22 PM June 1998 update - April's Ancestry
23 May 2004 update
additions 2/23/2008
& 8/2/2009
in New York City in the 1600s & 1700s
in Colonial America Through Revolutionary War
The Dutch families of Losee, Koeck, Denton & Brush in New York, mid 1600's
This is a record of my Lamoureux Family affiliates from Holland through the pre-revolution New Amsterdam / New York Colony & into Canada from the mid 1600s to 1800s.
The Losee family was in New Amsterdam [New York] mid 1600's, 50 years before the Lamoreaux family.
Abigail Ann Losee married John McCord Lamoreaux in 1805 in Loyalist Canada.
See Also: Lamoreaux Family Time Lines, from France to Engl. & New York City, & The Hudson Valley & beyond – starting with ANDRE’ & SUZANNE LATOUR LAMOREAUX IN NEW YORK – 1700 - Following Andre & Suzanne’s children and some grand children in New York City & New Rochelle & on the Hudson River.
See also: MASSE' FAMILY COMES TO NEW YORK – Including Mercereau - Daniel Lamoreaux married Jeanne Masse’
LOSEE
“The name has been spelt: Losey, Loosie, Losie, Loyse, Lowsye, Loszie, and Losee, the later being the most commonly used. The progenitor of the Losee family in America was Cornelius who emigrated from Utrecht, Holland, to Brunswick, Long Island, in 1651. The record of this family has been very difficult to set and very little information has been very difficult to get and very little information has been found. Many of the birth dates of the children have been estimated from the marriage dates as found in the records. In the Holland Society Year Book for 1897, page 133, it says, ‘A number of volumes of records of the Dutch Church of Brooklyn, N.Y. were lost, having been carried away by the village clerk together with the village records at the close of the Revolution.’ The records of the people of Brunswick were kept at Brooklyn at that time. The marriage records are more perfect. Much information has been received through correspondence and the best judgment has been exercised in placing some of the children and where there has been any doubt it is indicated.” P. 54
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe
KOECK
The name was variously spelt as Kouk, Koek, Koeck, Kok and sometimes also with a “C” which makes it very hard to trace the family as there were so many English Cocks in Long Island also. Only the first generation has been found. A Lourens Corneliszen Koeck son of Cornelis Koeck, emigrates in 1661 from Dennemarken, Denmark to Long Island where he lived in Flatbush and also Bushwick. He married 5 Mar 1676, Margrietje Barents (---note- - - - b abt 1642) who was most likely a daughter of Barent Arentszen and Marrietje Cornelis as they were witness to the baptism of Margrietje’s first child, Cornelis, who would be named after his paternal grandfather and also his maternal grandmother. [part is crossed out here.] Lourens Koeck was on the assessment rolls of Flatbush of 1676, the year he married, and also of 1683. He took the oath of allegiance in Brunswick in Sept. 1687, being 26 years in the country. ‘Feb. 2, 1677-8 or Dec. 29, 1687, Laurens Cornelise, a farmer of N. Arnheim in Boswyck, bought of Stoffel Janse, carpenter, 2 lots of woodland nos. 32 & 33 in the new lots of Flatbush for 300 gl., bought by said Stoffel of Minne Johannes.’ Both he and his wife had their names on a mortage of land in Bushwick 24 Jan. 1692. [children are listed here] p 75
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe
DENTON
“The Rev. Richard Denton of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England was born in 1586. He was a graduate of Cambridge University in 1623 and became the minister (for 4 years) of Halifax, (Parrish, Colby Chapel.) Yorkshire. (He was living in Jurton Parish of Bolton in 1627) In 1630 he emigrated to America in the “Arbella" (Religious persecution drove him to America.) with Gov. Winthrop, landing at Boston, Mass. Shortly after this he led a party of people to Witherfield, Conn. as their minister. In 1640-1 he led another party to Stamford, Conn. where he founded the Congregational Church. From the history of Stamford we learn that in 1644 a colony composed of Richard Denton, father and sons. …. They named the town Hempstead after Hummel Hempstead, a town near London, England, where some of the people came from. Denton became the first minister of Hempstead and is said to have been the founder of Presbyterianism in America. He had been ordained in the Church of England but was won over to the Puritan side.”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in America/ Europe p 110
“Family SURNAMES spelling is a constant problem as they change from source to source. Many variants forms are therefore found in the literature. Early town and church clerks were not well educated.”
“Dutch wives did not change their [surnames?] when they married to their husband's. This leads to family trace problems. Numerous 2nd and 3rd marriages were also common as death came early.”
“It was only after the English established their rule in 1674 that the Dutch inhabitants had to take a Family Surname.”
Bergen, William Swayer. Jacob Milton Bergen, Sr Family Of Long Island, New York
"The founding of New Amsterdam, usually supposed to be by the Dutch and Baltic people was largely by Huguenots under Dutch auspices. ...Manhattan Island had become a trading post for Amsterdam firms and so when the first shipload of Huguenot emigrants came they did not come as strangers for French families had been there for years, ..."
G. Elmore Reaman, The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South Africa and Canada,
[Many of the early Huguenots, Walloons, left France and went to Holland.]
"... coming to the Colonies and settling there is not as simple a matter as we might imagine it today. Money, and a lot of it, was needed for those who wanted to come as free agents rather than indentured servants. One needed not only to pay for the ocean fare on the pier, but also the money for the land, which was payable in advance, in England. ... Artisans needed rent money and raw material for their trade. The language also constituted a certain barrier for the new immigrant. Unless the Huguenot could make himself understood in English, there was little opportunity for him in trade ...
" A Brief History of the Huguenots, Rev Herbert L Stein-Schneideer, Washington, DC, 1973.
Long Island
“Through hundreds of such agreements the Dutch pieced together six towns by 1660: Flatlands, t'Vlache Bos (Flatbush, the wooded plain), Boswijk (Bushwick, the town of woods), Gravesend (for either the town in England or 's Gravensande, Dutch for the count's beach), and Nieuw Utrecht and Breukelen (both named for towns back in Holland). Over the next two hundred years the villages would grow and join together to become the City of Brooklyn.
“Oddly enough, though all but one of these villages were located on the water, the settlers ignored the ocean, the bay, and the river. They were by habit farmers, not fishermen or sailors, and except for a handful of men in Breukelen who worked the ferry and a few Gowanus oystermen and beachcombers who picked over the shore in search of quahog and periwinkle shells that could be turned into negotiable wampum, the early Brooklynites turned their backs to the sea.
“In his history of New York City the young Teddy Roosevelt criticized these farmers for lacking the true pioneer spirit, a spirit he seemed to associate with chopping down trees. "The Dutch settlers," he wrote, "took slowly and with reluctance to that all-important tool and weapon of the American pioneer, the axe, and chopped down very little timber indeed.” Actually, at rocky, wooded Flatbush, the only inland settlement, the Dutch did clear the land (although they didn't fence in their cattle, which caused some squabbles with the Indians) and later even took advantage of the breezy highlands to build a few windmills.
“The Dutch West India Company controlled all aspects of the settlers' lives, and it controlled them for a single purpose: to make money for the stockholders. In other bays and inlets along the Atlantic Coast other colonies were established for religious or social reasons or simply for the personal profit of the settlers themselves. …The company needed settlers in New Netherlands, and if it couldn't get proper Calvinists, it would take what it could get.
“…Dominie Megapolensis, the pastor who founded the Dutch Reformed churches in Flatlands and Flatbush, wrote to a friend back home that the dangerous snakes had rattles on their tails to warn the unwary, that there were plenty of furs available to keep off the cold winds, and that if at one moment ‘the clouds will appear as if they would spew cats,’ an hour later there would not be a cloud in the sky. These were hardly major inducements to a prospective Dutch settler who could choose among the rich forests of northern Brazil, the warm sands of Curacao, and the lucrative slave markets of Angola.
“It is hardly a surprise that most of Brooklyn's six villages grew slowly. From the beginning Breukelen - directly across the East River from New Amsterdam - had commercial potential, and Flatbush was always a busy country market town. The rest remained isolated settlements of a few farmhouses - usually long, low buildings with heavy overhanging roofs - protected by a wooden stockade. The farmlands were outside of town, and the best of them were long strips that took advantage of the changing topography, from the sweet sea grass along the water to the flatlands for pasture to the inland forests with their valuable woodlots.
“The stockades were for protection against the Indians. Years later, in the 1890s, when a group of prosperous Park Slope gentlemen formed the Montauk Club and built a handsome clubhouse vaguely suggested by the Ca' d'Oro in Venice, they decorated the exterior not with Italianate cherubs but with thoroughly American eagles and scenes of local Indian life. One frieze runs around three sides of the building, and according to the novelist L. J. Davis, it depicts - depending on which end of the building you begin to view it from - either a war ending with a peace treaty or a peace treaty followed by a war. That ambiguity nicely sums up the Indian situation in the mid-seventeenth century in Brooklyn. There was no lack of treaties and bills of sale. What they meant, however, was debatable.
