Meindert Willemse Schut

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• Residence: 1694, , Ulster, New York, USA
• Residence: 1720, Coxsackie, Columbia, New York, USA

Meindert married Sara Jansen Pierson on 17 Nov 1694 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA. Sara (daughter of Jan Jansen and Catharyn Mattysen) was born in 1675 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died in 1785 in , Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Willem Schut was born on 16 Nov 1694 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; and died in , , New York, USA.
2. Johanna Schut was born on 7 Mar 1697 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; and died in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA.
3. Hendrick Meijndertszen Schutt was born on 9 Apr 1699 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 10 Nov 1786.
4. Margriet Schutt was born on 31 Aug 1701 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 3 October 1776 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA.
5. Catharina Schutt was born on 28 Sep 1707 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 11 Aug 1770 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA.
6. Marytjie Schut was born on 16 Sep 1709 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died in 1758 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA.
7. Meindert Schutt was born in 1715 in Coxsackie, Columbia, New York, USA; died in 1761 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA.

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• Arrival: 1646, , Rensselaer, New York, USA
• Arrival: 1654, New York, Kings, New York, USA
• Residence: 1690, , Ulster, New York, USA

Notes:

He made his first appearance in Beverwyck records on August 22, 1654, when a burgess and citizen he bought a lot in Fort Orange, the central part of the village. A day later he purchased a suit and offered clothing for sale, beginning his career as a tailor there. He purchased more land in Beverwyck on July 27, 1657. Beaver skins were the chief product of the region, and his enthusiasm for the business brought him afoul of the law on July 15, 1660, he and others being charged with going into the woods or employing Dutchmen as brokers for trade there with the Indians. On April 20, 1661 he declared that he was about to depart for the Esopus (an early name for Kingston, New York, also applied to the area of the Esopus river, and finally a town east of Kingston). By September 11, 1663 he sold his house and lot in Beverwyck. The summer of 1663 was a trying one for him. On June 7 the Indians sacked and buried Wildwyck and took his wife Grietje and their child away. Sympathy was so great that when Jonathan Withart sued him for debt in July, the judge was lenient with him because of his situation in the sad war times. The story is not revealed about how she was recovered. This time he settled in Ulster County to stay, buying land in Kingston on January 30, 1671. On June 27, 1671 he conferred power of attorney for the collection of debts in New Albany. In 1674 he became magistrate for the town of Marbletown.

Jan Willemsz Schut (Schuth) was a cooper by trade and appears first in the accounts under date of 1646.

He was to have sailed by den Harinck in Sept. 1637, but for some reason failed to go and Frans Altersz, the cooper, came in his stead.

In 1657, appears at Beverwyck Willem Jansz Schut, alias Dommelaer (the dozer), who was probably a son of Jan Willemsz Schut.





Ulster's Earliest Suffers for Freedom
The winter of 1683-4 was extremely severe. Crops had been short the preceding summer because of dry weather, and the people were complaining. One day Captain Thomas Chambers met Henry Pawling on the road, and they talked over their grievances. When Pawling reached Slecht's mill he met some neighbors and they discussed a propositon he made that they petition the governor for a redress of grievances, as Chambers had proposed. The suggestion took, and a meeting was called for January 26th, 1684, at the house of William de Myer. The following paper was drawn and 63 of the inhabitants of Kingston, Hurley and Marbletown signed it. It is given as worded in the antique phraseology and spelling of the day:

To the Right Honorable Coll. Thomas Dongan, Governor General of all his royal highnesses territory in America:
The humble petition of the inhabitants of Esopus in the county of Ulster:
That, whereas, the inhabitants of Esopus, in the county of Ulster, for the owne part, having bought and paid for of ye Indyans their land to the full satisfaction of the same, and peaceable possesss for severall yeares, and then it pleased God there was a combination among the Indyans and they made wars and it fell upon these our parts, killed severall of the inhabitants took severall prisoners and burned our dwellings to ye great losse of goods and blood and spoyle of our place we seedes dured three weekes and soe thorrow God's assistance we beat them of and then were forced to plowe, seew, moow, and all other worke with a great guarde at our owne chage, no receiving monies or relief of any other part of the country to the repairing of our lossess, and since the settlement of the government by his royal highness it pleased Governor Nicholls and Governor Lovelace to settle severall of the soldiers amongst us in the town of Marble to be governed among the rest by the laws of his royal highness, and we have allways yielded our allegiance and obedience to the same rendering and paying such duties as were required by us both to the governors, or to his royal higness customs: Therefore, your honor's petitioners humbly pray that wee may have the liberty by charter to this county to choose our own officers to every towne court by the major vote of the freeholders, and that they may decide all actions of debt to the value of five pounds or more, it being very prejudicall to this county it moste among the poor farmers and charges of higher courts will prove very burdensome for such small summes; and that wee may make such orders among ourselves in every towne court in this county for the preservation of the corn fields, meadow ground, goods and chattels according as ye concenience of ye yeare and place doe require, and that all such fines levyed by the towne courts may be for the use of the same, not exceeding twenty shillings according to the laws of his Royall Highnesses. And further that wee may have liberty to transport all grayns, flower, beefe, porke, and all other such produce as are now or hereafter maybe within this county, rendering and paying all such dues and customs as required by the lawes of this government.
"And honors petitioners as in duty bound, shall ever pray and etc."

Governpr Dongan was full of wrath when this petition was presented. He immediately ordered the petitioners to be arrested as rioters. The orders were placed in the hands of sherrif who carried it out with due speed. No court having jurisdiction would sit until June. So they had the alternative of giving bail until June, or of being locked up. They choose the former. On June 6th Matthias Nicoll, of New York, came up as presiding judge and opened court by charging the grand jury to indict each prisoner. This was done. All were put upon trial at once. William de Myer was tried first, as he was a leader and had circulated the petition. His indictment recited that:
On or about the 26th day of January, in the 35th reign of the yeare of the reign of our sid Lord the king; by force of arms at Kingston, tumultously and seditiously endeavoring and wholly intending the laws, and customs and usages of this county of Ulster to subvert and destroy, and new laws and customs and usage instead of them to serve and bring in tumultously and seditiously a certain petition containing the subversion of the well settled laws and peace of our said Lord the King in the county.

He maede no defense, but pleaded guilty, and was fined five pounds, with four pounds, four shillings costs. Nicholas Anthony, Matthys van Keuren, Moses DePuy, and Henry Pawling pleaded guilty and received like judgment.
Jacob Rutsen, Jan Foeken, Cornelis Hogeboom, William de la Montgne, Robert Bickerstaff, Jacob Jansen, Jan Elting, Johannes de Hooges, Cornelis Cole, and Jan Willemse Hooughteling were arraigned together and fared no better.
Wessel Ten Broeck, Jan Hammel, Mattys Slecht, Thomas Quick, Roeloff Kierstede, Severyn ten Hout, Cornelis Slecht, Peter Cornelissen, Hendrick van Weyen, Hendrick ten Eyck, Jan Laurens, Abraham de la Meter, Benjamin Provoost, Harmen Hendricks Rosencrans, Jan Matthyse van Keuren, Jacobus Elmendorf, Jacob Aertsen van Wagenen, Jan Hendrix, Tjerck Claese DeWitt, Claes Teunisse, Jan Albertse Roosa, Mattyse Ten Eyck, Heyman Albertse Roosa, Arian Albertse Roosa, Matthys Blanchan, Gysbert Krom, Henry Albertse and france Goderis were let off with three pounds less because they were neither civil or military officers.

Egbert Hendricks, Claes Juriense, Abel Westphalen, Jan Schut, Simon Cole, Hendrick Kipp, Bruyn Hendricks Gysbert van Garden, Arent Teunisse, Johannes Westphalen, Peter Barent Cole, Lodewyck Ackerman, Peter Peterson, William van Vredenburgh, Matthew Blanshan, Jan Peterse Tack, Hendrick Aertsen, and Cornelis Ten Hout confess the fact, plead their ignorance to have done an ill act but, in regard of their poverty were only condemned to pay cost.

Thomas Chambers chose a bolder and more independent course. They accused him of originating, inciting, abetting, and alluring divers and many evil affected persons to the number of 62 disturbers of the peace in the 10th day of February 1684, at which time he addressed a meeting of citzens held in the town hall, in the village of Kingston. He did not deny or affirm this, but claimed the rights of Englishmen and put himself on his country. This compelled the judge to order the sheriff to empanel a jury, when the court adjourned until the next day.

In the morning Edward Whitaker, Peter Lossing, Evert Pels, Anthony Telba and Gerrit Aertse van Wagenen of Kingston; Roeloff Swartwout and Thomas Swartwout of Hurley; Jeremiah Kettle, Willem Schutt, Jan Decker, Arian Gerritse and Gerrit van Vliet of Marbletown were sworn as juryman and the trial proceeded. The attorney for the crowns produced witnesses, among them Henry Pawling, through whom he proved that as early as December, 1663, and at divers other times, Chambers had talked to them over the distressed condition of the times, the want of proper laws to suit the locality the laxity in the administration of justice, the partiality of officers, and at the same time suggesting a remedy, through a petition to the governor for a dedress of grievances. It was also shown that he drew up the petition, circulated it and induced Pawling and others to do likewise; that on the 10th of February he addressed a large meeting as herinbefore stated; and at the same time used language derogatory to the laws and crown.

In answer, Thomas Chambers, pleading for himself, acknowledge his signature, and that he not only drafted the seditious paper, but tried to and did get others to sign it; that it did not contain a word derogatory to the crown, but only asked for the abatement of evils incidental to new countries, but which strangers could not understand, therefore, could not abate. He thought it was not insulting, nor tumultous, nor riotous, for subjects of the British crown to respectfully state their desires and ask for a remedy. It was a born right of an Englishmen. As to the charge of having spoken in public he averred that he was not the only one who did; Pawling and others did likewise, but he did not offer this in mitigation, for he had only done as he had seen others do at home. H e was an Englishmen.

This incontrovertible argument illustrates how the desires for self-government had its inspiration in the hearts of men, here as elsewhere, at this early period in our colonial history. But it did not free Chamber. He was found guilty on charge of the court, and fined fifty pounds, which he promptly paid, and then became surety for those who had confessed judgment and placed themselves at the mercy of the court.

I have often thought Chambers, considering the boldness of his stand, came out much easier than might have been expected but he was a titled lord (of a manor) by letters-patent, and had earned his title by being the founder of Esopus, its bravest soldier, its wisest counssellor, and most successful financier. This with an acquaintanceship with the judge doubtless saved him from a worse penalty. His promptness in paying, as well as the fame of his principles was not without its immediate good results, for Governor Dongan remitted the fines under the admonitions of Royality. This was the last time the right of petition was denied our citizens, for the assembly, which had but just been organized, took upon itself the defense of the people.

Source: Olde Ulster 2:257-263

Last Will & Testament
My wife Grietje is to remain in full possession of my whole estate. 100 guilders to be paid by the widow to the children of my eldest son Jan Schut. To be paid in one year. To my son Myndert Schut 100 guilders to be paid in two years. Magdalen to be paid 100 guilders in five years and to my daughter Marytje 100 guilders to be paid in 6 years. And to my son Abraham Schut, my land at Shawangunk, in consideration that he remains on the farm and in my service, and that he pays 600 guilders for said land.

Ulster County, New York Probate Records
Ny Gustave Anjou 1906 pg 102 "Page 169 Schutt, Willem Jansen of Shawangunk Will dated May 6, 1706 written in dutch.

