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Dirck Janszen Woertman of Brooklyn, New York

1. Jan Woertman was born say 1600 in the Netherlands and died sometime after 1632.  He married about 1630 at Amsterdam, Harmtje Jans who died in 1685 in Brooklyn, New York.  They had three children: Lysbeth, Dirck, and Anneken.
2. Dirck Janszen Woertman was baptized at Amsterdam on 7 December 1631 and died after 1706 in Brooklyn, New York.  He married on 7 March 1660 at New York, New York, Maria Teunis Denyse, baptized at New York, New York on 3 April 1644 and died before April 1691, daughter of Teunis and Phebe (Sales) Denyse.  They had eleven children: Harmtje, Femmetje, Jan, Theunis, Pieter, Lodowyck, Geertruy, Denijs, Lijsbeth, Annitje, and Maritje.
3. Annitje or Antje Woertman was baptized on 15 June 1684 at Brooklyn, New York and died after March 1731.  She married Isaac de Riemer, born about 1680 and died 23 February 1729 at New York, New York, son of Huybert and Catherine (Smith) de Riemer.  Among their children was a daughter Antje.

Sources:

“The Family of Dirck Janszen Woertman of Brooklyn Ferry” by Barbara A. Barth, NYGBR 132 (2001): 28-34, 263-7.

NYGBR 60 (1929):229-230.
"Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y." by Teunis G. Bergen (S.W. Green's, New York, 1881).

"Schuremans of New Jersey" by Richard Wynkoop (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1902) and Supplement of January 1906.

 

John Witt c. 1630-1715 of Charles City, Virginia

1. John Witt was born about 1630 at La Rochelle, France and died in 1715 in Charles City, Virginia.  He married Anne Daux, daughter of Walter and Mary (---) Daux.  Among his children were two sons: John and William (Guilliaume).
2. (a) John Witt (Jr.) was born about 1671 at Charles City, Virginia and died there in 1742.  He married Anne Rogers.  They had at least one daughter: Sarah.  (b) William Witt was born about 1675 and died 13 June 1754 at Charlottesville, Virginia.  He married Elizabeth Mildred Daux who died in 1741 at St. Anne, Albermarle, Virginia.  They had at least one son Charles.
3. Sarah Witt, daughter of John and Anne (Rogers) Witt was born about 1695  at Charles City, Virginia and died after 1769.  She married Thomas Harbour, born about 1675 in Wales and died in 1770 at Henry County,Virginia.  They had ten children: David, Talmon, Lavinia, Mary, Abner, Elisha, Elijah, Jane, Sarah and Adonijah.
4. Lavinia Harbour was born about 1720 and died 1781 at Halifax, Virginia.  She married her first cousin, once removed, Charles Witt, born about 1712 at Manakin, Virginia and died 30 January 1791 at Halifax, son of William and Elizabeth (Daux) Witt.  They had eleven children: Joseph, Sarah, Lavinia, Mary, Elijah, Charity, Nelly, Rhoda, Lydia, Susannah, and Caleb.
5. Mary Lavinia Witt was born 4 April 1753 at Halifax, Virginia and died 7 August 1830 at Jefferson County, Tennessee.  She married Thomas Jarnagin born 25 November 1746 at  Pittsylvania, Virginia and died 26 February 1802 at Jefferson County, Tennessee, son of John and Mary (Bynum) Jarnagin.  They had at least one son Chesley.

Sources:

“The Harbours in America” by Louis J. Williams (Harbor Family Association).

“Witt Family of Old Pike County” by Roy L. Parsons (the author, Wewoka, OK, 1967).

