Joost Duryea was ethnically a Walloon and religiously a Huguenot. On a good day, that would severely restrict your rights, limit your access to employment and force your conversion on pain of imprisonment. On a bad day, you just got burned you at the stake.
Robert Engle Forman. 1605 is my 10th great-grandfather. He was 1 of 18 men, mostly English, who received a charter to settle Vlissingen [Flushing] on Long Island in 1645 from Willem Kieft, Director of the Dutch West India company. Flushing’s early records were destroyed in a late 18th century fire so we know nothing about…
Robert Engle Forman (1605-1671) is my 10th great-grandfather. He was 1 of 18 men, mostly English, who received a charter to settle Vlissingen [Flushing] on Long Island in 1645 from Willem Kieft, Director of the Dutch West India company. Flushing’s early records were destroyed in a late 18th century fire so we know nothing his time there,…
Theodore Clarence Brintzinghoffer was my great-grandfather. Every branch of his family tree came to America before the Revolution. This is the story of his paternal grandmother’s Dutch family.
This is a transcription of a conveyance for a land transfer between Jacobus Romine and Archibald Craig, my 8th great-grandfather on 25th of May 1720. Reference: C-2:Folio 60.
My grandfather, James Henry Brintzinghoffer, was very proud of his German roots and his family’s long history in America. He once told me they came over on the Mayflower – which wasn’t quite true – but it was closer to true than any of us realized until long after he was gone.
This is a transcription of a conveyance for a land transfer between Archibald Craig, my 8th great-grandfather and Jacob Zutvan / van Zutphen / Sutphen, my 7th great-grandfather, on 24 APR 1733 regarding a property in Freehold, NJ.
Margrietje Gillis ten Waert is my 10th great-grandmother, born 17 DEC 1617 in Reusel-de Mierden, North Brabant, Netherlands. She emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1635 with her husband Davit Provoost who served initially as a commissary of provisions for the West India Company. She died 29 JUL 1701 in Long Island City, Queens, NY. Gillis is…
Lewis Forman is my 6th great-grandfather and this is a transcription of a property sale in Middlesex dated 2 MAY 1757 with Daniel Morgan. Conveyance Middlesex County 2 MAY 1757 [Folio 289].