Translation of “A tale of two Slingerlands”
A friend of mine, professor of economics at SUNY Albany, lives in Slingerlands NY, a name tag that always struck me: I live near Slingerland in The Netherlands, a hamlet 30 kilometers east of Rotterdam. When I visited again in 2019, he showed me a newspaper article on a family named Slingerland, descendants of the Dutchman that gave the town its name. Family members were engaged in reconstructing the family burial vault. In mid-19th century, Slingerlands NY was named after William H. Slingerland, postmaster and surveyor for the construction of the railroad.
I decided to seek for a possible connection between Slingerlands NY and my Slingeland NL. I learned that the Slingerland family take their roots back to Teunis Cornelisz Slingerland. Teunis Cornelis (“Antoni”) Slingerland(t) is on record as born in Amsterdam on April 7 1617 and deceased in Hackensack, Bergen County NJ, after May 25 1700. He was the son of Cornelis Slingerland and an unknown mother. He married twice, first to Engeltje Bradt, in 1654 in Beverwyck, New Netherland and then to Giertje (Jelles) Fonda on April 9 1684 in Albany, Albany County, Province of New York. He is supposed to have come to Beverwyck in 1650 travelling on a VOC vessel . I had to conclude that a connection between Slingerlands NY and Slingeland NL, through Teunis Cornelisz (TC for short), in all likelihood must be ruled out. Yet, once on the track of TC, I found it hard to give up on the search for his origin in the Dutch Republic. If not in my Slingeland NL, then where?
My tale of two Slingerlands was circulated among American – Canadian members of the Slingerland family. One of them, Jennifer Slingerland Chenette, sent me a transcript of “a short bio on Teunis written by Stefan Bielinski” in the Schenectady, NY History Archive (posted on June 15, 2005):
“Teunis Cornelise probably was born in Europe before 1640. By 1658, he had taken title to the house and lot in Beverwyck where he then was living. In 1660, his name appeared on a petition of fur traders operating from the Beverwyck area. He also kept a house in New Amsterdam. In 1677, he leased a farm on the Normanskill from the Bradt family. By that time, he had married the mill owner’s daughter, Engeltie Bradt. The marriage produced at least 4 children prior to her death in 1683. In April 1684, he married the widow Geertie Fonda Bekker at the Albany Dutch Church where he was a member. At least one child resulted from his second marriage. Although he appeared to have held considerable lands in the valleys south of Albany, he maintained his Albany identity for many years. By the 1690’s, his name had dropped from Albany rolls”. The Belinsky note conforms to the WikiTree data and adds a few details.
There are several other pieces of information on TC, but not all of it seems reliable, and we should carefully check the sources. Trustworthy infurmation is given by Donna Merwick (1990), an established scholar who documented the settlements that would become Albany.
In 1609 Henri Hudson, commissioned by the VOC, first landed at Mannahatta and then, hoping to find the short seeway to India, sailed up the wide riwer that the Dutch later would call the Noordrivier and the English thereafter the Hudson river, up to later Albany. In 1614, the Dutch built Fort Nassau there, as the first trade post (fur trade, mostly), the first documented European structure. In 1618 the fort was ruined by a flood, but in 1624 it was rebuilt as Fort Orange, after the WIC had been founded in 1621. The initial settlers were private traders. One of the investors was Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586-1648), who establised the Rensselaer colony, north and south of Fort Orange, on both sides of the river. However, Kilian himself never visited New Netherland. 1624 was also the year when New Amsterdam was established as a WIC settlement. In 1629, Van Rensselaer, board member of the WIC in Amsterdam, declares himself patron of he Rensselaer colony. In 1652, the area around Fort Orange is incorporated as the village of Beverwijck, in 1686, under British rule, it becomes the city of Albany.
