Theunis (Corneliszen) Swart (abt. 1625 - abt. 1680)

Born about 1625 in Nederland [uncertain]

Husband of Lijsbetje van der Linde — married about 1649 in Rensselaerswyck, New Netherland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1680 at about age 55 in Schenectady, Albany County, New York

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Biography

“Teunis, while still in his teens, emigrated to the Manor of Rensselearswyck in the Dutch colony, New Netherland, where he spent his first eight years as a farmhand, then leased his own farm on the manor and married. He then settled across the river in Beverwyck (Albany) where he was a small-time fur trader. Later in life he moved to and help found Schenectady on the Mohawk River where he farmed. He was living in Schenectady when the English took the colony from the Dutch. His nickname ‘jonge poentie’ is found linked with his name in the records of all three communities, providing proof that it is indeed the same person, and his will gives his name as Swart and confirms that he did indeed marry Lysbeth van der Lindt. His widow remarried and moved back to Albany, then married a third time.”^[1] [For more details, see the attached pdf - Teunis Cornelisz Swart.]

Birth

ABT 1624/1630 Place: Holland

Marriage

Teunise Cornelise Swart married Elisabeth Lendt [Van der Linde] ABT 1649 on Manor of Rensselaerswyck, New Netherland [New York].

[About 1681, his widow married next Jacob Meese Vrooman (abt.1616-bef.1691) and moved back to Albany. In 1691 she married third Wouter (Albertsz) van den Uythof (abt.1620-aft.1691) of Albany.

Children

(Not necessarily in this order):

1. Jacomyntje [Jemima] Swart (c.1650- ) m. Pieter Cornelisz Viele; m2 c.1686 Bennony Arentse van Hoeck ( -1690); m3 by 1693 Cornelius Arentsz Fynhout, widower.
2. Marytje Swart (est.1650- ) m. est.1676 Claes Laurensz van der Volgen (alias Van Purmerend).
3. Cornelis Swart, baptized 21 July 1652, m. est.1683 Jacomyn Fynhout; m2 c.1694 Anna Maria Decker.
4. Esaias Swart (1653- ) m. Eva van Woert.
5. Neeltje [Cornelia] Swart (est.1655-by1722) m. est.1670 Willem Abrahamsz Tietsoort.
6. Pieternella Swart (c.1657- ) m. c.1680 Gerrit Adriaensz van Vliet.
7. Teunis [Anthony] Swart ( - ). Apparently died young.
8. Frederick Swart ( - ). Apparently died young.
9. Adam Swart (est.1660s-after1730) m. January 15, 1690 Metie Willemsz van Slyck..
10. Jannetje Swart (c.1670- ) m. July 2, 1695 Wouter Storm van der Zee.

Will & Death

On July 21, 1677 Teunis and Lysbeth made a will that has been transcribed as follows:

Near noon about 7 o’clock (!) before me, Lodevicus Cobes, Secretary of Schenectady and for the undersigned witnesses, appeared the worthy Theunis Cornelisse Swart and Elizabeth van der Linden his wife, -- the longest liver to have bonds, book-debts, money, gold, silver, coined and uncoined, jewels, clothing, linnen, woolen, household-good. “If the survivor should marry, one half to go to their” children, begotten by them, and if so should happen that both the testators should die without having married again, the minors shall be brought up from the proceeds of the estate. Signed: Theunis Cornelisse (his mark) and Leysebeth Van der Lenden. Witnessed by Sweer Thonissen (the mark) & Douwe Aukes.^[2]

Teunis Cornelise Swart died ca. 1680/1681 at Schenectady, New York.

Residence and Land Holdings

In 1637, Teunis, while still young, sailed on the ship De Rensselaarswyck to the Manor of Rensselaerswyck on the North [Hudson] River in the Dutch colony, New Netherland, where he spent his first eight years as a farmhand, then leased his own farm on the manor.^[1][3]

About 1650, after he married, he settled across the North [Hudson] River in the new community, Beverwyck [Albany].^[1]

About 1661 "Teunis Cornelise Swart was one of the original proprietors who settled at Schenectady. Swart occupied the lot on the east corner of State and Church streets while his bouwland farm was No. 10. Swart had three sons, Cornelis, who removed to Ulster County; Adam, who moved to Kinderhook; and Esaias or Jesaias, who remained in Schenectady and became the ancestor of the Mohawk Valley Swart family." ^[4]

Teunis Cornelise Swart owned a town lot of 170 by 200 feet at the corner of State and Church streets in Schenectady, New York. ^[5] He also owned a farm on the bouwland, patent Jan15, 1667 confirmatory of that by Gov. Stuyvesant, June 16, 1664, containing 48 acres. ^[5] In addition, Teunis had pasture land on the north side of Front street amounting to 5 acres. ^[5]

Church Records

Children's baptisms

1. 1652. Jul 21. Cornelis. Theunis Corneliszen. Wit.: Willem Beeckman, Michiel Janszen, Maria Duycking, Maria Ruwarts. ^[6] This appears to be the baptism that Pearson is referring to when he gives a 1652 birth date for Cornelis.

