Roelof Willemszen De Duyster
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1638 - , , , Netherlands
Christening:
Death: 1667-1673 - , , NY
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Wilhelm De Duyster (Abt 1612- ) 5
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Willempje Thyssen ( - 1689-1690) 5
Marriage: Bef 1663
Notes
General:
BIRTH: Ancestral File 4.12, as of 21 Aug 1992. All entries not verified. Tucson FHL.
MARRIAGE-IMMIGRATION-BROTHER-DEATH: Walter K. Griffin, "The Dutcher Family"; NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 1910; pp 5-8; FHL microfilm #1433994, item 7.
COMMENTS: All the following from Griffith, above.
IMMIGRATION: Came from the Netherlands to Fort Orange (now Albany) NY abt 1660/1663.
NAME: De Duyster eventually became "ye Duitcher", the Dutchman, and later Dutcher. Roelof also known as "Van Heerden," or from Heerden, a very small village about 30 miles N.N.E. from Arnheim in Gelderland, Holland.
RECORDS: 22 Mar 1663, at Beverwyck (now Albany) NY, borrowed 504 fl. ($100.80) from Hend. Hendricksen at 10%, repayable in July; 23 Mar 1663, at Beverwyck sold a lot with a cellar and the shed over it to Geurt or Gerrit Hendrickszen for 275 guilders; 23 Sep 1663, became members of Brooklyn NY Church (he and his wife had moved to Brooklyn from Beverwyck); 6 Mar 1667 his wife Willempje was sponsor with Resolved Waldron. Roelof died soon after.