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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: Lambert Jochemse Van ValkenburgMale Note
Born: 1614 1614-1-1 at Valkenburg, Maaestrict, Limburg, Netherlands Valkenburg, Maaestrict, Limburg, Netherlands
Married: Abt 4 Jan 1642 1642-1-4 at Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands
Died: at , Albany County, NY , Albany County, NY
WIFE
Born: Abt 1621 at Tonningen, Schleswig Holstein, Germany
Died: 17 Sep 1704 at Albany, Albany County, NY
Father: Lambert Jacobs
Mother: Unknown
CHILDREN
Born: Abt 1642 at New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
Died:
Husband: Zacharias Sickels
Born: 4 Nov 1646 at New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
Died:
Wife: Eva Hendrickse Vrooman
Born: Abt 1650 at New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
Died:
Husband: Andries Hanse Huyck
Name: Lambert Lambertse Van Valkenburg
Born: 21 Jul 1652 at New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
Died:
Born: Abt 1654 at New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
Died: 1748
Husband: Jan Or John Radcliff
Name: Maritje Lambertse Van Valkenburg
Born: 1656 at New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
Died:
NOTES
1). Lambert arrived in North America in 1624, name of shi p i s u nknown. Lambert Jochemse van Valckenburch of New Amsterdam From The Washington Ancestry and Records of the McClain , J o hnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families Prepared for Edward Lee McClain by Charles Arthur Hoppi n . G reenfield, Ohio Privately Printed 1932 Contributed by Karl J. Van Valkenburgh LAMBERT JOCHEMSE VAN VALCKENBURCH Valckenburgh, Valkenbe r g , Valckenborch , born at Valkenburg in Dutch Limburg , o n th e Geule River, seven miles east of Maestrict, in H olla nd, a ppears first of record in America, July 29, 1644 , whe n he p urchased of Jan Jacobsen, a house and plantati on o n the isl and of Manhattan, with twenty five morgens o f lan d adjoinin g. Register of the Provincial Secretary o f Ne w Netherland , II, 121. Evjen s Scandinawan Immigran ts i n New York pa ge 406 erroneously places Lambert a s a Germ an from Falkenb urg in Germany, having been misle d by the s imilarity of pla ce names . The grantor was Ja n Jacobsen St ille van Vreeland t who died or left New Amst erdam soon aft er this sale. Many years later the land became a part of the farm of Co l o nel Nicholas Bayard who died in 1707 This land is o n t h e west side of the present Bowery from Canal Street t o Br oo me Street. There is no record of the disposal of th ese t wen ty five morgens fifty acres of land and the hou se o f Lamb ert van Valckenburch. It is stated in The Icono graph y of Ma nhattan Island VI,72 that he may have surr endere d this f arm to the West India Company when he acq uired t he trac t opposite to Kip s Bay plantation, late r known a s the Sam ler farm. This latter property was of twenty four morgens, grant e d b y Director General Peter Stuyvesant to Lambert van Va lc kenb urch, on May 15, 1649 It embraced what are now n in e cit y blocks on the west side of Lexington Avenue fro m Tw enty N inth to Thirty Fifth Streets, and extended, wes tward , acros s what are now Park and Madison Avenues beyon d Fift h Avenu e from Thirty First to Thirty Third Street , and inc luded th e corner of the present ThirtyThird Str eet and Fi fth Avenu e, on which stood, until 1929 the sout heastern pa rt of th e Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and wherein 1 931 was erec ted the E mpire State Building, then the highe st building i n the worl d. The confirmation of title to this property issued in 16 6 8 Libci Patents, III, 43, Albany by Richard Nicolls , Go vern or of the Province of New York, refers to the gro und b rie f from Stuyvesant to Lambert van Valckenburgh, da ted Ma y 15 , 1649, covering 48 acres 24 morgens , and rec ites th at th e land was conveyed to Claes Martensen. Thi s later