Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt

Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt
Born	Claes Maertenszoon van 't Rosevelt 1623 Netherlands
Died	December 4, 1679 New York City, Province of New York
Occupation(s)	businessman, landowner, farmer
Children	Nicholas Roosevelt (1658-1742), Christiaen Roosevelt (born 1650), Elsje Roosevelt (1651/1652-1703), Anna Margariet Roosevelt (1654-1708), Anna Roosevelt (1662-1744)
Parents	Maerten Corneliuszen Gelderman Van Rosenvelt (father) Cornelia Johanna Lodewijk (mother)
Family	Roosevelt Family

Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt (1623 - December 4, 1679) was a Dutch-American businessman and landowner in New Amsterdam and is the Patriarch of both the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park Roosevelt Families and the 5th great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Early Life and Immigration

New Amsterdam in 1662

Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt was the only child of Maerten Corneliuszen Gelderman Van Rosenvelt (1596-1661) and Cornelia Johanna Lodewijk (1600-1694) in the Dutch Republic. Between 1638 and 1649, Claes immigrated to New Amsterdam (present-day New York City). On August 6, 1650, he married Jannetje Samuels Thomas (1625-1662) and the couple had 5 children from 1658 to 1662: Nicholas Roosevelt (1658-1742), Christiaen Roosevelt (born 1650), Elsje Roosevelt (1651/1652-1703), Anna Margariet Roosevelt (1654-1708), Anna Roosevelt (1662-1744). ^{[1] [4] [2] [3] [5]}

Later Years and death

In 1652, he bought a farm from Lambert van Valckenburgh, comprising 24 morgens (i.e., 20.44 ha or 50.51 acres) in what is now Midtown Manhattan, including the present site of the Empire State Building. The property included approximately what is now the area between Lexington Avenue and Fifth Avenue bounded by 29th St. and 35th St. ^[6] Claes died on December 4, 1679 at the age of 56. His son Nicholas changed their family name from Van Rosevelt to Roosevelt. ^{[1] [7]}

References

1. Source: The Roosevelt Genealogy 1649-1902, by CB Whittelsey, Hartford, Conn.
2. Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta (2007). Franklin Delano Roosevelt : a national hero. Internet Archive. New York : Sterling Pub. Co. ISBN   978-1-4027-4747-2.
3. Team, InRead (2022-06-05). [Must Read Personalities] A life Story of Franklin D Roosevelt. by Mocktime Publication.
4. Riker's History of Bap. records copied from Church records, Harlem p. 532.
5. Roosevelt, Theodore (2012-10-15). In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-6553-6.
6. "Lambert Van Valckenburgh in New Amsterdam". www.vanvalkenburg.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
7. Raymer, John D. (1980-06). "The Roosevelt Chronicles". Magill’s Literary Annual 1980: 1–4.