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- Came to New Amsterdam about 1640.
Gerrit Frederickse Lansing = Elizabeth Hendrickse
Gerrit Lansing = Elsie Van Wythorst
Jacob Lansing (1681-1767) = Helena Glen
Gerrit J. Lansing (b. 1711) = Jane Waters (d. 1810)
John Ten Eyck Lansing (1755-~1829) = Cornelia Ray (d. 1834)
John Lansing, the last male in the descent shown above, is indirectly the person after whom Lansing, Michigan — primarily important to this database’s compiler as the birthplace of PNH — was named.
From Wikipedia:
Born and raised in Albany, New York, Lansing was trained as a lawyer, and was long involved in politics and government. During the American Revolution he was military secretary to General Philip Schuyler. Lansing served in the New York State Assembly from 1781-1784, in 1786, and in and 1789, and was Speaker in 1786 and 1789. He served as a member of the Congress of the Confederation in 1785. Lansing was a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787 but withdrew from the body in July because he opposed the proposed United States Constitution as infringing on state and individual rights. He was a delegate to the New York ratification convention in June 1788, but was unable to prevent the Constitution from being approved.
In 1790, Lansing was a member of the commission that settled the New York-Vermont boundary as part of Vermont's admission to the Union as the 14th state in 1791. He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1790 to 1798, and chief justice from 1798 to 1801. He was Chancellor of New York from 1801 to 1814, and in 1817 he was a special commissioner to resolve New York City and New York County claims to land in Vermont. From 1817 until his death, Lansing was Regent of the University of the State of New York. He disappeared in December 1829, after leaving his New York City hotel room to mail a letter. No trace was ever found, and what happened to him is unknown. […]
In 1882 the memoirs of Thurlow Weed, former Whig and Republican political leader in New York State, were published by Weed's grandson T. W. Barnes. Weed wrote that Lansing was murdered by several prominent political and social figures who found he was in the way of their projects. According to Weed, his unnamed source showed him papers to prove it, but begged Weed not to publish them until all the individuals had died. Weed said they were all dead by 1870, but he did not wish to harm their respected family reputations, so upon advice of two friends he decided not to reveal what he had been told. […]
The town of Lansing in New York was named after John Lansing. Lansing, Michigan, was named by settlers who came from Lansing, New York.
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