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- [S561] Family Tree site, Ostrander, Pieter:, (Location: http://www.ostrander.org/Genealogy.htm;).
Ostrander Family WegSite- OLD DUTCH CHURCH, KINGSTON, 1679 Religious faith was fervent and meaningful in the lives of Dutch colonists. The original Reformed Church at Esopus, constructed in 1660/61, was burned by Indians but was soon rebuilt. When Pieter(2) Pietersen arrived in Wildwyck (later Kingston) at the end of 1663 he was six years old and his family consisted of his mother Geesje Jans, nine year old sister Tryntje Pieters, three year old half-brother Herman Arentsen [Pier] and stepfather Arent Teunissen. Both of his half-sisters were born in Wildwyck - Jannetje Arents [Pier] in 1664 and Gepje Arents [Pier] in 1668 and were baptized in the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, before the family relocated to Hurley by April 1670. A stone church replacing the rebuilt structure was constructed in Kingston in 1679, the year that Pieter(2) Pietersen married Rebecca Traphagen and it was burned out by the British during the Revolution but was later refurbished for another half century of use. Both Pieter(2) Pietersen and Rebecca Traphagen were residents of Westquansegh, a tract of farmland in Fox Hall Manor situated just north of the Town of Kingston, when they married. By 1687 they had relocated to nearby Hurley, where parishioners built their own Reformed Church in 1801 and an Ostrander was one of the early pastors. The marriage of Pieter Ostrander, j.m. (young man) “born under the jurisdiction of Kingston” to Rachel Dingman in the Kingston church in 1704 is the first recorded mention of the Ostrander surname with the modern day spelling. The groom was Pieter(3) Pietersen, b. c1680 (see Family Tree). In all, Ostranders appear in the Kingston church's marriage and baptism records more than 270 times under variations of the original Dutch patronymic (Pietersen) and the subsequent adopted Ostrander surname.
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The Pieter(2) Pietersen of Amsterdam who married Rebecca(3) Traphagen [Willem(2), Johannes(1)] on or about 19 January 1679 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY was the son of Pieter(1) Carstensen of Husum (or Nordstrand) and his second wife Geesje Jans of Norden. Pieter(2) Pietersen was baptized in the Amsterdam Lutheran Church 3 July 1657 and his father died c1659 in the East Indies (present day Indonesia). He was the only son of his father’s second marriage and the only male member of his immediate family line to come to New Netherland (colonial New York). Consequently, Pieter(2) Pietersen and Rebecca(3) Traphagen are the progenitors of the family that adopted the Ostrander surname around the beginning of the 18th century.
Pieter(2) Pietersen’s widowed mother remarried in Amsterdam 31 October 1660 Arent Teunisen. His stepfather was a blacksmith who was contracted in Amsterdam in April 1661 to sail on the Dutch ship De St. Jan Baptist to New Amsterdam. Arent Teunissen was to select a site near Gravesende [Brooklyn] on Long Island to build and operate a salt kettle with Evert Pietersz for Dirck de Wolfe, a major investor in the New Netherland colony. De St. Jan Baptist set sail from Amsterdam after 9 May 1661, under the command of Captain Jan Bergen, with settlers and supplies for the Dutch colonies along the Hudson River in North America and arrived in New Amsterdam 6 August 1661. Among the 49 passengers on board the vessel was 4-year old Pieter(2) Pietersen who was accompanied by his mother (Geesje Jans), older sister (Tryntje(2) Pieters) and stepfather Arent Teunissen [Pier]. Four days after their arrival his mother and stepfather presented a son Herman for baptism at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam on 10 August 1661 and the witness was Mr. Evert Pieterszen.
The family soon settled on Coney Island [Brooklyn] near the village of Gravesende, where Arent Teunissen began to build a salt refinery on land that was used by the predominantly British settlement as a common meadow for grazing their cattle and sheep. This led to opposition, harassment and sabotage of the salt kettle venture by the English villagers and the refinery was ultimately abandoned after a period of about two years. Following their harrowing sojourn on Coney Island, we next find the combined Cartsensen-Pietersen (OSTRANDER) and Teunissen- Arentsen (PIER) family living in Wildwyck (a.k.a. Wiltwyck, later Kingston) from 1663/64 to 1669/70 and in Hurley from 1670 to 1677/78. The family settled in Wildwyck about six months or so after the village was attacked during the Second Esopus War in June 1663.
According to the record of his marriage in early 1679, our ancestor and family patriarch Pieter(2) Pietersen was a resident of Westquansengh, a tract of farmland in Foxhall which was then a 330-acre manorial estate (Fox Hall Manor), located just north of Kingston. His sister Tryntje(2) Pieters, then married to Hendrick Albertse[n] [PLOEG], was also an inhabitant of Westquansengh in 1679 as was his bride Rebecca.
Sometime after their marriage Pieter(2) Pietersen and Rebecca(3) Traphagen removed southwest to the nearby Village of Hurley and one of the first records of his residency in this Dutch settlement was 1 September 1687 when he was one of several villagers who appeared before Major Thomas Chambers of Foxhall to take an Oath of Allegiance. While Pieter(2) Pietersen was certainly Dutch by birth, language, custom and culture, his father’s origin appears to have been Danish or Frisian as Pieter(1) Cartsensen was first reported to be “of Husum” in 1623 and of the island “of Nordstrand” in 1654. Both communities are now part of Germany but in the 17th century they were part of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein in the Kingdom of Denmark.
