I was recently surprised to come across another reference to Anthony, since I was not looking for anything genealogy related at the time. I was perusing a book I had checked out from the local library "A Book of Old Maps Delineating American History: from the Earlist Days down to the Close of the Revolutionary War" Compiled and Edited by Emerson D. Fite & Archibald Freeman (Dover Publications, Inc. New York, Copyright 1969 though a pencil note says 1874-1953 comp.).
That book's 38th map is Manatus Gelegen op de Noot Rivier (Manhattan Lying on the north River) with a date of either 1639 or 1660. On the legend for Number 22 is Bou [Bouwery] van Antoni du Turck or in the translation: Farm of Anthony the Turck (Anthony Jansen Van Salee). Despite being an oversized book the copy of the map is still too compact to make out which mark is 22 though some of the area's where he owned land indeed have marks that may be "22", but it is too small to make out even with a magnafying glass.
Parents of the below Anthony: father- very likely Jan Jansen Van Haarlem, aka Morat Rais. Mother- likely either Margrietje of Cartagena or the daughter of Sultan Moulay Zaydan of Morocco.
My 10th Great Grandfather, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, aka The Turk
Born 1607. Died 1672. Married 1st Grietje Reyniers/Reiniers. Married 2nd, after 1629 Metje "Mattice" Gravenraet.
Also refered to as Anthony the Turk, and as Anthony Janse Van Salee, and in dutch as Theunis Janszen Van Salee. Also in a court case in New Amsterdam on June 1, 1654 he is refered to as Mullato Farbig (a swarthy mullato). In some records he is refered to as of Cartagena or of Vaes or as van Fes or surnamed Jansz.
Farmer.
Some sources (in French) that I have been unable to check (not that I could even read them if I could obtain them) refer to Anthony's time in Sale 1623-1624. they are Les Sources Inedites de l'histoire du Maroc & Archives, Pays Bas, though others suggest these reference's refer to another (possibly a relative)- Anthony Jansen of Vlissingen.
Excerpts from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record by Hazel Van Dyke Roberts, dated variously October 1969 & January 1972:
Anthony Jansen van Salee was a unique, interesting and not unimportant figure in the early history of New Amsterdam, says Hoppin in The Washington Ancestry. This is almost an understatement. The writer actually has found him to be the most unusual and interesting figure she has come across in the New Amsterdam records. Contentious and obviously a nuisance to them, he was treated by the authorities with the respect due to a person of importance.
O'Callaghan in his History of New Netherland refers to Anthony Jansen of Salee as a "French Huguenot of respectability-" Respectable, yes; Huguenot, no- He is variously referred to in the records as of Salee, of Vaes or Fez, and he is also sometimes called Anthony the Turk. In land records many boundaries long continued to refer to his land as "Turk's land." The term "Turk" it may be added, was applied frequently to all inhabitants of North Africa, as well as to those of Turkey itself, presumably because most of those lands were under the suzerainty of Turkey. This was not the case with Morocco, from which country Anthony Jansen had come.
No ancestor about whom the writer knows had quite so much difficulty with his neighbors as did Anthony Jansen van Salee. It started in Manhattan where he clearly was an excellent and prosperous farmer. For some reason he had made an unfortunate choice of a wife. She was Grietje Reyniers... Anthony, as a young man from Morocco, unaccustomed to the society of women, would probably have been attracted to any young woman who treated him in a friendly manner.
Peter de Truy, their next door neighbor, and Wolphert Van Couwenhoven, another ancestor, who were collectors of the minister's salary, made declarations as to the language Anthony had used when asked to pay money toward the salary of the Reverend Mr. Bogardus. Such collectors were appointed by the authorities, and to refuse payment was a serious matter indeed. The pastor, or domine, among the Dutch occupied a position equal or superior to the Puritan minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Professor Leo Hershkowitz in the October, 1966 number of the Quarterly of the New York State Historical Association tells her story (pp- 301-306) as gospel in all its ugly details, despite his statement that gossip and slander were the custom of the town. Notwithstanding this he accepts without question the gossip of the midwife who said that Grietje asked whether her child looked like her husband or Andries Hudden. After all, whatever her character, Grietje does not seem to have been stupid, and it is a question if she would so openly have carried on an affair that a husband from Morocco would scarcely have tolerated. Told that the child was brown skinned, she is said to have accepted the fact that the child was that of her husband! Anthony had business dealings with Hudde later, and his probable brother was a partner in the purchase of a plot of land on Long Island with one Peter Hudde. It seems more likely that, as does any new mother, she asked whom the child looked like, meaning father or mother, and that the midwife deliberately added the statement which Hershkowitz accepted as a fact, despite the slander which he declares to have been omnipresent.
The decision to marry on shipboard could have been the result of a sudden decision to marry, or the preference of Anthony, either a Mohammedan then, or influenced by that religion, to be married by a sea captain rather than by a Dutch minister. Sailing in December 1629, they would have reached New Netherland in 1630.
