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Samuel Gerritsen   see FAMILY TREE
Born: 01 Oct 1671 Flatlands, Long Island, New York

    
Married:  14 Jan 1695 Gravesend, Kings, NY

    
Died: 04 Sep 1763 Gravesend, Kings, NY    

FATHER

Gerrit Remmersen

MOTHER

Mary

WIFE

Ida Barents Ryder

CHILDREN

1. Bernardus Verbryck  b. 04 Jan 1696

2. Gerrit Gerritsen  b 27 Aug 1698

3. Samuel Gerritsen  b. 3 Jan 1701

4. Rem Gerritsen  b. 9 Mar 1703

5. Aeltie Gerritsen  b. 24 Oct 1705

6. Jacobus Gerritsen  b. 25 Mar 1708

7. Maria Gerritsen  b. 28 Jan 1711

8. Wilhelmus Gerritsen  b. 22 May 1713

9. Johannes Gerritsen  b. 20 Aug 1716

Samuel Gerritsen
by Susan Brooke
July 2021

Samuel's father, Gerrit Remmersen, had come to "Amersfoort" (Flatlands) in 1658 and married Samuel's widowed mother Mary in 1663.  They had five children, Samuel Gerritsen born 1 Oct 1671 being the third,  and then on 01 May 1678 when Samuel would have been about seven they all moved to York Island to a hamlet named Sapochkanika." (Greenwich)   His father died a little over seven months later on 27 Dec 1678.  His widowed mother, Mary, in 1678 had nine children, four from her first husband and five with Gerrit Remmersen.  Her oldest child was 27 and her youngest child only 3.  The family stayed on in Greenwich until 1685 when they moved to Gravesend, Kings, Long Island, NY.  (1)
When Samuel Gerritsen was 23 he married Ida Reyder on 14 June 1695. His mother, Mary, deeded some land to him in 1698 and he in turn gave her half his house for her lifetime. (2)  She died in Gravesend in 1721 at the age of 85.  Samuel Gerritsen's wife, Ida Teyder, died in 1751 at the age of 75 after 56 years of marriage. They had raised 9 children to adulthood.  However their daughter Aeltie had died in 1740 at the age of 35 and in 1746 they lost two sons: Jacobus who was 38 and Wilhelmus who was only 22. 
Samuel Gerritsen died in 1763 less than a month short of his 92nd birthday.

Sources

 

(1) Source: NYG&B Record Vol 133, #3, pg 163=166

The origin of the Garretson and Williamson families is revealed in a family bible record written by Sameul Gerritsen, the son of Mary and Gerrit Remmersen.  While the record was written in Dutch, there are two known unpublished translations, one made in 1884 by Judge Ricord and held by the Brooklyn Historical Society, and a second by Rosalie Fellows Bailey now at The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.  Rosalie Bailey translated the record using Hexham's Netherduytch Dictionarie, 1658 and 1675 editions, that was appropriate for the language of the time and probably led to a more accurate translation.

       
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In the year of our Lord 1634 my honorable father Gerritt Remmersen was born in Oostvrieslandt in a village named Pilsum.

In the year of our Lord 1658 my honorable father Gerrit Remmersen arrived in this land at Amersfoort.

In the year of our Lord 1636 my honorable mother was born on Bermodus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the year of our Lord 1650 my honorable mother married Willem Gerritsen on Bermodus

In the year of our Lord 1651 a son was born to her named Willem

In the year of our Lord 1656 a son was born to her named Cornelius

In the year of our Lord 1659 my honorable mother with her husband Willem Gerritsen arrived in this land at Amersfoort

In the year of our Lord 1660 a daughter was born to her named Sarah

In the year of our Lord 1662 a daughter was born to her named Hannah

In the year of our Lord 1662 my honorable mother's first husband the honorable Willem Gerritsen fell asleep in the Lord.

In the year of our Lord 1663 my honorable father married my honorable mother, my father aged 28 years and my mother aged 26 years.

In the year of our Lord 1664 a daughter was born to her named Anna

In the year of our Lord 1667 a son was born to her named Rem

In the year of our Lord 1671 on the first day of October o.s. a Sunday a son was born to her named Samuel

In the year of our Lord 1673 a daughter was born to her named Maria

In the year of our Lord 1675 a daughter was born to her named Rachel

In the year of our Lord 1678 the first of May my father and my mother with her family removed out of the bay to York Island to a hamlet named Sapochkanika.

In the year of our Lord 1678 the 27th December my honorable father fell asleep in the Lord on a Tuesday in the Morning, and was buried in Stuyvesant's church aged about 44 years.

