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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE VANDELINDA FAMILY.
Pieter Linde was a native of Belle, a town on the road from Bruges
to Ghent in Flanders. He was a physician, and came to America
in 1639 with his wife, Elsie Barents. The shipping records show
that, on April 18, 1639, he paid to David Pietersen de Vries
and Frederick Pietersen de Vries 140 Carolus gelders ($56) for
passage for himself and wife to New Amsterdam, where he settled
and followed his profession until the death of his wife in 1643.
On July 1, of the following year (1644), he entered into a marriage
contract with Martha Chambers, or Ekomberts, of New Kerek, in
Flanders. She was the widow of John Manje or Monnye. The marriage
knot was tied July 10, 1644, at New Amsterdam. After this marriage
Vandelinde removed to Brooklyn, where he became the owner of
the patent of his wife's first husband. This he sold January
23, 1652, to Barent Joosten. He owned several other pieces of
property, both at Brooklyn and New Amsterdam, and in 1655 was
tobacco inspector of the latter city. After Linde's death his
descendants assumed the name of Van der Linde.
His son, Joost Van der Linde, removed to Bergen, N. J., in
the fall of 1670, where, on January 30, 1671, he bought about
90 acres of land of Pieter Jansen Slote between Constable's Hook
and Bergen Point. Here he resided until his death. His children
of the third generation were John (died in 1696), Roelof, Jannetie
(married Peter Laurens Van Buskirk), Hendricke (married Laurens
Laurens Van Buskirk), and Machtelt (married Albert Zabriskie).
All of these except John removed to Bergen County. Roelof resided
with his father at Bergen, where, on October 2, 1682, he married
Susanna Hendricks Brinkerhoff. He removed to Hackensack in 1686,
where he helped to organize and became a member of the Dutch
church. He became joint owner with his brothers-in-law, Laurence
and Peter Van Buskirk, in the New Hackensack patented lands,
and also bought of the New Jersey proprietors large tracts of
wild land west of the Pascack River in Washington and Mildland
Townships in Bergen County. His first wife having died in 1700,
he married (2) Rachel Cresson, widow of John Peters Durie, who
survived him, but by whom he had no issue. He was a man of wealth,
and died in New York City early in 1709, leaving a will dated
September 6, 1708, proved February 13, 1709. His issue of the
fourth generation were Peter, Henry, Olassie [Classie?], Maritie,
Sophia, and Geesie.
Peter, by the will of his father, received his father's plantation
of New Hackensack, and Henry all the lands on the Pascack and
Saddle Rivers, in the northern part of the county. Hendrick resided
at Polidy, below Hackensack. The numerous descendants of Peter
and Henry (4) have become scattered over a large area of territory,
including Berge and Hudson Counties.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 172-173.
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