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From: "David Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] More on Loonenburg
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:47:48 -0400
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Peter:
THANK YOU !
With the dates you provide, I fully agree w/ you.
So, Lunenburg, Virginia, and Loonenburg, New York, aren't directly named for
the same source.
I learned something from this. I had "assumed" [that dangerous word !] that
the New York name was just an odd spelling, not a really different word.
Again, Peter, thanks. You really are a help on this list, especially to us
Long Islanders for whom upstate New York can, at times, be "terra
incognita." Guess you all can say the same thing about us ! :o)
David

Van Velsor and allied lines from New Amsterdam, thru' Jamaica, L. I., to
Oyster Bay, L. I. by the 1720's/1730's. We do have Walt Whitman in our line.


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From: "Peter Christoph" <>
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Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [D-Col] More on Loonenburg


> In A. J. F. van Laer's Early Records of Albany, vol. 3, 581-82, he
> translates a lease which says in part, "Jan van Loon acknowledges that he
> has let to ... Christoffel Brusy a farm (called Loonenburgh) behind the
farm
> of Klinckenbergh." The date of the lease is 11 March 1684/5 (1684 in the
> Julian calendar, 1685 in the Gregorian).
>
> In my article, "The Time and Place of Jan van Loon: A Roman Catholic in
> Colonial Albany," de Halve Maen (in two numbers), September-December 1987,
I
> wrote,
>
> "He and Pierre Bosie ("Peter the Frenchman") on December 16, 1678,
> contracted to buy a tract of land on the west side of the Hudson River
> opposite Claverack, and when Bosie later backed out, van Loon alone bought
> what would become Loonenburgh (half the present Town of Athens with a
> portion of Coxaackie). However, van Loon continued for some years to live
in
> Albany, leasing Loonenburgh on March 11, 1684/5, for six years to
> Christoffel Brusy (another Frenchman). Witnesses to the lease included
> Antoine Lespinard, a French Lutheran from La Rochelle and frequent
associate
> of van Loon."
>
> So it would seem that the name "Loonenburgh" was applied to the farm that
> belonged exclusively to Jan van Loon, with the indication in the lease of
> 1684/5 that the name was already established before that year. I think we
> can safely assume that the name of the farm derives from the name of its
> owner, with perhaps a nod by the original namers to the fact that there
was
> a well-known region of the same name in Germany.
>
>


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