“The Dutch claimed that since the agreements were with them, the Canarsees no longer had to pay tribute to the Mohawks, and under the orders of Governor Willem Kieft the Dutch began to take the valuable gifts for, themselves. In 1643 Kieft seized two wagonloads of corn, killing several Indians in the process. The result, interrupted by a peace treaty or two, was Kieft's War. Marauding Mohawks destroyed farmhouses along Newtown Creek. The Bennett place on the Gowanus, one of the first houses in Breukelen, was burned. Gravesend was attacked, and the settlers had to flee to Flatlands. The war spread as far as Westchester, where the religious leader Anne Hutchinson and her family were killed. It all ended with a company of fifty men from New Amsterdam massacring nearly five hundred Indians at Horse Neck, near Greenwich, Connecticut.
“But that was pretty much the last time that anyone in Brooklyn was bothered by, or even much noticed, the Indians. A local law passed in 1655 said that no Indian "could pow wow or perform worship to the devil" within the limits of any town in the colony, but it wasn't needed in Brooklyn. The Indians were on their way to becoming harmless town characters. As one nineteenth-century clergyman piously phrased it, noting the passing of what he believed to be the last of the Canarsees: "The white race grew stronger, and the Indian weaker until about 1830 when Jim de Wilt, or 'Jim the wildman,' died in his wretched hut. . . the miserable remnant of the once proud possessors of these fertile lands."
“Old Indian trails were used by the settlers, and in time they were widened and paved to become Kings Highway and Flatbush Avenue. The Mohawks returned to the Gowanus in the 1920s, when the Manhattan skyscraper boom began, and builders found that the Indians' unusual sense of balance made them excellent workers on steel riggings hundreds of feet above the ground. Perhaps as many as a thousand settled in apartment houses and tenements not far from where the Bennett farm had burned. A few blocks away the Wigwam Bar opened its doors close to the spot where the worthy burghers of Breukelen had built their tiny Dutch Reformed church in the shape of an octagon so that it could also be used as a fort in case of Indian raids.
“The Dutch Reformed churches were the center of life in all but one of the Brooklyn towns. Gravesend was the exception. In New Netherlands, Gravesend was always the exception. The town had no church and wouldn't have one until 1763. Its citizens were English-speaking, and its leader was a woman, the lady Deborah Moody, nee Dunch, daughter of one of Queen Elizabeth's members of Parliament, granddaughter of the Bishop of Durham, and widow of a baronet.”
“In August of 1776 Brooklyn underwent the biggest population explosion in its history. In less than a week nearly thirty thousand outsiders-both British and American-swept across the county. The Revolution had begun, and the British, under General William Howe, were about to oust the rebels from New York City. Nearly twelve thousand Americans mostly from New England and Maryland-were drawn up ort Brooklyn Heights and on a: line of hills that ran from Newtown Creek through Bedford and Flatbush to the Narrows. The British fleet anchored off Coney Island and Gravesend and on August 25 landed about fifteen thousand men, …One of the American plans for Manhattan involved burning the place down and leaving it, worthless, to the enemy. This was never done, but a modified version of the plan was enacted in Kings County, where the Dutch population had not demonstrated much enthusiasm for George Washington or the Continental Congress. The rebels burned Flatbush farms, and farmers' crops in New Utrecht, Flatlands, and other outlying communities were destroyed so that they would not fall into British hands.
“After midnight, on the morning of August 27, the British troops began to move north toward the East River, and an eyewitness later remembered as an old woman that "before noon the Red Coats were so thick in Flatlands you could walk on their heads." But by noon the battle was already over. The American commanders, General Israel Putnam and his subordinate, John Sullivan, were unfamiliar with Brooklyn and had failed to fortify one of the four passes that cut through the hills that separated Gravesend from the East River.
“… The road was filled with troops for six hours, he remembered, and "to the eye [they] gleamed like sheets of fire." The main body of the American army escaped capture because a storm kept the British fleet out of the East River, and two regiments of Massachusetts fishermen-from Marblehead, Lynn, Salem, and Danvers-managed to row nine thousand men, along with horses, cannon, and ammunition, across the river to Manhattan in a single night. There Washington regrouped his army and fled to safety in White Plains.
“The war moved on to the American mainland, but a British army of occupation remained, and after a hundred years of being indifferent to crown rule many Brooklynites suddenly discovered that they were ardent royalists. The Flatlands racetrack was transformed into Ascot Heath. The Livingston family brewery became the King's Brewery, and the Ferry Tavern was renamed King's Head.”
McCullough, David W. Brooklyn …and How it Got that Way. Pp7-8
“Stoutenburgh in his ‘Documentary History of Oyster Bay’, says, ‘These early Dutch people in America were a home loving people and lived very much to themselves and intermarried much. They were very much devoted to their children and kept them under the family roof; building additions to their homes when they married. They were good and loyal citizens and love their God and their country.’
“If the husband or wife died it was customary for the survivor to marry again, often within a month or two and the children from both marriages were gathered into one house. Sometimes a widower with a number of children would marry a widow having as many or more, and to these new ones would soon be added. There were of course, a great many deaths among the children but after the period of early youth, the chances for life were good and many reached extreme old age. Many men were killed in battle or accident.”
“In contracting marriages it was the fashion for two or more children of one family to select partners from children of some other family. Sometimes the parents took part in the promotion of these multiple family alliances.
“If a child died the parents had habit of bestowing its name on the arrival of the same gender and this was often repeated several times in case of a succession of early deaths. If either husband or wife died it was considered polite to name the first child of the new marriage after the departed spouse. The first son was almost always named for his paternal grandfather, and the second after his maternal grandfather and after these the uncles were honored. The girls maternal grandmother was first honored then the paternal grandmother and so on. This makes it comparatively easy for the genealogist to locate family names. Certain names were thus maintained through many generations.
“In the matter of spelling names each man spelled according to his fancy. Down to about the time of the Revolutionary War there seems to have been no fixed rule for spelling. …”
Van Cott, Annie A., The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe. pg. i
John Adams said, Opposing friends in the war, "is the sharpest thorn on which I ever set my foot" p 666
LOSEE & DENTON & KOECK FAMILIES COME TO NEW YORK
Date Place Event & Source
1586. Catherine Hall, Yorkshire England “The Rev. Richard Denton of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England was born in 1586.”
He had a son Richard who married Ruth Tileston
Who had a daughter named Geertje who married Cornelius Losee.
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
??? Bushwick, L.I. “…early settlers of Bushwick, L.I., now a part of Brooklyn, N.Y. The families here
considered are those of Woertman, Nagel, and Losee,…”
“Mr Provost gives an interesting account of how Jan Corneliszen, progenitor of the fourth family included in this volume, acquired the surname Losee. His sons Cornelis, Pieter, and Jacob, about 1680, adopted the name of Loyse which, with its variant forms, ultimately became Losee.”
AN6 N vol. XCV #3 July 1964 (from Aunt Vida) page 165?
Provost, ?? . Secretary of the Province of N.Y. Previous to ????
“ Cornelius who emigrated from Utrecht, Holland, to Brunswick, Long Island, in 1651.” p 54
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe
“1. Cornelius Losee arrived in New Amsterdam in 1651 and settled at Bushwick, Long Island, N.Y. (Doct. Hist. S. of N.Y. Vol. 2. p. 215) He is listed as one of ye souldjers for ye expedition to Albany as 25 shillings per month and provisions 1689. marr. Grietje Tilburgh.
“Issue: 2 Petter mar. Sarah Coeff 3. Jacobus mar. Elizabeth
4. Jan mar. Marytje Koek 5. Jannetje Mar. Adriaen LaDorest
6. Dorthea Mar, Cornelius Vanderwater
(3) Jacobus Lowysse of Jamaica L.I. on assas. Roll Brooklyn 1708
mar. Elizabeth and had (7) Abraham
Mackensie, Grenville C, "Families of Old Phillipsburg, NY"
1623 Cambridge, England “The Rev. Richard Denton of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England…
… was a graduate of Cambridge University in 1623”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1626 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Cornelius Losee is born to ??
