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- The founder and patriarch of the family in North America was Johannes
Verveelen, a brewer from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who arrived in
New Amsterdam in 1657 with his wife, Anna Jaarsvelt, daughters Anna
and Maria, and his widowed mother, Anna Elkhout. His son, Daniel, had
preceded him here five years earlier. His ancestors were from the
Rhineland, his grandfather and father, the latter a shopkeeper, having
moved to Amsterdam in 1610 to escape the oppression of Calvinists at
Cologne.
With a partner, Isaac de Forest, Johannes founded the Red Lion
Brewery in New Amsterdam on what is now Beaver Street in downtown
Manhattan, New York, two blocks south of Wall Street and east of
Broadway. Subsequently, in 1661, he became one of the five original
land grant recipients and residents of New Haarlem (now Harlem). He
was the proprietor of the first inn in Harlem. He also operated
ferries east across the Harlem River at what is now 125th Street and,
later, across the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the north (Map). Later he
served as Harlem Constable, Magistrate, and Delegate to the General
Assembly at Albany, New York.
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