Contact Admin. This area was called New Netherland. The reasons for emigration were possibly the poverty of people who lost their homes after the terrible storm tide of Also the Thirty Years war had an effect. Evjen and Lohr published lists of Schleswig-Holstein immigrants who settled in New Netherland with the port New Amsterdam in the seventeenth century [].
There are also passenger lists of Dutch ships [4]. All publications are using American sources. Researchers have tried to find those names in Schleswig-Holstein church registers and other sources, but without any success [5]. The reason is that most of the church registers start in the beginning of the eighteen's century. The following list of 75 names show an abridged version of Evjen's publication [1]. Perhaps he was a fisherman.
Tradition says he was Dutch and had emigrated from Holland, by way of Denmark, to New Netherland in It seems that he was in Amsterdam in Andriessen was a turner by trade. In her second marriage she had four children: Andries, Lourens, Pieter, and Thomas. Laurens Andriessen acquired much land in Bergen County, New Jersey, and became influential in political life.
On October 19, , he got the patent of a lot behind the public tavern on Manhattan, that is on Hoogh Straet. Jan Broersen was from Husum. He later came to New Netherland. We find him at Esopus today: Kingston in May, , when he and other settlers of this place made an agreement to remove their dwellings and form a village.
In March, , Broersen served as a soldier at Esopus. Jan Broersen married Heltje Jacobs. They had the children: In , Jan Broersen was nominated magistrate by the inhabitants of Horly and Marble. The Governor accordingly appointed him a magistrate and notified the inhabitants of it in a letter of October 6, Besides being magistrate Broersen was also lieutenant of the militia. Login Signup. Signup Login Contact Admin.
