Relationship to the Verplanck Family

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The Verplanck (or Ver Plancken or Planck) Family is an old Dutch family.  You can read about them on their website, but here’s a small blurb:

Mount Gulian is the Hudson Valley colonial homestead of the Verplanck family (also Planck or Ver Plancken). Between 1633 and 1638, a Dutch entrepreneur named Abraham Isaac Verplanck arrived in New Netherlands Colony (now New York & New Jersey) from Holland. He originally came to purchase land for a farming settlement and trading post. The trading post would enable him to trade Dutch goods with the local Native Americans in exchange for beaver and other furs, Indian tobacco, and trade goods that were rare in Europe. New Amsterdam was a thriving port and frontier town, filled with Dutch settlers, Indians and traders from all over Europe. Africans, both freemen and slaves, as well as French Huguenots seeking escape from religious persecution in Europe, and Jews fleeing the Inquisition in South America came to a relatively tolerant and busy New Amsterdam.

Abraham Issac Verplanck settled in the growing city and became a prosperous businessman. He married Maria Vigne Roos by 1635; they had Abigail and Gulian (Gulyn is Old Dutch for William), Catalyna, Isaak, Sussanna, Jacomyntje, Ariaentje, Hillegond, and Isaak 2. Issak 2 moved to Albany and established the Verplanck line in that city, which exists to this day.

I’ve mentioned the Ver Planck’s before:

Peter Van Antwerp (1779-1855) married Catherine Ver Planck.  Peter is part of the Daniel Janse Van Antwerp family line.

In looking into Ver Planck, I also found this interesting mention (in The Descendants of Roger Alling) which links their family to the Colvin’s who are of ancient English lineage.  The book talks about Colvin, Duke of Col-chester (or Kaer-Colvin) who became King of England and that Roman General Constantius married Helen Colvin (daughter of the King).  Their son, Constantine, became Emperor of Rome.  It states that Helen is Saint Helena who is honored as the discoverer of the remains of the cross in Jerusalem.  Fascinating.