Came to New Netherlands, on ship Bontekoe (Spotted Cow) . Arrived April 15 1660. Kingston, with eight children All born in Herwynen, Province of Gelderland Holland.

Aeldert Heymansen Roosa was born around 1620 in Herwijnen, a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. Nothing is known for certain about his early life. It is said that he came from a prosperous family, and one recent (and highly questionable theory) theory holds that the family was of Jewish origin. Nonetheless, Aeldert was a lifelong member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He must have had some education as a child, as we know that he was able to read and write.

During his lifetime, his name was spelled a variety of ways. We see him in the records as Aldert Roosa, Albert Roosa and sometimes as just Aldert Heymansen. Roosa too appeared in different ways, Roose and Roos being two common variations.

Wyntje Ariens De Jongh was born about 1620 in Herwijnen, The Netherlands.

The date of the marriage of Aeldert Roosa and Wyntje De Jongh is not a matter of record, but it probably occured around 1640.

For a time, the family lived at Herwijnen, where Aeldert appears in the records as a yeoman, or farmer. By 1660, he had decided to move his family to New Netherlands.

On February 28, 1660, he granted a Power of Attorney to Adriaen D'Jong (De Jongh), a brother of his wife, to administer his lands and goods in Holland as he had in mind "to transport himself with his family next month to Nieuw Netherland."

"Aldert Heymans, agriculturalist, from Gelderland, and wife and eight children" arrived in New Amsterdam on April 15, 1660 as passengers on the ship Bontekoe (spotted cow). It is said that he brought much property with him from The Netherlands and quickly became an influential member of his new community.

The Roosa family proceeded up the Hudson River to Esopus or Wildwyck, now Kingston, Ulster County New York. They were there by September 12, 1660, when they were among the first communicants at the new Dutch Reformed Church at Esopus. Aeldert would later become an elder of this church, and was a member (perhaps the only and certainly a very prominent member) of its consistory.

On March 4, 1661, Aeldert and others signed a contract guaranteeing a salary to Domine Blom, who had just arrived. Aeldert signed the paper "Alaerdt Heymensen Roose."

In May he was appointed one of the three schepens or magistrates at Esopus, under Schout (sheriff) Roellof Swartwout, and thus became part of the first court in the county. He remained in that office until May 22, 1663.

In 1661 Aeldert Roosa was also appointed one of the commissioners to enclose the village of Hurley (near Kingston, also called The New Village and New Dorpf), which had just come into being. A 1662 list of those who owned land at Hurley includes "Albert Heymansen" as the owner of lot 24. It would seem that he moved to Hurley and that it was there that he maintained his farm. He was also commissioned (on Oct 11, 1662) to go to New Amsterdam and purchase two hundred pounds of lead and one hundred pounds of powder for the defense of the settlements.

On March 30, 1663 Governor Stuyvesant appointed him one of three overseers of Hurley, with the task of enclosing the village with palisades for its defense.

On April 7, 1663 Roosa and the other overseers wrote to Stuyvesant to explain that the Indians would not allow the constrution of the pallisades. "Praying that the gifts promised the savages be sent at once that your good and humble subjects may remain without fear and molestation from these barbarous people, for if rumors and warnings may be believed it would be too dangerous for your humble petitioners and faithful subjects to continue and advance their work otherwise." The Overseers further said that they had to consider "the threats of the savages, who say, that they are willing to allow the erection of buildings, but that no fortification must be made, which, if it should be done, would show that we had evil intentions."

Just a few months later, on June 7th, war broke out between the Dutch and the Esopus Indians. The causes are complex and shall not be discussed here; suffice it to say that the village of Hurley was leveled and that two daughters of Aeldert Roosa were carried off as captives along with many others.

