Person:Gerrit Lansing (1)

Notes on the Death of Gerrit Frederickse Lansing

• Death = bef 1653 in Albany, New York.
  • Source: In 1653 in Albany, New York, Borchard van Hattum and Meijndert Henrickx were appointed as guardians for Gerrit and Elizabeth's children. ²
  • Status: more research needed - locate and add primary documentation.

• Death = 3 Oct 1679 in Hasselt, Netherlands.
  • Source: unknown, but it appears in many published (online) genealogies.
  • Status: DISPROVED. Gerrit is deceased before 4 Jun 1678 when his widow Elizabeth and her new husband make a will in Albany, New York. ³

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Gerrit Frederickse Lansing, in New York State Museum - The People of Colonial Albany.

   Gerrit Frederickse Lansing (by Stefan Bielinski, first posted: 12/25/03.)
   
   Gerrit Frederickse was the father of the Lansing family - the most numerous family group to live in early Albany. He may have been born in Hassel, the Netherlands about 1610. His wife was Elizabeth Hendrix - the mother of six Lansing children. All of their children were born prior to thier move to America. He may have come to New Netherland about 1640 and then returned to Holland. Or he may have lived out his days in America. He was identified as a baker - an enterprise that stayed with the family through subsequent generations! Although sometimes confused with his son and namesake, Gerrit Frederickse was dead by October 1679. At that time, he was identified as "deceased" and "in his lifetime," a "burgher of Hassell." His widow had remarried and was living in Albany. A more specific senario fixes his death during the 1650s. Through ten generations before 1800, his descendants constituted the largest early Albany family!

2. ↑ POSSIBLE Research Leads in 2001 post, in Rootsweb.
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   "Early Records of Albany", Volume 3 (Notarial Papers), pages 450-451.
   
   After Gerrit's death Elizabeth Hendricks married Wouter van den Uythof.
   At 5 o'clock in the afternoon on 4 Jun 1678 this couple met with Adriaen van Ilpendam, Notary Public, in Albany to make a joint will. Wouter was identified as a "baker in Albany", and Elizabeth was noted as "virtuous" and "sickly". Wouter and Elizabeth deposed that they had no children together but that the Testatrix has six children of a former marriage. The children are named -- probably in order of their birth -- with the surname LANSINGH:
   Aeltie
   Gysbertie
   Gerrit
   Heyndrick
   Johannes
   Hilletie