Barent Jacobsen Cool
Copied from a book entitled: “The Barent Jacobsen Cool Family” by Richard H Benson
(New England Historic Genealogical Society)
“The early ancestors were quite casual about spelling……The earliest record for the Cool family spell the name Cool, but subsequent records are spelled Kool, Kohl, Coel, Cohl, and Cole. Rather than trying to sort out a correct spelling for each person, I have usually used the name given at baptism. This is further complicated by the entire practice and common naming patterns that were followed by our Dutch Ancestors. There is a separate remarkable document that covers the standard naming conventions used by the Dutch. (added)
The First Generation
(In America)
Barent Jacobsen Cool was born about 1610 according to a deposition he gave on 12 January 1645, in which he said he was 34 years old. It is likely that he was the Barent Jacobsen was baptized on 10 May 1610 in the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), in Amsterdam, and was the son of Jacob Arentsen and his wife, Aeltje Dircks, both of Amsterdam. 
Barent married Marretje Leenderts Degrauw about 1637, probably near Amsterdam. Marretje was the daughter of Leendert Arentsen DeGrauw and Leuntje Alberts. The baptisms of eight of Barent and Marretje’s children from 1640 through 1657 were recorded at the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church, the records of which date only from 1639.
The first indication that Barent was in New Amsterdam occurred on 8 June 1633, when he was about 23 years old. On that date he and six others signed a treaty with the Sickename Indians to purchase land bordering on the Connecticut River. The tract of land was called Sicajook, and the site was obtain by Barent and his colleagues exchanging twenty-seven ells of cloth, six axes, six kettles, eighteen knives and various other articles for the land. A trading fort was erected on the tract called “The house of Good Hope”. The treaty also provided that the Sachem Altabacuhote was to dwell on the purchased land with the assent of Chief Margaratin of the Sloops Bay Indians.(added)
…….By 16 November 1635, Barent was back in Amsterdam. On that date Barent Jacobsen Cool, sailor of Amsterdam, age 25 years, together with Jacob Hanssen, gold wire maker, age 32, made a declaration. They had been asked by officers of the West India Company who had recently returned to Amsterdam on the ship Eendracht to go to Lubbert van Dincklagen, former sheriff of New Netherland, and ask him why he had frozen their salaries. Van Dincklagen explained that he had done so because he wanted to know what they had declared against him in New Netherland. He had been involved in a dispute with Wouter van Twiller, Director-General of the colony. 
Barent arrived again in New Amsterdam in early 1638 on the ship Den Dolphyn, according to the 1645 deposition referred to above. His father-in-law, Leendert Arentsen DeGrauw, was on the same ship. Presumably, Marretje and her siblings were aboard as well. It is said the Den Dolphyn was preparing to sail in September 1637, but had to wait until a carpenter, Pieter Conelissen, was recruited for the crew. After their arrival in New Amsterdam, on 19 April 1638, the crew of Den Dolphyn testified before the provincial secretary regarding their stormy voyage and the damage to their cargo. They told that the captain had complained before sailing of the leaky condition of the ship and that he had not provided the passengers with food during part of the voyage. In their deposition, Cool and DeGrauw testified that the children of Jan Schepmoe and his wife, who were on the voyage, received inadequate food. One wonders if Barent and Marretje’s son Jacob was born before, during or shortly after the voyage?
Barent Jacobsz Cool was skipper of the yacht Amsterdam from 1638 to at least 1644. In a deposition dated 19 Feb, 1644, Egbert van Borsum, Barent Jacobsz, Wessel Eveersz and Antoni Fernaudus, masters of the yachts Prins Willem, Amsterdam, St. Martyn and DeVreede, attested and declared at the request of Tymen Jansen, ship carpenter, that during their skippership he had worked on their boats and yachts and repaired what was necessary. However, he said that sometimes he lacked materials, so that he could not properly repair the vessels. Barent identified himself in the document as master of the Amsterdam and stated that he had been its master since 1638. Barent sailed on the Hudson River to Fort Orange (now Albany, New York) as well and the waterways around New Amsterdam not only for trade but in an effort to curtail or at least limit some of the rampant smuggling. Teunis Dircksz van Vechten who lived up the Hudson River at Rensselaerwyck kept accounts of grain delivered to the West Indian Company. He noted a payment of 40 schepels on 10 April 1641 to “skipper Barent Jacobsz.” Barent also served Manhattan. On 6 November 1644 he was paid three beavers, worth 21 pounds, for piloting the ship Wapen van Rensselaerswyck “outside the Santtpunt.” This ship sailed on to Bermuda. 
