. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. nd from Holland. Pieterand Jacob settled in Albany and left no male , after living at Kinderhook and Steene Raby (Lan-singburg), removed to Schenectady in 1677. At the Massacreof Schenectady, February 9, 1690, Hendrick and his sonBartholomew and his two negro slaves were killed andburned, leaving two sons, Adam and Jan, to inherit his was born in Holland in 1649, and in 1670 bound him-self for two years to Cornelius Van den Bergh, of AlbanyCounty, to learn the millwrights trade. In 1683 he built amill on the San
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. nd from Holland. Pieterand Jacob settled in Albany and left no male , after living at Kinderhook and Steene Raby (Lan-singburg), removed to Schenectady in 1677. At the Massacreof Schenectady, February 9, 1690, Hendrick and his sonBartholomew and his two negro slaves were killed andburned, leaving two sons, Adam and Jan, to inherit his was born in Holland in 1649, and in 1670 bound him-self for two years to Cornelius Van den Bergh, of AlbanyCounty, to learn the millwrights trade. In 1683 he built amill on the Sand-kil, east of Schenectady, where theBrandywine mill now stands. In 1690, when Schenectady wasdestroyed, he saved his life by his bravery in defending hishouse, although his first wife, Engeltje, with her infant child,was killed, and his two sons, Wouter and Barent, were carriedaway to Canada. He married three times, his second wife be-ing the widow of Jacques Cornelius Van Slyke, and the third,Greitje Takelse Hemstraat. He had nine sons and four. ?J <ais 3 _)y z D TH;-: U,.:Vj YVihK PUBLIC LIBRARY, ASTOR, LENOX AND In the Old Town of Amsterdam 175 daughters. He seems to have been a large land owner, forbesides numerous lots in Schenectady he was granted a patentfor six hundred acres of land in Schoharie, in 1714, which wasoccupied by his son Pieter and his descendants. On March30, 1726, he obtained a new Indian title for fourteen hundredacres of flats knows as Vroomans Land, in the SchoharieValley. On a previous page I stated that in 1688 he was granted anIndian title for land comprising the present fifth ward of Am-sterdam, and the Bronson Flats and woodlands in this would seem as though Pieter was the only one of his sonswho followed his father to the Schoharie, some of them livingin Albany, others in Schenectady, Pieter died in 1771, leav-ing twelve children, one of whom was Abraham Vrooman,who persisted in writing his name Abram, He was the fatherof Mrs, Isa
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