Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker

Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker (* 1650 in Olst - Wijhe Overijssel, Netherlands, † 1720 in Nieuw Amsterdam, nor Harmen Jansen van Wijhe ) was a Dutch colonist in the vicinity of Albany, USA.

Before 1683 he settled in the vicinity, of today's Albany, in 1704 he bought about Gansevoort Harnie a quarter of the agricultural land in Dutchess County, in 1688 he settled this property from the first mayor of Albany, Pieter Schuyler, evidencing the name Nickerbocker.

After the death of Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker told Schuyler seven of the 13 plots in the upper quarter of this basic letter to seven children from Knickerbocker.

The oldest child was John Harmensen, this was from the Common Council of the City of Albany ( city council ) a basic letter on 50 acres (20,000 m²) meadow and a few acres of land north unvernässtes of Albany, on the south bank of the Schaghticoke torrent.

This plot of land at Schaghticoke Creek was owned by the son of John Harmensen, John Harmensen (1723-1802) a colonel in the army of the U.S. independence movement, and by his son, Herman Knickerbocker (1779 -1855), a lawyer, member of the Federalist Party 1809-1811 Member of Parliament and in 1816 the city council in the New York assembly. This Herman Knickerbocker inspired Washington Irving to figure Diedrich Knickerbocker in his History of New York, 1809. This work was Knickerbocker synonymous with the first Dutch settlers in New York and their descendants.

A son of Herman Knickerbocker (1779 -1855), David Buel Knickerbacker (1833-1894), studied in 1853 at Trinity College in Connecticut, was rector in Minneapolis and 1883 Episcopal Bishop of Indiana.