The colony of New Netherland grew very slowly during these years. The population of New Amsterdam, on the south end of Manhattan Island, was 400 to 500 in 1633 and 1643. Nearby Indian tribes responded to poor treatment with raids starting in 1640. War with the Indians peaked in the spring of 1643. When Roger Williams visited New Amsterdam in March 1643, he noted, “Before we weighed anchor, mine eyes saw the flames at their towns and the flight and hurry of men, women and children and the present removal of all that could for Holland.” By 1645, the population of the village had shrunk to no more than 250 persons. In the next few years, the population grew some, reaching 1,000 in 1656.
On 13 April 1654, Barent was sworn as a wine and beer carrier. The duties of a wine and beer carrier were to be available either in front of the East India Company warehouse or at his dwelling house from six in the morning to six in the afternoon. He was to be ready and at the service of everyone who would desire to lay in or remove any wine or beer. Under an act of the burgomasters of New Amsterdam passed 5 May 1654, Barent was appointed one of the two Excisemen whose official duty was to protect the wine and beer trade against fraud. He still held this office in January 1661, when he was referred to in a complaint.
In 1661, he and Joost Goderus were ordered by the burghers to go aboard the many ships in New Amsterdam harbor, search them and levy duty on all goods found on them. On 21 September 1663 Barent and others were appointed public porters. Joost Goderus and Frans Jansen were discharged and “other sober men” were to be appointed in their place. Barent was elected foreman. On 17 July 1665, Barent was called “Elder of the Beer Porters, to whom all shall be bound to show obedience.” On 19 September 1665, Jonas Barelsen and Barent Jacbsen Cool were commanded to inspect a boat and see what damage it suffered when loaned to another person.
Barent was enrolled as a “burgher” of New Amsterdam on the first list made on 14 April 1657 and took an oath of allegiance to the city authorities and of fidelity to the States-General of the United Netherlands, to the Dutch West India Company and to its Director-General. Small burghers were entitled to freedom of trade in the city and included natives of the city, people resident for a year and six weeks and salaried servants of the Dutch West India Company.
Although the population reached 1,500 by 1664, the city was still small and not well fortified. In 1664, and English fleet appeared and demanded its surrender. Without resources to defend the colony, Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Netherland to the English on 8 Spetember 1664. In October 1664, after the surrender of New Amsterdam to the English, Barent took an oath of allegiance to the King of Great Britain.
Barent and his family lived in a house owned by the West India Company, as listed in a 1665 directory as being on Brugh Straat (Bridge Street). On 15 May 1668, Govenor Richard Nicolls noted that Leendert Aerden was deceased, and since one of his daughters was the wife of Barent Jacobsen, the title to Leendert’s lot was conferred on Barent. The lot was described as being on the east side of the Great Highway, south of the house and lot of Johannes Nevius and north of the house of H. Smeeman, measuring 30 feet by 120 feet. This property was on Broadway immediately south of Wall Street and opposite the present south yard of Trinity Church.
Barent and Maretje were both sponsors at a baptism in New York on 4 November 1668, the last record we have of Marretje. The last record we have of Barent is his being listed as a sponsor in New York on 21 October 1671 at the baptism of his grandson, Johannes Willems Van Freedenberg.”

Source: The Jacobsen Cool Family by Richard H. Benson, 2001, published by Newbury Street Press.
