Wallace - Person Sheet
Wallace - Person Sheet
NameTELLER, Willem Sr. 
Birth Dateabt 1620
Birth PlaceMaesterland, Bohusland, Nederlands
Death Date27 May 1701 Age: 81
Death PlaceTellers Point, Croton, Westchester County, New York
FatherTELLER, Rev. Romanus (~1588-~1620)
ParentBRINSMADE, John
Misc. Notes
William Teller, born 1620, was the son of a minister of distinction — which may account for the pulpit design in the Coat of Arms of the Teller Family published in Helmes Wappenbuch in Nuremburg in 1700.
He was the first of the Teller family to arrive in North America. He went from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Holland, served with the Dutch East India Company, and came to New Netherlands, landing at New Amsterdam in 1636, where he settled and later became a merchant.
Pearson’s First Settlers says in a deposition given July 6, 1698, that William Teller was sent in the year 1639 to Fort Orange by Governor Kieft, served as corporal, later advanced to Wacht-Meister of the Fort, sergeant of cavalry. He continued his residence there from 1639 to 1692 with small intermissions of voyages to New York and Delaware and one short voyage to Holland.
He was a teacher for about fifty years in Albany, one of the early aldermen, and a Justice of the Peace. He moved to New York with his two sons, William and Jacob, and died there in 1701.
In his will, he mentions six of his nine children. In 1662 he was one of the early proprietors of Schenectady, a tract embracing 80,000 acres in the Mohawk Valley. He was one of the five patentees mentioned in the first patent of the town in 1684, but never resided there.
He endowed the Dutch Church with a fund sufficient for its maintenance and his Coat of Arms was painted on one of the windows, as was the custom in 1657. The Church was destroyed by fire.
He was the first of the Teller family to arrive in North America. He went from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Holland, served with the Dutch East India Company, and came to New Netherlands, landing at New Amsterdam in 1636, where he settled and later became a merchant.
Pearson’s First Settlers says in a deposition given July 6, 1698, that William Teller was sent in the year 1639 to Fort Orange by Governor Kieft, served as corporal, later advanced to Wacht-Meister of the Fort, sergeant of cavalry. He continued his residence there from 1639 to 1692 with small intermissions of voyages to New York and Delaware and one short voyage to Holland.
He was a teacher for about fifty years in Albany, one of the early aldermen, and a Justice of the Peace. He moved to New York with his two sons, William and Jacob, and died there in 1701.
In his will, he mentions six of his nine children. In 1662 he was one of the early proprietors of Schenectady, a tract embracing 80,000 acres in the Mohawk Valley. He was one of the five patentees mentioned in the first patent of the town in 1684, but never resided there.
He endowed the Dutch Church with a fund sufficient for its maintenance and his Coat of Arms was painted on one of the windows, as was the custom in 1657. The Church was destroyed by fire.
Spouses
Birth Date17 Mar 1618
Birth PlaceAlloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Death Date9 Apr 1664 Age: 46
Death PlaceHolland Ave, Albany, NY, USA
Marr Date9 Apr 1664
Marr PlaceNew York, New York