Jacob Janse Gardenier, the first of that name to arrive in America.  He left Kampen in the Province of Overyssel, leaving the port of Texel on September 21, 1637.   He sailed on the "den Harinck" which reached New Amsterdam (New York City) on March 28, 1638.  He was among the first Dutch settlers to live at Fort Orange in the colony of Beverwyck, later Albany, in New Netherland.  He immigrated only 29 years after Henry Hudson went up the river and landed the first Dutchman in 1609.  
     "Jacob was a carpenter or millwright by trade and the knecht (helper or servant) of Claes Jansz Ruyter (Claes de Ruijter), a carpenter from Naerden, province of North Halland.  Both came to the new colony together.  Jacob was apparently indebted to Ruyter either as an apprentice or as payment for passage.  In the spring of 1942, Jacob returned to Amsterdam and applied to the first Patroon, Killian Van Rensselaer for permission to do carpenter work directly for him in the colony where skilled tradesmen were needed.  On June 6 of the same year, and with his application granted, he booked passage aboard the ship de Houttyn,...The ship arrived at Rensselaerswyck, August 11, 1642."  Source:   Hollace Carey Gordinier, Jr., Gardenier, Ephraim Gordinier 1785-1860, Gateway press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1990, P. 6, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 929.273 G167g  . 
      In 1647 he leased a saw and grist mill at Greenbush at an annual rental of 125 guilders (New Netherland Reg., 1:4).  He outfitted vessels sailing on the Hudson River (H.S. Yr. Bk., 1900, p. 171).  He was at Albany 1654-1662 and about 1667 settled at Kinderhook (now in Columbia County) on a patent granted to him and Capt. John Baker.  He died possessed of a considerable estate. (New Netherland Reg., 1:4).
     Jacob Janse Gardenier in 1666 with Capt. John Baker purchased a large tract of land near Fort Albany from the Indians.  This purchase is shown in Albany land Patents as March 18, 1666.  The price shown was "one blanket, one axe, three hoes, two bars of lead, three handfuls of powder, one knife, and one kettle."  Shortly thereafter, Governor Nicolls issued to captain John Baker and Jacob Jansen Flodder a patent for the land purchase.  This land patent which was dated April 15, 1667 (Land Patents, vol. 2, p. 244) became known as the Third Patent and led to long-continued court litigation partly because of the conflict of its described boundaries as written in a later patent, known as the fourth Patent.    Source:  M. Grace Wilmarth, Obadiah Cooper (Tailor at Albany, N. Y. from 1713-1742 ) & his Wife, Cornelia (Gardenier) Cooper, and their Descendants , P. 28., Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL Film 0873024. 
      Regarding the land patent granted to Captain John Baker and Jacob Jansen Flodder in 1667. Two years after the patent was issued the third time, Flodder was assigned Baker's interest.  Flodder died about 1688.  The following is contained in Book V. of Deeds of Albany County, page 212) located in the Albany County Court House at Albany:
      TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE to Whom this prsent writing Shall Come
Jacob Gardanier    Edward Whielaor   Jesina Whielaor   John Woodcok  Arejantie Woodcoks    Obedia Cooper & Cornelia Cooper    Children and heires of Jan Garanier Late of Kinderhook in the County of Albany in the province of new york Deceased Sends Greeting
     Know Yee that for Divers Reafons and Considerations us hereunto moving have given granted Demifed and Released and by these prsents doth fully freely and absolutely give grant Demife and Release unto Jan Garanier Sonn & one of the heires of the Said Deceased all that parcell of Land and woodland Scituate Lying & bieng at Kinderhooke aforesaid being the Lott no. 4. So as the Same is bounded & devided amongst the said childeren & heires (of) Jan Gardanier decesed as aforesaid relation thereunto had may more fully & at Large appeard together with the fall over the kill for building & arrecting a mill or mills with the oarchard thereunto belonging being the full fifth part of the land and premifes convey by Andries Huyck unto the said heries of ye said Jan Gardanier as aforesaid Deceased Relation thereunto had may more fully and at Large appear TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the afore-mentioned Lott of Land and woodland oarchard and fall water course with all and singular the priliedges and advantages thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto him the said Jan Gardanier his heires and assigns to the only proper use benefitt and behoofe of him the said Jan Gardanier his heires and assigned for ever in His and theire quiett peaceable prfsefion Zeiron (?) and Enjoyment for ever  (Spelling as given)
    In Testimony whereof the Said Jacob Gardanier Edward Whielaer Jesina Whielaer John Woodcok Arejaentie Woodcok Oobedia Cooper & Cornelia Cooper have hereunto put their hands and seales In Albany this 3d day of July In the Twelfth year of her majeses Reign annoy Dom. 1712 was Signd
Jacob his 1(cent sign) mark  Gardanier (LS)                                    Signed, Sealed
Edward  his mark Whielaer (LS)                                                   & Delivered In the
Jesina   her mark (about a half inch straight line)  (LS)                    prsene of us
John   his mark woodcook  (LS)
Obedia  his mark Co  Cooper  (LS)
Cornelis X her mark Cooper  (LS)     
The document was then signed by Coenraet Borghghaerat and Tho. Williams  
      Johannes (Jan) Gardenier (the brother of Cornelis Gardenier Cooper) on June 6, 1774, assigned all his rights to John Cooper, Obadiah Cooper Jr. and Jacob Cooper (sons of Cornelia Gardenier cooper) all of his rights, title, and interest in the foregoing described property.
    Source:  M. Grace Wilmarth, Obadiah Cooper (Tailor at Albany, N. Y. from 1713-1742 ) & his Wife, Cornelia (Gardenier) Cooper, and their Descendants , P. 29 - 30), Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL Film 0873024.

