The chirch banns (Gemeente Archief, Amsterdam: D.T.&B. 451(Kirk. Huw. Int. Reg.) p. 38) of April 30, 1639 are translatedthus: "Appeared as before, Jan Franz from Housom, sailor, age30 years, living in the Corte Tuijnstraat, having no parents butassisted by his cousin Anna Jans, and Volckje Juriaensd[aughter] from Noorstrant, age about 21 years, of the same[street], having no parents but assisted by her acquaintance, Isaack Pietersen."
In Amsterdam on March 28, 1639 Jan Franssen van Hoesen, ageabout 31 years, previously a sailor in New Netherland in theservice of the West India Company, together with six others, signed an agreement with Kiliaen van Renselaer[sic] concerningimmediate passage to and settlement in the colony ofRensselaerswyck. The colonists guaranteed to remain for fouryears. More interestingly, the document makes reference tosailing "in God's name with the ship that now lies ready." Howlong the ship lay ready or whether it waited seven weeks for theprospective bridegroom is a question. Quite probably it did, for at least four of those signing the agreement have been shownto have sailed on den harinch on May 1639 (Jan Cornelis, Hendrick Albertsz, Sander Lenertsen from Scotland, and thelatter's wife Cathalina Jacobs. Cf. Van Rensselaer BowierManuscripts, pp. 821-822. Curiously, two of the seven signerswere wives, but Volckje, who was not yet married, was not amongthem.) They arrived in New Amsterdam on July 7, 1639 andappeared in the account of Kiliaen van Rennsslaer beginning inthat year.
The original Dutch settlement near Kinderhook, in the north-westcorner of Columbia County, NY, was followed by a Palatine Germansettlement at Germantown (then Kast Kamp) in the southwestcorner of the county. The eastern border was settled in the1750s by New Englanders from Massachusetts and Connecticut.
The original land disbursements in Columbia County was in theform of Patents:
Patent Acres Date Purch from IndiansPatented Patentee
Van Hoesen 16671667 Jan Frans van Hoesen
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(East of Kinderhook Creek) 6, 0001731 Bergar Huyck, et. al.
Jan Fransse Van Hoesen 
