Thomas Lansing

Notes:

Source: (marriage) IGI 7410511, 84

Johannes married Helena Sanders on 20 Sep 1704 in Albany, Albany County, New York, USA. Helena (daughter of Robert Sanders and Elsie Barentse Van Kleeck) was born about 1683; was buried on 23 Jun 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: The Lansing Family, Claude G. Munsell, 1916

MARRIAGE: Albany FDRC, IGI 7410511, 84

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Sep 1855, New York

Gerrit married Elsie Van Wythorst about 1661 in Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Colonial Governor of the area now known as Dutchess County.

Collections on History of Albany, p. 160
SANDERS, Robert, son of Thomas and Sarah van Gorcum, smith, 1667, merchant, 1692, settled in Albany as early as 1665. In 1691, he and Harmanus Myndertse van der Bogart, received a patent for a mile square of land in Dutchess county, including the site of the city of Poughkeepsie. His first w. was Elsie Barentse; the second was Alida .... Ch: Helena, wife of Johannes Lansing; Barent; Maria, w. of Gerrit Roseboom; Sara (?), w. of Hendrik Greefraadt; Elsje, bp. July 13, 1683, buried, Dec. 31, 1732.

New York Wills, Liber 7, Page 103
In the name of God, Amen, this 21 day of September, 1702. I, Robert Sanders, of New York, merchant, being in health. I leave to me eldest son Thomas Sanders 50 shillings in full of ye pretence he might have as being my eldest son and heir at law. I leave to my wife Elsie all houses, lands, and Plantations, with full power to sell the same, and to give to the children as she may think best.
Witnesses, Abraham Vandewater, Direk Ten Eyck.
Proved, May 1, 1703.

Robert married Elsie Barentse Van Kleeck about 1665 in New York. Elsie (daughter of Barent Baltus and Maijken Laurens de Guijter) was born on 10 Aug 1641 in Haarlem, Noord Holland, Netherlands; was christened on 11 Aug 1641 in Haarlem, Noord Holland, Netherlands; died on 28 Dec 1734 in Albany, Albany County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Lansing Family, Preface

"The descendants of Gerrit Frederickse Lansing, son of Frederick Lansing, a citizen of Hasselt, Province of Overijssel, Holland, comprise one of America's oldest and most distinguished families.

"The family is closely associated with the founding of the first European settlements in the valley of the Upper Hudson, at what is now Albany, Gerrit Frederickse Lansing having arrived in America during the period when the manorial grants were in their early stages of development. The first manorial grant in this region was issued under authority from the Lords States-General of the Netherlands to Killian van Rensselaer, a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, who in 1630 purchased from the Indians the lands in the vicinity of Fort Orange (Albany) and founded the Manor of Rensselaerwyck. This tract contained some seven hundred thousand acres, measured twenty-four miles along the Hudson river with a breadth on either bank of twenty-four miles, and included the lands now comprising the counties of Albany, Columbia and Rensselaer. The first settlers for the new colony sailed from Trexel, Holland, in the ship Unity in command of Jan Brower, and arrived off the mouth of the River Mauretius (Hudson River) on May 24, 1630. Others settlers soon followed and the Manor of Rensselaerwyck rapidly increased in population and importance, the largest settlement being on the lands lying near Fort Orange and comprising the village of Beverwyck (Albany).

"Gerrit Frederickse Lansing, son of Frederick Lansing, the ancestor of the Lansing Family in America, arrived at New Amsterdam (New York) with his family about 1640, and a few years later was established at Rensselaerwyck. His descendants took a most active part in the affairs of the new colony, the name appearing with great frequency throughout the civil and military records.

"Killian van Rensselaer, Patroon and Lord of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, died in 1647, and the estate descended to his son, Johannes, then a minor. Brandt Arentse van Slectenhorst was appointed Director to represent the young Patroon. His son, Sieur Gerrit van Slectenhorst married Altje Lansing, daughter of Gerrit Frederickse Lansing.