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- PATRONYMICS AND SURNAMES
Our ancestor Pieter(2) Pietersen was first reported in the marriage records of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston in 1679 as Pieter Pietersse and his patronymic Pietersen denotes that he was "the son of Pieter." It was originally presumed that his father was the cadet listed as Pieter Petersen on the passenger manifest of the Dutch ship De Bonte Koe in 1660. Almost 340 years later it was discovered that his father was indeed named Pieter, but he was Pieter(1) Carstensen of Husum (or Nordstrand) indicating, perhaps, that Pieter(1) Carstensen’s father may have been baptized Carsten or Karsten, but this has not yet been confirmed.
The children of Pieter(2) Pietersen and Rebecca Traphagen (as well as Pieter(2) Pietersen himself) were variously reported with the patronymic spelled Pieters, Pieterse, Pietersen, Pietersz, Pieterz and Pieterszen. It seems that the first time that a member of the family adopted a surname in compliance with the British mandate to abolish the Dutch patronymic system was August 13, 1699 when Pieter(2) Pietersen was reported as Pieter Pieterse Noordstrand. The following year the family began to adopt different versions of a surname. They composed one presumably referring to a locale in Holland - "oost" for east, "rand" for bank, side, or edge: the personal suffix, "er", and frequently, "van" for from - Oostrander or van Ostrander. Anglicized, this would mean "Eastbanker", or "Eastsider". But as with patronymics, the spelling of surnames was far from standardized. Among the variations and at times exotic spellings to be found in church and public records are:
• Ostrandar, Ostranda, Van Noortstrande, Van Noorstrant, Van Nostrandt, Van Nostrant, Van Ostrand, Van Nostrunt, Vanostran, Osterander, Ostervanter, Ostranck. Ostrancer, Ostronder, Ostronden, Ostrandt, Ostrandter, Oustrande, Osatrander, Onstrander, Osstander.
More than a century went by before the variants disappeared and Ostrander emerged as the favored spelling, but the exact rationale for the adopted surname remains a mystery. Nevertheless it is evident that the surname originated in Ulster County, NY and is unique to the descendants of Pieter(2) Pietersen and Rebecca Trapahgen.
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Ostrander Family WegSite-
OLD DUTCH CHURCH, KINGSTON, 1679
Religious faith was fervent and meaningful in the lives of Dutch colonists. The original Reformed Church at Esopus, constructed in 1660/61, was burned by Indians but was soon rebuilt. When Pieter(2) Pietersen arrived in Wildwyck (later Kingston) at the end of 1663 he was six years old and his family consisted of his mother Geesje Jans, nine year old sister Tryntje Pieters, three year old half-brother Herman Arentsen [Pier] and stepfather Arent Teunissen. Both of his half-sisters were born in Wildwyck - Jannetje Arents [Pier] in 1664 and Gepje Arents [Pier] in 1668 and were baptized in the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, before the family relocated to Hurley by April 1670. A stone church replacing the rebuilt structure was constructed in Kingston in 1679, the year that Pieter(2) Pietersen married Rebecca Traphagen and it was burned out by the British during the Revolution but was later refurbished for another half century of use. Both Pieter(2) Pietersen and Rebecca Traphagen were residents of Westquansegh, a tract of farmland in Fox Hall Manor situated just north of the Town of Kingston, when they married. By 1687 they had relocated to nearby Hurley, where parishioners built their own Reformed Church in 1801 and an Ostrander was one of the early pastors.
The marriage of Pieter Ostrander, j.m. (young man) “born under the jurisdiction of Kingston” to Rachel Dingman in the Kingston church in 1704 is the first recorded mention of the Ostrander surname with the modern day spelling. The groom was Pieter(3) Pietersen, b. c1680 (see Family Tree). In all, Ostranders appear in the Kingston church's marriage and baptism records more than 270 times under variations of the original Dutch patronymic (Pietersen) and the subsequent adopted Ostrander surname.
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Pieter Pieterse Ostrander
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Rebecca Traphagen
Rebecca Traphagen
Rebecca Traphagen was born at Bushwick, Kings County, New York and baptized February 19, 1662 in Brooklyn DC. She married Pieter Pietersen Ostrander January 19, 1679 in Kingston DC, both residing in Westquansengh. Peter was baptized in the Amsterdam Lutheran Kerke July 3, 1657, the son of Pieter and Geesje (Jans) Karstensen "van Nortstrant".
Peter was a farmer at Hurley and purchased a 2 acres house lot there in 1699. He was listed on the 1714 list of freeholders of Hurley, being assessed £85. In 1724 he was one of four men cited by the Board of Supervisors for nonpayment of taxes. His son Arent Ostrander came forward to pay due to the advanced age of said Ostrander.
Peter Pietersen and Rebecca Traphagen witnessed the baptism March 31, 1738 of Helena, daughter of Jacob Ostrander in the Kingston Reformed Dutch Church. This is the last mention of either in public records. They probably died after this time in Hurley, New York. Neither Pieter nor Rebecca left a will.
Kingston Reformed Dutch Church.
Wills of Ulster County, New York.
Kingston Papers.
Doopen Register, Amsterdam Oude Lutheran Kerke
judith allison added this on 5 Dec 2009
DianesConnections originally submitted this to OUR FAMILY JEWELS on 13 Nov 2008
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