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12 Poughkeepsie Journal Magazine Tuesday, June 7, 1963 Van Kleeck, Buys among county's earliest settlers By Barbara Smith Buys Special to tb Journal The name Van Kleeck is well known in Poughkeepsie because Ballus Barentse Van Kleeck and his wife, Trynlje (Catherine in English) were among the first settlers and the family line has been a continuing one in Poughkeepsie up to the present. Forgotten is another pioneer who settled Poughkeepsie at the same time Jan (John in English) Buys who went on to become one of the earliest settlers of Fishkill Probably his removal to Fishkill after only a few years in Poughkeepsie caused his name to be forgotten. Jan Jans Buys and Tryntje Jans Buys (wife of Baltus Barentse Van Kleeck) were brother and sister Both were children of Jan Cornells Buys. It was a common thing for family groups to settle areas togcth er in the early days of our country to aid each other in enduring the hardships of colonization in wilderness areas and that is what Dutchess County was when Jan Buys came down from Albany and the Van Kleecks came up from Bergen, N. to settle in Poughkeepsie.

Jan had just been routed from Schenectady where he had been living He was married to Elizabeth De Groot. daughter of Simon De Groot. an early settler of Schenectady. The baptism of their son, Johannes, is recorded in 1685 in the Albany Dutch Reformed Church. In 1690 there was a massacre "committed by the French of Canida and there Indians at Skinnechtady twenty miles to ye westward of Albany between Saturday and Sunday ye 9th day of February Symon.

Abraham, Phillip. Dyreck and Claes Groot, son of Simon Groot, were taken prisoners and carried off to Canada as were many others who were not killed. Simon Groot and Jan Baltus BarenU Van Kleeck, one of area's earliest settlers Buys escaped to Albany where their names appear on the list of refugees receiving stockings and yard goods. This experience of Jan and the experience of his father, Jan Cornells Buys who was himself a refugee from the Indian Massacre of 1660 in Hack ensack, N. must have made the Idea of moving down river to a safer area very appealing.

Jan Cornells (who was born in Amsterdam. Holland, about 1629), emigrated to America about 1648 where he joined his mother's brother. Jan Jansen Damen. in New York City. The uncle's will, written in Dutch and dated Dec 12, 1649, names his own brothers and sisters including Hendrickje Jans, deceased, mother of Jan Cornells and also names nephew Jan Cornells who was living with him.

He mentions, too, a bequest to the "poor of Bunick in the Diocese of Utrecht," probably the place of origin of his family. And so. Jan and Elizabeth Buys came to Poughkeepsie. A mortgage dated June 15, 1691, given by Myn dert Harmense (VanDenBogart), of Albany, gunstocker, to Abraham De Peyster of New York City, merchant, gives as security for the loan property called Menissing and Pockhaps ing "held now or late in partnership between Myndert Harmense (VanDenBogart) and Robert Sanders of Albany; it is now tir late in the possession of Baltus Barentse (Van Kleeck); Hendrick Oostrand (Os trander), Jan Oostrom, Jan Buys and Symon Schoute, as tenants on part of the premises." Incidentally, Baltus Barentse Van Kleeck's sister, Elsie Barentse. was the wife of Robert Sanders, the patentee mentioned.

A deed filed in Dutchess County and dated in 1709 speaks of "a lot formerly in the possession of Jan Buys, to run from the (Hudson) River to the land of Baltus Van Kleeck." Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, well known local historian and genealogist, identified this property as south of Main Street and west of Academy Street. Jan Buys must have moved to Fishkill before 1709. We know by the partition made in 1708 of the Rom bout Patent that Catharyna Rom bout Brett (Madam Brett whose historic home still remains as a historic site in Beacon) had received as her father's third of the patent the valley of the Fishkill Creek and the area of the present City of Beacon. In 1713, she and her husband, Roger Brett, needing funds to develop their land, gave a mortgage to George Clarke, secretary of the Province of New York excepting, however, property specified and de The Van Kleeck House In Poughkeepsie. The house was built in 1702 and demolished in ISM.

sc ribed for tbemsel ves a nd a of specific acreage then in th possession of Thomas Brasier, Peter Du Bois, Casper Prince, Jurrie Spring stead. Johannes Ter B8ss and Jan Buys. We have, through this mortgage, the names of the earliest settlers (barring possible squatters) on Madam Brett's property. The evidence is that Johannes Ter Boss was there as early as 1695. Jan Buys was in the Fishkills by 1708 if not before.

Jan's son, Abraham, is a candidate of honor of being the "first while child born in Dutchess County" (See Clifford M. Buck's article in the 1969 Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society). His marriage to Rachel Ter Boss is recorded in the Kingston Dutch Reformed Church thus: "Abraha, Buys, j.m. (means unmarried male), b. in Pakeepsy (Poughkeepsie) and Rachel Ter Boss, j.d.

(means unmarried female) born in the Vis Kill (Fishkill). 22 Sept. 1713. Banns registered 9 August." Rachel's baptism is recorded in the Kingston Dutch Church Sept. 8, 1695, daughter of Johannes Ter Boss and Lysbet (Elizabeth) Hendricks.

Presumably, if the normal pattern were followed, Abraham would have been several years older than Rachel. There is an entry for "Abraham" with father "Johannes Ter Bosch, bapt. 8 Nov. 1691" in the Kingston Dutch Church. However, this is probably an error since there is recorded the baptism Sept.

27, 1691. of Jan, son of Johannes Ter Bosch and Lysbeth Hendnckse and the timing would be "off" for him to have two children (particularly with the Dutch being quite careful to have children baptized soon after birth) baptized within that close a period of time. Since the entries were made by visiting clergy, it is thought this might actually be the birth of Abraham, son of Jan (or Johannes) Buys. At any rate, in the census of 1714, we find nine names in the Fishkill Beadon area, including Jan Buys. Abraham Buys and Johannes Ter Boss.

Of course, Jan had other sons and daughters who appear in records, but we are concerning ourselves with only one direct line from Jan. Jan Buys, settler of Poughkeepsie and Fishkill, apparently died about 1728 because his name disappears from the Rombout tax lists after that year. Abraham is on the tax lists for Rombout for the last time in 1742. His son, Johannes, married Sarah de Baen (French Huguenot and Dutch ancestry) of New Jersey and moved the family back to Poughkeepsie, probably in the 1750s. Johannes's son, Hendrick Buys, served in the French and Indian War in Capt.

Peter Harris's company and is listed on the muster roll of May 1, 1760. A receipt for a payment made to him for his services in this war appears in the Billeting Book of the archival collection of Adriance. Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. The gun he used in this war wa passed down in his family to son Hendrick, grandson Ezekiet, great grandson, Charles, and great great grandson Raymond Buys, brother of Charles V. Buys, who was the father of Douglas C.

Buys, husband of the writer. Subsequently, as did many who were in the French and Indian War, Hendrick also served in the American Revolution as a member of Capt. Ezekiel Cooper's Rangers. This unit worked during 1777 and 1778 for the Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York, rounding up Tory sympathizers. Tories and military delinquents.

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