Notes for Pieter Van Stoutenburg: Stoutenburg means, Strong Castle
Pieter van Stoutenburg was very well educated and was a honorable gentleman. He was born in 1613 in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Holland. He came to Manhattan, perhaps the same time as Governor Stuyvesant on the 28 of March 1638. On the 16th of August, 1673, he was nominated as Magistrate or "Schepens" but did not get the job. However, Pieter van Stoutenburg was the treasurer of New Amsterdam, title being "Treasure of New Amsterdam" in 1676. It is said that he did so well at being the Treasurer that the British kept him as the city treasurer when they tookt he city. He also served on the Board of Deacons of the Dutch Reformed Church and was a officer of the Dutch Church School.
He was granted land in Manhattan by the Gov. Stuyvesant on the 7th of April 1664 and was backed by Gov. Richard Nichols on 23 Sept. 1667. He lived at Broadway ("Heere Str.") and Wall Streets which is now the heart of New York's finacial district. It is noted, whither it is true or not, that he had a tulip garden which was famous for that time. He also owned land near the "Lant Poort" on Broadway ("Heere Str."). He deeded some of his land to the heads of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church near Broadway which was very valueable land and then became the site of the Trinity Church in which Wynant van Zandt was one of the founders. In 1674 Pieter v. Stoutenburg and his family lived on Broadway right near the City Wall so, his house was taken down to strengthen the city defenses. His house was Number 5 on the Castello Plan 82e. His home was near the Great House Number 6. These two houses were known to be owned by Jan Vinje and hiers of Adriana Cuviller, window of Jan Jansen Damen.
Pieter then lived near his daughter and his son-in-law, Albertus Ringo on Heeren Gracht-Oost Syde which in dutch it means Broadway or Broad Street-East Side. Pieter is said to be burried where he last lived on Heeren Gracht-Oost Syde (The east side canal which went up in the heart of New Amsterdam).
In July of 1649 he married Aefie van Tienhoven in New Amsterdam and had 9 children, 6 of which lived into adulted hood?
Rumour has it that Willem, his farther, came with Pieter to the new country. Whither that is true or not is not known.
Block A on the Castello Plan for New Amsterdam 1660:
Number 18. Garden of the West India Compnay
later sub-divided:
William Van Vredenburgh May 22, 1674
Gerret Jansen Roos May 22, 1674
Peter Stoutenburgh May 22, 1674
George Cobbet May 22, 1674
The Lutheran Church May 22, 1674
More About Pieter Van Stoutenburg and Aefje Van Tienhoven: Marriage: July 25, 1649, New Amsterdam, New York.
Children of Pieter Van Stoutenburg and Aefje Van Tienhoven are:
+Tobias Stoutenburg, b. January 18, 1659/60, New York City, NY, d. January 15, 1715/16.
Pieter Van Stoutenburg (b. 1613, d. May 09, 1698)
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