The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . uring the winter of 1668-1669, at the governors Instance,Steenwyck and others established a club of ten Frenchand Dutch and six English families, to meet at each othershouses, twice a week in winter and once a week in summer ;he himself being generally present and making himselfagreeable. They met from six to nine In the evening;the entertainment was simple—chiefly Madeira wineand rum and brandy punch, served
The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits . uring the winter of 1668-1669, at the governors Instance,Steenwyck and others established a club of ten Frenchand Dutch and six English families, to meet at each othershouses, twice a week in winter and once a week in summer ;he himself being generally present and making himselfagreeable. They met from six to nine In the evening;the entertainment was simple—chiefly Madeira wineand rum and brandy punch, served in silver tankards, andnot compounded and adulterated as In England; and tospeak French and Dutch and English was almost Indis-pensable. After the death of Steenwyck, before 28 April,1685 (tiie date of probating his will), his widow, richin temporal goods, richer in spiritual, married, in 1686,Domine Henricus Selyns. Steenwyck seems to have revisited Haarlem about 1668,where an artist, Jan van Goosen, painted the portrait nowowned by the New York Historical Society. A copy of thehead is owned by the same society. Records of New Amsterdam. New York, 1897, Volume 2, page 201. 302. CORNELIUS STEENWYCKDiediSm?) (303) THE NSW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY Oft, LFN©X Jacob Strijc^ker, farmer, trader, magistrate, andlimner, was born at Ruinen, province of Drenthe, inthe Netherlands, the son of Gerrit Strijcker. His wife wasYtie Huybrechts, possibly related to the lady of the samesurname, whose daughter at about the same time marriedTitus van Rijn, the son of a greater limner, came to New Netherland in 1651, a gentlemanof considerable means and decided culture, and after asuccessful career died in October, 1687. We know muchof his office holding—he was burgher of New Amsterdamin 1653, 1655, 1657, 1658, and 1668; schepen in 1655,1656, 1658, 1660, 1662, 1663, and alderman the last year;and schout fiscaal (attorney general and sheriff) of theDutch towns on Long Island in Aug
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