Research Notes

LNAB

Corneliszen, Theunis' patronymic, is the "surname" that first appears for him in records, at the baptism of his son Cornelis. This is assuming that the 21 Jul 1652 baptism belong to this man and his son. Quackenbush-118 00:02, 9 March 2017 (EST)

Miscellaneous

Note N8158

A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times

7: Adult Freeholders - Teunis Cornelise Swart

Prof. Jonathan Pearson

Go back to: Adult Freeholders | Swits | ahead to: Swart

[This information is from pp. 149-151 of A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley by Jonathan Pearson, A. M. and others, edited by J. W. MacMurray, A. M., U. S. A. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883). It is in SCPL's Schenectady Collection at Schdy R 974.744 P36, and copies are also available for borrowing.]

[Copies of this book are available from the Schenectady County Historical Society.]

[The original version uses assorted typographical symbols to represent footnotes. To improve legibility, the online version uses the form (page number - note number.)]

Two brothers of the name of Swart were among the early settlers of Schenectady; - Frederic Cornelise, who was proposed by Secretary Ludovicus Cobes in 1676 as one of the magistrates of the village, and Teunis Cornelise from whom all the families of this name in this vicinity are descended.

After the death of the latter about 1680, his wife Elizabeth Lendt or Van der Linde (150-1) married Jacob Meese Vrooman of Albany; he died about 1690, and Oct. 14, 1691 she again married Wouter Uythoff of Albany.

Teunis Swart occupied the lot on the east corner of State and Church streets, 170 feet front on the former and 200 feet on the latter street, until his death; and was succeeded in possession of it by his widow and son Cornelis, who early removing to Ulster county conveyed it in 1692 to his brother-in-law Claes Laurense Van der Volgen, reserving for his brother Esaias Swart a lot of forty feet front on Church street from the north end.

The deed is dated Jan. 4, 1692, conveying the lot of Teunis Cornelise Swart, granted to and in the name of Jacob Meese Vrooman [second husband of Elizabeth, widow of said Swart] by the magistrates of Schenectady, according to deed of date Feb. 7, 1682/3, by Wouter Uythoff [third husband of said Elizabeth] and said Elizabeth to Claas Laurense Van Purmerent [alias Vander Volgen], - "being a corner lot over against the church (te weten de kerk), (150-2) two hundred feet long [on Church street] and one hundred and seventy feet broad [on State street] having des heeren Straeten (150-3) [State and Church streets] on the south and west and to the east Jan Labatie according to deed of date Feb. 7, 1682/3; excepting a piece conveyed to Esaias Swart by deed of July 30, 1681." (150-4)

His farm on the bouwland granted to him by patent Jan. 15, 1667, confirmatory of that given by Gov. Stuyvesant, June 16, 1664, describes it as "a certain parcel of land at Schenectady over the third creek or kil [Poenties kil] marked with number ten, to the east of number nine and number six, to the west of number nine and number eight, to the south the hills and to the north the river south-west and by west, - in breadth 64 rods and containing 48 acres or 24 morgens, 576 rods." (150-5)

This being the middle allotment of the bouwland was a double farm, extending from the river to the sand bluff or hill and was divided nearly into two equal parts by the river road. It was sold by the Swart family about 1692 (except the southernmost eight acres which Jesaias Swart held) (151-1), to Claas Lourense Van Purmerend alias Van der Volgen, Teunis Swart's son-in-law, who conveyed the northerly half lying between the road and the river, to Claas Janse Van Boekhoven. (151-2) The latter dividing this portion comprising eleven morgens, into equal parcels by a line running from the road to the river, in 1693, conveyed the westerly half to Catharine Glen, wife of Gerrit Lansing (151-3); and the easterly half to Dirk Arentse Bratt, his stepson. (151-4) Bratt's portion passed to Wouter Vrooman in 1741 (151-5); and in 1757, Adam, son of Wouter Vrooman conveyed the same to Isaac Vrooman. (151-6)

