Conflict about birthplace. Some sources refer to Einigen, Brabant, Netherlands. Other refer to Kingston Royal Colony, Kingston, NY. I have found no primary documentation for either. Mackenzie manuscript says Heerde. Walter Griffin work in NYGandBD also says Heerde. Has never been found in any birth or baptismal records in Dutch Reformed churches in NYS.
Records show 5 August 1660 purchased 48 morgens, 2 rods of land at Esopus for 600 guilders from Johanna de Laet, widow of Jan de Hulter. Fined 18 September 1663 for venturing outside Kingston stockage without guard in violation of decree made after Indian massacre of 7 June 1663. Served variously as footman, private, corporal and lieutenant in local guard under Captain Matheis Mathysen in Kingston.25
Lived in Flatbush until 1675 when he moved to Ulster County.41 September 1, 1869 took oath of English allegiance.25
Took oath of allegiance of England 1 September 1689 in Ulster Co., NY. 25 This is the first documentation of the use of “ye Duyster”.93
Ca 1660 when Jan Williemszen was 25, he married Margaret (Grietze) CORNELISSE in Kingston, Ulster County, NY.
Parents brought him to Salem, MA before June 25th,163860 and then to Southold about 1650 and East Hampton 1635. He moved on to area around New Amsterdam on his own.41 Lived in Flushing, LI until 1655 when he removed to Rye, NY. Lived there until 1676 when he sold his land and moved to Eastchester, Westchester County, NY. Died before 1698.
268.Dirck Gorisz STORM42, son of 536. Dirck STORM & 537. Alida VAN CORTENBOSCH. Born ca 1630 in Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands.61 Dirck Gorisz died in Tarrytown, NY, in 1716; he was 86.61
In 1655 he married in Holland and in 1660 becme town clerk of Osch in the Mayorate of Hertogenbosch.61
In 1661 living in Osch in North Brabant. Left Groeningen, Maiery of Bosch, Holland.25
In 1662 sailed on DeVos for New Amsterdam and became an innkeeper. Was precantor of the Brooklyn and Flatbush churches and a farmer at New Lots and Bedford, LI.61
Arrived on September 2, 1662 at what is now the foot of Wall Street after 3 months at sea in "De Vos" (the Fox). On 14 February 1668 he was granted a license to keep a public house on the corner of Pearl and Whitehall Streets in New Amsterdam. This venture failed and he was fined for staying open after 9 p.m., the 'candlelight closing hour of the virtuous Hollanders, was sued for rent, and ultimately dispossessed.25
In 1669 moved to Brooklyn and succeeded Carl Beauvais as town clerk of Brooklyn. In 1677 moved to Flatbush and was village school master, as well as town clerk from 1680-1683. In 1691 was appointed Town Clerk of the newly formed Orange County and that year moved to "Col. Van Cortlandt's Patent" where he was still living when he became a justice of the peace in 1694. In 1696 was a Westchester County Tax Collector. Later moved to Tappan, and then to Philipsburgh in about 1704. Early records of Philipsburgh Church (down to May 1716) are in his handwriting.42,41,61
Ca 1655 when Dirck Gorisz was 25, he married Maria MONTFORT41,61.42,61
He and his wife are # 3 and #4 of the Member Register of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow,now the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, according to Rev. David Cole in the First Record Book, published 1901 by the Yonkers Historical and Library Association.97
Born in Holland. Farmed in Brooklyn, NY. Married 1689. Moved from Gowanus to Tarrytown in 1695/1696.42,41
Came as a boy of about six to New Netherland with his parents. Married Engeltje van Dyck, daughter of Thomas van Dyck and in 1691 they occupied a farm at Gowanus, between Brooklyn and Newton. About 1697 they moved with other married STORM brothers to Philipsburgh in Tarrytown, NY where they acquired land on Philipse’s Manor and became organizers of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. He died 1711 at 55 leaving a widow and seven minor children well provided for. She remarried 29 May 1714 to Jaques Tourneur of New Haarlem, widower of Aeltje Cortreght.61