Merwick (1990) presents much information on the early settlement of Beverwyck. She writes (p 7) that Fort Orange was abandoned after 1624 and that only in the late 1620’s the WIC and Van Rensselaer started serious, but still modest settlement. “This settlement, however, lacked the basis elements of continuity in a notable way. It had no founding moment”. As noted above, that founding moment did not come until 1652. Before 1652 it had no single name, it was just Fort Orange and Rensselaerswyck. The settlers of 1624 and those who arrived in small numbers in the early 1630’s were solders and traders at the fort and colonists sent by Van Rensselaer. By 1643 Rensselaerswyk was firmly established, some 24 miles on both sides of the river. There were possibly nine dwellings in the fort on the west bank, with no more than 25 traders and possibly the same number of soldiers, but likely less. On the east bank was another concentration of Dutch men and women, possibly a dozen artisans (o.c., 12). In the mid 1630’s Van Rensselaer had 3 farms rented out. Three quarters of the colonists who had arrived before 1633 were gone by 1634 (o.c., 30). Van Rensselaer was interested in land and farming, the Company in trade and there was clear rivalry among them.
The settlements around Fort Orange and Nieuw Amsterdam were connected by ships riding the Noord Rivier. Ties between Nieuw Amsterdam and Beverwyck were strong and many “burghers” of Berverwyck had business connections in Nieuw Amsterdam. Among these burghers, we find Cornelis Teunisse Slingerlandt. In a chapter on the years 1652-1664, Merwick writes that 25 men have “properties owned there”. The footnote says that she used public records of Beverwyck and New Amsterdam to compile investment portfolios and to list names of Beverwyck burghers “whose names appeared specifically related to a resident of New Amsterdam, either as partner, broker or creditor” (o.c. 110). On page 115 she writes: “Cornelis Teunisz Slingerlandt and Storm Van der Zee each held 2/8 ownership of a house rented in 1662 to New Amsterdam’s burgomaster, Allard Anthonij”. TC is not listed among the men who owned a yacht (o.c. 111). But he does appear among the 49 Beverwijck townsmen and townswomen who shipped financial papers (bonds, receipts, wages, accounts) between Beverwyck and New Amsterdam that tied them to families and business associates in the Dutch Republic (p 120-121). At least 19 of them had dealings with partners in Amsterdam. Interests of the other 31 were located outside Amsterdam . Among those 31 we find Cornelis Teunisse Slingerlandt and Teunisse Corneliszn Slingerlandt. So, now we have a new puzzle: is this father and son or son and aand father? TC’s father was Cornelis, TC had a son Cornelis Teunis (see WikiTree). The son Cornelis Teunis was born in 1660; sources are given in his WikiTree entry . WikiTree lists TC’s father Cornelis as born about 1597 in Nederland, but has no other information. Detailed information is given in My Heritage, with reference to Ancestral File Number B5T4-QL. TC is reported as baptised in Amsterdam April 7, 1617, is recorded to arrive in 1620 in New Netherland, in 1624 in New Amsterdam, in 1650 in Albany, in 1650 to have residence in New Netherland, in 1654 to arrive in New York and as deceased in 1701 in Hackensack NJ. In 1654 he was married to Engeltje Bradt in Beverwyck, in 1684 to Geertje Jellise Fonda in Albany. His father was Cornelis Slingerland 1590-1638 and his mother “Mevrouw“ (Mrs!) Slingerland, 1595-? Source for TC arriving in 1620 appears to be “Passagiers- en immigratielijsten, 1500 – 1900” (Lists of passengers and immigrants 1500-1900). If this is correct, TC came with his father Cornelis in 1620 as a 3 year old boy, as one of the earliest settlers. The information on TC for the years after 1650 conforms to other sources. To find the Dutch roots of the Slingerlands, Cornelis is pivotal. But if he died in 1638 he can not be the Cornelis (Teunisse) that Merwick finds among the Beverwyckers with business connections in Amsterdam.
In 1947, there were 1446 persons with the name Slingerland in The Netherlands; there were also persons named Van Slingerland; no one had the name Slingerlandt. The Slingerlands were spread all over The Netherlands, but concentrated in the western part, and most of them in the province of South Holland, with a cluster of 221 in Rotterdam and 102 in Amsterdam.