Roosa, always in the thick of things, was a member of the Council of War. Agitated over the loss of his daughters, and hot-tempered to begin with, he had difficulty with his fellow counclimen as the court records show: "Roelof Swartwout, plaintiff vs Allert Heymans Roose, defendant. Plaintiff alleges that the defendant challenged a member of the court sitting in the Council of War at the house of Thomas Chambers, July 7, 1663 concerning two Wappinger savages, saying, "If there is anyone at this meeting who is a friend of the savages, I dare him to come outside." Marten Crieger, the military commander at Esopus recorded the incident in his journal. "This said Jan Hendricksen, with one Albert Heymans Roose, acted insolently on the 7th July. Whilst we were examining the two Wappinger Indians, in the presence of the Schout and Commissaries, in Thomas Chambers' room a messenger came in and said that two or three boors were without the door with loaded guns to shoot the Indians when they came forth. Whereupon I stood up and went to the door- found this Albert Heymans Roose and Jan Hendricksen at the door with their guns. Asked them what they were doing there with their guns? They gave me for answer, We will shoot the Indians. I said to them, You must not do that. To which they replied, We will do it though you stand by. I told them in return, to go home and keep quiet or I should send such disturbers to the Manhatans [New York]. They then retorted, I might do what I pleased, they would shoot the savages to the ground even though they should hang for it; and so I left them. This Albert coming into the Council told the Commissaries that one of them should step out. What his intention with him was I can't say..."

A number of expeditions were launched to recover the captives, and Roosa almost certainly was a part of them. His two daughters were eventually returned to him after what must have been many anxious months.

In the fall of 1663, Roosa was at the center of another bitter dispute. The Magistrates at Kingston grew angry with the church consistory (Aeldert included), who were accused of infringing upon the rights of the magistrates in regards to the handling of the estates of intestates. Suyvesant advised both parties to stay within the bounds of their authority.

The consistory continued to play an active role in the life of the town. On February 12, 1664, they sent the following petition to the court. "The Reverend Consistory here... request... that the public, sinful and scandalous Bacchanalian days of Fastenseen [i.e. Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday], coming down from the heathens from their idol Bacchus, the God of wine and drunkenness, being also a leaven of popery, inherited from the pagans, which the Apostle, in 1 Co. 5, admonishes true Christians to expurge, may, while near at hand, be proscribed in this place by your Honors, by proper ordinances, while we admonish against and publicly reprehend those abominations, so that through God's grace and blessing we shall mutually have done our duty, and we may thereby do some good for this place and its inhabitants, their bodies as well as their souls,- the more so as we are passing through such woeful times of God's judgement over us in this place [a strange disease was then ravaging Esopus], inflicted because of our sins- and so we may not, through such scandalous sins as Fastenseen, and sinful doing, continue to irritate the Lord and still further call down his judgements upon us, for we are still under his rod, and his sword of war still threatens us yet more to try the land and its inhabitants."

Roosa, the most prominent member of the Consistory, no doubt had a hand in this petition and may well have written it.

English rule brought new troubles to the Roosas and their neighbors. It is recorded that Aeldert threatened three English soldiers with an axe over an argument regarding the use of his canoe. Later, in May 1665, Roosa was summoned to court after another scrape with some soldiers in which he took a gun from them. It was rumored that he was to be arrested, and the burgher guard in which he was a Sergeant assembled, but the when it was learned that he had merely been summoned before the court they dispersed. The result of the case is not known.

The English next placed a certain Captain Broadhead in command at Esopus. His brutal conduct made rebellion inevitable On February 16, 1666 Aledert, his son, and others were convicted of "taking up arms in a riotous and illegal manner... to awe, terrify and suppress his Majesty's English Garrison." It was thought that they deserved to be put to death, but the Governor instead banished them and fined them 100 bushels of wheat; however there is no record that they ever left town. Indeed, just a few moths later, in April 1666, Aeldert was in a brawl with another English soldier, Francois Vreeman. On January 2, 1667, Roosa led the inhabitants of Esopus in a petition of complaint against Schout George Hall. They stated they he was appropriating for his own use some of the firewood they hauled to the guardhouse for they use of the soldiers. On February 4, 1667 another revolt broke out. This one would go down in history as the Esopus Mutiny. The immediate cause was the imprisonment of Cornelius Slecht by Broadhead. The riot ended without bloodshed when the Captain threatened to burn the town, but the litigation was yet to come.

The settlers presented a list of grievances to the governor, among which were two involving Aeldert Roosa. "...Albert Heymans Roos, going with his plouw yron towards the Smits, was assalted by five souldrs. whoe wounded him very much." He was then imprisoned, and again beaten. It seems, however, that Roosa had thrown his "plouw yron" at one of five drunken soldiers who had been harassing him and others and that the fight had begun as a result. In all fairness to Aeldert, he missed his throw and the soldier was drawing his sword!