Willem married Grietje Jacobs in 1663 in New Albany, Albany, New York, USA. Grietje (daughter of Rutgers Jacobsen Van Schoenderwoert and Tryntje Janse "Catherine" Van Breestede) was born in 1641 in Hurley, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA; died in Dec 1706 in Shawangunk, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Margaret Grietje Jacobs Jacobsen

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• Arrival: 1646, , , New York, USA
• Residence: 1646, Rensselaerwick, Albany, New York, USA

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Name: Jan Willemsz Schut (Schuth)
Date: 1646
Comments: was a cooper by trade and appears first in the accounts under date of 1646. He was to have sailed by den Harinck in Sept. 1637, but for some reason failed to go and Frans Altersz, the cooper, came in his stead. In 1657, appears at Beverwyck Willem Jansz Schut, alias Dommelaer (the dozer), who was probably a son of Jan Willemsz Schut.
Rensselaerswyck, New York Settlers, 1630-58

Jan married Grietje Schutt in 1646 in , , New York, USA. Grietje was born in 1614 in , , Netherlands; died in 1658 in Rensselaerwick, Albany, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1637, , , New York, USA

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Brief Bio
Tryntie Jans Breedstede (Bredstedt) came to New Netherland with her parents, Jan Jansen and Engelje Jans, in 1636. She had two sisters and one brother in New Netherland.

On June 3, 1646, she was married in New Amsterdam to Rutger Jacobsen, a resident of Rensslaerswyck (Albany).

Rutger Jacobsen came from Schoonderwoert, a village sone twelve miles south of Utrecht, Holland. He served as a farm hand on the farm of Tuenisz from Breukelen for a term of six years, beginning April 1637, for the wages of 100 Florins per year. In 1643 he was engaged as foreman on the great Flats in Rensselaerswyck at 220 Florins per year plus some clothes. From 1648 to 1654 he is charged with an annual rent of 125 Florins for a saw mill on the fifth creek, and for the same period he is charged jointly with Barent Pietersz with an annual rent of 550 Florins for a saw mill and a grist mill, also on Fifth Creek. From about 1648, he also owned a sloop plying upon the Hudson River between Rensslaerswyck and New Amsterdam.

On April 4, 1649, he agreed to pay 32 Florins a year for three years for rent of his house lot and the right to fur trade. In October 1660, he and Goossen Gerritsz were authorized to build and operate a brewery.

From Danish Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674

Rutger Jacobsz
From Schoonderwoert (Schoonrewoerd, province of South Holland); served as farm hand on the farm of Cornelis Teunisz, from Breuckelen, for the term of six years, beginning April 8 1637, at f100 a year, and probably came on the Rensselaerswyck. Feb. 9, 1643, he was engaged as foreman on de groote Vlacte (the great Flats) at f220 a year; a suit of clothes, two shirts and two pairs of shoes, his term of service to begin April 7, 1643. From Jan. 1, 1645, he appears as lessee of a farm on the fifth creek, which in 1647 seems to have been taken over by Adriaen Huybertz. From 1648 to 1654 he is charged with an annual rent of f125 for a sawmill on the fifth creek, taken over from Andries de Vos, and for the same period he is charged, jointly with Barent Pietersz, with an annual rent of f550 for a saw- and grist-mill, also on the fifth creek. He owned a yacht from about 1648, and April 4, 1649, agreed to pay f32 a year, for three years, for rent of his house lot and the right to the fur trade. Oct 18, 1650, he and Goosen Gerritsz were authorized to brew beer, on condition of paying duty of one guilder for every barrel of beer, and of brewing free of charge the beer needed for the households of van Slichtenhorst and de Hooges. Rutger Jacobsz is credited with f36 for nine months salary as raets vriendt (councillor) and again with the salary as councillor, at the rate of f50 a year, from Dec 18, 1649, to Oct. 18, 1651, when at his urgent request he was released from his duties and succeeded by Jan Baptist van Rensselaer. Rutger Jacobsz married June 3, 1646, at New Amsterdam, Trijntje Jans, from Breestede (Bredstedt, in Schleswig), and died before Dec. 9, 1665.

Rutgers married Tryntje Janse "Catherine" Van Breestede on 3 Jun 1646 in Esopus, Ulster, New York, USA. Tryntje was born in 1625 in Bredstedt, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; died on 24 Nov 1711 in Rosendale, Ulster, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Maria Slicher on 24 Mar 1619. Maria was born in 1601 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; died on 21 Jul 1641. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]