Jan Willemsen De Duyster
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1640 - , , Netherlands
Christening:
Death: After 1689 - , , NY
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Wilhelm De Duyster (Abt 1612- ) 5
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Grietje Cornelis ( - ) 5
Marriage:
Children:
1. Willem De Duyster (1662- ) 5
2. Cornelis De Duyster (Abt 1667- ) 5
3. Cornelia Jansen De Duyster ( - ) 5
4. Catharina De Duyster ( - ) 5
5. Dirck De Duyster ( - ) 5
6. Barent De Duyster ( - ) 5
7. Roelof De Duyster ( -1737) 5
8. David De Duyster ( -1773) 5
9. Tys De Duyster (1681- ) 5
Notes
General:
MARRIAGE: Coulter, William J., Minisink and Wallkill Precinct Historical Chronicles Part 1, pub. 31 Aug 1940, p. 109; Orange County Genealogical Society, Goshen, NY.
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.
RECORDS: 5 Aug 1660 Jan and Aert Peterszen Tack purchased 48 morgens, 2 rods of land at Esopus (now Kingston, Ulster Co) NY for 600 guilders, payable in three annual installments in grain and beavers. In 1661 Jan appears in Kingston. 18 Sep 1663, Jan Willemszen fined for venturing outside the Kingston stockade without a guard, in violation of the decree made after the Indian massacre of 7 Jun 1663. He was in military companies in 1686-87 and 1673 in Kingston. 1 Sep 1689, Jan appears as "ye duitcher" in Ulster Co NY and took the oath of English allegiance.