 Gardenier was one of the early settlers of Kinderhook, having bought land there from the Mohican Indians in 1667.  At the time of his death he owned approximately a thousand acres of land.  Source: Emmett Ostrander, Vinton P. Ostrander, and Collin Ostrander, Ostrander, A Genealogical Record 1660-1995, Ostrander Family Assn, Walsorth Publishing Co, Maarceline, Missouri, P. 6., Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 929.273 Os7oe (OST HIS 002).
     The children of Jacob Jansen and Josyna Flodder who were known by the name of Gardenier, according to the MS of Innes Getty at the N.Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society Library.  Source:  "Snyder-Brown Ancestry" compiled by H. Minot Pitman, F.A.S.G. for John I. Snyder, Jr., 1958, US/CAN 929.273 Sm92ph (GAR HIS 001) P. 121.
       The child of Jan Flodder and a negress slave was a child whom Jan Flodder swore in 1671 was his (Court Minutes of Albany, Rensselaerwyck, and Schenectady.) "Snyder-Brown Ancestry" compiled by H. Minot Pitman, F.A.S.G. for John I. Snyder, Jr., 1958, US/CAN 929.273 Sm92ph (GAR HIS 001) P. 122.

!HIS:  This is an attempt at locating Flodders Kill. In a letter of Oct. 8, 1659,to Jeremias van Rensselaer, his brother Jan Baptist writes of "the mill onFlodder's kill and a mill at Bethlehem," so that the mill at Bethlehem isobviously different from the one at Flodder's Kill. Gardenier (Flodder)leased the mill at Bethlehem 1653-1654, and the saw- and gristmill on thefifth creek 1654 to 1662. It would appear, then, that it was the fifthcreek (now called Patroon Creek) about a mile and a third north of the forton the west side of the river that Jan Baptist was calling the FloddersKill. There are a number of uncertainties here, since the fifth kill at anearlier time was called the fourth kill (numbered south to north), andFlodder moved around a lot and so had mills on any number of creeks. But JanBaptist was in the colony 1651 to 1658 and was writing his letter fromAmsterdam in 1659, so he knew where Flodder was working at the time.Peter  
Source:  Email from Peter R.. Christoph, 

!    "Like many 'Old Timers' Jacob Janse Gardenier found it pleasant, or convenient, to sometimes employ an alias.  The one he selected was 'Jacob Janse Flodder."  In referring to this alias Rev. Edward A. Collier states (History of Old Kinderhook," p. 89-90): "Happily no discredit is implied to the alias, for it was not uncommon for a man to have two or even three names, either of which he would use with charming inconsistency as his mood might be.  This Flodder then was no other than Jacob Janse Gardenier, one of the ancestors of many families of that name long and honorably known in Kinderhook and Schodack."   Source:  M. Grace Wilmarth, Obadiah Cooper (Tailor at Albany, N. Y. from 1713-1742 ) his Wife, Cornelia (Gardenier) Cooper, and their Descendants , P. 26-27, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL Film 0873024.

HIS:  The Dutch Settler Society of Albany (Year Book 1932-1934) shows the following burials at the First Dutch Reformed Church in Albany:
"June 29, 1666.  Received from Jacob Flodder for the small pall, 5 fl.
Jan. 28, 1669.  Received from Jacob Jansz Flodder for the large pall when his wife was buried, 2 schepels of wheat, 10 fl.
Jan. 18, 1674.  Given to the widow of Hans de Backer (Hans Coenraetsen, from Nuremberg, Bavaria) a winding sheet, costing one beaver.  Paid for the beaver in seawan 17 fl. (A footnote to this entry shows: "His wife was Barentje Stratsman.  Shortly after his death she married Jacob Jansen Gardenier.")     Source: M. Grace Wilmarth," Obadiah Cooper (Tailor at Albany, N. Y. from 1713-1742 ) & his Wife, Cornelia (Gardenier) Cooper, and their Descendants ," P. 27., Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL Film 0873024.