Hendrick Costers

  Noted events in his life were:

• Misc: had a son in law Johannes Roseboom. Johannes was the eldest son of Henderick Roseboom and Gysbertje Lansing. The roseboom family took their allegiance to the King of England on January 4, 1699. Henderick was the Sexton of Albany. Captain Johannes Roseboom was probably born in albany, about 1661. The order of his birth was determined from Dominie Dellius's list of church members and the order the children are listed there. Captain Johannes was a trader and previous to his marriage his life was adventurous. In the Colonial History vol v, p. 76 we read of a distant expedition of which he was the head, In or about the year 1685 Colonel Dongan, the governor of New York, sent one Roseboom, an inhabitant of Albany, with ten or twelve men, to invite the Ottawawas (a people on the back of Maryland, Virginia and Carolina) to come and trade at Albany. In volume III we find that Captain Roseboom on a second trip which was evidently in the direction of what we now call Canada, made a number of these indians prisoners, and that in restoring them the next year to their tribe by Dongan's orders was himself captured by a French expedition. On page 422 there is first a brief reference to the capture of the Indians:

August 1687, Otawa indian prisoners sent home by Captain Roseboom last Fall. then follows, p 476 a letter from Governor Dongan to a Captain Palmer in which the affair is described thus: The king's subjects here, living plentifully, have not regarded the making discoveies into the country until late, being discouraged by me. One Roseboom had leave in the year 1685 to go with some young men as far as the ottawawaas and Twiswicks, where they wer well recieved and wanted to come every year . . . . But a little after their being out, attacked a castle of their's and took five or six hundred prisoners, and brought them away to their own country; which, when I heard of, I ordered delivered to Roseboom and to one Major mcGregory, a Scot gentleman, who went with sixty of the young men of albany and some albany Indians (a beaver-trading to those further nations) as many of those prisoners as were willing to return home. the Governor of Canada hearing of their going that way, sent 200 Grench and 300 or 400 indians to intercept them, and has taken them prisoners, taken their goods from them, and what further danger is no known.

Johannes was an elder in the Dutch Reformed Church in albany. He was one of the pillars of the church. In 1692 he was an assistant alderman and in 1700 alderman of the 2nd ward holding office several times. In 1700 he is serving at Fort Albany as Lieutenant in Captain Johannes Bleecker's company. He is buried in the church January 25, 1745 age 84.


Roseboom, Catharine, [View Citation] [Table of Contents] A brief history of the ancestors and descendants of John Roseboom (1739-1805) and of Jesse Johnson (1745-1832) Cherry Valley, N.Y.: unknown, 1897 pgs 20-23

Hendrick married Geertje Goosense Van Schaick, daughter of Goosen Gerritsen Van Schaick and Geertje Van Nieukerke, about 1636. (Geertje Goosense Van Schaick was born about 1616 and died about 1680.)