Born: About 1646 Amsterdam, Noor-Holland

Married: Abt. 1670 to Hermitie Pieters

Died: After 3 Apr 1720/21

FATHER

Jan Janse Dorlandt

  WIFE

Hermitie Pieters

CHILDREN

1. Maritie Dorlandt
    Bap: 19 Apr 1672 Witnesses: Wouter Gyssen and Futien Martense
    m. 6 Apr 1690 to Lucas Sebring
    d. Abt. 1720 (source 9 below)

2. Gerret Lambertse Dorlandt
    b.v   Abt. 1674
    m. Marytie Dorland
    d. Abt. 1731 Harlingen, Somerset, NJ

3.  Bennetje Dorlandt
    b. Abt. 1676
    m. Hendrick Hendrickse Suydan 
    child Elsje baptized 18 Apr 1704 with witnesses Rijk Hendrikze, Marytje Dorlant.

4. Elsie Dorlandt
    bap. 12 May 1678 Witnesses Thomas Lammertz and Annetie Rems
    m. 13 Feb 1701 Richard Merrill

5. Jan Dorlandt
    bap. 20 Mar 1681 Witnesses Jan Janz Romysyn and Maritie Arendt
    m. Bef. 1706 Barbara Van Nuys Aukes
    d. Aft. 1749

6. Lena Dorlandt
    b. Abt. 1683
    listed as "woman" in 1706 census
    old enough to be witness at baptism of Anntje Dorland in 1704
    m. Pieter Gerritsen
  
7. Lambert Dorlandt
    b. Abt.
    listed as "boye" in 1706 census

Lambert Dorland
By Susan Brooke
May 2021

Lambert Janse Dorland was born about 1646 as he was listed in the 1706 census for Staten Island as aged 60. (1)  This would make him about 17 years old when he sailed in the ship "Bontekoe" ("Spotted Cow"), arriving in New York on 16 April 1663. (2)  He married Hermitie Pieters about 1670.  Their first five children were probably born in Brooklyn and we have the baptismal records for three of them. (3) When his daughter Elsie was baptized on 12 May 1678 one of the witnesses was Annetie Rems.  She was the wife of his probable cousin, Jan Gerritse Dorland who had come to New Amsterdam in 1652.
In Dec 1680 Lambert applied for 130 acres of land on the NE side of Staten Island. (4) The census of 1706 lists Lambert on the same page with his wife, "Harmentha" and children "Else, Magdelen and Lambert." On a separate page are listed John Dorland and Barber Dorland.  There is no listing for Lambert's daughter Maritie married to Lucas Sebring, Bennetje married to Hendrick Suydam, or of his son Gerret Dorland. They had probably stayed behind in Brooklyn. Richard Merrill aged 26 is listed in Staten Island with his father, mother and probable sister Elizabeth. However genealogists have concluded the Else had married Richard Merrill in 1701, yet in 1706 she is listed as Else Dorland "woman." (1)
Lambert Dorlandt was listed as a weaver in Staten Island in a deed record written in 1701. (5) On 18 Mar 1715 he purchased 500 acres of land in Montgomery Township, Somerset Co. NJ. (6) It is questionable about whether he ever moved to New Jersey.  However, his son Gerret did in habit this land.  When Lambert's son Gerret died, Gerret's children were dividing those 500 acres in New Jersey. (7)  Lambert Dorland may have still been living in New York.  On 3 Apr 1720 he was a witness to the baptisms, on Staten Island, of Harmpje and Eva, twin daughters born to his son Jan Dorland. (8)  This is the last record found on Lambert Dorland.

Sources

(1) Historical and Genealogical Miscellany Vol 1 pg 153
1706 Census of Staten Island
list of men: Lambert Dorland  age 60
list of women: "harmentha dorland, Else dorland, Magdalen dorland"
list of "boyes": Lambart Dorland

