General Notes

"Cornelis Maessen Van Buren an d Catalyntje Martensen"
"Cornelis Maessen Van Buren was born in Burmalsen, P rovence of
Guelderland, Holland, in, say, 1610, and died in Papsknee, New Yor k, in
1648. His name was variously spelled Bruyen, Burjmalsen, Buurmalsen, or
Burren. Catalyntje Martensen was born in Guelderland, Holland, and died
in 1648. Both Cornelis and Catalyntje were buried on the same day on
their farm . They were married in Holland in 1635-1636. She took the name Catalyntje Van B uren. They had five children:

i. Hendrick Cornelissen Van Buren: He was bor n at 2:00 a.m. on June 30,
1636, on board the ship Arms of Rensselaerwyck. He married Elizabeth Van Slyck. He was the great-great grandfather of President M artin Van Buren: Marten Cornelissen Van Buren, father of Pieter Van Buren, fath er of Marten Van Buren, father of Abraham Van Buren (1737–1817), father of
(8 th U.S. Pres.) Martin Van Buren (1782–1862).
ii. Marten Cornelissen Van Buren: He was born in about 1640 in
Rensselaerwyck Colony, America, and died on Nov ember 13, 1703. He married Maritjie Quackenbosch in about 1662.
iii. Maas C ornelissen Van Buren: He was born in about 1643 in
Rensselaerwyck Colony, Ame rica, and died on November 27, 1704. He married Josine Janse Gardiner in 1682–3 .
iv. Christÿna Van Buren [#961]: She was born in Albany, New York, on May 19, 1644, and died in New York on November 26, 1729.
v. Tobias Van Buren: H e was born in about 1647. There are no records of
him marrying or having chil dren; therefore, he probably died before
adulthood.

The book, Van Buren Family, is the basis for the following.

Cornelis came to America in 1631 on the ship Endracht (Unity) from the
Province of Gelderland; specifically, a s mall place called Burmalsen near the town of Buren. Nothing is known of his par ents altho it is likely that his father's name was Maes.

In the translation of The Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, is found:

May 27,1631, a number of pe rsons, among whom was Cornelis Maesen van
Buyrmalsen, signed an agreement for three years to Killian van Rensselaer estates for services thereon—to be paid 1st year £60, 2nd year £70, 3rd year £80, and in hand £12 in advance. He was li sted among the passengers on ship d'Eendracht in July, 1631. Entries for suppli es furnished to Cornelis Maessen on August 16, 1634, show that he was still in the colony at that time. It appears that Cornelis returned to the Netherlands a fter his three years of indenture, married, conceived a child, and returned to Rensselaerwyck in 1636. A sworn affidavit by Jan Verbeeck and Cornelis Theuenis sen Bos on August 12, 1662, (14 years after Cornelis and Catalyntje died) state d that both were buried on the same day, leaving their five children under the guardianship of Bos and Theunix Direxsz (Van Vechten) of the Colony. Bos furthe r states that he came to this New Netherlands in 1636 in the ship Rensselaerwyc k in the service of Cornelis Maessen and that he served him six years; also tha t Hendrick Cornelisz Maessen was born on the ship and that the other children w ere born in New Netherlands.

In a letter from Kiliaen van Rensselaer to Jaco b Planck, his agent in the New Netherlands, he wrote: These two farmers, who ha ve been very helpful to me, viz., Cornelis Maessen and Symon Walrichs, you will give a fair choice of the men who are coming but in such a way that they do no t select all the best men, for others must have something, too. You will provid e them with as many animals as....."