Lubbert Gijsbertsz (abt. 1580 - abt. 1656)

Biography

Lubbert was born about 1580. He passed away before 1680.

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands.[1]^[1]

Court Case: Lubbert Gysbertsen v. fiscael Cornelis van Tienhoven; demand for payment of debt for hogs delivered to the West India Company; acknowledged; ordered to pay, 1653 August 25, Box 1.2.1, Volume 1, Page 137c Sub-Series 1.2, Dates, 1653 August 25[2]^[2]

• Olive Tree Gen. online, ships records:

De Eendracht (The Unity) Sailed from Texel, Netherlands May 1634, arrived New Amsterdam Lubbert Gijsbertsz from Blaricum sailed with wife and 3 sons [VRB]

"The History of Cape May County New Jersey From The Aboriginal Times to the Present Day" Lewis Townsend Stevens Settler of Cape May County 1680's 1730 "The following named persons purchased of the agents of Dr. Coxe and the West Jersey Society, mostly previous to 1696, some few as early as 1689" "In addition to hose who located land previous to 1700, the following name persons had resided, and were then residing in the county, many of whom possessed land by secondary purchase;" Lubbart Giberson

HET WAPEN VAN NOORWEGEN (Arms of Norway) Sailed from the Texel about 12 May 1638, arrived New Amsterdam before 4 August 1638 [as per the account submitted by Cornelis Melyn against Kiliaen van Renselaer in New Netherland on 4 August 1638 for freight of horses and passage of 'sundry persons' on board this ship. CHM.3] Claes Gijsbertsz [VRB]

Claes: is he a brother to Lubbert, who followed later?

EARLIEST GUIBERSON ANCESTORS

LUBBERT AND DIVERTJE LEAVE FORT ORANGE

• The Patroon had promised Lubbert Gijsbertze the “fourth farm to be established” at Fort Orange (present day Albany NY). He stayed for 13 years, so it must have served his initial purposes well enough. Lubbert closed his account at the colony in 1647 and moved with his family to New Amsterdam (Manhattan Island, NY) later that year or early 1648. Then on Dec 5, 1654 Lubbert Gysbertsen was given a Dutch patent for fifty morgans [100 acres] of land on Bergen Neck below Cavan Point, now in the Greenville area south of Jersey City, New Jersey. Just south of him was his son-in-law, Jan Cornelis Buys, with twenty-five morgens, and then his son Jan Lubbertsen, also with twenty five morgens. A little farther south were the twenty-five morgen farms of his sons Thys and Gysbert Lubbertsen, and his son-in-law Hendrick Jansen Oosteroom (husband of Lubbert’s daughter Tryntje). They may have lived on their land for several years before the patents were finalized. Lubbert appears to have been the senior member and leader of the group that settled Bergen Neck, NJ, as he received twice as much land as his companions, who were mainly his sons and son-in-law.

• This move away from the protected Fort Orange area proved not to be a good idea. On September 15, 1655, after an Indian had been killed in New Amsterdam (now Manhattan Island, NY) for stealing fruit from an orchard, a large war party of Indians terrified the occupants of New Amsterdam for several hours. The Indians then went across the Hudson, where, within a few hours, they burned the Dutch bouweries and plantations and killed or captured everyone who had not fled. They then moved down Bergen Neck and over to Staten Island, which was also devastated. At the time most of the Dutch soldiers were on the Delaware fighting the Swedes who, under Peter Minuet, had established the settlement of New Stockholm at the mouth of Raccoon Creek where it entered the Delaware River. The Swedes were defeated. And surrendered, but because of the Dutch soldiers were away from home, their unprotected Dutch families back in the Jersey City area paid a great price at the hands of the Indians. One account was as follows:

“...in three days’ time about 50 Christians were killed and murdered, more than one hundred, mostly women and children, captured, of who we afterward ransomed 60 to 70 at great expense, the rest being still in their hands, 28 bouweries and some plantations and about twelve to fifteen thousand schepels of grain burned, 500 to 600 head of cattle either killed or taken by the barbarians;...[they] have suffered through these barbarous Indians a damage of more than two hundred thousand guilders and more than 200 persons besides those who were killed or are still in captivity, have lost their possessions and have nothing left to procure food and clothing for themselves and their families must be a charge upon this city (Manhattan). . .” (CNY 13:15; 31 October 1655).