The question arises as to why Anthony called himself a seaman from Cartagena (Spain] rather than from Sale or Fez as he was afterwards known. To have been in Holland as Anthony Jansen, a seaman from Sale, would have been to advertise the fact that he had been a pirate in the fleet of Jan Jansen. Fortunately, at this time there was an armistice between Spain and the Dutch. Oddly enough, although the Dutch built and equipped ships for the Moroccan pirate fleet, and were on close trading and diplomatic terms with the Moroccans, piracy on the part of her subjects was not looked upon with favor as an occupation by the Dutch. Jan Jansen had freed all Dutch captives, but when he considered leaving Morocco it was not to return to The Netherlands, but to go to England.
In New Netherland when Anthony and his wife got into trouble over non-payment of the minister's salary the source of the trouble may have been the two wives. It may have been a case of too much intimacy between two of a kind and the breakup of a friendship. In any case, both Anthony and his wife accused the Reverend Bogardus and his wife of being liars, and in 1639 were finally forced to make public apology and retract their statements. After still more difficulties they were banished from New Netherland "forever," as troublesome persons. Payment to the pastor being an absolute obligation, the Reverend Bogardus sued Jansen for the amount due and collected it. The minister soon after was lost at sea, and his widow removed from New Amsterdam.
The "banishment" of Anthony and his wife from New Netherland, or rather its aftermath, is an indication that despite his quarrelsomeness, he was a person of unusual repute. Usually the banished were required to take the next boat leaving the port. Instead, after selling his New Amsterdam farm, Anthony, only three months later was granted 100 morgens (200 acres) of land at a nominal annual payment for a period of ten years. The land lay on that part of Long Island that later became the towns of Gravesend and New Utrecht. By chance, he thus became, and was recognized as, the pioneer of each town.
His new bouwery lay across from Coney Island on what is now Gravesend Bay. His landing place there is referred to later. Hoppin says that it is regarded by historians as the place where Henry Hudson landed from the Half Moon in 1609; that it was where Richard NicolIs anchored on September 3, 1664, when he demanded and obtained the surrender of New Netherland, and was the fleet anchorage of Sir William Howe, who disembarked his troops there to fight the battle of Long Island. Anthony, incidentally, is not listed among those who requested that the Dutch surrender to the English.
Anthony's next difficulty was with his son-in-law, Thomas Southard, which begins in the Court Minutes of New Amsterdam in December 1653. Although it is not quite clear, the trouble seems to have been over the dowry of his daughter, Annica, who was the wife of Thomas Southard. In any case, cattle were involved. Jansen had seized cattle that the son-in-law claimed. The son-in-law had his father-in-law imprisoned by the magistrates of Gravesend, where they both lived. The Governor and his Council in no uncertain terms ordered the magistrates to release the imprisoned man immediately. David Prevost and Hendrik Kip with a third person to be selected by them were appointed arbitrators. This was at the request of Anthony "to avoid a tedious suit between father and child." The arbitrators were unable to reconcile them, Southard apparently refusing to reconcile or to compromise. The suit was finally appealed to the Governor and his Council. What their decision was is not given in the records. However, it apparently went against the son-in-law; Thomas Southard and his wife soon removed to Hempstead, Long Island, another English settlement in Dutch territory. There Southard pastured two calves in 1657.
Despite his expulsion from New Netherland, Anthony Jansen van Salee continued to deal in real estate in New Amsterdam. In Stokes' Iconography his old lot, No. 13, is shown as being bought from Abraham Jacobson van Sillwyck [Steenwyck?) on 24 May 1644. On 21 November 1656 he sold the same lot to Isaac Kip. He also owned a house on High Street which he leased in 165O. His wife Grietje had a house which she had been accustomed to rent for 150 guilders In 1663 Anthony owned a house on New Bridge Street which he was renting and in which he was retaining sleeping quarters, indicating that he spent considerable time in New Amsterdam. Hoppin says that he moved back to New Amsterdam when he rented his farm on Long Island to Edmund Adley. Part of his payment was five pounds of butter annually, so he evidently was not too far away.
While buying property in New Amsterdam Anthony was also adding to his holdings on Long Island. He bought plantation lot, or farm, No. 29 in Gravesend. He also bought land from the Indians for which he paid on 26 September 1651. Unfortunately, he had not obtained permission for this purchase.
In September 1646 he leased to Edmund Adley the bouwery on Long Island opposite Coney Island granted to him after his expulsion from New Netherland "forever." The lease was to run for four years with a rental of 200 guilders the first year, and 250 guilders for each of the succeeding three years, and five pounds of butter each year. The lease is of especial interest because it shows that he had prospered since he went to Long Island, and also because it gives one of the rare enumerations of the implements to be found on a farm at that time, and finally because of the care with which it is drawn, apparently to leave no loophole for disputes.
Anthony promised to furnish as much seed corn as he could. The lease was signed 6 September 1646 before Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary, and witnessed by Cornelis van der Hoykens and Adriaen van Tienhoven.
