Person talk:Garret Kroesen (3)

[24 January 2013]

https://sites.google.com/site/brewergenealogy/adambrouwerstory

(Church members (added 5-29-1661) in Stile’s has him as Garrit Dirckzen Crousen, of Wynschoot)

Date: Thu Jun 11 06:10:16 1998

Name: Doris Lane

E- mail: Croesen2@aol.com

Address: 87 Main Avenue 2A Ocean Grove NJ 07756

Surname of Immigrant: Croesen

Given name(s) of Immigrant: Gerrit Dircksen Name of Ship:

Arrival Date: before 1660

Origin of Immigrant: Winschoten, Netherlands

Immigrant's Date & Place of Birth: about 1639

Immigrant's Date & Place of Death: 7 Mar 1680

Immigrant's Spouse: Neeltje Jans Van Huysem (Staats)

Source of Information: Croesen Families of America Vol. 1 1998

Immigrant's Children: Derrick bap 22 Jul 1662 Brooklyn NY died 12 May 1731Bucks Co PA married 5 Mar 1684 in Manhattan Elizabeth Cregier

Elsje born abt 1663 Gowanus resettled poss Piscataway NJ married 9 Oct 1681 Willem Claesz

Hendrick born abt 1665 Gowanus died abt 1760 Staten Island NY married abt 1697 Cornelia Corson

Catharine born abt 1670 Gowanus died abt 1726 Staten Island NY married Nicholas Bakker

Anitje born 16 Sept 1677 married abt 1702 Christian Corson

Jan (poss)

Notes: Gerrit Dircksen Croesen joined the Brooklyn Dutch Reformed Church by transfer from Winschoten in 1661.

He owned a 25 acre farm in the Gowanus Colony. Upon his death in 1680 his widow Neeltje Jans married her neighbor Volkert Hendricksen Bries. On 29 Sept 1677 Gerrit had been granted a 172 acre land patent on the North Shore of Staten Island. His two sons, Derrick and Hendrick, and possibly his daughter Elsje, relocated there. Gerrit's will had burned in a fire at the county clerk's house and a dispute arose in the 1690s between the sons Derrick and Hendrick over the patent. It was settled around 1709 when it was sold. Hendrick bought a neighboring 54 acre farm and Derrick resettled in Bucks County PA.--henk 10:44, 24 January 2013 (EST)