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  Isaac Janse de Wever VAN ALSTYNE b: 16 JUL 1652 in Kinderhook, Columbia County, NY
  Jan Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  Herman Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  Abraham Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  Lambert Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  Marten Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  Dorothea Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  Flammetje Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  Teuntje Janse VAN ALSTYNE
  
  VAN ALSTYNE FAMILY
  
  First Generation
  
  Marten VAN ALSTYNE was born circa 1591. He was of Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands and married circa 1617 to
  an unknown woman.
  
  Second Generation
  
  The children of Marten Van Alstyne included:
  
  (1) Catalyntje Martense VAN ALSTYNE born about 1618 and died 1648. She married 1635 Gelderland, the
  Netherlands to Cornelis Maessen VAN BUREN, son of Bartolomeus aka Maes Van Buren.
  
  (2) Jannetje Martense VAN ALSTYNE married to Thomas Jansen MINGAEL (MINSAR) from Wedbek,
  Holstein.
  
  (3) Jan de Wever aka Jan Martense VAN ALSTYNE was born about 1623 Meppel, Drenthe Province, the
  Netherlands. He was the immigrant ancestor of the Van Alstyne family in America. He and his wife, Derckien
  Hermanse BOERTGENS and at least two children came to the New York area from Drenthe Province in 1655. On
  18 Jul 1655, a son Marten was baptized at New Amsterdam.
  
  Jan came to Wildwyck [Kingston] New York and his name appears on Albany court records 4 Apr. 1656, then in
  October the same year, he is found living in Beverwyck [Albany]. Jan became a trader, and on 1 May, 1658 he
  purchased the yacht HOPE from Pieter Lourensen.
  
  He and his wife were fined on several occasions for selling beer to the Indians, and once he was fined for selling
  brandy "after the ringing of the bell and during the sermon". Jan's wife was in charge during her husband's many
  absences and she often gave mortgages, made sales and bought land, always signing as "Derckien Hermanse"
  which means Derckien, daughter of a man named Herman.
  
  On 10 Feb. 1657 Andreis Harpersn gave to Jan Martense alias de Wever, a right and title to a house bought at
  auction from Jurriaen Theussen/Tappen.In 1660 Jan mortgaged his house, lot and garden in the village of
  Beverwyck to Nicholas de Meyer and Jan Bastiaensen Van Gudsenhoven, owing the former 576 guilders in
  beaver skins and to the latter 1042 guilders, 2 stivers and 8 pennies. Jan's Albany real estate was held until 7 Feb.
  1694 when he sold it to Mees Hogeboom for 15 pounds. This property was described as being without the north
  gate, bounded west by the street to Rensselaer's mill, north by the creek, east by the Marselis property and south
  by the road to the river.
  
  On 28 March 1662 Jan was raising corn and grain in Wildwyck. Anna Blom demanded payment of 20 beaver skins
  from him, as did Herman Vedder who demanded 100 schepels of oats. Harmen seized the grain belonging to Jan
  and the parties agreed about a future settlement. The following spring Jan was back in Albany, selling to Goosen
  Gerritse Van Schaick 7 head of cattle for 580 guilders payable in beaver skins.
  
  By 25 April 1663 he owned land at Esopus [Kingston]. On 11 June 1667 Jan patented land near Hurley. On 10
  Sept. 1684 both parcels of land sold to the heirs of Cornelius Wyncoop. On 7 June 1663 the Indian massacre of
  Wildwyck occured, and Jan Weever signed on to a military company as a cadet.
  
  Next Jan became a tenant of Volkert Janse Douw and Jan Tomassen Mingael on the Island Schodack. In the
  summer of 1671 it was recorded that milk and butter had been stolen from the farm of Jan Martensen at Catskill.
  Around this time Jan was found living at Kinderhook, where with Hendrick Meesen Vrooman, he was made
  supervisor of roads on 10 Feb. 1670. On 21 Feb. 1671, Derckien Hermanse BOERTGENS, Jan's wife,
  acknowledged owing Goosen Gerritse 318 guilders or beaver skins, for which she pledged her "winter wheat,
  house, barn, ricks, land, and soil behind Kinderhook".
  
  On 31 May 1671 Jan purchased from Robert Orchard and Jannecken Donckers "a certain parcel of land lying
  behind Kinderhook, adjoining to the south Dirck De Sweed [aka Dirk Hendrickse Bye] to the west Jacob
  martense and the kil and easterly a little brook dividing the same from the land of Andries Hanse [Sharp]" for the
  sum of 70 beaver skins. Derckine Hermanse acknowledged her debt to Jan Bruyns for that amount and promised
  to pay "thirty next spring, 1672, and the remaining forty beaver skins also in the spring". In default of this
  payment, she promised to pay as interest 4 beaver skins a year and if she could not pay in beaver skins then with
  good winter wheat "at beaver and market price, therefore pledging specially her land and bowery behind
  Kinderhook".
  
  On 7 Feb. 1675, Herman Bastiaensen Visscher was given a contract to build a house at Kinderhook for Jan
  Martensen, and later on 14 March 1676 he received pay for building a barn and clearing land.
  
