1638 On 30 August, [not. H. Schaef, 1311/49v]. Thomas Coning from Brochdorp, about to sail as a soldier to New Netherland, settles his debt. [1]
1638 De Liefde (The Love), master Marten Cael, from Texel, Holland, with passengers bound for the Nieuw Nederland on September 25, 1638, arrived new Amsterdam December 27, 1638. [2] Marten Cael (skipper of the ship) and servants. Thomas King may have been on this ship, based on court documents cited below.
1639 On 13 January, "Court Proceedings. Hans Steen vs Thomas Coninck, slander; defendant retracts and acknowledges that the plaintiff is an honest and honorable man". [3]
1639 Hans Steen Mallius and Thomas Coninck declared in court, on January 25, that Jacob Swart had sold some articles on board the ship Love. [4]
Before me, Cornelius van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Hans Steen, cadet, aged 24 years, and Thomas Coninck, at the request of Ulrich Lupolt, fiscal, and by true Christian words, in place and with promise of an oath if need be, that it is true and truthful that Jacob Swart, gunner's mate on the ship De Liefde, whereof Marten Cael is skipper, has sold to the wife of Jan van Ditmarsen one pair of pattens and one pair of child's shoes, and to Thomas Coninck aforesaid one pair of child's shoes All of which the deponents declare on their manly troth to be true, having done all this in order to bear witness of the truth, without any dissimulation or regard of person. Thus done in Fort Amsterdam. the 25th of January 1638 [1639] [5]
1639 Tomas Coninck was a witness for the testimony of Surgeon Hans Kierstedt as to the nature of the wound received by Jacob Jurisensen. Dated May 17 at Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland. [6]
1639 tomas de Coninc married Marritjen Frans, from Beets [province of Friesland] at New Amsterdam on 22 September 1639 [7]. Sept 22. Marriage, by the director and council, of Thomas de Conine and Marritje Frans van Beets [8].
1641 On October 3. Court proceedings. Borger Jorissen vs. Jacob Roy, gunner, for debt; judgment for plaintiff. The same vs. fiscal Van der Huyghens, for damage done to plaintiff's house by the imprudent firing of a cannon by skipper Symonsen ; defendant says that plaintiff had forgiven the skipper ; he is ordered to prove that assertion. Jan Damen vs. Lyntje Adams's wife, Thomas Coninck and Jan Platneus; all for slander, [9].
1642 Jan. 23. Court proceedings. Gregory Petersen vs. Thomas Coninck, for payment of an elk hide; continued. Hans Steen vs. Hans Skipper, slander; referred to arbitration, [10].
1647 In October, Thomas Coningh was paid for 7 days service on the occasion of the wedding of Antony de Hooges. [11]
1649 On 18 March, Cornelis Segersz engaged a boy of Thomas Coningh to help him with the harvest. [12]
1651 On 28 November, Thomas Coningh took the oath of fealty. [13]
1655 On 1 February, Thomas Coningh purchased a house, brewhouse, pigpen, and fence, which had formerly belonged to Jacob Hevick, from Jurian Teunisz. [14]
1655 On 19 February, Thomas Coningh sold a house, brewhouse, pigpen, and fence, mentioned above, to Adrien Jansz, from Leyden. [15]
1665 "Jan Thomaszen, j.m. Van de Manhatans, en Apollonia Cornelis, j.d." were married on November 8 at the Reformed Dutch Church in Manhattan, New York. [16]
1671 "Elias Post, j.m. Van Amsterdam, en Cathalÿntie Coninck, j.d. Van N." were married on May 6 at the Reformed Dutch Church in Manhattan, New York. Albania. [17]
1676 "Harmanús Cooning j.m. Van N. Albanien en Marÿe Grien j.d. Uyt de Vergingie" were married on May 14 at the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City. [18]
Marcia Ward Richie reported documents related to two men named Harmanus King with spouse Mary who lived in New Netherlands at this time. One was married to Mary Green and the other was married to Marritie Andries. Harmanus King and Mary Green were identified as the parents of the children that we follow here. The editor reported evidence that Thomas King and Marritje Frans were the parents of Harmanus King, spouse of Mary Green. [19]
Who were the parents of Harmanus King of Flushing and Nottingham? I have not identified them, but some King records may contain clues. Catalina Conicks of New Albania and Elias Pos were married 6 May 1671. Thomas Coninck witnessed the baptism of their child, Dirck, on 14 Apr 1672. Catalina died before 1674 when Elias married Marritje Cornelis. Elias Pos and Marritje Franz witnessed the baptism of Harmanus King and Mary Green's oldest son, John, on 21 Mar 1677.
