[From: Genealogy from a Dutch family Vedder/Veeder who came in 1652 from Amsterdam in The Netherlands to the state New York. ]
Harmen Albertse Vedder, trader, born circa 1630 in Amsterdam, died on 03-05-1715 in Schenectady NY, buried in Rotterdam Schenectady NY.Son of Albert Vedder (see also II.2).
Church marriage (1) circa 1660 to NN NN, born circa 1640, died 02-1673. Febr. 8 1673 Harmen paid the Reformed Church of Albany 12 guilders for a pall (casket) for his wife. Church marriage (2) circa 1674 to Annaatje Isaacse Provoost.
Married (3) to a Mohawk womanHarmen Albertse Vedder was the first settler of the name in the Mohawk Valley. He was a trader in Beverwyck before the year 1657. In 1660 he returned to Holland. In 1661, as agent for Dirk De Wolfe, merchant of Amsterdam, he erected a salt kettle on Coney Island, New York, which being claimed by the people of Gravesend he brought suit before the governor and council to make good his claim, and being beaten abandoned the enterprise. In 1663 he leased his "bouwery" at Schenectady to Simon Groot for six years. In 1668, being in Holland with other merchants from the province of New York, he purchased goods and chartered the ship "King Charles" and obtained permission from the King of England to send the ship and goods to New York. In 1667 he lived in Albany. In 1672 he bought land in Schenectady. In 1673 he was one of three magistrates for Schenectady. He did not show proper respect for the magistrates of Albany, and also pretended to have the right to trade with the Indians. For his presumption he was reprimanded and warned "to regulate himself accordingly". He purchased the village lot of the heirs of Reiner, son of dominee Schaets, of Albany, after his massacre by the Indians in 1690. He sold to Rutger Jacobsen his house and lot "gelegen in de doorpe Beverwyck, breet voor en achter ses en dertich voet, lanch vier en sestich voet en met aen ganch van vyfte voet end breet lanch tot aen kil welcke gansch is gelegen tusschen Goossen Gerritsen en den vercooper & c". This lot was on the south side of State Street, between Green and Pearl Streets, and extended back only to the Rutten kil, now arched over and used as a sewer. The price of this house and lot was 2,325 guilders. In 1660 he returned to Holland; 1661 as agent for Dirk De Wolfe, merchant of Amsterdam, he erected a salt kettle on Coney Island, which being claimed by the inhabitants of Gravesend, he brought a suit before the governor and council to make good his claim to it, and being beaten, abandoned the enterprise; 1663 leased his bouwery at Schenectady to Symon Groot for 6 ys., at 500 guilders rent; 1664 Harmen Vedder, William Teller and Sander Leendertse Glen petitioned Gov. Stuyvesant to have their lands surveyed at Schenectady; 1668 being in Holland with other merchants from the province of New York, he purchased goods and chartered the ship King Charles and petitioned the king of England for permission to send the same to New York, which was granted; 1667 he lived in Albany in a house belonging to Dirk De Wolfe of Amsterdam, who, having returned to Holland, Gov. Nicolls ordered the house and lot to be confiscated; 1672 he bought of Dirk Hesselingh de bouwery "(daer den voorschr. Dirk Hesselingh op woont op Schenechtede), soo het landt, also huys, schuer ende twee berghen, & c., soo als het de voornoemde Hesselingh van Jurriaen Teunissen gecocht heeft gehadt, & c.", to be delivered to Harmen Vedder the coming May 1, 1672, together with the seed in the ground; this bouwery, No. 8 on the bouwlandt, comprised 12 morgens and 130 rods of land and now forms the homestead of Col. D.D. Campbell of Rotterdam; 1672 Harmen Vedder and Barent Ryndertsen sold to Claese Janse Van Bookhoven and Ryck Claese Van Vranken "een sekere stuck landts geleeghen over de Rivier aen Canastagioene", consideration 550 skiples of wheat; 1673 he was appointed one of the three magistrates of Schenectady; 1674 was schout (mayor) of the village, and with the magistrates was reprimanded for not showing due respect for the magistrates of Willemstadt (Albany), and for pretending to the privilege of Indian trade; he was particularly complained of because of his conduct towards Capt. Schuyler and was warned "to regulate himself accordingly". His village lot on the north side of Union Street, was the same as occupied by the late Doct. Alexander G. Fonda, 51 ft. front and 404 ft. deep Amsterdam measure, extending to Front Street; be purchased it of the heirs of Reinier, son of dominee Schaets of Albany, after his massacre by the French and Indians in 1690. His son Johannes occupied it after his death, which probably took place about the year 1715, for on the 3d of May that year, Arent Vedder, his brother and sister petitioned the common council of Albany for the renewal of a release ("burnt at Schenectady when it was cut off") of a lot owned by their late father Harmen Vedder deceased, lying on the south side of the city of Albany.
The following information is from p. 196-199 of A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley by Jonathan Pearson, A.M. and others, edited by J.W. MacMurray, A.M., U.S.A. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883). It is in SCPL's Schenectady Collection at Schdy R 974.744 P36, and copies are also available for borrowing.