Cole Family -- New Jersey
lornacole added this on 17 Jan 2012 
Cole Family, The THE COLE FAMILY.-One of the earliest families to arrive in America was Barent Jacobsen Kool (now written Cole), of Amsterdam, Holland, an officer in the Dutch West India service, who came over to New Amsterdam during the administration of Director-General Peter Minuit, under whom he served for some time with credit to himself and to his country. His son, Jacob Barentsen Cole, married Maritie Simmons and located at Kingston, N. Y., about 1659. This Jacob had eight children, the youngest of whom was Jacob, baptized at Kingston, N. Y., January 1, 1673, married Barbara Hanse, and in 1695 removed to and settled at Tappan, N. Y., where he died, leaving six children, all of whom married and settled either in Rockland County, N. Y., or in Bergen County, N. J. One of these, Abraham, born in 1707, married Ann Meyer. They were the great-grandparents of Rev. Isaac Cole, who was for many years pastor of the Dutch Church at Tappan, and whose son, Rev. David Cole, of Yonkers, N. Y., has published a History of Rockland County, N. Y., and of the Tappan Church. Barent, said to be a brother of Abraham, above mentioned, bought a large farm of the Van Valens a little south of Closter, where his descendants are numerous. Other branches of the family started at Hackensack. It may be safely said that many hundreds of the family are scattered over Bergen and Hudson Counties. Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 157. 

barent Jacobsen Cool -- important history
lornacole added this on 17 Jan 2012 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page |Surname List |Index of Individuals |InterneTree |Sources Barent Jacobsen Kool (b. 1610) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barent Jacobsen Kool (son of Jacob Arndsen Kool* and Aeltje Dercks) was born 1610 in Christened in Holland 1610. He married Marretje Leenderts de Grauw (Picard, France) in Married in America. Notes for Barent Jacobsen Kool: I got this information in 1993 when I was visiting Geri After Henry Hudson in 1610 another vessel was sent to trade with the natives and in 1612 2 more followed a few buildings were erected at the southern extremity of Manhattan Island and the place was named New Amsterdam. In1614 the State General of Holland granted a charter to the merchants engaged in the expedition and exclusive privileges were granted for a term in 1621 the Dutch West India company was established.(Jacobsen Barent Kool was an officer in this company in1633) Emigration to the New colony began in1623 Peter Miniut was appointed Govenor in1626 (Jacobsen Barent Kool provably came with him) he was recalled in 1633 Peter Stuyvesant the greatest and last of the Dutch Govenor was appointed In 1647 after fruitless negotiations the articles of surrender were signed by Govenor Stuyvesant and New Amsterdam became New York. The name "Kool" first appears on actual record (now extant) in America in 1630 and 1633. On the 13th of August,1630, Lenart (English spelling "Lennard"and Holland spelling "Leendert" or "lenart") Kool or Cole signed as Governor Minuet's Deputy Secretary,the famous patent to William Van Rensselaer for a tract of land upon the Hudson River. Also,in 1633, Barent Jacobsen Kool and six others, all holding office in the service of the West India company,signed a document called 'Condition and agreement" entered into between Commissary Jacob Van Curler and the chiefs of Sickenanes, on the 8th day of June,1633. Recorded in the Court of Minutes of New Amsterdam 1654 (I have the copy in my file) Barent Jacobsen Cool and Pieter Caspersen van naerrden are provisionally chosen,appointed,and accepted for one year Jacob Kool our last ancestor born in Holland was born abt. 1580.his son Barent Jacobsen Kool,Our first American ancestor. Probably came from Holland to New Amsterdam ( now N.Y.C.) in 1625 with Peter Minuet. Beginning with 1633 he can be traced through Civil records, and in 1640 he can be traced through Church and Civil records,down to 1665,the year after the surrender of New Amsterdam to England. Barent Was an officer of the West Indies Company in 1633. His name appears upon the list of those who took the Oath of Allegiance to the new English Government, October 21,22,23, and 24,1664. His name is alphabetically placed among the Jas being entered thus: Jacobsen Kool,Barent".After this his name cannot be found in any New York record. He was a respected a influential Holland Bugher of the early American period. Under the "Act of Burgomasters of New Amsterdam," passed May 5,1654, he was appointed as one of two Ex icemen (tax collectors) whose official duty it was to guard the wine and beer trades against fraud. From 1660 to 1690 most of his children appear on the Church records at Kingston. Barent and Marretje Leendert Kool were married in America had 9 