SOURCE: Ulster County, NY Genealogical Society, Ulster Genie Vol 3.No. 2, Sep. 1978; St Nicholas Society Vol. 1, 1905, p. 213.BIOGRAPHY: Barent Jacobse Cool was among the very early Dutchsettlers of New Amsterdam, although the precise date of his comingto America is not known. In 1633 he was already a person of someconsideration in the colony, and on the 8th day of June of thatyear he, with Commissary Jacob Van Curler and five others,signed a treaty with the Sachem Tatoepam, Chief of the SickemanesIndians,owners of the river of New Netherland, called"Connetticuck," by which, in consideration of their receivingtwenty-seven ells of cloth, six axes, six kettles, eighteenknives, and various other articles, the aforesaid Indians sold atract of land called "Sicajook," being the flat extending aboutone league along the river and one-third of a league in width tothe high land, on condition that all tribes might freely and insafety resort to the purchased land for trade purposes. Thetreaty also provided that the Sachem Altabacuhote was to dwell onthe purchased land with the assent of Chief Margaratin of theSloops Bay Indians. About 1637 Jacobse Cool married Marietje deGrauw, daughter of Leendert de Grauw, a member of one of theWalloon families who were the first settlers of New Amsterdam. Thebaptism of their nine children all appear on the records of theReformed Dutch Church of new Amsterdam, except that of his eldestson, Jacob Barentse Cool, who was born in 1638. Barent JacobseCool was enrolled as a "Burgher" of New Amsterdam on the 14th ofApril, 1657, and took the usual oath of obedience to the cityauthorities and of fidelity to the States-General of the UnitedNetherlands, to the Dutch West India Company and to itsDirector-General. In October, 1664, after the surrender of NewAmsterdam to the English, he took the oath of allegiance to theKing of England. He was living on the 21st October, 1671, whenhe acted as sponsor at the baptism of his grandson, JohannesWillems Van Vreedenberg. The exact date of his death and that ofhis wife is not known, but the latter was still living in 1668.