1706 Census of Staten Island pg 151
list of men: John Dorland age 25
list of women: barber dorland

(2) Passenger List of the Bonte Koe

(3) Brooklyn Baptisms

1672 Apr 19: Lambert Janse Dorlant and Hermetie Pieters: Maritie, Witnesses: Wouter Gyssen and Futien Martense

1678 May 12 Lammert Dorlant: Elsie, Witnesses: Thomas Lammel and Annetie Rems

1681 Mar 20 Lambert Janz Dorlant and Harmptje Jans: Jan, Witnesses: Jan Janz Ronsyn and Maritie Arend 

(4) LAMBERT DORLAND AND HARMPTJE PIETERS
Lambert or Lammert Dorlandt was born about 1639-1646 probably in Holland or Belgium. In the 1706 Census of Staten Island, he stated he was 60 years old. He arrived in NY on the Spotted Cow or Bonte Kow, April 16, 1663. The spelling on the Manifest is Lammert Jansen Dorlandt. He married Harmptje Jans Pieters who was probably the daughter of Jan and Elsie Pieters of Brooklyn. Lambert died after April 3rd 1720/21 when the last record that I could find, lists him as a sponsor for the baptism of Harmptje, daughter of his son Jan in the Staten Island DRC. He was probably buried on Staten Island and contrary to family myths did not live on land he owned in Montgomery Twp. Somerset Co. NJ. Lammert appears on the Assessment Roles for Brooklyn, Kings Co. in 1675 & 75; Aug. 1675 1 poll, 4 cows, L38, 8 Morgans land and valley 16 Total 54. and on Middlewout 1676 Lambert Jansen and Lambert Jansen Dorlandt 1 poll, 3 cows, L33, 8 Morgans land and valley 16, Total 49. An account taken by Thomas Lamberts, Constable. of Brooklyn taken the 27th day of June 1672 of his Years Rates, show that on Jan 27th the high Sheriffe gave a bill at his hand to allow out of the rate, out of which the widow Neville was to have 50 G, the bill was to Lambert Jans Doorlande the last Court which was not paid yet. On April 4, 1677 Lambert witnessed a document for his neighbor Paulus Vanderbeek who was purchasing land from the Indians. This land is now located in Greenwood Cemetery an area today called Green Hill in Brooklyn. While living in Brooklyn Lambert Dorlandt and others purchased land, confiscated from Charles Gabry, and obtained from Gov. Lovelace on or before Feb. 3, 1672/73. Each pledged his person and property. Signed January 1672/73. In DEC 1680 he applied for 130 akers, Northside of Staten Island, the front of Gov. Lovelace’s land to the water side. Philip Wells surveyed the 145 acres of land laid out for Lambert Dorland. This was described as being situated on the North East side of Staten Island against Constables Hook with a dwelling house and fences being part of the plantation belonging to Col. Francis Lovelace, late Governor. Beginning on the water side at a white Oak Tree on the East of Philip Wells land and running southerly up by a small fresh water stream into the woods etc. It totaled 130 acres with 8 rodd by the water side being left for a highway together with a 15 acre meadow against John Tunisons Neck on the North West side of the Island. He received the Patent Dec. 2, 1680. There is a survey map attached to this document. The land was resurveyed on May 26, 1712 by Philip Wells. A road was laid out on the 23 of Marcy 1704/5, described as “from the house where Abraham Lake now dwells along the up land of the waterside and along the front of Justice Duxbury, Lambert Durland, Nich Tunison, Garret Veighte so over a bridge to be make over a creek etc. This is probably today’s Shore Road. Lambert’s land is mentioned in the will of Jacob De Hart, Feb. 8, 1777. DeHart was willing the salt meadow to his grandsons. On Oct 26, 1687 Jan Roelof Sybrandt and Lambert Dorlandt obtained a strip of land along the Hudson shore in the Highland, all the way from Anthony’s Nose to Polipel Island and east into the woods to a marked tree. This purchase was never completed even though a license was obtained in 1691. Anthony’s nose was a large hill or cliff while Polipel Island was located at the North side of the Highlands. In 1691 Lambert and Jan Roelof Sebring obtained from the Indians a deed for a tract of land which included the western part of present Putnam Co. after obtaining a license from Gov. Slaughter. The description was “to a marked tree” along the Rombout Philipse Line or land of Cortlandt and Co. Adrian Phillipse purchased this land from them June 6, 1697. Evidently the original deed by which the land was conveyed to Dorlandt and Sybrandt is still in existence. Lambert Dorland appears as the Defendant in a court case with Richard Merrell as the Pltf the 5th of Feb. 1681. Lambert Dorlandt of Staten Island and his wife Harmptje sold their farm in Brooklyn on Cot 21, 1696, to Jacob Vanderwater Sr. of Brooklyn bounded by lands of Hendrick Sleght, Hendrick Strockells. Both signed, she by mark. A census of Staten Island was taken in 1706. Lambert is listed as being 60 years old. He, his wife Harmintha and daughters Magdalena and Elsie appear on one list while his married son John and his family appear on another. It would appear that the two families lived in separate areas of Staten Island. On March 18, 1715 in conjunction with Peter Cowenhoven, Lambert purchased of Octavio Conraats a tract of 500 acres of land in Montgomery Township, Somerset Co. NJ, known as the Harlingen Tract. Conraats was one of 17 Dutchmen who in 1710 purchased extensive land from Peter Somans. Lott 12 in the Harlingen Tract now boarders both sides of Skillman Road . I have never been able to locate this Deed from Conraats to Dorland and Cowenhoven either in New York or New Jersey, but was told by the NY State Education Department that they had this in their indexes but could not locate it in their files. Lambert Dorlandt is mentioned in numerous deeds and documents located in the Richmond County Clerks Office. In Lib C, page 186 Lambert is listed as a weaver with Hannah his wife. The property was deeded to Dorlandt May 11 1701, and recorded by his son Jan on Cot 2, 1721. According to the Richmond Co. Clerks Office this land was probably located in the Rosebank or Ft. Wadsworth sections of Staten Island. Lambert Dorlandt was among the signers of the “Petition of the Protestants of New York to King William III”, listed as a Freeholder and Inhabitant of Richmond Co. He also appears in various Richmond County records and court documents. In January of 1692 Lambert Dorlandt paid for the burial and shroud of an adult.
1720 is the last recorded date that I could find for Lambert Janse Dorlandt. There is no record of the death dates for Lambert Janse and his wife Harmptje or where they are buried but most families had cemeteries on their own property at this time. I do not believe that he lived, died or was buried in Somerset Co., NJ but rather followed the custom of the time purchasing land as an investment, the land that his grandsons settled in later years in Montgomery Township, in Somerset Co., NJ. A memorial stone was erected in the cemetery and both the cemetery and the stone are described in the book by John Dorland Cremer. I took a photo of this stone to a meeting of the New Jersey Genealogical Society for their expertise as to whether this was a tomb stone. Their opinion was that it was not, rather a descendant or descendants created and erected a memorial stone. A drill was used to create the design in the stone. There is also a large boulder, near by, with a cross created by a drill so the same individual may have created both markers. However, from a very faint photo which I have, created from old negatives that belonged to Nathaniel McPherson Durling and later owned by his son Warren Durling it is obvious that the entire stone was in tact during Nathaniel McPherson Durlings lifetime. While all you can see is a very faint outline of a stone and not the inscription, the size indicates it was intact when compared to the stone in the frame. In later years the stone was removed for safe keeping by Mr. F. N. Dorland of San Diego who erected a brick marker with a bronze plaque. Mr. Dorland then took the stone back to California. A few years ago I arranged to have the stone returned to me. Mr. Dorland had placed the stone in a frame. I have placed it on loan to the Van Harlingen Society. They have the framed stone on display in their headquarters in the Dirck Gulick House. Only a portion of the stone remains, that of the ship is missing. Another description of this cemetery appeared in a newspaper article and only. the written inscription is described.

