Van Dyke

"(I) Thomas Janse Van Dyke, progenitor of the family in America, was born about 1580 and died in Brooklyn, New York, about 1655. He came to New Amsterdam in 1652, with his wife and children, and in 1661 he and his wife were enrolled as members of the Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn.
Thomas Janse Van Dyke married Sytie Dirks.
Children:

1. Jan Thomasse, of whom further.
2. Claes or Nicholas Thomasse, who, it is said, married (first), April 20, 1689, Tryntje Rinnerse Arends; (second), June 4, 1692, Fransyntie Hendricks.
3. Hendricks Thomasse, married, in New Amsterdam, September 7, 1679, Neeltje Adriaens, widow of Jan Lauwrensz, of New Utrecht.

(W. B. Aitken: "Distinguished Families of America Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke," pp. 174. Rev. T.W. Welles: "Ancestral Tablets," p. 301. T. G. Bergen: "Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County," pp. 334-37.)

(II) Jan Thomas Van Dyke, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1605 and died at New Utrecht, Long Island, New York, about September, 1673. He was accompanied to the New Netherlands in 1652 by his second wife, Tryntje, and six children. on the good ship "De Bonte Kou" ( "The Spotted Cow"). On January 16, 1657, he was one of the founders of New Utrecht, where Director-General Peter Stuyvesant had permitted the establishment of a town, comprising about one thousand acres divided into farms of fifty acres each. Jan Thomasse Van Dyke was the owner of one of these farms and in 1659 added to it a tract of meadow land extending toward what is now called Coney Island.

Active in the affairs of the Colony from the beginning, he soon received honors and appointments under its government. On October 2, 1659, he was appointed sergeant by the Director-General and Council at Fort Amsterdam, "to keep watch, the people to acknowledge and obey him." For many years he was a magistrate of Fort Orange and New Utrecht, and on August 18, 1673, was appointed by Governor Colve one of the schepens or judges. He died soon after, and his successor was named under date of October 16, 1673. In 1675 his heirs sold at auction his old farm at New Utrecht for 2,500 guilders, and his two lots in the village to his son, Hendrick Janse, for 750 guilders. At the same time his new farm was sold for 2,000 guilders.

Jan Thomasse Van Dyke married (first), in Holland, but his wife's name is not known. He married (second) Tryntje Achias or Haegen, who was born in Holland. She married (second), August 11, 1678, Tileman Jacobsz Vander Meyer or Vander Hard.
Children, probably of first marriage:

1. Thomas Janse, born in Amsterdam in 1632, died in Brooklyn, New York, prior to September, 1695; married, about 1671, Maritje Andrisse or Andriessen.
2. Carel Janse, born in Amsterdam about 1646, died in 1734.
3. Derrick Janse, born in Amsterdam; married, in New York, April 25, 1674, Urseltje Jans of New York.
4. Peter Janse, born in Amsterdam; married, before 1680, Annetje Jansz.
   
   Children of second marriage:
   
   
5. Achias, of whom further. [born 1649, died about 1707.]
6. Mayke or Marretje Jansz, married April 22, 1694, Johannes Daniels Rinckerhoudt.
7. Anganietje or Annetie, born about 1644; married Arie or Adrien Willemse Bennet.
8. Antje Janse, born in 1642; married Peter Staats, of Brooklyn.
9. Tryntje Janse.
10. Lambert Janse, supposedly lived in New Utrecht; married Fytie Barents
11. Jans Janse, born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1650, died between May, 1735, and November 9, 1736.
12. Hendrick Janse, baptized July 2, 1653; , married February 29, 1680, Jannetje Hermanse.

(W. B. Aitken: "Distinguished Families of America Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke," pp. 174-78, 187, 227. Records in possession of descendants of the family.)"

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