Anthony Jansen's patent abutted what later were the patents granted to the towns of Gravesend and New Utrecht. As was to be expected where surveys were probably inexact, he had trouble with each town over their respective bounds. Disputes with Gravesend started in June 1654, and included Anthony's complaints that the town of Gravesend had driven cattle off his land, that the town had sent an armed party which had driven off and impounded 24 of his cattle (the town was ordered to restore the cattle, which it did), and that the town had cut hay belonging to Anthony. Judgment was finally rendered on 21 August 1656, in Anthony's favor; this seems to have settled the case.
However, with the founding of New Utrecht, Anthony's troubles started all over again. The town disputed the purchase of land by Anthony from the Indians, stating that it was not done with the approbation of the noble and right Honorable Lords...The result of this petition could scarcely have been favorable to Anthony, as he was in error not only concerning the Indian purchase, but because Nicasius de Sille, the Fiscal of New Netherland, and a very influential person, was one of the leading patentees of New Utrecht. The settlement of the case is unknown; however, when the town lands were distributed, Anthony, as did the heirs of the original grantee of New Utrecht, received two shares. All other proprietors received one share each.
While living in Gravesend, Anthony, along with several other of the Dutch inhabitants, made a petition dated 12 April 1660, saying the town had a licentious mode of living, and that desecration of the Sabbath and confusion of religious opinion prevailed. As a result many had grown cold in the exercise of Christian values. Because of this they asked that a pastor be sent to them. Apparently Anthony had had a religious conversion, or the argument with the Dominie Bogardus had been on personal grounds. Sold by a descendant later was a beautiful copy of the Koran in Arabic, which had presumably belonged to him. It seems to have been merely a keepsake, or if he had been a Mohammedan he had finally changed to Christianity.
In May 1674 he was accused of harboring a Quaker. This had not been permitted by Stuyvesant, but some thought it was permitted by Dutch law, which was extremely liberal in this respect. It had been taken for granted by the liberal Christians of Flushing, which gave rise to the famous Flushing Remonstrance. Now, however, the schout thought Anthony should be fined 600 florins in beaver skins. Anthony's second wife testified that she had let the Quaker remain overnight after being told that the authorities had given permission. The proposed fine was reduced to one beaver skin and costs.
Abraham Jansen Van Salee, if a brother, followed morew in the footsteps of his father. He, with Philip Jansen and Jan Jansen and others, was part owner, and sailed on, "La Garce", a privateer in 1643-44. He is also shown in O'Callaghan's Index to Dutch Manuscripts as selling the yacht "Love". In 1658 Abraham Van Salee, or "Turk", was also referred to as "alias the mulatto" when he refused to contribute to the support of the Reverend Mr. Polhemus on the "frivolous grounds" that he did not understand Dutch. The excuse was not accepted, and he was fined 12 guilders.
Abraham Jansen van Salee had a child by a negress and left them his property, but he did not marry her. His death occurred in April 1659.
It is not known when Anthony's wife Grietje died. Anthony sold the Gravesend property to his son-in-law Ferdinandus Van Sickelen in 1669. This would seem top have followed the death of his wife. He moved back to New York in 1669 or 1670, and married, second, Metje Gravenraet, a respectable widow.
The will of John Williams, of New York, dated 10 October 1672, and administered 15 October of the same year, left to Anthony Jansen, Turk, "all my tools in the house of Henry Morris in New Jersey, as also whatever I have in the house of Anthony Jansen, or elsewhere." He also left him "all my land in New Jersey according to the records of Elizabethtown, and he is to pay Henry Morris a debt of forty shillings, and funeral charges." Henry Morris was named executor, but apparently asked to be excused, as letters of administration were granted to Anthony Jansen, Turk, l5 October 1672.
Anthony Jansen of Salee lived a few years longer. He died intestate. His widow, "Mattice Grevenrat" produced an inventory, and also a premarital contract in which it was agreed that "the longest liver" of them should remain in full possession of all the estate during the survivor's life.
NEW! New references's from Russell Shorto's "The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America" (Vintage Books, 2005) has half a chapter on Anthony and "Griet" Reyniers, as well as additional references sprinkled throughout. If you have any New Amsterdam connections I would recomend this book. Mostly the references rein-force the above, ie mentioning more people who had filed lawsuits against him. One refernece (from page 299) upon first reading indicates that he was one of the one's to sign the petition urging the governor to surrender to the english, but on a closer more careful second reading it does not, but refers to him "Anthony "The Turk" van Salee, the half-Morroccan former pirate. They [he and "Griet"] were now wealthy landowners on Long Island, and their four daughters were married to some of New Amsterdam's up-and-coming businessmen".

Four Children from 1st marriage, though 2 or 3 may not be his:
My 9th Great Grandmother, Annica Van Salee
Married Thomas Southard.
At least one child - Abigail Southard
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