Jacob (Walichs) Walichsz (abt. 1599 - 1657)

Born about 1599 in Winkel, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Trijntje Jacobs — married 28 Dec 1642 in Hoorn, West Friesland, Nederland

Descendants

Died 17 Apr 1657 at about age 58 in Pavonia Plantation, Bergen, New Netherland

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Biography

Notable Citizen: In 1641 he was elected as one of the twelve men who represented those within the New Amsterdam city limits. ^[1][2][3]

Jacob Walichs (Jacob, #1408). Born 1598-1599 in Winkel, Netherlands. According to other sources, he was born c 1615 in Hoorn, Netherlands [Nelson, History of Paterson and Passaic County, New Jersey]. Married Tryntje Jacobs (see #705) 1642? Netherlands (her 1st husband). Died August 1657? Pavonia, New Netherlands.^[4]

His name also appears as "Wallingen," and he is apparently the first in the family to be called by his place(s) of origin -- "Van Winkle" and "Van Hoorn" ^[5]

The Walichs family appears as landowners of considerable extent in the village of Winkel as early as 1326, when their lands were bounded in part by the Walichsdyke [Van Winkle, A Genealogy of the Van Winkle Family, p. 15]. Jacob farmed Bouwerie No. 5 with his partner, Claes Cornelissen, from c1624 until 1636, when their lease expired and both of them left. (They appears on a census of Company-owned farm animals and tennants.) Cornelissen started his own farm but was killed by Indians in 1641 Manhattan, New York ^[5]

In 1633, Netherlands, Jacob and his brother, Symon, returned to Holland on the ship "Soutbergh" to obtain additional cattle for the Dutch West India Company under the sponsorship and financing of Killean Van Rensselaer. From the records of the Dutch church while they were in Holland: "Have come over with certificate from other churches to our congregation, Symon Walingen of New Netherland and Jacob Walingen of New Netherland." They returned to New Amsterdam on the ship "King David" ^[6]

In January 1639, in New Amsterdam, Jacob testified in court that he was a resident of New Netherlands and was 40 or 41 years old. (He was testifying against the captain of the "King David," who had attempted to abandon a passenger in Virginia during the voyage of 1635 ^[6]

In August 1641, in New Amsterdam, he is recorded as advising the Gov. Kieft's council on the treatment of the Indians ^[6]

About 1645, he settled on a farm at Rensselaerwyck, New Jersey ^[7].

In July 1649, with others, he petitioned the West India Company to form an expedition to settle lands on the Fresh River, which was denied. A demonstration by some residents of New Amsterdam followed [Nelson, History of Paterson and Passaic County, New Jersey]. He migrated to Bergen, Bergen County, New Jersey, in 1654 and on 17 April 1657, was confirmed in his rights as a "small burgher." in Pavonia ^[8]

The name of the occupant of one of the first farms laid out on
Manhatan Island is given as Jacop Walichs ^[9]

Jacob Walichsz, or Walingen (and other versions), from Hoorn, the ancestor of the Van Winkle family. On January 12, 1639, being about 40 years of age, he testified at Manhattan that he and Cicero Pierre were in the year 1635 employed by skipper David Pietersen de Vries as sailors on the ship "Conick David, and that de Vries threatened to put Cicero Pierre ashore at Cayenne and in Virginia. Jacob Walingen was for a short time in the colony of Rensselaerswyck. He left this colony on October 1, 1650, and on October 23, 1654 obtained a patent for land near the Kill van Kol. He died before August 17,1657, when his widow, Trijntje Jacobs, married Jacob Stoffelsz. ^[10][11]

Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] (1599-1657) was born in The Netherlands and was "from" the village of Winkel, about 15 miles northwest of the port city of Hoorn. He was sometimes referred to as "Jacob Walichsen Van Hoorn". There are those who believe that Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] visited New Netherland as a deckhand on a Dutch vessel in about 1618, but there is no documentation yet. Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] was definitely at New Netherland before 1630 and was "among the very first farmers to permanently locate in New Netherland".

Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] and partner Claes Cornelissen Swits farmed Bouwerie No. 5 on Manhattan Island from 1620-something (1624 maybe) through 1636 when their lease expired and both men left that bouwerie. On 02 Jul 1631 Patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer submitted a 01 May 1630 inventory that listed by each farm and tenant name an inventory of farm animals present at that date. Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] and his partner's Bouwerie No. 5 had 6 saddle horses, 2 stallions, 6 cows, 2 bulls, 22 sheep, and it noted that they were "successful in breeding cattle" there.

Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] and his brother Symon Walichsen [Van Der Bilt] were sent aboard "den Soutbergh" to arrive in The Netherlands in April of 1633 by Patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer to get more stock for the DWIC farms. The Patroon must have held the brothers in high esteem as it seems curious that he sent tenant farmers on such an errand. At Hoorn the brothers joined the Dutch Church for the time they were in The Netherlands on 18 December 1633 by certificate from their New Netherlands church. Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle]'s partener CLaes Cornelissen Swits managed the farm on Manhattan Island at Bouwerie No. 5 in his absence. Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] returned to New Netherlands in 1635 aboard "de Konig David".

Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle], after the lease at Bouwerie No. 5 ran out in 1636, signed a contract with Patroon Kiliaen Rensselaer 15 August 1636 to settle and farm at Rensselaerswyck (later Greenbush) which was up the Hudson River 150 miles from Manhattan and on the opposite shore from Albany. It is unclear how long Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] farmed at Rensselaerwyck, but it is apparent that he was away from the farm for periods of time.

He was at New Amsterdam on 12 January 1639 to testify concerning the captain's behavior on the trip back from The Netherlands in 1635 aboard "de Konig David". Included in his testimony was that he was 40 or 41 years old at that time and that he was a resident of New Netherland.

On 29 August 1641 Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] was selected as one of the Twelve Men representing Manhattan, Breuckelen, and Pavonia] to advise Governor Kieft at Manhattan concerning Indian matters. This board only existed for about a year. ^[1][2][3]

In 1642 it is likely that Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] made another trip back to The Netherlands (it may have been protracted for some currently unknown reason) and he seems to have returned to New Netherland by about 1648. Records for these voyages have not yet been found.

Certainly Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] married Tryntje Jacobse in about 1642 somewhere and they started their family by having children in about 1644, 1646, and 1648. No records of this marriage or the births or baptisms of these children have yet been found. The marriage and births and baptisms may have taken place in The Netherlands or in New Netherland or perhaps even out in Pavonia where brother Symon Walichsen [Van Der Bilt] had settled.

In 1649 Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] petitioned the DWIC for permission to settle on the Fresh (Connecticut) River and was sadly refused such permission. On 28 July 1649 there was a demonstration concerning this New Amsterdam court petition reported.

On 12 May 1650 Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkel] was at the Rensselaerwyck farm with his family and he was preparing to move out of that colony. Perhaps he was ready to leave the tenant or leasing system of the DWIC and look into owning his own land. Patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer reportedly offered Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] his choice of several farms as he tried to entice him to stay in the Rensselaerwyck Colony, but Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] was determined to go. He got permission to move to Manhattan on 01 October 1650 and his infant son Jacob Jacobsen [Van Winkle] was baptized there at the New Amsterdam "fort church" on 10 October 1650.

Also in 1650 Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] and his wife joined the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church. Their 6 children all initially went by "Jacobsen", but later went by "Van Winkle".

On 23 October 1654 Director-General Peter Stuyvesant issued a patent or grant of 25 morgens of land to Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] at Pavonia "across the North River, between Gemoenpa and the Kil van Kol" (now Bergen Point, Jersey City, NJ) and Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] and his family soon settled there. This grant was confirmed for Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle]'s heirs by Governor Carteret on 31 March 1668 (this document listed the original owner as "Jacob Wallingen Van Hoorn"). Pavonia was destroyed by Indians in September of 1655 and Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] and his family went to Fort Amsterdam to wait for the Indian trouble to settle down.

Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] was admitted as a lesser burgher of new Amsterdam on 17 April 1657. The family is believed to have gone back to Pavonia in 1657 and Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] is believed to have died there.