Later married Grietje Tilburgh
Probably from Utrecht, Holland to Bushwick, Long Island, N.Y. 1651
“Cornelius (the father on this sheet) took the oath of allegiance in Bushwick in 1687 as having been in the country 36 years (1687-36=1651). He was one of the soldiers sent to Albany in 1689 and was on the Brunswick Census list in 1698 as having a wife and six children”
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
1627 Cambridge, England “The Rev. Richard Denton of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England… became the minister
(for 4 years) of Halifax, (Parrish, Colby Chapel.) Yorkshire. (He was living in ?Jurton Parish of Bolton in 1627)
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1628 abt of Bushwick, Long Island, N. Y. Grietje Tilburgh is born
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
1630 England to America “The Rev. Richard Denton[Sr] of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England
“In 1630 he emigrated to America in the “Arbella" (Religious persecution drove him to America.) with Gov. Winthrop, landing at Boston, Mass. Shortly after this he led a party of people to Witherfield, Conn. as their minister”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1641 Conn, America “The Rev. Richard Denton[Sr] of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England
“In 1630 he emigrated to America … Shortly after this he led a party of people to Witherfield, Conn. as their minister… In 1640-1 he led another party to Stamford, Conn. where he founded the Congregational Church.”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1642 about Where? “Margrietje Barents (note- b abt 1642) who was most likely a daughter of Barent Arentszen and
Marrietje Cornelis as they were witness to the baptism of Margrietje’s first child, Cornelis, who would be named after his paternal grandfather and also his maternal grandmother.”
5 Mar 1676, marries Lourens Corneliszen Koeck
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 87
1644 Conn. “The Rev. Richard Denton[Sr] of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England
“… led a party of people to Witherfield, Conn. as their minister… led another party to Stamford, Conn. From the history of Stamford we learn that in 1644 a colony composed of Richard Denton, father and sons (Samuel, Richard, Nathaniel & Daniel /historian/ & Thos Ireland & Urs Washburn.) and several of his parishioners, aggrieved at the limited franchises granted the town of Stamford by the New Haven Colony, left the jurisdiction of England and took up land under the Dutch Government on the south side of Long Island. They named the town Hempstead after Hummel Hempstead, a town near London, England, where some of the people came from. Denton became the first minister of Hempstead and is said to have been the founder of Presbyterianism in America. He had been ordained in the Church of England but was won over to the Puritan side. In L.I. he did not please a large part of the settlers, many of whom had been accustomed to forms of language and style very different from his and they were so widely scattered that they could not readily attend church at one place. By 1650 the orders to attend church could not be enforced and his wages were not paid”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1644 abt of Bushwick, L.I., NY Cornelius Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh Later he married
Geertje Denton of Jamaica & Oyster Bay, N.Y. Daughter of Richard Denton Jr.
Cornelius took an oath of allegiance as a native of Bushwick in 1687.
Still living in 1742, of Oyster Bay, Nassau, N.Y.
[Other sources say he was born 1654 or 1664 - see Cornelius birth entries -1654 & 1664]
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1650 Long Island, NY. “The Rev. Richard Denton[Sr] of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England
“…took up land under the Dutch Government on the south side of Long Island. They named the town Hempstead ... In L.I. he did not please a large part of the settlers, many of whom had been accustomed to forms of language and style very different from his and they were so widely scattered that they could not readily attend church at one place. By 1650 the orders to attend church could not be enforced and his wages were not paid”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1651 Bushwick Long Island, NY, "Cornelius Losee took an oath of allegiance in Bushwick in 1687as having been in the
country 36 years. [1687-36=1851] … was on the Bushwick census list 1698 as having a wife, Grietje Tilburgh, and six children. The Losees' at first lived on Long Island but after the first two or three generations many of them went to Duchess County and other places in New York State."
“ Cornelius who emigrated from Utrecht, Holland, to Brunswick, Long Island, in 1651.”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in America/ Europe p 54
“Cornelius Losee arrived in New Amsterdam in 1651 and settled at Bushwick, Long Island, N.Y. (Doct. Hist. S. of N.Y. Vol. 2. p. 215) He is listed as one of ye souldjers for ye expedition to Albany as 25 shillings per month and provisions 1689. marr. Grietje Tilburgh.”
Mackensie, Grenville C, "Families of Old Phillipsburg, NY"
“The Losee Family
“In 1651. Cornelius Losee (or Lozier) left his home in Utrecht, Holland, to try his luck in the New World. He settled not far from the growing city then called New Amsterdam (now New York), amongst the many Dutch merchants and boers. Sixteen years later, the area became an English colony under the terms of the Peace of 1667. The Losees multiplied, settling mainly in Bushwick, Hempstead, Oyster Bay and Jamaica, on Long Island.”
Lamb, J. William. William Losee: Ontario's Pioneer Methodist Missionary, Page 2- 3
1654-64 Oyster Bay Cornelius Losee, son of Cornelius and Grietje Tilburgh is born
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
Source: Holland Society Year Book 1896, 1897, 1094, p 160
NY Historical Society Collections vol. 2,, p 215
Early Settlers of Kings County by Bergen. NY, K2c
Kings County Genealogical Club Collections p 84
1653 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Peter Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh
Married 14 Mar 1680 Sarah Coeff or Colfs – he was buried 1768
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
1655 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Jacobus Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh
Later married Lysbeth or Elizabeth
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
1659 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Jannetje Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh
Later married Adriaen de la Forge
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
Annie Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe 75
1659 Long Island, NY. To Eng “The Rev. Richard Denton[Sr] of Catherine Hall, Yorkshire, England
“… his wages were not paid [in Long Island] so in 1659 he returned to Eng.
(with his wife. She died there.) [She lists no name for his wife]
“He was blind in one eye. Cotton Mather said of him,’... And though he were a little man yet had he a great soul and wrote a system of divinity.’”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1661 Flatbush, L.I., New York "A Lourens Corneliszen Koeck son of Cornelis Koeck, emigrated in 1661 from Dennemarken ...
to Long Island where he lived in Flatbush and also Bushwick."
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe
Flatbush: “The Dutch built a trading and military post here as early as 1614; but every thing was
swept away in the war of 1644-45. Another settlement was commenced in 1652, and abandoned in 1655. The first permanent settlers came in soon after, but suffered much from Indian hostilities for several years.
“…1777…a British force under Sir Henry Clinton on the 7th of Oct. …public records were hastily removed to the back settlements, and the place was burned.” P 664
French, J.H., Gazetteer State of New York,
1662 Essex, Eng The Rev. Richard Denton[Sr] “… died in (Essex) England in 1662-3”
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors /Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe p 110
1664 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Cornelius Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh[see birth in 1644 & 1664]
Later married Geertje Denton still living in 1742
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
1664 abt Jamaica, L.I. Geertje Denton dau of Richard Denton & Ruth Tileston is born probably in 1664
[Md to Cornelis Losee 2G grandfather. Dentons were in Mass. before NY] [see also 1668]
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
1664 New York City “During most of the seventeenth century, …there was but one legal religion in Virginia
(Anglican) and in Massachusetts and Connecticut (Congregational in both colonies); and prior to 1664, the Reformed faith (primarily the Dutch Reformed Church) was the only legal religioon in what is today New York.
Backman, M V, “The heavens Resound.” Off the computer
1668 abt of Oyster Bay, Nassau., NY Geertje Denton is born to Richard Denton Jr. and ? of Jamaica and Oyster Bay, NY
Later married Cornelius Losee [see also 1664]
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1668 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Jan Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh
Later married Maritie or Marytje Koeck
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
1670 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Marritje Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh
Later married Gerrit Janse
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
1671 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Sarah Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh
Later married Jan Bras or Brass
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
1672 NYC New York "...a post to go monthly from New York to Boston and back.
"The Graft (or mote) in Broadstreet was ordered to be 'made up by ye Owners Manhattan of ye houses or Lotts - uppon ye said mote' as far as the lane..." p 167
I.N. Phelps Stokes The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909,
1673 abt of Bushwick, L.I., N.Y. Dorthea Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh
Later married Cornelius VanderWater
Family Group Sheet for Cornelius Losee & Grietje Tilburgh s. Mrs Claude Flander
Annie A Van Cott. The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe.
1675 Manhattan, NYC New York "Various improvements were made ... A fair or market ... was ordered held in
November; and a night watch composed of the constables, soldiers, and citizens was established. A new dock in front of City Hall, was built, ... the people living in the street called Heeregraft (Broadstreet) were ordered to fill in the graft to make it level with the street, and then to pave before their doors with stones."
I.N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909,
1676 Mar 5 ?Flatbush, L.I “Lourens Corneliszen Koeck son of Cornelis Koeck…, married 5 Mar 1676, Margrietje
Barents …who was most likely the daughter of Barent Arenszen and Marrietje Cornelis as they were witness to the baptism of Margrietje's first child, Cornelis, who would be named after his paternal grandfather and also his maternal grandmother. Lourens Koeck was on the assessment rolls of Flatbush of 1676, the year he married, and also of 1683.”
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe,
[Lourens is the 2g grand father to my Abigail Losee who married John McCord Lamoreaux.]
