Cornelius Van Steenwyk
Cornelius Van Steenwyk (auch Cornelis Jacobsz Steenwijck; * 16. März 1626 in Haarlem, Republik der Sieben Vereinigten Provinzen; † 21. November 1684 in New York City, Provinz New York) war zwischen 1668 und 1684 zwei Mal Bürgermeister von New York City.
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Cornelius Van Steenwyk wurde als Cornelis Jacobsz Steenwijck geboren. Sein Name wird manchmal auch als Cornelis Steenwijck, Cornelius Steenwyk, oder Van Steenwy angegeben. Die Quellenlage über ihn ist nicht sehr ergiebig. Er war holländischer Händler in der Provinz und der Stadt New York. Dabei war er einer der reichsten Männer in diesem Gebiet. Zwischen 1668 und 1671 und nochmals von 1682 bis 1684 bekleidete er, obwohl Holländer, das Amt des Bürgermeisters von New York City. Zwischenzeitlich war er im Jahr 1676 auch formal Gouverneur der holländischen Kolonie Acadia. De facto war das Gebiet im Norden von Maine nicht in holländischer Hand und Steenwyk konnte nur einen theoretischen Anspruch auf das Gouverneursamt erheben. Im Jahr 1678 wurde mit dem Frieden von Nimwegen auch der theoretische holländische Anspruch auf das Gebiet aufgegeben.
| Vorgänger | Amt | Nachfolger |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Willett | Bürgermeister von New York City 1668–1671 | Thomas Delavall |
| William Dyre | Bürgermeister von New York City 1682–1684 | Gabriel Minvielle |
| Personendaten | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steenwyk, Cornelius Van |
| ALTERNATIVNAMEN | Steenwijck, Cornelis Jacobsz |
| KURZBESCHREIBUNG | Bürgermeister von New York City |
| GEBURTSDATUM | 16. März 1626 |
| GEBURTSORT | Haarlem, Niederland |
| STERBEDATUM | 21. November 1684 |
| STERBEORT | New York City |
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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
Subjects: Cornelius Van Steenwyk
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e of the district known as The Betuwe, which skirts the south bank of the Rhine below Arnhem, and who was himself, at the period of our survey, one of the city magistrates or schepens, of New Amsterdam, and was a merchant or trader who seems to have been associated in business with his wifes step-father, Cornells de Potter, a merchant of note in the town. Looking a mile or so up the East River from his windows upon the water-side, Johannes Nevius could see the dwelling-house and the pastures and grain-fields of his father-in-laws farm just where the Breucklyn Road came down the hill at the present Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Here De Potter had purchased, as early as 1652, from Cornells Dircksen, the old ferryman, and from one or two 1 For sketch by Mr. D. T. Valentine, giving many curious particulars of Cornelis van Steenwyck, see Man. N. Y. Com. Council for 1864, p. 648. In 1654 Nevius and Cornelis de Potter were sued as being jointly indebted for the construction of a vessel called the New Love.
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Portrait of Cornelis van Steenwyck THE TOWN CLERK NEVIUS 49 other owners, the ferry property with sixty or seventy acres of land lying north of Fulton Street; and with the curious appurtenance of thirty-five goats and a half on Jan Marrisfarm at Gravesend, — evidently a share or interest in a herdkept there. He does not seem to have managed the ferry inperson, but leased it to others. Ariaentje Bleyck, the wife of Johannes Nevius and step-daughter of Cornelis de Potter, appears by her marriagerecord in the Dutch Church on Nov. 18, 1653, to have beena native of, or at any rate to have resided at, Batavia, in the island of Java. It was there, in all probability, that her mother, Swantje Janse, married Cornelis de Potter (who was doubtless a widower at the time), since his own daughter Elizabeth, who in the same year of the marriage of her step-sister was united in matrimony to Isaac Bedlo, afterwards a man of note in New Amsterdam, appears likewise in the marriage record as from Batavia. Joha
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