ow ner i s identified in the Iconography of Manhatt an Island VI,138 , viz. Claes Martensen van Rosenvelt, the ancestor of the Roosev e l t family, occupied the farm originally granted to Lambe r t v an Valckenburgh, at least as early as 1635. Probabl y h e sol d his farm to Claes Martensen when he went nort h 165 2 . Di ngman Versteeg identified Martensen as Nicola s Marte ns, men tioned in a court record as early as Augus t 26 163 8. He i s said to have been the direct ancestor o f Theodor e Rooseve lt who was born less than a half mile d istant. The surname of Roosevelt was adopted by the children of N i c olas Martensen, in place of Nicolsen and Martensen, bec au s e Roosevelt was the name of the place in Holland fro m whi c h their father had come to America. On January 25, 164.4, a declaration of Olaf Stevensen v a n C ortland and Gysbert Opdyck refers to a statement of L am ber t van Valckenburch respecting property of Peter Live se n dec eased. Register of the Provincial Secretary of Ne w N etherl and, II, 95 Lambert Van Valckenburch seems t o hav e reside d upon the fifty acre farm he purchased of J an Jac obsen, a t least until March 16, 1647, when he was g ranted , by the D irector General of New Netherland, a pate nt fo r a lot on th e south side of Fort Amsterdam, Manhatt an Isl and. Land Pap ers of the Province of New Netherland , G.G. , p. 192. Here he may have lived until he removed to Fort Orange ab o u t 1652, as his second farm, acquired May 15, 1649, wa s ov e r two miles northward in a region sparsely settled , not w el l developed, and far beyond the defensive wall b uilt acr os s the island at Wall Street to protect the vill age aroun d F ort Amsterdam from Indians and others. The ho use and ga rde n location close under the southern wall o f Fort Amster da m was of such prominence and interest as t o merit furthe r n otice. The fort stood on the southwestern half of the site o f t h e present U.S. customhouse. The distance from the for t t o t he harbor was much less then than it is now. This l an d pate nted to Lambert van Valckenburch was nine rods an d o ne foo t long north and south by one rod and three fe et w ide. Th e northern end of this lot would be about fift y t o sixty fe et south of the southwestern corner of the U .S . Customhouse the southern end was directly upon the S tra nd, the narro w open space between the lot and the harb or . This positio n gave an unobstructed view, from the lot , o ver the entir e harbor. The grant of the lot was made f or t he creation th ereon of house and garden. It was a corner lot bounded by open public ways on thre e s i des. This land is outlined as lot No. 1, in Block H o f t h e key to the famous ancient Castello plan of New Amst erda m . This plan depicts a house upon the southern end o f th e la nd, exactly in the east and west center of the so uther n en d of Manhattan Island. As Lambert van Valckenbur ch wa s th e first grantee of this land, and, as when he so ld i t in 16 56 to Isaac Gravenraedt Greveract , his hous e ther eon wa s sold with the land, It is conceived that h e buil t the hou se. This lot was one of the only three al l grant ed in 1647 south of the fort. The lot next to the west was granted to, and patented b y , J an Evertsen Bout, the interpreter of the language o f th e In dians, and the other to Sergeant Huybertsenth e Engli shman , James Hubbard . Lambert van Valckenburch re moved t o For t Orange and Beverwyck Albany about four ye ars befo re h e sold this house and land to Gravenraedt i n 1656, and , als o, seemingly before his farm of forty eig ht acres wa s enter ed upon by Claes Martensen in 1655 G ravenraedt s old th e house and lot beside Fort Amsterdam t o Pieter Jans en Clot t of Mingaquy in New Yarsie March 23 , 1670, when th e hous e was described in the deed of sal e as an old Tenne ment. In 1673 the English commander o f New York New Amst erdam , Captain Colve, confiscated th is house and lot, wit h