In response to this petition, the Governor appointed a Commission to look into the troubles in April of 1667. But it was not to be a fair hearing. In his instructions, Governor Nicholls wrote "Albert Heymans and Anthony D. Elba have spoken most malicious words, and I look upon them as great incendiaries and disaffected persons; if their words be proved they shall not be suffered to live in this government; if they have been actors in the late riot, pitch upon them two for ringleaders..." While the Commission suspended Captain Broadhead they also found Aeldert and others guilty. They were hauled off to New York for sentencing, and Aeldert was banished for life from the government.

By February 1668, this sentence had been modified, and Aeldert returned to Kingston (if he had ever left; again there is no record that he did). In 1669 he petitioned for and was granted permission to set up a brewhouse and tanffatts at Hurley. He also joined with others in a petition requesting that a minister who could preach in both Dutch and English be sent to Kingston and became one of the overseers at Hurley, along with Louis DuBois, on September 16. He was also sued by Magdalena (Blanchan) Jansen/Van Keuren for 7 schepels of wheat due to her for having instructed his daughter in knitting.

The new Governor, Francis Lovelace, appointed Roosa a Sergeant in the Militia of Hurley and Marbletown. He was ordered to take charge of the "rendezvous at Marbletown", which was held in April, 1670. He also served as a mustering officer. Earlier in 1670, he had obtained a patent for ten acres of land at Hurley and given over to the government eight acres, to satisfy the people of Marbletown. On October 25, 1671, Roosa was appointed to sit on the Kingston Court of Sessions "for Hurley." On October 6, 1673, he was appointed Captain of a company of soldiers from Hurley and Marbletown by the temporary Dutch government.

Aeldert Roosa passed away on February 27, 1679. He was around fifty-five or sixty years old.

Wyntje Roosa survived him until at least 1685, when she obtained a grant of 320 acres of land at Hurley, said to have been given to her in recognition of her husband's services. Thereafter she drops off the record.

Aldert (Albert, Alaerdt, Allard) Heymansen ROOSA, the founder of the Roosa family in America, was born in 1621 in Herwynen, Gelderland, Netherlands. With his wife and eight children, the Roosas arrived at New Netherlands on April 15, 1660 on the ship "De Bonte Koe, "The Spotted Cow." Aldert was a wealthy man for his day and brought considerable property with him and quickly "occupied an influential position in the new settlement."

In the Spring of 1661, he joined in a contract guaranteeing a salary to Domine Bloem who had been called as the regular pastor of the Dutch Church at Wiltwyck. Upon their arrival, Aldert secured passage for himself and family for Esopus (Kingston) and took up residence in the Esopus District at Wiltwyck by 1664. When a new village was laid out, he remained there, and from that time to his death, he resided at Hurley. At the destruction of the village of Hurley on June 7, 1663 by the Indians, two of the Roosa children with 43 others were taken captive. They were rescued by the colonial forces under the command of Captain Martin Kregier.

After the surrender of the Dutch government to the English in 1664, Aldert led the revolt of the Burghers against military leaders. He and Cornelius Barentsen Slecht and two others were found guilty of a rebellious and mutinous riot at Esopus and were taken to New York for sentencing. Roosa was to be banished for life out of the governmdent and the others for shorter terms out of Esopus, Albany, and New York. Each of their sentences were later modified and the offenders returned to Esopus.

Governor Francis Lovelace restored Roosa to favor and in 1669 appointed him and Luis Du Bois as two of the overseers for Hurley (New Dorp) or New Village. Roosa also served in the military forces of the Colony as mustering officer and in other capactiies. He died on February 27, 1679 at Hurley, Ulster Co., New York.

The ancestors of the Roosa family in America were descended from Albert Heymans Roosa. He landed in New Netherland in April, 1660, coming on the ship Bonti Koo, (Spootted Cow) in company with Roeloff Swartseout and others. The record of his arrival is found in the Documentary History of New York, Vol. 3, p. 56 under early immigrants to New Netherland 1656-1664. The accounts are as follows: Albert Heymans, Agriculturalist from Gelderland and his wife and eight children. The wife of Albert Heymans Roosa was named Wyntje Allards or Ariends and soon after their arrival they settled in the Esopus district at Wiltwych, now Kingston, Ulster County, NY.

