Person:Alexander Boyer (3)

About Alexander Boyer

• O'CALLAGHAN, E.B. The Register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674. Albany, NY: E. B. O'Callaghan, 1865. Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1995, 1996, 1998. Page 49

In 1647, Alexander Boyer arrives in New Netherland.

1648 - Fort Nassau, Delaware - aka Fort Nassau (South River).

• See The Swedish American Genealogist (1998) ISSN 0275-9314,
• New Sweden Settlers, 1638-1664, Part 6 (1654, continued), p. 140

Alexander Boyer, also called Sander Boyer, served as the Dutch Quartermaster at Fort Nassau (South River) from 1646 until transferred to Fort Casimir in 1651.

• (citing Gehring, 1:3, 6, 12-16, 19-20, 272, 361-362)

In May 1654, Rising reported that Sander Boyer was considered a "malicious and hateful man," but, since he had a Swedish wife, he was allowed to stay at Fort Trinity.

• (citing Rising's Journal, 161, 167.)

Sander Boyer made purchases from the company store from 6 July 1654 to 10 November 1654 and sold his tobacco crop to the store on 18 May 1655.

• (citing Jungh, 81;Von Elswick, 134.)

He then returned to Manhattan where his two sons, Samuel and Peter, were baptized 1 December 1655.

• (citing Baptisms, NewYork Dutch Church, 40).

By the end of that month he had returned to Fort Casimir, where he remained. Stuyvesant granted him a lot near the fort in 1656 and he was still living 18 February 1661, when he sought restitution of land sold to Jacob Alrichs, deceased, which had not been paid for.

• (Citing several references in Gehring and in the NYHM and in the Register of Solomon Lachaire, 11, 26-27) B :"Boyer was survived by one known son, Jan (John) Boyer, and one known daughter, Joseyn.
• (Citing NCR, 1:247, 398, 480, 2:71.)

In 1648 Boyer wrote a letter to the Dutch governor complaining about the cruelty of the Swedish governor. On July 31, 1649 there was a power of Attorney from Alexaner Boyer to Samuel Willemson.

In 1649 Boyer assisted n making a land treaty with the Indians with a group of Dutch and Swedes from current New Castle, Delaware.

On March 16, 1651 a copy of Alexander Boyer in favor of Susanna de Troy (for a court case?). Alexander Boyer sometimes acted as an interpreter for the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam for he spoke Native American Languages.

Alexander Boyer aka Sander Boyer was the quartermaster at Fort Nassau in the Delaware from 1646, then transferred to Fort Casimir in the Delaware in 1651. He had a Swedish wife and a daughter Josyntje and a son Jan. With wife Elisabeth Jans, he baptized two more children, Pieter and Samuel, in Manhattan on 1 December 1655.

On 30 November 1656, Peter Stuyvesant signed a grant to Alexander Boyer for about 24 morgens of land along the river north of Fort Casimir. William Sempill also owned land here, "between the first and second Valley on the South End of Frans Smith's, wide along the River side from the corner of the valley to the afsd Frans Smith's ...herein measured two inlets of valleys" (etc). [Duke of York Record p. 6].

Sander Boyer must have sold some land to Jacob Alrichs, who served as a vice director at New Amstel between 8 May 1657 and 30 Dec 1659, when he died there. On 18 February 1661, Sander Boyer sought restitution of land sold to Jacob Alrichs, deceased, which had not been paid for. Evidence for this case shound appear somehere in Delaware Papers,Dutch, and in the NYHM: Register of Solomon Lachaire, 11, 26-27.

Page 11 has the notice from Boeyer to van Gesel as you describe above. The land involved seems to be "the twelfth part of Tinnakongs Island"; also mentioned is "another bill of sale of Paetsek".

CDNY vol 11, pp 48-49 has the Indian deed to Simon Root, Alexander Boyer, and others to land "extending from Ramkokus Kil to a kil on the south end of Tinnekonck Island."

1.   Fort Nassau (South River), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2.   Peter Stuyvesant, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
3.   Fort Casimir, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
4.   Craig, Peter Stebbins. 1671 census of the Delaware. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, c1999)
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   The Soldiers’ Tract
   
   West of Christina, on the north side of Christina Creek, extending westward to Anders the Finn’s Creek was a tract of land patented 1 Oct 1669 to four English soldiers, Robert Scott, John Marshall, John Cousins and Jan Boyer. By 1671 nothing had been done to develop the property. All four owners were bachelors, living at the fort in New Castle or nearby. Jan Boyer was the son of Alexander (Sander) Boyer, one of the original residents of Fort Casimir (New Castle), and his Swedish wife. Jan Boyer later acquired a lot on the Strand in New Castle, which was sold by his three daughters, Elisabeth, Catharina and Helena and their husbands on 20 Jun 1708. John Marshall soon married Jan Boyer’s sister Josyn, but had died by 1675 when Josyn, the widow of John Marshall, and the other three men sold the tract to Justa Andersson (see #83). Robert Scott left Delaware with John Carr and was a resident of Calvert County when granted head rights in 1673. John Cousins also went to Maryland with Captain John Carr in 1673.