the t wo others aforesaid, for mili tary purposes. These h ouses ar e depicted in several of th e earliest pictures o f New Amste rdam. The site of the original lot would be now a strip 148 1 2 f eet long by 19 1 2 feet wide, beginning opposite th e so uthw estern corner of the U.S. Customhouse in State St reet , an d running southward to near the center of Batter y Park . A d rawing in The Iconography of Manhattan Islan d II, 27 3,274 , 388 outlines the bounds of this land, a s well as t he bou ndaries of the farm bought in 1644 of Ja n Jacobsen a nd of t he farm secured in 1649 of Director Ge neral Stuyves ant. Lambert Jochemse van Valckenburch of Fort Orange Present day Albany, New York From The Washington Ancestry and Records of the McClain , J o hnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families Prepared for Edward Lee McClain by Charles Arthur Hoppi n . G reenfield, Ohio Privately Printed 1932 Contributed by Karl J. Van Valkenburgh The earliest record of the presence at Fort Orange Alba n y of Lambert van Valckenburch is dated March 7, 1652 , i n th e proceeding of the court of Rensselaerswyck, whe n Cla es Ja nsz, from Bockhoven, also recorded as Claes d e Braeba nder , Holland, was summoned to court for having , out of sp ite a gainst Director Van Slichtenhorst, cause d his servan t to ha ul wood for Lambert van Valckenburch , contrary to t he ordin ances. Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS. , p. 843. In the appendix to a letter, dated January 15, 1653, fr o m t he directors of the West India Company, at the Chamb e r at A msterdam, Holland, to the High and Mighty Lords , th e State s General, and containing complaints agains t the p atroon a nd directors of the colony of Rensselaersw yckin th e provinc e of New Netherland occurs the complain t that th e patroon a nd directors, forbid, even on pain o f corpora l punishment , any wood to be cut or hauled for t hose at Fo rt Orange, an d a certain man named Claes Janse n of Boeckho ven was by gre at favor amerced in a fine of f ifty guilder s solely becaus e he had carted some firewoo d for one Lambe rt van Valckenbu rg, an inhabitant of the a foresaid Fort. Transcripts of D ocuments in the Royal Ar chives at the H ague and in the Stad hays of the City of Am sterdam, Holland , Documents VII. Docu ments Relative to th e Colonial Histor y of New York, 7,525. Lambert himself was summoned on Tuesday, March 31, 1654 t r anslation It is resolved to have Lambert van Valckenburgh summon e d t o appear in court on account of the things done or co mm itte d by him last Wednesday two weeks ago at the hous e o f Gerri t Jansz from Swoll, together with the witnesse s wh o were pr esent. . . .Tuesday, April 28, 1654. . . . . Gerri t Jansz fr om Swoll being summoned by the cou rt to give tes timony to t he truth in regard to the disput e which took pl ace at his h ouse between Andries Herpertse n and Lambert va n Valcken bor gh at the time of the depart ure of the Hon. G eneral, the de fendant s second default is entered agains t him . The Honorable General seems to have been Slichtenhorst w h o , after contending against Peter Stuyvesant, was oblig e d t o return to Holland. What occasioned the controvers y do es n ot appear. If Lambert was defending Stuyvesant, w ho ha d gra nted to him the land beside Fort Amsterdam in 1 647 an d th e farm of forty eight acres in 1649 it would n ot be u nique , because Stu vesant s authority over Fort Or ange an d the c olony of Rensselaerswyck, while not to be c hallenge d succes sfully, were not always relished by som e of the in habitant s there. Minutes of the Court, of For t Orange an d Renssela erswyck pp. 131, 136. As Lammert v an Valckenbo rgh, he wit nessed on August 31, 1654, at For t Orange th e declaration o f Jan Labatie five days late r his name app ears in the tex t of a declaration by the h onorable Willia m Janse Stoll alias Hap as Lammert Va n Valckenbergh and at the end o f that