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I want to share this information. It is a line for my children on their father's side, so I haven't followed it to any great extent.
SOURCE: SKETCH AND RECORD OF THE VAN HOESEN FAMILY FOR TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS. (I have children, dates and some marriages over this period.)
JAN FRANSE VAN HUSSUM WAS THE FIRST VAN HOESEN THAT CAME TO AMERICA. DOCUMENTS REPRESENT HIM, HIS SON JURRIAN AND WIFE, VOLKIE JURRIAANSE, TO HAVE SETTLED AT FORT ORANGE AND BEVERWICK (NOW ALBANY) AS EARLY AS 1645, WHERE HE ALSO MADE SEVERAL PURCHASES. HIS PRINCIPAL PURCHASE WAS THAT OF THE CLAVERACK LAND, MADE JUNE 5TH 1662, AMOUNTING TO SEVERAL HUNDRED ACRES, LYING ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER, ABOVE AND INCLUDING THE SITE ON WHICH THE CITY OF HUDSON NOW STANDS, BOUGHT OF TWO INDIANS, ONE NAMED PAMETEPIET, (HIS SIGNATURE THUS, X - --) THE OTHER TATANKENAUT, (HIS MARK, -------)BOTH BEING OWNERS AND COMMISSIONED BY THE OTHERS
~ ~ ~ ) TO MAKE THE SALE FOR THE SUM OF 500 GUILDERS IN BEAVERS. ON THE 11TH OF JUNE, 1664, THE SALE WAS CONFIRMED BY ANOTHER INDIAN, AND OWNER, NAMED SICKANEECK, (ALIAS TUNIS). JAN FRANSE VAN HUSSUM'S SIGNATURE WAS +. HE DOES NOT SEEM TO WRITE. HE DIED ABOUT 1667, AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION WERE ISSUED TO HIS SON JURRIAN AUGUST 2ND, 1703. (BOOK OF DEEDS VI, PAGE 199, IN ALBANY COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, STATE OF NEW YORK, U.S.A.) AT THIS TIME THE FOLLOWING HEIRS WERE LIVING, NAMELY: JURIAN THE OLDEST SON, JACOB VOLKERT, ANNA, WIFE OF LAYKAS GERRITES, STYNTIE, WIFE OF JAN TYSGOES, MARIA, WIFE OF HENDRICK COENRAETSE, CATHERINE, WIFE OF FRANK HARDINGH, AND JOHANNES, WHO WAS AN OLD MAN , LIVING AT CLAVERACK IN THE YEAR 1724. JURRIAN, THE OLDEST SON OF JAN FRANSE, BY THE LAWS OF PRIMOGENITURE, BECAME SEIZED OF THE LAND, BUT AMIABLE PETITION WAS MADE BY WHICH HE CONVEYED THE LANDS ADJOINING THE HUDSON RIVER, SOUTHERLY OF THE FERRY, TO HIS BROTHER JOHANNES, AND NORTHERLY TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, FRANCIS HARDING, AND WIFE CATHERING, AND BROTHER, JACOB JANS VAN HOESEN. THE DEED WAS EXECUTED 7TH JANUARY, 1704, AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK D, PAGE 282, 3, 4, 5, AT THE ALBANY COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, STATE OF NEW YORK.
THIS INFORMATION AND THE RECORD OF THE DESCENDANTS WERE CERTIFIED BY WILLIAM L. VAN HOESEN, PRESIDENT OF THE VAN HOESEN ASSOCIATION. (IT WAS NOT DATED.)
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