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CHR 2 PLAC (Noorman) Holgerson
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BURI 2 PLAC Volckertssen AFN GPCH-45
(aka Holgerson per Laila Fulkerson Thompson}), Dirck (Derrick, Derick) Volkertszen {Volkerkl, Volkertzen} or Dirck de Noorman {Dirck the Norwegian} is the original immigrant. He appears to have been born in Norway about 1595, lived in Hoorn North Holland in 1621 and came to the United States sometime withing the next decade.
Dirck the Norseman, Norman
n. e . settlement Smits vly Greenpoint
Normans's Point
Dirck Holgerson Norman Volckertszen
Wallabout
Mespath's Kill
17th Ward Brooklyn
Ap 1645 400 acres on East River
Dirck Volkertszen of Hoorn Holland petitioned States General of Netherlands permission to trade 1621
b. 1596? 1678-1680d
Dirck is said to have been a ship's carpenter. He is said to have shipwrecked in NY Harbor and been rescued by his future father-in- law, the dock master, Guillaume Vigne
Dirck de Noorman was 1658 city carpenter
Dirck
mother-in law Ariantje Cevelyn (Vigne) 1632 to Marie Vigne wife Christine Vienje 200 guilders
Indian troubles caused him to move to Normans's Kill (named after him} asked for road 1622
gave some land to Bushwick
Bushwick, now Brooklyn 1675 taxes
New York 1677
New Amsterdam 1674
burgher's rights
Feb 12, 1663
Provost says 4th floor map room Brooklyn Hall of Records, NY
Holger, father of Dirck source?
Mespath 1638
stone farmhouse 1645
bank of E River facing
Norman's Kill
house lasted 200 years.
Peninsula 400-600 acres, almost surrounded by tide waters
Cherry Point, Green Point
17th Ward of Brooklyn, now McCarren Park
industrial area
knoll near stone house
burial
1850's house destroyed/land levelled
Boswyck willage
Christine died Ap 1663
Dirck sup't fencing 1664
children settled
conveyed land 1677. d. 1680?
Dirckse
Volerse
Volkertson
Fulkerson
Dirck and Christine childen christened in Dutch reformed Church in
New Amsterdam
Chester Ward *P DDVC 12/23/9
writes "Almost everything I have gathered concerning Dirke is contained in a book by Laila Fulkerson Thomson. I have a few notes from abstracts of New Amsterdam records"
:
Also of interest is an article in the Ohio County (KY) Times, part of a series titled Western Waters, by William J. Shull, appearing 15 March 1973.
In summary, he was a ship's carpenter for the Dutch company. Later he was city carpenter for New Amsterdam, which personally I find interesting. There must be many connections to historical events in regard to his work. I've seen paintings of structures in old New Amsterdam and wondered what hand Dirke might have had in their contruction.
From another researcher:..."Chrisitine Vigne b. ca 1610 in Valenciennes, France, at least her parents, Guillaume Vigne and Adrienne Cuvielle were from there...Guillaume died before 1631 and Adrienne d.
1655 both in NY."
Were the Vigne's Huguenots? If I understand correctly, the Dutch Company hired or contracted, settlers for New Amsterdam. Perhaps those documents survive and have information. Laila Fulkerson makes claim that Dirke was Norwegian. As the Dutch Company was bery notably international in dealings, I imagine persons of almost any nationality might be employed.
......Chester
more as follows...sent by Jack Fulkerson
of Tennessee 12/95.
{Ed Note: In family notes I have seen James Fulkerson's origins variously given as German, Dutch or Flemish. This is compatible with the above because the Flemish were German-speaking people who lived in Holland}
Ancestors prior to James Fulkerson have been assembled from several different sources, which are not consistent in all points. Following in the most logical synthesis I have derived.. Our ancestors are indicated in bold print.
Fulkerson ancestors prior to James Fulkerson are found under several different surnames. Part of this results from the practice of adding "son" to the first name of one's father and using that as one's surname, e.g. James, the son of Fulker Swenson would be known as James Fulkerson. ANother complicating factor is that spelling was somewhat casual, in those days, e.g. James fulkerson's name is spelled Fulkerson, Fulkason, Fulkison, Fulkinson,etc. In the following narrative, alternative spellings are shown in
[ ]'s.
Dirck came to New Amsterdam (manhattan) and married Christine Vinge, prior to 1632. Christine came from Valenciennes, France to New Amsterdam with her mother Adrienne Cuveliar {Cerveille} Vinge, and father Guillaume
(Julien) Vinge, in 1613 or 1614. Her sister Jan, was the first European child born in New Amsterdam. On April 30, 1632, Dirck went to court with his mother-in-law to help settle Julien's estate. Adrienne died in New Amsterdam in 1655.
