HUSBAND:


Name   : John STRYKER
Bapt   : 30 Apr 1721   At: New Brunswick,Somerset,NJ
Married: 14 May 1744   At: Middlebush,Somerset,NJ
Died   : 1746          At: New Brunswick,Somerset,NJ
Father : John (Jan) STRYKER
Mother : Margaret VAN LIEW 
Notes/Sources

WIFE:


Name  : Nelly (Neeltje) QUICK
Born  : Abt 1718          At: Middlebush,Somerset,NJ
Died  : Date Unknown      At: Unknown
Father: Theunis QUICK
Mother: Unknown 
Spouse: (2nd) Lucas VANVOORHEES s/o Abraham 
Vanvoorhees and Neeltje Cortelyou
Notes/Sources

CHILDREN:


Name   : John STRYKER
Born   : 27 Jun 1745   At: Six Mile Run,Somerset,NJ
Married: 8 Nov 1764    At: New Brunswick,Somerset,NJ
Died   : 2 Sep 1820    At: Franklin Park,Somerset,NJ
Spouse : Catrina VANDERVEER 
Notes/Sources: See Next Generation 

From: "The Somerset County Historical Quarterly" 


 VOL V



Pub:  1916


"... on the Somerset side of the Old Indian Path or old road in 1766,
was the house of Gretie, widow of John Stryker, who was the son of
Garret Stryker of L. I.,... 



Gretie, the wife of John Stryker, was the daughter of Fred-
erick Hendrickson Van Liew of Jamaica, L. I. ... 



John Stryker died between 1735 and 1745, ... He had a son
John, who must have succeeded him in managing the farm. John the 
second was succeeded by his son, known by many now living, as Captain
John Stryker, who was a commander of a troop of light horse called
State troops in the Revolution....



John the second married Nelly, a daughter(-in-law?) of Lucas 
Voorhees, who kept a mill and store at the place on the Six-Mile Run
brook where Abram Voorhees lives, adjoining the Middlebush road. Lucas
was a prominent man in the church; had children, Ann, Abram and Lucy,
who married Peter Quick of Ten-Mile Run, a woman highly esteemed for
hermany Christian virtues. 



After the death of the widow Margreta, Capt. John Stryker, her
grandson, became the owner of the homestead farm and added 100 acres
to it of land which he purchased of a Mr. Kearney, lying across the 
road, and opposite to the old 300 acre tract, making his farm then
to contain 400 acres, excepting eight acres which had been sold to
Peter Pumyea and are now resided on by Edward Cushman...." 

From:   "A Genealogy of The Quick Family in America"

Author: Arthur Craig Quick


Pub:    1942

"...Our research correspondent in Naarden, finding no record
of any others by the name of Quick, quite naturally assumes that
among the British garrison there may have been a soldier by the name
of Quick--there being families of that name in Scotland--and that
this fellow so liked the country and one of its fair maidens that he
decided to make Naarden his permanent home, and said maiden his haus 
vrouw. This man was probably the grandfather or father of our Teunis
Thomaszen. 




The father of our Theunis was certainly named Thomas, for it was a
general custom in Holland to use the father's given name as the mid-
dle name of all his children, male and female, the family name in
many instances being omitted entirely, sometimes even lost sight of.
This custom also prevailed in America for many generations among many
of the Dutch families. There being no "Q" in the Dutch alphabet our
name for years was variously spelled in church and other records--Kwik,
Cuyck, Cuik, Cuick, Kuik, Kuyk, etc., in fact in early records all
names were spelled phonetically..."




FIRST GENERATION




Theunis Thomaszen Quick and Belijtgen Jacobus beyde jong, (both 
single), were married tot Naaren, Holland, 9 Marty (March), 1625. Our
research in the early records at Naarden shows this marriage. Theunis
Thomaszen Quick de Matzelaer van Naarden, as he sometimes signed his
name, meaning the mason from Naarden, was first heard of in the early
records at Nieuw Amsterdam, (New York), when, with his wife, Belitje,
they had their daughter Hillegonde baptized in the New Amsterdam Dutch
Church 25 November, 1640.