declaration, wher e he made his m ark as a witness , his name appears, as w ritten by Joanne s Dyckman, commissa ry at Fort Orange, Le mmert Van den Ber gh he is also name d in the deed of sal e of a house by Ja n Labatie to Adriae n Janse Appel va n Leyden, on Novembe r 11, 1654, asLambe rt Van Valckenbo rgh. Early Record s of the City and Count y of Albany, pp . J, 199, 204, 212 , 223. The translator an d editor of th e Dutch Van Renssel aer Bowier Manuscrifts ren ders the nam e pp. 843, 845 La mbert van Valckenburch, wh ich form m ay be accepted as th e Dutch ancient spelling. The court of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck w e r e erected on April 10, 1652, by the order of Peter Stuy ve sa nt. At the session of this court of August 26, 1652 , th e mi nutes read translation Adriaen Jansz from Le yden , plai ntiff, against Lambert van Valckenburgh, defend ant , for th e sum of fl. 535 in beavers. At the session o f Oc tober 17 , 1656 translation Gossen Gerritsen, plai ntiff , agains t Lambert van Volckenborch, defendant. Owin g to no nappearan ce of the defendant, default is entered a gainst h im. At th e session of Tuesday, October 20, 165 4 translat ion Lamb ert van Valckenburgh has requeste d to have a lo t. Postpone d until the drawing of lots. As an officer of the law, serving in a company for the pr e s ervation of law and order and in general defense of th e c om munity, Lambert testified at the court of Tuesday, F ebru ar y 8, 1656, viz. translation interrogatories upon which, at the request of Johan de De c k ere, commissary and officer here, is to be heard and ex am in ed Lambert van Valckenburch, sergeant of the burghe r co mpa ny, being summoned by the court to give testimony. Whether he, the witness, yesterday, a week ago, in the ev e n ing, was not molested on the public highway because h e , a s ergeant, by order of his captain, wanted to take o n e Willia m Hap to the guard house? Answer, Yes. Who the aforesaid persons were and how many of them? Ans w c r Declares that he saw but one person, without knowin g w h o he was or being acquainted with him, only, that h e hea r d that it must have been a certain tailor, the brot her in l aw of Dirk Bentsingh. Whether he, or they, did no t com e fo r him with bare knives, intending to attack him , in or der t o wrest the said Hap from his hands? answer Declare s tha t the aforesaid person did as stated in th e question. Who else were present there, what else happened in connec t i on with the said molestation and how the same ended? A ns we r Declares that of the persons who were present he d oe s no t know a single one and that he took the said Hap t o t he gu ard house. At the court of October 17, 1656, a suit was entered by G o s sen Gerritsen against Lambert van Valckenborch, defenda n t , who defaulted by not appearing. Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, 7, 3 4 . , 131, 136, 185, 252,292. On January 9, 1657, Lambert van Valckenborch brought an a c t ion against Hendrick Claessen and Gerrit Willemsen fo r as sa ult, put over And at the extraordinary session of t he co ur t held at Fort Orange, June 7, 1657, by the magis trates , o f this court and the members of the court martia l of th e bu rgher guard. . . . Lambert v Valckenborch, se rgeant, is n amed with the magistrates, as an officer o f the cour t, an d testified that on coming to the guard h ouse he ord ere d a candle to be lit. Marten, the mason, as ked Pieter J acob sen Bosboom where the candles were? l d o not know Bo sboo m answered. Marten replied You stole t hem, whereup on Ma rten drew his sword and cut Bosboom , etc. I bid., II , 4.0. At the extraordinary session of the court held at Fort Or a n ge, August 8, 1659, were issued the instructions to Lam be r t van Valckenborgh and Pieter Winnen who were appoint e d o n July 6, 1659, to the rattle watch on condition tha t t he y were to receive for the term of one year 1,100 gui lder s i n seawan and 100 