The Arrival of Pieter Quackenbosch

Date: Before 1 Dec 1654 [unknown]
Location: Nieuw-Netherland
Surnames/tags: Quackenbush Quackenbosch Quackenbos

Contents 1 The Graft 1.1 Counterpoints 1.2 Unknown 2 "Records" 2.1 Breakdown of the Ancestry.com U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s sources 3 Sources

The Graft

A.J.F. van Laer appears to have been the first person to speculate that Pieter arrived on the ship The Graft.

Other reasons for this assumption are:

• Pieter's names haven't been found in any other ship log or in correspondence.
• Pieter first appears in the records of Fort Orange and Beverwijck after the arrival of the Graft on 07 May 1653.
• The ship contained Johannes de Hulter, with whom Pieter had many business ties with.
• The de Hulters went to the Netherlands specifically for a brickmaker or brickmakers to stop Van Rensselaer from creating a fiefdom and dismantling Beverwijck. ^[1]
• The location of the passenger list for The Graft is unknown, only the letter to Stuyvesant about the ship that does describe a passenger as 'a very good brickmaker' or as Janny Venema, author of Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664, words it "one extraordinary Steinbacker".

Counterpoints

• Venema suggests that the "extraordinary" brickmaker is Jan Andriessz de Graef. ^[2]
• Pieter Jacobsen Bosboom was known as Pieter de steenbacker (the brickmaker). ^[3]

Unknown

• Donna Merwick's work Death of a Notary does claim that Pieter is a 'Leidenaar' who came with de Hulter to Rensselaerswijck in 1654 and says that he, Pieter Jacobsz Borsboom and Pieter Meese Vrooman were all 'steenbakkerij' involved with de Hulter. ^[4] However her sources are 1. Jonathan Pearson's Early Records of the City and County of Albany, and Colony of Rensselaerswyck, Vol. 1, pg 56-59, which only deals with the court cases of Johanna de Hulter selling her properties after the death of her husband, but which do mention the brickmaking profession and its participants, 2. "and passim" but there is no reference to Pieter's arrival or that his origins anywhere else in Pearson's book, and 3. the 1938 work of William J. Hoffman that was originally published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record under the name Brouwer Corrections, pg. 172-179, however the page number that she gives, 345, appears to refer to the compilation of his work entitled An armory of American families of Dutch descent and the contents of this are unknown just yet. (Update: Hoffman, in NYGBR 69.345, cites the Dutch Settlers Society Yearbook, VI:24 and Munsell, III:56.)

It is of course possible that Pieter and his family were on this ship but it should not be taken as solid fact.

"Records"

There are a few records in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index collection on Ancestry.com relating to Pieter's arrival. Unfortunately none of these records are from original sources like ship lists or passenger descriptions taken from correspondence. Most of the index records are either based on books published by Victorian era authors, of which none knew about the Bont alias, or works that use these early writers as sources.

Breakdown of the Ancestry.com U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s sources

• The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook, Volume 45 1974-1977, pg 53 ^[5]
  Date given: 1653
  Author's source: Unknown
  Notes: This is likely based on the speculation of A. J. F. van Laer printed by the Dutch Settlers Society in volume 6 of their Year Book dated 1931, but that is not certain at this time.

• Immigrants to the middle colonies: a consolidation of ship passenger lists and associated data from the New York genealogical and biographical record ^[6]
  Author's source: Chapter reprint of:
  • "New York 'Knickerbocker' Families; Origin and Settlement" ^[7]
    Date given: about 1670
    Author's source: Unknown

• Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) ^[8]
  Date given: 1670
  Author's source:
  • A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825 ^{[9] [10]}
    Author's source:
    • New York "Knickerbocker" Families; Origin and Settlement ^[7]
      Date given: about 1670
      Author's source: Unknown

• Genealogical notes of New York and New England families ^[11]
  Date given: before 1688
  Author's source: Unknown

The second item that shows up on Ancestry.com from Immigrants to the middle colonies is from an article titled "Representative Pioneer Settlers of New Netherland and Their Original Home Places" that was published in The New York genealogical and biographical record, Vol. 64 (1934). There isn't a year or ship mentioned, just the origin of "Oestgeest, near Leyden, S. Holland". The sources given are (46) New York Ref. Dutch Church Marriage Records which would be, at the very least, Reynier's marriage record and (12) Quackenbush Geneal. A. S. Quackenbush, which is The Quackenbush family in Holland and America by Adriana Suydam Quackenbush. A. J. F. van Laer was consulted for the article, which is why the alias of Bont is included.

Sources

1. ↑ Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. Beyond the North Gate: Archeology on the Outskirts of Colonial Albany : Archaeological Data Retrieval, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility, Broadway, Albany, New York (Rensselaer, N.Y.: Hartgen Archeological Associates, 2005), [(tDAR ID: 381339) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8513XXH].
2. ↑ Janny Venema. Beverwijck a Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664. Hilversum, the Netherlands: Verloren ;, 2003.
3. ↑ A. J. F. van Laer and Jonathan Pearson. Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Vol. III. Albany, New York: University of the State of New York, 1918.
4. ↑ Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
5. ↑ The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany
6. ↑ Michael Tepper. Immigrants to the middle colonies: a consolidation of ship passenger lists and associated data from the New York genealogical and biographical record . Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1979.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Vol. 45. New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1914. 389.
8. ↑ Carl Boyer. Ship Passenger Lists: New York and New Jersey, 1600-1825. Newhall, Calif.: C. Boyer, 1978. 11.
9. ↑ Harold Lancour and Richard J. Wolfe. A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825; Being a Guide to Published Lists of Early Immigrants to North America. 3d ed. New York: New York Public Library, 1963. 29.
10. ↑ New Netherland and Beyond. "Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, with links to transcribed sources." www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni. Accessed November 01, 2015. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/nnimmbib.html
11. ↑ S. V. Talcott. Genealogical notes of New York and New England families. Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and, Co. 1883.