Lot: Q3 (Taxlots)

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Q3
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Date Start
1657-00-00
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Pieter Jansen, the Norman, ['] was settled here before 1657 {Liber Deeds, A: 85), although his patent did not issue until 1664.

Pieter Jansen Trinbolt (Trynburgh, Trynenburgh) had, in earlier years, worked for Jochim Pietersen Kuyter, at Harlem. He was there when the Zegendal plantation was burned by the Indians, on the night of March 4, 1644. — CaL Hist. MSS., Dutch, 26; Riker's Hist, of Harlem, 161. Intending to settle at Harlem, he secured a patent for 150 acres there, March 11, 1647 {Liber GG: 171, Albany), having, as an associate in the enterprise, Huyck Aertsen, schepen of Breuckelen. The death of Aertsen, soon after, prevented Jansen from improving this land — for Aertsen had been the moneyed partner — and the patent reverted to the town. Jansen and his young wife, Lysbeth Janszen, of Amsterdam, whom he married July 7, 1647 {Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 14), went to Long Island, where he took up land on the south side of the Norman's Kill (Bushwick), and established a hamlet of four or five families, in 1662. — A'^. Y. Col. Docs., XIV: 513.

Jansen must have died during the summer of 1662, for, on October 6th of that year, his widow was married to Joost Janszen Cocquijt, from Brugge. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 28. In 1665, the property was still taxed to Pieter Janzen — probably in error, although it may be that a son, of the same name, continued to occupy the house. — Rec. N. Am., V: 222.

For a full account of the Harlem patent, see Riker's Hist, of Harlem, 161, 165, 275, 279.

('] For an extended and interesting record of this Norwegian settler, see Evjen's Scand. Immigrants, 81, et seq.