The Lansing Family of New York's Hudson Valley
Line of Descent from 17th Century Dutch Colonist
Aug 27, 2009
Gerrit Frederickse Lansing was a son of Frederick Lansing of the town of Hassel in the Dutch province of Overyssel. Gerrit came to New Amsterdam (New York), probably settling in Rensselaerwyck about 1650. (Some accounts place him in New Amsterdam several years earlier.)
Lansing Family Seat at Albany
At least six children were born at Hassell (Hasselt) to Gerrit and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hendrickse, including three sons who are believed to have come with him to the Province of New Netherland.
Genealogists should note that variant surname spellings, such as Lansingh and Lansinck, appear in early documents. The family seat was at Albany, where Gerrit F. Lansing, the immigrant, died sometime before the end of 1679.
Line of Descent
- Gerrit Lansing, son of Gerrit F. and Elizabeth, married Elsje (or Elsie), daughter of Wouter Van Wythorst.
- Gerrit Lansing, a trader residing at times in New York, Schenectady and Albany; he had a daughter, Elizabeth, to a first wife whose name is not known. Gerrit married in 1692, Catharine Sanders Glen, widow of C. B. Van Ditmars. Gerrit died in 1708. This line of descent is probably through his third wife, Elsie, whose surname is not known.
- Ann Lansing (bpt.1697) married Jacob Egmont (1685-1734) in 1716. They lived in Albany.
- Jacob Egmont (bpt. 1722) married Maria Lewis in 1744 at Albany.
- Rachel Egmont (bpt. 1752) married Alexander Dorr/Doorn (1744-1803). Their children were baptized in Schenectady, NY.
- Nancy Dorr (1783-1865) who wed Ezra Brownell (1769-1813).
- Hopeful Brownell (1808-1863) was born at Florida in Montgomery Co., NY and died at Chesterton, IN; married Isaac Seger (1803-1855).
- Helen Salina Seger (1847-1905), born in New York and died at Tulsa, OH; married in 1869 in Porter Co., IN, Christopher Columbus Sigler (1849-1919).
- Claude C. Sigler (1871-1935) was born in Hebron, IN and died at Tulsa, OK; married in 1898 at Rensselaer, IN, Minnie Topp (1878-1950).
- Pauline Sigler (1902-1977) was born at Monon, IN and died in Remington, IN; married in 1921 at Monon James Walter Critser (1899-1977).
- Betty Marie Critser was born in 1922 at Rensselaer, IN and wed, in 1947 at Hebron, IN, Maurice Leroy Knochel (b. 1921).
- Alana Kay Knochel, born in 1948 at Rensselaer, IN; married Paul Stephen Bauman (b. 1947) at Remington, IN in 1969. (Alana was living in DeMotte, IN in 1980 when she submitted the above lineage to this writer.)
Hudson Valley Families
The Lansings intermarried with numerous old Dutch families in the Hudson Valley, where they had large land grants and were traders, farmers and mechanics. One of the family, Abraham J. Lansing, had land granted him along the Hudson, where he founded the town of Lansingburg, now a part of the city of Troy, New York.
Direct male line descendants of Gerrit Lansing who still bear the Lansing surname are eligible for membership in the Holland Society of New York.
Other Sources:
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911).
Munsell, Claude G., The Lansing Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Gerrit Frederickse Lansing, privately printed, 1916.
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