Casper Jacobse

• Death Notes
  • Casper Jacobse Hallenbeck filed a will in September 1685.  He is said to have died in August 1703.
    

• General Notes
  • He first appears in 1651 when he took the oath of allegiance at Rensselaerwyck  and leased a homestead from the Van Rensselaers.  Probably he was recently or about to be married. Van Laer infers that Casper was then a day laborer.  On 30 April 1652 he received a lot in Beverwyck between Jacob Adriaensz and Tunis Jacobsz.  In this decade he was among buyers at sales of personal effects of Lammert Cornelise, Harmen de Metselaer, and Bastizen de Winter.  On 22 January 1657 he set terms in notice of sale of his house and lot in Beverwyck. Harmens Jacobse was highest bidder at 810 guilders and sale was confirmed in June 1657, Casper (apparently illiterate) signing by mark "K.Y." Harmen fled the village to avoid imprisonment for debt; so we do not know if the sale was consummated. Perhaps as an aftermath, Casper sued Cloes Hendrickse 10 September 1658 and was sued by Harmen Vedder.  In 1663 he received another lot.  On 3 April 1677 he asked for and was granted an extra rod of land up on the hill.   When he made his will in 1685 he owned one lot measuring 40 by 20 rods and another measuring 27 rods by 8 rods 5 feet - less than four acres.  One of these lots was on the side of the hill "near the Plein" next to property of Peter Winne beyond which was the Ruttenkill.
    
    Casper and his family are not on the Dutch Church membership list, being Lutherans. In May 1678 he collected beaver from Harme Gansevourt "for their minister.  There is a doubtful identification of him as Casper, the skipper, but no record to indicate he owned a boat.
    
    Casper made his will 9 September 1685.   In the 1686 charter setting out the bounds of Albany mention is made of pasture late in tenure and occupancy of Casper Jacobse.  In 1687 he is called an old man with failing physical capacity.  He is said to have lived until August 1703, but cannot be identified in the 1697 census.
    
    According to traditional sources, Casper Jacobse was born about 1620. He is said to have been of German ancestry. He emigrated to New Netherland and worked as a day laborer and then tenant farmer in Rensselaerswyck.
    
    His wife was named Maria or Elizabeth or both. Between 1650 and 1660, three children were christened in greater New Netherland. He was identified as of the Lutheran faith.
    
    After first leasing a house, he was present in Beverwyck at the initial distribution of houselots in 1653. He bought and sold real estate in Albany and its environs. It seems he was known as "Casper Jacobse on the hill" - perhaps located just above (West of) the stockaded settlement that became Albany.
    
    His family also became intertwined with the settlement of what became southern Albany County.
    
    Casper Jacobse was the patriarch of the Albany Hallenbeck family. His youngest son became a resident of Albany.

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Source/Citation Halenbeck family of New York

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