. The establishmentof the Church of England in New York made them particularly eager to movefrom there.
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[lindsay.FTW]Jan Strycker 11-481
1615-1696/97Information from " THE STRYCKER FAMILY," by William S. Strycker, 1887.
Jan Strycker emigrated from Ruinen, a village in the province ofDrenthe, Holland, with his wife, two sons and four daughters, andarrived in New Amsterdam in the year 1652. He left behind him all theprivileges and rights that might be his by descent in the old world. Hesought to start his family on new soil in habits of industry andhonesty. He was a man of ability and education, for his subsequenthistory shows him to have been prominent in the civil and religiouscommunity in which his lot was cast. On December 11, 1653, he joinedwith others in a petition against the conduct of Director Stuyvesant.This petition included a "Bill of Rights" which they published.
Jan Strycker remained in New Amsterdam a little over a year and inthe year 1654 he took the lead in founding a Dutch colony on Long Islandat what was called Midwout, probably from a little village of that namein the province of North Holland. It was also called Middlewoods. Themodern name of the place is Flatbush
In 1654 Jan Strycker was selected as the Chief Magistrate ofMidwout, and he held this office most of the time for 20 years. At aCouncil of War held at Fort William Hendrick on August 8, 1673, delegatesfrom the towns of Midwout, Bruckelen, Amers-fort, Utrecht, Boswyck andGravesend selected him as "Schepen."
He was named as one of the embassy from New Amsterdam and otherprincipal Dutch towns to be sent to the Lord Mayors of Holland to requestassistance from the fatherland to keep from being driven off their landsby the English and the Indians. He took his seat in that assembly as therepresentatinve from Midwout on April 10, 1664.
Jan Strycker also held several other positions of prominence. Hewas one of the representatives in the Hempstead Convention in 1665 and heappears as a patentee on the celebrated Nichols patent October 11, 1667,and again on the Dongan patent November 12, 1685. On October 25, 1673,he was elected Captain of the military company at Midwout and hisbrother, Jacobus, was given the authority to "administer the oaths and toinstal him into office." On march 26, 1674, he was named as a deputy torepresent the town in a conference to be held at New Orange to conferwith Governor Colve "on Monday next, on the present state of thecountry." He was one of two commissioners who built the first DutchChurch on Long Island.
He raised a family of eight children to adulthood and all of themmarried persons of prominence. They also were influential in theircommunities. Jan Strycker died in 1697.
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[lindsay.FTW]Roelof Martense Schenck 11-487
about 1630-1705From "EARLY SETTLERS KINGS COUNTY, N. Y." by T. Bergen
Emigrated to America in 1650. Nov. 30, 1661, he obtained a patentfor 23 morgens and April3, 1674, he bought 200A. with buildings, avillage lot, meadows etc. In 1687 he took the oath of allegiance. OnApril 20, 1688 he bought one half of the mill and Island on which it waslocated. He bought this from his brother, Jan Martense Schenck. In1662, 63, and 64 he was magistrate of the town; in 1665 itsrepresentative in the Hempstead Convention; in 1685 Sherrif of the county; in 1689 and 1692, a justice of the peace.
Neeltje Gerretse VAN KOUWENHOVEN
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