Children of Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents “…born in Bushwick: baptized in Flatbush: Cornelis
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe,
1677-8 Feb 2 Flatbush “‘Feb. 2, 1677-8 or Dec. 29, 1687, Laurens Cornelise, a farmer of N. Arnheim in
Boswyck, bought of Stoffel Janse, carpenter, 2 lots of woodland nos. 32 & 33 in the new lots of Flatbush for 300 gl., bought by said Stoffel of Minne Johannes.’ Both he and his wife had their names on a mortage of land in Bushwick 24 Jan. 1692.
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
1677 Mar 28 Bushwick/Flatbush Cornelis Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
Barent Arenszen and Marrietje Cornelis, his wife witness the baptism of Margrietje
Koeck's first child, Cornelis, who would be named after his paternal grandfather and also his maternal grandmother. Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe
1678 Dec 21 Bushwick/Flatbush Grietje Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
[a note at end of the entry is “d.y.” means died young?] Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
1680 Colonial NY Losee Name…
“Mr Provost gives an interesting account of how Jan Corneliszen, progenitor of the fourth family included in this volume, acquired the surname Losee. His sons Cornelis, Pieter, and Jacob, about 1680, adopted the name of Loyse which, with its variant forms, ultimately became Losee.”
AN6 N vol. XCV #3 July 1964 (from Aunt Vida) page 165?
Provost, ?? . Secretary of the Province of N.Y. Previous to ????
1680 Dec 9 New York City “The Great Comet of 1680 – The Commissaries of Albany to Capt. Brockholes, Jan.1, 1681
Hond. Sir. According to former Practise in this season of ye year, wee have sent this Post, to acquaint you, how all affaires are here with us, which is (thanks be to God) all in Peace and quietnesse, The Lord continue ye same, through ye whole government wee doubt not but you have seen ye dreadfull Comett Starr which appeared in the Southwest, on ye 9th of December last, about two o’clock in ye afternoon, fair sunnshyne wether, a little above ye Sonn, which takes its course more Northerly, and was seen the Sunday night after, about Twy-light with a very fiery Tall or Streemer in ye West To ye great astonishment of all Spectators, and is now seen every night with clear weather undoubtedly God Threatens us with dreadful punishment if we do not Repent… [this goes on- bad copy]
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1751 - p758
1680 Dec 19 Bushwick/Flatbush Marrietje Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
later marries Jan Losee - Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
Pre 1682 New York, “… make no mention of a French church there, and some of the settlers on Staten Island told
them that they then had "neither church nor minister."
‘This unfortunate state of affairs was remedied in 1682, by the arrival of the Rev. Pierre Daille, …On his arrival here, he applied himself at once, and with characteristic energy, to the interesting but difficult and laborious task of preaching the gospel to his brethren scattered through the province of New York. He began his work by reorganizing the French church of New York, which continued to prosper under his diligent-care till 1692. A number of Huguenot families, which had become members of the Dutch church, at once joined the French. Even Governor Andros, "understanding and speaking both Low Dutch and French," became an attendant at the French services, which were held, like the English services, in the Dutch church within the fort. Mr. Daille next revived the church on Staten Island,…” Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths
from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America. P xix – xx
1682 Nov 19 Flatbush Grietje Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
1683 Flatbush “Lourens Koeck was on the assessment rolls of Flatbush of 1676, the year he married, and
also of 1683.”
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe,
1683 Dec 8 NYC "... the city magistrates agreed upon a division of the city into six wards, -the South,
Dock, East, West and North Wards which included all the land south of the Fresh Water or Collect Pond; and the Outward which took the rest of the island including Harlem Village." p 175
I.N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909,
“The former Eglise françoise a la Nouvelle York, the records of which are here published for the first time, properly dates only from 1688. Back of this date there lies, however, an interesting chapter in the history of the Huguenots of New York, which cannot be passed over in silence. Long before 1688 many Walloon and Huguenot families had found their way to Manhattan Island, special divine services were at times held for them, and the influence of the French element was already widely felt throughout the province. In1692 these separate services were merged with those of the more recently established French church, which thus became the representative Huguenot church of New York. As such it continued until 1804, when it became an Episcopal church, in which form it still exists in the present French Church Du Saint-Esprit.
“A complete view of the history of the Huguenot church of New York may, therefore, be conveniently divided into four very nearly equal periods, the first of which extends from 1628, date of the first French service held at New Amsterdam, to 1688; the second, from 1688 to 1750 ; the third, from 1750 to 1804; and the fourth, from 1804 to the present time. The first period embraces the slow formation of the new society; during the second period the society reaches the highest point of its development, and the materials for its history are abundant; during the third period it declines rapidly, largely in consequence of the troubles caused by the revolution, until, at the beginning of the fourth period,…”
Talks about, “exiles for conscience' sake”
Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America. P xv
1684 Nov 23 Bushwick/Flatbush Gerrit Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
[a note at end of the entry is “d.y.” means died young?] Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
1685 France-NY Meanwhile, on the 22d of October, 1685, the Edict of Nantes was finally revoked, and soon
afterwards the refugees began to arrive in such numbers that the Huguenot church of New York entered upon a new period of its history. They came principally by way of Holland, England, the West Indies, South Carolina and Massachusetts; and, besides largely strengthening some of the already existing French settlements, they founded the important town of New Rochelle. In 1689 New York City alone sheltered some two hundred Huguenot families, and their number and importance were increased for some time by the accessions which they received in subsequent years. Nor did their strength prevent them from being everywhere cordially welcomed. As early as l683 Governor Dongan was instructed to give them “all fitting encouragement, so far forth as may be consistent with his Majesty's service"; and this cordial disposition towards them on the part of the home Government was warmly seconded by all classes in the colony. Some of them had Become British subjects during their sojourn in England; others, in order to become qualified to trade, applied here for letters of denization, which were freely granted. Accordingly they took an active interest in the affairs of the province, and many of them attained to the highest positions of trust and influence.
Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America. P xx - xxi
1686 June 22 Bushwick/Flatbush Marrietje Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
Witness Sarah Barents, Hebricus de Forest - Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
1687 Bushwick, Long Island, NY "Cornelius Losee (Father, & sons, Cornelius & Pieter) took an oath of allegiance in
Bushwick in 1687 as having been in the country 36 years. [1687-36=1851 - Sons stated they were natives.] The father, Cornelius, was one of the soldiers sent to Albany in 1689 and was on the Bushwick census list 1698 as having a wife, Grietje Tilburgh, and six children. The Losees' at first lived on Long Island but after the first two or three generations many of them went to Duchess County and other places in New York State."
“The Losees’ at first lived on Long Island but after the first two or three generations many of them went to Dutchess County and other places on New York State. Some went to Canada about the time of the Revolutionary War. This record is only of the Losses in Long Island.”
“Lourens Koeck … took the oath of allegiance in Bushwick in Sept. 1687, being 26 years in the country.
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott -America & Europe,
“Cornelis Loyse 36 Jeare”- The entries either say ‘native’ or ‘Jeare’ - Oath of Allegiance in Kings County”
Boyer, Carl III. Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) page 88
1687 Long Island, NY "Cornelius Losee, son of Cornelius Losee and Grietje Tilburgh married to Geertje Denton
of Jamaica, Long Island daughter of Richard Denton Jr. 10 children are listed for them
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe
“All persons desirous of entering the married state were obliged to appear before the Court of Justice, or the Ministers of the Church of their place of abode, where they had their fixed domicil for the last year and day, and to apply there, for three Sundays or Market Days, when publications of the banns were to be made in the Church or the Court House, or other places where the Court of Justice was held; and everyone who had any impediment to propose, was obliged to state the same in the meantime, on pain of being otherwise deprived of that right.
“These proclamations were designed to preserve the right of a third person; marrying in church being held to be only an external ceremony of a public confirmation introduced likewise for better security.
“As cases, however, might arise where it would be impossible to comply with the general law, provision was made for dispensing with such proclamations for legal and valid reasons, by consent of the government, or (some held) of the judge.
“From these provisions of law, Marriage Licenses – which are only dispensations from the proclamation of Banns took their origin in this country.
“ When the Colony passed into the hands of the English, the practice continued to prevail; Marriage License issued by them, bearing date as early as 29th December, 1664, being found on record, Subsequently, the collating, to Benefices, granting Licenses of Marriage and Probate of Wills were declared in the Royal Instructions, to be exclusively reserved to the governor.
“The License was issued from the Provincial Secretary’s office, and in return those obtaining it gave a Penal Bond in the sum of £500, that there was no ‘lawful let or impediment of Pre-Contract, Affinity or Consanguinity, to hinder the parties being joined in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony, and afterwards their living together as Man and Wife.’”
“There are forty volumes of these Bonds in the office of the Secretary…”
“Names of Persons for whom Marriage lisceneses were issued by the secretary
of the Province of New York previous to 1784. #974.7 V25m Page IV & V
1687 abt of Oyster Bay, NY Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton marry
Children listed on the Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton family Group sheet are; Simon Losee, Jonathan Losee, James Losee, Daniel Losee, Hannah Losee, Abraham Losee, Isaac Losee, Cornelius Losee, Elizabeth Losee, and Jane Losee.
