HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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which are sold by the tun or schepel. or 

 come here from elsewhere as cargoes 

 and in wholesale, under a penalty of £3 

 for first transgression, £6, for sec- 

 ond and arbitrary correction for the 

 third." In 1656 Jacob Leendertsen Van- 

 dergrift was made a small burgher of 

 New Amsterdam. In 1662 he was a resi- 

 dent of Bergen, New Jersey, where he 

 subscribed toward the salary of a min- 

 ister. On April 9, 1664, he and his wife, 

 Rebecca Fredericks, were accepted as 

 members of the church at "Breukelen," 

 upon letters from Middlewout, (now 

 Flatlands); his residence on the west 

 side of the river must, therefore, have 

 been of short duration. On May 29, 

 1664. then living under the jurisdiction 

 of the village of Breukelen, Long Island, 

 he applies to council for letters of ces- 

 sion with committimus to the court, to 

 relieve him from his creditors on his 

 turning over his property in their be- 

 half, he being "burdened with a large 

 family, and on account of misfortune be- 

 fallen some years ago, not having been 

 able to forge ahead, notwithstanding all 

 efforts and means tried by him to that 

 end, etc." There are records of a num- 

 ber of suits prior to this date, in which 

 he appears either as plaintiff or defen- 

 dant. In 1665 he was living on the 

 strand of the North river, New Amster- 

 dam, where he is assessed towards pay- 

 ing the expense of quartering one hun- 

 dred English soldiers on the Dutch 

 burghers. On. October 3, 1667, he re- 

 •ceived a patent from Governor Nicolls 

 for land on the island of Manhattan, on 

 the north side of the Great Creek, which 

 he sold to Isaac Bedloe, in 1668. He 

 probably removed at this date to Noord- 

 wyck. on the North river, where he pur- 

 chased in 1671 the land of his brother 

 Paulus, who had returned to Amster- 

 dam. In 1686 he appears as an inhabi- 

 tant of Newton, Long Island, where he 

 probably died, though the date of his 

 death has not been ascertained. His 

 widow removed with her children to 

 Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 in 1697, and was living there in 1710. The 

 children of Jacob Lendertsen and Re- 

 becca Fredericks Van der Grift, baptised 

 at the Dutch Reformed Church of New 

 Amsterdam, were as follows: 



1. IMartje. baptised August 29. 1649, 

 married Cornelius Corsen. March^ 11, 

 1666. He was baptised at New York, 

 April 23, 1645. being the son of Cor- 

 nelius Piterse Vroom. and Trynt.ie Hen- 

 dricks. After the death of Vroom, 

 Tryntje had married Frederick Lub- 

 bertsen. the grandfather of Marytje, 

 father-in-law of Jacob Lendeert=en Van 

 der' Grift. Many descendants of Corne- 

 lius Corssen and Marytje Van de Grift 

 still reside in Bucks county. 



2. Christina Van de Grift, baptised 

 February 26, 1651, married (first) Oc- 



a widower, by whom she had two chil- 

 dren, Abraham and Jacobus. She mar- 

 ried (second) April 14, i68r, Daniel 

 Veenvous, from Beuren, in Gelderland, 

 by whom- she had five children — Wil- 

 helmina, Rebecca and Contantia; two 

 others also named Rebecca died in in- 

 fancy. 



3. Anna Van de Grift, baptised March 

 16, 1653, married, September 29, 1674. 

 *Jacob Claessen Groesbeck. They re- 



;^tober 9, 1678, Cornelius Jacobse Schipper, 

 moved to Bucks county with the rest of 

 the Vandegrift family in 1710, but little 

 is known of them other than that he pur- 

 chased land in Bensalem adjoining that 

 of his brothers-in-law, and that two of • 

 his daughters married into well known 

 families of Bucks. Their children were; 

 Rebecca, baptised June 23, 1673; Eliza- 

 beth, baptised September 4, 1677; Leah, 

 baptised February ir, 1680, married 12 

 mo. 17, 1702, Johannes Van Sandt; 

 Rachel, baptised November 21, 1682, mar- ' 

 ried November 8, 1704. James Biddle; and •' 

 Johanna, baptised August 9, 1685. 



4. Leendert (Leonard) Van de Grift, 

 baptised December 19, 1655, died in 

 Bensalem, Bucks county, 1725; married, 

 November 20, 1678, Styntje Ellsworth. 

 He, with his three brothers and two 

 brothers-in-law, purchased land in Ben- 

 salem in 1697 of Joseph Growdon, Leon- 

 ard's purchase being two tracts of 135 

 and 106 acres respectively. He subse- 

 quently purchased seventy-four acres of 

 his brother Frederick. He and his wife 

 were received at Bensalem church in 

 1710, and he was appointed junior elder. 

 On December 30, 1715- he was commis- 

 sioned a justice of the peace. Letters 

 of administration were granted on his 

 estate February 18. 1725, to his eldest 

 son Abraham, known as "Abraham. Van- 

 degrift, by the River." The children of 

 Leonard and Styntje (Ellsworth) Van- 

 degrift were: i. Jacob, baptised Septem- 

 ber 20, 1679; 2. Christoffel, baptised Au- 

 gust, 1681, married July 7, 1704, Sarah 

 Druith; 3. Rebecca, baptised December 

 15, 1683, married November 8, 1704, Al- 

 bert Van Sandt; 4. Abraham, baptised 

 July 4, 1686, married October 17, 1716, 

 Maritje Van Sandt, died March, 1748, 

 leaving six children — Leonard, of Ben- 

 salem; Garret and Abraham, of Philadel- 

 phia: Christine, wife of Yost Miller, of 

 Salem county. New Jersey; Mary, wife 

 of Mathew Corbet, and Jemima, wife of 

 George Taylor, of Chesterfield, New Jer- 

 sey. 5. Anneken, baptised April 7, 1689, 

 married Andrew Duow. 6. Elizabeth, 

 baptised at Brooklyn, October 8. 1691, 

 married May 23, 1710, "Francis Kroeson. 

 7. Annetje, baptised June 12, 1695, mar- 



*Nicholas (or Claes^ Groesbeck. father of Jacob: 

 was a carpenter of Albany. New York, in 1662. On 

 October 10. 1696 deoosed th^t he was seventv-»wo 

 years old. His will dated January 3. 1706-7, mentions 

 wife Elizabeth, son Jacob and others. 



