Carl S. VanWagenen, author of "Jacob Aertsen Van Wagenen" and the upcoming
"Gerrit Aertsen Van Wagenen" books is putting together a new website at
cvanwagenen.com
The City of Leiden has decided to proceed with their plan to tear down
the historic ruins of the medieval Vrouwekerk -- an important work of Dutch architecture as well as an
important Pilgrim site. The destruction of these ruins is related to an overall urban development plan
of building a shopping center where twenty medieval and seventeenth- century houses now stand -- in a
complex that includes the hospital hall where Myles Standish recuperated from the wounds he received
while serving in the Dutch army.
Further news about the plight of the Vrouwekerk is available from the
Delano Kindred website, with additional information and an online petition available at the
UCC website.
"...our unanimity on this side the Atlantick is so firm that a
Wicked Administration must in the end find there Despotic
Designs Abortive. Tho the procuration of our peace will be
the price of Blood: the Butchery is already begun at Boston,
where 1200 Regular Troops were Obliged to Retreat before
Half that Number of our Americans with the loss of upward of
300 on their side to 37 on ours..."
Why do we do this ?
"Genealogy, to me, is interesting only when it is related to personality. Mere names
of fathers and sons have little significance unless we can discover what sort of
people they were."
-Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, "The Byvanck Story"
(Read the Story)
"I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those
who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his
father, and all our fathers, and in front, to see my son,
and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes
were my eyes." -Richard Llewellyn
"We may or may not have accomplished much from someone else's
perception of "Great Work," but we have witnessed the
history of our times. We would know nothing of our past if
our ancestors hadn't told the stories, and our children
won't know them if we don't pass them on. There is much to
be learned from textbooks, to be sure... but so much richer
are the details of any period of time from the mouths and
writings of the people who actually lived them. Not only
does this cause history to be a living entity, it is also a
way to honor our ancestors by keeping their memories alive." -Bonnie Czukoski
"De Groote Bybel"
In this ca. 198? newspaper photo, Mae Van Wagenen (then 90 years old) rests her hand on the nearly 350 year-old leather-bound, brass-clamped
"Great Bible" of Major Jacob Aertsen Van Wagenen (1653-1716).
A dedicated painter of the Southwest, Gerard Curtis Delano portrayed the land as he saw it: a bold palette of rich colors.
His striking paintings of Navajos, who were described by Western artist Charles Russel as "picture book people," became
world-renowned for their portrayal of the people's beauty and dignity.
Born in 1890 in Marion, Massachusetts, Delano studied under many artists, including N.C. Wyeth and Harvey Dunn. After a stint in the
Navy in World War I, Delano moved west, homesteading in Colorado on Cataract Creek, between Dillon and Kremmling. He
built a log cabin there, which served as both home and a studio for him. Painting the West became Delano's passion.
"Along the Blue River" by Gerard Delano
"Died: Yesterday morning, Mrs. ELIZABETH BLEECKER, wife of Mr. James Bleecker, Merchant,
of this City. Her remains attended by a numerous train of relatives and friends were this day interred
in the family vault, Trinity Church yard. "
"Domestic Peacel she woo'd thy tranquil joys,
And Kindred Friendship! all her heart was thine;
Untroubled with a wish to court those scenes,
Where female vanity delights to shine.
Maternal tenderness! Connubial love!
Ye made your purest fire in her combine;
And bright religion! 'twas thy holy flame,
Inspir'd her breast with energies divine,
Taught her with grace to live,--with fortitude resign."
From AMERICAN MINERVA (New York) of Tuesday, 25 August, 1795
John Jones to his son, Vincent Roberts (father of Emily Charlotte Jones Van Wagenen)
December 25th, 1883
The Tontine Coffee house
"IN the year 1792, the construction of the TONTINE BUILDING was begun
by an association of merchants, organized in 1790, and incorporated in
1794, under the name of the "Tontine Association." Its object was to
provide a business center for the mercantile community. The original
building fronted what was then known as Coffee-house Slip, now the
corner of Wall and Water Streets. The merchants had long felt the need
of some place where they could assemble and discuss the probable
results of trade and the various questions of the time, and, during
their leisure, indulge in a cup of prime old coffee, without walking
to their distant homes in State Street, Bowling Green, and the lower
part of Greenwich Street. Among the merchants who pushed forward the
enterprise were John Broome, John Watts, Gulian Verplanck, John
Delafield, and William Laight. In the vicinity of Broad and Pearl
Streets was the old Merchants' Coffee-house; and in front of that, on
December 1st, 1791, the sheriff of New York, Marinus Willett, sold
under a writ of venditioni exponas, the dwelling and lot of land then
"in the tenure and occupation of Anthony Bleecker, formerly held by
Francis Lucas, and known as No. 22 Wall Street, reserving the right of
way, 'if they have any right to it,' through an alley adjoining one
side of the said property, and leading from the adjoining farm and
garden of Francis Clark." The property was purchased by the five
merchants already mentioned, for the sum of 2,510, and held by them
under the provisions of the Tontine Association, as its first board of
directors."