"In 1664 the Province of New Amsterdam passed into the hands of the English. The village of Beverwyck was renamed Albany in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, but in 1673 the Province reverted to the Dutch and the name Albany was changed to Williamstadt. In 1674 the English again securing control the name Williamstadt was changed to Albany. In 1683 the Province was divided up into regular English shires or counties. The English Government, however, recognized the rights of the van Rensselaers to the Manor of Rensselaerwyck and Governor Donegan issued to the heirs of Killian van Rensselaer a Patent confirming the original grant, with the exception of those lands comprising the City of Albany. Stephen van Rensselaer, Patroon of Rensselaerwyck, married Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Lansing and Stephanus Groesbeck.

"In 1686 the City of Albany was granted its charter, Peter Schuyler being the first Mayor. His daughter Geertruy Schuyler was the wife of Johannes Lansing."

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"Gerrit Frederickse Lansing was a citizen of Hasselt, Province of Overijssel, Holland. He came to New Amsterdam (New York) about 1640 and was on of the early settlers of Rensselaerwyck. He died and his widow married Wouter van Den Uythof of Albany. The heirs of Gerrit Frederickse Lansing executed a Power of Attorney in favor of Jan Barentse ten Kate of Zwolle and Gysbert Janse Vermeer of Hasselt, Holland, on October 3, 1697.(Albany County deed book No. 3, page 51.)"

It is now known that Gerrit never set foot in America. His widow remarried and came to Albany with her husband and children. Garrit's father was also named Gerrit, not Frederick.

Gerrit married Elizabeth Hendricks ten Cate about 1637 in Netherlands. Elizabeth (daughter of Hendrick ten Cate) was born about 1615 in Borne, Overijssel, Netherlands; died before 14 Oct 1691 in Albany, Albany County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Sep 1655, New York

Notes:

Collections on History of Albany, p. 160
Sanders, Thomas, smith, of Amsterdam, m. Sarah Cornelise van Gorcum, in New Amsterdam, Sept. 16, 1640. She d. in Albany, in Dec. 1669. He received a patent from Gov. Kieft for a house and 25 morgens of land on Manhattan island. In 1654, he owned a house and lot in Beverwyck, which he sold to Jan van Aecken. He probably returned to New Amsterdam. Ch: bp. in New Amsterdam; Robert, Nov. 10, 1641: Cornelis, Nov. 25, 1643; Cornelis, Nov. 17, 1644; Thomas, July 14, 1647.

Thomas married Sarah Cornelise Van Gorcum on 16 Sep 1640 in New Amsterdam. Sarah died in Dec 1669 in Albany, Albany County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Barent Baltus was the progenitor of the van Kleeck family in America and Canada. As a young man from Lipstadt, in Westphalia, in the present Germany, he married in Haarlem, Province of North Holland, The Netherlands, Sara Pieters, a young woman of Haarlem. About 4 1/2 years later, 29 January 1636, Barent B., as a widower married Mayken Quiters, a young woman of Haarlem. During the period 1651 Barent brought his family to the Dutch colony of New Netherlands, Midwout/Flatbush on Western Long Island. That Barent died before 19 November 1659 is evidenced by the fact that on that date a suit was brought against his widow for payment of masters wages amounting to six guilders. From this it is inferred that Barent Baltus was in some way identified with a shipping or maritime business although no confirmation of this had been found. The origin of the name van Kleeck is unknown. While many of the old Dutch families derive their names from towns in Holland and from which the progenitor came, this does not hold true with respect to the name van Kleeck. The name is unknown in Holland and cannot be linked to any town, village, diocese or locality. van Kleeck as a surname first appears at the baptism of Peter, son of Baltus Barents, at Bergen, New Jersey, October 1685, and at the burial of a daughter in 1683, the father's name is shown as Baltus Barentse van Kleeck.

Barent married Maijken Laurens de Guijter on 29 Jan 1635/36 in Haarlem, Noord Holland, Netherlands. Maijken (daughter of Laurens de Zierikzee Guijter and Cathelyn Calawaert) was christened on 17 Aug 1611 in Haarlem, Noord Holland, Netherlands; died on 20 Oct 1647. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]