Michiel Sebastiansen Van Kortrijk

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Michiel Bastiaensen Van Kortryk
• Arrival: 1663, New Amsterdam; Arrived to New Amsterdam on the ship De Bonte Koe (AKA The Spotted Cow)
• Immigration: 1663, New Netherland
• Residence: 1663; Upon arriving in New Amsterdam, Michael Sebastiansen Van Kortrijk and his brother, Jan, settled at Stuyvesant's Bouwery, also known as the Great Bowery or Peter Stuyvesant's farm. This property was the largest of the six original estates, or boweries, established by the Dutch West India Company in the colony of New Netherland. Known as Bowery No. 1, it included the modern-day areas of the East Village and Stuyvesant Town.
• Residence: Bef. 16 Apr 1663, Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Departure: 16 Apr 1663, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Notes:

Of Oblinus' companions on board the de Bonte Koe (Spotted Cow), Demarest went to Staten Island, Journee and Bogert to Brooklyn, and the Bastiaensen brothers to Stuyvesant's Bouwery, though they all soon after came to Harlem. The Bastiaensens, it may be observed, were the ancestors of the entire Kortright or Courtright family, in the States of New York and New Jersey, and also, through other branches, of the families of Ryer and Michiel (now Mekeel and McKeel, -- a Dutch metamorphosed into a Hibernian name!) of Westchester and other counties of our State, and that of Low, in Somerset County, New Jersey but distinct from the Lows of Ulster county, named in a preceding note.

source: Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals. New York: New Harlem Publishing Company, 1904.



Michiel Bastiaensen, of whose history up to his emigration, in 1663, we have before spoken, had, so far as known, five children, viz.: Reyer, born 1653; Metje, born 1655, who married Hendrick Kiersen: Annetie, born 1658, who married John Odell (ancestor of the Fordham Odells); Bastiaen, born 1662, and Aefie, born 1665, in New York, who married Jacques Tourneur.

source: Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals. New York: New Harlem Publishing Company, 1904.



Michiel Bastiaensen (Van Kortryk), born 1620, at Leerdam, Holland, also married and removed to the village of Schoonrewoert, not far from Leerdam, where his children Reyer, Metje, Annetie, and Bastiaen were born, his fifth child. Aefie, born in Harlem. They all came in the Spotted Cow in 1663, with Jan and his family, and soon came to Harlem, later making their home at Fordham.

source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ryer Bastiensen Michaelson was born in Abt. 1653 in Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; died in Bef. 20 Dec 1733 in Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA.
2. Metje Van Kortrijk was born in Bef. 1655 in Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
3. Annetje Van Kortrijk was born in Abt. 1658 in Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
4. Bastien Kortright was born in Abt. 1662 in Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
5. Alfie Van Kortrijk was born in Abt. 1665 in Harlem, New York, New York, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Bastiaen Van Kortryk

Notes:

Bastiaen Van Kortryk, a native of the city of Kortryk, West Flanders, Belgium, emigrated to Holland about 1615, settling in the town of Leerdam, as has been shown. He had sons Jan and Michiel.

source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

Sebastian married Marritje Lucase in Abt. 1 Nov 1617 in Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Marritje was born in Abt. 1586 in Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]