Case And Allied Families

Author : Henry Whittemore
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ISBN 13 : 9781332333271
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book The Abeel and Allied Families (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Whittemore and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Abeel and Allied Families He married Nov.22, 1660, Neiltje Jans Croom (or Kroom), a native of Holland. They had issue: Magdelena, married Gerardus Beekman; Marie, born 1666; nrried Garret Duyckinck; Johannes born 1667; Elizabeth, born probably 1670; married Evert Bancker. Johannes Abeel, eldest son of Christopher Janse (Croom) Abeel, was born in Albany, March 23, 1667, died Jan.28, 1711.He was a prosperous merchant, and was elected mayor of Albany, 1694-5. He removed to New Amsterdam and lived there for a time and on his return to Albany was elected a member of the Assembly in 1701; and in 1709 was again elected mayor of Albany. He married April 10, 1694, Catharine, daughter of David Schuyler, who, with his brother Pieterse, came from Amsterdam in 1650, and settled at Fort Orange. David Schuyler, the younger of the two, married Oct.13, 1657, Callyntje, daughter of Abraham Isaacsen VerPlanck, the owner of Paulus Hook, now-Jersey City. Johannes Abeel, by his wife Catharine (Schuyler) Abeel, had issue: Cataline, bap. New York, Oct.23, 1691; Neiltje, bap. Albany, April 14, 1698;Christoffel, bap. Dec.16, 1696;David, bap. April 29, 1705; Jannette, bap. at Albany, June 6, 1705. A copy of the inventory of his goods and personal estate includes a painted picture of himself; also one of his wife and daughter. Christoffel Abeel, son of Johannes and Catalina (Schuyler) Abeel (elder brother of David), was bap. at Albany, Dec.16, 1696.He married Sept.23, 1720, Margueritta Breese, and had issue: Johannes John), bap. April 18, 1722;Anthony, bap. Jan.27, 1724;Anthony Breese, bap. April 11, 1725;David, bap. Aug.13, 1727(settled at Bak-Oven, near Catskill, in Greene County, N.Y., where he died in Feb., 1813, in the eighty-seventh year of his age); Catharina, bap. June 9, 1734;Jacobus, bap. Jan.26, 1736;Maria, bap. April 27, 1740. Johannes, or John Abeel, eldest son of Christoffel and Margueritta Breese Abeel, was born in Albany, April 8, 1722, and is recorded as an alleged lunatic for the following reasons: He early developed a taste for hunting and finally became a fur trader among the Indians of the Six Nations, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship, so much so that he became enamoured with an Indian princess, named Aliquipiso, of the Turtle Clan of Seneca Tribe, and married her. Their son, born about 1742, became the famous Corn Plant. The History of Montgomery County, N.Y., pages 218 and 233, contains the following additional facts relating to John Abeel: John Abeel, an Indian trader, settled in the town (Minden), a short distance from Fort Plain, in 1748. He secured several hundred acres of land of one of the grantees of the Blucker patent. In his previous intercourse with the Indians, he had married the daughter of a Seneca chief, the ceremony being performed after the Indian fashion. A child of this mariage was the famous chief, Cornplanter (Corn Plant). Abeel erected a stone dwelling upon a knoll directly above the flats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.