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Jeronimus
Wendell
Jeronimus Wendell was born in Beverwyck about 1655. He was the son of New Netherland pioneers Evert Janse and Susanna Truax Wendell. Losing his mother as a child, he was identified as eight years old at the time of his father's re-marriage in 1663.
Coming
of age in Albany, by the mid 1670s he had married
his neighbor, Ariantie Visscher - daughter of an
Albany carpenter. By 1689, they had six children.
Jeronimus
was an Albany shoemaker-turned-furtrader whose State
Street home was listed on a census of householders
in 1679. His second ward property was assessed on
a levy made in 1689. He employed apprentices and
prospered by using his trade to produce leather products
to be bartered to Native American hunters. Later,
his sons would represent that initiative in the Indian
country.
Jeronimus
Wendell made a will in 1690. It left most of his
estate to his wife during her widowhood. Each of
his living children was left personal bequests of
silver, books, and other small items. The will went
unfiled and Jeronimus was dead by 1697 when his widow
was identified as the head of their household.
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Notes: The
life of Jeronimus Wendell is CAP biography number
2940. He has been variously referred to as Jeronimus,
Heronimus, and Harmanus. This profile is derived
chiefly from family and community-based resources.
His house on State Street was two doors above Pearl.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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