• It seems likely that Lubbert was one of those killed in the Indian attack as evidenced by the following court record in which his wife Divertje is termed his widow in her request for permission to open a tavern with her son-in-law back in their old neighborhood of Manhattan across the Husdon.:

“Jan Corn[elius] Buys, alias Jan Damen, and Lubbers Gysbertsen‘s widow Divertje request permission to tap, as they have been driven from their houses by the last trouble with the Indians. Whereon is endorsed:--Petitioners’ request is granted like others.” From Minutes of the Court of Schepens and Burgomasters of New Amsterdam ( Manhattan, NY) under date of 1 May 1656. (RNA 2:93): Following the Indian attack, many of the Dutch settlers fled back to Manhattan where they became wards of the city. New Jersey was considered totally unsafe, so the Dutch athorities banned any return to that area by its former residents hoping to prevent a repeat of that disastrous event.

• This application by Jan and Divertje, brought a month after the Indian attack, probably was in response to Dutch authorities giving permission to some settlers of Bergen’s Neck, NJ to return to their old properties. Divertje identified herself as Lubbert Gysbertsen’s widow, undoubtedly to establish her rights to the property in Manhattan. This may have been primarily for the purpose of helping her daughter Eybetje and son-in-law Jan Buys get into business as much as it was to reclaim the old property. Evidence seems to indicate that Lubberts’ family had fled to Long Island from the Indian massacre of 1655 and had been living there during the period of their ban from their NJ holdings. It does not appear that Divertje Cornelis, Lubbert’s widow ever returned to New Jersey.

• In September of 1664, the English took possession of New York and Long Island with little resistance from the overwhelmed Dutch authorities. New Jersey was taken too -and given by King Charles II to his brother James, Duke of York, in utter disregard of Dutch claims. This created further problems for the Dutch community. Another author of a related Dutch family described it as follows[7]:

“This [living under British control] was particularly hard to bear, because sheltered under the banner of the King and pretence of law, were the acts of unruly British soldiers and the tyranny of English justices. Many were the petitions for relief from their oppression. Charges were made that soldiers entered the homes of citizens by day or night and beat into insensibility the occupants; that they took whatever they found there that suited them; they terrified women and children, riding madly through the streets, yelling and shooting, and trampling them under their horses’ feet..” The Dutch and the British had been bitter enemies for decades.

• After the death of Lubbert Gijsbertse, his wife Divertje Cornelis married again [date unknown], to her second husbnd, Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt and lived on Long Island, at or near Midwout [Flatbush]. She (Divertje) died before Dec. 11, 1681. Her widower remarried at Flatbush, Magdaleentje Hansen, widow of Harman Eduarsz. Harman’s first wife had been Jannetje Hendricks Oosteroom, one of Divertje’s granddaughters. Here again we see the complex inter-relationship between the various families of this very close-knit Dutch community. An interesting additional side-light about Divertje is that a grandson of her second husband, Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt, may have been named after her. His name was Cornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest men in America from the fur trade.

LUBBERT AND DIVERTSE’S CHILDREN

• Lubbert Gysbertsen and his wife Divertje Cornelis had seven children as shown below. The sequence of birth of the last four, however, is uncertain.

:(1.) Gysbert Lubberson:

• The eldest son was Gysbert Lubbersen, born about 1601 in Holland who was ten years old when he came to America with his parents. He is of particular interest to us, since under the Dutch naming system he is the only one of the five brothers whose children will bear the last name of Gysbertsen (son of Gysbert). Gysbert Lubbertsen married February 24, 1655 in the Reformed Dutch Church in Bergen, New Amsterdam, the first of his family to marry outside of the Dutch community. His bride was Elizabeth Thomas, an Englishwoman, born in London. Gysbert and Elizabeth were probably living on his property on Bergen Neck at the time of the Indian massacre in September of that year. If so they both survived the attack, but undoubtedly fled to Long Island with his parents. Unlike some other members of his family, Gysbert and Elizabeth elected to stay on Long Island, and not return to their old property on the west side of the Hudson River in Bergen Neck, NJ. On May 14, 1657 Gysbert therefore indorsed his patent (title) on the New Jersey property over to Pieter Jansen Slot, relationship not known but undoubtedly a son of another member of the extended family (Janse). Although Gysbert Lubbertsen and Elizabeth Thomas were married for 20 years, only four children[8] could be found in New Jersey and Long Island records, as enumerated below:

1a. Lubbert Gysbertsen/Gisbertse was the eldest, probably born in Manhattan or Long Island (date unknown) to which his pregnant mother likely fled to escape the Indian massacre in Bergen. In 1696 he inherited, under the will of his step-father Adrian Hendricksen Aten [9], his (grand?) mother’s second husband, the New Jersey land first owned by his grandfather, Lubbert Gijbertze, the original immigrant, Obviously, the step-father was honoring the wishes of Divertje who had inherited the land from her father Lubbert Gijsbertze before her second marriage to Aten. Her date of death is not known, but undoubtedly before 1681 when Aten remarried (See Descendancy Chart shown below). The 1696 Assessment Roll for Flatbush, L.I., confirms that the younger Lubbert Gisbertse was living there at that time. We do not know if he married and had children. He died intestate 1705 in Burlington Co., NJ.

1b. Annetje Gysbrechts (the “s” indicating daughter of Gysbert) was the second child. She was born probably in New Utrecht (Flatbush, L.I.). However, she apparently returned to Bergen as a child where she was baptized 10 Sept. 1659 in the Bergen Dutch Reform Church. She was married there 21 Oct. 1683[10] “at N. Orle with certificates from Bergen and L.I.” She had joined the Bergen Reformed Church 18 Apr. 1682 as a young unmarried woman in her own right. Her banns were dated 21 Oct. at Bergen and 26 Oct. at Flatbush. Her young man, Hans Alberts, was described as “from Braunswyk and residing at New Castle, N.J.” From just this it is hard to determine her movements before her marriage, but once again the connection to Flatbush, Long Island is evident. We have no further information on her line.

1c. The third child was Jan (John) Gysbertsen. He was undoubtedly born in Flatbush, but the date is not known. He married before 1697 Hester Grouver, probably in Flatbush, L.I. They had at least three children. Their story will be continued in the chapter entitled “Colonial New Jersey.”

1d. The fourth child was Harmon Gysbertsen. This sounds like an English Christian (biblical) name, but more probably is a variation on the Dutch name Herman. It appears that Harmon was born on Long Island, and named after his grandmother’s second husband Herman/Harmon Eduarz (his second marriage as well). Harmon Gysbertsen’s story will be continued in the chapter on “Colonial New Jersey.” Also, as shown on the Descendancy Chart, Harmon Eduarz first wife had been Jannetze Hendricks Oosteroom, one of Divertje’s grand daughters.

(2.) Thys Lubbertsen was second in line:

• Thys born about 1628 in Holland, came to America with his parents when he was six years old. He married 10 Oct. 1655 in the Reformed Church in New Amsterdam Trynje Jans van Amsterdam. She was likely the daughter of Jan Pietersen Van Wooglum. At times he used the place name “Van Ryp”, indicating his birth place as Rijp in North Holland. He was granted small burgher rights at New Amsterdam (NJ) on 17 April 1657. He lived at Midwout [Flatbush] and later in the Cripplebush area between Brooklyn and Bushwick, and he owned land in New Utrecht (Rec. 47:356-58). They had four children and shown on Descendancy Chart shown earlier.

(3.) Jan Lubbertsen:

• Jan was born about 1632 in Edam, a seaport town on the Isselmeer about twelve English miles north of Amsterdam, coming to America with his parents when he was two year old. He married 7 June 1659 Magdaleentje Theunis “van Voorsthuysen.” Huisen, her home town, is a seaport village a mile or so from Blaricum in Gooiland, North Holland. Magdaleentje sailed to America 12 Feb. 1659 in de Trouw [The Faith] from the Netherlands arriving at Port Orange, New Netherlands less than three months before her marriage. Since she came from a small village in the same area as where Jan’s father was born, it is probable that this was an arranged marriage. In some records she was shown as Magdaleentje Janse, but her patronymic was Theunis, as shown on the passenger list and her marriage record. The Janse comes from the not entirely unusual custom of a wife’s using a patronymic based on her husbands’ given name. She died on 4 Sept. 1711 and was buried two days later as Magdelena, wife of Jan Lubbertsen Van Blarcum and so recorded in the Old Bergen Church records. This appears to be the only known use of Van Blarcumn not as a last name, but as a way to identify his birth place. This would suggest that Zabriskie, the author of the article on this family, was from this line. However, I did not follow this any further. Jan Lubbertsen and his wife Magdaleentje Theunis had eleven children as shown in the descendancy chart below. The date of his death is not known.

