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Hendrick
Coster
Traditional sources state that Hendrick Coster was born in South Holland in 1636. By the 1660s, he had emigrated to New Netherland and had settled in Beverwyck.
By
1668, he had married eighteen-year-old Geertje Goosens
Van Schaick - daughter of a prominent Albany fur
trader and the mother of his four children. In 1664,
he took title to a parcel of "low" land located along the road north of Fort Orange. The grantor was Goosen Gerritse, his father-in- law. These Costers raised their family in an Albany home. His son and daughters would establish themselves in the city of Albany.
He
was on one of the lists of people invited to the
funeral of Jeremias Van Rensselaer in October 1678.
However, Hendrick Coster may have died about that
time as, shortly afterward, and his widow married
trader Jan Lansing.
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Sources: The life of Hendrick Coster is CAP biography number
5974. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources. Demographic information
appears unattributed on an online resource.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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