children all born in this country. Leendert was the 5th. Leendert Kool born Dec. 1 1647, married Marretje Cornelis Kool they had 6 children. In book of deeds AA in County Clerk's office at Kingston are found deeds of land sold by Leendert Kool to different individuals. The first of these deeds is dated 2-18-1685, and the last ,1700. In these,he styles himself Leendert Kool and calls his wife "Mary". The deeds show that his residence was at Marble town in Ulster County,about seven miles from Kingston,but he attended the Church at Kingston. Their son Harmanus Kool was Baptized April 24, 1681.in Kingston NY Cornelia was Baptized in the Dutch Church in Kingston Oct 1685. Marriage banns April 5, 1707 in Kingston. Married Cornelia Van Leuwen. They lived in Minisink Valley. Andreas & Sara Schoonmaker Cool. Andreas was born in Deer Park ,Long Island. was Baptized Nov. 4, 1716. His will was dated 11-5-1795. Sara was Baptized 1-15-1719. Hermanus & Margaret Swartwood Cole His father was Andreas. Hermanus was born 1740 in Deer Park L.I. Married in Maghaghkmeck, N.Y. They later owned 1800 acre of land in Washington Co. Penn. Just why or when they moved to Penn is not known. They had 8 Children Moses was the oldest I think Samuel was his brother ( I want to get names of Hermanus and Margaret children) Hermanus and Margret are buried in Cross Creek Cemetery Washington Co. Penn. Samuel and Rachael Welsh Cole Samuel born 1765. On March 1802 George Welsh purchased a 10 acre tract"Raccoon Den"that was probably for Rachael and Samuel. It was sold 12-1-1613 and on 12-30-1839 Samuel and Rachael Cole bought 82 acres in Muskingum Co,. Ohio. Also the first of their children to give Ohio as a birthplace was 1814. All the older children were born in Penn. The 1810 census of Washington Co.,Pa. lists Samuel Cole as head of household with a family, as do also Ohio census of 1820,1830,1840. Samuel and Rachael Cole bought another 153 acres in 1822 and 50 acres in 1834. They were early members of the Muskingum Church,as were many of their decedents. They had 19 children children. Andrew and Elizebeth Hennon Cole Andrew was born 1815 in Pa. married Elizabeth Hennon 12-31-1835 died 1876 in Glenwood IA ,Mills Co. Elizabeth was born 1804 in Pa., died in Co. Bluffs in home of her daughter buried in Glenwood cemetery. Eleazer and Minnie Otis Cole Eleazer was born in Muskingum Co,. Ohio 1841 married Minnie Otis 1835 in Glenwood IA. died 1936.buried in Emerson Cemetery. Minnie was born in 1844 in Marrietta Ohio. died in 1930. Arthur and Carrie O'Donnell Cole Arthur was born Emerson IA. in Mills Co., Married Carrie O'Donnell in Sutherland Ne. 1907. Died at Red Oak IA 1958.Buried in Emerson cemetery. Carrie was born at in Carroll Co IA. 1885 died in Shenandoah IA. 1971. Marjorie was oldest daughter born Emerson 1910 Marjorie Cole married Emmett Adam Gipe 1930 in St Joe Mo., Frank Cole married Frances (Barber) Fisher August 6 ,1937 In 1991 When I visited Gerri when she lived in Patterson. we took a trip to her cabin and on the way home we went to Kingston and visited the Old Dutch Church that the Kools attended. I have a booklet CAPSULE HISTORY OF KINGSTON, NEW YORK AND THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH Kingston, the first capital of the State of New York, was established in 1652. It was the third settlement in New Netherland after New Amsterdam (New York) and Fort Orange (Albany). The Indians called the lowlands of the Esopus Creek Atharhacton (large field). The Dutch named it Esopus. In 1661 Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of the Dutch West India Co. established a local court and gave the name Wildwyck (wild refuge) to the settlement. In1664 New Amsterdam passed from Dutch to English control and they named it Kingston in honor of Governor Lovelace's family seat at Kingston. L'Isle in Berkshire. For a very brief time during the second period of Dutch control, the village was known as Swanenburgh. Thomas Chambers, a red-headed English carpenter, dissatisfied with the economic and political restrictions of life in the patent of Rensslaer-wyck (Troy) , moved south to Esopus. Although other persons came with him, Chambers' land purchase is the earliest of which there is a record. Trouble with the Indians was an on-going problem, There were intermittent raids, mostly when they " were made crazy by fire-water". In 1658 Peter Stuyvesant ordered the settlers to move to a central location that was to be enclosed with a stockade, 14 feet high, with guard houses and gates at several places. The settlers did move, and built stone houses within the stockade and the stockade area was enlarged three more times. (In later years, about 1771, the present Hoffman House Restaurant at the corner of North Front and Green Streets was one of the guard houses for the stockade. It had openings for muskets and a trap door in the