Dirck and Christine had eight children : Greetje, Magdalena, Rachel, Volkert,Jacob, Adriantje, Jannetje, and Sara. Dirck obtained a patent of land in 1645 in what is now the 17th Ward in Brooklyn. He was actively engaged in acquisition of land, construction of buildings, and boat building. He obtained small burger rights at New Amsterdam in 1657, and in 1663 was a member of the Bushwick militia. Christine died about 1670 and Dirck died about 1680. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------
Volkert Dircks {Dirckson, Derekse} was born November 15, 1643. He married Annetje Phillips, daughter of Phillip Langelan who emigrated in 1659. They had nine children born between 1667 an 1683: Dirck, Neeltje, Philip, Nicholas, Grietje, Sara, Lydia, Machteld and Rachel. He moved his family to Somerset, New Jersey in 1699. Volkert died about 1701 and Annetje about 1718. ______________________________________________________________
Dirck {Derrick } Folkertson {Volkerson, Folkerts, Volkers} was born in 1667. He was married three times, the first time in 1691. His first wife, Maria De WItt, was the mother of three children including our ancestor, Folkert. Folkert's brother and sister were Peter and Annetje.
Maria was the daughter of Peter De Witt and Sarah Alberis.
Dirck married his second wife in 1705 sugggesting that Maria may have died giving birth to Annetje. He married his third wife, Geertje, prior to 1724. They had three children.
Dirck's will was probated in Somerset County, New Jersey in 1754 and indicated that he and Geertje were quite wealthy. The will names all of his children and grandchildren. ______________________________________________________________
Fulkert Derrickson was born in 1692. He married Dinah Van Liew {Lieu}. They had ten children between 1718 and 1739: Derrick (Dirck), Frederick, Mary, Volkert, Dinah, Peter John(Johannis), Deborah, James(Jacobus), and Abram.
Richard was killed by Indians in Virginia subsequent to his fighting at the King's Mountain battle. Peter was killed by Indians at Chillicothe, Ohio. He could have escaped but remained to recue his wife and child and was consequently tortured and burned. Abram and James settled in Scott and Washington Counties, Virginia, where they both became prominent citizens and fought in the Revolutionary War. ______________________________________________________________
James Fulkerson{Folkertson} was born June 22, 1737 and married seventeen - year- old Mary Van Hook in 1764 in North Carolina (the boundary line between North Carolina and Virginia was in dispute at this time and Tennessee didn't exist}. They settled in Washington County, Virginia and were the parents of twelve children: Peter, Dinah, Jacob, Hannah, James, Johm, Isaac, Frederick, mary (Polly), Caty, Thomas and Abram (the youngest). Jacob was killed by the Indians when he was 25.
Hannah married Benjamin Sharp whose sister Mary, married another of our ancestors, Arthur Galbraith.
James was a Captain in the militia during the Revolutionary War, serving at one of the most important battles at King's Mountain, South Carolina. He was a prominent figure in Southwest Virginia and is mentioned often in the Annals of Southwest Virginia. He was a Justice in Washington County (As was his grandson). His house was located near the southeast corner of Burson's Corner in Washington County, Virginia. He died in 1798 and is buried next to his wife on a small, wooded knoll several hundred yards
east of Burson's Corner, Virginia.
James and Mary's family bible is in the Historical Society in Abingdon, Virginia. _____________________________________________________________
Abram Fulkerson was born in 1789 in Washington County. He served in the War of 1812 as Captain of 105th Regiment from 1812-1815. In November of 1815, he married Margaret Laughlin Vance, daughter of another Revolutionary War veteran, Samuel Vance and Margaret Laughlin. THey had nine children between 1816 and 1836: James Lion, Margaret L., Mary Van Hook,Samuel Vance, Frances Marion, Hariet Jane, Isaac, Catherine E., and Abram. Many of Margaret's letters are in the Historical Society in Abingdon, as is their family bible.
Abram died in Washington County in 1859 with the rank of Colonel in the Virginia Militia. Margaret died in 1864 in Kirksville, Illinois. The couple is buried side-by-side in Sinking Spring Cemetery in Abingdon.
Their family bible is also in the Washington County Historical Society. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Their son, James Lion Fulkerson, was born in 1816 in Washington County.
James moved to Tennessee in 1835 and married Alice Gale Armstrong in Rogersville in 1838 . They had three children: Margaret Virginia, Arthur Armstrong, and James Vance. James died in 1849, while his wife was pregnant with James Vance, and was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in downtown Rogersville.
Alice married Frederick Heiskell four years later and moved to Fruit Hill near Knoxville. Alice's son Arthur , was a Sargent Major for thr 19th Tennessee Regiment in the Civil War and was killed at the Battle of Franklin at age 19. Acile died at Fruit Hill at the age of 86.
____from Jack Fulkerson
per Sue Reed GPHB 28A 9/14/94 :
book "Col. Geo. Steuart..." by Rob't Stewart that was printed in 1907 in Lahore, India at the Lancaster Co., Pa. Historical Society Library in Lancaster, Pa.
It was printed at the "Civil and Military Gazette" Press. He starts out referring to Guillaume as "Jean" but at some point did a "Addenda et Corrigenda" that was inserted. Sue Reed continues saying of the portion of the book she copied, only one paragraph had to do with Christina "who according to Lamb [footnote: Lamb's History of New York, Vol I, pp. 286, 287] married Dirck Volakersten, is called by her brother, in his will, 'my deceased sister Cristina Dorkson'.
she continues with Maria Vigne who married Abraham Verplanck resided "where Fulton St. crosses Pearl St." Jean Vigne resided for awhile at 225 to 213 Pearl St. And Rachel Vigne's husband had a house at 35 Pearl St.
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Abt 1595 - Abt 1680 (85 years)