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See also:KNICKERBOCKER, HARMEN See also:JANSEN (c. 1650-c. 1720) , Dutch colonist of New Netherland (New See also:York), was a native of Wyhe (Wie), Overyssel, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland. Before 1683 he settled near what is now See also:Albany, New York, and there in 1704 he bought through Harme Gansevoort one-See also:fourth of the See also:land in Dutchess See also:county near Red See also:Hook, which had been patented in 1688 to See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Schuyler, who in 1722 deeded seven (of thirteen) lots in the upper fourth of his patent to the seven See also:children of Knickerbocker. The eldest of these children, Johannes Harmensen, received from the See also:common See also:council of the See also:city of Albany a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of 50 acres of meadow and ro acres of upland on the See also:south See also:side of Schaghticoke See also:Creek. This Schaghticoke See also:estate was held by Johannes
Harmensen's son Johannes (1723—1802), a See also:colonel in the See also:Continental See also:Army in the See also:War of See also:Independence, and by his son Harmen (1779-1855), a lawyer, a Federalist representative in See also:Congress in 1809—1811, a member of the New York See also:Assembly in 1816, and a famous See also:gentleman of the old school, who for his courtly hospitality in his See also:manor was called " the See also:prince of Schaghticoke " and whose name was borrowed by See also:Washington See also:Irving for use in his (Diedrich) Knickerbocker's See also:History of New York (18o9). Largely owing to this See also:book, the name " Knickerbockers " has passed into current use as a designation of the See also:early Dutch settlers in New York and their descendants. The son of Johannes, See also:David Buel Knickerbacker (1833—1894), who returned to the earlier spelling of the See also:family name, graduated at Trinity See also:College in 1853 and at the See also:General Theological See also:Seminary in 1856, was a See also:rector for many years at Minneapolis, See also:Minnesota, and in 1883 was consecrated See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop of See also:Indiana.
See the See also:series of articles by W. B. See also:Van Alstyne on " The Knickerbocker Family," beginning in vol. See also:xxix., No. I (See also:Jan.. 1908) of the New York Genealogical and See also:Biographical See also:Record.
End of Article: KNICKERBOCKER, HARMEN JANSEN (c. 1650-c. 1720)
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