Anthony (d'Angola) van Angola

Born [date unknown] in Angola, Africa

Died about 1648 in New Amsterdam. New Netherland

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Biography

Anthony (d'Angola) van Angola is a part of US Black heritage.

Anthony d'Angola, (Van Angola) (Cleyn Anthony; Little Anthony)

Birth

Anthony D'Angola was born est. 1620 at Angola, Africa.

Marriage

Anthony Van Angola, widower of Catalina van Angola , d. about 1648, married:

1) Catalina ____, d. before 5 May 1641

2) Lucie D'Angola (Louwize) ca. 5 May 1641 (banns) at New Amsterdam, New Netherland^[1]. She was widow of Laurens d'Angola. Marriage banns were recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, NN (no marriage record found).

Children

• Anthony Van Angola, jr., at New Amsterdam, New Netherland.^[2]; sponsors were: Jan Augustinus-Neger, Victorie Paulus-Negrinne.

Son Anthony Van Angola jr. was adopted by his godmother Dorothy D’Angola (aka Victorie; Clara Creole; Etoria; Retory). At age 18, on 21 Mar 1661 Anthony jr. was declared "born free" and given a certificate of freedom, due to a petition filed by his adopted mother and her husband, Emanuel Peterson. The son, Anthony Jr., on 19 Oct 1667, "received confirmation of the ground-brief of 1644 to his father" sic..

Church Records

baptismal witness

• NARDC Bapt. Record: 1641 Jul 14; Anthony portugies (neger); Anthony (twin); Jacom Anthony Van Angola, Cleyn Anthony Van Angola, Lycye en Anthony Van Angola
• NARDC Bapt. Record: 1641 Jul 14; Anthony portugies (neger); Maria (twin); Jacom Anthony Van Angola, Cleyn Anthony Van Angola, Lycye en Anthony Van Angola
• NARDC Bapt. Record: 1643 Apr 19; , Catharina Van Angola; Lovyse; Pieter Van Camp, Cleyn Anthony Van Angola, Susanna Pieters-negrinne
• NARDC Bapt. Record: 1643 Aug 30; Cleyn Anthony van Angola-neger; Anthony; Jan Augustinus-Neger, Victorie Paulus-Negrinne
• NARDC Bapt. Record: 1644 May 08; Philippe Swartinne; Anna; Everadus Bogardus, Emanuel Congo, Anthony Van Angola- Negers, Wyf. Van Anthony-trompetter, Negrinne
• NARDC Bapt. Record: 1645 Apr 17; Emanuel van Angola; Michiel; Cleyn Anthony Van Angola, Mary Grandes

Death

Anthony D'Angola aka Anthony van Angola died ca. 1648; sometime after Apr. 17, 1645, at New Amsterdam, New Netherland. His wife Lucie Louwise D'Angola died soon after the 1643 birth of their son, Anthony Van Angola, jr., at New Amsterdam, NN.

Sources

1. ↑ Christoph, Peter R., “The Freedmen of New Amsterdam” p. 161,
2. ↑ Evans, NARDC Bapt. Record: 1643 Aug 30; Cleyn Anthony van Angola-neger; Anthony; Jan Augustinus-Neger, Victorie Paulus-Negrinne

• Christoph, Peter R., “The Freedmen of New Amsterdam”, Rensselaerswijck Seminar VI, Blacks in New Netherland and Colonial New York, New Netherland Project. February 1983. https://web.archive.org/web/20061015105024/https://www.nnp.org/project/ABAFP/6.2.pdf . Page 161.
• Dickenson, Richard, "Abstracts of Early Black Manhattanites" New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol. 116, issue 2, Apr 1985, p. 102.
• Evans, Thomas Grier. "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York. Baptisms from 25 December, 1639 to 27 December, 1730." Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol 2. New York: Printed for the Society, 1901.
• Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam-New York City, 1940 (Vol. IX of Collections of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society)
• Rensselaerswijck Seminar VI: Blacks in New Netherland and Colonial New York, New Netherland Project. February 1983. https://web.archive.org/web/20061015102445/http://www.nnp.org/project/ABAFP/seminar_6.htm
• Wardell, Pat A. Early. Early Bergen County Families: dAngola, Genealogical Society of Bergen County, NJ, P.O. Box 432, Midland Park, NJ 07432. webpage: https://www.njgsbc.org/gsbc-research-resources/bergen-county-families.