Daniel Verveelen

Male 1635 - Aft 1712  (> 78 years)


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  • Name Daniel Verveelen 
    Birth 1635  Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Aft 1712  Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • When the first Verveelen, young Daniel born in Amsterdam in 1635,
      arrived in New Netherland in 1652, he came with Gideon and Agnietje
      Moens (Moriaens) Schaets. And, he subsequently married their daughter,
      Alida (Aletta). Gideon Schaets was a minister (Dominie) in the Dutch
      Reformed Church, as had been his father. He had also been a
      schoolmaster and tutor at The Hague and at Brielle in the Netherlands.
      Agnietje was a governess whose family had previously been in the
      service of the Dukes of Burgundy for generations and were high
      government officials at The Hague.
      The Schaets name is derived from the Norse word "skeatse"
      meaning warior or sharp-shooter. The Schaets and Moens families, both
      of Viking descent and long allied, settled prior to 1400 in the
      Netherlands city of Tongeren, on the Meuse River, now part of Belgium.
      It was an area of Germanic tribes that early on resisted the incursion
      of the Romans.
      Daniel, son of Johannes and Anna Verveelen, and then still a boy of
      seventeen years, arrived in New Netherland in 1652, traveling in the
      care of Dominie (The Reverend) Gideon and Agnietje Schaets. The
      Dominie had received a call to become the second pastor of the Dutch
      Reformed Church at Albany, known at the time as Beverwyck.
      Daniel at first became a trader in New Amsterdam and Beverwyck.
      About 1661, he married Aletta Schaets, daughter of the Dominie and
      Agnietje Schaets, settled in New Amsterdam, and joined his father in
      the Red Lion Brewery. He later also succeeded his father as
      ferrymaster in Harlem. He and Aletta moved about, living as well for a
      while in New Utrecht in what is now Brooklyn, New York, and finally
      across the Hudson River to Hackensack, New Jersey. Over the years,
      they raised seven children. Although the surnames changed with time
      (e.g., Ver Valen, Van Valen, and Van Valer), their descendants are now
      widely scattered across the nation from New York to Hawaii.
      The Dominie's grandmother was Janne Schagen, a descendant of the
      minor noble house of Schagen in North Holland. The first Lord Van
      Schagen (died 1473) is believed to have been the brother of William
      VI, Count of Holland, and the illegitimate son of Duke Albrecht of
      Bavaria, who presented the Schagen family with a coat of arms.
    Person ID I21326  OurNorthernRoots
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2011 

    Father Johannes Verveelen,   b. 1616, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1700, Harlem, New York Co., New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Anna Jaarsvelt,   b. 1620, Geertudidenberg, Holland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1635  Geertudidenberg, Holland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6012  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alida Schaets,   b. 1644, Holland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1661  Albany Co., New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Bernardus Van Valen,   b. 1681, New Utrecht, Kings Co., New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Gideon Ver Valen,   b. Abt 1686, New Utrecht, Kings Co., New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1762, Dutchess Co., New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years)
    Family ID F6013  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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