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1. FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, sb 70, Books A-F = sb 70, vols. 1-6, p. 153, entry 995:
"Longstreet. Dirck Stoffelse Langestraat emigrated to America in 1657, having married, first Catharine Van Siddock, and second, Johanna Havens, widow of Johannis Holsaert. At an early day he purchased lands at Shrewsbury, and devised the same to his son Richard. Another son, Adrian by name, married Stanckche or Christina Janse, and had three sons, John, Derick and Stoffle, and five daughters. Adrain Longstreet was by trade a cordwainer, but also owned a farm of plantation at Freehold, Monmouth County,. His son John married, Dec. 17, 1736, Ann, daughter of Peter Covenhoven and Patience Daws. The had five sons -- Aaron (who died in infancy), Pietras, Jan, Elias and Aaron, and one daughter, Antje."
2. FHL film 946271 "The Charles R. Hutchinson Collection," Family Records (series 4, sb 70, Books A-F = sb 70, vols. 1-6, p. 173, entry 1017:
"Longstreet. In the early records of the old First Dutch Reformed Church of New York is found the name of Jan Janszen Van Langstraeten, and Pieter Janszen Van Langstraeten, and the baptisms of several of the family are recorded. In 1661, August 10, Adriaen, son of Jan Janszen and Marilee or Maria Adriaens Van Langestraeten, was baptized. This name, Adrian, appears at Flatlands, L.I. 1698, and also in Monmouth, amoung members of the old Brick Church, Marlborough, 1713. In following the name down, it becomes Langstraeten, Langestraet, and Langstratt, which, in English, would be rendered Longstreet. In 1698, Stoffel Longstreet is named as buying lands in Monmouth. Stoffel was sometimes changed to Theophilus, but more generally to Christopher. In one of two historical works it is stated that in 1673, John Longstreet was appointed an ensign by the Dutch in Monmouth. This is an error, and occasioned by translating the name from Dutch records. The ensign referred to was John Langstaff, an original settler of Piscataway in Middlesex County, who probably came from New England. A correct list of militia officers appointed in New Jersey by the Dutch, 1673, is given in N.J. Archives, Vol. 1, page 134."
3. The book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 243-44:
“Dirck Stoffels Langestraet
Born: Netherlands
Came to America in 1657
Married: Catharina Van Lieuwen
Died: after 1698 in New Jersey
Children:
-Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
-Claasje Dircksen Langestraet (She was born about 1672, and married Abraham Lott of Jamaica)
-Adrian Dircksen Langestraet (He was baptized 16 September 1677, and married Christina Janse in 1707, he resided in New Jersey)
-Richard Dircksen Langestraet (He was born 1680)
-Daughter (name unknown) (She married Samuel Osborne)
-Samuel Dircksen Langestraet (Married Barbara Antonides)
Dirck Stoffels Langestraet immigrated to New Netherlands in 1657, twelve years after the appointment of Peter Stuyvesant as Director of the Province, two years after the erection of the Church at Flatbush, and seven years before the seizure of the Province by Nicholls. Dirck Stoffels Langestraet settled in the area known as the Flatlands, (Amersfoort); and this fact indicates that since this particular village was of less consequence than either Flatbush, (only three miles away), or Brooklyn, and was named for a town in Utrecht, from which those who inhabited the town came, renders it very possible that the Langestraet's came from Utrecht. Dirck, or "Richard" in the English language, was in 1677 a member in good standing of the Flatlands Church. He may have been a member of this church for many years, however the church records for Flatbush didn't begin until 1677.
In September of 1687, thirteen years after the first cession of the Province to England, there was a general administration of the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown to be made by all Dutch people; Dirck took that oath at the Flatlands. He appears again on an assessment roll of that village for the year 1693 and on a census roll in 1698. After this his name appears no more on the Long Island records; and it is believed that he moved into New Jersey. In his younger manhood, but after coming to the Province he had married Catharina Van Lieuwen; afterward in his older age, on 13 February 1690 he married a second time to Johanna Havens, widow of Johannis Holsaert. A prenuptial agreement was made with his second wife and is on file in the town records of Gravesend; in this agreement, reference is made to his son Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet. He left land that he had purchased in Shrewsbury, New Jersey to his son Richard. He had no children by his second marriage. (Source: THE HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF NEW JERSEY)”
4. The book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 244-51:
“Stoffel Dircksen Langestraet
Born: about 1666 in probably New Utrecht, New Netherlands (America)
Married: Moica Lanen Van Pelt in 1695, she was the daughter of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht, in New Netherlands.
