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From: Jerry Vandiver <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Jacob Alrichs
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:00:54 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <000901c4dc0f$fd81aa10$9dfc56d1@D74JNG11>


Thanks much, Howard. I was originally working on the
Carpentier family in Brazil and noticed Jacob Alrichs
name in the same collection of baptisms. The name
stuck in my head more so because of Peter Alrichs than
Jacob, so at first I did not pursue any of the
records. I am still going through the baptisms and a
couple of the Brazil folio's I received from the
Netherlands a couple years ago ...

Anyway:

> From a footnote p. 227, we see that Alrichs was a
witness at a baptism in Recife on Dec 9, 1637.

14 June 1637 is the earliest baptism I found. Some
interesting names in the baptisms I have pulled out so
far (up to 1645 at this point).

> His last appearance in this article is as a witness
to a bap. on Nov 3, 1652. He is referred to as
Director Jacob Alrichs, Sr. So, I wonder if he had an
earlier son, Jacob.

I noticed the same thing. There are not enough
records in the Baptisms to say one may be the father
and another the son. What happened to any of Jacob's
children is now my question, which I will get to in a
moment.

> On pp 163-164 is a letter from Alrichs to Stuyvesant
telling of his arrival and that his ship, the Prins
Maurits, had run aground off Long Island on 12 March
1657. (I seem to recall we discussed this voyage
before here.)

I noticed the discussion in the list archives. I
forget who was actually being discussed, though. What
I have been looking at is: Who can be found in Brazil
and later in New Amsterdam? and; When did they arrive?

> On p. 289 is a letter from William Beeckman to
Stuyvesant that says that Alrichs had died at New
Amstel on 30 Dec (1659). Letter dated 14 Jan 1660
from Altena.
>
> There appears to have been some dispute about
settling his estate. This involved Cornelis van Gesel
vs. d'Hinoyossa. Van Gesel was Alrich's nephew.

Now this brings me to a couple things. Dr. Craig
discusses Pieter Alrichs in his "1671 Census of the
Delaware". What I found interesting is that it begins
with Pieter Alrichs' plantation at Matinicum
(Burlington) Island (Wharton listed the heads of
household going south from there in geographic order)
and ends with Pieter Alrichs' house at New Castle.

Dr. Craig describes Pieter as Jacob's nephew, born in
Niekerk, Groningen, Netherlands and having arrived
with Jacob in 1657 at New Amstel. He figures
conspicuously in the history of New Castle until he
dies in 1697. I suppose my questions would be - 1)
Why would the conflict over Jacob's estate involve Van
Gesel vice Pieter (or did it include both?)?; and 2)
Is it a safe assumption that Jacob's own children had
not survived? or did they remain in The Netherlands
and simply never benefit from their father's holdings
on the South River?

Not burning questions, I guess. Just curious. Thanks
a lot Howard for confirming and firming things up for
me.

Jerry



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