Jochem Wessels (abt. 1600 - 1680)

Died Feb 1680 at about age 80 in Albany, Province of New York

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Biography

Jochem Wessels (Jochem Gijssen Wesselszen, Jochem Wesselse Backer) married Trijn Garrits, who probably died in Amsterdam. He married, second, probably in the Netherlands, Gertrude, widow of (Caspar?) Hoffmeyer. They came to New Netherlands perhaps about 1650. He was a baker in Albany until his death in 1680. He was highly contumacious and frequently in court.

His will was dated February 9, 1680/1. BECKER, Jochim Wesselsen, of Rensselaerswyck Colony, and wife Geertruy Hieronimus. Catharine Hoffmayer, wife of Pr. Lassingh. Real and personal estate. The survivor executor. Witnesses Jan Verbeeck, Pr. 1 March 1680. Adriaensen and Robert Livingston, secretary. Albany Co. Records, Court Minutes, 1680-5, p. 87. ^[1]

"Jochem Wesselsz, baker; petitioned, Sept. 28, 1651, for a place in the byeenwooninge (village) to support himself by baking and was granted a hofsteede op de kil (house lot on [Rutten?] kill) at an annual payment of f32 for the right to bake and to trade. Jan. 26, 1652, he was ordered to removed within eight days the wood pile and pigsty from the lot of Jan van Hoesen and to refrain from molesting him or his family." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Page 56 NY Calendar of Wills. https://ia802703.us.archive.org/27/items/calendarofwillso01fern/calendarofwillso01fern.pdf
2. ↑ New York State Library, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Arnold J. F. Van Laer, Nicolaas de Roever, and Susan de Lancey Van Rensselaer Strong. 1908. Van Rensselaer Bowier manuscripts: being the letters of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1630-1643, and other documents relating to the colony of Rensselaerswyck. Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York.

• Early New Netherland Settlers, by Robert Gordon Clarke

• Bielinski, Stefan. "The People of Colonial Albany." nysm.nysed.gov/albany. Accessed 08 Nov 2017. http://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov//albany/bios/w/jowessels6864.html

• "Chapter 5: The Regeneration of Jochem Wessels", The Hudson, by Carl Carmer (Fordham University Press, 1989; reprint) pp. 30-41.

• Burnet - Ferguson - Schneider: A Family History, by Jim Schneider (2013), p. 124.

• New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)., By Susanah Shaw Romney (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014) pp. 230-231. Account of his inducing Pieter Pietersen to steal gunpowder from stockpiles.

• Contributions for the genealogies of the first settlers of the ancient county of Albany, from 1630 to 1800, by Jonathan Pearson p. 150. "Wesselse, Jochem, bakker; his w. was Gertruy Hieronimus. Ch: Trngen (Tryntje), w. of Abraham Staats; Hendrick, who owned a lot on east corner of State street and Broadway which was sold to his brother-in-law Abram Staets; Adreies Jochemse in Beverwyck, 1663-5. Jochem Wesselse made a will Feb. 9, 1680-1, and d. same year. His house and lot was on the south corner of Broadway and State street, extending east to the river and south to the Rutten kil. He also had a lot on the south side of Yonker street 'upon yet hills there next above Capt. Philip Pieterse Schuyler's' near Lodge street, which in 1674 he sold to Hendrick Cuyler. His wife was wid. of a former husband; Jan Casparse was her son and heir; in 1657, Willem Hoffmeyer called Jochem Wesselse his step father."

Acknowledgements

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