He died about 1 March 1741 in Monmouth County, New Jersey....
Stoffel Langestraet was a Deacon of the Flatlands Church in 1698. Not long after this he, his brother Adrian, and his father moved across to New Jersey. There he settled in the Neversink Hills, (some references say at Deal) which was in Monmouth County, where his descendants abound to this day..."
5. The book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF VAN LIEUWEN AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELDS GENERATION,” pp. 265-66:
“Catharina Van Lieuwen
Born: 1648 in Utrecht, in the Netherlands
Married: Dirck Langestraet about 1669
Died about 1685 in Long Island
Catharina Van Lieuwen was one of the older children of Frederick Van Lieuwen, history books say she was probably the second born. She came with her family as a child to the New Netherlands in the Provinces. She married Dirck Stoffels Langestraet in about 1669, as her first child was born in 1670. There is no doubt that the Langestraets and Van Lieuwen's must have known one another as families in the Netherlands as both families came from Utrecht. We have no exact date of her death, however we base it on the following data: She had a son in 1680, and her husband Dirck remarried by 1690, therefore we suppose she died during that ten year span, saying "probably" 1685. She and her husband had lived at Flatlands (Amersfoort) on Long Island, and after his remarriage he moved to New Jersey. Therefore it is possible she is buried at, or near the Flatlands Church on Long Island.”
6. The book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELD'S,” pp. 238-242:
"The family of Longstreet, with the related families of Van Lieuwen and Lanen Van Pelt, immigrated from the Netherlands to the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands at different intervals from 1652-1663. It is well therefore, an account of the lives of these people, to give a brief look at the country from which they came, and look at the colony where they settled." (Source: GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF LONGSTREET by Edward Mayes)
In Edward Mayes, "Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet" he tells how the Netherlands or Low Countries were constantly being "taken over," by the French, Germans, Romans, and even Spanish. To go into depth regarding the country's history would take several volumes of its own. Just prior to the time our family started immigrating, the Netherlands had fallen to Spain, and because of this the Dutch had a hand in the discovery of America. The Spaniards and the Dutch pretty much had the same interests, it was more a clashing of the characters of the two peoples and its ruler which caused a War that lasted 80 years, from 1566-1648. The War ended with the humiliation and ruin of Spain, and the establishment of the Netherlands as one of the principal powers of Europe. The primary points of this struggle was the formation of a union between the seven northern provinces and the recognition by Spain that this union of Provinces could not be overtaken.
The prosperity of the Netherlands was prodigious. For over a century it was absolute "master of the sea." It had crushed the Spaniards and acquired possessions in America. It checked the Portuguese and kept down the English. After a famous battle called "Goodwin Sands", which took place 29 November 1652, Admiral Van Tromp paraded a broom at the mast head of his ship as he passed along the English Coast, it was a token statement that he had "swept" the channel clean; and in June 1667, De Ruyter, another Dutchman, sailed up the Thames and blockaded the Port of London. In the Baltic the Netherlands became the perfect "masters of the sea", by the Peace of Copenhagen (1660), by which the Swedes held the one coast of the sound, and the Danes held the other, thus leaving the course wide open, and tolerably easy for the Dutch. At this same time they actually held in their hands the commerce of the world. Their achievements in science, theology, natural philosophy, and art gained the admiration of all Europe. Their resistance to the arrogance of Louis XIV was their greatest glory. After that period of time, the importance of the republic gradually declined, not because its activity and prosperity declined, but simply because it was superseded by England.
THE NEW NETHERLANDS…
Here it must be recalled that the long and bitter war between Spain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands was interrupted by a brief armistice, lasting about twelve years, effective in 1609. In September of that year, "Hendrick Hudson, a navigator in the service of the States General of Holland," discovered the Bay of New York, "and ascended both the Bay and the Hudson River to a point a little below Albany. On his return, landing in England, he immediately dispatched to Holland an account of his discoveries." In the following year, 1610, some merchants of Amsterdam sent a small vessel to the Hudson River to trade with the Indians for furs, which it is well known continued for many years and came to be one of the commercial attractions to this part of the new world. In 1613, six years after the English settlement at Jamestown, and even years before Plymouth, two small trading forts were built on the Hudson River, and four homes erected on Manhattan Island. In 1614 the Dutch sent five vessels to further explore this region. These explorers ran the whole length of Long Island, and ascended the strait now known as the East River; entered the Sound and also passed up the Hudson and along the Jersey Coast to the Delaware River that they ascended for some distance.
