• General Notes

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  Jan (Johan) Aldertse ROOSA b: 15 APR 1646 in Herwynen, Geldreland, Holland
  Heyman Aldertse ROOSA b: 1642 in Herwynen, Geldreland, Holland
  Arien Heymanse (Ary, Arian, Ariaan) ROSA b: 3 JUN 1643/1645 in Herwynen, Geldreland, Holland
  Eyke ROOSA b: 1651 in Herwynen, Geldreland, Holland
  Mary (Marietja) ROOSA b: 1652 in Herwynen, Geldreland, Holland
  Neeltje ROOSA b: 1653 in Herwynen, Geldreland, Holland
  Jannetje ROOSA b: 1656 in Herwynen, Geldreland, Holland
  Aert ROOSA b: 1658 in, Gelderland, Netherlands
  Annatje ROOSA b: ABT 1662 in Kingston, Ulster, New York
  Guert ROOSA b: 15 JUN 1664 in Kingston, Ulster, New York
  
  Albert Heymans; Agriculturist, from Gelderland and Wife and eight children.
  
  Notes and Sources from Lorraine Luke Excerpt from AN ARMORY OF AMERICAN FAMILIES of DUTCH DESCENT... ROOSA - In the article dealing with the van Gaesbeck family, there was a genealogical and heraldic manuscript of the 18th century that was authored by Gysbert Van Ryckhuysen of Leiden.
  
  This city official was a native of Herwynen, province of Gelderland, and his parents were Arien Van Ryckhuysen and Jenneke Ariens Roosa. It's obvious that Gysbert would have been interested in the genealogy of his mother's family, and among his collections there are notes on the branch of Roosa family to which his mother belonged. The notes start with Aeldert Roosa who lived at Herwynen in the first half of the seventeenth century. His Christian name was Aeldert, the fact that he was a resident of Herwynen and that, in addition, his son, Guert, married in 1638 to Engeltie Ariens De Jongh, the daughter of Burgomaster Arien De Jongh, is incontestable proof that he was a very close relative of the progenitor of the American family of Aeldert Hymanse Roosa (born 1621) from Herwynen who with his wife, Wyntjie Ariens de Jongh, a sister of the above Engeltie, arrived on these shores in 1660. It would seem that the American settler's father, Heyman Roosa, may have been a brother of Aeldert Roosa.
  
  The genealogy mentions a somewhat mythical descent for the family, namely that they had fled on account of religious persecutions from the town of Roosa in Spain. (Modern day map indicates a town of Reus in the provinvce of Tarragona near the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 120 south of France). The pedigree originated at a time when the majority of the Dutch families preferred a descent from foreign lands rather than acknowleding their less illustrious hard-working Dutch forebears who by their industry had made their more opulent descendents ancestor-conscious. Even Van Rychhuysen doubted the truth of these statements and suggested that it was a family, possibly originally named De Roos, which had lived many generations at Herwynen. The genealogy gives the arms of the family, three roses - Gules. No crest is mentioned. These arms are, therefore, those of the American family.
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  Aldert arrived in America on the ship called De Bonte Koe (The Spotted Cow) about April 15, 1660 with his wife and eight children ages 17, 15, 14, 9, 8, 7, 4, and 2 years old. Other Dutch passengers on the ship with them were Roelof Swartwout, farmer, Cornelius Jacobse Van Leeuwen in the employ of Swartwout, Arien Huybertse in Swartwout's employ.
  
  Allard, or Aldert, Heymanse Roosa, the third member of the bench of Schepens in Wiltwyck, came out in May 1660, in the company of his wife, Wyntje Allard, and 8 children. He emigrated from Harwynen, Gelderland, where he left a large family of honest kinfolk. On his arrival to New Amsterdam, he secured a passage for himself and his family for Esopus and took up his home in Wiltwyck. When 2 years later a new village was laid out, he removed there, and from that time to his death resided at Hurley.
  