An American Slingerland descendant, Jennifer Chenette, suggested that TC’s parents were Cornelis Slingerland (1590-1653) and Neeltje Arlend Oskam (1595-1653) and Cornelis’ parents Klass Leenderce Van Slingerlandt – born in 1570 in Zevenhoven and Aafje Jochems Bentshap. I took this information to the Historical Society Liemeer, where Lenette Rijlaarsdam of the genealogy section took a vivid interest in the search. Lenette checked on father Cornelis: In the Register of Baptisms of the Nederlands Hervormde Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, 1601 – 1634, she finds an Antonis, baptised April 9, 1617. She adds that mother’s name is legible but father’s name cannot be reasonably interpreted as Cornelis.
In the records of Liemeer-Zevenhoven (near Leiden) Lenette finds the names cited by Jennifer, but as persons who have lived later than TC and Cornelis, not earlier. In 1623, she finds two families headed by a Cornelis with a son named Tonis. One of them, Cornelis Jansz, is married to Anna. TC himself had a daughter Annatje (“little Anna”), who may have been named after her grandmother; Cornelis Jansz had a daughter named after her mother Annetgen.
One other piece of information with unchecked reliability is from a document that Jen Chenette inherited from her father: “First Teunis Slingerland came over in “Bonte Kow” (The Spotted Cow), 1650-1654 – records of mrs John Ray Slingerland Century Farm 1685”. Farelli’s list (see note 5) lists sailings of the Bonte Koe in 1655, 1656, 1660 and 1663; this does not match TC’s bio data with marriage in 1654. Between 1624 and 1664 there were 86 boat trips from Nederland (Amsterdam mostly) and New Netherland; the first two came in 1624. My Heritage gives arrival dates for TC of 1620 and 1624.
An other informer checked on passenger lists of ships sailing to New Netherland, but found no Slingerlands. There is an interesting list of references though, see below; passengers state their home address.
New Netherland Ships Passenger Lists Project
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Lorine’s Research Notes With Sources: I reconstructed the names of those sailing on various ships from the following sources. Please note that not every source was used to reconstruct every ship. I have indicated which sources were used for each individual:
1. Abstracts from Notarial Documents in the Amsterdam Archives by Pim Nieuwenhuis published in New Netherland Connections in series Vol. 4:3,4; Vol. 5:1-3 (hereafter NNC)
2. Early Immigrants to New Netherland 1657-1664 from The Documentary History of New York (hereafter EINN)
3. Settlers of Rensselaerswyck 1630-1658 in Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (hereafter VRB)
4. E. B. O’Callaghan’s Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany NY (hereafter CHM)
5. New World Immigrants: List of Passengers 1654 to 1664 edited by Michael Tepper (hereafter NWI)
6. Emigrants to New Netherland by Rosalie Fellows Bailey, , NYGBR; vol 94 no 4 pp 193-200 (hereafter ENN)
7. De Scheepvaart en handel van de Nederlandse Republiek op Nieuw-Nederland 1609-1675 unpublished thesis by Jaap Jacobs [hereafter JJ][Olive Tree Genealogy database]
8. The records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 [hereafter RNA] [an online book from Ancestry.com]
• Check for TC arriving in 1620 (My Heritage) on “Passagiers- en immigratielijsten, 1500 – 1900” (Lists of passengers and immigrants 1500-1900). TC? Or TC with father Cornelis?
• Locate the source for Cornelis bio years: 1590-1638 and where he died
New Netherland along the Hudson River has been extensively studied; references can be found through Jaap Jacobs, St Andrews University
A marvellous website is: North America, Colonies, Kolonien, Dutch. Nederlands (farelli.info); contains the ship list (Bonte Koe sailed in 1655, 1656, 1660 and 1663). Between 1624 and 1664 there were 86 boat trips from Nederland (Amsterdam mostly) and New Netherland.
