Jacques Cortelyou Sr (1625 - 1693)

Ancestors Descendants

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Birth 1.2 Education 1.3 Immigration 1.4 Marriage 1.5 Children 1.6 Residence 1.7 Occupation 1.8 Religion 1.9 Death 2 Sources 3 Acknowledgments

Biography

Jacques' father was a member of the Walloon church in Utrecht. Jacques was the first of the Cortelyou family in America.

"Jacques Cortelyou, the pioneer, was a man of much more than average ability and education. He appeared, first, in the New Netherlands in 1652 with Cornells Van Werckhoven, an official of the Dutch government and a colonizer for the West India Company. The latter soon returned to Holland, where he died in 1655. Cortelyou succeeded to Van Werckhoven's business interests and carried out the colonization plan which resulted in the settlement of New Utrecht, Long Island." Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vol. 1 (1912), page 103. ^[1]

" Jacques "married Neeltje Van Duyn and made their home in the house which he built on his Nyack tract. As Surveyor-General of New Netherland he made the map of New Amsterdam for the Dutch West India company in 1661 that was discovered in a castle near Florence, Italy, about 1916. As his office was in Whitehall Street, he was no doubt the first regular commuter between Manhattan and Long Island.

The same Jacques Cortelyou represented New Utrecht in the Hempstead Convention of 1665. He was vendue-master of Kings County in 1672 and was appointed justice of the peace in 1685.

In September, 1679, Jaspar Dankers wrote in his "Journal of a Voyage to New York" that "Jacques is a man advanced in years. He was born in Utrecht, but of French parents as we could readily discover from all his actions, looks, and language. He had studied philosophy in his youth and spoke Latin and good French. He was a mathematician and sworn land-surveyor. He had also formerly learned several sciences, and had some knowledge of medicine.' " ^[2]

Birth

1625 Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands^[3]

Education

Jacques studied at the University of Utrecht in 1643; studied philosophy, mathematics, medicine, Latin, French; spoke Indian languages, English^[4]

Immigration

1652 from Utrecht to New Netherland. He came as tutor to the son(s) of Cornelis van Werckhoven of Utrecht^[5][6]

Marriage

Husband: Jacques Cortelyou

Wife: Neeltje van Duyn

abt 1655-56 New Amsterdam (NYC)^[7]

Children

1. Child: (Unnamed) Cortelyou
2. Child: Cornelius Cortelyou
3. Child: Helena Cortelyou
4. Child: Jacques Cortelyou
5. Child: Maria Cortelyou
6. Child: Pieter Cortelyou
7. Child: Willem Cortelyou

Residence

23 JAN 1657 New Netherland

Note: obtained permission "to plant & establish a village on Long Island on the Bay of the North river"; named it New Utrecht^[8]

1664 New Netherland fell to the English and became New York^[9]

New Utrecht (now neighborhood in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY) He had office on Manhattan Is, but always lived on Long Island, either in New Utrecht or on his plantation, Najack, was outside of town, at the Narrows (near Fort Hamilton)^[10][11]

Occupation

surveyor; captain in the militia for New Utrecht & Bushwick; justice of the peace; justice of the Court of Sessions; vendue master on Long Island^[12][13][14]

Géomètre expert assermenté de Peter Stuyvesant; dressa le premier plan de Brooklyn ( New-Utrecht)

1654 New Utrecht (now neighborhood in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY). Agent for van Werckhoven, who returned to the Netherlands

23 JAN 1657 New Netherland. Appointed surveyor-general of the province & took oath of office^[15]

Religion

a "Cartesian...not a good Christian, regulating himself, and all externals, by reason and justice only"^[16]

Walloon: French speaking Protestant of French/Belgian background; 8 refernces to Cortelyous in the Walloon church in Utrecht; Walloons are also called Huguenots^[17][18][19]

Death

after 28 Feb 1693 & bef 24 Jul 1693 New Utrecht (now neighborhood in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY)

Note: settlement of his estate^[20][21]

Sources

1. ↑ https://ia601705.us.archive.org/34/items/somersetcountyhi01hone/somersetcountyhi01hone.pdf
2. ↑ Maud Esther Dilliard, p. 43
3. ↑ Source: #S189 Data: Text: Date of Import: Mar 8, 2007
4. ↑ Source: #S134
5. ↑ Source: #S134
6. ↑ Source: #S27
7. ↑ Source: #S134
8. ↑ Source: #S225
9. ↑ Source: #S134
10. ↑ Source: #S134
11. ↑ Source: #S225
12. ↑ Source: #S134
13. ↑ Source: #S27
14. ↑ Source: #S225
15. ↑ Source: #S225
16. ↑ Source: #S135
17. ↑ Source: #S62
18. ↑ Source: #S134
19. ↑ Source: #S27
20. ↑ Source: #S134
21. ↑ Source: #S225

• Ancestry.com. The Cortelyou genealogy : a record of Jaques Corteljou and of many of his descendants [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Cortelyou, John Van Zandt,. The Cortelyou genealogy : a record of Jaques Corteljou and of many of his descendants. Lincoln, Neb.: Press of Brown Print. Service, 1942.

• Van Liew, Thomas L. Genealogy and Annals of the Van Liew Family. Publication: N.p.: n.p., 1910.

• S189 O'Bryan extended Family tree.FTW NOTESource Medium: Other Source: #S189: Ancestral File Number Event: G0L8-ZF Date of Import: Mar 8, 2007

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.org, Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, USA

• S134 Type: Book Author: John Van Zandt Cortelyou Periodical: The Cortelyou Genealogy Publication: Lincoln, Nebraska: Brown Printing Service, 1942

• S135 Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Editor: J. Franklin Jameson, American Historical Assoc. Publication: Charles Scribner?s Sons (New York, 1913) Publication: Charles Scribnerís Sons (New York, 1913)

• Descendants of Jacques Cortelyou, http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/cortelyoufamily.html

• FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File

• S225 Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. Volumes: 2,4,6

• S27Boyer, Carl. Ship Passenger Lists Publication: Heritage Books

• S62 Type: Web Site URL: http://www.huguenot.netnation.com/ancestor/default.htm

• Bangs, Charlotte Rebecca Woglom,. Reminiscences of old New Utrecht and Gowanus. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1990. Accessed on Ancestry.com.

• New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920: Author: Ancestry.com: Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: Author: Yates Publishing: Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.

• Ancestry Family Trees: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Page: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/9639887/person/394469181/facts

• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s: Author: Gale Research: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Original data - Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2009.

• http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/6577/446.HTM.

• Maud Esther Dilliard, "Old Dutch Houses of Brooklyn", p. 43
• Wikipedia: Jacques Cortelyou

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of rsturley20100927.ged on 16 November 2010.
• WikiTree profile Cortelyou-33 created through the import of O'Bryan Family tree.ged on Sep 6, 2011 by Tim Tropeck.
• WikiTree profile Cortelyou-35 created through the import of DeNise.ged on Sep 24, 2011 by Sara Tanke.
• This person was created through the import of Newman Family Tree.ged on 12 March 2011.
• WikiTree profile Cortelyou-79 created through the import of 2011-10-19 COURTILLON.ged on Jan 27, 2012 by Alain Courtillon.