At this place, with Cornelius Barents Slecht and wife; Lryntjo Bos Mathese Blanchere and wife, Madeline Jorisco; Roellof Swartivout and Eva Albertus Bradt de Noorman and others. Albert Heymans Roosa and his wife participated in the first administration of the Lords Supper on December 25, 1660 by the Reverend Harmonus Bloem. Roosa was a wealthy man for those days, bringing with him considerable property from Holland. He speedily occupied an influential position in the new settlement. In the spring of 1661, he joined in a contract which guaranteed a slary to Domine Bloem, who had been called as the regular pastor of the Dutch Church of Wiltoyck. (? sp.) Copy of the Agreement The undersigned inhabitants of the serttlement at he place called Esopus, promise to give our Reverend Minister Harmonus Bloem as salary for the first year (which salary had commended upon his arrival here on the 5th of September, 1660) the sum of seven hundred guilders in corn at beaver valuation in case his farm should fail and we promise further to put the farm in good order according to contract as soon as the land has been allotted and to raise that sum at the latest for the coming farming season. This we the undersigned promise faithfully and truly to do. This done on the 4th of March, 1661. Signed: Thomas Chambers Cornelius Barentsen Slecht Mark of Gentury Andries " " " Jurian Westfall Roeloff Swartout Alaerds Heymansen Roose (a)