(5) Richmond County, New York Deed BK C pg 186
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Indenture made 5 May 1701 between Jacob Johnson of Staten Island and Lambert Dorland of the same county, weaver for 120 acres.
Recorded by Jan Dorland 2 Oct 1724

The Dorland Family in America, by John Dorland Cremer, 1898

(6) Dorland Book pg 187 In the year 1715 Lambert removed to Somerset County, East Jersey, in the vicinity of the present village of Harlingen, near Six Mile Run., a tributary of the Raritan, where on March 28, in conjunction with Peter Cowenhoven, he purchased of Octavio Conraats a tract of 500 acres of land.

(7)  Dorland Book pg 193 Gerret and his brothers Abraham and Lambert executed, Mar 29, 1739/40, a quit claim deed dividing the 500 acres tract of their father into 3 parts and conveying specifically one part, about 160 acres, to each.

(8) Historical and Genealogical Miscellany Vol 1 pg 113

Staten Island Baptisms
1720 den 3rd April  Harmpje and Eva (twins\): Jan Dorlant and Barbara Aukes: Witnesses: Lambert Dorland, Richard Merl, Elsje Dorlant, Harmpje Ryke

(9) The Dorland Enigma Solved: A Revision of the Dorland Genealogy by Judith Smith Cassidy, Harry Macy, 2007

Lena married at about age 27, undoubtedly in 1720, Pieter Gerretsen, who was born around 1687 probably in Flatbush, the third son of Gubert Gerretsen and Geertruy Willems Van Boerum.
The probable reason for naming her second child Marytie, rather than for her mother, may be that her older sister Marytie (Dorland) Seubering, for whom no children or death date have been found had died that year.