Joseph Waldron

Immigrant from Holland ~1654

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth		expect Holland
1st Marriage	expect ~1645		To Aeltie Hendricks (d. by May 1649; 2 children)
2nd Marriage	~ May 1649		Annetje Daniels
Death	1663	expect New Amsterdam (NY)
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 11        Generation 12
                                       +-- Unknown Waldron
                                       |
                  +-- Joseph Waldron --+
                  |   (????-1663)      |
                  |                    +-- Maria Goverts
 Daniel Waldron --+                    
 (1650-????)      |
                  +-- Annetje Daniels
                  
     
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Children

( 6 known children; division between 2 wives is unclear; birth order unknown )

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Sarah Waldron	F	1646	Amsterdam, Holland	1) 1662 m. Jan Gerritsen van Voorst 2) m. Laurens Jansen Colevelt
Daniel Waldron	M	1650	Amsterdam, Holland	m. 1673 Sarah Rutgers
John Waldron	M	~1661		none	died age 8, 23 Jan 1669
Mary Waldron
Anna Waldron
Deborah Waldron				none	died in infancy

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Harlem (City of New York), Its Origin and Early Annals, by James Riker, NY 1881, digitized by Google at: http://books.google.com/books?id=0m4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA555&lpg=PA555&dq=%22Resolved+Waldron%22+%22frederick+williams%22&source=web&ots=3b9rpKWmgu&sig=14dLsLW4Ibr21h9MHJucJ04cWL8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA554,M1 History of the family of Resolved Waldron, Pages 554-568 "Resolved Waldron,...was one of the most intelligent of the Harlem settlers...he had been in the printing business in Amsterdam and emigrated with his family to New Netherland, late in 1654. Received with his br. Joseph, and their w. to the fellowship of the chh. at New Amsterdam..." The main biography continues with the line of Resolved Waldron. Footnoted (Pg 554-556) is the biography of his brother Joseph Waldron: "Joseph Waldron, "living near the hoeck of Passenger Street" in Amsterdam on the eve of his second marriege, appeared before the orphan masters, May 12, 1649...and gave bond for maintenance of his two chn. by his late w. Aeltie Hendricks; ...one of these perhaps was left at Amsterdam with its gd-mo., Maria Goverts, since it is not named in our records here, ...and Waldron was wont to order part of his salary to be paid his said mo.; the last notice was on Aug. 30, 1661 being two months' wages, 48 florins. He was butler to the garrison, and had charge of the magazine of the company. Waldron d. in 1663. Just before his end, sending for a notary to draw up his will, he said "there would be nothing left - but if anything whould remain, it should not be touched, but go to pay the passage of his widow who intended to leave for Fatherland". ...It appear(s) that there were "six minor children, two of whom are by a former marriage", the orphan's court of New Amsterdam, Dec. 10 1663, at the desire of the wid. Annetie Daniels, appointed Resolved Waldron, "her husband's brother" and Hendrick Jansen vander Vin...as guardians of her surviving chn. It is uncertain whether she visited Holland, as she was m. here in 1668 to Harman Smeeman and again in 1682 to Coenraet Ten Eyck. Joseph Waldron's children known to us were Sarah, Daniel, Mary, Anna, Deborah and John. Deborah d. in inf., and John when not quite 8 yrs. old... Daniel Waldron, b. 1650 at Amsterdam, m. in 1673 Sarah Rutgers, dr. of Rutger Willemsen. He was a gun-stock maker, but while serving in the city guards against Leister, lost an eye and was otherwise badly hurt by the premature discharge of "a great gone" (sic), Mar. 19, 1691....Daniel Waldron and his son Joseph were admitted freemen Aug. 30, 1698, He had chn. Joseph b. 1674; Judith, b. 1675, m. Mr. Isaac Selover; Rutgers, b. 1677; Annetie b. 1681, m. Francis Buys and Isaac van Duersen; Sarah, b. 1683, m. Carsten Burger; John, b. 1685; Maria, b. 1686 m, Frederick Williams; Cornelia, b. 1688, m. Gerrit de Forest; and Catharine, b. 1689, m. Isaac Boelen. The last d. in her 83rd yr. in 1772, her srs. Sarah and Cornelia surviving her; and of the others, Judith lived to be 85, Annetie 84 and Mary 80. Their mo. d. Jan. 7, 1738, (in her) 95th year. Pg. 373 re. William Waldron, son of Resolved Waldron: "William Waldron, eldest son of Resolved, had learned the cooper's trade, and established himself in New York where he married the daughter of the wealthy Stoutenburgh, city treasurer, and now enjoyed the position of inspector of pipe-staves.