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
“Cornelius Losse Jr., son of Cornelius & Geertje Tilburgh [written in] took the oath of allegiance as a native in Brunswick in 1687 together with his father and brother, Pieter. He married Geertje Denton of [Oyster Bay is crossed out- Jamaica written in.] sup. A daughter of Richard Denton Jr. (see Denton Family) and lived in Oyster Bay and was alive in 1742.
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe
Source Records of Huntington by Scudder, p 68
Kings Co. Gen. Club Coll. P 84. Correspondance.
"...the Dutch were an open-minded people. 'The trans-ocean trade brought more than profit: it made windows into the mind," wrote the historian J. H. Plumb, and this was certainly true when it came to religious tolerance." Although Calvinism is the principal religion, ... in Amsterdam alone there are every day 12 to 14 masses secretly read." "Amsterdam, a haven for all sects, throve on this attitude of easygoing tolerance."
A Sweet and Alien Land, the Story of Dutch New York, H & B Van der Zee
1687 Dec 29 Long Island “Feb. 2, 1677-8 or Dec. 29, 1687, Laurens Cornelise, a farmer of N. Arnheim in Boswyck,
bought of Stoffel Janse, carpenter, 2 lots of woodland nos. 32 & 33 in the new lots of Flatbush for 300 gl., bought by said Stoffel of Minne Johannes.’ p 75 [ in another copy it is p87]
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe,
1688 New York, NY "Governor Dongan gave encouragement to the immigration of French Protestants and
Irish into New York Province. In 1688, French Huguenots erected a church on what is now Marketfield Street."
I.N. Phelps Stokes The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909 p 179
1688 New York “There are besides myself on this island, eight English preachers. Of these, I have spoken only
of three of them. One is an Episcopalian, the second an Independent, the third a Presbyterian. All are able men and in harmony. The French congregation increases by daily arrivals from Carolina, the Caribbean Islands and Europe. Lately two French preachers came over. …The Reformed Church of Christ lives here in peace with all nationalities.”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1751 - p956
1688 New York City “…Sir Edward Andros, Governor at Boston, has now also been appointednGovernor over
New York,… He is a member of the Church of England, but he understands and speaks both Dutch and French, and we usually preach (in Dutch) and Mr Daille (in French.)”
“It has pleased God to visit this city and the country with a new kind of measles, with sad after results, (recidiven).”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p958
1680-8 Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY Simon Losee, son of Cornelius Losee and Geertje Denton is born
b. abt 1688; d. 1763; md. Twice. P 56
“Simon Losee, son of Cornelius Jr. and Geertje Denton, lived at Flatbush and Wheatly. He married first
Margariet Koeck bp. 15 Oct 1693, Bushwick, daughter of Laurens Koeck the emigrant and Margariete Barents (see Koek Family). He married
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe p59
Also - Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1688 abt of Oyster Bay, Nassau., NY Simon Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton
Later married 1) Margaret Koeck
Will proved 15 Oct 1763.at Wheatly, Queens, N.Y
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
“SIMON LOSEE, SON OF Cornelius Jr. and Geertje Denton, lived in Flatbush and Wheatley. He married first Margaret Koeck bp 15 Oct 1693, Brunswick, daughter of Laurens Koeck the emigrant and Margarietje Barents (see Koeck family)….buried 11 July 1776. His will dated 13 May 1760, proved 18 Oct 1763.” ???Check dated. There are two Simon Losee. p59
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe
1689 Albany, NY Cornelius Losee “…was one of the soldiers sent to Albany in 1689 and was on the Bushwick
census list in 1698 as having a wife Grietje Tilburgh [hand written name] and six children.”
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe
“Cornelius Losee arrived in New Amsterdam in 1651 and settled at Bushwick, Long Island, N.Y. (Doct. Hist. S. of N.Y. Vol. 2. p. 215) He is listed as one of ye souldjers for ye expedition to Albany as 25 shillings per month and provisions 1689. marr. Grietje Tilburgh.”
Mackensie, Grenville C, "Families of Old Phillipsburg, NY"
1690 abt of Oyster Bay, Nassau., NY Jonathan Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton
Later married Antje Heptonstal
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1691 Mar1 Bushwick/Flatbush Barent Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
1692 abt of Flatbush, L.I., NY Margaret Koeck is born to Laurens Koeck & Margaretje Barents
Later married Simon Losee
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
“Margaret Koeck bp 15 Oct 1693, Brunswick, daughter of Laurens Koeck the emigrant and Margarietje Barents (see Koeck family).” p59
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America & Europe,
1692 Jan 24 Bushwick, LI [Laurens Cornelise Koeck & Margrietje Barents] “Both he and his wife had their names
on a mortage of land in Bushwick 24 Jan. 1692.” [children are listed here] p 75 or p87
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe
1692 abt of Oyster Bay, Nassau., NY James Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton
Later married Elizabeth Denton
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1692 Oct 12 New York “…the congregation to which Mr. Dallie ministered continued to meet in the Dutch
church till 1692, when it finally united with the congregation worshipping in the church in Marketfield street: Mr. Selyns, the Dutch minister, under date of October 12th, 1692, thus reports this event: "We must not omit to mention that the two French churches have been united, and that Dom. Peiret will perform service in the city for the most part, and Dom. Daille in the country all to be one church, and the income to be divided equally between them."
Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America. P xxi- xxiii
1693 Oct 15 Bushwick., L.I. "Margaret Koeck is baptized dau of Laurens Koeck the emigrant and Margrietje Barents.”
"Children born in Bushwick; baptized in Flatbush"
[Mother of Peter Losee She marries Simon Losee abt 1710]
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/Europe
Records of the French Church , Bristol, England
Witnesses: Michiel Palmentier & Neeltje Palmentier
Kings Co Gen Club Coll, v 1 # V & VI. Brooklyn Baptismal Records, & Mar – p 73
1694 abt of Oyster Bay, Nassau., NY Daniel Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton
Later married Hannah Denton
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1695-1699 New York City New York Tax Lists – are they listed in 1695 or 1699? No André?
Gerrett Duyckinck house 80 00 12 01 00
Daniell Meseroo [Mercereau] Estate in Sd house 7 00 01 00 02
New York Tax Lists Vol II, 1695-1699 and East Ward 1791 - Page 226
From:- "Isabelle Cluff" Mon, 6 Nov 2000
Subject: - New Mercereau data - from Treemaker Genealogy Library
[Look for Losee & etc]
1696 abt of Oyster Bay, Nassau., NY Hannah Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton
Later married Henry Burtis, of Hempstead, 10 Sept 1733
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1697 NYC Governor Fletcher is recalled partly for being too friendly with pirates.
The Earl of Bellomont is commissioned.
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes.
1698 Mar 13 NYC Trinity Church was first opened for service. They had been using the fort.
I.N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909,
1698 Long Island, NY "Cornelius Losee ... was one of the soldiers sent to Albany in 1689 and was on the
Bushwick census list 1698 as having a wife, Grietje Tilburgh, and six children. The Losees' at first lived on Long Island but after the first two or three generations many of them went to Duchess County and other places on New York State."
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe
1698 NY A census of this year is mentioned. "Early History of the Sicard-Secor Family" by Gray NY G&B Record
"The earliest enumeration of the inhabitants of the Province of New York was made in 1698 'by high sheriffs and justices of the peace in each respective county' at the direction of Governor Bellomont." chap XI
Shonnard, F, & Spooner, W W ,History of Westchester Co, NY, - Early to - 1900,
1698 May 1 Bushwick, NY Lysbeth daughter of Pieter Losee and Sarah Colfs is baptized Witnesses were Cornelius
Losee and Geertje Losee, his wife
Annie A Van Cott , The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe
Her sources: Holl. Soc. Year Book 1897, pp 159, 169, 172;
year 1898 pp 88, 118; year 1899.
NY Hist Soc. Coll. Vol. 2 & Early Settlers of Kings County by Bergen, p194
Kings Co Gen. Club Coll. Pp 77, 81, 67.
1698 abt of Oyster Bay, Nassau., NY Abraham Losee is born to Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton
Later married Anne Dircksen
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
[Other children listed on the Cornelius Losee & Geertje Denton family Group sheet are; Isaac Losee, Cornelius Losee, Elizabeth Losee, and Jane Losee.] Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff- her sources 1. Archive sheet by Mrs. Grace Flanders of Salt Lake City - 2. “Family Ancestors of Losee VanCott in Am & Europe by Annie VanCott pg 66-69, 71 - 3. Records of Huntington, N.Y by Scudder pg 68 - 4. Kings Co Gen Club Collect. Pg 84.