In the year of our Lord 1685 the first of May my honorable mother removed with her family to Gravesant.

In the year of our Lord 1715 the 4th day of May my brother Rem Gerritsen fell asleep in the Lord at Cape May aged 48 years.

In the year of our Lord 1721 the 24th day of May my honorable mother fell asleep in the Lord on a Wednesday just before midnight and was brought to the grave on that Saturday in Gravesants Churchyard aged around 85 years.

In the year of our Lord 1722 the 2nd day of February my brother Willem Willemsen fell asleep in the Lord on a Friday evening around seven o'clock and was brought to that grave that Tuesday aged around 70 years.

In the year of our Lord 1729 the 15th day of March my sister Anna fell asleep in the Lord on a Saturday evening and was brought to the grave that Tuesday aged 64 years.

In the year of our Lord 1730 the 25th day of February my sister Hannah fell asleep in the Lord on a Wednesday morning about six o'clock and was brought to the earth that Friday aged about 68 years. 

 In the year of our Lord 1738 the 10th of May my brother Cornelius Willemsen fell asleep in the Lord on a Wednesday morning and was brought to the earth on that Firday aged about 82 years.

In the year of our Lord 1749 the 8th of January my sister Sarah fell asleep in the Lord on a Sunday, and was brought to the earth on that Wednesday about 88 years.

The 14th of June o.s. anno 1695 I Samuel Gerritsen married Yda Reyder.

The 4th day of June o.s. Anno 1696 our son named Bernardus was born on a Friday about 7 o'clock in the morning.

The 27th day of August o.s. Anno 1698 was born to us a son named Gerrit on a Saturday about one o'clock after midday.

The 3rd January o.s. Anno 1701 a son born to us named Samuel on a Friday evening about 11 o'clock.

The 24th day of October o.s. Anno 1705 a daughter was born to us named Aeltie on a Wednesday about 2 o'clock in the morning.

The 25th day of March o.s. 1708 a son was born to us named Jacobus on a Thursday morning about 8 o'clock.

The 28th January o.s. Anno 1711 a daughter was born to us named Maria on a Sunday about 9 o'clock in the evening.

The 22nd May o.s. Anno 1713 a son was born to us on a Friday about one o'clock after midday named Johannes.

The 19th day of February o.s. Anno 1740 my beloved daughter Aeltie fell asleep in the Lord on a Tuesday about seven o'clock in the evening and was brought to the earth on that Thursday aged in her 35th year.

The 20th day of January o.s. about 8 o'clock in (the morning) in the year of our Lord 1746 my beloved son Jacobus fell asleep in the Lord on a Monday and was brought to the earth on that Thursday aged about 38 years.

The 23rd day of February o.s. in the year of our Lord 174(6) my beloved son Wilhelmus fell asleep in the Lord on a ( ) about 11 o'clock in the morning aged about 22 years.

The 24th day of February o.s. in the year of our Lord 1746 daughter Antie the wife of my Rem fell asleep in the Lord on (Sunday) nigh 12 o'clock in the night.

The 12th day of September o.s. 1751 my honorable precious wife Yda fell asleep in the Lord on a Thursday about five o'clock in the morning aged about a month over five and seventy years and was brought to the earth on that Saturday. I (on next page) Samuel Gerritsen and my wife Yda Reyder have lived in the matrimonial state six and fifty years and nearly three months.













The 17th of September o.s. 1752 my beloved son Gerrit fell asleep in the Lord on a Thursday about 6 o'clock after midday, and was brought to the earth on the following Saturday the 19th aged four and fifty years and one and twenty days.

The 16th July n.s. 1755 my beloved sister Maria fell sleep in the Lord in Philadelphia on a Wednesday aged in her two and eightieth year.

The 27th March n.s. my beloved sister Rachel fell asleep in the Lord on a Sunday on the Raritans aged eighty-two years.

The 4th September 1763 about 12 o'clock my father Samuel Gerritsen fell asleep in the Lord and was brought to the earth the (    day ) the 4 after noon aged one (and) ninety years and ten months and twenty-three days.

January the 2(?) 1765 my brother Barnardus fell asleep in the Lord aged 68 years and eight months.

1766 February the 27th about 10 o'clock (   ) Johannes Gerritsen was dead in his fiftieth year (   ) buried the 1st day of March.


1671 the 1st October I Samuel Gerritsen am born.
1676 the 15th August my wife Yda was born.
1695 the 14th day of June on a Friday I Samuel Gerritsen married my honorable wife Yda Reyder.