2	Harlem Commons Syndicate of New York, New York Times, various issues of 1880-1890, see link at right. This syndicate of Dutch landowners in New Amsterdam/New York fought to retain their land rights as the city apparently condemned land for the building of piers, and for the building of the Harlem River Ship Canal. In this regard the land acquisitions of Resolved Waldron mentioned in James Riker's "Harlem (City of New York)" are of interest. The Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood is mentioned as is the Round Meadow, in this neighborhood. See at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuyten_Duyvil_Creek "Spuyten Duyvil Creek channel connects the Hudson River to the Harlem River Ship Canal and the Harlem River in New York City, separating Manhattan from the Bronx mainland. The Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood lies north of the creek." Jane Stoughton, a 6th-great-granddaughter of Joseph Waldron, mentions in her will a faint hope of still being a beneficiary of the Syndicate. Jennie S. Stoughton, a 5th-great granddaughter of Joseph Waldron, says in her memoir, "The Early Days", printed 1927 by The Barber County Index' (Kansas), page 88: "When the French held the country around Detroit, they planted pear seed until there had been many fine trees of this same variety that an ancestor of my father, Peter Stuyvesant, and an early governor of New York had brought from Europe in 1668." (It is possible that Jennie S. Stoughton's family stories and tradition included Resolved Waldron, brother of Joseph Waldron and an associate of Peter Stuyvesant, and that the more famous Stuyvesant had erroneously been remembered as being the family ancestor. Or, perhaps Jennie Stoughton's statement is true, and both men are family connected. We have no evidence of such a Stuyvesant connection. For what is known of the relationship of Stuyvesant and Resolved Waldron, see below.) "Harlem (City of New York), Its Origin and Early Annals", by James Riker, NY 1881, digitized by Google, (see web link, Source #1, above.) Page 556: "The next year the directors in Holland would have made (Resolved) Waldron sheriff of the Dutch towns on Long Island but Stuyvessant wrote them, June 25, 1660: "Respecting the person, Resolved Waldron, we may be permitted to remark,that when appointed as a deputy to the fiscael, and as schout-by-nacht in this city, he conducted himself with so much fidelity and vigilance that he gave to us and the magistrates great satisfaction, so that his services, both as respects the Company and the fiscael can hardly be dispensed with, besides that he would not be so well fitted for the shrievalty of the said villages as he cannot well wield his pen; wherefore, till your futher orders on this point, we shall ask his continuance in that office." Stuyvesant was allowed to retain his favorite officer while his own rule lasted."	(Harlem Commons Syndicate)

Source notes

• From the book "Harlem (City of New York), Its Origin and Early Annals", by James Riker", it is unclear which of the two wives of Joseph Waldron was the mother of Daniel Waldron. Annetje Daniels' surname, in the Dutch usage of the time, translates as "daughter of Daniel", which then makes it likely that Daniel Waldron was her son and named for his grandfather. It is clear from this source that Joseph had already remarried before immigration. The biography re. Resolved Waldron says that he immigrated in 1654, and that he then with his brother Joseph and their wives were received into the New Amsterdam church. The implication is that Resolved & Joseph immigrated together, but the year of Joseph's immigration is not actually explicit.