See documents relating to the history and settlement of the towns along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, page 194 being Volume 13, old series and Volume 2, new series of documents relating to the Colonial history of the State of New York . The history of Kingston ,New York, page 22 by Marius Shoonmaker of Kingston. Esopus was then without a local government and, in fact, a dependency of Fort Orange. The people were dissatisfied with such a dependent position and wanted a government of their own. About that time, Roeloff Swartout, a son of one of the original settlers visited Holland , and through his representives and other influences the Amsterdam directors of the West India Company determined to make the Esopus settlement an independent jurisdiction. In pursuance of such a plan, they passed an order appointing Roeloff Swartwout, Schout of Esopus, his duties embracing the powers of Sherriff and the duties of Prosecuting Attorney in criminal proceedings. Pursuant to the directions of their Lords High Mightiness of Holland government, Governor Stuyvesant and his Council of New Amsterdam on May 16, 1661, granted a charter to organize a civil government at Wiltoyck. The Order was in Dutch, and it is recorded in the Wiltoyck rtecords, the following is a translation thereof: May 16, 1661, Director General Peterus Stuyvesant delegated and authorized in all matters of government relating to the public welfare of all the county of the New Netherland by power and commission from the noble Lord , Directors of the privileged West India Company, observing the condition and the situations of a place called the Esopus which now has been inhabited and settled six or seven years hath in consideration of the situation and population thereof, erected locality into a village and given it the name of Wiltoyck whereof it shall be called now and henceforth. A copy of the Charter is found in Schoonmakers History of Kingstown, pages 24-28 and appendixed pages 503-506 and in documents relating to the history and settlement of the town along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers above cited at pages 196-198. See also History of the State of New York . First period, 1609-1664, page 690, by John Romeyan Brodhead. By this charter, Evert Pels, Cornelius Barentson Slecht and Elbert Heymans Roosa were appointed the magistrates who, with the presiding Schout, Roeloff Swartwout, completed the first village and first judicial tribunal in this section of the state. A copy of the "Oath of Office" of the first three magistrates is given on page 196 of documents above cited. In 1661, Roosa was appointed one of the three commissioners to enclose the new village at the Esopus called, Hurly. See Register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674, by E. B. O'Callagan, LLD, pages 71 and 158. This volume is the blue book of the Dutch and French Huguenot families of early New Netherlands. In 1662, a schedule of the old and newly surveyed lots in Wiltowyck with the names of their owners was made out and in the list of old lots before the place was laid out, appears the names of Everet Pels, owner of lot , and Jan Broorson (Dekker) owner of lot 11. In the list of lots newly laid out, Albert Heymanson (Roosa) appears as the owner of lot 24, and Jurian Wesvall as owner of lot 25. (Documents, etc, page 230, Hitory of Kingston pages 28-29. At the destruction of the village of Hurly on June 7, 1663, by the Indians, two of the Roosa Children with 43 others, women and children were taken captive. The story of the rescue of these captives by Colonial Forces, under Commander, Captain Maratin Kriegor, is one of the most interesting of the episodes in the history of early New York. It may be found in docments, etc., page 256, et sec, and page 325, et sec. Docmentary History New York, Volume 4, page 39 et sec. and in bi-cortinary reunion of the descendents of Louis and Jaques DuBoise. The authorities above cited contain many accounts of the acts of Roosa in the early making of Kingston , in all of which he appears as a leader and director of events. In September 1665, soon after New Netherland had become a province of Great Britain, the English Governor, Richard Niccolls visited Kingston and placed Captain Daniel Broadhead in command of the place. Owing to that officers tyrant conduct and many acts of oppression and cruelty by the English soldiers under his command, the inhabitants rose in open hostility in 1667. In their petition to Governor Nicholls, for redress, the inhabitants set forth numerous deeds of cruelty by the soldiers. Eight of the items are as follows: Cornelius Barentsen Slecht is beaten in his home by his solider, George Porter and after this by the other soliders, forced to prison and was, by some soliders at his imprisonment used very hard. It happened that Captain Brodhead coming at the house of Louis DuBoise took an anchor of Brandy and threw it to the ground because, they said that Du Boise refused to give him brandy without pay and did likewise force the said Du Boise to give him brandy and the said Du Boise his wife coming for her money at Brodhead's house, he drove Du Boise's wife away with a bread knife out of his house. Albert Heymans Roosa going with his plow iron to the Smiths was assaulted by five soliders who wounded him very much , whereupon the soldiers said Albert Heymans doing so without any reason , brought him to prison was most grievously wounded by Richard Hamor. John Corneliusen Smith going along the streets was assaulted and persecuted to his very shop and was liked to have been murdered by George Porter but was hindered in his decision by Franz Verman and the said George Porter had likewise upon the street said day assaulted Roeloff Swartwout. Cornelius Barentsen Slecht being by Captain Broadhand very ill treated in his own home was afterwards by the said Captain forced to prison and taken by his arms by force take from his home which still remainds by Captain Brodhead. Governor Nicolls, on Apirl 16, 1667 appointed a commission to inquire into their troubles and in his letter of instructions, he says: Albert Heymans Roosa and Anthony D. Elba have spoken most malacious words and I look upon them as incondiaries and dissatisifed persons if their words be proven they shall not be suffered to live in this government. If they have been actors in the late riot, pitch upon them two, for ringleaders and given them orders to, inventory and secure their estates by the Schout and Commissionaries. Documents, etc., page 407 History of Kingston, pages 52-57. These troubles are called the Mutiny at Esopus in the histories of the times. The Commission appointed by Governor Nicolls sat at Esopus for three days. Capt. Brodhead admitted the truth of the charges against him. He was suspends from command and he died three months afterwards on July 14, 1667 at Esopus. Albert Heymans Rossa and Cornelius Barentson Slect and two others were found guilty of a rebellious and mutinous riot and were taken to New York for sentencing. Nicolls by advice of his Council on May 3rd, sentenced Heymans to be banished for life out of the government and the others for shorter terms out of Esopus, Albany, and New York. All of these sentences of the Burghers were subsequently modified and the offenders returned to Esopus. From the New York Geneology and Biography record Volume 32, Oct. 1900 continued. Governor Francis Lovelace restored Roosa to favor in 1669, appointed him and Louis Du Boise as two of the overseers for Hurly, called New Days or New Village. In 1673, he was confirmed as one of the officers at Esopus by Governor Anthony Calve and described as Captain Albert Heymans who had been prominent in the riot of 1667. The records state that in 1669, Albert Heymans Roosa petitioned to set up a brewery house and tan fats in Hurly and an order was made granting him permission. His name appears with that of his son, Albertson Roosa and those of Jacob Jenesen, Van Elton, Jan Janison, , Jan Janisen, , Theodore Anick, Roeloff Swarthout, Matty Blanshen, Lewis Du Boise and others to the petition to Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of New York, praying that he would assist them in procuring a minisiter for Esopus that can preach both English and Dutch will be most fitting for this place. it being in its minority documents, etc., pages 545-544, Documented History of New York, Vol. 3, page 965. Albert Heymans Roosa served in the militsary forces of the Colony as Mustering Out Officer and in other capacity and on April 5, 1670 at military rendezvous held at Marbletown, he was present as Sargent of Captain Henry Pauling Company at which also appeared his son Arie Roosa as Private. In 1673, Albert was Captain of a company recruited from Hurley and Marbletown. See second annual report of the state History of New York, pages 378-379 and 384. See also same volume pages 185,191,198,201,204,766,276,285,285,290,294,298 and 427, for accounts of Albert and his son Arie Roosa. Albert Heymans Roosa died in Hurley on February 27, 1679. In 1685, his wife, widow, Wyntje Allard secured a great grant of 320 acres at Hurley. Albert Heymsans Roosa had the followilng children.

