Lt Hendrick Jochemes Schoonmaker

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  • Henderick Jochensen Schoonmaker , founder of the Schoonmaker family in America, was a native of Hamburg, Germany.  He came to this country from Holland as a lieutenant in the military service of the Dutch East India Company in 1654.  He was sent with his company to Fort Orange (Albany), where he later became an inn keeper.  In 1659 he was sent with his company on order of Governor Stuyvesant to the Esopus (Kingston) to assist the settlers there in defending themselves against the Indias.  Hew was so attracted by the beautiful lands in the Esopus country that on his return to Fort Orange he sold his property there and located among the people he had been sent to defend.  He married at Fort Orange, Elsie, daughter of Jan Janse Breested.  He died in 1681.  He left five children, of whome the eldest, Jochem Hendrick, married Petronella Seleght in 1679.  After her death he married Ann Hussey.  He was one of the pioneer settlers in the town of Rochester and was one of the three trustees to whom a patent was granted in 1703.  He died in 1713.

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¹ History of New Paltz, New York and its old families (from 1678 to 1820) : including the Huguenot pioneers and others who settled new Paltz previous to the revolution : with an appendix bringing down the history of certain families and some other matter to 1850

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