On 16 October 1657 widow Tryntje Jacobse [Van Winkle] petitioned for appointment of guardians for her minor children as was required before she could remarry. Michiel Jansen and P. L. Vandergift were appointed as guardians for the children.

Widow Tryntje Jacobse married second to Jacob Stoffelsen on 17 August 1657 and they settled at the Ahasymus, Pavonia property he had inherited from his first wife, Vrouwtje Idese (died 1641) who was the widow of Cornelis Hendricksen Van Voorst.

Tryntje Jacobse and Jacob Stoffelsen had 2 children and both of them died very young. They were granted 8-10 morgens of woodland at Ahasymus on 21 January 1664.

Tryntje Jacobse was one of the first members of the Bergen Dutch Reformed Church in 1664. Tryntje Jacobse appeared in court for Jacob Stoffelsen on 06 June 1666 as he was too ill to attend. Jacob Stoffelsen's and Tryntje Jacobse's 01 Jan 1667 lease on the Ahasymus farm (called "Duke's Farm" by the English) was confirmed to Tryntje Jacobse on 31 March 1668 after Jacob Stoffelsen's death and this confirmation listed the farm as "between Communipaw and Kill van Kil".

Widow Tryntje Jacobse married third on 08 June 1668 at Bergen DRC Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] and they lived at Ahasymus, NJ together until he died in 1670.

Widow Tryntje Jacobse married fourth on 15 March 1671 at Bergen DRC Caspar Steynmets who brought 9 children including a one-year-old into this marriage. Their wedding was a double-wedding with Tryntje Jacobse's son Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle as he married his step-sister Catharyna Michielse Van Yderstyne. On 10 November 1677 Tryntje Jacobse's title to 6 acres at Ahasymus, NJ where she gardened and kept her orchard were confirmed to her and to her heirs by Casper Steynmets.

Son Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle (1648-1728) inherited Pavonia land from his father.

On 03 January 1658 Governor Stuyvesant formally purchased disputed Pavonia land from the Indians and this included Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle]'s land that son Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle inherited.

On 16 August 1660 Bergen was founded (in 1871 it became Jersey City, NJ) and it included what had been Pavonia (houses inside palisades and farms outside palisades. This is the first permanent organized settlement in what would become New Jersey.

In 1664 the English took over the government and named the area that included Bergen "the province of New Jersey". The Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle] grant at Pavonia/Bergen/NJ was confirmed by English Governor Carteret on 31 March 1668.

On 15 March 1671 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle married his step-sister Catharyna Michielse Van Yderstyne (born 1650) in a double wedding with his mother and her fourth groom Caspar Steynmets at Bergen DRC and they settled at Bergen, NJ and began their family. They would have 9 children and the first 2 were baptized at the New York DRC and the next 7 were baptized at the Bergen DRC. The "birth" dates for these children on the Family Group page are actually their baptism dates.

On 15 August 1671 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle was elected schepen (judge) at Bergen, NJ. A schepen was to be honest, intelligent, a landowner, a lover of peace, and a professor of the Reformed Religion. On 28 March 1679 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle and his brother Symon Jacobsen Van Winkle were two of the fourteen buyers of the Acquackanonk Patent (a large tract of land in the vicinity of present-day Passaic and Paterson) from Indian Chief and Sachem Captahem. [This purchase was confirmed on 16 March 1684.

On 06 May 1692 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle conveyed part of this purchase to Cornelisse Van Waggim and on 14 October 1702 he conveyed part of this purchase to son-in-law Hermanus Gerritsen Van Wagenen.] By 30 June 1682 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle and his family lived at Barbadoes Neck and owned land there (500 acres) on the "east bank of the Passaic, [opposite and below the drawbridge,] where he had an extensive farm [embracing much of the present Rutherford"]. This was probably part of Acquackanonk at this time [as the bounds of Acquackanonk then were sometimes construed to extend across the river into the present Bergen County] and may have been part of the Acquackanonk Patent.

In 1692 Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle represented Acquackanonk (elected 02 March 1692) at the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey and in 1693 he represented Barbadoes Neck there. On 30 June 1695 his home is listed as New Barbadoes, Essex, NJ. Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle was one of the founders of the Acquackanonk Dutch Reformes Church (later the First Reformed Church of Passaic) and he was named as elder there in May of 1696 and on 20 May 1701.

Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle's will was dated 01 November 1707 and it was proved 12 September1729 (Trenton, NJ, liber B, p.133). It lists Acquackanonk as his home and gives his land to his sons with the provision that they pay their sisters appropriately. He stipulates that "all my children shall divide my said estate equally".

Granddaughter Sara Walichse Van Winkle (born 1688), daughter of Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle (1648-1728), married Gerrit Corneliusen Van Voorst (1689-1785) at New Barbadoes, NJ and they raised 9 children there.

Churchmember Hoorn

Jacob Walichsz, Churchmember Hoorn 21 December 1642 (uyt de Virginis ?)

Datum inschrijving: 21-12-1642 Jacob Walichsz
Kerkelijke gezindte: Gereformeerd, later Hervormd ^[12]

Marriage

Marriage Jacob Walighsz and Trijn Jacobs, 28 December 1642 Hoorn

Datum huwelijk: 28-12-1642 Plaats wettig huwelijk: Hoorn
Bruidegom: Jacob Walighsz Burg. staat: jonggezel Woonplaats: Hoorn Adres: Ramen afkomstig uit: Bil
Bruid: Trijn Jacobs Burg. staat: jonge dochter Woonplaats: Hoorn Adres: Kruisstraat afkomstig uit: Hoorn. Kerkelijke gezindte: Gereformeerd
Bijzonderheden: Het huwelijk werd gesloten door ds. Plavier ^[13]

Symon Walichsz, brother of Jacob, vRBM

"Symon Walichsz (Walichs, Walichsen, Walinchsz, Walings, Walingen, Waelingen), from Wijngaerden, [in the district of het Bildt, in the province of Friesland]; endtered into a contract with the patroon Aug. 15, 1636, and sailed by the Rensselaerswyck. His account in the colony begins April 17, 1637. He occupied a farm on Papscanee Island till May 1, 1647, when it was leased to Evert Pels, for six years, at f560 a year. Jan 15, 1649, Evert Pels had the lease transferred to Juriaen Bestval and Jochem Kettelheym. Symon Walichsz agreed to buy Pieter van der Linden's plantation on Manhattan Island, Oct. 7, 1648 and was killed by the Indians near Paulus Hook, at Pavonia, in Mar 1649 (see N.Y.Col.Mss, 4:428, where his name is given as Sijmon Walingen van bilt)." ^[14]\

Name

Jacob /Vanwinkle/^[15]

Jacob (1635) (Wallingen) /Van Winkle/ ^[15]

Jacob /Walichs ^[15]

Name: Jacobse Walings /Van Winkle/^[16]

Birth

1599 Winkle North, Netherlands^[17]

13 JUN 1599 Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands ^[15]

Arrival

Bet 1638 and 1639 New York, New York ^[15]

Death

17 AUG 1657 Pavonia, Camden, New Jersey, United States ^[15]

17 APR 1658 Pavonia, Camden, New Jersey ^[15]

Church records

1. 1650 Oct 16 Jacob, Jacob Walings. Wit.: Geen getuijgen.
2. 1653 Aug 24 Simon, Jacob Waling. Wit.: Geen getuijgen.
3. 1656 02 Jan Annetie, Jacob Walings, Trijntie Jacobs. Wit.: Willem Janszen. ^[18]

Research notes

The Van Winkle Y-DNA Project can be found at https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/van-winkle/about