  *Hurley was granted a patent on October 19, 1708. The patentees of this tract were Cornelius Kool, Adrien Garretsie, Matthew Ten Eyck, Jacobus DuBois, Johannes Schepmoes, Roelof Swartwout, Cornelius Lammerse, Peter Petersies, Lawrence Osterhout and Jannetie Newkirk. The successors of the original trustees afterward bought 300 acres for the benefit of the corporation.
  
  Among the early settlers of the area around Hurley were families named Crispell, DuBois, Cole, Newkirk, Schepmoes, Ten Eyck, Wynkoop, Elmendorf, Roosa, Constable, Louw, Delamater, and others - mostly from Holland and Belgium. In 1719 the following persons held the office of trustees of the corporation of Hurley : Cornelius Kool, Adrien Garretse, Jacob DuBois, Barnabus Swartwout, Jacob Rutse, Nicholas Roosa and Charles Wyle. (* The preceeding paragraph per The Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State, page 663, by J.H. French).
  
  The following is from the History of Ulster County, New York by N. Sylvester (page 144+) : The town of Hurley lies just west of the territory of Kingston, and is one of the interior towns of the county. It is bounded north by Woodstock, on the east by Kingston, south by Rosedale and Marbletown, west by Marbletown and Olive. A large tract of land, known as the Hurley Commons, originally granted by King George the First to Cornelis Cole and others, as trustees for the people of Hurley, was divided among the freeholders of the town.
  
  The settlement of Hurley was first known as Niew Dorp. As early as 1662 several patents were granted upon the territory of Nuew Dorp. The names appearing in the papers are Thomas Hall, Nicholas Varlett, Mattys Blanchan, Anthony Crispell, Lambert Huybertse, Roeloff Swartwout, John Thomassen, Peter Schuyler, Jan Volckert, Lewis Du Bois (Jacob's father), Gosen Gerrets, Albert Hymanse Roosa and Lambert Kool. A commissioner from the British Government came to Ulster County in 1669 and on September 18th renamed Niew Dorp to Hurley, after the paternal estate of the Governor Sir Francis Lovelace. The name was given in honor of the Barons Hurley of Ireland.
  
  The earliest record of the town of Hurley or Niew Dorp was documented in a list of those killed or captured there on June 7, 1663 during an Indian attack. Prisoners included - from the family of Louis Du bois, one woman and three children (Jacob would have been about two years old); family of Matthew Blanshan, two children; family of Lambert Huybertson, one woman, two children; family of Albert Heymans, two children. There were other prisoners named. The village of Hurley was entirely burned.
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  Albert Heymanse Roosa and his wife are found among those taking communion at the Dutch Church of Esopus on Sept. 12, 1660. On May 5, 1661 Albert was appointed one of the commissaries at Wiltwyck. He was appointed one of the schepens (Magistrates) May 16, 1661. He was an active elder of the Dutch Church in Wiltwyck for many years.
  
  He was a wealthy man and immediately assumed a position of leadership in the community. Governor Stuyvesant appointed him one of the 3 original "schepen" or magistrates of the Wiltwyck court. He was an elder and a member of the Consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church at Kingston. He was one of the founders of the near by village of Hurley where he settled and lived the rest of his life. Aldert was buried in the Dutch Reformed Church yard.
  
  In 1661 a formal charter was granted for Wiltwyck. In it was written....and with him 3 schepens, who for the present time and ensuing year, beginning with the last of May next, are elected by the Director-General and the Council aforesaid, and confirmed after they shall have taken their oath, Evert Pels, Cornelis Barentsen Slecht and Elbert Heymanse Roosa. Before whom all cases relative to police, security and peace of the inhabitants of Esopus, so, too, all suits between man and man shall be brought, heard and examined......
  
