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Jacob Stoffelsen (c. 1602 - c. 1657) was an early settler to New Netherland and one of the first European residents of what would become Hudson County, New Jersey.'

Origins immigration,Dutch West India Company
Stoffelsen, the son of Stoffel Cornelisse and van Lijne Jans was baptized on December 3, 1602 in Zierikzee, Zeeland, Netherlands. He is believed to have emigrated around 1630.

In 1635 Stoffelson was appointed Commissary of Stores and Overseer of the WIC's laborers. On March 22, 1639, reported to incoming Director of New Netherland that the Company's slaves had earlier built Fort Amsterdam (completed in 1635) and that they normally engaged in cutting timber for construction and firewood, clearing land, burning lime and doing agricultural work.

In 1641, Jacob Stoffelsen was selected as one of the Twelve Men - the first representative assembly in the colony. He was greatly respected by the colonists and Native Americans alike. In 1645, Stoffelsen become a member of the Eight Men/ He later was a member, pro hoc vice, of the council to consult to the director on Indian affairs. During Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's administration, Stoffelsen was confirmed as a Small Burgher of New Amsterdam.

Harsimus


Bergen, along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers, that would become contemporary Hudson and Bergen counties in northeastern New Jersey. Though it only officially existed as an independent municipality from 1661, with the founding of a village at Bergen Square, Bergen began as a factorij at Communipaw circa 1615 and was first settled in 1630 as Pavonia, with settlements at Harsimus, Paulus Hook, Hoboken and Vriessendael. They were along the banks of the North River (Hudson River) across from New Amsterdam, at the tip of Manhattan Island, under whose jurisdiction they fell.

As seen on the Manatus Map of 1639, the land holdings on the west bank of the Hudson. numbered 27 and 28 are described as the “plantation of Van Vorst”, named for the original superintendent of patroonship of Michael Reyniersz Pauw Van Vorst later leased the bouwerij, or homestead from the company. He died sometime around 1638. Van Vorst's widow Vrouwtje Idese, soon after married Stoffelsen and he moved to Harsismus where he resided until his death in 1677.

was spared in the Kieft's War https://books.google.nl/books?id=j1sKi0KPTewC&pg=PA476&lpg=PA476&dq=Stoffelsen+new+netherland&source=bl&ots=eGPmWQtVH9&sig=zgC1obufbLKZbS57t7d3h79GF3c&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1l4Tw4fLUAhVHLVAKHfI8DEsQ6AEIVTAH#v=onepage&q=Stoffelsen%20new%20netherland&f=false

van Vorst https://books.google.nl/books?id=p7gLgmpnowAC&pg=RA1-PA50&lpg=RA1-PA50&dq=jacob+Stoffelsen&source=bl&ots=8VR1_lhhs_&sig=QBsJOsl_nLmHyxkCLX6kHHIYQ7o&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjm4KWJgOvUAhVDUlAKHShNB9oQ6AEISDAJ#v=onepage&q=jacob%20Stoffelsen&f=false

In the history of slavery in New Jersey, Stoffelson is mentioned as the first slave-owner in the state, though WIC labourers had worked plantations before.