Elsije Sanders

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]

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]

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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]

Laurens married Cathelyn Calawaert in 1604/1634. Cathelyn was born about 1589; died in 1605/1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]