roof where lookouts could keep watch over the lowlands and the creek.) On Thursday ,June 7,1661, while the men were working in the fields, the Indians entered the stockade in a friendly manner and then began an attack on the bewilder inhabitants. murdering them in their homes, set fire to the village and took women and children as prisoners. The Dutch Reformed Church evolved from the Protestant Reformation and is based on the beliefs of John Calvin. It was a state church therefore State supported, although each church was an independent entity. Holland was a haven for refugees from religious persecution. Although primarily a Dutch settlement , Esopus had English, French Huguenot, German and Norwegian residents. The spiritual guidance of the community had been a matter of concern to both the Director- General and the local inhabitants. Religious services were held in homes, conducted by a Vorlesr (lay reader) who read scripture and delivered the sermons. Sometimes by a special grant, he could baptize and marry, but could not offer communion. In 1659 the Dutch settlers requested an ordained minister from the Classics of Amsterdam. In August of that year Hermanus Blom visited Esopus and Preached a Sermon, He was well received and the colonists asked him to become their Dome (minister). He went back to Holland to be ordained and returned in September 1660. On December 26 he administered communion to 17 members. "The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston, N.Y." (our legal name) familiarly known as "Old Dutch" is the 6th oldest Reformed church in America with a continuous ministry and worship on practically the same ground . The baptism and marriage records dating from 1660, and in Dutch until 1808, makes these the most complete and oldest in the country still extant. All services and records were in Dutch untie 1809. Fifty reformed churches, stretching from east of the Hudon River to Pennsylvania can trace their roots to Old Dutch. For 170 years it was the only church in Kingston. (The Booklet which is in my files, contains more but I thought this the most relevant to our history) More About Barent Jacobsen Kool and Marretje Leenderts de Grauw (Picard, France): Marriage: Married in America. Children of Barent Jacobsen Kool and Marretje Leenderts de Grauw (Picard, France) are: Jacob Kool, b. 1637. Aeltje Kool md.Paulus Turck 9-12-1660 11 childre, b. 23 Sep 1640. Dievertje Kool no futher record found, b. 23 Feb 1642/43. Apollonia Kool, b. 29 Jan 1644/45. +Leendert Kool 6 children, b. 01 Dec 1647, New Amsterdam N.Y.. Arent Kool (1st) died in infancy, b. 09 Oct 1650. Thasanis Kool, b. 17 Aug 1653. Arent Kool (2nd) mo record found, b. 10 Oct 1655. Pieter Kool, b. 29 Sep 1657. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home | Help | About Us | Biography.com | HistoryChannel.com | Site Index | Terms of Service | PRIVACY © 2009 Ancestry.com 

Barent Jacobsen Kool
lornacole added this on 14 May 2011 
Barent's father-in-law was Leendert Arentsen DeGrauw who was born about 1600 in a village called AAlsmeer, about 10 or 12 miles south of Amsterdam. Barent came to New Amsterdam in 1638 along with his father-in-law's family, including his wife, Marretje Leenderts DeGrauw (who had married in 1637). Leendert purchased a portion of a lot that was immediately north of his previously-owned lot that was located on the Great Public Road (now called Broadway in Manhattan). This was the lot that was deeded to Barent on 15 May 1668 by Leendert who had died by 24 March 1664. 

First indication of Barent in New Amsterdam
lornacole added this on 14 May 2011 
First appeared in New Amsterdam, on 8 June, 1633 when he was 23 years old. On that date, he and six others signed a treaty with the Sickename Indians to purchase land bordering on the Connecticut River. Barent and his colleagues traded twenty-seven ells of cloth, six axes, six kettles, eighteen knives and various other articles for the land. 

Barent's Career
lornacole added this on 26 Oct 2010 
Barent was back in Amsterdam by 1635 at age 25, sailing on the Amsterdam and then in early 1938 arrived again on the ship Den Dolphyn (on which there appeared to be a deficiency of food. Barent was skipper (and possibly rhe master) of the yacht Amsterdam from 1638 to at least 1644. On 13 April 1654, Barent was sworn as a wine and beer carrier. In 1654 (until Jan 1661), he was appointed an exciseman whose duty was to guard the wine and beer trade against fraud. On 1665 he was called "elder of the Beer Porters. He was enrolled as a "burgher" of New Amsterdam on the first list made on 14 Apr 1657 and took an oath of allegiance to the city authorities and of States-General. Small burghers were entitled to freedom of trade in the city and included natives of the city, people resident for a year and six weeks, and salaried servaents of the Dutch West India Company. 

