Person:Reynier Van Borkelo (1)

Born in Holland in 1659. Baptized DRC. 5 June, 1659. Witnesses: The Noble Squire Reiner Van Duithe names buth toe Mensinck, Jan Lubberdinck the Elder and Griete Mols. He was three years old when the family arrived in New Netherland in 1662.He removed from New Netherlands with his mother and Stepfather, Hans Hermense (who died 26 Oct. 1700) to Constaples Hook, New Jersey. From there He moved to Philadelphia Co. PA. where he married as his first wife, Mary Schumacher. Reyneir was a resident of Germantown in 1691 when he applied for naturalization and at some unknown date he too converted to the quaker faith. He moved to New Castle County, Delaware, and settled on Bombay Hook Island. He may have been interested in the Labadist movement as the island was adjacent to the settlement of this sect in Maryland, where his brother Harmen was as active member. Moreover, Bombay Hook was founded by Nicholas Bayard, a son of Nicholas & Ann Stuyvesant Bayard, who was a prominent Labadist, and received the Island as a grant from Gov. Andros in 1675. Four years later her purchased it from the Indians (Henry C. Conrad, Hist. of the State of Delaware, 1908, v.2, p. 613; Charles P. Mallery, And. Fams of Bohemia Manor, 1888, p. 48).

Patsy Roller says that Reynier moved to Bohemia Manor with the brothers Matthias and Isaac Van Bebber in Cecil County, Maryland in 1704.

In the will of REYNIER HARMENS VAN BURKLOE, he mentioned his wife Mary, six sons and four daughters and friend Daniel Pastorius. (Cal. of Del. Wills, Newcastle Co., 1682-1800, p. 18). Daniel Pastorius, executor of Reyneir's will was the leader of the group of families brought over from Holland and Germany in 1683 by William Penn and who were granted the original tract of land which is now Germantown (Penna. Mag. of Histor and Biog., vol.4, pp. 7-8, 22-23, 31 &40).

Reyneir is named both in the land request of 1681 and in the will of his mother and stepfather, probated in 1701, at which time he would have been forty-two years old. In THE VAN BARKELO FAMILY IN AMERICA, by Mrs. John M. Spell, THE RECORD, vol. 84, p.198. Oct. 1953, he is recorded as :Reynier Van Barkelo.

SOURCES: 1) The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vo. 115. No. 4. Oct 1984. 2) Microfiche records, Midland Co., Tx. Library. 3) A calender of Delaware Wills. New Castle Co. 1682-1800. Abstracted and compiled by the Historical Research Committee of the Colonial Dames of Delaware. 4) Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Co. 1969. 5) Patents and Deeds and other Early Records of New Jersey 1664-1703. Edited by William Nelson. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1776. 6) Kent Co. Delaware Wills and Administrations 1680-1800; An Index by Raymond B. Clark Jr., Box 32, St. Michaels, Md. 21663. Copyright 1985. 7) NyG&B Record Oct 1953. 8) NYG&B vol. 89 #4 Oct. 1958. 9) Vital Records of Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware 1684-1800 by F. Edward Wright. Family Line Publications. 1305 Collingwood Terrace Silver Spring, Maryland 20904. 1986. 10) Nancy Speers, Archivist, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. Compiled by Patsy Roller, P.O. Box 4582, Midland, Tx. 79704. More Sources: 1) Pioneer Families of Missouri St. Charles County by Bryan and Rose. 2) Microfiche records at Midland Co. Library. 3) copied from death records of Pioneer Missouri Women 1808 1849. Compiled by Lois Stanley, Geo. F. Wilson, and Maryhelen Wilson. Lois Stanley, 8740 Nashville Ave. St. Louis Mo. 63117. 4) Marriage Records of St. Charles Co., Mo. 1805-1844. Compiled by Lois Stanley, Maryhelen Wilson and Geo. F. Wilson. St. Louis, Mo. March 1, 1978. 5) Missouri Obituaries July 1872-1873- Dec. 1874. Abstracts of compiled and published weekley in the St. Louis Christian Advocate. V. ii. compiled and Publised by Mrs. Howard W. Woodruff, C.G.R.S. 1985. 6) 1860 Missouri Census. 7) Infoi provided by the St. Charles Genealogical Society from cemetery records, census records and marriage records. Colleen Heitmann Schaeper, librarian. 8) Info provided by Lorene Burkleo. 9) Info provided by Bently Fallis. 10) Info provided by Florence Van Burkleo. 11) Info provided by Odell Burkleo.

1. ↑ Doopboek 1651-1728 (R.B.S. 336).

   Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente GEESTEREN (Gld)
   Doopboek 1651-1728 (R.B.S. 336)
   05.06.1659 den 5 junius - Harmen Lubberdincks ende Willemkens soone REINT gedoopt
   Get. die weledele joncker Reinier van Duithe genaempt Buth tot Mensinck, Jan
   Lubberdinck die olde ende Grijte Mols