  In 1683 the records of the Albany Dutch Reformed Church show that Jan Martensen, his wife and all of his
  children except Herman, were members. In Sept. 1682 Derckien de Wever was paid for board and care of Jan
  Cornelissen. Again in Sept. 1684 Jan Martense was paid 135 guilders for three months board of Jan Cornelissen.
  
  On 16 June 1697 Jan de Wever was a resident in the Rensselaerswyck colony with two children and no women in
  his family. It would appear his wife was dead at this point, and whether the children were grandchildren or children
  is not known. Tradition states that Jan died about 1698 and both he and his wife were buried under the church at
  Kinderhook.
  
  The surname VAN ALSTYNE does not appear until 1689 in Albany church records. Prior to that date, Jan used
  the patronymic Martensen, meaning son of Marten. His children used Janse or Jansen, meaning son of Jan. The
  surname has been found as Van Alstyn, Van Valsteyn, Van Aalstein, Van Aelstein and VAn Alstyne. Herman
  Jansen continued the name without the Van, and in some cases it became Alston.
  
  Third Generation
  
  The children of Jan Martense Van Alstyne and Derckien Hermanse Boertgens were:
  
  (1) Jan Janse VAN ALSTYNE baptized 22 Aug 1647 Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands, died young.
  
  (2) Herman VAN ALSTYNE aka Van Mepplen baptized 9 Jul 1648 Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands. He married 5
  Jul 1682 to Brechtje ELSWAERT. His second wife was Geesje SHUUERMANS.
  
  (3) Abraham VAN ALSTYNE baptized about 1650 Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands. He married 8 Sep 1684 to a
  daughter of Jacob Janazen VAN NOESTRAND. His second marriage on 17 Jan 1694 was to Marritje VAN
  DEUSEN.
  
  (4) Lambert Janse VAN ALSTYNE was born circa 1652 and died 16 Oct 1703. He married circa 1682 to Jannetje
  Thomase MINGAEL, the daughter of Thomas Jansen Mingael and Marritje Abrahamse Van Deursen.
  
  (5) Marten Janse VAN ALSTYNE was baptized 18 Jul 1655 New Amsterdam. He died 1765. About 1678 he
  married to Jannetje Cornelis BOGAERT.
  
  (6) Isaac Janse de Wever VAN ALSTYNE was born 16 Jul 1657 Albany, NY. He died 4 Jan 1746. He married first
  20 Oct 1689, Albany, NY to Maritie Abbedis VOSBURGH, daughter of Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh and Geertruy
  Pieterse Coeymans. He married second 20 Feb 1698 Albany, NY to Jannetje Jochemse Van Valkenburgh, the
  daughter of Jochem Van Valkenburg and Eva Hendrickse Vrooman.
  
  (7) Dorothea Janse VAN ALSTYNE was born 1659 and married 7 May 1678 Kinderhook to Jacob Abraham
  VOSBURGH (~1654-), the son of Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh and Geetruy Pieterse Coeymans.
  
  (8) Flammetje VAN ALSTYNE born about 1661 New Amsterdam, NY.
  
  (9) Teuntje VAN ALSTYNE born about 1663 New Amsterdam, NY.
  
  Fourth Generation
  
  The children of Lambert Janse Van Alstyne and Jannetje Thomase Mingael included:
  
  (1) Catherine VAN ALSTYNE was born about 1683. She married to Bartholomeus Van Valkenburgh, son of
  Jochem Van Valkenburgh and Eva Hendrickse Vrooman.
  
  (2) Marritje VAN ALSTYNE was baptized 27 Dec 1685.
  
  (3) Thomas VAN ALSTYNE was baptized 22 Aug 1688 and died Aug 1765. He married 12 Dec 1718 to Maria
  VAN ALEN, the daughter of William Van Alen and Marritje PATTEN.
  
  (4) Johannes VAN ALSTYNE was baptized 11 Aug 1691.
  
  (5) Dirckje VAN ALSTYNE was baptized 26 May 1695. She married 18 Feb 1717 Albany, NY to Pieter
  VOSBURGH, baptized 23 May 1686, the son of Jacob Vosburgh and Dorothea Janse Van Alstyne.
  
  (6) Antje VAN ALSTYNE was baptized 16 Jan 1698 and died young.
  
  (7) Annatje VAN ALSTYNE was baptized 28 Jul 1700.
  
  (8) Pieter VAN ALSTYNE baptized 9 Aug 1702.
  
  Selected Sources
  
  Schulze, Lorine, Descendant Chart, Nov.1995.
  
  Vosburgh, Royden, "Notes on a History of Old Kinderhook, Collier, " NY Gen. Biog. Register, Vol. 46, Apr. 1915,
  pp 192-3. Notes that Lambert Jansen Van Alstyne's wife was Jannetje MINSAR and not Jannetje, the daughter of
  Abraham Pieterse VOSBURGH. His wife was Jannetje, the daughter of Thomas Janszen MINSAR and Marritje
  Abrahams VAN DEURSEN. Marritje Van Deursen was the daughter of Abraham Pietersen Van Deursen and
  Tryntje MELCHOIRS.

Details of Jan's family with Dirckje Harmense Boertgens