 

 

Willem Davidszen Williamson d. before 1695

1. Willem Davidszen Williamson was born say 1630 and died before 20 May 1695.  He married Helena Aards who died after 1698.  They had the following children: David, Helena, Ida, Aert, Willem, and Laurens.
2. David Williamson was born about 1676 in Flatlands, New York and died after May 1710 in Somerset County, New Jersey.  He married Marytje Pieterse Van Neste, born 1 June 1678 at Brooklyn, New York and died March 1732, daughter of Pieter Pieterszen and Judith Joris (Rapalje) Van Neste.  She married secondly Peter Bodine.  David and Maryjte had three children: William, Peter, and Judith.
3. William Williamson was born about 1703 and died after 1751.  He married about 1722, Jannetje Van Kouwenhoven, born 28 July 1697 and died after 1751, daughter of Pieter Willemse and Patience (Daws) Van Kouwenhoven.  They had the following children: Patenties, Catalyntje, David, Peterius, Jannetje, William, Johannes, and William Williamse.
4. David Williamson was born July 1731.  He married 13 August 1752 at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Eleanor Schuyler, born 30 November 1735 at Albany, New York, daughter of Abraham and Katrina (Staats) Schuyler.  Among their children was Eleanor Williamson, the wife of James Schureman.

Sources:

"Schuremans of New Jersey" by Richard Wynkoop (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1902) and Supplement of January 1906.
"Schuyler Genealogy: A Compendium of Sources Pertaining to the Schuyler Families in America Prior to 1800" by Florence Christoph (in 2 vols., 1987, The Friends of Schuyler Mansion).

“The Family of Dirck Janszen Woertman of Brooklyn Ferry” by Barbara A. Barth, NYGBR 132 (2001): 28-34, 263-7.

Willem Davidszen Williamson of Flatlands, Long Island by Perry Streeter dated 11 September 2003.

 

Daniel Whitehead 1603-1668 of Hempstead, New York

1. Daniel Whitehead was born about 1603 and died in November 1668 at Hempstead, New York.  He married before 1646 the daughter (unnamed) of Thomas and Susan (Mitchell) Armitage.  He had the following children:  Daniel, Jonathan, and David.
2. Daniel Whitehead (Jr.) was born about 1646 and died in 1704.  He married Abigail Stevenson, born about 1642 and died 15 October 1717 at Jamaica, New York, daughter of Thomas Stevenson.  They had the following children: Jonathan, Thomas, Deborah, Elizabeth, Mary, Amy, Mercy, and Abigail.
3. Deborah Whitehead was born about 1675 at Newtown, New York and died there April 1712.  She married about 1690 at Hempstead, New York, Thomas Hicks (Jr.) born about 1667 at Flushing, New York, and died about September 1712.  Together they had ten children: Abigail, Deborah, Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth, Whitehead, Hannah, Martha, Augustine, and Stephenson.

Sources:

TAG 36:62-4.
"Daniel Whitehead and Some of His Descendants" by C.B. Curtis NYGBR 33 (1902):101-2.
"Daniel Whitehead's Will" by Harry Macy, Jr. NYGBR 118 (1987):154-5.
"Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut" by Herbert F. Seversmith (Washington DC, 1939-58) 3:1325.
“The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 Volume 1 A-B” by Anderson, Sanborn, and Sanborn (NEHGS, Boston 1999).

"Descendants of the Rev. Richard Denton" by Walter Krumm NYGBR 120 (1989):93-7 et seq.
"Thomas Stephens of Southampton" by Henry Hoff and Harry Macy, Suffolk Co. Historical Society Regsiter 21 (1996):115-121.

"The Fields of Flushing, Long Island" by George McCracken NEHGR 113 (1959):197-211.

 

The Wells Family of Maryland and Ohio

1. Mr. Wells was the father of at least three sons all of whom were born in Maryland and moved to Ohio: Joseph, James, and Frank.  Please note that Joseph Wells married Mary Clark, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Watson) Clark, sister of James Wells' wife.
2. James Wells was born 30 November 1781 in Maryland and died 30 July 1857 at Lewis Township, Brown County, Ohio.  He married about 1803 Sarah Watson Clark, born 28 February 1783 at Union County, Pennsylvania and died 7 June 1866 at Higginsport, Ohio, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Watson) Clark.  James fought in the  War of 1812.  They had four children:  Augustus A., Joseph Clark, Jane L., and Lucinda.
3. Jane L. Wells born 27 July 1822 at Brown County, Ohio, and died 13 May 1893 at Linwood, Kansas.  She married her first cousin, Michael Ryan Clark, born 11 February 1820 at Lewis Township, Ohio and died 18 November 1870 at Leavenworth County, Kansas, son of John and Eleanor (Ryan) Clark.  They had six children: Thomas W., Sarah E., Jane R., Charles Chester, Elizabeth D., and Jesse.

