by Roxy Triebel
treebz65@hotmail.com

The following information is taken from my grandmother's book, "Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches" (published 1987), with some minor reformatting for the web (it still manages to wander around a bit and be confusing to follow, especially in the earlier generations).  This book is known to contain some errors.  If you have any corrections or additions, please contact me.  To get to information about my great great great grandparents (Jeremiah Van Kleeck and Sally Avery/Every) and their descendants, go to Van Kleeck page two.  There may be additional members of this line in my database that I have not yet had time to add to this page.

A page on early Van Kleecks from
"Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches".
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VAN KLEECK

BUYS     -     LUBBERTSE     -     PARMENTIER

[see revised edition Van Kleeck:  1985 by Walter D. Thomas]

BARENT BALTUS Van der Lippstadt (from Lippstadt, Prussia - NOW North Rhine in Westphalia) was born about 1606 - 1610 at Lippstadt.  He came to the Netherlands at an early age, as he was a good penman in the Dutch language.  In Haarlem, North Holland, he was taxed in 1628.  He was married 18 May 1631 in Haarlem to SARA PIETERS.  Sara was baptized 18 March 1612 at Haarlem Reformed Church.  She died 17 December 1634 just nine months after giving birth to her son Peter.

BARENT married 2nd:  29 January 1636 at Haarlem MAYKEN LAURENSE DE GUYTER.  She was baptized 17 August 1611 at Haarlem (the daughter of Laurense De Guyter and Catalyntie Calawaert of Zurikee, Schonwen Is., Zeeland.  After giving birth to seven children in ten years, Mayken died 20 October 1647.

BARENT married 3rd:  2 November 1647 to AECHTIE (Agatha) POWLESE.  She was born in Amsterdam in 1609.  In 1647 Barent was listed as a coopman or drayman.

BARENT, his wife and children and several of his sisters came to New Amsterdam by 1654, or perhaps earlier.  It is not known what ship they came on - a possibility that it was his own ship.  He owned a large house just south of the Dutch Reformed Church in Flatbush (now a part of Brooklyn).  He died before November 1659 when his widow married 2nd to Isaac Classen.  Barent is probably buried in the Churchyard of the Dutch Reformed Church.

In 1954 there were 4,500 descendants through his four daughters and one son (known), and even more descendants through his other daughter, Catalyntie BARENTS and her husband, POULOS VAN BENTHUYSEN.  ..[see Van Benthuysen Gen.].

ONLY follow OUR DIRECT LINE here:

1. BALTUS BARENTSEN - or BARENTS - the son born 1645, was listed on the Flatbush assessment rolls 22 August 1675.  He married Stpember 1676 Catherine JANS BUYS.  they joined the Bergen Church 2 July 1683.

   The name VAN KLEECK was first used at the baptism of their 6th child at this church:  PETER baptized 13 October 1685.  He died July 1688.  It is not known where the name VAN KLEECK was derived.  It may have been the name of an area where they had lived.  Their first residence here was on a farm called "MIDWOUT" in the Flatbush (Brooklyn) area.

   CATHERYN JANS BUYS was the daughter of Ebetje (Ida) LUBBERTSE and JAN CORNELIS BUYS (alias Jan Damen). ...[N.Y. HIST MANUSCR. Dutch Vol. 3 pg 208] ... [N.Y. GENEAL. & BIOGR. RCD. July 1968: pg 141]  The ancestry of CATHERYN JANS BUYS, wife of Baltus Barents...

   In Amsterdam, Netherlands 15 April 1634, Killian Van Rensselaer, the Patroon of Rensselaerwyck (on both banks of the Hudson River near Fort Orange) signed a contract with LUBBERT GYSBERTSEN VAN BLARCOM, age 33 yrs, a rademaker (wheelwright) under which Lubbert "betake himself and his wife and three children at his own expense to the West India Co. for passage on the ship UNITY (de Hemdracht) then being ready to sail to New Netherland."  The records give the name of his wife as DIVERTJE (Deborah) CORNELIS; the eldest child: GYSBERT age 10 yrs in 1634, born Noordt Holland; the second child: THYS age 6 yrs, born Noordt Holland; the third child: JAN age 18 months born Edam, Holland.

   Eyebetje (Ida) LUBBERSEN, the 4th child, was born 1635 at Fort Orange (Albany), the daughter of LUBBERT LUBBERTSE (who came from Mepple, Province of Drenthe, Holland in May 1634 on ship UNITY).  He was a farmer who first settled the Flatbush area, Brooklyn, removed to the Hackensack area of New Jersey and changed the name to VAN BLARCOM.  Descendants dropped the VAN and some of the family took the name Westerfelt.

   LUBBERT GYSBERTSEN was given a Dutch Patent 5 December 1654 of 50 Morgns of land on Bergen Neck, south of Jersey City now.  Just south of this land was his son:  JAN LUBBERTSE and also his son-in-law:  JAN CORNELIS BUYS; and also his sons:  LUBBERT LUBBERTSEN and GYSBERT LUBERTSEN and son-in-law:  HENDRICK OOSTEROOM.  Some of this family were killed by Indians.

   LUBBERT GYSBERTSEN and his wife Divertje Cornelis had seven children who took the name of LUBBERTSE.

   Ebetje Lubbersen (born 1635 died before August 1663) married JAN CORNELIS BUYS (alias JAN DAMEN the soldier).  His mother was Hendricke Janse, sister of JAN JANSEN DAMEN, who adopted JAN CORNELIS BUYS providing he use the name DAMEN.  For a time, he used it. ...[HIST. MANUSCR. vol. 3 pg 208:  the will of JAN JANSEN DAMEN of Manhattan December 1649 leaves 6 carolus guilders and clothes to his nephew JAN CORNELIS BUYS, provided he live with the widow of J. J. DAMEN until her ship left for the Fatherland.]