guilders in beavers. They serve d fro m 9.0 0 p.m. to 4 00 a.m., giving notice of their pr esenc e in al l the streets of the village of Beverwyck b y soundi ng thei r rattle and calling out the hour and th is ever y hour o f the night, and also instructed as to dealing with fires and thieves, and were not to be h e l d accountable for injuries they might inflict upon an y pe rs on who resisted arrest. Ibid., II, 209. At Fort Orange, on July 28, 1658, Lambert appointed a s h i s attorney the Honorable Govert Loockermans to receiv e o f J an Dircksen alias de Schreder three and a half beav er s du e to him for house rent. Albany County, Mortgages , 16 58 60 , p. 330. September 4., 1657, Mr. Van Hamel, secretary of Rensselae r s wyck, sued Lambert van Valckenburgh for loss sustaine d i n t he sale of a field of wheat on the farm of Jan Labi te w hic h he had purchased at auction, and which had to b e reso ld f or nonpayment of purchase money. Judgment for p laintif f wit h costs and damages of 168 florins, and 30 fl orins fo r th e brandy and beer consumed at the auction. On May 27, 1660, Lambert van Valckenburch was. a petitio n e r praying that Dutch as well, as .Indian brokers may b e e mp loyed to go into the woods to trade with the Indians . Th e c ourt declared the petition to be of dangerous cons equen ces , and, after hearing complaints from Indians wh o had be en i ll treated by Dutch traders, denied the petit ion. For t Ora nge Records, XVI, Part II, 33, 110Part II I, 169. A t th e court of July 13, 1660, he complains agai nst the wif e o f Evert, the baker, for having in the absen ce of himsel f an d his wife, entered his house and remove d personal pro perty . The court orders the defendant to re store the goods . At t he same court Daniel Verveelen secur ed a judgment ag ainst L ambert for twenty guilders in beav ers. Govert Loock ermans e ntered a suit against Lambert va n Valckenborch o n July 2, 1 658 Albert Gysbertsen sued hi m on October 28 , l659, fo r a reason not recorded and o n September 1, 166 0, Adriae n van Ilpendam obtained a judg ment against him o f six flori ns in beavers, the defendant s wife, appearing , admitted th e debt. Minutes of the Co urt of Fort Orang e and Beverwyck , II, 123 225 277, 295. A petition is presented by Lambert van Valckenburch, pray i n g for a small lot on the hill. Answer given by way of a po st il that there is no room there and that the space i s res erv ed for a passage way, but if he wishes to hav e a lot la id o ut along the street, toward the north, th e honorable m agist rates will favor him therewith. Minute s of the Cour t of Al bany, Rensselaerswyck and Schenectady , 1, 170. In May, 1671, Lambert van Valckenburgh is mentioned i n a c o ntract of sale of a house and two lots, as residin g in Al ba ny on the Pleyn, next to the Rev. Jacobus Fabric ius, th e fi rst duly authorized Lutheran minister in the p rovince . Not arial Papers, Albany County, I and II, 133. The last record noted of Lambert van Valckenburch is th a t i n the minutes of an Extraordinary Court holden at Al ba n y 6 Augst. 1683, when he subscribed one florin towar d t h e expenses of paying for the maintenance of Domine Go defr id us Dellius. He was not living in 1697, and no recor d app ear s of the settlement of his estate. His widow, Ann atie , die d September 17, 1704, at Albany. This statemen t as t o his a nd her death is given at page 134 of Pearson s Gene alogie s of the First Settlers of Albany. They ha d three ch ildre n of present record, two baptized at the D utch Reform ed Chu rch inside of Fort Amsterdam, Manhattan , behind th e house o f their parents 1646. 4 Nov. ouders Lambert Van Valckenburg Kinders, Joch e m . Getuygen, Marten cregier, Jan Hartman, Lijntie Jochem s . Doo p Boeck, 267. 1652, 21 July Ouders, Lambert Van Valckenberg Kinders, La m b ert Getuygen, Jochem Beeckman, Trijntie Van Campen.Do of B oeck, 283.
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