Johannes Pieterse Quackenbosch^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1642 -

• Name	Johannes Pieterse Quackenbosch  [3, 4, 5]
  Birth	1642	Oegstgeest, Holland, Netherlands   [3, 4]
  Christening	10 Sep 1642	Leiden, Holland, Netherlands
  Gender	Male
  Death	Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America   [4]
  Burial	Menands, Albany, New York, United States   [4]
  Person ID	I312684219822	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Family	Machteld Jans Post,   b. Abt. 1650, Beverwyck, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. 1698, Beverwyck, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 48 years)
  Children	1. Pieter Johannes Quackenbush,   b. Abt. 1669, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. Abt. 20 Jul 1748, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 79 years)   2. Johannes Quackenbosch,   b. 1672, Albany, Albany, New York, United States d. 26 Nov 1725, Niskayuna, Albany, New York, United States (Age 53 years)  [Father: unknown]   3. Adriaan Johannes Quackenbosch,   b. 1674, Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. 1732, Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 58 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]   4. Maritje Quackenbosch,   b. 07 May 1674, Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. 10 Sep 1727, Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 53 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]   5. Claartje Anna Quackenbosch,   b. 1678, Albany, Albany, New York, British Colonial America d. 1780, Albany, Albany, New York, United States (Age 102 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]   6. Geertruy Quackenbosch,   b. 10 May 1684, Niskayuna, Schenectady, New York d. 1729, Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America (Age 44 years)   7. Jacob Johannes Quackenbosch,   b. 15 Nov 1695, New Amsterdam, New York, USA d. 1747, Niskayuna, Albany, New York, United States (Age 51 years)   8. Abraham Quackenbosch,   b. Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America bur. 1700, Niskayuna, Albany, New York, United States  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]   9. Isaac Quackenbosch,   c. Albany, Albany, New York, British Colonial America bur. Niskayuna, Schenectady, New York, United States   10. Machteld Quackenbush,   c. Albany, Albany, New York, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F90	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Person note QUACKENBUSH The name QUACKENBUSH has had various spellings, such as; Quackenbosch, Quackenbos, Quakkenbosch, sometimes, Kwakkenbosh, until it eventually settled into QUACKENBUSH. The name is supposed to have been derived from Quail or quack and bos, or bush a forest. Sometimes the meaning is given insuch a way as to suggest a quaken-aspen forest and "van" meaning "from" would literally mean Peter, from the Quaking or quail forest. Among the Dutch "se" added to a child's name means "child of". An eg. Pieterse means son of Pieter. Neeltje Pieterse Quackenbush would be daughte of Pieter Quackenbush. There is a great deal of conflict and confusion in tbe early Dutch Records of New York—very few dates and what dates there are do not always agree. -19 We have hired Miss Allie Van Heusen, a Dutch genealogist from Amsterdam, N. Y. to help us get the records correct. She has the same Van Heusen line we have. She says several years ago, she went to the original Dutch records and copied the first Quackenbush families. She says the reason for so much trouble is because the records have been copied and compiled by New Englanders, who did not understand the Dutch way of keeping records, and have neglected many things that are so important in understanding them. They have neglected to add the letters "se" to a name where it should be and have omitted the initials j.m. after a man's, name-, meaning a young man and j. d. after the girl's name in the marriage records meaning that neither had been married before. Pieter Quackenbush, the immigrant as near as is known was from Oestgeest in the vicinity of Leyden, Holland, and studied at Leyden, and it is thought that he was the son of Pieter Van Quackenbush. He was a brick and tile maker. All records agree that he and his wife Maritie and infant son, Reynier, came to Albany when he was 21 years of age, but an error has been made in the year he came, most records giving it as 1660. In 1686-7 a contract was made and Pieter Quackenbush sold and exchanged his house and brick yard in the colony of Rensselaerwyck, with Jacob Van Vorst for his house situated in Albany. Quackenbush agrees to deliver everything "that is fastened thereto by earth and nail, nothing in the world, excepted but the burnt brick which at present are in the kiln shall belong to Quackenbush." Apparently this pantile and brick yard is the same as that belonging to Johade Hulter, which was occupied by Peter Bont as early as .1657 and which was sold to him 21 July 1668 by Adrian Van Ilpendam. Pantile was connected with tile making. This contract is signed Peter Bont otherwise called Quackenbush. The signing of this contract furnishes positive proof that Peter Bont and Peter Quackenbush were the same person. It also proves that