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- Hendrick Kiersen was b. in 1648 at Giest, in Drenthe, and in 1673 m. Metje Michiels, dr. of Michiel Bastiaensen. He finally settled in Fordham; his chn. being Kier, b. 1674; Michiel, b. 1676; Jannetie, b. 1680; Sarah, b. 1682; Peter, b. 1684 (see p. 548); Maria, b. 1687; Rachel, b. 1693; Hendrick, b. 1696. Desc. have been called Kiers, and, we believe, Keese. Jan Kiersen, who remained at Harlem, will be named in treating of the Patentees.
source: Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.
- On Oct. 11th, 1671, John Archer executed at Harlem sundry new leases for farms at Fordham, viz.: to Hendrick Kiersen, Aert Pietersen Buys, and Cornelis Viervant; making the rent payable to Cornelis Steenwyck, of New York, to whom Archer, on Sept. 10th, 1669, had given a mortgage on his lands for 1100 gl. in wampum. Another mortgage to Steenwyck in 1676, for 2400 gl. Sewant, ultimately gave him the full title and possession of the Manor of Fordham, which passed under his will and by certain deeds to the Dutch Church at New York.
In getting possession, the church met with great opposition from the town of Westchester. This led in 1688 to a forcible entry by the officers and friends of the former. Elijah Barton, dwelling “near Harlem River, within the bounds of Westchester, at the house that formerly Aert Pietersen lived in,” was with his father Roger Barton engaged “to keep possession for and in behalf of the town of Westchester,” when on July 16, in the afternoon,” there came a great company of men with Nicholas Bayard of New York,” demanding admittance. This being refused, Reyer Michiels and Teunis De Key, at Bayard's word, broke open the door, and the Bartons were ousted and roughly handled. With Bayard were also Nicholas Stuyvesant, Johannes Kip, Isaac van Vleeck, Michiel Bastiaens, his wife, and sons Bastiaen and Reyer Michiels, Hendrick Kiersen, and Jacques Tourneur. Also “in the exploit” was Hannah (or Anna Odell) wife, of John Odell. Hendrick Verveelen and Jacob Valentine were there too. The Westchester authorities issued a warrant July 20, to “take the bodies of the said Reyer Michiels, with the said complycetors.” But the church maintained its hold, and the lands were ultimately sold off in parcels between the years 1755 and 1760.
source: Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.
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