Jennifer also sent information on TC’s parents:“digging on ancestry and looking at other people’s family trees on there, made me list Teunis’ parents as:
Cornelis Slingerland (1590-1653)
Neeltje Arlend Oskam (1595-1653)
Cornelis’ parents appear to be:
Klass Leenderce Van Slingerlandt – born in 1570 in Zevenhoven
Aafje Jochems Bentshap
Klass’ parents appear to be:
Leendert Van Slingerlandt
Aaltjen Thijsz Kleijn”
Monty Slingerland, descendant of TC living in Niagara-on-the-lake (Ontario, Canada), had informed me that Klass Leenderce Van Slingerlandt was born in Liemeer (Zevenhoven is part of Liemeer). I took this information to the Historical Society Liemeer, where Lenette Rijlaarsdam of the genealogy section took a vivid interest in the search. Lenette checked on father Cornelis: In the Register of Baptisms of the Nederlands Hervormde Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, 1601 – 1634, she finds an Antonis, baptised April 9, 1617. She adds that mother’s name is legible but father’s name cannot be reasonably interpreted as Cornelis.
In the records of Liemeer-Zevenhoven (near Leiden) Lenette finds the names cited by Jennifer, but as persons who have lived later than TC and Cornelis, not earlier. Klass (Claas) Leenderts en Aafje/Eefje lived about a century after Cornelis, which rules out parenthood; Claas Leendertse was born around 1711, Eefje/Aafje Benshap/ Brenschop around 1714. Klaas Leendertse was indeed a son of Leendert and Aaltje; Leendert was buried in 1754, Aaltje came from nearby Rijnsaterwoude in 1722 with two children, Dirk aged 16 and Claas Leenaarts then aged 11. Lenette also notes that Neeltje Oskams husband Cornelis “came from elsewhere” and has Ariens as father’s name. In 1623, she finds two families headed by a Cornelis with a son named Tonis. One of them, Cornelis Jansz, is married to Anna. As TC himself had a daughter Annatje (“little Anna”), who may have been named after her grandmother; Cornelis Jansz had a daughter named after her mother Annetgen.
My friend in Slingerlands NY sent me information on TC from six websites on My Heritage: Galyean/James, Galyean/Barbara, Appel, Banta, Vrooman and Krull. Most detailed is the information from Galyean/James, under Ancestral File Number B5T4-QL. TC is reported as baptised in Amsterdam April 7, 1617, is recorded to arrive in 1620 in New Netherland, in 1624 in New Amsterdam, in 1650 in Albany, in 1650 to have residence in New Netherland, in 1654 to arrive in New York and as deceased in 1701 in Hackensack NJ. In 1654 he was married to Engeltje Bradt in Beverwijck, in 1684 to Geertje Jellise Fonda in Albany. His father was Cornelis Slingerland 1590-1638 and his mother “Mevrouw“ (Mrs! ) Slingeland, 1595-?
The other websites repeat some of this information, and some add details. Banta notes May 25, 1700 as date of TC’s death. Galyean/Barbara gives 1615 as the year Mrs Slingeland is married to Cornelis in Amsterdam. She is registered as having a son Teunis Cornelise 1617-1701.
Banta names the mother of TC (1617-1700) as Aechie Mabie. Vrooman names Teunis Cornelise (1590-?) as the father of TC (1617-1684) and Aechie Mebie (1582-1622) as his mother. Krull documents Aeche Mabie (born “say 1682 in Albany” as daughter of Jan Pieterse Mebie (1654-1725) and Annetje Borsboom (1665-1725) and married to Cornelis Slíngelant (1670-1753). However, Aechie is not TC’s mother, but his daughter in-law. Documents from the Albany Public Library show that Cornelis Teunise, 1674-1753, son of TC and Engeltje Bradt married Aechie (or Eva) Mebie, born in 1699 in Schenectady, Dutch Reformed, daughter of Jan Pieters Mebie and Antje Borsboom. Jan Mebie was born in Albany in 1681. The name Mebie or Mabie is now extinct in The Netherlands, but New Netherland genealogies point to roots in Naarden, just south-east of Amsterdam NL.