In October 1614 the States-General granted to the explorers the exclusive right to trade between the Delaware and Connecticut Rivers for three years. In 1615 a fort and trading house were erected just below the present site of Albany, as well as another site on the southwest point of Manhattan Island, which they called New Amsterdam. Messengers were immediately sent out to the Indian tribes to induce them to trade with the United Netherlands Company. Three years later upon the expiration of their agreement, the States General refused to renew their grant. The United Netherlands Company ignored that fact and continued to trade until about 1623 when the Dutch West India Company took possession of the lands that had temporarily been granted to their predecessors. The Dutch West India Company was a very powerful mercantile association, and in 1623 it sent the first of many ships, commanded by Cornelius Jacobse Mey, with Dutch settlers who were fully provided with means of subsistence, and with articles of trade. They erected Fort Nassau, located approximately where Gloucester, New Jersey is today. It was the European settlement in that region. In the same year Fort Orange was established where Albany stands today. The entire colony took the name of New Netherlands; its limits embracing substantial portions of New Jersey and Delaware, and the eastern portion of New York. It was divided geographically, and politically, into two separate sections; one about the Delaware River, the other about the Hudson River.
In 1624 Peter Minuit was appointed Director of the New Netherlands; and he soon brought over colonists who settled in Long Island, Staten Island, and Manhattan Island. (And we all recall the story of how Manhattan Island was purchased from the Indians for $24.)
Up to 1629 the settlements were primarily trading establishments. However in that year the Dutch West India Company took the remarkable step of granting to certain individuals extensive tracts of land with feudal rights over the lives and persons of their subjects. Minuit's administration of New Netherlands came to an end in 1632, a new administrator came to light and erected a Fort on the Connecticut River at the site of Hartford, this was done strictly to further the interest of the Dutch West India Company. It was very apparent that the company interests were not those of the people, the trading posts tended to overshadow the "supposed" colony.
For numerous years the history of New Netherlands was merely a history of the acts of the Director, "who proceeded more like the agent of a commercial institution than the ruler of a vast province. He assumed he was the head of the agency and all other inhabitants were merely his servants or his tenants. The abortion for their own benefit, of the most fertile lands by officers of the company had naturally tended to prevent actual settlers (who wanted to farm) from coming to New Netherlands, and the company had thus far failed to send over the colonists that were required by the Charter." (Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF NEW JERSEY, by Howe, pages 9-14)
The attention of the Dutch government was drawn to the condition of the colony. "A short investigation compelled them to announce officially that the colony as retrograding, its population decreasing, and that it required an immediate change in the administration of it affairs." (Source: LIPPINCOTTS GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD)
In 1637 a new director, William Kieft was appointed, he opened the area not only for trade, but also the cultivation of the soil, and allowed immigrants to settle there under certain conditions. This change was not unaccompanied by trouble. There was eight years of constant turbulence under Kieft's administration. He had BIG trouble with the Dutch West India Company, also with the colonists, and the Indians, as well as English settlers in Connecticut.
In spite of the initial trouble, it finally gave way to a new and better order of things. The population, which had been very "transient" up to that point, as it consisted of many of the company's servants who as soon as their respective terms expired, immediately returned to Europe, now became permanent.
