Maryn Adriansen (1600 – ) (also spelled Maryn Adriaensen, Marinus Adriaensz, Marijn Adriaensz, Marin Adriaensz, Marinus Ariaens) was an early settler to

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. Originally emigrating under an

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agreement he later became a prominent member of society. His conflict with the governor led to accusations and, eventually, acquittal. He owned property in

New Amsterdam New Amsterdam (, ) was a 17th-century Dutch Empire, Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The initial trading ''Factory (trading post), fac ...

and a large plantation at Awiehaken.

Background

Maryn Adrieansen was born in Holland in 1600, and he came from

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, in the Province of

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. He was a

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from 1621 to 1627 under Captain Claes Gerritssen Compaen. He married Lysbet Thyssen around 1628 and may have been in New Amsterdam as early as 1630 where an unnamed son was born. He had a daughter around 1631, either in the Netherlands or Renssalaerswyck, Brechje Maryns, who would marry Claes Cornelisze Egmont Van Voorhout and have issue. He died sometime before March 1654, and his widow, Lysbet Thysen, remarried Geerlief Michelsen.

Rensselaerwyck

Adriansen contracted with Kiliaen van Rensselaer to serve as a tobacco planter for the period of three years on January 12, 1631. He sailed with his wife Lysbet Thysen and a child and a few farm workers from

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aboard De Eendracht shortly after July 7, 1631. He arrived at

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, part of the patroon of

Rensselaerwyck Rensselaerswyck was a Dutch colonial patroonship and later an English manor owned by the van Rensselaer family located in the present-day Capital District of New York in the United States. The estate was originally deeded by the Dutch West Ind ...

, located on the

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(in today's

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near

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. His indenture was for a period of three years for ''half of 4 guns, 8 axes, 4

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, 12 spades, to fl.74,10''. In 1632 he was named

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. As his name does not appear later in the colony's accounts, he likely left at the end of his term in 1634.

New Amsterdam

Adriaensen engaged in the

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trade, establishing himself near the present-day

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and

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streets in

and purchased a house in the Smit's Vly (along the shores of the

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at the foot of today's Maiden Lane). On August 29, 1641, he was elected a member of

Director of New Netherland This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (''Nieuw-Nederland'' in Dutch) in North America. Only the last, Peter Stuyvesant, held the title of Director General. A ...

Willem Kieft Willem Kieft, also ''Wilhelm Kieft'', (September 1597 – September 27, 1647) was a Dutch merchant and the Director of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam was the capital) from 1638 to 1647. Life and career Willem Kieft was appointed ...

's advisory board, the

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. In 1643, he took part in a

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dinner meeting at the home of Jan Jansen Damen, with other guests including Kieft,

Cornelis van Tienhoven Cornelis van Tienhoven ( Utrecht – 1656 New Amsterdam) was an official of New Amsterdam from 1638 to 1656, and one of the more prominent people in New Netherland. He served in the administrations of three governors: Wouter van Twiller, Willem Ki ...

and

Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck (1606–1690), also known as Abraham Isaacse Ver Planck, was an early and prominent settler in New Netherlands. A land developer and speculator, he was the progenitor of an extensive Verplanck (disambiguation), Verplanck ...

During dinner, the men discussed the Indian situation and Van Tienhoven produced a petition advocating the massacre of the Native American population. All those in attendance signed the document and Kieft agreed. The Pavonia Massacre took place, February 25–26. Eighty Native Americans were brutally massacred. Kieft ordered Adriaensen and a band of volunteers to go to Corlaers Hook to attack the refugees assembled there. Forty of the tribe, men, women and children, were killed in the Massacre at Corlears Hook. Retaliation was swift, and the colonists suffered greatly that winter from Native American attacks during what is known as

Kieft's War Kieft's War (1643–1645), also known as the Wappinger War, was a conflict between the colonial province of New Netherland and the Wappinger and Lenape Indians in what is now New York and New Jersey. It is named for Director-General of New N ...

.Ruttenber,E.M.,''Indian Tribes of Hudson's River'', (Hope Farm Press, 3rd ed, 2001) Adriaensen, realizing that Kieft intended to shift public blame to him, went to Kieft armed with a loaded pistol and cutlass and demanded "What devilish lies are these you've been telling about me?". Counsellor La Montagne grappled for the pistol, which misfired without causing injury. Meanwhile, Robert Pennoyer, one of the company's soldiers, drew Adriaensen's sword from its scabbard and flung it away. (Pennoyer later testified in regard to the matter, on the 23d of March 1643; that he had heard Adriaensen's wife Lysbet Tyson say in the tavern after he had asked her twice what ailed her, "Robert, my husband, will kill the commander; go and catch him" ). Adriaensen was overpowered and jailed but under pressure from Adriaensen's followers, Kieft agreed to return Adriaensen to Amsterdam for trial. Bound in chains, Adriaensen was put on board a ship sailing for Holland, where he was acquitted. and afterwards returned.

Weehawken

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, along the

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and Hackensack rivers, that would become contemporary

and

counties. Though it only officially existed as an independent municipality from 1661, with the founding of a village at

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, Bergen began as a

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circa 1615 and was first settled in 1630 as Pavonia, with settlements at

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, Hoboken and

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were in the following years. They were along the banks of the

across from

, under whose jurisdiction they fell. Maryn Adriansen acquired land on the west bank of the Hudson. The Manatus Map of 1639 depicts a land holding numbered 32 and described as the "plantation of Maerynes". At some point Adriaensen returned to New Netherland some years and on May 11, 1647, Director Kieft granted him patent for 50

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s of land on the west side of the North River, known by the name of "Awiehaken", now

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On April 18, 1670, the government of the

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(posthumously) confirmed the grant to Maryn Adriaensen ''for a parcel of land called Wiehacken in the jurisdiction of Bergen on Hobooken Creek, 50 morgen Dutch measure'' originally given on May 11, 1647.

Background

Rensselaerwyck

New Amsterdam

Weehawken

See also

References

Further reading