Michael Michaelson

1687 - 1722  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Michael Michaelson  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Birth	Abt. 1687	Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA   [7]
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Mekeel Mekeel  [7]
  Also Known As	Michael Michaelson
  Also Known As	Michiel Michielsen  [6, 7]
  Also Known As	Michiel Reyerse  [8, 9, 10, 12]
  Also Known As	Michiel Reyersen  [7]
  Also Known As	Michiel Ryerse  [11, 12]
  Residence	1698	Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA   [7]
  Death	Aft. 31 Aug 1722	Philipsburg Manor, Westchester, New York   [8, 12]
  Person ID	I27	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	7 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Ryer Bastiensen Michaelson,   b. Abt. 1653, Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. Bef. 20 Dec 1733, Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Jacomina Tibout,   b. Abt. 1665, Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA
  Marriage	15 Apr 1686	First Collegiate Church of Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA   [2, 3, 6, 7, 12]
  Family ID	F6	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margery Dobbs,   b. Abt. 1687, New York, USA
  Marriage	Abt. 1709
  Children	1. Marietje Michaelson,   b. Abt. 21 Mar 1710, Philipsburg Manor, Westchester, New York   2. Jacomyntje Michaelson,   b. Abt. 21 Mar 1711, Philipsburg Manor, Westchester, New York   3. Ryer Michaelson,   b. Abt. 1715, Philipsburg Manor, Westchester, New York   4. Michael Mekeel,   b. Abt. 28 Aug 1722, Philipsburg Manor, Westchester, New York d. 28 Dec 1822, Somers, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 100 years)
  Family ID	F344	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2025

  
  

• Notes

  31 Nov 1721 - Michiel Reyerse and his wife, Masere, were witness to the baptism of Michiel Dobs at this time source: Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow. Michiel Dobs, Baptismal Record, 31 Nov 1721, Dutch Reformed Church, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. 31 Aug 1722 - Michiel Reyerse and his wife, Mazre, were witnesses to the baptism of Annatje Canckelie at this time source: Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow. Annatje Canckelie, Baptismal Record, 31 Aug 1722, Dutch Reformed Church, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. LETTER FROM CHARLES HAVILAND MEKEEL OF ST. LOUIS, MO. Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright was born in Holland in 1653, came as a child to America with his father, Michiel Bastiaensen Van Cortright, in 1663; married, April 15, 1686, Jacomyntie Tiebout, daughter of Jan Tiebout and Sarah Vander Vlucht, and settled in Fordham, N. Y. “Reyer died in 1733 aged 80 years, having had eight children, to wit: Michiel; Reyer; Hendrick; Teunis; Hanah; who Leonard Vincent; Mary who married Benjamin Haviland; who married Joseph Haviland; and Jane who married Corson.” – From Page 297, “History of Harlem,” by Riker. The surname I bear “Mekeel” is simply the phonetic spelling of the Holland pronunciation of the given name Michiel and originated from the early Dutch custom of neglecting the family name (which in our case was Van Cortright), and using only a patronymic, formed by adding to the child's given name that of the father's, with the addition when written of an “s,” or the affix “sen” for son. Thus – as I am descended from the oldest son of Reyer, whose given name was Michiel, his name was Michiel Reyersen – and though his son Michiel, who was then according to the same rule known as Michiel Michiels, which name was later corrupted into the phonetic spelling Michiel Mekeel, and was thus written on his Lieutenant's commission in 1776, which we now have, and is the earliest record of the present spelling of the name. Relationship makes Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright my great great-great-great-grand father on both my father and mother's side of the family. In as much as two of his daughters married Havilands at that early date, the Van Cortright blood must flow in the veins of many of those whose ancestry you are now tracing, and I have therefore been led to give you so much of what might otherwise seem foreign to your subject. source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] William Smith Pelletreau, Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784: a Careful Abstract of all Wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York Surrogate's Office and at White Plains, N.Y. from 1664 to 1784 : also the Genealogy of "the Havilands" of Westchester County and Descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley Families): with Genealogical and Historical Notes, (New York, NY: F. P. Harper, 1898). [S5] David M. Riker, Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons in New Netherland, from 1613 to 1674. Volume 2, (Salem, MA: Higginson Book Company, 1999). [S2] James Riker, Revised History of Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals, (New York: New Harlem Publishing Company, 1904). [S8] Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1894, (New York: New York Historical Society, 1894). [S7] Will of Ryer Michelsen, 7 Jul 1733, Fordham Manor, Westchester County, New York. [S135] James Riker, 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). [S302] Josephine C. Frost, The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis, (New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914). [S303] Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow, Annatje Canckelie, Baptismal Record, 31 Aug 1722, Dutch Reformed Church, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. [S304] Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow, Jacomyntje Ryerse, Baptismal Record, 21 Mar 1711, Dutch Reformed Church, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. [S305] Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow, Michiel Dobs, Baptismal Record, 31 Nov 1721, Dutch Reformed Church, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. [S306] Dutch Reformed Church of Sleepy Hollow, Michiel Ryerse, Baptismal Record, 28 Aug 1722, Dutch Reformed Church, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. [S11] Holland Society of New York, U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989 [database on-line]., (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).