Sources:

“Clarks from Pennsylvania and Allied Families From Early 1700s to 1984” by Eunice Newbold Clark (the author: Dallas, TX, 1984).
Vertical File materials from the DAR Library in Washington DC under the name of John Clark of PA, including a chart of the Clark-Watson family of Buffalo Valley, PA.
“History of Brown County Ohio” (Chicago, W. H. Beers & Co. 1883).

1850 U.S. Census for Ohio, Brown County, Lewis Township, family #194
Had a brother named Frank; 9 children--6 boys and 3 girls.

1860 U.S. Census for Ohio, Brown County, Lewis Township, family #855 (son Joseph C. Wells).

U.S. census for Ohio, 1850, Lewis Township, Brown County, Page #134, Family #943.
U.S. census for Ohio, 1860, Lewis Township, Brown County, Page #46, Family #245.
U.S. census for Kansas, 1870, High Prairie Township, Leavenworth County, pp. 32-3 #231.
U.S. Census for Kansas, 1880, High Prairie, Leavenworth, p. 90C (listed as J.L. Clark).

 

Walter Wall 1619-1702 of Middletown, New Jersey

1. Walter Wall was born about 1619 in Wiltshire, England and died about 1702 at Middletown, New Jersey.   His wife was Ann (---).  They had the following children: Rutgert, Maria, John, Garret, Rebeccca and two daughters who were the wives of Thomas Wright and Thomas Cox.
2. Garrett Wall was born about 1645 at Gravesend, New York and died about November 1712 at Middletown, New Jersey.  He married a Lydia or Pauline Masters, possibly the daughter of Clement and Pauline Masters of Shrewsbury, New Jersey.  They had the following children: John, Jarrat (Gerrit), Humphrey, Mary, Anne,  Deborah, Lydia and Walter.
3. John Wall was born about 1685 at Middletown, New Jersey and died there after 1752.  He married about 1705, Mary Hubbard, born about 1689 at Gravesend, New York, daughter of James and Rachel (----) Hubbard.  They had the following children: Willempie, Rachel, Mary, John, and others.
4. Williempie Wall was born 24 March 1709 at Middletown, New Jersey and died there 24 March 1759.  She married about 1729, Elias Covenhoven (Conover) born 12 September 1707 at Marlborough, New Jersey and died 25 December 1750 at Middletown, New Jersey.  They had at least one child:  John.

Sources:

"Historical and Genealogical Miscellany Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New Yorka and New Jersey" by John E. Stillwell (New York, 1906) 2:354.
"Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y." by Teunis G. Bergen (S.W. Green's, New York, 1881).

"One Thousand Years of Hubbard History 866 to 1895" by Edward Warren Day (Harland Page Hubbard, New York, 1895).

"The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family" by Lincoln C. Cocheu NYGBR 70 (1939):230-5, 353-6, 71 (1940):69-74, 157-162, 273-6, 365-7.
"Monmouth Families" Volume II by Ann Pette Miles (King William, VA, 1981).

 

Abraham Isaacszen Verplanck of South River, New York

1. Abraham  Isaaacszen Verplanck was born before 1610 in the Netherlands and died before 11 August 1691 at South River, New York.  He married about 1634 at New York, New York, Maria Vigne, born 1610 at Valenciennes, France and died before 24 October 1671 at New York, New York, daughter of Guillain and Ariaentje (Cuvilje) Vigne.  They had the following children:  Catalina, Abigail, Guillain, Isaac, Susanna, Jacomyntje, Ariaantje, Hillegond, and Isaac.
2. Catalyntje (or Catalina) Verplanck was born February 1639 at New York, New York and died 8 October 1708 at Albany, New York.  She married at Albany on 13 October 1657, David Pieterszen Schuyler, born February 1636 at Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and died 9 February 1690 at Beverwyck, New York, son of Pieter Tjercks and Geertruyt Philips Van Schuylder.  They had the following children: Peter, Gertrude, Abraham, Maria, David, Myndert, Jacob and Catlyn.