The van Naarden refers to his home town in Holland. Naarden is located
on the south shore of the Zuider Zee, some fifteen miles east of Ams-
terdam. We have the baptismal records of all their children except
Jacob, presumably born in Holland. Weyntje, the oldest, was baptized
at Naarden den 23 July 1628. It is believed that they came to America
not long after the birth of Weyntje, though the exact time is not
known..."




SECOND GENERATION




JACOB THEUNISZEN QUICK de Looper, (the runner), he sometimes signed
his name that way, though "de Looper" was really a nickname given him.
He lived in Albany 1660-1689. He is safely considered as one of the
sons of Theunis Thomaszen, since according tothe old Dutch method of
naming their children, his middle name Theuniszen denotes that he was
a son of Theunis.




This custom of so naming children has been very helpful in identifying
members of early Dutch families. Besides, there was no other family of
Quicks in America with whom he could have been connected, else our ex-
haustive research would have disclosed the fact. His name appears
frequently in Court and Notarial records at Albany in the years 1660
to 1689, indicating that he made Albany his home.




Fernow states that in 1674, Jacob had a residence on West side of 
Broad St., New York, between Wall and Beaver Sts., and was designated
as a "baker," showing that he had a bakery business there in addition
to his Albany interests. Jacob was sometimes referred to as "van Naar-
den," making it reasonable to believe that he, as well as his older
sister Weyntje, was born in Naarden before the parents came to America.




Jacob was married in the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam, 24 March 1655
to NEELTJE CORNELIS. The baptismal records at Albany are missing, so
we have no records of the births of their children. However, we know
they had at least four:-- Belitje, Cornelis Jacobsen, Gerritje and
Theunis Jacobsen, bap. 1718 to 1737 in New Amsterdam Dutch Church.




THIRD GENERATION




THEUNIS JACOBSEN QUICK, native of Albany, m. 1 Dec 1689 to VROUTJE
JANSE HARING in the New Amsterda Dutch Church. She was b. 3 Mar 1663
(or 3 May 1667), the dau. of Jans Petersen Haring of Tappan, NY, who
was b. in Holland 26 Dec. 1633, and in 1662 he m. Grietje Cosyn.




Theunis evidently left Albany and made his home in New York after his
marriage, where records of him are found. Vroutje became a member of
the New Amsterdam Dutch Church 25 Feb 1685. The meaning of the name
Vroutje is "little wife." They had 9 children.




Theunis was made a "Freeman" 18 Dec. 1695 (NYHS Coll. 1885 p. 59). He
and his brother Cornelis resided in the North Ward, New York, accord-
ing to the tax lists for 1695 to 1699, and were the only ones of that
name in that section. About the same time his household consisted of
1 male, 1 female, 4 children, 1 negress (Valentine's Hist. of N. Y., 
p. 358). Theunis had interests in NJ also, and several of his sons
later settled there on extensive farms.




He was among the contributors to pay the expenses of a Domine to come
from Holland to take charge of the congregation at Three Mile Run,
Somerset Co., N. J. "Teunis Kwik" joined the N. Y. Dutch Ch. 2 March
1705 (Record 59:263).




The will of Theunis Jacobsen Quick, "baker," dated 25 April 1739, 
proved 1 Nov. 1743, names his sons, Jacobus, Teunis, Cornelis, Petrus,
and Abraham, and dau. Neeltie, wife of John Furman (or Thurman). From
the above we infer that among other enterprises he was in the bakery
business, perhaps succeeding his father, who was in the same business
in May, 1667, as stated in vol. 6:67 of Fernow's "Records of N.A." His
will also provides that his daughter Neeltie is to receive the house
on the east side of Broad St., N. Y., the 5 sons to have the rest of
his estate. Their Negro woman and child to be sold to the highest
bidder among his children--(WNYHS, 3:412).




The New York Sun of April 9, 1938, records, together with photos, the
coming to light of the large silver bowl made for Theunis and Vroutie
Quick.




"The largest two-handled American Silver Bowl known to date has just
been acquired by Robert Ensco, Inc., of New York City. It was made by
Cornelius Kierstede, a silversmith of Dutch ancestry, who was baptized
in New York in 1675. He served his apprenticeship as a silversmith and
became a Freeman in 1698. He moved to New Haven in 1722.