With TC baptised in 1617 in Amsterdam and arriving in 1620 in New Netherland, we may safely assure that his father Cornelis was with him. That would make Cornelis (1590-1638) the first Slingerland to settle in the area. TC is registered in 1650 in Albany and is indeed still likely to have planted the family tree in the Albany area. The marriage of his father Cornelis may well have taken place in Amsterdam. Cornelis will then have travelled to New Netherland in 1620, the registered year of arrival of TC. His mother’s name is not Aechie Mebie.
From Jen Chenette, I got an interesting message:
“4)From “Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch & English Experiences” by Donna Merwick There are several references to the men from Albany with interests in New Amsterdam (New York City). I will retype one of them. Page 115 “Cornelis Teunisz Slingerlandt & Storm Van der Zee each held 2/8 ownership of a house rented in 1662 to New Amsterdam’s burgomaster, Allard Anthonij” Footnote #119 For the 25 men & women who retained property in New Amsterdam while residing in Beverwijck see note #109 (I have to find my paper copy or go back to the PSU library to get the book again to see the list of men in Footnote #109. This can not be Teunis’ son Cornelius since he is not born until 1670. So either they mixed up the names or this is possibly Teunis’ father????) As I read further, on page 121 Note #129 “The 31 residents include Cornelis Teunisse Slingerlandt, Teunisse Cornelisz Slingerlandt.”
As TC’s father Cornelis died in 1638, he was alive in the 1630-1710 interval.
Jen, can you check the date for the quotes?
Two other quotes from the Public Library document are noteworthy:
“First Teunis Slingerland came over in “Bonte Kow” (The Spotted Cow), 1650-1654 – records of mrs John Ray Slingerland Century Farm 1685”
This is clearly at variance with the information cited above from the Galyean/James genealogy, under Ancestral File Number B5T4-QL. The conflict can only be solved by checking the sources and assessing their reliability.
“The name was recorded as Van Slingerlandt in Holland, the Estate of Slingerland was located a few miles North of Gorinchem, in the province of South Holland and was in the parish of Noordeloos.”
This is squarely at variance with my conclusion that TC has no connection to Slingeland NL. Here also, the source of the quote should be checked. After all, we cannot rule out that the author simply started out from the same guess as I did and called his (her?) hypothesis a fact. Just dating the quote may already help: the former county of Holland was only dived into North and South Holland in 1840.
The Slingerlands may well have their origin in the Liemeer-Zevenhoven area. I will check the publication by A. Slingerland, Kroniek van de familie Slingerland uit de Rijnstreek en genealogie vanaf 1650 (Slingerland Chronicle since 1650), only available at CBG The Hague.
This note is built on information received from Slingerland descendants Jennifer Chenette, Becky Messing, Monty Slingerland and Sue Virgilio, from Lenette Rijlaarsdam (Historische Kring Llemeer) and from Michael Sattinger. Hoornaar September 2, 2021
In 1609 Henri Hudson, commissioned by the VOC, first landed at Mannahatta and then, hoping to find the short seeway to India, sailed up the wide riwer that the Dutch later would call the Noordrivier and the English thereafter the Hudson river, up to later Albany. In 1614, the Dutch built Fort Nassau there, as the first trade post (fur trade, mostly), the first documented European structure. In 1618 the fort was ruined by a flood, but in 1624 it was rebuilt as Fort Orange, after the WIC had been founded in 1621. The initial settlers were private traders. One of the investors was Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586-1648), who establised the Rensselaer colony, north and south of Fort Orange, on both sides of the river. However, Kilian himself never visited New Netherland. 1624 was also the year when New Amsterdam was established as a WIC settlement. In 1629, Van Rensselaer, board member of the WIC in Amsterdam, declares himself patron of he Rensselaer colony. In 1652, the area around Fort Orange is incorporated as the village of Beverwijck, in 1686, under British rule, it becomes the city of Albany.