1699 Jul 15 New York City There is a tax list for 15 July 1799 listed in
"Tax lists of the City of New York, Dec. 1 1695-July 15, 1699," 2 vols.
New-York Historical Society, Collections Publication Fund Series, XLIII-XLIV. New York, 1910-11.
1695- 1699 NYC New York Tax Lists Vol II, 1695-1699 and East Ward 1791 - Page 226
"New York Tax Lists Vol II, 1695-1699 and East Ward to 1791" pg 226 (online at )
[FIND: Are our people listed on any of these?] [Check court records.]
1699- 1700 Oct 8 NY City October 8, 1699 -1700“In this list of freeman is: …”
"Freeman made in the Mayoralty of David Provost, Esqr.---NY City"
NY Historical Society Vol XVIII, pg 74 (TreeMaker Genealogical Lib)From Isabelle Cluff
[Note Dec 1699, Mar 1699-1700 and Oct 1700… The New Year was celebrated in March so the months from Jan thru March are written as 1699-1700 , to show which year it was.]
[What age were freeman – what were the requirements?]
1700 - 1749 pre-revolution New York Continuous fighting with the French (& Indian) War out of Niagara H. Swiggett
This resumed again 1754-1763
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
“In 1702 England declared war against France and Spain. The contest was prolonged until 1713. Canada was the objective point of the English, until they finally conquered it in 1763.- Dix, 142-3.”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p1492
"Paving of New York roads began in 1657 and continued throughout the last quarter of the century. Each householder was responsible for paving, at his own expense, a specific distance from his own door front towards the center of the street. Covered with good pebble stones, the new roads were graded to allow drainage into the waters surrounding the island. These pathways needed constant attention and periodic relaying; Beaver Street, for example, was paved four times between 1684 and 1701. The waterfront area posed special problems, and persons who lived on streets along the shore had to build wharves 30 feet broad between their property and the low water mark.
"The people of Manhattan drew their water from wells dug in the streets. ... Common Council designated well sites throughout the city and paid half of the expense of their construction. The inhabitants of the neighborhoods thus supplied with water paid the remaining costs, and a local resident was made responsible for maintenance of each of the stone wells.
"Clean, paved streets and available water assisted the authorities in their efforts to prevent and fight fires, the most grave threat to the growing city. ... For the tragic times when fires did start, the city required its householders to have water buckets available." p 82
Thomas J Archdeacon, Minutes of the Common Council
quoted in New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change,
“Both English and Dutch currencies remained strong throughout the colonial period, and therefore the rate of exchange varied little…”
Randall Balmer, A Bable of Confusion, p 175.
1700 (about) Andre' (Lamoreaux), having heard of the new land of America, many of whose colonists
were subjects of King George III, decided to take his family and any friends who dared venture in his ship, across the great Atlantic, secure in the thought that they would still be under the protection of this great sovereign."
"The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux", Edith Ivans Lamoreaux, p 2
The French Reformed Protestant Church of New York, "Pine and Nassau Streets, Manhattan (was) organized (in) 1688 by Rev. Pierre Peiret as Eglise francaise a la Nouvelle York. Originated with occasional French services held in Church in Fort ... from 1628. Incorporated Feb 20, 1796. First services in private dwellings to 1689, when occupied stone church on Market Street (Pettycoat Lane). Cornerstone of church laid July 8, 1704 by Lord Cornbury, ... Known as La Temple du St. Esprit. First clergyman, Rev. Pierre Peiret, 1688-1704. p 35
Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City, Reformed Church in America prepared by Historical Records Survey, WPA, NY aug 1939
“A married, woman or widow, at times used her maiden name…” e g Susanne de la tour.
“French Protestant Refugees Relieved Through The Threadneedle Street Church, London 1861-1687, by Hands & Scouloudi, Huguenot Society of London, vol XLIX, p 20.
"An old Huguenot custom required the presence of numerous relatives and friends, on such occasions [ie. marriages & baptisms]
History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, C.W. Baird vol II p 99
New York NY has always been the financial center of our country.
1700 New York “Other immigrants with earliest known dates, …Daniel Mercereau, 1689; (Mercereau)
…Jacques Many, 1692; …Andre’ Lamoureux, 1700; …the French citizens, shows that they were men of note in business and public life of the time.” P 222
“From Rouen came …Pierre Chaperon, … In 1703 the governor authorized …a French and English school in the city of New York.” P 221
Fosdick, L. J., The French Blood in America, Baltimore, 1973.
“During the mid-1700's, several of the Losee clan moved inland where land for farming was being leased in Dutches County. The exact year is uncertain, although a 1740 list of freeholders contains the names of three "Lossee's": John, Cornelius and Lawrence.”
“Dutches County at that time stretched east from the Hudson River for 20 miles to the western border of Connecticut, and ?2?5? miles north from Westchester Country. Its main towns were Fishkill (now Beacon), Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck. Large tracts had been granted to wealthy landowners.”
Lamb, J. William. William Losee: Ontario's Pioneer Methodist Missionary, Page 2- 3
1702-1713 Queen Anne's War between the British and the French in North America begins.
[In America the fighting was called, Queen Ann's War; in Europe it was called, War of Spanish Succession]
“In 1702 England declared war against France and Spain. The contest was prolonged until 1713. Canada was the objective point of the English, until they finally conquered it In 1763.- Dix, 142-3.”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p1492
[See 1763 for more on the fighting]
1702 May NYC Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury, arrived in New York to act as Governor Thomas J Archdeacon, New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change,
"Gov Bellomont was succeeded by Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury, a cousin of Queen Anne, but a man of bad morals and a spendthrift,”
Stokes. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909,
New York “ Cornbury was appointed successor to Bellomont June 13, 1701; commissioned
September 9, 1701; arrived May 3, 1.702:
“Says Dr. Dix in his History of Trinity Church:“The Clergy” (of the Episcopal Church) “regarded his arrival as a great deliverance; and no wonder, considering the reign of terror which he found here. Letters are extant from the Rev. John Bartow and other Missionaries of the Venerable Society, graphically depicting the perils of the Church (of England) under the administration of Bellomont and Nanfan, and hailing the arrival of the new Governor as an auspicious event."
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1489
[The fort was renamed “Fort Anne” by Cornbury for his cousin Queen Anne.It had been Fort Orange also later; Fort WIlliam]
1702 June New York Gov Cornbury is commanded to “…cause Her Majesty to be proclaimed Queen of
England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme Lady of the Province or New York and Plantations of the same…”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1492
1702 Summer NYC During this summer there raged in the city an epidemic so severe ... many of the people fled into the country and Lord Cornbury himself retired to Jamaica, Long Island.
[Losee were on Long Island.]
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909,
"... every Sabbath day, the people assembled from twenty miles around, from Long Island, Staten Island, New Rochelle, and other points for public worship. Every street near was filled with wagons as early as Saturday evening, and in them many passed the night and ate their frugal Sunday repast, ... named 'L'Eglise du St. Espirit' (The Church of the Holy Spirit) ... Pine Street..." "the church reached it's highest point of development ... 1690 to 1750, declining in the next half century, largely because of the Revolutionary War."
The French Blood in America, L. J. Fosdick, Baltimore, 1973.
“…the hand of God that has gone forth against us in epidemical contagious sicknesses for more that the space of one year past, which greatly distressed us,…” [small pox?]
John R Brodhead, agent.
Documents Relative to the Colonial Hist - State of New York… vol III, p 419-420
“…the great mortality just then prevailing. More than five hundred had died in the space of a few weeks, and that very week about seventy had died.” [small pox?]
“About this time the Rev. Mr. Bartow, a missionary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, settled In Westchester, and began a work for the Episcopal Church in that section, which continues to the present time.”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1492
1702-1713 “In 1702 England declared war against France and Spain. The contest was prolonged until
` 1713. Canada was the objective point of the English, until they finally conquered it In 1763.”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1492
1702 June New York “…all the Gentlemen and Merchants of the City of New York cause Her Majesty to be proclaimed
Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme Lady of the Province or New York and Plantations…”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1492
Later New York was divided into five wards; West, East, North, South and Dock Wards. The West Ward is the area located north of Beaver Street (which is north of Market Street) bounded on the east by New Street, (half way between Broad Street and Broadway), bounded on the west by the Hudson River. Originally the wards only went north to Wall Street. As the city expanded so did the East, North and West Wards. Basically the West Ward included people living on Broadway? I think. See Map. I gather that the Dock Ward was the most affluent, North was the poorest, South was generally well to do and East and West were in between or mixed. [There were] "Seventy-four individuals or heads of [French] families in 1703, distinguished primarily from the records of the Eglise du Saint-Esprit" "French New Yorkers also married primarily within their own group. Not a single one of the 44 weddings which took place in the Eglise du Saint-Esprit between 1689 and 1710 involved a non-French person."
