Identifier: scandinavianimmi02evje (find matches)
Title: Scandinavian immigrants in New York, 1630-1674; with appendices on Scandinavians in Mexico and South America, 1532-1640, Scandinavians in Canada, 1619-1620, Some Scandinavians in New York in the eighteenth century, German immigrants in New York, 1630-1674
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evjen, John O. (John Oluf), 1874-1942
Subjects: Scandinavians -- New York (State) Scandinavians -- America Germans -- New York (State)
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn., K. C. Holter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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He had married on August 5, 1656, in New Am-
sterdam, Brieta Ollofs, from Goteborg, Sweden. By her he had
a daughter, Margariet, who was baptized on April 15, 1657.
In December, 1666, Brieta, having become a widow, married
Jan Jacobsen from Friesland. The Orphanmasters appointed, in
the same month, Focke Jans and Cornelis Aerts as guardians for
her daughter.⁴⁵¹
Whatever else is recorded of Pieter Cornelissen, is limited to
a notice in the court records, viz., that he on November 1, 1664,
sued Bastian the Wheelwright for an ox he had sold to him, for
which he demanded 230 guilders. The matter was likely settled
out of court, as arbitrators were appointed to reconcile the parties.⁴⁵²

SYBRANT CORNELISSEN.

Sybrant Cornelissen, a soldier in the service of the West
India Company, was in New Amsterdam about 1664. On Jan-

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449 G. Anjou, Ulster County (N. Y.) Wills, 1906, I., p. 35.
450 Ibid., I., p. 73.
451 Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, 1900, p. 128.
452 The Records of New Amsterdam, 1653-1673, V., p. 149.

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VARBERG, ABOUT THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY


DUYTS. 193

uary 31, in that year, he made a declaration, at the request of one
Paul Pietersen, in regard to a quarrel between Maritie Tomas and
Tryntie Martens, the wife of Paul.⁴⁵³
Sybrant Cornelissen was from Flensburg in Denmark, as we
learn from a notice of July 17, 1664, stating that he, on that date,
was appointed assistant surgeon, and that he was to be employed
in shaving, bleeding, and administering medicine to the soldiers.⁴⁵⁴
In other words, Sybrant appears to have been an old-time barber-
surgeon. In E. B. O'Callaghan's " Register of New Netherland,"
p. 124, Sybrant is listed as " Physician and surgeon at Esopus."

URSEL DIRCKS.
Ursel Dircks, from Holstein, came in 1658 to New Amster-
dam with his two children, aged two and ten, by the ship " de Moes-
man," which sailed May 1, 1658, for New Netherland.⁴⁵⁵

LAURENS DUYTS.

Laurens Duyts came over to New Netherland in 1639 in the
ship " de Brant van Trogen." Among his fellow passengers were
the Danes Captain Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, Jonas Bronck (?),
and Pieter Andriesen.

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