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Styntje Jacobse Kuykendaal b: ABT 1642
Jacomijntje Jacobse Kuykendaal b: ABT 1644 in Kingston, Ulster County, NY
Agniet Coens Kuykendaal b: ABT 1649
Leur Jacobsen Kuykendaal b: BEF 29 MAY 1650 in Fort Orange, Albany Co., NY
Jacob and his brother Urbanus arrived in America in the winter of1646 in New Amsterdam as immigrant workers on a ship owned by theDutch West India Company. They settled in Fort Orange. Allegedly, ayounger brother arrived later (Charsten Luursen) and married in 1664.
Jacob was a stone mason and brick layer by trade. He was a member ofthe Dutch Reform Church in New Amsterdam. In 1646, Jacob LuurszenVan Kuykendaal (note this original spelling of the name), came to theDutch Colony in the New World from near Wageningen, province ofGelderland, Holland. He had been in the employ of the West IndiaCompany, headed by VAn Rensselaer.
The name Kuykendall means "View ofthe Dale, " derived from "KIJK-IN-'T-DAL." Wageningen is on the Rhine, near Arnheim, and lies on a high hill, commanding a fine view of theriver.
His son, Luur Jacobsen Van Kuykendaal, was baptized in NewAmster dam (now New York City) on May 29th, 1650. He married GrietjeArtze Tack, in turn reared a family, and about 1700 moved from aroundKingston to Port Jervis. His son, Cornelius, was baptized May 30, 1686; he married Maritje Westvael. Abraham, son of Cornelius, wasbaptized on October 18, 1719, at Deer Park Church, New York. This Abraham migrated to North Carolina, was a captain in the Revolutionary Army, and a commissioner appointed to run the line between Tryon and Mecklinberg Counties and build a courthouse for Tryon County.
SOURCE: Letter from RHEA KUYKENDALL in the book, The Millers ofMillersburg and Their Descendants
After the House of Holland deceased, rulers of Hinault, Bavaria and Habsburg came and went. Holland fought Philips II of Spain, overlord of The Netherlands, during the Dutch war of Independence (1568-1648).In 1648 Holland integrated in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
SOURCE: HOLLAND AND ITS RULERS, The Royal Dutch People of Holland, 2000
IMPORTANT EVENTS DURING JACOB'S LIFE:
o 1614 The name New Netherland first appears in an official document;New Netherland Company licensed by the States General; fur tradingpost Fort Nassau established on Castle Island, present day Port ofAlbany
o 1618 Synod of Dordrecht; beginning of Thirty Years' War in Germany
o 1619 Beheading of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, leader of the peaceparty, at the Hague
o 1621 End of the Twelve years' truce with Spain; chartering of theWest India Company [WIC] by the States General
o 1624 First colonists arrive in New Netherland where they are settledat Fort Orange (Albany), the mouth of the Connecticut River, and onHigh Island (Burlington Island) in the Delaware River; Cornelis May, as senior skipper, becomes first director of New Netherland
o 1625-1647 Prince Frederik Hendrik becomes stadholder upon death ofPrince Maurits
o 1625 Publication of De Jure Belli et Pacis, by the Dutch statesmanand jurist Hugo Grotius, lays foundation for the science ofinternational law. Willem Verhulst arrives as director of NewNetherland
o 1626 Daniel van Crieckenbeeck, commander at Fort Orange, killedwhile supporting a Mahican war party against the Mohawks; Peter Minuitreplaces Verhulst as director; purchases Manhattan Island; movessettlers from Fort Orange, Connecticut, and Delaware to Manhattan
o 1628 Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet for the WIC
o 1629 "Freedoms and Exemptions, " establishing the patroonship plan ofcolonization, approved by the WIC
o 1631 Patroonships of Rensselaerswijck (upper Hudson), Pavonia(Jersey City), Swaenendael (Lewes, Delaware), among others, founded inNew Netherland
o 1632 Minuit removed as director of New Netherland, replaced byBastiaen Jansz Crol; Swaenendael destroyed by Indians
o 1633-1638 Wouter van Twiller, director of New Netherland
o 1638 Peter Minuit hired by Swedish South Company, establishes NewSweden on the Delaware River (Wilimington, Delaware); Minuit lost atsea while returning to Sweden
o 1638-1647 Willem Kieft, director of New Netherland
o 1639 WIC opens fur trade to everyone
o 1642-1654 Johan Printz, governor of New Sweden
o 1643-1645 Kieft's war with the Indians around Manhattan Island
o 1647-1650 Prince Willem II as stadholder
o 1647 Petrus Stuyvesant becomes director general of New Netherland, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, and other dependencies in the Caribbean; WICship Princess Amalia lost in Bristol Bay, former Director Kieft andDomine Evardus Bogardus drowned with 82 others
o 1648 Peace of Westphalia, settling Eighty Years' War with Spain; endof Thirty Years' War
o 1649 Swedish relief ship Kattan (The Cat) bound for New Sweden lostoff Puerta Rico
o 1650 States General, opposing authority of princes of the house ofOrange, assume control over Dutch general policy; Hartford Treaty, settling boundary dispute between New Netherland and New England
o 1651 Stuyvesant abandons Fort Nassau (Gloucester, New Jersey);replaces it with Fort Casimir (New Castle, Delaware) below SwedishFort Christina
o 1652-1654 First Anglo-Dutch War
o 1653 Construction of defensive wall across Manhattan Island (WallStreet) after threat of invasion from England
o 1654 Swedes under new governor, Johan Rising, capture the Dutch postFort Casimir on Trinity Sunday, rename it Fort Trefaltighet (FortTrinity)
o 1655 Stuyvesant conquers New Sweden in the Delaware Valley; Indiansaround Manhattan attack New Amsterdam, Pavonia, and Staten Island in aconflict called the Peach War.
Jacob Leurszen Van Kuykendaal (Luursen) 
