1 LUBBERT, the emigrant, brother of Willem Lubbertsen, also settled on Long Island immediately after his arrival in New Amsterdam, for on the 15th of December, 1662, he applied to the Schout and schepens of Flatbush for a building plot on the west side of the village and on the south side of the main road, as per Liber B, folio 14 of Flatbush records. Later he purchased, on the 20th of Aug., 1670, from Jan Miserol, a house at ìRusten- burch,î the local name of the southerly side of Flatbush, as per Liber A, folio 10, of Flatbush records. In Oct., 1673, he sold his farm lands obtained in 1662, to Cornelus Janse De Seen, for the sum of 4,0000 guldens, and from this it may be inferred that he discontinued the life of a planter for a time and resided in the house purchased from Jan Miserol in 1670. No evidence is found of his having made any further purchases of lands on Long Island. To the above cited conveyances he signed himself LUBBERT LUBBERTS.
Prior to 1676 he removed from Flatbush, L.I., to Hackensack, N.J., then a sparsely settled community. He and his wife transferred their church membership from Flatbush to the congregation at Bergen, Oct. 2, 1676, as no organization existed in Hackensack at so early a period. The marriages of his children, Lubbert, Roelof, Jan, Margrietje and Maritie, are all recorded in the Bergen church.
The civil history of Hackensack antedates the church organization but a few years. Then backwards, up to 1641 or 1642, when it was a trading post, there is almost a perfect blank. At that time a colony was established about five or six hundred paces from the village of the Hackensack Indians, under their sachem, Oritany, but constant and serious pillages soon led to the ruin of the settlement. Its name is thought to signify a con- fluence of rivers, referring probably to the Passaic and Hackensack. The word is spelled in a variety of ways: Haghkinsack, Hackquinsack, Hachensack, Hackingsack, Hackensack, Yaccin- sack, Ackensack, Hagensack, Hackensackey, Hackingkeshachy, Ackenkeshacky. In the old church records it is called Ackensack.
At the organization of the Dutch Church at Hackensack, July 29, 1686, the Reverend Peter Taschemaker states, at the opening of the records of his congregation, that he found 33 members, all of whom had formerly connected themselves with churches on