ALEARDT, Aldert or Albert Heymanse Roose came to this country from Harwyen, also spelled Herweyen, in Gelderland, Holland, on Waal river, five miles west of Bommel. Or it may be the present Heywennen, a short distance east of Bommel in Gelderland or the present Herwen in Gelderland twelve miles sontheast of Arnhem. With him came his wife, Wyntje (Lavinia) Allard or Ariens, and eight children in the ship Bontekoe (Spotted Cow), Captain Peter Lucas April 15, 1660; and settled in the Wildwyck district of Esopus, now Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Of these eight children: Heyman, born in 1643, married Maritje Roosevelt. Arie, born in 1645, married Maria Pels. Jan, bom in 1651, married Hellegond Williamse Van Buren. lkee or Aaghe married Dr. Roelof Kiersted. Maritje married Laurens Jansen. Neeltje married Hendrick Pawling after Nov. 3, 1676. Jannetje married Mattys TenEyck at Hurley Nov. 16, 1679. Aert. Two other children were born to him and his wife after coming to New Netherland, viz; Annatje and Guert. From the fact that in Gelderland at the present time the language of its people is interspersed with Spanish words and idioms it has been supposed that many religious refugees from Spain during the first years of the Inquisition settled in this particular Province of Holland, among whom may have been ancestors of Albert Heymanse; if so, this can account for the spelling of the name, by the Hollanders-Roose -which to them would produce the same sound as Rosa, his name in Spanish. On December 25, 1660, Aldert Heymanse Roosa and his wife, with Anna Blom, Jacob Joosten, Jacob Burhans, Mathias Blanchan and wife, Anton Crespel and wife, Andries Barentse and wife, Margaret Chambers, Gertruy Andries, Roelof Swartwout and wife, and Cornelise Sleght and wife participated in the first administration of the Lord's Supper at the Esopus or Wildwyck. Aldert Heymanse Roosa was a wealthy man for those days, bringing with him considerable property from Holland, and he speedily occupied an influential position in the early making of Kingston, in all of which he appeared as a leader and director of events. On the fourth of March, 1661, he joined with Thomas Chambers, Cornelis Barentse Sleght. Gertruy Andries, Roe of Swartwout and Jurian Westvael in a contract guaranteeing a salary to the Reverend Hermanus Blom, who had been called as pastor of the Dutch church at Wildwyck. Of this church he was for many years an elder; and because of the energy with which Domine Blom and he sought to conserve the surplus of the estates of deceased parents for the benefit of the poor of the village he was sometirnes called " the consistory " of the church. On the 5th day of May, 1661, Evert Pels, Cornelis Barentse Sleght and Aldert Heymanse Roosa were appointed commissaries at Wildwyck and took their oath of office, and on the 16th day of the same month Peter Stuyvesant, in behalf of the Mighty Lords, the States General of the United Netherlands, and the Lord Directors of the Privileged West India Company granted its first charter to Wildwyck, in which Evert Pels, Cornelis Barentse Sleght and Aldert Heymanse Roosa were appointed schepens, and therein designated as '- interested, intelligent persons, possessing Real Estate, peaceable men, professors of the Reformed religion as it is now preached in the, United Netherlandish Churches in conformity through the Word of God, and the orders of the Synod of Dordrecht." And new lots were then laid out at Wildwyck, Of which Aldert Hymanse Roosa was allotted No. 24 and his son Jan No. 30. On April 6th, 1662 permission was given by the Director-General to lay out a new village at the Esopus. It was called Nieuw Dorp, now Hurley, at which place Matthew Blanshan and his sons-in-law, Anthony Crespel and Louis DuBois settled the same year. Directly after this warnings were received and sent to New Amsterdam of pending troubles from the Indians at the Esopus. (Col. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XIII., pages 227-228). On the 11th of October, 1662, Aldert Heymanse Roosa was commissioned to proceed to New Amsterdam to obtain one hundred pounds of powder and two hundred pounds of lead for the protection of the old and new settlements. (Col. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XIII., page 231.) Aldert Heymanse Roosa must have been among the earliest settlers of the new village because on March 30, 1663, he, Jan Joosten and Jan Garretsen were appointed by Director-General Stuyvesant commissaries to lay out and fortify it with palisades for protection against attacks of savages. (Sylvester's Hist. Ulster county, page 36). On the 7th of April, 1663, Aldert Heymanse Roosa and his fellow commissaries reported to Governor Stuyvesant that the savages would not allow the building of palisades or fortifications at the new village, because the land was not included in the treaty made with them in the year 1660, and had not been fully paid for; and praying that the gifts promised the savages the previous autumn be sent at once, and that the new place and village be assisted with a few soldiers and ammunitions of war, at least, until the new settlement should be put into a proper state of defense and inhabited by a good number of people; that 'your humble and faithful subjects may remain without fear and molestation from these barbarous people, and with some assurance for the peaceful, undisturbed and unhindered continuation of the work begun, for if rumors and warnings may be believed, it would be too anxious, if not too dangerous an undertaking for your humble petitioners and faithful subjects to continue and advance their work otherwise." (Col. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XIII., pages 242-3). These warnings were not heeded and these earnest requests were not complied with, and on June 7th, 1663, the Indians attacked the New Village and Wildwyck. At Wildwyck they burned twelve dwelling houses; murdered eighteen persons, men, women and children, and carried away ten persons more as prisoners. The New Village was burned to the ground and its inhabitants mostly taken prisoners or killed. Only a few of them escaped to Wildwyck, among wnom were Roosa, Blanchan, Crespel and DuBois. So there were sixty-five persons missing in general, either killed or captured, besides nine pesons who came to Wildwyck, severely wounded. Among those taken prisoners at the New Village were the wife and two children of Louis DuBois; wife and one child of Anton Crespel; two children of Matthew Blanshan; two children of Aldert Heymanse Roosa and wife and three children of Lambert Huybertse Brink. (Col. Hist. N. Y. Vol. Xlll., pages 245-6, 256- 372). An account of the massacre was sent to New Amsterdam on the 10th of June, and written instructions were received from the Director-General, under date of June 14th for the guidance of the officers at Wildwyck. Martial law was proclaimed and a council of war formed to consist of Ensign Niessen, Captain Chambers, Lieutenant Hendrick Jochem Schoonma ker of the Burgher Guard and the schout and commissaries of the village to deliberate and decide what might be necessary for the welfare of the village after the massacre. Mattys Capito was appointed secretary of the council. Aldert Hermanse Roosa was one of the commissaries. He was also corporal of the Burgher Guard of which Hendrick Jochem Schoonmaker was lieutenant. Captain Martin Cregier reached Esopus on the 4th day of July, 1663, and proceeded to Wildwyck, where he found that the magistrates had examined some Esopus Indians and the wife of Dr Gysbert van Imbroeck, who had been a prisoner, and had practically located the place where the prisoners were held. On the 7th day of July, Aldert Heymanse Roosa and some other farmers, being indignant at the neglect of those in authority at New Amsterdam in sending them relief when requested in the early part of April, and sorely vexed at the delay of Captain Cregier in conducting the organization of the expedition against the Indians for the rescue of the prisoners, appeared armed before the council, who were examining two Wappinger Indians and upon being asked what they were doing there with their guns, gave answer: "We intend to shoot these Indians " Upon being told that they must not do that, they replied to Captain Cregier that they would do it, even if he stood by. On July 26th an expedition about two hundred strong, of which one hundred and forty-five were inhabitants of Wildwyck, set out for the Indian "old fort" at Kerhonkson where the captives were reported to be. Reaching it on the 26th they found it deserted. Cregier destroyed about two hundred and fifteen acres of maize and burned about one hundred pits of corn and beans. A second expedition guided by a young Wappinger Indian started on September 3rd for the Indian entrenchment known as "new fort," which was situated in Shawangunk. Besides the troops, on this expedition, seven of the citizens of Wildwyck accompanied it. Although the names of the citizens are not given in Captain Cregier's report the seven, probably, were Matthew Blanshan, Louis DuBois, Anton Crespel, Cornelis Barentse Sleght, Tjerck Claesen DeWitt, Aldert Heymanse Roosa and Lambert Huybertse Brink, members of whose families were among the captives of June 7th, and each of whom must have accompanied either the first or second and, possibly, both expeditions. Here at the "new fort" the Indians were attacked and a chief, fourteen warriors, four women and three children were killed, probably many others were wounded, who escaped. Of Cregier's forces three were killed and six wounded Twenty-three Christian prisoners were rescued. " New Fort" was situated in the town of Shawangunk on the east bank of the Shawangunk kill, two miles south of