[On pages 836 and 837 of Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, [Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1908] A. J. F. van Laer cites evidence of the activities of a Thomas Coningh at Rensselaerswyck in the 1640s and 1650s. Van Laer says that this man is doubtless the same person as tomas de Coninc who married Marritjen Frans, from Beets [province of Friesland] at New Amsterdam on 22 September 1639. Because of the baptismal witnesses cited above, I believe that both the Catalyntje Conicks who married Elias Post and the Harmanus King who married Mary Green were children of Thomas Coning and Marritje Frans. I suspect that the Jan Thomaszen whose marriage intentions to wed Apollonia Cornelis (Swits) were recorded on 8 November 1665 in New York City may have also been a son of Thomas Coning and Marritje Frans. - The Editor]
[1] Pim Nieuwenhuis, "Abstracts from Notarial Documents in the Amsterdam Archive" [part 1], New Netherland Connections 4 (1999), 65-70, at 66, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] David Dobson, Transatlantic Voyages, 1600-1699 (2008), 25, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, ed., Calendar of historical manuscripts in the office of the secretary of state, Albany, N.Y. Part I, Dutch (1865), 66, Council Minutes, p 30, [InternetArchive].
[4] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, ed., Calendar of historical manuscripts in the office of the secretary of state, Albany, N.Y. Part I, Dutch (1865), 5, Register of Provincial Secretary, p 71, [InternetArchive].
[5] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Arnold J. F. Van Laer, Charles T. Gehring, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1638-1642 (New Netherland Research Center and the New Netherland Institute), 96, item [71], [NewNetherlandInstitute].
[6] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Arnold J. F. Van Laer, Charles T. Gehring, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1638-1642 (New Netherland Research Center and the New Netherland Institute), 113, item [110], see page 152, [NewNetherlandInstitute].
[7] Samuel Smith Purple, Index to the marriage records from 1639-1801 of the Reformed Dutch church in New Amsterdam and New York (1890), xi, [InternetArchive].
[8] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, ed., Calendar of historical manuscripts in the office of the secretary of state, Albany, N.Y. Part I, Dutch (1865), 69, Council Minutes, p 50, [InternetArchive].
[9] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, ed., Calendar of historical manuscripts in the office of the secretary of state, Albany, N.Y. Part I, Dutch (1865), 77, Council Minutes, p 102, [InternetArchive].
[10] Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, ed., Calendar of historical manuscripts in the office of the secretary of state, Albany, N.Y. Part I, Dutch (1865), 79, Council Minutes, p 114, [InternetArchive].
[11] A. J. F. Van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1908), 836, [InternetArchive].
[12] A. J. F. Van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1908), 836, [InternetArchive].
[13] A. J. F. Van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1908), 836, [InternetArchive].
[14] A. J. F. Van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1908), 836, [InternetArchive].
[15] A. J. F. Van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1908), 836, [InternetArchive].
[16] Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New York City Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 9 (1940, reprint of Vol. 1, 1890), 31, [HathiTrust].
[17] Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New York City Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 9 (1940, reprint of Vol. 1, 1890), 35, [HathiTrust].
[18] Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New York City Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 9 (1940, reprint of Vol. 1, 1890), 41, [HathiTrust].
[19] Marcia Ward Richie, "Double Exposure: Harmanus and Mary King", Dorothy A Koenig, ed. Comment New Netherland Connections 3 (1998), 31-34, at 33.