Johannes Stryker

Johannes Stryker was the second of nine children born to Jan Pieterse Stryker and Margrietje Schenck.

In 1733 Johannes married Cornelia Vanderveer daughter of Domenicus Cornelius Vanderveer and Maria Van Noordwyck. Johannes and Cornelia had twelve children: Domenicus Stryker, Maria Stryker, Pieter Stryker, Margarita Stryker, Jacobus Stryker, Cornelius Stryker, Cornelia Stryker, Abraham Stryker, Isaac Stryker, Johannes Stryker, Sarah Stryker, and Younetche Stryker. ¹

Johannes settled about three-fourths of a mile from Harlingen, thirteen miles from New Brunswick, about half way between the Sourland Mountain and the Millstone River. He increased the share of land given him through the estate of his grandfather Pieter by the purchase of large tracts of land from Dollum Hegeman, March 26, 1750, and from Hendrick Van Dyck, December 22, 1757. ¹

Copies of several family records have been recently received by the Genealogical Society of New Jersey that shed light on the descendants of Johannes Stryker and Cornelia Vanderveer. These records were found among church pew receipts in a chimney closet. (Although the church is not specified, it is likely to have been the Dutch Reformed Church of Flatbush, Long Island, New York, where many of these family members resided.) 1784, Nov. 1. Inventory, made by Isaac Van Nuys and Daniel Polhameus. Lib. 27, p. 395.¹
Teunis G. Bergen, in his Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island New York refers to him as "Johannes of the Raritan, b. Feb. 12, 1707.¹

Johannes Stryker died in 1784 in Harlingen, Somerset, New Jersey.

¹Johannes Stryker. https://www.geni.com/people/Johannes-Stryker/5167084800450085920. Accessed 21 May. 2019.