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Our Dutch (and a few French) Ancestors in New Netherland (New York)
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New Year's Day 1636 in Nieuw Amsterdam (now New York) by George Boughton
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
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Although I have known for more than 25 years that I had Dutch, French, and Walloon ancestors who settled in New Netherland, specifically in and around the present-day city of Kingston, New York, I did not know until recently (early 2025) that I had many more Dutch and French ancestors who settled in the colony, at New Amsterdam--located on the tip of Manhattan Island--at New Utrecht in what is now the New York borough of Brooklyn, and also Staten Island, as well as what is now Albany, the capital of the State of New York, long before the English took over in 1664 and renamed the place.
What this means is that in addition to having ancestors who settled in Virginia during the earliest days of English colonization, I also have ancestors who were present during the earliest years of one of the world's greatest cities--New York--when it was in its infancy. |
Without exception (so far as I know), these hardy pioneers were all from my mother's side of the family. Two of them -- father and son -- settled in Kings County, Long Island, in what is now the borough of Brooklyn. Two other father-son pairs settled in New Amsterdam, at the tip of Manhattan Island. One other father-son set went to live upriver, about a hundred miles from Manhattan, at a village called Esopus or Wildwyck. So did a father-in-law-son-in-law pair. Another settled at Fort Orange (now Albany).
MAPS
Manatus Gelegan op de Noot Rivier: A map showing the New York City region as it was in 1639.
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae : nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata (1685), includes a drawing of New Amsterdam in lower right corner
The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam (1660) drawn by Surveyor-General Jacques Cortelyou
ANCESTRAL SITES TO VISIT
See NEW YORK GAZETTEER COMING SOON!
VIDEOS
YouTube video: New York, A Documentary Film: From 1624 to 1664
YouTube video: NBC LEARN: New Netherlands
YouTube video: What's Left of New Amsterdam
YouTube video: Why Doesn't the U.S. Know About its Own Dutch Origins?
YouTube video: How New Amsterdam influenced America
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
Our NEW NETHERLAND ANCESTORS in ORDER of ARRIVAL
Click on each link for more information about an individual or family.
NOTE: I may have many more early New York ancestors than those listed here, but these are the ones I can confirm through both documentary and DNA evidence.
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INFORMATION BELOW Click on underlined names to read a biography of that individual |
Frederick Lubbertsen 1633 New Amsterdam and Kings County (Long Island) See LUBBERTSEN Family Tree
Our earliest known adult ancestor in New Netherland.
Christoffel Harmenzen 1652 Kings County (Long Island) See VAN ZANDT Family Tree
Killed by Indians in the Peach War, 1655
Gerrit Stoffelse Vansand 1652 Kings County (Long Island)See VAN ZANDT Family Tree
Son of the above
Dirck Claessen 1653 New Amsterdam (Manhattan) See CLAESSEN Family Tree
Christian Barentsen 1653 New Amsterdam (Manhattan) See VAN HORN Family Tree
Barent Christiansen Van Horn 1653 New Amsterdam (Manhattan) See VAN HORN Family Tree
Son of the above
Jacob Leendersen Van de Grift 1657 New Amsterdam (Manhattan) See VAN DE GRIFT Family Tree
Mathese Blanchan 1660 Esopus/Wildwyck See BLANCHAN Family Tree
Louis Dubois 1661 Esopus/Wildwyck See DUBOIS Family Tree
Son-in-Law of the above
Jan Jooseten Van Meteren 1662 Esopus/Wildwyck See VAN METER Family Tree
Joost Jans Van Meteren 1662 Esopus/Wildwyck See VAN METER Family Tree
Son of the above
Gabriel Thomson Strudles circa 1662 Albany No Biography or Family Tree Posted Yet
Jan Janse Verkerk 1663 New Utrecht, Long Island No Biography or Family Tree Posted Yet
Jean Jacques Guyon 1664 Staten Island No Biography or Family Tree Posted Yet
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