In 1645 Pietrus Stuyvesant was appointed Director in place of Kieft. For nineteen years he ruled the colony with great ability, although he too had his difficulties. An English invasion and conquest eventually terminated his administration; for as many supposed it would not be without a struggle that England would submit to a Dutch Colony between her own settlements, and located on territory supposedly claimed by England. (Source: HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND)
In the year 1497 the Cabot's, father, and son, under an English commission had explored the coast from Newfoundland to Florida. And in 1584 to 1590 Sir Walter Raleigh under a patent from Queen Elizabeth had attempted settlements in Virginia. In 1606, James I, had granted patents for not only North and South Virginia, but for ALL the land extending from the Southernmost boundary of North Carolina to the most Northern boundary of Maine, and under that patent is when the colonies of Jamestown and Plymouth had been established. In 1613 a band of Englishmen from Virginia had attempted to drive the Dutch from the Hudson River area, but it didn't work. In 1627 Gov. Bradford of the Plymouth Colony wrote to the Dutch colonial government, most earnestly asserting the right of the English to the territory now occupied by the Dutch, and urging the Dutch to clear out, "for otherwise," he stated. "It will be harder and with more difficulty hereafter, and perhaps not without blows." (Source: HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND)
In 1640 a number of emigrants from the New Haven Colony settled on the left shore of the Delaware; and in the same year, English colonists, claiming their rights on a grant made by the Plymouth Colony in 1635, which gave the whole of Long Island to the Earl of Stirling, settled in the present county of Suffolk and resisted all effort of the Dutch to drive them off. So it was that in 1644 Charles II, resolved upon the reduction of New Netherlands. By his royal grant he divided it into two proper English colonies of New York and New Jersey. Charles II then immediately gave the lot of it to his brother, the Duke of York. Without any formal "declaration of War with Holland," a small fleet was sent to take possession of "New Netherlands." Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor, though a brave soldier, was obliged to surrender. Sir Robert Carr, with two frigates, was sent to compel the colony to surrender; and they did so after being persuaded with the expenditure of two barrels of gunpowder and twenty "shot." The colony was reduced to hardly anything. However in August 1673 Evertsen and Biacks, with a Dutch squadron, arrived in the Lower Bay; and on the 30th of July the colony was recaptured by the Dutch. It was great joy to the Dutch settlers, whose experience under the English government was not very satisfactory. On the 29th of August all of the men in New Utrecht, totaling 41 in number, took the Oath of Allegiance to the Netherlands. This rejoicing was short lived, for in February of the following year the Treaty of Westminster restored it to the English, and permanently. (Source: JOHNSON'S UNIVERSAL CYLOPEDIA; REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH CELEBRATION OF 1877; HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND)
The Dutch settlers on the Island were possessed by a strong love for their fatherland; and they gave names to their settlements similar to those in the old country. Lange Eylandt was Long Island; New Amsterdam was New York; Midwout (Middlewoods) was Flatbush; Breukelen was Brooklyn. With their habits of industry, order, and strong wills, the Dutch also brought over their principles of faith. They trusted in God, and they introduced the new country to their high standard of religious culture by which they had been so carefully reared at home. As soon as any settlement was formed, they sought immediately to organize a church (Reformed Dutch Church) and erect a building where they might worship. Before 1677 241 religious services were held in New Utrecht, however they were held in a schoolhouse, or in some private building. The church records of collections show that five services were held prior to the organization of the church. The church of New Utrecht was composed of twenty seven members, whose names have been well preserved; among them was GILBERT LANEN VAN PELT, our ancestor.
I have been particular in setting forth this previous history of New Netherlands for several reasons, it sets a stage for our ancestors, not only for the Longstreet's, Lanen Van Pelt's, and Van Lieuwen's, but the Stidham's as well as others. They were all early colonists laboring in the same ways and much by the same methods as we labor in now, although under different circumstances. So these people, whose blood flows in our own veins, whose names should always be honored by us, and whose fears and hopes, struggles and achievements should enlist our deepest sympathy. It was during this period of time mentioned above, and under these circumstances, in the twilight of American history under the Dutch dominion, and amid scenes of anxious care that several of our progenitors of this family came to the New World.
Of those whom we shall note in this connection, the first comers were the family of Van Lieuwen in 1652, that was the year Van Tromp was parading the English Channel with his broom aloft, seven years after the appointment of Peter Stuyvesant to the Directorship of the Province came the Longstreet's. Then in 1666 the family of Lanen Van Pelt arrived, that was the year the English seized the Province. Although the family of Van Lieuwen preceded the Longstreet's by several years, and the natural course of historical statements would demand that account first be given to them, the logical arrangement of this genealogical narrative requires that the Longstreet's be given precedence. They are the main branch of this section, and any other course would be nothing but confusing.
(By way of preliminary, a statement should be made in respect to Dutch names. They made very little use of "family names," as we know them. Many of them had none. Even in the most formal documents men are frequently designated by their Christian names alone, and made mention of where they lived. It was however the custom to add to a man's own Christian name that of his father. These peculiarities cause much trouble in trying to understand the repetitive name ... again and again. Generally the name of a person as written, usually gives the name of his father; thus "Stoffel Dircks" means Stoffel the son of Dirck.)”
7. The book “This old Monmouth of ours: history, tradition, biography, genealogy, and other anecdotes related to Monmouth County, New Jersey,” by William S. Hornor (Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1974) “The Longstreet (Langstraat Family),” pp. 127-28:
“The Longstreet Family.