Bruynswick and twenty-eight miles from Kingston (Schoonmaker's Hist. of Kingston, page 39. OLDE ULSTER, Vol II, pages 1-9). After the Dutch had surrendered New Netherland to the English in 1664 and Richard Nicolls had become governor, Captain Daniel Brodhead, with a company of English soldiers was sent to Wildwyck. Against the arbitrary conduct of Captain Brodhead and the indignities put upon the Dutch settlers by the English soldiers, Aldert Heymanse Roosa led the revolt of the burghers in 1667 against the military authorities, which is referred to historical books as the " Mutiny at Esopus." Marius Schoonmaker, in his history of Kingston, commenting on this revolt writes: Mutiny is resistance to the exercise of lawful power. If an officer invades the house of a subordinate to steal, commit an assault or a trespass, resistance is not mutiny; and much more, the moment a military officer or soldier steps outside of his military calling and wilfully commits an assault or a trespass against a citizen, or unlawfully deprives him of his liberty, the military character or privilege is at once doffed and thrown aside, and resistance is not mutiny. It was justifiable resistance to tyranny and oppression-an outburst of the same spirit which subsequently threw off the oppressor's yoke in 1776, and carried this country triumphantly through the Revolution. For instigating this revolt Aldert Heymanse Roosa and other burghers were tried before Cornelis van Ruyven, one of the king's justices of the peace, and on May 3, 1667, he was sentenced to be banished from the colony for life, and a fine of one hundred bushels of wheat, or the value thereof, was levied on his estate in Esopus for charges of the Court; and his son Arie, Antonio Delba and Cornelis Barentse Sleght were banished out of Esopus, Albany and New York for shorter terms. The report and findings of this trial show that the matter was prejudged under secret instructions to carry out private orders, and not governed by the merits or the evidence in the case. The trial however resulted in the suspension of Captain Brodhead from his command and in less than three months, on July 14th he died at Esopus leaving his widow and three sons -Daniel, Charles and Richard -- surviving him (History of Kingston, page 57). The sentences of the burghers participating in this revolt were subsequently modified and Aldert Heymanse Roosa was permitted to retum to Wildwyck, and with Louis DuBois was appointed by Governor Francis Lovelace September 16th, 1669, overseer for Hurley (Col. Hist. N. Y. Vol. XIII., page 436). On the 30th day of March, 1670, he set over to Governor Lovelace eight acres of land as part of " the Transport" to satisfy the inhabitants of the town of Marbletown for the grant given to them under the authority of the governor (Col. Hist. N. Y. Vol. XIII., page 445). At this time he received a patent tor ten acres and four hundred and fifty rods at Hurley, and was commissioned sergeant of the militia directed to be present at the rendezvous at Marbletown April 5th, 1670. On April 7th, 1670 he was appointed overseer of Hurley and Marbletown and on October 25th, 1671, in an order of Governor Lovelace " Regulating the Civil and Military affairs of Kingston," Aldert Heymanse Roosa was appointed commissary for Hurley, and the eldest commissary for Kingston (Col. Hist. N. Y. Vol. XIII., pages 448, 450, 460). When Charles II. of England joined Louis XIV. of France in a compact to destroy Dutch freedom, war broke out again. In Holland the Dutch cut the dykes, put their country under water and drove out the French invaders. The news of a Dutch fleet approaching New York was received with joy and on the 7th of August, 1673, twenty three Dutch war-ships with 1,600 soldiers entered New York Bay and on the 9th of August the flag of Holland floated again over Manhattan, and Captain Anthony Colve was made governor. In this state of war delegates from Esopus, under date of September 1st,1673, presented a petition to the Dutch governor, praying that certain persons be appointed to govern the village of Esopus, formerly Wildwyck, then called Swanenburgh, Hurley and Marbletown, with a military organization and the necessary ammunition. The petition was granted on condition that no one should be nominated who was not of the Reformed religion, nor " who was not well inclined towards the Dutch nation." Aldert Heymans Roosa was on October 6th, 1673, appointed captain of Hurley and Marbletown by Governor Colve, and described as " Captain Aldert Heymans, who had been prominent in the riot of 1667." (Col. Hist. N. Y. Vol. XIII., page 475. Vol. II., page 626 Report State Historian New York, Colonial Series (1896) page 384). Aldert Heymanse Roosa died at Hurley, New York, February 27th 1679. (See New York Gen. and Biog. Record, Vol. VXXI., pages 163-166, 235-237. Anjous Ulster County Wills, Vol. I., page 74).