Family:Martin Schenck and Maria Bockhurst (1)

The claimed Schenck van Nydeggen ancestry of the two Schenck families of colonial New York was shown to be unproved and very unlikely by William J. Hoffman, the leading Dutch-American genealogist, in "An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent: Schenck," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 68 (1937):114-118, reprinted in Genealogies of Long Island Families, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), 2:44-48.[[1]]

The two Schenck families were:

• Jan Martense Schenck and his brother, Roelof Martense Schenck; they

arrived in New Netherland about 1650, presumably with their sister Elizabeth, later wife of Adriaen Ryersen; and

• Johannes Schenck, who arrived in New York in or before 1684.

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