This substantial family springs from THEOPHILUS LANGSTRAAT (1), of Holland, through a son, Dirck, (2), who came to America in 1657. The Anglicised form of the name sufficiently indicates its original meaning and derivation.
DIRCK STOFFELSE LANGSTRAAT (2), son of Theophilus (or Stoffel) (1), came to America in 1657, eventually settling in Shrewsbury Township. (It may be noted here that among the Dutch the syllables, s, se, pe, and sometimes, te were used to indicate the paternity of the individuals to whom they were assigned, apparently as middle-names. Often the original last names, were dropped and only the "middle-name" retained. Thus we have the families of Hendricks, Laen, Giberson, and Tysen, all proceeding from an original (probably VanPelt), through several brothers who were respectively christened Hendrick, Laen, Gilbert, and Matthias, or Tice.) Dirck Longstreet married first, Catherine VanSiddock, and, secondly, Johannah Havens, widow of Johannis Holshart. His children were: Richard (3), of Shrewsbury; Adrien (or Aaron,) (4); Theophilus (or Stoffle), (5); Samuel (6); and, Classje (7)
ADRIEN, or AARON. (4), son of Dirck (2), was born in 1677 and died in 1728. He was a cordwainer, and lived in Freehold Township. He married, in 1707, Christina (or Stanchke) Janse. Their children were: John (8); Derrick (9); Stoffle (10); Katherine (11); Nelly (12); Winifred (13); Maria (14); Arinche (15), and, one other child (16), perhaps Christopher, who died in 1758 leaving children, Court (91), and Christine (92), both under age at the death of their father. Of these last Christine is said to have married John Saunders, from whom she was divorced by Legislative Enactment in 1780.
THEOPHILIS (OR STOFFLE) (5), son of Dirck (2), was born in Flatlands, Long Island, and died on his farm on the Manasquan River, in New Jersey, about 1741. He married Moyka, daughter of Gilbert Lane. She died about 1753. Moyka is, I think, the equivalent of the English Mercy. Their children were: Richard (17), of Squan, whose children are said to have been Derrick (42), born September 1745, and Anne (43), born June 1, 1748; Gilbert (18); Aury (19); Stoffel (20); Yonica (21); Catherine (22), who is supposed to have married William Chamberlain Jr.; Mary or Maria, (23), who married William, son of Daniel and Catherine Hendrickson; Sarah (24); Moika (25), who married and had children: and, Anne (26).
GILBERT LONGSTREET (18), son of Stoffel (5), lived at Squan, where he died in 1756 or 1758. His wife is supposed to have been Rachel, daughter of Garret and Nelly (Voorhees) Schenck, who married, secondly, Jacobus VanDorn. Their children were: Rachel (44), who died in 1765, having married William VanDorn, who married secondly, Mary Hunt; Garret (45), of Squan; Gilbert (46); Moyca (47); Nely (48); Jane, or Ouicha (49), married John Lake; and, Elizabeth (50).
AURY (OR AARON) LONGSTREET (19), son of Stoffle (5), was of Rocky Hill, near Princeton. One authority says that he married Catherine, daughter of Samuel Osborne, of Squan, who died before 1759. Another, makes her to have married John Longstreet. The name of his wife needs confirmation, as do those of his children, which have been given as: Moyka (51); Aaron (51-1/2); Richard (51-1/2); and, Lydia (52), bp. 6-10-1759.
STOFFLE LONGSTREET (20), son of Stoffle (5), was baptised 12-25-1713, and died 1784. He is said to have married Abagail, daughter of Thomas and Patience Woolley, who was born 3-17-1717, and to have been father of at least one child, Samuel, (41-1/2), who died 12-21-1829, at the age of 94.”
8. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), pp. D16-D17:
“DIRCK STOFFELS LANGESTRAET immigrated in 1657, twelve years after the appointment of Stuyvesant as Director of the province, two years after the erection of the church at Flatbush, and seven years before the seizure of the province by Nicholls. He settled at Flatlands (Amersfoort); and this fact, since the village was of less consequence than either Flatbush (only three miles may) or Brooklyn, and was named for a town in Utrecht, from which those who inhabited and named it presumably came, renders it probable that Langestraets were from Utrecht. However that may be, Dirck (or Richard, in the English) was in 1677, a member of the Flatlands church, sitting under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Zuuren. He may have been for years before that an active member of the church, and probably was; for it must be remembered that the lists in the Flatbush record begin with the year 1677. In 1687, in September, thirteen years after the first cession of the province to England, there was a general administration of an oath of allegiance to the British Crown to all of the Dutch people; and with the others, Dirck took that oath at Flatlands. He appears again on an assessment roll of that village for the year 1693, and on a census roll of 1698. After this his name occurs no more on the Long Island records and it is thought that he moved to Monmouth county, New Jersey.