Thomas J Archdeacon , New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change,
[FIND THESE "Tax rolls for July, September, and December 1703, and Feb 1703/4 estimate the value of the houses and estates, or simply the estates of slightly more than a thousand heads of families." These are found in the "Min(utes) Com(mon) Coun(cil), ... Klapper Library, Queens College, City University of New York"]
[Is this where D.K. Martin teaches or can he go there to research? It was on his postcard.]
Thomas J Archdeacon , New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change,
1702 June16 Bushwick/Flatbush Pieter Koek is baptized to Lourens Corneliszen Koeck and Margrietje Barents
Born Bushwick – baptized Flatbush
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in Am/ Europe,p87
Witnesses Joost Durlant & Madaleentje his wife
Kings Co Gen Club Coll, v 1 # V & VI. Brooklyn Baptismal Records, & Mar – p 73
1703 NYC The population of New York, city and county, was 4,436
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1703 NYC CENSUS “…Original tax assessment rolls complied in 1703 and a census taken in the
same year…In addition to names, these lists provide the estimated value of the estate and number of bondsmen and dependents for the city’s householders and tenants….independent residents or heads of households in Manhattan’s five central wards, the East, West, North, South, and Dock.”
New York City, 1664-1710 Conquest and Change, Thomas J Archdeacon, p 43
“Regarding Losee in these records, Abigail Ann Losee's father, Simon Losee lived at Osyter Bay, Long Island and which was not enumerated in the "Ward's" of New York City.” Isabelle Cluff
Documentary History of the State of New York, by E. B. O'Callaghan, p 612
Albany, 1849. [Contains entire 1703 census of New York City][I HAVE THIS.]
1704 New York "Mr. Burroughs went with me to Vendue where I bought about one hundred Rheem of paper which was
retaken in a fly-boat from Holland and sold very reasonably here - some ten, some eight shillings per Rheem by the Lott, which was ten Rheem in a Lott. And at the Vendue I made a great many acquaintances amongst the good women of the town, who courteously invited me to their houses and generously entertained me.
“Madam Knight, a unique character from Boston, kept a journal, in wjhich ahe describes certain things in New York in 1704:…
“The Cittie of New Yorke is a pleasant, well compacted place, situated on a Commoditous River which is a fine harbour for shipping. The buildings, brick generally, very stately and high, though not altogether like ours in Boston. The bricks in some of the houses are of divers coullers and laid in checkers, being glazed, look very agreeable. The inside of them are neat to admiration, the wooden work, for only the walls are plastered, and the Summers and Gist are plained and kept very white scower'd as so is all the partitions if made of Bords. The fire-places have no Jambs (as ours have) But the Backs run flush with the walls, and the Hearth is of Tyles and is as farr out into the room at the ends as before the fire, which is Generally Five foot in the Lower rooms, and the piece over where the mantle tree should be is made as ours with joyners work, and as I suppose is fasten'd with iron rodds inside. The House where the Vendue was, had Chimney Corners like ours, and they and the hearths were laid with the finest that I ever see, and the stair cases laid all with white tile which is ever clean, and so are the walls of the kitchen which had a brick floor. They were making great preparations to Receive their Governor, Lord Cornbury from the Jereseys, and for that end raised the militia to Gard him on shore to the fort".
"They are Generally of the Church of England, and have a New England Gentleman for their minister, and a very fine Church, set out with all customary requisites. There are also a Dutch and Divers Conventicles as they call them, viz., Baptists, Quakers etc. They are not strict in keeping the. Sabbath as in Boston and other places where I had bin, But seem to Deal with great exactness as farr as I see or Deall with. They are sociable to one another and Courteous and civill to strangers and fare well in their houses".
“The English go fasheonable in their dress. But the Dutch, especially the middling sort, differ from our women; in their habitt go loose; were French muches, which are like a Capp and a head-band in one, leaving their ears bare, which are sett out with jewells of a large size and many in number. And their fingers hoop't with rings, some with large stones in them of many Coullers, as were their pendants in their ears, which you should see very old women wear as well as young".
“They have Vendues very frequently and make their earnings very well by them, for they treat with good Liquor Liberally, and the customers drink as Liberally, and generally pay for't as well, by paying for that which they Bidd up Briskly for, after the sack has gone plentifully about, though sometimes good penny worths are got there".
"Their diversions in the winter is Riding Sleys about three or four Miles out of Town, where they have houses of entertainment at a place called the Bowery, and some go to friends houses who handsomely treat them. Mr. Burroughs carry'd his Spouse and Danghter and myself out to one Madame Dowes, a Gentlewoman who lived at a farm house, who gave us a handsome entertainment of five or six dishes and choice Beer and metheglin, Cyder, etc., all of which she said was the produce of her farm; I believe we met fifty or sixty slays that day; they fly with great swiftness and some are so furious that they will turn out of the path for none except a Loaden Cart. Nor do they spare for any diversion the place affords, and sociable to a degree, they'r Tables being as free to their Naybours as to themselves".
Private Journal kept by Madam Knight in a Journey from Boston to New York in the year 1704, pp. 66-71.- Quoted from Dix, 159.
Found in - Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1550-1551
“His Lordship has been pleased to encourage Religion, and discountenance Vice in the said Province by Proclamation, and has used his utmost endeavors to promote the Public Worship of God, and train up youth in the Doctrine and discipline of tile Church of England, particularly in the city of New York, and hath contributed to the building a French Church. And since the death of the late minister of the French Church. Resolves to use his interest to introduce a French Minister that shall have Episcopal ordination and conform to the constitution of the church.” [no french minister?]
“… a law for establishing, A Latin free school…”
“Two other schools are likewise established in this City by his Excellency’s care…”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1552
1704 New York City The French Church (l'Eglise du St. Esprit) was built "on the north side of Pine St.
east of Nassau."
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
“Scattered through all of this old cemetery are many field stones. Ther were all examined, but no markings distinct enough to record were found on any except those which appear in the above list. When the old cemetery was worked over in 1938 all small markers which were found were set up. Many of the ancient burials were made with just simple pieces of field stone with no markings at all on them”
“Trinity Church & Huguenot Burial Records from New Rochelle.” Fiche #6075869
1704 New York “…the Inhabitants of this Province are of three nations, English, Dutch and French; of
these three the Dutch are very much the most numerous, and these are not Dutch by nation only by inclination, at least generally speaking, which appears here every day.
“ The French have during the disorders which have been happening here formerly always espoused the Interest of the English; among the English in this City there are a great many good men, but in the Countrey especially in Long Island most of the English are Dissenters, being for the most part people who have removed from New England and Connecticut, who are in no wise fond of monarchy, soe that they naturally incline to incroach as often as they can, upon the Prerogative; soe it is noe wonder if they are willing to extend the power of their Assemblys as far as they can. How far it will be for the interest of the Crown to suffer them to doe it.”
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1592
1705 New York City Paving was ordered laid, south end of Broad Street & about the dock & custom house.
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1706 May 4 West Indies Andrew Lamoureux, captain of a merchantman "being lately master of a sloop was
before unfortunately taken by French Privateer in the West Indies, and having procured his releasement Shipt himself at Curasoa on board the Sloop Orange in order for his transportation hither, but that upon his arrival here he was impreset to serve on board her Maj-ties Ship Triton Prize"
"You are hereby required to re-lease the sd [said] Lamoureux from her Maj-ties sd ship and service..."
Letter to Capt Miles from "His Excy Edward Viscount Cornbury"
Fort Anne, NY Harbor 1706 NY Colonial Manuscripts Vol 51 p 125B
NY State Archives Referred to in the 1919 Record of L. Family
"...there were traders...New York... men whose small sloops and schooners plied up and down the seaboard and into the West Indies." "…only to British ports and ship... only in British vessels" "Navagation Acts... stiff taxes... guaranteed markets, naval protection, and a network of credit."
The American Revolution, Edward Countryman, p19-20
"Privateers ... were privately owned ships whose crew members had written permission ... to attack and seize any [enemy] ship during war. If the privateers were captured ... the sailors were supposed to be treated as prisoners of war. ... without the necessary permission letter . ... the crew could be tried for piracy... Privateer crews were allowed to sell the cargoes of ships they captured and divide the money among the sailors according to a prearranged formula. They also could keep the captured ships, outfit them for privateering, and put them to work."
Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution, Karen Zeinert, p60
1706 Summer New York City "The city ... was much disturbed by the danger of an attack by French Privateers."
[1702-1713 In America called, Queen Ann's War; in Europe called, War of Spanish Succession]
"... reports that a French squadron under d'Iberville was coming to attack the city. One French privateer actually entered the Harbor." p 187
"The Atlantic had never been free from pirates, but during the war with France (the so-called William's War) their number had increased greatly. Many ships sailed under the commission of a privateer, though in reality a pirate. Large fortunes were made, and many of the pirates hailed from New York, where they were well received by people of quality."