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Geni.com New Amsterdam Notable Citizens; Twelve Men (elected August 29, 1641, abolished February 18, 1642): Jacob Walichsz van Winkle
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Twelve Men (elected August 29, 1641, abolished February 18, 1642) Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York, procured by J.R. Brodhead, ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan, New York state 1856 page 415 Note: 'Here his name is only mentioned as: Jacob van ....
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Twelve men The Twelve Men and Director Kieft's Indian War
4. ↑ Van Winkle, A Genealogy of the Van Winkle Family, p. 12-14.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Van Winkle, A Genealogy of the Van Winkle Family, p. 11
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Van Winkle, A Genealogy of the Van Winkle Family, p. 12; Nelson, History of Paterson and Passaic County, New Jersey
7. ↑ Nelson, History of Paterson and Passaic County, New Jersey
8. ↑ Nelson, History of Paterson and Passaic County, New Jersey; Van Winkle, A Genealogy of the Van Winkle Family, p. 14
9. ↑ Edward Van Winkle'sManhattan 1624-1639 pp.43-46
10. ↑ ibid, p 267
11. ↑ Source: [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/shfrstor.html Immigrants to New Netherland 1625 Orangetree (Orangenboom) Sailed from Amsterdam in January 1624/25
12. ↑ Source: Westfries Archief Churchmember Hoorn 21 December 1642 met attestatie van andere kerk (uyt de Virginis ?) Toegangsnummer: 1702-17 Doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken Hoorn Inventarisnummer: 15 Scannummer: 1702-17_15_00042
13. ↑ Source: Westfries Archief Marriage 28 December 1642 Hoorn Toegangsnummer: 1702-17 Doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken Hoorn Inventarisnummer: 64 Folio: 177a scan 183
14. ↑ Rensselaer, Kiliaen Van. New York State Library: Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1630-1643, and Other Documents Relating to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Transl. and Ed. by A. J. F. Van Laer.. Albany, 1908. p. 815.
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6} Source: S56 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository:R1 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Symon Jacobse VanWinckle, Text: Record for Jacob (1635) (Wallingen) van Winkle, Text: Record for Jacob Walichs (Van Winkle
16. ↑ Source: S11 Title: Family Tree Website Page: Waling Jacobse /VanWinkle/ 1648 - 12 September 1729 Data: Text: Waling Jacobse /VanWinkle/ birth: 1648 death: 12 September 1729 , Essex, New Jerseyspouse: Catharyna Michielse /Tades/ birth: about 1654 marriage: 15 March 1671 death: father: Jacob Walingse /van Winkle/ birth: 1599 Winkle, , Holland death: 17 August 1657 Bergen, New Jersey mother: Tryntje /Jacobs/ birth: 1620 Hoome, North Holland, Netherlands death: 11 May 1677 Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/STJZ-MD3
17. ↑ Source: #S56 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Symon Jacobse VanWinckle
18. ↑ 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.

• Wardell, Pat A. Early. Early Bergen County Families: VanWinkle. 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.

• Source: J.E. Dewater Genealogy Report: Descendants of Pieter Walichs

• Source: Notes on Jacob Walingse (Walichs) Van Winkle, sometimes van Hoorn

• Source : D, Conover's Famous Cousins online genealogy

• Source: From the Historisch verhael alder ghedenckweerdichste geschiedenissen, die hier en daer in Europa, als in Duijtschlant, Vranckrijck, Enghelant, Spaengien, Hungarijen, Polen, ... Nederlant van 1621 tot Octob. 1632 voorgevallen zijn Volume 1 by Nicolaes Van Wassenaer 1621 - 1632, in Documentary History of the State of New York, E. B. O'Callaghan, 1849, Vol. III pg 34-48. Also in Narratives of New Netherland, edited by J. F. Jameson, 1909, pg 61-90 1625 Orangetree (Orangenboom) Sailed from Amsterdam in January 1624/25 rootsweb ancestry.com

• Source: Genealogy of the Van Winkle Family by D. Van Winkle, 1913; Genealogy of the Van Winkle Family 1630-1993 by J. Van Winkle, 1994;

• Source: History of the City of Patterson ... by W. Nelson, 1901; Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey by F. B. Lee, 1910; Passaic and Its Environs by W. W. Scott, 1922;

• Source: Yearbook of the Holland Society of New York, 1914 and 1915; Van Winkle Family Homepage (online); New Amsterdam and Bergen DRC records;

• Source: NYGBRecord v.56 no.3 July 1925 (Tryntje Jacobse 4 Husbands by H. S. F. Randolph)

• New York, Genealogical Records, 1675-1920 2 citations provide evidence for Name

• Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current (in Dutch) 1 citation provides evidence for Name, Death, Birth.
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Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.