I2409: Christoffel Janse ABEEL (1621

Christoffel Janse ABEEL

1621 - 1684

BIRTH: 1621, Amsterdam, Holland [3142] [3143]
IMMIGRATION: 1647, Beaverwick, NY (now Albany) [3144] [3145]
DEATH: 1684, Albany, Albany, NY [3146] [3147] [3148]

MARRIAGE: 22 Nov 1660 [5885] [5886] [5887]

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[3149] 5th great-grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Representative Pioneer Settlers of New Netherland and their Original Home Places"
Richard Schermerhorn
NYGBR v65 p2
"Abeel, Christoffel Janse, born in Amsterdam"
(This survey of records quotes Henry Whittemore and the St. Nicolas Society.)

"Abeel and Allied Families"
Henry Whittemore
New York, NY, 1899, 24pp.
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/books/abeel/
"CHRISTOPHER JANSE ABEEL, the progenitor of this family in America, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1621. Both his father and mother fell victims to the great plague which scourged all Europe in 1633, when he was twelve years of age. Soon after his mother was taken ill, she sent for a trustworthy neighbor and friend, and placed in her keeping all the ready money she had with instructions to keep it until the lad should become of age. He was placed in charge of the master of an orphanage, and grew to manhood well equipped for the duties of life, having been taught in the meantime the trade of a carpenter. On reaching his majority, the faithful friend, true to her trust, delivered to him the principal with the accumulated interest, and with this little fortune he purchased a stock of hardware and started for America, settling in Beaverwick, now Albany, about 1647. His name first appears on the records of the town in the conveyance of a piece of property, April 23, 1652. In 1665, as a master builder, he erected the First Reformed Dutch Church, which took the place of the crude log house in which the first settlers worshipped. Two years after this Abeel was elected deacon of the church, and a vote of thanks was tendered him for faithful service as treasurer of the poor fund. In 1665 he made a voyage to Holland to receive a legacy from a deceased great uncle. Passport was made in the name of the Honorable Stoffel Jans Abeel. He was a magistrate of Albany and filled other important positions, and in ordinary documents, as was the custom, he omitted the surname, but to all important legal documents he attached the full name. He died in 1684."

Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature Collection
"Abstract of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office,
City of New York (Volume I. 1665-1707) "
http://historical.library.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.nys/nys054
Will of Stoeffel Johnson Abeel and Heeltie, his wife. Proved 14 Oct 1681.

"Contributions to the Genealogies of the First Settlers
of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800"
by Professor Jonathan Pearson, p.13
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyalbany/pearson/
"Abeel, Stoffel Janse: master carpenter; in Beverwyck in 1653; Feb 3, 1655, he was aged about 32 years;
his wife was Neeltie Janse Croon; Dec. 4, 1670, made his will in which he mentions the following children:
Magdalena, then aged 17, and already married; Maria, aged 14; Johannes, aged 11, and Elizabeth."