Cornelis slowed down around 1659

"Cornelis Segerse (van) Egmont (van Voorhout) was an ancestor of the

Egmont and Schermerhorn families of Albany, New York City, and Staten

Island.

 He was a desendant of the royal Egmont family of Holland. He was

born about 1599 in the town of Voorhout, a small village near Leyden and

Amsterdam, Holland. It is also a short distance to the villages of Egmont

and Schermerhorn in Holland.


He sailed from Amsterdam on the ship "het Wapen van Renssellaerwyck" Aug.

25, 1643 with his wife and children. On his arrival, he acquired a farm

formerly occupied by Brant Peelen in Renssellaerwyck on Castle Island.


This was located opposite Bethlehem, near Albany. His rent in 1644 was

276 scheppels of wheat and 320 of corn, by far the highest rent of any of

the farms in Renselarewyck at the time..


In 1646, Cornelis acquired "Welysburgh", the other farm on Castle Island,

thus coming into possession of the entire place. (Today it?s called

Westerlo Island).


 He started a brewery as well. In an inventory of 1651,

this wealthy farmer had 13 horses and 22 cows on 70 morgens (140 acres)

of land.

https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rad1003&id=I21842&style=TEXT

Source: NYGBR (1915) p. 346
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50 yard hag, don't got no soil

people turn to run and warn the patrol

the sun itself happy to recoil

she's the hoily hoily hag of Oil


     lacquered and liquored 

you've paid to lick worse

           sober or snookered

we're born to that curse


get out a ruler

find one not a tooler

50 watt hag hair in curlers

fracking the earth like he was a high schooler


30 inch dick he on the case

measures the space

and forgets his place

50 ounce hag she got the taste


pumping gumption gas and hustle

30 speck dick lost and fussin

50 spoon hag, schlocking the gristle

no you gotta know there's a pistol


bam boom dumb 

50 dicks in a hag slum

onomatopoeia see the dummy

drum stag bum


                           50 mite leech 

pull her off of that long preach

                of the 30 dick speech

 that's all i  fire-got .  Impeach


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,,,,,Cornelis was, well, ornery. 


In October 1648 he was obliged to retract

derogatory comments about Andries de Vos, as well as remarks he had made

to the effect that Jan Barentsen Wemp was "a rascal, a thief and the

greatest liar in the colony."


 The next summer court records show him in a

fight with a former employee, and the year after that, slashing a man in

the face with a glass.

 In Jan 1650, both Cornelis and Jacob were charged

with assaulting Rensselaerwyck director Brant van Slichtenhorst.


Cornelis refused to pay his rent year after year even though he was

leasing the most valuable property in Rensselaerwyck (it was called

Welysburgh) and was doing quite well. The rent was 1,210 florins (the

next most valuable property in the colony rented for only 810 florins)

and in Mar 1652 van Slichtenhorst went (armed with a court order) to

collect either cash or grain. 


Cornelis nailed shut the door to the grain

loft and could not be reached.


 Cornelis slowed down around 1659, when he

transferred his farm to his son Seger, who had just married.


Cornelis' temper lived on, fatally, in his sons.


They took up his two

favorite hobbies: drinking and brawling.


 Cornelis, Jr. was charged with fighting in 1649 and 1650 with three men


 On 31 Aug 1658 Claes was in Hendrick Jochimsen?s

tavern when he began arguing with a soldier named Daniel Nonvou. They got

into a clinch, rolling around on the floor.


Nonvou managed to draw his

rapier, but it was taken away by a bystander. Claes tried to get another

punch in, but Nonvou drew a small knife and landed it in Claes?s chest.



On 23 Jun 1662 Seger got into a tavern fight with Andries Constapel.

Seger whacked Constapel with a pool cue. Constapel pulled a knife,

stabbed Seger below the short ribs, and then returned the favor in

spades, dealing Claes five blows to the head with the pool cue. The next

day Andries went to Seger?s bedside, and they forgave each other, but

Seger died that night.


Source: Mike Wolf, The Genealogy of the Greene County, NY Wolfes

http://home.earthlink.net/~wolfsbane/mar1996-2.htm


Christoph, Peter R. "Bradt: A Norwegian Family in Colonial America".

Salem, MA: Higginson Books, 1994.

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Name: Jeremias "Jurri" Layman, Surname: Layman

Given Name: Jeremias "Jurri", Sex: M


Birth: BEF 3 Feb 1765 in Catskill, Greene Co, Ny

Death: 1856 in Conesville, Schoharie Co, Ny



"Jeremiah lived in Schoharie Flats, was a scout in the army

 for Geo Washington, was an Indian fighter, 

was a messenger for George Washington,

died a very old man was associated with Timothy Murphy,

rebel fighter, fought Indians,  Tories,

 and was affiliated with the British movements.

 Jeremiah was a farmer after the war."




Phebe's Grandfather, Jeremias Layman, the scout and messenger for General Washington.

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"Timothy Murphy (1751–1818) was a rifleman in the American Revolutionary War. At the Battle of Bemis Heights (Second Battle of Saratoga) on October 7, 1777, Murphy is reputed to have shot and killed Sir Francis Clerke and General Simon Fraser. Murphy's life is the subject of John Brick's 1953 novel, The Rifleman."