The Jan Bastiansen and Yolanta (De la Mantagne) Kortryk Family

"Jan Bastiaensen lived in a bend of the Linge River near Wolswaert Castle ( pictured at left). Michiel (younger brother) lived in Prince's land near Schoonrewoerd, a village 2 miles north of Leerdam. Both married. Emigrated from Amsterdam 16 April 1663 on the ship De Bonte-Kow (The Brindled Cow), Jan Bergen, Master. From Leerdam with wife and four children, 19, 15, 12 and 6 years old. Also listed are Giel (Michiel) with wife and four children, 8, 9, 5 and 1 years old, and Jan Laurens from Ripjen (no family). Apparently part of the Huguenot emigration to the New World to settle patroonships up the Hudson River near present day Albany, NY. Patroonships were offered by the Dutch West India Company. Those who could settle 50 adult colonists outside the Manhattan (New Amsterdam) area were granted large land holdings called patroonships. Kiliane van Rennesselaerswyck, one of the Company Directors, was granted a tract of almost fifty square miles around present day Albany, NY. This was the destination of many from Schoonrewoerd. Jan may have been the Kortryck who owned a bouwery on Staten Island in 1674." (Written by John Abbot in 1922, a member of the Tioga County Historical Society).

Jan Bastiansen Van Kortryk married Yolanta De la Montagne about 1640 in Leerdam, South Holland. They had the following children born in Beest, Holland:

1645 Cornelis
1647 Hendrick, our ancestor
1651 Jansen
1659 Belittie

JAN BASTIANSEN VAN KORTRYK
BORN: 1618 in Leerdam, South Holland, Netherlands
MARRIED: abt 1640 in Leerdam
DIED: after 1677 in Staten Island, NY

YOLANTA DE LA MONTAGNE
BORN:  after 1618 in Kortriyk, W. Vlaanderen, South Holland, Netherlands
DIED: after 1663 in Cornwall, New York
SOURCES: !"History of Harlem" "The Courtright (Kortright) Family", John Abbot, 1922 Tioga County Historical Society records. Genealogy of Central New York, Vol 3, pp 1134-7; FROM Van KORTRYK TO COURTRIGHT: EARLY SETTLERS OF NEW AMSTERDAM [PROVEN], Griffiths, George R. ( George Raymond ) ;, Tempe, Arizona, USA: Published by Author; 1992;, Page number: p. 1; Source text: birth-name: Jan Bastiaensen  ( GENEALOGY: Records ) Bibliography: p. 41-42 Includes Courtright, Decker, Low, Bastiaensen, Van Kortryk, and other related families. Bastiaen ( or Sebastian ); Citation: FROM Van KORTRYK TO COURTRIGHT: EARLY SETTLERS OF NEW AMSTERDAM [PROVEN], Griffiths, George R. ( George Raymond ) ;, Tempe, Arizona, USA: Published by Author; 1992;, Page number: p. 2 FISCHE: 6, 125, 309 NS31543 NS31793 birth: 1618; Leerdam, Holland (South), Netherlands ( GENEALOGY: Records ) Bibliography: p. 41-42 Includes Courtright, Decker, Low, Bastiaensen, Van Kortryk, and other related families; Source text: Number of Children ( GENEALOGY ) Microfilm of typed manuscript at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in New York City. Includes index. Contains descendents of John Bastiannen Kortregt who came to New York from the Netherlands in 1663. Also include CALN Film: 0, 017, 140: Item # 5 NS26713 NS30433 AKA (Facts Pg( GENEALOGY ) Microfilm of typed manuscript at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in New York City.