Sara Roelofs, daughter of Anneke Webber and Roeloff Jansen Van Maesterlandt was born in New Amsterdam, New York. She married Surgeon Hans Kierstede, lived on the present northeast corner of Pearl and Whitehall streets. She afterward married Cornelius Van Borsum, the owner of the ferry to Long Island, and subsequently Elbert Elbertsen. She was a great proficient in the Indian languages, and acted as interpreter between Stuyvesant and the Esopus and Wappingers, the Agh-in-sack, the Long Island, and the State Island Indians, when their treaty was made with Stuyvesant in the spring of 1664. The great session was held in the council chamber at Fort Amsterdam, where the various representative chiefs assembled. That was the last treaty of peace between the Hollanders and the Indians, and was signed under a salute from the guns of the Fort. [1]
I have recently been in contact with a descendent of the Kierstede family and have included her information on this site. Her name is Elaine Gould and she can be contacted at: Click here. Her line is:
The line begins with Dr. Hans Kierstede from Magdenburg, Germany, who married married Sara Roelofs June 29, 1642 in New Amsterdam, NY. Hans and Sarah had the following children that I know of though I'm sure there are more:
Roeloff Kierstede
Catherine Kierstede b: 1655 m: Johannes Kip
Jacobus Kierstede b: 1663 NY m: Ann Holmes in 1691 in Long Island, NY. Their line follows:
Samuel Kierstede m: Lydia Dey in 1718 in Port Richmond, Staten Island, NY
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Samuel Kierstede b: 1719 m: Mary Johnson in 1749 in New Jersey
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Mary Kierstede b: 1770 NY m: 1788 in New Brunswick, Canada to Aaron Delong b: 1757 in NY
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Catherine DeLong b: 1789 in New Amsterdam, NY m: 1813 in New Brunswick, Canada to Richard Perkins b: 1794 and they lived in Carlton, New Brunswick, Canada
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John Perkins b: 1824 m: in New Brunswick in 1847 to Frances Sharp b: 1828
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Howard R. Perkins
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Viva A. Perkins m: Johnson (this was Elaine's grandmother)
[1] From "Anneke Jans Bogardus and Her Farm" Harpers Monthly Magazine May 1885
This information comes from Elaine - Click here
From: Sept. 9, 1999 edition of Moncton Times & Transcript-Sandra Devlin
Posted on the New Brunswick discussion list
Kiersteads claim blue blood through House of Orange The Kierstead genealogy might be one of the Maritime's most intriguing and romantic. There is probably not a Kierstead who hasn't been told by his or her grandfather that the family descends from Dutch Royalty through the House of Orange and that matriarch Anneke Jans Webber, reportedly born in the King's Mansion in Holland in 1605, was widowed twice in New York.
Penniless, 40-year-old Anneke was left with eight dependent children under the age of 18 and eldest daughter Sarah Roeloffson Kierstede married to Dr. Jans Kierstede. Anneke quit her swampy farm in favour of Albany, little realizing that the abandoned 62-acres would become a part of the Kierstead legend. Today that long-ago farm, bounded on the west by the Hudson River and on the east by an irregular line between Broadway and West Broadway, is in the heart of New York City.
For more than 200 years, various descendants and representative groups launched lawsuit after lawsuit in vain attempts to lay claim to the plot which today encompasses the modern neighbourhoods of Greenwich Village, SoHo and Tibeca on Manhattan Island. Apparently the New York County clerk still receives occasional inquiries from alleged heirs. Some have paid large sums of money to so-called genealogists, who falsely represented that a documented pedigree is the key to unclaimed riches.
Thankfully for the Kierstead/Keirstead clan descended from United Empire Loyalists Samuel Kierstead and Mary Johnson, there are family historians with selfless motives. Don Keirstead of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, stopped by the Kings County Museum in Hampton this summer to leave printed versions and a database of a 1971 genealogy, information for which was gathered over several prior decades by late family researchers, Mrs. Martin Kierstead and Enoch Arden Markham. On computer, the search function helps make up for a lack of index in the scattered printed version, produced before software made organizing data easy. In Indiana, Glendon Kierstead has recently published his memoirs entitled High Mileage for My Model. Born in Plaster Rock, Glendon and his wife, the former Betty McBay of Argosy, have served in mission fields in southern Africa and in pastorates in Maine and Indiana. Drawing from his own experiences, his mother's diaries (nee: Gladys Rodney of Sandford, N.S.) and his grandfather's sermon's (Rev. Isaac Freeman Kierstead), Glendon has produced a warmhearted and readable 143-page paperback. Contact author: 1122 Normandale St., Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46808.
SEARCHING IN N.B. KIERSTEAD - Arthur T. Kierstead, born New Brunswick, Feb.27, 1876, son of William. Was Arthur related to Amos Kierstead and/or William B. Jennings who witnessed his naturalization in Boston, June 23, 1898? Also seek information about Arthur's parents, grandparents, siblings. Contact: Janet Wages, 3069 Keefe St., Eagan, Minnesota 55121; e-mail: click here
Don Keirstead, Chelmsford, Mass. USA click here
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