(4.) The fourth child Eybetje Lubberts

• Eybetje Lubberts, was born about 1635 at Fort Orange {Albany NY). She married [date not known] Jan Cornelis Buys [11], also later known as Jan the Soldier and Jan Damen. Eybetje Lubberts' husband Jan Cornelis Buys had been adopted by his mother’s second husband, Jan Jansen Damen, hence was also referred to as Jan Damen by some. Jan Cornelis Buys and

Eybetje Lubberts had at least seven children, as noted in the Descendancy chart below. She died before 24 August 1663 when he married 2nd to Femmetje Jans who was buried 13 Dec. 1666. His 3rd and last wife was Willemtje Thyssen.

CONCLUSION

• Apparently all Gysbertsens/Guibersons/Gibersons/Gibisons (and other variations in the spelling) are descended from just one of the original immigrant's (Lubbert Gysbertze) sons -- Gysbert Lubbersen, the eldest. All of this Gysbert’s children became Gysbertsens following normal patronymic naming practices, but by this time the Dutch were giving up this confusing system and adopting surnames. As a result, all of Gysbert Lubbersen’s children adopted “Gysbertsen” as their surname so their descendants, mercifully (for genealogists at least), retained the “Gysbertsen” name -- although the exact spelling would vary somewhat from line to line and at least for the first few generations. “Giberson” ultimately became the most common spelling. The other four sons of the immigrant Lubbert Gisjbertse all developed different family names based on their different first names -- Thys’ descendants became Thyson, Jan’s became Janse or Janson, Gerret’s became Gerretson, and Hans’s became Hanson, although spellings might differ a little. Their lines will not be followed further in my account of the Giberson family history and genealogy..

LUBBERT GIJSBERTZE DESCENDANTS

• The chart, shown below for the first three generations of the Lubbert Gisjbertse family was developed, except where otherwise indicated, from genealogical information in the NY Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 99, 1968; “The Van Blarcom Family of New Jersey, Eight Generations” by George Olin Zabriskie. The title of this book is misleading in that “Van Blarcom” was never adopted as a surname by Lubbert or any of his descendants, according to the author himself.. It was used as a place identifier on a couple of occasions, but only by Lubbert’s son Jan Lubbertsen. The author sites the burial record of Jan’s wife which read: “Magdalena wife of Jan Lubbertsen Van Blarcum.” According to Zabriskie, this is the only known instance of this family's use of Van Blarcum (based on his father’s birthplace in Blaricum, Gooiland, North Holland). This was, however, a not uncommon usage among the Dutch.

Generations: 1-- 2--3

• Lubbert Gijsbertze b. abt. 1601, m. abt. 1623 Divertje Cornelius, d. before 1656.

• She m2 Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt near Midwout (Flatbush LI).

• He m2 1681 Magdaleentje Hannsen widow of Harmon Eduarsz whose first wife had been Jannetje Hendricks Osteroom (Divertje’s granddaughter).

• 1. Gysbert Lubbertsen b. abt. 1624, m. 1655 Elizabeth Thomas, d. After 1659.
• Lubbert Gysbertsen b. unknown
• Annetje Gysbrechts b. 1659
• Evertse Giberson b. unknown. m. Daniel Hendricks. He m2, Trynje Van Dyke (dtr. of Jan Janse Van Dyke and Teuntje Thyse Laenen Van Pelt).[3]
• Jan Gysbertsen b. abt 1670, m. 1695 Hester Grouver, Middletown, East Jersey. d. intestate 1741, Upper Freehold Twp. Monmouth Co., NJ. (my Guiberson ancestral line) ****
• Harmon Gysbertsen b. unknown

• 2. Thys Lubbertsen b. abt. 1628, m. 1655 Tryntje Jans “van Amsterdam”, d. ?
• Pieter Tysen, bapt. 1657, m. (?) Barbara ---
• Lysbeth Tysen b. 1684, m.(?) Anthonie Juchoin alias Salm, d. ?
• Annatje Tysen bap. 1668

