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- Jacob Lendertsen Van der Grift (son of Lenerd) came to New Amsterdam from Amsterdam, Holland, with his brother Paulus about 1644. Both of the brothers were in the employ of the West India Company. Paulus was the skipper of the "Neptune" in 1645 and the "Great Gerrit" in 1646.
Jacob, a bottler, in the service of the West India Company on 11 Sept 1648 granted a power of attorney to Marten Martense Schoenmaker of Amsterdam, Holland, to collect from the West India Company such amounts of money that Jacob had earned atrocoa. He had been employed by that company on the ship "Swol" that plied between the island of Curocoa and New Amsterdam. The early records of New Amsterdam give a considerable account of the ship. It carried 22 guns and 76 men. In 1644 it was directed to proceed to New Amsterdam and on arriving, it was sold, it "being old."
On 19 July 1648 Jacob was married at New Amsterdam to Rebecca Fredericks, daughter of Frederick Lubbersten. The burgonmasters and schepens of New Amsterdam commissioned Jacob as a measurer of grain on 19 Feb 1657. To this appointment was aed instructions "that from now nowbody shall be allowed to measure for himself or have measured by anybody else that the sworn measurers any grain, lime, or other goods which re sold by the tun or schepel, or come here from elsewhere as cargoes and in wholesale, under penalty of L3 for first transgression, L6 for second and arbitrary correction for the third."
In 1656 he was made a small burgher of New Amsterdam. In 1662 he was a resident of Bergen, New Jersey, where he subscribed to the salary of a minister. In 1664 he and his wife were accepted as members of the church at Breukelen. That samer, while living under the jurisdiction of the village of Breukelen, Long Island, he applied to the council for letters of cessation with committimus to the court to relieve him from his creditors on his turning over his property in their behalf he being "burdened with a large family, and on account of misfortune befallen some years ago, not having been able for forge ahead, etc."
In 1665 he was living on the strand of the North River, New Amsterday, where he was assessed towards paying the expense of quartering 100 English soldiers on the Dutch burghers. On 3 Oct 1667 he received a patent from Gov Nicolls for land oe island of Manhattan, on the north side of Great Creek, which he sold to Isaac Bedloe in 1668. He probably removed at this date to Noordwyck, on the North River, where he purchased the land of his brother Paulus, who had returned to Amsterdam. In 1686 he appears as a resident of Newton, Long Island, where he probably died, though the date of his death has not been ascertained. His widow removed to Bensalem, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania with her children.
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