Merwick (1990) presents much information on the early settlement of Beverwyck, but is often vague in her descriptions . She writes (p 7) that Fort Orange was abandoned after 1624 and that only in the late 1620’s the WIC and Van Rensselaer started serious, but still modest settlement. “This settlement, however, lacked the basis elements of continuity in a notable way. It had no founding moment”. As noted above, that founding moment did not come until 1652. Before 1652 it had no single name, it was just Fort Orange and Rensselaerswyck. The settlers of 1624 and those who arrived in small numbers in the early 1630’s were solders and traders at the fort and colonists sent by Van Rensselaer. By 1643 Rensselaerswyk was firmly established, some 24 miles on both sides of the river. There were possibly nine dwellings in the fort on the west bank, with no more than 25 traders and possibly the same number of soldiers, but likely less. On the east bank was another concentration of Dutch men and women, possibly a dozen artisans (oc, 12). In the mid 1630’s Van Rensselaer had 3 farms rented out. Three quarters of the colonists who had arrived before 1633 were gone by 1634 (oc, 30). Van Rensselaer was interested in land and farming, the Company in trade and there was clear rivalry among them.
The settlements around Fort Orange and Nieuw Amsterdam were connected by ships riding the Noord Rivier. Ties between Nieuw Amsterdam and Beverwijck were strong and many “burghers”of Berverwijck had business connections in Nieuw Amsterdam. Among these burghers, we find Cornelis Teunisse Slingerlandt.
Unfortunately, Merwick is imprecise in her documentation. In a chapter on the years 1652-1664, she writes that 25 men have “properties owned there”. The footnote says that she used public records of Beverwijck and New Amsterdam to compile investment portfolios and to list names of Beverwijck burghers “whose names appeared specifically related to a resident of New Amsterdam, either as partner, broker or creditor”(oc 110). On p 117, these 25 persons are dubbed “property owners”. This, at any rate establishes that C. T Slingerlandt lived in Beverwijck at some time between 1652 and 1664. Her source (“public records”) may contain more relevant information on CT’s origin. He is not listed among the men who owned a yacht (oc 111).
On page 115 we find the information cited by Jen Chenette: “Cornelis Teunisz Slingerlandt and Storm Van der Zee each held 2/8 ownership of a house rented in 1662 to New Amsterdam’s burgomaster, Allard Anthonij” Footnote #119 They were two of the 25 men and women who retained property in New Amsterdam while residing in Beverwijck see note #109
On pages 120-121 we find another piece of information. Still in the same time interval, Merwick found evidence that 49 Beverwijck townsmen and townswomen shipped financial papers (bonds, receipts, wages, accounts) between Beverwijck and New Amsterdam that tied them to families and business associates in the Dutch Republic. At least 19 of them had dealings with partners in Amsterdam. Interests of the other 31 were located outside Amsterdam . Among those 31 we find Cornelis Teunisse Slingerlandt and Teunisse Corneliszn Slingerlandt. So, now we find father and son, but ages are not supplied. Conclusion: if we want to trace down the TC who migrated from The Netherlands, we may work from the source given in footnote 128 on page 120: Corr JvR, 345, A. J. F. van Laer (1932), Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer, 1651-1674 ; Publication Albany, University of the State of New York, 1932, Genealogy & local history, LH3977
Henry Hudson arrived in 1609 in Manhattan and sailed on to the location of Fort Orange/ Rensselaerswyck/Albany but he did not come to settle. In 1614 Fort Nassau was built, but in 1618 it was ruined by a flood. In 1621 the WIC was founded, in 1624 New Amsterdam became a WIC settlement and Fort Nassau was rebuilt as Fort Orange. Merwick writes that Fort Orange was abandoned in 1624.