• 3. Jan Lubbertsen b. abt.1632, m.1659 Magdaleentje Theunis, d ?
• Merritje Jans. bap. 1661,
• Pieter Janse, bap. 1665
• Johannes Janse, bap. 1667
• Divertje Jans bap. 1670
• Cathlynje Jans bap. 1675
• Lubbert Janse bap. 1667
• Willem Janse bap. 1679
• Gysbert Jans bap. 1682
• Hester Jans bap. 1685

• 4. Eybetje Lubberts b. abt. 1635, d.<1666 m. abt 1651 Jan Cornelius Buys .[4] He m2 1663 Femmetje Jans]; and m3 Willemtje Thyssen. Jan and Eybetje had at leas 7 children (He may have had more by his 2nd and 3rd wives):
• Cornelis Janse bap. 1652, m. Machtelt Gerrits,
• Hendrick Janse bap. 1654, d. 1666
• Lubbert Janse bap. 1656, d. 1663 in accident
• Hendricktje Jans. b. (?), m1. Cornelis Verwey, m2 Reynier Bastiansen
• Trynje Jans b. (?), m. Baltus Barentse van Kleeck.
• Divertje Jans b. (?), m. William Appelby.
• Neeltje Jans b. (?), m1. Jan Hermans Coerten, m2. Jacob Vigoor, m3. Jan Dirckse Stratenmaker.

• 5. Tryntje Lubberts b. abt. 1637, m 1652 Hendrick Jansen Oosteroom, d. bef. 1666. Hendrick m2 Getien Jacobsen in Flatbush L.I.[5]
• Tryntje Hendricks b. 1654, m. 1672 Arien Pietersen Buys, L.I..
• Jan Hendricksen bap. 1657, m. 1683 Mecheljte Roclofse, L.I.
• Jannetje Hendricks b. 1679, m. 1678 Herman Eduwaerts (Harmon Eduwartz). She died Jan. 1679. He m.2 Magdaleentje Hanse (widdow of Hendrick Jans Spier).

• 6. Gerret Lubbertsen[6] b. abt. 1639, m. Gertruyd Willems
• Cornelia Lubbertsen bap. 1681,
• Jacob Lubbertsen bap. 1683
• Gysbrecht Lubbertsen bap. 1685

• 7. Hans Lubbertsen b. abt. 1641, Fort Orange (Albany NY) No further information.

Guiberson Family Index:

• [1] O’Callaghan, Edmund B., History of New Netherlands,
• [2] Zabriskie, George O.; The Van Blaircom Family of New Jersey; Eight Generations. Pulbished in serial form, N.Y. Genealogical and Geographical Record, Vol. 99, 1968.
• [3] Zabriskie indicated that he only found two of these children (Lubbert and Annetje). Harman is well documented as a third child born in Kings Co., NY. It seems probable to me that Evertse was a fourth child, also born in NY (not proved). More later.
• [4] Jan Buys was also known as Jan the Soldier and Jan Damen. Jan Buys had been adopted by Jan Jansen Damen, a 2nd or later husband of his mother Hendricktje Jans Damen--presumably a different Hendricktje Jans than Eybetje Lubberts’ daughter.
• [5] Tryntje’s brother Gerrit and step-father Jan Aersen Vanderbilt named guardians of her 3 children after her death.
• [6] Gerret was appointed, with his step-father , to act as guardian of his disceased sister Tryntje’s children.
• [7] Effie Smith; A Genealogy of the Van Pelt Family, pg. 11. The Van Pelts were related to the Gibersons though the Hendricks family.
• [8] Only the first 2 children are mentioned in Zabriskie’s book on the Van Blarcom family. Sources of information on the last 2 children will be covered in the chapter on “Colonial New Jersey which discusses them further.
• [9] Adrian Hendricksen Aten will dated 20 March 1695/6, proved at Flatbush (Rec. 47:1611).
• [10] New Jersey Colonial Documents, Bergen Church Marriage Records, p. 563.
• [11] O’Callaghan, Edmund B., HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLANDS.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic
2. ↑ https://a860-collectionguides.nyc.gov/repositories/2/archival_objects/733998

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