Chapter III of "The History of New York City" by William L. Stone, published 1872
Dr. Henry Augustus Buchtel, Governor of Colorado from 1907-1909, was born
on September 3, 1847, in Akron, Ohio. Soon after his birth, the Buchtels moved to South Bend, Indiana
where Henry Buchtel received a private school education and later at tended Indiana-Asbury University
(now DePauw University). After working as a foreman in the grocery and pharmaceutical business, Buchtel
found his calling in the Methodist Ministry. Buchtel reentered his alma mater to study theology and graduated
with a Master's Degree and Phi Beta Kappa Honors. After graduation Buchtel and his new bride, Mary Nelson
Stevenson, traveled on a mission to Rustchuck, Bulgaria in 1873.
Dr. Buchtel died on October 22, 1924, and is buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. Denver University
and the Trinity Church still stand as a living testamonial to a man who gave much to the Denver community
and the people of Colorado.
Dr. Henry Augustus Buchtel
Minister, Trinity Methodist Church,
Chancellor of Denver University,
Governor of Colorado
"The wind blew cold and unpleasant as we left our pretty encampment
this morning for Scott's Bluff a few miles beyond. The bare hills and
water-worn rocks on our left began to assume many fantastic shapes, and after
raising a gentle elevation, a most extraordinary sight presented itself to out
view. A basin-shaped valley, bounded by high rocky hills, lay before us,
perhaps twelve miles in length, by six or eight broad. The perpendicular
sides of the mountains presented the appearance of castles, forts, towers,
verandas, and chimneys, with a blending of Asiatic and European architecture,
and it required an effort to believe that we were not in the vicinity of some
ancient and deserted town. It seemed as if the wand of a magician had passed
over a city, and like that in the Arabian Nights, had converted all living
things to stone."
From the journal of Alonzo Delano, June 9, 1849
Looking Southeast from top of Scotts Bluff
Courtesy Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
Up yours, Leslie.
In a letter from George Washington to Mr. Garrat Van Wagenen...
Did you know?
Delano, Amasa
Pronunciation: [am´usu del´unO]
1763–1823, American sea captain, b. Duxbury, Mass. He served in the American
Revolution as a soldier at 15 and later as a privateersman. His experiences on the sea in the
days of New England's supremacy are recorded in his Narrative of Voyages and Travels in
the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World (1817).
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition
Jan Janse Bleecker
Bleecker, Jan Janse(n), came from Meppel province
of Overyssel in 1658, settling at Fort Orange (Albany)
in 1658. He was b. in 1641, d. Nov. 21, 1732, and was
buried in the church on the 24th Nov. He was by trade
a blacksmith, later a trader. Captain in the Indian
War, 1684. He was recorder of the city, 1696-99;
Justice of the peace, 1797; member of the Provincial
Assembly 1698-1700; Mayor of Albany 1700-1701.
"Mr. E. Carter Delano, Registrant, is entitled to Colonial War Society
through right of descent from Richard Warren, signer of the Mayflower
Compact. "In First Encounter" Indians at Great Meadow, Eastham, Dec.
8th, 1620, three days before the landing at Plymouth. Recorded 1628.
Page 512, Colonial Wars Records. Honor Roll of Ancestors, 1922,
Congressional Library. "
Isabella Van Wagenen - Sojourner Truth
In 1817, the New York legislature passed a law granting freedom to slaves born
before July 4, 1799. This law, however, declared that those slaves could not be
freed until July 4, 1827. As the
date of her release came near, she realized that her master, John Dumont, was plotting to keep
her enslaved. In 1826, she walked away from his estate, carrying only her baby Sophia, and a
supply of food and clothing so meager that if fit in a cotton handkerchief. About five miles away, she
found refuge on the Wagendaal (now Bloomington, in the town of Hurley) farm of her long-time firends,
Maria and Isaac Van Wagenen, who gave her shelter and purchased her freedom ($20 for Isabella,
and $5 for the baby) from Dumont. Issac told her that "God is no respecter of persons; before God, all of us are equal".
Isabella (later known as Sojourner Truth) adopted the Van Wagenen name as her own, and spent the rest of her life
marching under Isaac's words.
Side note: Isaac Van Wagenen built a stone house in 1745 (the oldest known house in Saint Remy) on land obtained in the Magurasinck Patent (in the hills along the Rondout Creek) from King George III. The date is carved in to a boulder in the rear or oldest section of the structure. This was the family home until Lewis Van Wagenen built a second house a few thousand feet to the southeast of the first one. The exact date is unknown, but it was probably in the late 18th century. All that remains of this house is a foundation, but there is a new house (built in 1810) in the same area but closer to the road, along with barns predating that newer house. On the northern end of the property still stands a private Van Wagenen cemetary, which is the final resting place of many of the family.
There is a photo of the Van Wagenen house in the Klyne Esopus Museum in Ulster Park.
Source: Karl Wick
Ancestors Are People Too
by Theodora Van Wagenen Ward
(Click the Chest)
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