Van Wicklen Family
History
Frederick Van Wickle/Van
Wicklen (c.1760 Jamaca, Queens, NY - 1819, Greenburg, Westchester, NY)
is a direct descendent of Jentie Jeppes Van Jacobzen DeVries (1630-?)
who emegrated from Wijckel, Friesland, Netherlands (hence the surname
Van Wickel). Under the date 17 April 1664, an account book of the Dutch
West India Company shows that Jentie Jeppes owed the company 126 florins
for passage across the Atlantic on the ship D’Eendracht under Capt. Jan
Bergen, for himself, his wife [Tietske Gerrits], and his three children
ages 5 [Garrit Janze,], 4 [Evert Janze], and 2[Meenske Janze].*
A little over a year later the
name Jentie Jeppes appears once in the town records of Flatbush, Long
Island (29 August 1665). By 1666, Jentie Jeppes had settled in Bergen
(now part of Jersey City), NJ. Soon after the birth of Grietje in 1666,
his wife Tijedtske dies and is buried in the Bergen Dutch Church
cemetery. Jentie, widower, married Britten Oloff (herself the widow of
Pieter Corneliszen) on 4 December 1666. Jentie Jeppes
died before 1673
probably on Manhattan Island. The children were brought up by someone in
the Flatlands, but who remains a mystery. In the 1680’s all four
children become members of the Flatlands church. (Gerrit Jansz in June,
1681; Evert Jansz 6 October 1682; Meinsje Jans 23 June 1682; and Grietje
Jans 30 March 1683.)*
* Harry Macy, Jr. The
Van Wicklen/Van Wickle Family: Including its Frisian Origin and
Connections to Minnerly and Kranchheyt; The New York Genealogical
and Biographical Record, Vol. 128, No. 2 (April 1997); pp. 81-90.
(Frederick^4, Evert^3, Gerrit^2,
Jentie^1 Jeppes)
Richard Van Wickel
(Van Winkle, Van Winklen) (c.1798
likely in Greenburg, NY - 12 Oct 1874 at 76 in Brooklyn, NY) of Yonkers, NY,
the likely third son of Frederick Van Wicklen ( ) & Rebecca Waring ( ) of
New Rochell and Greenburg, NY. [see
Renunciation of Rebecca
Van Winckle] Richard married on 2 Apr 1823
at Tappan, NY, RDC Phebe Conklin (1805,
Rockland, NJ -
28 Feb 1890 at 84 in Brooklyn, NY),
daughter of 3rd Jacob Conklin & Mary Quidor.
Nicholas Gesner in
his Genealogy of Nicholas
Gesner refers
to her as "...Phebe Van Wickel, grand daughter of Jacob Concklin and
Elizabeth Gesner." Circa 1828 they
built (perhaps remodeling an existing structure dating to
1810-1823) the federal-style farmhouse on 5¾
acres she inherited in 1826 from her father, 3rd Jacob Concklin. This
house is nearly identical to that built by Phebe's grandfather, Peter
Quidor, on Oak Tree Road in nearby Palisades, NY.
*Record of Marriages, DRC, Tappan, NY.
www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com
Richard
and Phebe had three sons: i. Jesse Van Wickel (Sep 1823,
NY -?), ii. George Van Wickel
(1828, NY - ?), iii. John Lewis Van Wickle (c.1837-25
Nov 1884).
The
1830 NJ census* lists Richard Van Wickel as head of a household
in Rockland, NJ, among the
households of John Powles Conkling [neighboring south], Albert Cooper
[across the road], and David Conkling [just down the hill]. The household includes one male
under 5 (George), one male 10-15 (Jesse), one male 30-40 (Richard) as
well as one female 20-30 (Phebe Conklin-Van Wickel).
*
1830 Census: New Jersey, Bergan Co, Harrington.
The cousin of Phebe Van Wickel, Phebe Ann
Sneden-Moore (daughter of 2nd Samuel Sneden, wife of John L. K.
Moore), supposedly bought the property in 1832.
Upon
the sale of the house to the Moore's, the Van Wickels moved to
"Palisades Lane" (next to Capt John Hill's house) above Snedens
Landing. In February 1832, Mary Quidor-Conklin moved from the old John
Henry Gesner House, where she had lived alone, to the house of her daughter Phebe Conklin-Van Winkel above Snedens Landing where her failing father,
Peter Quidor, had been taken. Ostensibly, Mary moved to take care of her father,
but there may have been another reason, related to Nicholas Gesner.
On March
1832, Peter Quidor is reported to have died in the house of his grand
daughter, Phebe Van Wickel, on "Palisades Lane", Palisades.* That
house burned down c.1880.*
*Winthrop
S. Gilman: "Local History", ms #63, 3 February 1900.
Palisades Free Library
However, the
1840 NJ census* still lists Richard Van Wickel as head of a household
in Rockland, NJ, among the
households of John Powles Conkling [neighboring south], Albert Cooper
[across the road], and David Conkling [just down the hill]. The household includes one male
under 5 (John L.), one male 10-15 (George), one 15-20 (Jesse), one 40-50 (Richard) as well as one
female 30-40 (Phebe Conklin-Van Wickel).
*
1840 Census: New Jersey, Bergan Co, Harrington.
The 1860
NY census lists Richard Van Wickle [sic] (62, Carpet man) as head of household
in the Palisades section of Rockland County with Phebe Ann (54, wife).*
*1860
Census: Nyack, Rockland Co, NY. p 131.
i.
Jesse Van Wickel (Sep 1823,
NY -?) m. bef 1848 Amelia ? (Mar 1824, England-?).
Children of Jesse and Amelia include:
i. Josephine
(c.1848, NY - ?)
ii. Jesse, Jr. ( Dec 1851, NY -?) m.
Margaret. [Children: i Jessie, ii. William]
iii. Walter (c.1853, NY - ?)
iv. Francis (c. 1856, NY -?)
v. Harriet (c. 1857, NY -?)
vi. Clara (c. 1860, NY -?)
vii. Laura (c.1864, NY -?)
