Esaias Swart

Citations

1. [S589] Prof. Jonathan Pearson, A History of The Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times, J. W. Mac Murray, editor (Albany, N. Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883), "Teunis Cornelise Swart had three sons who lived to maturity and had families, — Cornelis the eldest, who removed to Ulster county, (151-9) — Adam who settled in Kinderhook (152-1), and Esaias or Jesaias, who remained in Schenectady and became the progenitor of those who bear this name in this vicinity.
   
   Esaias, born in 1653, married Eva, daughter of Teunis Van Woert of Albany, and had three sons, Teunis who settled in Schoharie; Wouter who, settled on the south side of the Mohawk river on the Thickstone place (152-2), whose daughter he married, and Jesaias who settled on the north side of the Mohawk at the Sixth flat, of which he received a conveyance Aug. 3, 1713, from the trustees of Schenectady for £6-19-6 yearly rent, together with 60 acres of woodland lying northward of the same. (152-3)
   
   His village lot, of 40 feet front and 163 feet deep, was on the east side of Church street, 163 feet north from State street, the same having been reserved out of his father's lot when it was sold to his brother-in-law Van der Volgen. (152-4)
   
   He had also had eight acres of bouwery No. 10, which his step-father Jacob Meese Vrooman and his mother Elizabeth, widow of Teunis Cornelise Swart, conveyed to him Feb. 20, 1685/6, — "bounded south by the hills, west by Symon Volckertse [Veeder], north by Claas Laurense Van der Volgen and east by a low place formerly a swamp, adjoining the pasture of Claas Laurense Purmerend [Van der Volgen], being a part of farm or bouwery No. 10 granted to said Teunis Cornelise [Swart] by patent Jan. 15, 1667. (152-5)
   
   Notes
   (151-9) Cornelis Swart was 70 years old 22 May, 1722, and was born therefore about 1652. Wills, I, Deeds, IV, 35; Albany Annals, VI, 48.
   (152-1) Adam Swart Van Schenegtade married Metie Willemse Van Slyck Van Nieuw Albanie, Jan. 15, 1690; — in 1706 he resided in Kinderhook. — Albany Dutch Church Records.
   (152-2) Above Hoffman's Ferry.
   (152-3) Church and Toll Papers.
   (152-4) Deeds, IV, 35.
   (152-5) Deeds, III, 310.
   
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   This is the transcription of the original as published by Schenectady History.org at http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/resources/patent/…. The original page has also been examined and is available in Exhibits.
2. [S589] Prof. Jonathan Pearson, History of The Schenectady Patent, p. 152. "Esaias, born in 1653, married Eva, daughter of Teunis Van Woert of Albany, and had three sons, Teunis who settled in Schoharie; Wouter who, settled on the south side of the Mohawk river on the Thickstone place, whose daughter he married, and Jesaias who settled on the north side of the Mohawk at the Sixth flat, of which he received a conveyance Aug. 3, 1713, from the trustees of Schenectady for £6-19-6 yearly rent, together with 60 acres of woodland lying northward of the same." [Notes omitted]
3. [S1319] Year Book of the Holland Society, "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, N. Y.", Holland Society of New York (1904–1908): p. 54. Sara, dau. of Esias Teunisz Swart and Eva Teunisz, bapt. 16 Dec 1691; witnesses Wouter Van den Uythof and Mari Van Dam.
4. [S1366] Extracts From the Doop–Boek or Baptismal Register of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Schenectady N. Y. (Albany: J. Munsell, 1864), p. 6. Elisabeth, dau. of Esaias Swart and Eva Tennisse, bapt. 30 Dec 1696, by Dominie Dellius, of Albany; witnesses Maria Tennise and Claas Laurentse. Hereinafter cited as Extracts From the Doop–Boek of the RDC of Schenectady N. Y.
5. [S1366] Extracts From the Doop–Boek of the RDC of Schenectady N. Y., p. 8. Maria, dau. of Esaias Swart and Eva Tennisse, bapt. 9 Jan 1700, by Dominie Nucella, of Albany; witnesses Johannes Peeck and Neeltje Claassen. [The Dominie from Albany visited Schenectady several times a year. Prior to the baptisms performed on 9 Jan 1700, the previous baptisms took place on 1 Sep 1699]