the statement that Peter Quackenbush came in 1660 is not correct as Peter Bont was at Beverwyck as early as 165U, where we find his name as Beit in the Court Minutes of Ft. Orange and Beverwych and find the name of Mari tie the wife of Peter Bont or Peter Quackenbush. The name seems to be used interchangeably. N. Y. A2c Vol. 1. It is not unlikely that Peter came over with Johan de Hutler, a partner in the colony of Rensselaerwyck, who sailed in 1653 with his family in the ship "Graft", taking with him "a goodly number of free persons among them some artisans especially a very good brick maker and many others mentioned in detail in the list to settle either in the said colony or elsewhere and assist in the cultivation of the soil there." Although Early Records of Albany Vol. 1 is not in the Library Miss Van Heusen quotes the above and it is also given in the "Documents Relating to Colonial History of New York, N. Y. Ill* Vol. ll* pg 202. What little information Simms gives in his History of Schorarie Co. is entirely wrong. In the Dutch Settlers of Albany Yearbook Mrs. George Myers Miller who claims her right to belong to the Society, thru Peter Quackenbush gives the date of his arrival in New York as 165U. • Quoting from Miss Van Heusen's letter: "A great deal of later information garnered from old ^aoers etc., that the Dutch Settlers Society of Albany has been going through, has come to light of late years." The Peter Quackenbush who married Neeltje Marinus has generally been fiven as the son of Peter, the immigrant, but Miss Van Huesen gives him as Peter Johannese Quackenbush, which means that he was the son of Johannes Peterse Quackenbush who was the son of Peter the immigrant. Aastin A. Yates in his history of Schenectady Co. (N. Y. Sh) gives him as Peter Johannese Quackenbush and (rives his marriage to Neeltje Marinus as 1 November 1701. Yates says this Peter moved into Montgomery Co. and is the ancestor of numerous Quackenbush families west of Schenectady. "The History and Early Settlers of Schenectady" by Sanders N. Y. S5 pg. 137, gives this Pieter as the son of Johannes Pieterse Quackenbush who was son of the immigrant. Sanders and Yates are the only compilers who give his father as Johannes Pieterse. The History of the early New York Dutch Settlers gives the marriage of Johannes Pieterse Quackenbush first to Magtel Post and second to Anna Clute. Miss Van Huesen shows that this second marriage is not correct, for the Johannes who married Anna Clute at the time of his marriage is marked j.m. and Johannes Pieterse Quackenbush and Magtel Post were the sponsors at the christening of his first child. It is errors like the above which have made it so hard to arrange the family groups correctly. Most compilers give the marriage date of Johannes and Magtel Post at 1683 which I am inclined to think is an approximated date. .According to Miss Van Heusen the sixth child was christened 1684—no dates before that. But with the coming of Peter (Bont) Quackenbush seven years earlier than we thought there is a chance to approximate more correctly the births of the first five children. Peter Quackenbush brought a younger sister with him, Maritje who married about 1662, Marten Cornelissen Van Buren,, they were ancestors of President Van Buren. Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, 974.742, D2p Myths & Misunderstandings of Pieter Quackenbush Latest research indicates that Pieter may have had a different surname of Bont before emigrating. See 'Myths and Misunderstandings of the Quackenbush Family' at &lthttps://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Quackenbush_Myths&gt for more information. In addition, the portrait posted here has been identified as his descendant Peter Quackenbush, b. 1807, not the original emigrant. Canastogione is present day "Niskayuna, Canastogione is present day "Niskayuna, Albany Co., NY" HISTORY: "The Quackenbush Family in Ame HISTORY: "The Quackenbush Family in America" by Rick Quackenbush, p. 9. HISTORY: "The Quackenbush Family in Holland & America", p. 29. CHURCH RECORDS: Johannes and his wife, Machteld Post, were listed as members of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany in 1683. Not long thereafter, Johannes, along with his brother, Reynier, settled at Canastagione on the north bank of the Mohawk River. This settlement was made by seven men and their families: Johannes & Reynier Quackenbosch; Jean Forte, a Frenchman; Jean Rosie, another Frenchman often employed as an interpreter on the missions to Canada; Dirck Arentse Bratt; and the brothers Gerrit Ryckse & Maas Ryuckse Van Vranken. Carved out of the wilderness, the seven farms were located in a row along the river, each having about the same frontage. The nearest neighbors were across the river, some three miles distant, and at Half Moon on the same side, about five miles to the east. HISTORY: "Early Records of Albany", 2:363. HISTORY: "Colonial New York-Philip Schuyler and his Family (1885)", Vol. II, p. 370. HISTORY: "List of Inhabitants of Colonial New York" (1979), pp.20-21. He and his brother Reynier owned farms o He and his brother Reynier owned farms on the north side of the Mohawk River.

  
  

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