In his younger manhood, but after his arrival in this province, he married CATHARINA VAN LIEUWEN; afterward, in his older age, some time before, but not far from, February 13, 1690, he married Johanna Havens, widow of Johannis Holsaert. An ante-nuptial agreement made with this second wife is still to be found in the town records of Gravesend; and in it reference is made to his son Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, date now unknown, he had bought land at Shrewsbury in New Jersey, which he devised by his will to his son Richard. By his first wife Catherina, he had issue as follows:
(1) Stoffel Dircksen, of whom hereafter.
(2) Claasje Dircksen, born about 1672 and who married Abraham Lott, of Jamaica.
(3) Adrian, baptised September 16, 1677. (Adrian; bapt. Sept. 16, 1677; married Christina Janse 1707. On asst. roll of Flatlands 1693, and census of 1698; owned land in Gravesend; moved to Freehold, N. J., and deacon there 1721; died in 1728; wife died after 1726. Issue (all bapt. at Marlboro): 1, Christine, or Katherine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, mar. Aug. 24, 1741. Wm. Williamson of the Raritan; 2, Jan. bp. Jan. 13, 1712, mar. Dec. 17, 1746 Anije Cowenhoven; 3. Dirck, of Princeton, born about 1713, mar. about 1749, Margaret Shenck, widow of Wm. Cowenhoven; 4, Nellie, born about 1715; 5, Winnifred, born about 1718; 7, Maria, born about 1721, mar. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; 8, Arianche, born about 1723; Stoffel, born about 1728, mar. Nov. 28, 1753, Nellie Shenck.)
(4) Richard, born about 1680.
(5) A daughter (supposed), who married Samuel Osborne.
(6) Samuel (supposed) married Barbara Antonides
9. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), p. D35-D36:
“Catharine Van Lieuwen, wife of Dirck Langstraet, was one of the oldest children, probably the second. She was born about 1648-1650, and in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, in all probability must have married about 1669, as her family began to be born about 1670. We have no indication of the date of her death, further than this: that one of her sons was born about 1680, and her husband married a second time in February, 1690; so that she must have died between those dates. It was probably after 1685.”
10. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 181-82:
“Langestraat, Adriaen, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; d. 1728; m. Christina Janse. On ass. roll of Flds of 1693 and cen. of 1698; also owned land in Gd; deacon of Freehold R. D. ch. in 1721, to which place he had removed. In 1723, an Adriaen Langestraet and Christina Janse his w., mem. of Freehold R. D. ch. Issue, all bp. at Marlboro: Christine or Katharine, bp. Nov. 27, 1709, m. Aug. 24, 1741, Wm Williamsen of the Raritan; Jan, bp. Jan. 13, 1712, m. Dec. 17, 1746, Antje Cowenhoven; Dirck of Princeton, b. about 1713, m. about 1749 Margaret Schenck wid. of Wm Cowenhoven; Nelly, b. about 1715; Winnifred, b. about 1718; Maria, b. about 1721, m. Dec. 5, 1742, Dirck Sutphen; Arianche, b. about 1723; and Stoffel, b. about 1726, m. Nov. 28, 1753, Nelly Schenck, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck.
Derick Stoffelsz, emigrated in 1657, m. 1st Catharina Van Lieuwen; m. 2d, prior to Feb. 13, 1690, Johanna Havens wid. of Johannis Holsaert. Mem. of Flds D. ch. in 1677, took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on ass. roll of said town of 1693 and cen. of 1698. In ante-nuptial agreement with his 2d w. on the Gd rec. of Feb. 13, 1690, reference is made to his s. Stoffel Dircksen. At an early period, as per Rev. G. C. Schenck, he bought land at Shrewsbury, N. J., which he devised by will to his s. Richard. Issue: - Stoffel Dircksen; Claasje Dircksen, b. about 1672, m. Abraham Lott of Ja; Adrian, bp. Sept. 16, 1677; Richard of Shrewsbury, b. about 1680; (sup.) Johannis; and Samuel, (sup.) m. Barbara Antonides. Signed his name “Dirck Stoffels."