He was an early settler in New Netherland, residing mainly at Beverwyck, even after he had purchased a bouwery at Schenectady. As agent of Dirk De Wolfe, merchant of Amsterdam, in 1661, he erected a salt kettle on Coney Island, which was claimed by the inhabitants of Gravesend. Vedder and one Pieterse laid claim to the island, but in a suit brought before the Governor and Council, were beaten and probably abandoned their enterprise. After the Province passed into the possession of the English, De Wolfe returned to Holland; and in 1667 his house and lot in Albany, then occupied by Vedder, was ordered to be confiscated by Governor Nicolls. He was a trader, at least so long as he remained in Albany and made several voyages to Patria, - one in 1660, and another in 1668, on which occasion, being in Holland, he, with other traders, having purchased goods and chartered the ship King Charles, petitioned the King of England for permission to send the same to New York, which was granted. Vedder's bouwery in Schenectady was rented in 1663 to Symon Groot, for six years at a yearly rent of 500 guilders. In the spring of 1672, it is probable he gave up business in Albany, and retired to Schenectady, for in February of that year he purchased bouweries No. 8 of Dirk Hesselingh, to be delivered to him May 1, 1672, and the year following he was appointed one of the three commissaries or magistrates of the village. In 1674, the magistrates of Schenectady were reprimanded for not showing due respect for those of Willemstadt [Albany], and for pretending to the privilege of the Indian trade, and Harmen Vedder, schout, in particular, was complained of because of his conduct towards Capt. Schuyler, and waswarned "to regulate himself accordingly".
His children were probably born in Albany; but the records of the church there prior to 1684 being lost, neither the dates of their baptisms nor the name of his wife, are known. It is only known that in 1668 he was brother-in-law of Johannes Provoost, secretary of Albany.
At the date of his death, which happened before June 18, 1714, five sons and one daughter were living and had families of their own. Although Harmen Albertse was among the earliest proprietors of Schenectady, his name does not appear as grantee or patentee in the records until 1672, Gerrit Bancker received the patent for bouweries No. 6, in 1664 and 1667; although in fact he had but a half interest in the same as appears by the lease given in 1663, by Bancker and Vedder to Symon Groot for these bouweries, and from the fact that in 1701, Vedder sold the easterly half of hindmost lot No. 6, which seems to have been his share in the above mentioned patent, to his son Albert for 91-16. That he was an early proprietor also appears from the fact that he with Sander Leendertse, Willem Teller and others, petitioned the Governor in 1664, to have their lands surveyed. Hindmost farm No. 6, lying between the river road and the river was unfit for a hofstede by reason of the annual floods, but the purchase of the adjacent bouwery No. 8, gave him a convenient and pleasant site for his house and farm buildings beyond the reach of the highest floods. This farm was originally allotted to Marten Cornelise Van Ysselsteyn who sold it to Cornelis Corn. Vielè, from whom it passed successively to Jurriaen Teunise Tappen, to Dirk Hesselingh and finally Feb. 1, 1671/2 to Harmen Vedder, who purchased with "de bouwery (daer den voorz. Dirk Hesselingh op woont op Schaenechtede), soo het landt als huys, schuer ende twee berghen & c. soo als het de voorn & c. Hesselingh van Jurriaen Teunissen gecocht heeft gehadt to be delivered to Herman Vedder the coming 1st May, 1672, together with the seed in the ground. Vedder promised to pay 20 whole beavers to Jurriaen Teunissen for the same. In 1701, Harmen Albertse owned a pasture of two and a half morgens lying between Front street and the river, beginning 509 feet Eng. east of north street and extending easterly along Front street 210 feet
Eng. to the New York Central railroad; in 1714-18 this lot belonged to his son Albert. Outside of the limits of Schenectady he owned several parcels of land besides several houses and lots in Albany. Jan. 31, 1657, he bought of Rutger Jacobsen, "syne huys en erff gelegen in de doorpe Beverwyck, breet voor en achter ses dertich voet, lanch vier en sestich voet en met aen ganch van vifte voet en breet lanch tot aen kil welcke ganch is gelegen tusschen Goossen Gerritsen [van Schaick] en den vercooper" & c., consideration 2325 guilders. This lot was on the south side of State street, Albany, between Green and Pearl streets, and extended back only to the Rutten kil now arched over and used as a sewer; there was included in this sale Jacobsen's brewery which was to be delivered to Vedder the following November. In 1665 he owned a house and lot on the hill in Albany next to Cornelis Steenwyck's. He contracted in 1662 to buy a house and lot next to Philip Pieterse Schuyler's, for 1600 guilders. Aug. 21, 1670, he sold to Robert Sanders a parcel of land at Stone Arabia [Lansingburgh?]. And on Oct. 31, 1677, he and Barent Reyndertse sold "to Claes Janse Van Boekhoven [de Brabander] and Ryck Claase [Van Vranken] a farm in Canastagioene on the north side of the Mohawk river, consideration 550 skiples of wheat".
After his death, his children on the 3 May, 1715, petitioned the common council of Albany for the renewal of a release (burnt at Schenectady when it was cut off) of a lot owned by their father Harmen Vedder deceased, and lying on the south side of Albany, which petition was granted.
Many of the early Dutch owned slaves. Thomas Burke in his book Mohawk Frontier: the Dutch Community of Schenectady, NY 1661-1710 gives a list of slaveholders and numbers of slaves owned in 1690 and 1697; Harmanus Vedder is listed as owning one slave in 1697.
From the first marriage:
| 1. | child Vedder, born circa 1662 in Albany NY, died on 06-12-1662 in Albany NY. |
| 2. | child Vedder, born circa 1665 in Albany NY, died on 22-04-1665 in Albany NY. |
| 3. | Harmanus Vedder (see also IV.20). |
| 4. | Albert H. Vedder (see also IV.23). |
From the second marriage:
| 5. | Arent Vedder (see also IV.25). |
| 6. | Angenietje Vedder, born circa 1683, died 04-1756. Church marriage on 24-11-1700 in Schenectady NY to Jan Danielse Van Antwerp, died on 26-01-1756. |
| 7. | Johannes Vedder (see also IV.29). |
| 8. | Corset Vedder (see also IV.31). |
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