Name |
Jan Aert Aersen |
Birth |
1636 |
Amersfoort, Amersfoort Municipality, Utrecht, Netherlands |
Gender |
Male |
Immigrant |
23 Dec 1660 |
Amsterdam Municipality, Noord-Holland, Netherlands |
Ship: Faith
Arrived: 1661
New York |
Death |
1708 |
Kings Co., New York, USA |
Burial |
Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA |
Notes |
- Immigration circa 1661 New Amsterdam.
An article by Rosalie Fellows Bailey in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, identifies emigrants who owed money to the West India Company for their passage to New Netherlands and who were listed in the contemporaneous notes of one James Riker. The account is not complete and the date is that of embarkation, not of arrival (it took about 6 weeks for the voyage), but one name caught stands out —
Jan Aertsen from Amersfoort who sailed on the Faith on 23 December 1660. An attached note in the record states that he "lives with Elbert Elbertsen [Stoothoff] 'in de baay' (i.e., Flatlands
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Person ID |
I16394 |
OurNorthernRoots | Andrew's Ancestor |
Last Modified |
11 Jan 2024 |