The fort at the tip of the island was called several different names. Some of these include "Fort James" when James was in charge, then "Fort Anne", and "Fort George at the time of the Revolutionary War. It was the center of social and official New York.
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, I.N. Phelps Stokes, NY
"The court house records divide commerce into four spheres of activity: the importation of general merchandise, of rum, and of wine, and the exportation of furs. Each entry identifies the merchant responsible for the shipment and notes the value of the cargo and the duties paid in the case of imported rum and wine and exported furs. Using these figures, ... we can ...measure the extent of by individual merchants ..." p 60
[Mr Archdeacon divides merchants into economic groups.] "These least active importers and exporters usually obtained products for their own use or engaged in small speculative ventures to supplement their main source of income. They pursued a variety of non mercantile occupations, but most frequently identified themselves as master, or ship' captains.
"Masters engaged in commerce may often have been dealing in small parcels of trading goods given to them by merchants as primage to encourage the careful and expedient handling of their cargoes. In some cases, however, the masters did not import or export in their own vessels. This latter pattern suggests that they were as much part-time shippers who used their special knowledge to make promising small investments as they were 'merchants of opportunity' who only occasionally obtained items for trade."p 63
"... three-masted ships which were the mainstay of the transatlantic route. ... sloops ... dominated the West Indian and the mainland intercolonial trade.... 50 tons, near the maximum for this class of single-masted vessel which carried a yard or two of topsail as well as a fore-and-aft mainsail." p 67
"... some top New York merchants held shares in vessels." "Enterprising merchants also underwrote the privateering expeditions which began in New York in the 1690's. Respectable citizens found tempting the legal booty made available by the war with France and by the struggles against pirates." "Captain William ... Kidd was a man of standing in New York" before he was executed for piracy. Piracy and smuggling were a problem p 68
"European vessels visited New York most frequently in the blustery months between November and April. London had become the key point of contact in the city's transatlantic trade. ... of the 21 which dropped anchor in the harbor during 1701 and 1702, 18 identified London and 3 Bristol as their terminal ports.
"Sloops and brigs from the West Indies, the Atlantic Islands of the Azores and Madeira, and South America appeared in the city mostly in the spring months of April, May, June and in August." p 69
"Ships from other mainland English colonies crowed New York in August but also maintained contact during the other months." p 70
New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change, Thomas J Archdeacon, 1976.
1708 Jan 21 New York City Gerret Dusjean, son of Gerret Dusjean and Elizabeth Lamoureux,
(dau of Andre') is baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church
"The Lamoureux Record", Oct 1919, AJ Lamoureux
1708 Mar NYC Lord Lovelace replaces Gov. Cornbury in Mar; he arrives in Dec. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1708 Dec NYC Lord Lovelace arrives in Dec. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1709 May NYC Lord Lovelace dies. Richard Ingoldsby fills in The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1709 June 4-6 New Rochelle “The French Church if New Rochelle, per Rev Mr Bondet, to Col Heath… offering to
conform to the Church of England.” “…in full conformity with the National Church of England… trust of your candor, sincerity & charity for the Refugee Protestants…”
Signed by 29 members of congregation.
Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, Hugh Hastings p 1751
[Did Lamoreaux, Chaperon or etc sign this petition?]
1710 NY Census "…the very inaccurate census of 1710” is mentioned as "so unreliable that some have
discarded it altogether. It seems that the census taker did not speak French and made many mistakes.
"Early History of the Sicasrd-Secor Family" by H.G. Gray p 313
NY Genealogical & Biographical Record, v 66, Oct 1937
1710 abt Wheatly, L.I., NY Margaret Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Later married Sampson Crooker, 26 Oct 1730
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1710 June New York, NY Robert Hunter called as governor till 1719 New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change, Archdeacon
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1711 NYC In common council a market place is established. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1711 abt Wheatly, L.I., NY Mary Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Later married William Walters, 7 Dec 1728 – says chr 17 June 1722
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1712 NY A census of New York was taken in 1712 ... 5,840 people The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard, & Spooner
1712 abt Flatbush, L.I., NY Elizabeth Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Later married Joseph Ireland, 1735 – died 22 Apr 1802
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1713 abt of Queens Co., NBr Elizabeth and Jane (Jannettje) Losee, twins born to Simon Losee Jr & Margaret Koeck
Earlier record shows them born E abt 1712 & J abt 1731
Later married E- Joseph Ireland – about 1835[1753] J-Jehannes Boorum – 18 May 1853
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1714 abt Flatbush, L.I., NY Sarah Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Later married John Haff – died before May 1760
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1714 Oct England Queen Anne dies, George I is King
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
1716 New York “John Fontaine, passing through New York in 1716 attended services twice at the
French church. States, ‘The church is very large and beautiful and within it there was
a very great congregation.’ He also speaks of a French club exieting in New York at that time.
“New York French Church records, Staten Island, New York, 1694-1886
LDS Film #509,193
1716 abt Flatbush, L.I., NY Lawrence Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Live in 1763
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1718 New York "As the French population increased rapidly from the flood of Huguenot refugees,
a new church was needed. A fine stone structure was erected on King Street (now Pine Street)." [This was before 1719.]
"The Masse' & Mercereau Families" by Kimball S Erdman
[Find a better reference and time for this last entry.]
1718 abt Flatbush, Kings Co., N.Br Peter Losee is born to Simon Losee Jr & Margaret Koeck
Later married 1) Abigeltje Lewis about 1739 [or 1753]
2)___ said to have been in Dutchess Co, NY
Family Group Sheet by Isabelle Lamoreaux Cluff
1718 abt Oyster Bay, L.I. New York Pieter Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Annie A Van Cott, The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott -America/ Europe,
Flatbush, Kings, NY Pieter Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Later married 1) Abigeltje Lewis
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
[She lists their marriage date as 5 Mar 1759. Lists Huntington Church records.]
1719 Jan 29 Wheatly, NY "Simon Losee bought land at Wheatley, Long Island
Annie A Van Cott The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott- America/ Europe,
1719 abt Wheatly, L.I., NY Simon Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Later married Phebe Lewis
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1720 abt Wheatly, L.I., NY Ann Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret Koeck
Later married Josiah Totten or Isaiah Totten, 3 Apr 1734
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1720 Duchess Co, NY Daniel Lamoreaux Settled in Duchess Co, NY in 1720
Bard's History of French Huguenots in America as quoted in
"The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux", by Edith Ivans Lamoreaux, p 2
"Once English became the vehicular language of the Huguenots, they changed their church affiliation from their French speaking churches to American congregations. Most of them identified themselves with the Establishment Church in the Colonies, the Episcopal Church; a minority became members of the Presbyterian Church which is, like the Huguenots themselves, based on Calvinist Reformation."
A Brief History of the Huguenots, Rev Herbert L Stein-Schneideer
1720 May New York, NYC William Burnet is Governor, "his transference to Mass. in 1728 was brought
about by enemies whome he had made through interfering in a quarrel between factions in the French Church ... and by his stopping the French trade."
The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes
"In 1695, after the return of political calm, the city expanded it's electoral base by reducing the fee for purchasing a freemanship, which authorized it's holder to carry on his business and to vote. ... the new fee was set at ninepence (9d.) for persons living in the city since 1686. But many New Yorkers were reluctant to pay even this modest charge, ...
Thomas J Archdeacon, New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change,
1722 abt of Oysterbay, Nassau, NY Abigeltje Lewis is born
Later married Peter Losee
Family Group Sheet by Sarah Christina Merrell
1722 Aug 15 New York “In the name of God, Amen. I, ELIAS NEAU, of New York, merchant, being sick. I give and bequeath to the Parish Church and Corporation of the Church of England, called Trinity Church, the sum of ¤20.
“I leave to the Poor of the French Church, being Refugees, residing in the city of New York, ¤20.
“I leave to Rev. Mr. Daniel Bondet, the present minister at New Rochelle, and to Rev. Lewis Row, minister of the French Congregation in New York, to each ¤10. To Rev. Mr. Thomas Poyer, minister at Jamaica, on Nassau Island, and to Rev. Mr. Jenny, Chaplain to the Forces at Fort George, in New York, to each ¤5. …
"I give the sum of ¤50 for and towards the printing of 152 Hymns, composed by myself; which said sum of money I desire may be deposited in the hands of Rev. Mr. Lewis Row, minister of the French Church in New York, for the better effecting, and printing said Hymns in the French Language."
“I leave to Rev. Mr. William Vesey, Rector of Trinity Church, ¤25, and to Alexander Moore, of New York, ¤20, for their trouble in supervising this will. …
Dated, August 15, 1722 - Witnesses, Anthony Byvanck, Elisha Bonett, William Huddlestone.
Proved, September 17, 1722.
Isabelle Cluff" ................
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