A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times 7: Adult Freeholders

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A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times
7: Adult Freeholders — Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyck

[This information is from p. 188 of A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley by Jonathan Pearson, A. M. and others, edited by J. W. MacMurray, A. M., U. S. A. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883). It is in the Schenectady Collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at Schdy R 974.744 P36, and copies are also available for borrowing.]

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Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyck alias Broer Cornelis is said to have married a Mohawk woman by whom he had several children, three sons, Jacques, Marten and Cornelis, and two daughters Hilletie and Lea (?).

Broer Cornelis by reason of his eminent services in bringing about peace and ransoming prisoners in the hands of the Indians, "which well known services should of right be duly acknowledged," — received a grant of lands at Katskill in 1646. (188-4)

In 1640 he lived near Cohoes falls; he died in 1676. (188-5)

Notes

(188-4) O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N., I, 382.

(188-5) Brodhead, Hist. N. N. I, 306.

A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times7: Adult Freeholders — Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyck

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A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times
7: Adult Freeholders — Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyck