Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: appeared in the burning of his parsonage. But as they at once proceeded to rebuild, and began to beget and die, the register now goes back, nearly entire, to the year 1691. And now we come to the first Vedder. Harmon Albertse Vedder was born in 1637 or before; died 1715 about. He could not well have registered his birth before Schenectady was built; that was done doubtless in Holland, and about the time of his death he may have become careless. But the main thing is — he married ; and the marriage was duly registered. He married, and then the begetting began, and he begat Harmanus — Arent — Albert — Johannes — Corset — Here I must interrupt the flow of my narrative and advise the reader to skip, for this which immediately follows can only be interesting to those interested in such things. I will try not to interrupt myself again. THE VEDDER GENEALOGY I should like to linger a little over this Harmon Albertse. He must have been a very live man indeed, and seemed to get about pretty well considering the means of locomotion then at his disposal. Observe his chronology : — 1657. Trader at Bevernwyck; sold house and lot to Rutger Jacobson for 2325 guilders. Pretty good. 1660. Returned to Holland. 1661. As agent of Dirk de Wolf set up as alt-kettle on Coney Island. The inhabitants of Gravesend ousted him, — I dare say a most outrageous proceeding. 1663. Leased his Brewery to Simon Groot for six years at 500 guilders. 1664. Harmon Vedder, William Teller, and Sander Leendertse Glen petitioned Stuyvesant to have their land surveyed. Doubtless he married this Glen's daughter. 1667. Lived in Albany, in a house belonging to Dirk de Wolf of Amsterdam. This Dirk having returned to Holland, his house was confiscated by Governor Nicolls. I have always thought the house ...