Hendrick Jansen Oosteroom

Hendrick Jansen Oosteroom married Tryntje Lubberts Van Blarcom on December 4, 1652, in the Reformed Church in New Amsterdam. Tryntje and Hendrick had 3 children: Tryntje Hendricks (b. 16 Aug 1654, m. 15 Sep 1672 Arien [Adrian] Pietersen Buys), Jan Hendricksen (b. 24 Jun 1657, m. 19 Aug 1683 Mecheltje Roelofse), Jannetje Hendricks (m. 11 Aug 1678 Herman Eduwaerts, d. Jan 1679).¹

Hendrick was among those who received patents for land on Bergen Neck on 5 December 1654. That he was already living in New Jersey is shown by the fact that his eldest daughter, who was baptized 14 August 1654, was born in New Jersey according to her marriage record. The 1654 Dutch patent covered twenty-five morgens of land in the northern part of present Bayonne; the same property was granted by English patent dated 30 March 1675 to Hessel Wiggerse. It is apparent that Hendrick was living in New Jersey when the Indians forced all white persons living west of the Hudson and not killed or captured to retreat to New Amsterdam. Hendrick's second child was born in New Amsterdam in 1657, and his third in New Amersfoort [Flatlands] on Long Island about 1659.¹

Exactly when Hendrick and his family returned to New Jersey has not been ascertained. He seems not to have returned to his farm on Bergen Neck, but to have obtained land in the village of Bergen and at Hoboken. On 23 May 1666, banns having been published on 9 May, Hendrick married at Bergen Grietje [not Geesje] Jacobs, a widow. The ante-nuptial agreement, dated 11 June 1666, of "Hendrick Jansen Oosteroem, widower of Tryntien Lubbers, deceased, and now betrothed to Gretien Jacobsen" was entered in the Flatbush Town Records. It named Jan Aersen Vanderbylt and Gerrit Lubbersen as the guardians of Tryntien Lubbersen's three children, Tryntien Hendrickx, Jan Hendrickx, and Jannitien Hendrickx. The guardians were Tryntje Lubberts' step-father and one of her brothers.¹

¹Zabriskie, George Olin. The Van Blarcom Family of New Jersey. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 99, No.3. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. July 1968; 149.