Divertje Gerritsen

Notes:

29 Jun 1702 - She and her husband Theunis Wiltse were witnesses to their niece Hillegont Hardenbergh’s baptism at this time

source: First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica. Hillegont Herdenbergh, Baptismal Record, 29 Jun 1702, First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Jamaica,
Queens County, New York.

Family/Spouse: Theunis Hendricksz Wiltsie. Theunis (son of Hendrick Martensen Wiltsie and Margrietje Meyerinck) was born on 10 Jan 1674 in Tarrytown, Westchester, New York, USA; died in Bet. 1715-1726 in Newtown, Queens, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Ryker. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 19 Jan 1759, Morrisania, Westchester, New York, USA

Family/Spouse: Aphasia Brown. Aphasia (daughter of John Brown) was born in Abt. 1708 in New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

4 Apr 1704 - His uncle Hendrick Wiltse and aunt Grietie Hardenberg were sponsors to his baptism

source: First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica. Hendrick Wiltse, Baptismal Record, 29 Jun 1702, First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Jamaica, Queens County, New York.

Notes:

4 Apr 1704 - Her uncle Pieter Gerritse and aunt Cornelia Gerritse were sponsors to her baptism

source: First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica. Hillegont Wiltse, Baptismal Record, 4 Sep 1704, First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Jamaica, Queens County, New York.

Family/Spouse: Hendrick Johannes Oblenis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

9 Jan 1709 - Jacobs Crankeidt and his wife, Elisabeth, were sponsors to her baptism

source: Dutch Reformed Church of Flatbush. Debora Wilze, Baptismal Record, 9 Jan 1709, Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, Kings County, New York.

Family/Spouse: Thomas Lawrence. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Henry Ryer on 15 Jun 1758 in First Collegiate Church of Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA. Henry (son of Hendrick Ryer and Jane) was born in Abt. 1737 in Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA; died in Bet. 1802-1803 in Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1780; Col. James De Lancey's Refugee Corps, British Army, American Revolutionary War
• Census: 2 Aug 1790, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA
• Occupation: 17 May 1792; cattleman

Notes:

2 Aug 1790 - Identified as John Ryer, son of Henry Ryer, on the 1790 U.S. federal census (source: National Archives and Records Administration. 1790 United States Federal Census, Westchester, Westchester County, New York, National Archives Microfilm Roll M637_6; 1790 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.)



BY His Excellency GEORGE CLINTON, Esq. Governor of the state of New-York, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an inquisition taken before David I. Pell, Esq. one of the coroners of the county of West Chester, on the 18th day of May, instant, it appears that Isaac Smith, deputy sheriff of the said county, was on the 17th day of the said month, inhumanly murdered while in the due execution of his said office; and that a certain John Ryer, late of the town of Westchester, in the county of Westchester aforesaid, stands charged with the commission of the said horrid crime, and whereas it is represented to me that the said John Ryers hath fled from justice.

NOW THEREFORE, I have issued this my proclamation, hereby offering a reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person or persons who shall apprehend and deliver the said John Ryer to the keeper of the common gaol of the said county, so that he may be brought to justice. And I do by these presents strictly enjoin and require all officers, civil and military, and all other the good citizens of this state, to be aiding and assisting in the premises to the utmost of their power.

And do further hereby enjoin and require the Magistrates of the said county to cause to be apprehended (if that is not already done) every person who may have been in any way accessory to the said offence, who may have aided the said John Ryer in his escape, or who may have withheld that assistance which was required of them by the said deputy-sheriff in the execution of his said office, and which, by the law and their duty as good citizens, they ought to have rendered, in order that they may be held to answer for the same. GIVEN under my hand and the privy Seal at the city of New-York, this twenty-fourth day of May, in the year 1792, and in the sixteenth year of the independence of the said state.

GEORGE CLINTON.

source: Poughkeepsie, NY: The Poughkeepsie Journal, 31 May 1792, p. 2.

John married Margaret Wood in 1781 in Fordham Manor, Westchester, New York, USA. Margaret was born in Abt. 1762 in Westchester, New York, USA; died in Aft. 1 Jun 1840 in Manhattan, New York, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 4 Aug 1800, Yonkers, Westchester, New York, USA
• Census: 7 Aug 1820, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA

Notes:

The Poe Cottage stood in the northwest corner of a small tract of about one acre, almost triangular in shape, originally and from a very early date, part of the farm of Hendrick Ryer. Some time before 1822 John Berrian came into possession of this plot, for in that year he sells it to Jonas Farrington for $500.00. This undoubtedly included the house, which seems to have been standing in April of 1816, for in that year Hendrick Ryer, conveying the adjacent farm to his son, Henry Ryer, describes the boundary line as running “southwest along a ledge of rocks to land of John Berrian at a Cedar Bush at the point of rock, and thence along Berrian’s land back of the house to the stone on the road to Kingsbridge marked “L.”

source: Transactions of the Bronx Society

Henry married Elizabeth in Abt. 1791 in New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]