  When the city of Kingston was first laid out, the director-general of the New Netherlands issued a notice on March 30, 1663 : NOTICE - All persons who have obtained lots are warned, for the second and last time, that they shall forward expert workmen to fence the farm lots within 2 months, and to complete the palisades around the village within 6 months, on the penalty of forfeiture of lands and a fine of 25 guilders. And that this work may be done properly and quickly, Albert Heymans Roosa, Jan Joosten and Jan Gerritsen are appointed overseers with authority to expedite a work so necessary, to correct the slothful, and exact the penalties. Done at Wyltwyck. Resource: The History of Ulster Co. by N. Sylvester 1880 ( Page 37).
  
  Indian trouble, which had started as early as 1659, became a greater threat. In 1663 Albert was commissioned to go down the Hudson River to New Amsterdam to obtain 200 pounds of lead for protection of the settlement. On March 30, 1663 he was commissioned to lay out and construct the palisades for protection against the Indians. On Aptil 7, 1663, Albert, Jan Joosten and Jan Gerritsen sent a petition to Director-General Pieter Stuyvesant asking for a military force to protect Wiltwyck and the newly formed village of Nieuw Dorp (New Town or New Village, later called Hurley) from the Indians. No significant help arrived. As the Indians were pretending peace negotiations, they attacked on June 7, 1663. Two of his children including his eldest daughter, Eyke, were taken captive by the Indians in their 1663 raid on Hurley and Wiltwyck. They were later rescued.
  
  The attack of the Indians on Esopus on June 7, 1663 was accounted to Stuyvesant by the magistrates, one of whom was Aldert Hymanse: "They surprised and attacked us between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon on the Thursday the 7th instant; entering in bands through all the gates, they divided and scattered themselves among all the houses and dwellings in a friendly manner, having with them a little maize and some beans to sell our inhabitants, by which means they kept them within their houses, and thus went from place to place as spies to discover our strength in men. And after they had been about a short quarter of an hour within this place, some people on horseback rushed through the Mill gate from the New Village, crying out, " The Indians have destoyed the New Village !"
  
  "With these words, the Indians here in this village immediately fired a hot and made a general attack on our village from the rear, murdering our people in their houses with their axes and tomahawks and firing on them with guns and pistols. They seized whatever women and children they could catch and carried them prisoners outside the gates, plundered the houses and set the village on fire to windward, it blowing at the time from the south. The remaining Indians commanded all the streets firing from corner houses which they occupied and through the curtains along the highways so that some of our inhabitants on their way to their houses to get arms, were wounded and slain. The greater protion of our men were abroad at their field labors, and but a few in the village. The Esopus Indians burned 12 houses at Wiltwyck, killing 18 persons and taking 10 prisoners. The same day Nieuw Dorp was burned to the ground. Two of Albert and Wyntje's children were taken. About 20 white persons from two villages were killed and 45 captured."
  
  Aldert must have had revenge on his mind as Pieter Stuyvesant in a letter dated June 30, 1663 to Capt. Creiger at Wiltwyck stated that Aldert had "uttered several unsufferable and threatening words" against the COuncil of War and Magistrates. He had threatened to shoot the two arrested savages if they were released. After some months of rearment and indecision on Sept. 5, 1663 Dutch settlers led by Lt. Pieter Wolphertse Van Couwenhoven attacked the Esopus Indian Village killing several and recapturing 23 of their white prisoners. Eventually almost all of the hostages were freed.
  
  After the English took over the colony in 1664, Roosa was one of the most active and articulate protestors against the arrogant and overbearing behavior of the English commander, Captain Brodhead, and his soldiers. He was arrested together with several other leaders including his son, Arie, and taken to New York City, where as the principle leader, he was sentenced to banishment for the life of the colony. The others received lesser sentences. However the newly arrived Governor Lovelace remitted the sentences, and the accused were able to return home. This affair is known in the history of the area as the Esopus Mutiny.
  
  This is a continuation of the material in the book titled " Ancestors and Descendents of Garrett Peterson and Nancy Smock" by Wm. Peterson published in 1987, Chapter 6, pp.77-78. The material is on Jan's father, Albert Hymanse Roosa.
  
