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A brief history of Jan Strÿcker
Genealogy is a hobby of mine, and for the past two years I’ve spend countless hours delving into historical records in an attempt to trace my roots as far back as possible. And I hit quite the interesting nugget yesterday.
After being stymied for several months due to a lack of verifiable information about my great-great grandfather, I came to find that my surname has been spelled a few different ways over the years (early verbal census-taking resulted in several various misspellings). Once I realized that, the trails which had turned cold began to warm up significantly, with relatives whose names and dates matched up with what I already knew. And the hunt was on again.
So indulge my excitement, if you please. I not only managed to pinpoint where my paternal line first entered America, I also stumbled upon a resource with many interesting details about the guy. I find that I’m a direct descendent of Jan Strÿcker; a Dutch immigrant who arrived in America in 1652, founded what we now know as Flatbush, NY, and helped draft an early sort of “bill of rights.” How cool! This passage was from Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey by Francis Bazley Lee:
Jan Strÿcker was born in Holland in the year 1615. He emigrated from Ruinen, a village in the province of Drenthe with his wife, two sons and four daughters, and arrived at New Amsterdam in the year 1652. Leaving behind him all the priviliges and rights which might be his by descent in the old world, he sought to start his family on new soil in habits of industry and honesty. He was a man of ability and education, for his subsequent history shows him to have been prominent in the civil and religious community in which his lot was cast.His first wife in Holland was Lambertje Snebering, and by her all his children were born there or in this country. She was certainly living in 1663. Jan Strÿcker remained in New Amsterdam a little over a year after his arrival there, and in the year 1654 he took the lead in founding a Dutch colony on Long Island, at what was called Midwout, probably from a little village of that name in the province of North Holland. It was also called Middlewoods. The modern name of the place is Flatbush.
On the 11th of December, 1653 while still in New Amsterdam, Jan Strÿcker joined with others in a petition of the Commonality of the New Netherlands and a remonstance against the conduct of Director Stuyvesant. The petition recited that “they apprehended the establishment of an arbitrary government over them: that it ws contrary to the general principles of well-regulated governments that one or more men should arrogate themselves the exclusive power to dispose at will of the life and property of any individual: that it was odious to every free-born man, principally so to those whom God has placed in a free state or newly settled lands. We humbly submit that ’tis one of our privileges that our consent, or that of our representatives is necessarily required in the enactment of laws and orders.”
It is remarkable that at this early day this indictment was drawn up, this “bill of rights” was published. But these men came from the blood of the hardy Northmen and imbibed with the free air of America the determination to be truly free themselves next, on the present state of the country.
To turn from the civil and military man we find him in the first year of his residence at Midwout, one of the two commissioners to build the Dutch church there, the first erected on Long Island, and he was for many years an active supporter of the Dominic Johannes Theodorus Polnemus, of the Reformed Church of Holland, in that edifice.
After raising a family of eight children, every one of whom lived to adult life and married, seeing his sons settled on valuable plantations and occupying positions of influence in the community, and his daughters marrying into the families of the Brinckerhoffs, the Berriens, and the Bergens, living to be over eighty years of age, he died about the year 1697, full of the honors which these new towns could bestow, and with his duties as a civil officer and a free citizen of his adopted country well performed.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