Teunis Swart also had a pasture on the north side of Front street, consisting of two and a half morgens of land, which was confirmed to him by patent Sept. 10, 1670, - "now in the occupation of Teunis Cornelys jonge pointee, lying the pasture or Weyland, having on the south [East] Gerrit Banckers on the north [west] Barent Janse [Van Ditmars] - in length 92 rods, breadth by the river side 15 rods and by the high way [Front street] 17 rods." (151-7) This lot commencing at or about the New York Central railroad, extended along the street easterly 210 feet Eng., and was conveyed in 1715 to Jan Mebie by Cornelis eldest son of Teunis Swart. (151-8)

Notes:

(150-1) Deeds, III, 88, 310; IV, 35.

(150-2) The church which then stood at the junction of Church and State streets was from the beginning used as a watchhouse and continued to be so used nearly one hundred years. ['te blok huys (te weten de kerche) = the block house that is to say the church. - M'M.]

(150-3) [Heeren Straeten = public streets. - M'M]

(150-4) Deeds, IV, 34, 35.

(150-5) Patents, 309.

(151-1) Deeds, III, 310.

(151-2) Deeds, IV, 34, 35.

(151-3) Deeds, IV, 37. Catharina Glen before her marriage with Lansing, was the widow of Cornelis, son of Barent Janse Van Ditmars, former husband of Van Boekhoven's present wife (Mrs. Bratt). This parcel of land probably came to Catharina Glen as part of her inheritance from her first husband.

(151-4) Deeds, IV, 38.

(151-5) Wills, Court of Appeals office.

(151-6) Deeds, VII, 261; wills of Cornelis Vander Volgen, 1735; of Lourense Claase Vander Volgen 1739; and of Wouter Vrooman 1748, in Court of Appeals office.

(151-7) Patents, 754.

(151-8) Toll Papers.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Gerlack, Betty Harrell, “Swarts, Tietsoorts, and Whittakers,” Chapter 1. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/776963-redirection
2. ↑ Gustave Anjou, Ulster County, N.Y. Probate Records, in the Office of the Surrogate, and in the County Clerk's Office at Kingston NY, 1906, Vol.1, 74.
3. ↑ Ship Journey: 1636 - Rensselaerswyck, bound for Rensselaerswyck - arrived 1637, New Amsterdam History Center, Mapping Early New York, Encyclopedia, Ship Journeys, https://encyclopedia.nahc-mapping.org/shipjourney/1636-rensselaerswyck-bound-rensselaerswyck-arrived-1637
4. ↑ History of the Mohawk Valley list of original proprietors in first section and the paragraph headed by his name.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times 7: Adult Freeholders — Teunis Cornelise Swart http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/resources/patent/swart_t.html
6. ↑ Thomas Grier Evans. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.

• Albany Church Records: ALBANY, N.Y. Marriages: 1683-1724 Baptisms: 1683-1724; These are the marriage records from the DRC of Albany, N.Y., mainly from the Holland Society Yearbook.

• Schenectady Church Records: http://www.ancestralcurios.com/schenectady_baptisms.htm These are records extracted from the published book: Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800' by Jonathan Pearson, originally published 1873]. Due to the manner in which the book was written, a high percentage of these records do NOT have proper dates, but rather a series of question marks.

• History of the Mohawk Valley
  Green, Nelson, ed. History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1924, Vol I, pp 326-351 (Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1925). NOTE: This online edition includes lists of portraits, maps and illustrations. Some images have been relocated to the area in the text where they are discussed. As noted by Paul Keesler in his article, "The Much Maligned Mr. Greene," some information in this book has been superseded by later research or was provided incorrectly by local sources. Online Version at Schenectady Digital History Archive accessed 31 Jan 2017.

• Pearson, Jonathan; edited by J. W. MacMurray. A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley. Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883. Online Version at Schenectady Digital History Archive accessed 31 Jan 2017.

• Wardell, Patricia A. Early Bergen County Families. "Swart: Swart, Teunis Cornelissen" Accessed 20 Dec 2016. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/

• Cooney, Jr., Robert G., and Harry Macy, Jr. "The Netherlands Ancestry of Elisabeth De Lint, Wife of Teunis Cornelissen Swart." In The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 137-141. 3rd ed. Vol. 120. New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1989.

• Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the genealogies of the descendants of the first settlers of the patent and city of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1873. 179-180.

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