  Albert's problems were not over. In Nov. 1664 he was before the court for threatening an English guard with an axe. The defendent was required to pay 20 guilders to the poor. One Feb. 24, 1665 Albert was again the defendent, the plintiff demanding payment for "3 days threshing, 1.5 days labor on the cellar, for assisting in grinding 16 sch of malt." Albert disputed the amount of labor and stated that "his wife washed for plaintiff and that he bought some woolen yarn of her, amounting both together to 45 stivers in sewan". The same day Albert was a defendant in another case involving a misunderstanding of the amount of a debt.
  
  Albert was in more serious trouble; an extraordinary session of the court was held on May 27, 1665 regarding a quarrel which broke out with a British soldier quarted at Albert's house. The attempt was made to arrest Albert, but he could not be located. The court proposed to keep him under house arrest until he could be transported to Manhatten by boat. His wife was instructed to keep him quiet during his arrest, or he would be handcuffed and sent to the redoubt. In cross-examination the following day, Albert Heymanse denied having challenged the soldier and said that the soldier "last Monday evening came drunk to his house, and that he noisely demanded pork and meant which Allert Heymans said not to have". Testimony was gain taken June 1 and 2, 1665 : " It was rumored that the soldiers had chased Allert Heymans' wife and children out of the house". The cases were adjourned until the arrival of the Lord Governor-General from New York.
  
  Albert was again in court Jan. 26, 1666 for being negligent in cleaning his chimney and consequently on the 18th inst. said chimney took fire and as a result there was a crowd, owing to the fire. He was ordered to pay a fine of one Flemish pound.
  
  An extraordinary session of the court was held April 29, 1666 because Albert was attacked by five British soldiers with drawn swords. According to some of the depositions, our ancestor defended himself admirably against the attackers for some time with only a stick before he was finally overcome, with "serious injury".
  
  Later that year the Dutch at Wiltwyck petitioned British Gov. Nicholls at New York City to curtail the oppressive actions of the soldiers. On April 16, 1667 Nicholls appointed a commission to inquire into the problems. On April 30, 1667 an inventory of Albert Heymans' property was made. Albert was suspected to be part of the problem. The inventory included a farm with growing crops, a house and a barn, 7 horses, 8 head of cattle, a wagon and plow, other farming implements and the necessary furniture consisting of beds, pillows, dishes, kettles, and so on. The British commandant was suspended, but Albert Heymans Roosa and three others "were found guilty of a rebellious and mutinous riot" and were taken to New York for sentencing. On May 3, 1667 Albert was "banished for life out of the government" and for a shorted term out of Esopus, Albany and New York.
  
  Albert's wife, Wyntje, asked the local court at Wiltwyck for a certificate concerning the conduct of her husband on May 28, 1667 hoping to alleviate his sentence. The certificate was given but enumerated some of his past indiscretions : when on the court himself, Albert refused to permit bond for a poor resident who supposedly did not give Albert "full weight of some butter"; he disobeyed an order of the Director-General to take care of some cattle at the time of the Indian trouble; he planned to shoot the 2 Indian prisoners; he had treated members of the court very contemptibly. On the whole, not too good a report, was it!
  
  The sentences were later modified, and the offenders returned to their home. Gov. Frances Lovelace restored Roosa to favor and in 1669 appointed him one of the overseers for Hurley. In 1673 he was one of the officers at Esopus described as "Captain Albert Heymans, who had been prominent in the riot of 1667".
  
  Wyntje was still living in 1685 when she secured a grant of 320 acres at Hurley. It is said she married a second time.
  
  Roosa became on better terms with the new English authorities and was appointed to various offices from time to time. He was a sergeant in the militia, then mustering officer and finally a captain. He was an overseer in 1669. He was a sargeant in the militia in 1670 and promoted to Captain in 1673. There's a record he took up arms against the English garrison on Feb. 16, 1666 and was heavily fined.

Details of Aldert's family with Wyntje Ariens de Jongh