(Sup.) Jan or Johannis Dircksen, b. 1629. Appointed Apl. 28, 1666, by the mag. of Flh one of the guardians of Aernout Reynders s. of Reyndert Arensen and Annetien Hermans, said Annetien being dec. and said Aernout having married Annetien Aukens, as per p. 61 of Lib. D of Flh rec. Allowed to follow the occupation of carman by the court in N. A. in 1674, as per p. 494 of Valentine's Manual of 1855. June 8, 1690, he made an affidavit relating to the troubles in N. Y. during Gov. Leisler's administration, as per p. 741 of Vol. III. of Doc. of Col. His.
Stoffel Dircksen of Flds and N. J., m. Mayke Laanen dau. of Gysbrecht Tuysz Lanen Van Pelt of N. U. Deacon of Flds D. ch. in 1698. Removed to the Neversinks in Monmouth Co., N. J., where his descendants abound. In his will, da. Dec. 1, 1739, pro. Mar. 1, 1741, he calls himself Theophilus, an improper change for Stoffel or Christopher. The will of Mayke his w. is da. Apl. 8, 1752, and pro. Mar. 13, 1753. These wills name as their children, Jonica, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Maria, Ann, and Gisbert. Issue: - Dirck, bp. Apl. 25, 1696, in Bro, m. Jane or Jonica, probably d. at date of his father's will; Jonica or Jane; Catharine, (sup.) m. Jan Sutphen of N. J.; Mary or Maria, bp. May 6, 1702, m. 1st Wm. Hendricksen of N. J., m. 2d (sup.) Dirck Sutphen; Sarah, b. about 1705; Gisbert, b. about 1707, m. Rachel Schenck, d. 1758; Aurie, bp. Nov. 6, 1710, m. May 6, 1754, Lydia Hull; Stoffel, bp. Dec. 25, 1713, resided at Upper Freehold, m. Dec. 16, 1743, Abagail Wooley, d. 1784; Moica, bp. Mar. 6, 1716, m. (sup.) Johannes Leek; and Ann, b. about 1718. Signed his name “Stoffel Langstrat."
Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush.
11. “A Longstreet Family History,” by Rupert James Longstreet (DeLand, Fla., 1960), available on FHL film 2056005 item 3 or online at :
“OUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR. DIRCK STOFFELSE.
The first record of the presence in America of our immigrant ancestor was made on June 14, 1663, when a list of "equipment and munitions of war" possessed by the Dutch settlers at Ameersfoort (Brooklyn) revealed that DIRCK STOFFELSEN was responsible for one pound of powder valued at one florin. (Documents Relating to the Colonial History of N.Y., II, 463) In September, 1687, there was a "roll of those who have taken the oath of allegiance in Kings County in the Province of New York ... in the 3rd year of His Maj Reigne", and in this roll, "off fflackland" we find entered:
DIRCK STOFFELSE - 30 Jeare STOFFEL DIRCKSEN - native
Intrepreted, this means that Dirck had lived in the colony for 30 years (which sets the date of his arrival as 1657) and that his son Stoffel was born in the colony. (Documentary History of New York, I, 431) The following ante-nuptial agreement found in the Gravesend Town Records, Bk 3 p. 114, gives us more information about Dirck:
“To all Christian people to whom this present writing shall come: Know ye thatt I Dirck Stoffelsen living att Ameersfoort in Kings County upon Long Island in ye province of New York weduwaer of Catherine van Lewen deceased, being now remarried with Johanna havens widdow of Johannis holsard deceased my present wife:
Therefore know ye thatt I Dirck Stoffelsen above sd being in perfect memorie make hereby my present loving wyf Johanna haavens in my last will and testament my sole joynty heir and executrix of all my whole estate both moveable and unmoveable onely excepted my eldest son Stoffel direcksen shale injoye a lumm for weavings, so as ye lumm comes from ye workman: in the time of a yeare from ye date here of above his tother brother and sister butt all my whole estate as above sd is left unto my loving wyf Johanna haavens: she to be my joynty heir and executrix duering her lifetime: without any molestation or disturbance by my children, or by thier procurement, att any time or times whatsoever hereafter; remarrion or nott remarrien, my loving wyf above shall remain my joynty heire and executrix.
