Jan Sebastiansen Van Kortrijk

1618 - 1677  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Jan Sebastiansen Van Kortrijk  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt. 1618	Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Jan Bastiaensen Van Kortryk  [1]
  Also Known As	Jan Kortryck  [1]
  Arrival	1663	New Amsterdam   [1]
  	Arrived to New Amsterdam on the ship De Bonte Koe (AKA The Spotted Cow)
  Immigration	1663	New Netherland   [1]
  Residence	1663	Stuyvesant Farm, New Amsterdam   [2]
  	Upon arriving in New Amsterdam, Jan Sebastiansen Van Kortrijk and his brother, Michael, 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	Beesd, West Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands   [1]
  Departure	16 Apr 1663	Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands   [1]
  Residence	8 Jan 1677	Harlem, New York, New York, USA   [1]
  Death	Aft. 8 Jan 1677	Harlem, New York, New York, USA1   [1]
  Person ID	I3	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Sebastian Van Kortrijk,   b. Abt. 1586, Kortrijk, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands d. Abt. 1663, Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (Age ~ 77 years)
  Mother	Marritje Lucase,   b. Abt. 1586, Netherlands
  Marriage	Abt. 1 Nov 1617	Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Annetje Cornelise,   b. Abt. 1622, Netherlands
  Marriage	Abt. 1644	Netherlands
  Children	1. Cornelis Van Kortrijk,   b. Abt. 1645, Beesd, West Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands   2. Hendrick Van Kortrijk,   b. Abt. 12 Feb 1648, Beesd, West Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d. Abt. 1741, Harlem, New York, New York, USA (Age ~ 92 years)   3. Laurens Van Kortrijk,   b. Abt. 1651, Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands   4. Belitie Van Kortrijk,   b. Abt. 1659, Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2024

  
  

• Photos		New York City Map of Farms c. 1815 New York City Map of Farms showing the area of Peter Stuyvesant's Bowery source: Sackersdorff. Maps of Farms Commonly Called the Blue Book, 1815, Drawn from the Original on File in the Street Commissioner's Office in the City of New York, together with Lines of Streets and Avenues. New York, NY: 1868.
  		Dutch Map of Manhattan c. 1639 source: Vinckeboons, Joan. Manatvs gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier. Washington, DC: Library of Congress.

  
  

• 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. Jan Bastiaensen (Van Kortryk) born 1618, at Leerdam, Holland, went to the town of Beest, not far from Leerdam, where he married and where his children were born, these being Cornelis, Hendrick, Laurens and Belitie. With his brother Michiel and their families, he sailed for New Amsterdam, embarking in the Spotted Cow April 16th, 1663, and had a Bouwery on Staten Island, but probably spent a part of his time at Harlem. 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. Jan Bastiaensen (born 1618) ... came to [New Netherland] from the County of Leerdam, or the Prince's land, in South Holland, in 1663, accompanied by his brother, Michiel Bastiaensen, (born 1620), both of whom afterwards lived in Harlem. Jan was the "Kortryck" who owned a Bouwery on Staten Island in 1674. He spent part of his time at Harlem, but is last mentioned there Jan. 8th, 1677, when he is witness to a power of attorney, given by his old Schoonrewoerd friend, Jan Louwe Bogert. His children were Cornelius, born 1645, Hendrick, 1648, Laurens, 1651, and Belitie, 1659, known as 'the others, uit Holland', Belitie married, December 8th, 1678, Jacob Jansen Decker, of Esopus, whither her brother Hendrick had gone to live. 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] John Howard Abbott, 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). [S2] James Riker, Revised History of Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals, (New York: New Harlem Publishing Company, 1904).