Thomas Jansevan Dijk

Source: William Benford Aitken - Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke - Name: Knickerbocker Press, 1912; Location: New York & London; Date: 1912; - Google Books - www.books.google.com - - xii, 266 pages color frontispiece, illustrations, plates, map 24 cmChapter VII(A) Thomas Janse Van Dyke, son of Jan ThomasseVan Dyke, born about 1632, was the oldest son and had justabout reached his majority when he sailed with his father fromAmsterdam, Holland, to New Amsterdam in the early partof the year 1652. He owned a farm of about fifty acres inNew Utrecht where he resided until 1677. In 1673 he wasa magistrate of New Utrecht. In 1677 he sold his farmthere to Rutgert Joosten Van Brunt and moved to a farmin Brooklyn which he sold in 1695 to Woughter Van Pelt.He married Maritje Andriessen. Their children were :al. Jan Van Dyke of Middlesex, N. J., married GeesjeDeGroot.oH. Andries Van Dyke, baptized August 11, 1675.Removed to Newcastle County, Delaware.cIII. Nicholas Van Dyke, married on April 1, 1689,Tryntje Rinerse Arnds, daughter of Rinier Arnds ofFlatbush, Long Island. They had a daughter TryntjeVan Dyke, baptized August 4, 1690. In Stiles' Historyof Brooklyn at page 203 is given a copy of the charterto the inhabitants of Breucklen by Governor Donganbearing date May 3, 1686, and among the names of theinhabitants with a statement of the number of yearseach had lived in the country are found: HendrickVeghten, 27 years; Claes Arentse Veghten, 27 years;Claes (Nicholas) Thomas Van Dyke, native, andAchias Janse Van Dyke, 36 years. He married 2d178THE VAN DYKE FAMILY 179Fransyntie Hendricks of Flatbush and lived on a farmwhich he owned at Gowanus, Brooklyn, until about theyear 1703, when he moved to Somerset County, NewJersey, where he attended the Dutch Church at SixMile Run. He is supposed to have returned to hisfarm in Brooklyn for in 1715 he was a private in Captain Aersins' company of King's County militia. Ina petition for lands for the Dutch churches at Flatlandsand Flatbush bearing date August 8, 1711, appear thenames Nicholas Van Dyke, deacon, and Lucas Stevense,elder, and the request for two lots in Flatbush describesthem as on the north side of lands of Colonel GerardusBeekman, Jacob Hendrickse, and Roelof Van Kerk onthe south side of the lane leading to Gowanus. In1724 he sold his Brooklyn farm of 200 acres to JosephHagemon and removed to Newcastle County, Delaware.
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_ELEC: Magistrate of New Utrecht [about 1673]New Utrecht, Kings, New York Colony
Source: William Benford Aitken - Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke - Name: Knickerbocker Press, 1912; Location: New York & London; Date: 1912; - Google Books - www.books.google.com - - xii, 266 pages color frontispiece, illustrations, plates, map 24 cmChapter VII
(A) Thomas Janse Van Dyke, son of Jan Thomasse
Van Dyke, born about 1632, was the oldest son and had just
about reached his majority when he sailed with his father from
Amsterdam, Holland, to New Amsterdam in the early part
of the year 1652. He owned a farm of about fifty acres in
New Utrecht where he resided until 1677. In 1673 he was
a magistrate of New Utrecht. In 1677 he sold his farm
there to Rutgert Joosten Van Brunt and moved to a farm
in Brooklyn which he sold in 1695 to Woughter Van Pelt.
He married Maritje Andriessen. Their children were :
al. Jan Van Dyke of Middlesex, N. J., married Geesje
DeGroot.
oH. Andries Van Dyke, baptized August 11, 1675.
Removed to Newcastle County, Delaware.
cIII. Nicholas Van Dyke, married on April 1, 1689,
Tryntje Rinerse Arnds, daughter of Rinier Arnds of
Flatbush, Long Island. They had a daughter Tryntje
Van Dyke, baptized August 4, 1690. In Stiles' History
of Brooklyn at page 203 is given a copy of the charter
to the inhabitants of Breucklen by Governor Dongan
bearing date May 3, 1686, and among the names of the
inhabitants with a statement of the number of years
each had lived in the country are found: Hendrick
Veghten, 27 years; Claes Arentse Veghten, 27 years;
Claes (Nicholas) Thomas Van Dyke, native, and
Achias Janse Van Dyke, 36 years. He married 2d
178
THE VAN DYKE FAMILY 179
Fransyntie Hendricks of Flatbush and lived on a farm
which he owned at Gowanus, Brooklyn, until about the
year 1703, when he moved to Somerset County, New
Jersey, where he attended the Dutch Church at Six
Mile Run. He is supposed to have returned to his
farm in Brooklyn for in 1715 he was a private in Cap
tain Aersins' company of King's County militia. In
a petition for lands for the Dutch churches at Flatlands
and Flatbush bearing date August 8, 1711, appear the
names Nicholas Van Dyke, deacon, and Lucas Stevense,
elder, and the request for two lots in Flatbush describes
them as on the north side of lands of Colonel Gerardus
Beekman, Jacob Hendrickse, and Roelof Van Kerk on
the south side of the lane leading to Gowanus. In
1724 he sold his Brooklyn farm of 200 acres to Joseph
Hagemon and removed to Newcastle County, Dela
ware.

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