The Fulkerson Family Pages
Maria's Eldest Daughter, Abigail Ver Planck
Abigail Ver Planck married Adriaen Van Laer about 1660. She died before 1672.
Maria's Son, Gelyn Ver Planck
Gelyn VER PLANCK married Hendrickje Wessels in the recently-renamed city of New York on 1 June 1668. They had seven children: Samuel, Jacobus, Abraham, Johannis, Benjamin, Anna and Guleyn. He was a merchant. Gelyn was elected as a Schepen (City Alderman) on 16 Aug 1673, after New York was recaptured by the Dutch and renamed New Orange (the British got the city back in 1674 and once again named it New York). He was only 49 years old when he died in 1684. [NOTE: He was previously listed here as 'Guillaume' but there is some doubt whether that is accurate. He was also called Guleyn or Gulian, in various histories. DRC baptismal records and other legal records list him as Gelyn or Geleyn, and the Mount Gulian Historical Site at 145 Sterling St, Beacon, NY 12508, is named for him.]
Maria's Daughter, Catalyna Ver Planck
Catalyna (also Catalina/Catherina) VER PLANCK married David Pieterse Schuyler on 13 October 1657. Catalyna would give birth to eight children, all of whom were baptized in the Dutch churches of Manhattan and Albany. Catalyna and her husband lived in a house in Albany near the Hudson River, possibly somewhere near what is today Northgate Drive. Her children whose names we are aware of were: Pieter "Peter" Davidse Schuyler, Gertrude Schuyler, Abraham Davidse Schuyler (Sr.), Maria Schuyler Van Dyck, David Schuyler, Jr., Catalina (Catalyna) Schuyler (there may be a portrait of this Catalina in The New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Volumes 5-6 By New-York Historical Society on page 65, but the birthdates do not quite jibe with other records. Still, it would seem odd for another woman to have had this very same name at this time and place in history), were each baptized in the Dutch churches of Manhattan and Albany. Catalyna's husband David died in 1690, and Catalyna was executor of his will. Catalyna outlived her eldest son Pieter by twelve years. She passed away sometime in October 1708. The descendants of Catalyna and David Schuyler include Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Maria's Daughter, Ariantje Ver Planck
Ariantje VER PLANCK married Melgert Wynantse Vanderpoel. Melgert was a "gun stocker," someone who fabricated the wooden stocks for guns whose metal parts were imported from Europe. The couple had a home in Albany on the south side of State Street. Together Ariantje and Melgert raised Melgert, Maria, Trinke, Abraham, Wynant, Gelyn, Jacobus, and Henrick. After Ariantje's death, Melgert married Elizabeth Van Trecht, with whom he had two more children. More information on Ariantje's descendants may be found at this site.
Maria's Daughter, Susanna Ver Planck
Susanna VER PLANCK married married Martin Van Waert on 4 December 1660. One researcher reports the couple had only one child, a son, Jacobus, baptized 18 Jan 1664. A descendent of theirs, a Lieutenant Isaac Van Wart (said to have sired ten children of his own) is mentioned in Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y. October 19th, 1894.
Ethel KK reports Susanna may have married a Von Leijer after Van Waert died, but this has not been verified. She was, apparently, married to John Garland in 1669, bearing his son Silvester Garland in 1670 (who married Anne Sebra) and Matthias Garland in 1672/73. Susanna lived in New York until Garland's death, marrying a third time at some point to Daniel Brown, who was a signatory on a document January 4, 1700 in which she left power of attorney to handle her affairs in New York to her son Silvester Garland, after which she moved to Delaware, possibly to land her father had owned there. Apparently, Susanna had at least one son, Daniel Brown, Jr., with Daniel Brown, as Susanna's descendants with Brown are mentioned in the Maxwell History and Genealogy.
In the English colonial period, around 1730, the Verplancks built a colonial-style fieldstone house at Fishkill Landing on the Rombout Patent land, and became a working plantation with a dock on the Hudson River, facilitating New York-Kingston-Albany trade. “Mt. Gulian” was used as a summer retreat for the family, but no family members lived at the site year round until the early 1800’s. Other Verplancks at this time lived in Albany and Verplanck Point in Westchester County NY.The home pictured above was destroyed by an arsonist in 1931. A treasure trove of more family information regarding Gelyn's branch of the family is available at this excellent historical website. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING.
A fight over a dog by Gelyn, as well as his involvement in some shady beaver pelt trading, is detailed on page 743 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, included within the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Volume 2, by Reynolds Cuyler.
Maria's Daughter, Hillegond Ver Planck
Hillegond (Hillegondt) Ver Planck married David Davidse Ackerman in 1680. Their children were David, Johannes (died in infancy), another son named Johannes, Gelyn (died in infancy), another son named Gelyn, and Maritie (Mary). Maritie (Mary) Ackerman married Swain Ogden on May 5, 1711 in the Dutch Reformed Church of Hackensack, New Jersey. The family and their nine children, Elizabeth, David, Samuel, Hillegondt/Hulda, and Nathaniel, Abraham, Sarah, Mary, and John, lived in Bergen County (possibly named for another Bergen, Norway, emigrant who may have accompanied Dircks to the new Dutch colony in Manhattan in the 1630's, Hans Hansen.) Samuel's daughter Sarah married John Edison October 10, 1756 at Hanover Prebyterian Church, New Jersey; and she and he were great grandparents to THOMAS ALVA EDISON. Edison's father was Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr.
Headstone of Swain Ogden in the First Presbyterian Churchyard in Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, near the east wall of the church. Photo by Nikita Barlow, with additional family information at this site.
Maria's Youngest Son, Isaac Ver Planck
Isaac married Abigail Uytenbogart about 1680. They lived in Albany, where he was a shoemaker. They had 8 children: Isaac, Abigail, Jacob, Dirkje, Guleyn, David, Catalyntje and Rachel. Additional information about Isaac and the Verplanck family can be found on page 458 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, included within the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Volume 1, by Reynolds Cuyler.