   BALTUS BARENTS lived next in Albany.  Four children were born there.  They had nine children, the last five all baptized in the church at Bergen, New Jersey.

   We follow down through the FIRST CHILD:  2nd generation

   1.  BARENT VAN KLEECK born 1677 Albany, died 1750 Dutchess County, New York.  His father, Baltus Barents, had purchased land 1697 at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York.  He was listed as Balthzer Van Cleake of Long Rock, Dutchess Co.  In 1700, he was Captain of the Militia of Ulster and Dutchess Counties.  In 1714, he was a member of the 24 member Colonial Assembly.  In 1702, he built the first substantial house in Poughkeepsie.  It was torn down in 1835.  The stone lintel of the main door had carved "B V K -- T V K -- ANO 1712 G E X     J V K"  This was broken into three pieces preserved in the basement of the Matthew Vassar home on the southeast corner of Mill and Vassar Streets.

      BARENT VAN KLEECK married 27 August 1701 at Poughkeepsie to ANTOINETTE PARMENTIER.  She was baptized 27 July 1684 at Bushwick, Long Island (the daughter of Mickel Parmentier and Cornelia Damen and grand-daughter of PIETER PARMENTIER and Antoinette Terren).

      The Parmentiers were French Huguenots.  Some fled to England in 1520 to escape the massacre.  PETER was one of the Manheim Refugees who came to this country with Jan Louwes Bogaart on the SPOTTED COW April 1663, and they were neighbors for many years.

      BARENT AND ANTOINETTE VAN KLEECK had thirteen children, most baptized in the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church.  OUR line comes through the 11th child:
      1. PETER VAN KLEECK baptized 1 June 1725 married 22 June 1746 in First Reformed Dutch Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York to ANNATJEN FREER.  The Will of Peter Van Kleeck 25 May 1793 and recored 11 November 1793 lists:  wife Anntje and children Peter, Jeremiah, Levi, Cate, Hendricus, Barent, Simeon, Antoinette, Mary, Trientje, and Deborah. ...[18th Century Records of Dutchess Co. by Helen W. Reynolds]
         Peter Van Kleeck born 1725 married Annatjen Freer baptized 5 October 1729 Kingston #3941 (daughter of Zalmon/Solomon FREER and Claartje Westvaal).  Claartje was baptized 31 October 1700 Kgn #1199 (daughter of Johannes Westvaal and Marritje Cool).  Marritje Cool was baptized 7 March 1666 Kgn #68, daughter of Jacob Barentsen Cool and Marietje Symens.  SOLOMON FREER was the son of ABRAHAM FREER who married 1694 to Aeltjen Titsoort.  Abraham Freer was the son of the early settler of New Paltz HUGO FREER.

This is a point at which things get a bit confusing.  According to "Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches", there are at least two conflicting theories as to the parentage of my great great great grandfather, Jeremiah VAN KLEECK (1805 - 1885).  Here is what the book has to say:

According to Dr. Edward Van Kleeck, long deceased, of Albany, OUR Jeremiah Van Kleeck born 1805 was son of Jeremiah Van Kleeck (1755/6 - 1832) and his wife, Antje Van Bommel, who, in turn, was son of Peter 1725 - 1793.

Now more recently William T. Van Kleeck, Seattle, Wash. states that "Jeremiah Van Kleeck born 1805 is the son of Peter Van Kleeck born 1773/4" to Barent Peter Van Kleeck and his wife, Hannah DuBois.  This Peter VK born 1773 died Sept 1884 Woodstock.  (This death date is probably wrong - it would make him 111 years old at death - not impossible, but very unlikely -- RT)

Peter Van Kleeck 1773 - 1884 married his cousin, Hannah / Antoinette Van Kleeck (daughter of Barent B. Van Kleeck and Tryntje Outwater).

Proof for this assumption is found in UL. CO. Deed Bk71:pg334 in which Jeremiah and his wife Sally Van Kleeck sign, with Barney Van Kleeck and his wife Hannah E. Van Kleeck, an indenture dated 14 April 1845.  No baptism records have yet been found for OUR JEREMIAH.  We have only Bible records.

Barnard Van Kleeck 1800 - 1870 and his wife Hannah 1808 - 1871 are buried in Bushkill Cemetery in Van Kleeck fenced-in plot (the fence was long gone when I visited in 2002 - RT).  OUR JEREMIAH buried in Palentown.  OUR JEREMIAH VAN KLEECK was born 18 July 1805 Dutchess Co. [Bible Record] and married 10 April 1828 to Sally Every / Avery born 7 October 1809 in Delaware County to URIAH AVERY and Miriam Hill.

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Our line of descent is thus:

		BALTUS BARENTSE
		-----^^^^^-----
		Barent Van Kleeck (1677 - 1750)
		m. 1701 Antoinette Parmentier
	-----------------------^^^^^-----------------------
Baltus B. VK (1707)			Peter B. VK (1725 -1793)
m. Elizabeth DeGraff			m. Annatje/Antoinette Freer
-----^^^^^-----				-----^^^^^-----
Barent B. VK 				Barent P. VK (1747 - 1812)
m. Tryntje Outwater			m. Hannah DuBois
-----^^^^^-----				-----^^^^^-----
Antoinette 'Neeltje' VK (1774) married Peter B. VK (1772 - 1884)
		(cousin married cousin)
	-----------------------^^^^^-----------------------
		OUR JEREMIAH VAN KLEECK
		b. 18 July 1805, d. 6 Dec 1885

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