"This Kierstede bowl is unusual because of its size and its beauty. It
is ten inches in diameter, four and one-half inches high and weighs a
bit over twenty-six ounces. It is more than an inch larger than any
other known two-handled bowl made by an American silversmith.




"There are six panels with embossed floral decoration that suggest the
flower motifs used by early Dutch painters. In the bottom of the bowl
is a large conventionalized flower of intricate workmanship. "While
Cornelius Kierstede worked in New York City his silver was highly 
individual and showed strong traces of continental influence. Unlike
many pieces of fine silver, this two-handled bowl bears the initials
of the owners, Q over T and V, for Theunis Jacobsen Quick and his good
wife, Vroutje Janse Haring Quick. They were married in the Dutch Re-
formed Church in New York City, 1st Dec. 1689. Later they moved to
Somerset County, N. J., where Theunis was an honored member of the 
Dutch Reformed Church in New Brunswick.



 
"There is no question that this bowl was made by Cornelius Kierstede
while he still lived in New York City. It shows a well-defined foreign
influence with the caryatid handles and the elaborate detail. Stephen
G. C. Ensco considers this piece one of the most important examples of
late seventeenth century American silver he has ever seen." 




This bowl is now in possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City. A photograph of it appears in this book.



 
Jan Pietersen Haring, father of Vroutje, who m Theunis Jacobsen Quick,
was the leader in a project to buy out the Tappan Indian rights in a
large tract of land, some 12,000 acres, lying on the west side of the
Hudson, partly in N. Y. and partly in N. J. Of the 16 shares in the
syndicate Haring took three shares for himself and two sons. The deed
to the land was signed by the Tappan Indian chiefs 17 March 1681 (old
style, which is 1682 in the modern calendar). The land was paid for
in goods of many descriptions. Jan died in December 1683. Jan's sons,
Peter and Cosyn Haring, each had one share in the syndicate, and on 8
April 1685, when Jan's widow, Grietje Cosyns, married Daniel De Clerk,
the third share passed to the widow's new husband.--(Rockland and Orange
Counties, vol. 2:36.)




FOURTH GENERATION



THEUNIS QUICK, bap. 11 Feb. 1700 in N.A.D. Ch. d. in 1781. The name of
his wife is not known. They had 3 daus.: NEELTJE, SARAH and MARY, and
one son, Col. ABRAHAM QUICK. It is believed there was another son,
HENDRIK QUICK, who d 19 Sept. 1818, aged 87, and was buried at Belle
Mead--the same neighborhood as where the rest of the family lived. All
our records indicate no other possibility. Hendrik was in the Revolu-
tionary War; see Roll of Honor.



 
During his lifetime Teunis built a large, substantial colonial dwelling
house on his large farm at Ten-Mile-Run, Franklin Twp., Somerset Co., 
N. J. This old homestead has been passed down thru his descendants, 
Col. Abraham Quick; Jacob Quick; his dau. Ann who m Martin S. Garretson;
son, John M. Garretson; and now in 1942 the house is in excellent con-
dition.



 
Will of Teunis Quick, "of the Province of East Jersey" (1700-1781),
and codicil dated 2 March 1776; proved 13 Oct. 1781, makes no mention
of his wife, evidently deceased. It leaves son Abraham all my black-
smith tools, clock, "silver tankard," and my farm. Daughters Neeltje,
Sarah and Mary each œ500. "Remainder of my estate, real and personal,
in Somerset, Middlesex, or in the Province or City of New York, to be
equally divided between my four children. Gives his grandson and name-
sake, Teunis Quick, his Negro boy, Will; and to granddaughter, Hannah
(Antje?) Quick, my Negro gal, Sal."




FIFTH GENERATION



1) NEELTJE QUICK, m.(1st) John Stryker 14 May 1744. 
m.(2nd) LUCAS VOORHEES

2) SARAH QUICK, m. JOHN STOOTHOFF

3) MARY QUICK, m. SAMUEL GULICK

4) ABRAHAM QUICK (Colonel), b. 1 Jan 1732; d. 25 May 1805