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THE SNEDENS
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE SNEDENS of Bergen County are descended from John Sneden,
a native of Amsterdam, Holland, where his family had lived for many
generations. On the 23d of December, 1657, John Sneden, his wife,
Gretie Jans, his two children, Carsten and Grietie, and his brother, Claes
Sneden, set sail from Amsterdam in the ship " St. John Baptist," bound
for the Colony of New Amstel, on the Delaware River. Three years later
Claes Sneden removed to New Amsterdam, and John to New Harlem, where
the latter purchased two town lots on which lie permanently located, and
where he died early in 1662. Beginning on the 25th of March, 1662, his
estate was sold at public auction. The house, lands, and standing crops
brought 135 gelders and the household effects 185 gelders. After the
payment of debts 42 gelders remained for the widow and two orphaned
children, Carsten and Grietie, of whom, on April 28. 1662, Philip Casier
and Lubbert Gerritsen were appointed guardians. Grietie married, August 13, following, Jean Guenon (Genung), and went to reside at Flushing,
L. I. Carsten entered the service of Daniel Tourneur, January 15, 1668,
for a year, to have at its expiration 300 gelders and "a pair of shoes and
stockings." His uncle, Claes Sneden, resided at New Amsterdam, where
lie had by his wife, Maria –, several children. John Sneden (supposed
to have been a grandson of Carsten), about 1740, bought of Henry Ludlow
and settled on a large farm at what is now Sneden's Landing, on the west
side of the Hudson River. This farm was partly in Bergen County, N. J.,
and partly in Rockland County, N. Y. John's sons, Dennis (who died unmarried) and John, became the owners of his lands at his death, and John's
descendants are still numerous in the northerly part of Bergen County.
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