Sources:

"Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts (1st ed., 1995, Boston, NEHGS).
NYGBR 24 (1893): 39-40.
"Schuyler Genealogy: A Compendium of Sources Pertaining to the Schuyler Families in America Prior to 1800" by Florence Christoph (in 2 vols., 1987, The Friends of Schuyler Mansion).
"The First American Mrs. Rosecrans" by David Bennett NYGBR 90 (1959):2-14.
“The Pedigree of Cornelia Roos, an Ancestor of FDR” by Dorothy A. Koenig and Pim Nieuwenhuis, New Netherlands Connection vol. 2 (1997):85-93, vol. 3(1998):1-5, 34-5.
“Ancestral Lines from Maine to Virginia: 57 Families in England, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Germany, The Eastern Seaboard, Ohio, Missouri and California” by Carl Boyer 3rd (the author: Santa Clarita, CA, 2002).
“The Unrecorded Will of Abraham Verplanck and Maria Vigne” NYGBR 140 (2009):252-260.

"Schuyler Genealogy: A Compendium of Sources Pertaining to the Schuyler Families in America Prior to 1800" by Florence Christoph (in 2 vols., 1987, The Friends of Schuyler Mansion).

"Schuremans of New Jersey" by Richard Wynkoop (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1902) and Supplement of January 1906.

 

Goosen Gerritt Van Schaick 1615-1677 of Albany, New York

1. Gerrit Goosensz Van Schaick was born about 1690 at Westbroek, the Netherlands and died there about 1627, son of Goosen Theunisz Van Schaeyck and grandson of Theunis Van Schaeyck.  He married on 21 March 1613 at Westbroek, Marietje Barents.  They had a son Goosen.
2. Goosen Gerritt Van Schaick was born about 1615 in the Netherlands and died after 1677 at Albany, New York.  He married first Geertie Brandt Peelen.  He married secondly about 1657 at Rensselaerswijck, New York, Annetje Lievens, daughter of Jans Lievens. By his two wives he had ten children: Geertie, Gerrit, Sybrant, Anthony, Gerritie, Engeltie, Levinius, Cornelis, Margaretha, and Barent.
3. Catharina Van Schaick was born about 1670 and died 1 July 1702 at New York, New York.  She married there on 19 January 1692, Matthew Clarkson, born 1664 in England and died 20 July 1702 in New York, New York, son of David and Elizabeth (Kendrick) Clarkson.  Matthew was the first provincial secretary to New York.  Matthew had five children: Elizabeth, David, Levinus, Matthew, and Anna.

Sources:

NYGBR 70:117-127.

"The Ancestry and Posterity of Matthew Clarkson 1664-1702" compiled by J. Robert T. Craine and edited by Harry W. Hazard (published by Craine, 1971).
"Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts (1st ed., 1995, Boston, NEHGS).
"Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany from1630 to 1800" by Jonathan Pearson (Albany, 1872).

 

Cornelis Hendrickse Van Ness of Rensselaerswijck, New York

1. Cornelis Hendrickse Van Ness died after 1684 at Rensselaerswijck, New York.  He married about 1625 at the Netherlands, Marijen Hendricks Van Den Burchgraeff who died about 1664.  He had the following children: Gerritie, Hendrickje, Hendrick, Gerrit, Jan, and Grietje.
2. Grietje Cornelise Van Ness married Pieter Claesen Wyckoff who was born about 1625 and died 30 June 1694.  He was from Nordingen in East Friesland, the Netherlands.

Sources:

"The Wyckoff Family in America" by Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Streeter (Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT).
"Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Roberts (1st ed., 1995, Boston, NEHGS).
NYGBR 72 (1941):148-155.

 

Dirk Van Eps d. bef. 1658 of Schenectady, New York

1. Dirk Van Eps died sometime before 1658 at Schenectady, New York.  He married Maritie Damen.  He had two children: Johannes and Elisabeth.
2. Elisabeth Dirkse Van Eps was born about 1623 and died 3 July 1693 at New York, New York.  She married Gerrit Bancker who died 27 February 1691 at Beverywyck, New York.  They had at least one daughter Anna.

Sources:

"Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady from 1662-1800" by Jonathan Pearson (Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, 1976).

"The DePeyster Genealogy" by Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. (Boston, MA, 1956, privately printed).