And therefore I Johanna havens widdow of Johannis holsard deceased, living in ye same towne and countie and province above specified, being now remarried with Dirck Stoffelsen my present husband I Johanna above sd being in perfect memorie, doe hereby as my last will and testament, make my present loving husband my sole and joynty heir and executor of all my estate moveable and unmoveable none excepted and if god should be pleased to give us children together in our marriage, them children then with the rest of our fore children: are to have equal portion together after our decease butt ye surviving of us either male or female is to possess both whole estates of both sides without molestation or disturbance of both parties theire children or anyone else of theire procurement att any time or times whatsoever hereafter: this is our will so to do being in perfect memorie, and in confirmation both parties have hereunto sett our hands this 18 of februa 1690/1.
DIRCK STOFFELS JOHANNA HAVENS
Subscribed and Acknowledged in the presence of us:
ARSTEN JANSEN BARENT YUIANSEN JOHN EMANS: Clerke”
We do not know the date of death of Dirck's first wife Catherine, but she was with him as witness to a baptism on 11-16-1684 (Documentary History of New York, 1898). As we see above, Dirck was remarried by Feb. 18, 1690/1. In 1698, there was a census of Flatland, Long Island, in which was listed the then family of Dirck Langstraat, consisting of "Men 1 Wo 1 Chil 3" (Kings County, New York, Genealogical Club Collections, III, 88). On 4-25-1696, Dirch is recorded with his second wife Johanna Havens at the Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn, witnessing the baptism of grandsons Jan and Dirck (History of Middlesex County, NJ, by Wall and Pickersgill I,79) The last known record of this family in Long Island is the following: (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 54:180)
“Sept. 10, 1698: Antony Warshaer of Flatlands and Maritje his wife deed Stoffel Langstraat, Adrian Langstraat, Johannes Holsaer, Classje Lake and Cretje Williamse, late of Kings County, house, orchard, etc. in Flatlands bounded by property of John Vandyckhuys and Derick Amertman. The parties of the second part paying full value to Antony Holsaer, Benjamein Holsaer, Dirick Langstraat and Marytntje Langstraat when they are of age or marry the ninth part of said property. Signed by Antony alone. Wit by Henry Filkin and Ferdinand Vansycklyn, Jr. Ack. Sept. 15, Rec'd Sept. 16, 1698 before and by Henry Filkin, Reg.
We know from the ante-nuptial agreement that Dirck had three children by his first wife Catherine, viz. eldest son Stoffel and a brother and a sister. In the Warshaer deed we learn the name of the brother, i.e. Arian (Adrian, Aaron). We learn the name of the sister, Classje, from (M-11). Thus Dirck's first three children, by Catherine, were: Stoffel, Adrian and Classje. The Warshaer deed names two more as minors in 1698, and therefore of the second marriage, i.e. Dirick and Maryntje.
This list of five does not wholly agree with the Flatlands census of 1698. Who the third child of that list may have been remains undetermined.
The list of five is also in disagreement with (Register of Early Settlers in Kings County, Long Island, New York, By T.G. Bergen), where Bergen states that the children of Dirck were: Stoffel, Classje, Adrian, Richard of Shrewsbury, Johannis (sup), and Samuel (sup). Berger may have counted Johannis Holsard of the Warshaer deed as a Longstreet, in error. Of his "Samuel", there is no present explanation. Nor do we know why Bergen credited "Richard of Shrewsbury" to a place as a son of the Immigrant Dirck, for the Warshaer deed again lists "Dirick" as a minor in 1698, and in any case born after 1690, as a son of Dirck and Johanna. In the light of such data as we now have, it seems likely that this "Richard" is a grandson of Dirck by his son Stoffel, and the author of will #2659M (see later); that is, he is the Dirick b. 1696 to Stoffel and Mayke Lanen. Therefore we shall proceed to develop his family history on the assumption that the immigrant ancestor founded his line upon the two elder sons, viz. Stoffel and Adrian (Aaron). Of his third son, by Johanna, we have no further data.
DIRCK STOFFELSE [Children:] -Stoffel Dircksen b. ca. 1666 -Classje Dircksen b. ca. 1672 -Adrian (Aaron) bp. 9-16-1677
(Omitting Dirck's two children by his second marriage - Dirick and Maryntje - for neither of whom we have any record of issue.)”
SOURCES_MISC:
1. The book "Founders of Early American Families," by Meredith B. Colket, 2nd Revised ed., 2002. I have searched this book and include transcripts above from pertinent sources for this individual and their related family.
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