NOTES: On 23 December 1657 Jan Sudeich, with his wife and two children, and
Claes Sudeich (Snedich), his brother, set sail from Amsterdam, on De
St. Jan Baptiste, under Captain Symon Claesen bound for the Dutch
settlement of New Amstel (later called New Castle) on the Delaware
River. In 1660, Jan Sneden, with his family, removed to Harlem, where
he occupied the house and bouwerie of Morris Pieterson until he secured
an allotment of his own. It was thought that Jan and his family
probably arrived in New Amsterdam in late January 1658.) According to
the Genung Genealogy, Jan was one of the first permanent settlers at New
Haerlem (now Harlem) in New York City. At the division of land, he
received Lot 18, a strip of land a few rods wide running from about the
foot of present East 109th Street northwesterly at about the southwest
corner of Jefferson Park and across First, Second and Third Avenues to
a place between Third and Lexington Avenues with an end facing
northwest. The northern corner was probably at 117th Street, about a
third of the block east of Lexington Avenue. The house probably stood
at 115th or 116th Street. Jan Sneden and his wife, Grietje Jans, both
died early in 1662 (the first two settlers to die at New Haerlem), and
beginning on 25 March 1662, their property was sold at public auction
by the magistrates. The house, land and growing grain were bought by
Jacques Cossean (Jacques Couseau) for 135 guilders, while the household
goods, sold to various persons, brought a total of 189 guilders. After
settlement of the estate, 42 guilders remained to be divided between
Jan's two children, Carsten and Grietje. Philip Casier and Lubbert
Gerritsen were appointed the childrens'' guardians on 28 April 1662. On
14 March 1662 Grietje was listed as "widow of Jan Sneden" in a list of
lands at New Harlem.
[Thanks to Pat Wardell for supplying this narrative]
Please look at Pat Wardell's Sneden Page for more information on this
family.
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