Simon Volkertse Veeder was born in Holland in 1624, he was one of the original 15 Proprietors of Schenectady. He owned a farm on the great flat of the area, containing 51 acres and a lot on the north side of State Street where it joined with Ferry Street, Few settlers contributed more to the healthy and vigorous early settlement pof Schenectady than this proprietor, who died 8 January 1696 at about 72 years old. He descendants are numerous, all bearing the name and having the blood.
[from Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800 by Jonathan Pearson(1873). It is one of the standard works on early Schenectady genealogy.]
"Simon Volkerts Veeder, alias de Bakker, born in 1624, belonged to the ship Prince Maurice in
1644, which plied between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam; 1652 he bought a lot and settled in the
latter city; sold the same in 1654 for 30 beavers, removed to Beverwyck, and from thence to
Schenectady in 1662. He owned a bouwery on the Great flat numbered 9, containing 24 morgens,
and a village lot on the north corner of State and Ferry Streets. He also owned land on the
Normanskil."
[From Vreeland Y Leonard "The Genealogical Record of the Veeder Family - 1937]
The originator of the Veeder Family in America was employed by the East India Company as
a seaman on the ship 'Prince Maurice' which plied between Amsterdam and New Netherlands. He
settled in New Amsterdam in 1652. It appears that he soon moved to Fort Orange, where on
September 4 1654, he sold to 'Albert Gerritse', carpenter, a certain lot in Manathas, next to Adrian
Vincent, for thirty beavers. On July 18/28, 1665, he is mentioned as owning a lot in Albany, "North of
that of Johannes Provoost, who sells his lot to Jan Evertse." He was one of the original purchasers,
of the Schenectady Patent and on Feb 27, 1670/1, while living there, sells to Joris Arissen (Van der
Baast) his pasture land at Schenectady. He evidently moved back to Albany, for on November 27,
1673, Johannes De Wandalear leases him a house, having a large bake oven, in Willemstad (Albany)
for three years, beginning May 1, 1674 and ending May 1, 1677. In December 1675 "the Honorable
Commander (of Fort Orange) and the Commissaries resolve to double the Burger Guard and have
every night three sentries on guard, to wit: one at the Guard House on the hill, one near the cannon
at the church and one at the house of Symon, the baker, opposite Harmon Ganesvoort's where a
Corps de Garde shall be kept also." On March 5, 1678/9, he is listed as one of the persons "to keep
in repair the posts set around the town fence," distance one rod. On September 26, 1679, he had a
horse stolen from him by one Jacob, the negro of Sweer Teunise. On January 20, 1679/80, his wife,
Engelite, was cited before the Court for slander, where after a hearing, she made suitable apology on
the 22nd. On November 2, 1682, he exchanges "the first lot (called DeHoek) on which he dwells at
Schenectady, with Jacob Caspersz (Halenbeck) for house and lands on the Normanskil, who on June
26, 1683, sells to Symon his lands on the Normanskil, called Tawassouthaw". His will dated January
8, 1696/7 mentions his wife Engeltie, who was named executor, and the children as given below.
Personal property, lands in Schenectady and on the Normanskil called Tawassathaw, are
disposed of. The will was not proved until April 13, 1713 and on May 20, 1714 testamentary letters
were granted to his three sons, Gerrit, Johannes and Volkert, the fourth son, Pieter having died in
1709.
[From: Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers ...By Jonathan Pearson, p. 264]
[From: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op...3635&style=TABLE]
Veeder name: a manuscript in the New England Historical Genealogical Library suggests that there was once a family in France, whose name appears variously over several hundred years as Feder, Federe, and Feeder. Around 1629 two brothers, Foulque and Albert fled to Holland with their families. In Holland Foulque Feeder found his name given a Dutch spelling: Volkert Veeder. Albert found himself Albert Vedder. Foulque's son Simon Volkertse Veeder and Albert's son Harmen Albertse Vedder ended up neighbors in Schenectady, where they became patriarchs of the Veeder and Vedder families in America.
It is most likely that the Veeder and Vedder families were French Huguenot.
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