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- PIETER QUACKENBOSCH, the earliest ancestor of the Quackenbush family in America, came from Oestgeest, near Leiden, Holland, about the year 1660, with his wife Maritje , and their infant son Reynier. It is probable that he did not stop at New Amsterdam, but proceeded at once to Albany, then called Beverwyck, where his second son Johannes was born about 1662. (Pearson's Early Settlers of Albany Co.) In 1668 he purchased a brick yard from Adrisen van Ilpendam in the town of Beverwyck, as shown by the following deed:
(Pearson's Early Records of Albany Co.)
Appeared before us, undersigned, commissaries of Albany, etc., Adrisen van Ilpendam, who declares that in true rights, free ownership, he grants, conveys, and makes over to Pieter Qaackenbosch the brick yard according to the fence thereabout set, lying here in the Colony, and by the said Pieter Quackenbosch occupied, according to the right and ownership of the ground which he bought and paid for, of madam, the widow of the late Johan de Hulter, now wife of Jeronimus Ebbinck, according to release of date the 20th of August, 1664, on condition that said Quackenbos pay yearly a rent of two Carolus guilders to the Heer director of the colony according to the tenor of the contract therefor, of date the 11th November, 1657, to which reference is herein made ; and therefor giving said Quackenbos, his heirs and successors or assigns, full power to dispose thereof as he might do with his patrimonial effects; also acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, and therefor promising to protect and free the same from all trouble and claims as is right, and never more to do nor suffer anything to be done against the same, in any manner, on pledge of his person and estate, nothing excepted, subject to all laws and judges.
Done in Albany the 11 | 21 of July, 1668,
Adriaen van Ilpendam.
Goosen Gerritse,
Philip Pieterse Schuyler,
In my presence,
D. V. Schelluyne, Secretary, 1668.
The following items concerning Pieter Quackenbosch are recorded in the "Annals of Albany":
1669-Dec-Pieter Quackenbos was paid for 25 tiles 3:15 for Domine Schaet's house.
1682-Dec-Pieter Quackenboss paid for the use of the large pall.
1684-Dec-Peter Quackenboss was paid for 7,000 bricks 170g.
Maritje, the wife of Pieter Quackenbosch probably died in Dec, 1682, when the "large pall" was used, indicating than an adult member of the family had been buried. [1]
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