Baptisms of Barent;s and Marretje Children
lornacole added this on 26 Oct 2010 
All eight children were baptized at the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church betweeen the years of 1640 through to 1757. 

Barent in Amsterdam by 16 Nov 1635 at Age 25 and Again in 1638 on the ship Den Dolphyn
lornacole added this on 26 Oct 2010 
There appeared to be inadequate food for passengers for part of the 1638 voyage. 

Dutch East India Company
lornacole added this on 26 Oct 2010 
It was formed in 1602 and it laid the basis for modern dealings in equity securities. 

General Information
lornacole added this on 22 Oct 2010 
Worked for West India Company. •Name: Leendert Arentsen DeGrauw •Surname: DeGrauw •Given Name: Leendert Arentsen •Sex: M •Birth: CAL 1600 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherland 1 •Christening: 1607 , Noord-Holland, Netherland •Death: 24 Mar 1664 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland 1 •Ancestral File #: PJWB-GD •_UID: 2759C51CDB5BD9118CA900600FB9597DB48E •Note: Member of early Walloon Familyf New Netherland, appeared Leendert Arentsz, aged forty-four years, and Barent Jacobsz, aged thirty-four years, who at the request of Jan Jansz Schepmoes jointly attest, testify and declare, in place and with promise of a solemn oath if necessary and required, that it is true and truthful that they arrived here in the year 1638 in the ship Den Dolphyn, on board of which were then also Jan Schepmoes, his wife and two children, of which children during the voyage one received half rations and the younger, being a sucking babe, never received any ship's food. All of which they, the deponents, offer to confirm. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 12th of January 1645."" citing: "Kool Family in America (Descendants of Barent Through his Son Jacob), " "Historical Manuscripts, New York State" and "Domine Selyns's Baptisms and Marriages, New York" Arrived in New Amsterdam in 1638 on the ship De Delphyn along with hisson-in-law, Barent Jacobsen Cool. In May 1638, he agreed to take care ofthe cows belonging to the director of New Netherland. He later leased sixfarms (boweries) on Manhattan from the West India Company. He deeded afarm to Peter Stuyvesant in July 1663. This land became part of a largefarm that Stuyvesant retired on after the English took over the city in1664. Leendert got a land grant for a house and garden lying east of what isnow Broadway. This lot was the fourth lot south of Wall Street. He soldthis lot in 1651 to Lubbertus Van Dincklagen. He then bought a lot northof his former lot in 1656. This was the land that he deeded to hisson-in-law, Barent Jacobsen Cool in May of 1668. Member of early Walloon Family 12 Jan. 1645: "Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Leendert Arentsz, aged forty-four years, and Barent Jacobsz, aged thirty-four years, who at the request of Jan Jansz Schepmoes jointly attest, testify and declare, in place and with promise of a solemn oath if necessary and required, that it is true and truthful that they arrived here in the year 1638 in the ship Den Dolphyn, on board ofwhich were then also Jan Schepmoes, his wife and two children, of which children during the voyage one received half rations and the younger, being a sucking babe, never received any ship's food. All of which they, the deponents,offer to confirm. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 12th of January 1645." Wilmore, Genevieve Lentz, "A Family that Lost Its Cool," citing: "Kool Family in America (Descendants of Barent Through his Son Jacob)," "Historical Manuscripts, New York State" and "Domine Selyns's Baptisms and Marriages, New York" 

Barent Sailed on the Soutberg
lornacole added this on 22 Oct 2010 
In 1633, New Amsterdam had a population of only 400 to 500 people. Barent said from Amsterdam in late 1632 as a sailor on the Southberg, which arrived in April 1633 with 140 soldiers. On their journeym thet encountered Turkish pirate galleys and escaped only because there were so many soldierss on board. The also captured a Spanish vessel, the St. Martyn, which was loaded with sugar and towed it to new Amsterdam.