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THE VANDELINDA FAMILY
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE VANDELINDA FAMILY.- Pieter Linde was a native of Belle, a
town on the road from Bruges to Ghent in Flanders. He was a physician,
and came to America in 1639 with his wife, Elsie Barents. The shipping
records show that, on April 18, 1639, he paid to David Pietersen de Vries
and Frederick Pietersen de Vries 140 Carolus gelders ($56) for passage for
himself and wife to New Amsterdam, where he settled and followed his
profession until the death of his wife in 1643. On July 1, of the following
year (1644), lie entered into a marriage contract with Martha Chambers, or
Ekomberts, of New Kerck, in Flanders. She was the widow of John Manje,
or Monnye. The marriage knot was tied July 10, 1644, at New Amsterdam.
After this marriage Vandelinde removed to Brooklyn, where he becauie
the owner of the patent of his wife's first husband. This he sold January
23, 1652. to Barent Joosten. He owned several other pieces of property,
both at Brooklyn and New Amsterdam, and in 1055 was tobacco inspector
of the latter city. After Linde's death his descendants assumed the name
of Van der Linde.
His son, Joost Van der Linde, removed to Bergen, N. J., in the fall of 1670, where, on January 30, 1671, he bought about 90 acres of land of Pieter Jansen Slote between Constable's Hook and Bergen Point. Here he resided until his death. His children of the third generation were John (died in 1696), Roelof, Jannetie (married Peter Laurens Van Buskirk), Hendricke (married Laurens Laurens Van Buskirk), and Machtelt (married Albert Zabriskie). All of these except John removed to Bergen County. Roelof resided with his father at Bergen, where, on October 2, 1682, he married Susanna Hendricks Brinkerhoff. He removed to Hackensack in 1686, where he helped to organize and became a member of the Dutch church. He became joint owner with his brothers-in-law, Lawrence and Peter Van Buskirk, in the New Hackensack patented lands, and also bought of the New Jersey proprietors large tracts of wild land west of the Pascack River in Washington and Midland Townships in Bergen County. His first wife having died in 1700, he married (2) Rachel Cresson, widow of John Peters Durie, who survived him, but by whom he had no issue. He was a man of wealth, and died in New York City early in 1709, leaving a will dated September 6, 1708, proved February 13, 1709. His issue of the fourth generation were Peter, Henry, Classie, Maritie, Sophia, and Geesie. Peter, by the will of his father, received his father's plantation at New Hackensack, and Henry all the lands on the Pascack and Saddle Rivers, in the northern part of the county. Hendrick resided at Polifly, below Hackensack. The numerous descendants of Peter and Henry (4) have become scattered over a large area of territory, including Bergen and Hudson Counties.
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