In the early years there were individual traders around; in the late 1630’s WIC and Van Rensselaer started sending settlers, in small numbers. Rensselaer/Fort Orange was modestly populated. In the mid-1630’s Rensselaer had 3 farms rented out. In 1643, “there were possibly nine dwellings in the fort on the west bank, with no more than 25 traders and possibly the same number of soldiers, but likely less. On the east bank was another concentration of Dutch men and women, possibly a dozen artisans” (o.c., 12).
Teunis Cornelis (“Antoni”) Slingerland(t) is on record as born in Amsterdam on April 7 1617 and deceased in Hackensack, Bergen County NJ, after May 25 1700. He was the son of Cornelis Slingerland and an unknown mother. He married twice, first to Engeltje Bradt, in 1654 in Beverwyck, New Netherland and then to Giertje (Jelles) Fonda on April 9 1684 in Albany, Albany County, Province of New York. He is supposed to have come to Beverwyck around 1650 travelling on a VOC vessel .
By 1658, he had taken title to the house and lot in Beverwyck where he then was living. In 1660, his name appeared on a petition of fur traders operating from the Beverwyck area. He also kept a house in New Amsterdam. In 1677, he leased a farm on the Normanskill from the Bradt family. By that time, he had married the mill owner’s daughter, Engeltie Bradt. The marriage produced at least 4 children prior to her death in 1683. In April 1684, he married the widow Geertie Fonda Bekker at the Albany Dutch Church where he was a member. At least one child resulted from his second marriage. Although he appeared to have held considerable lands in the valleys south of Albany, he maintained his Albany identity for many years. By the 1690’s, his name had dropped from Albany rolls”.
Settlers in the Fort Orange area had connections and interactions with New Amsterdam. In a chapter on the years 1652-1664, Merwick cites Cornelis Teunisse Slingerlandt as one of 25 men having property in Nieuw Amsterdam. She also writes “Cornelis Teunisz Slingerlandt and Storm Van der Zee each held 2/8 ownership of a house rented in 1662 to New Amsterdam’s burgomaster, Allard Anthonij”. In the same time interval she finds Cornelis Teunisse Slingerlandt and Teunisse Corneliszn Slingerlandt among the men with connections to families and business associates in the Dutch Republic, outside Amsterdam.
CT: son or father? TCL arrived in 1624 or early 1650’s?
[1] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slingerland-3; Profile last modified 24 Apr 2021 | Created 20 Jul 2011
Arrival in 1650 in (present) Albany, Source: #S-206444358 Place: Albany, New York; Year: 1650; Page Number: 93.
[1] Joop Hartog, Slingerlanden: is Teunis Cornelis de schakel?, Historische Vereniging,. English translation available.
[1] I do not understand the entry “Birth” in WikiTree, stating 3 years ABT 1633, 1636, 1638 and references to sources. Are these references where birth year 1617 is mentioned?
[1] Donna Merwick, Possessing Albany, 1630-1710, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990
[1] The paragraph above is from Henry Hudson | Nationaal Archief and Albany, New York – Wikipedia. A succinct history of the Dutch along the Hudson River is given at North America, Colonies, Kolonien, Dutch. Nederlands (farelli.info). Soures are not provided.
[1] The two numbers indeed add up to 50; Merwick does not explain this, but obviously, overlap is possible.
[1] Source, in footnote 128 on page 120: Corr JvR, 345, A. J. F. van Laer (1932), Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer, 1651-1674 ; Publication Albany, University of the State of New York, 1932, Genealogy & local history, LH3977.
[1] Cornelis Teunis Slingerland (1660-) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree; another son of TC, just Cornelis, was born in 1674.
[1] Scan received from Jen Chenette, 23-08-2021
[1] The paragraph above is from Henry Hudson | Nationaal Archief and Albany, New York – Wikipedia
[1] The two numbers indeed add up to 50; Merwick does not explain this, but obviously, overlap is possible.
[1] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slingerland-3