Person talk:Jan Dorlant (2)

[26 January 2013]

Our home: a monthly magazine of original articles, Volume 1 AuthorAbraham Van Doren Honeyman PublisherCornell & Honeyman, 1873 pg. 402 MORE ABOUT THE DUTCH SETTLERS The following are some of those from King's County, on the west end of Long Island, who settled in New Jersey Lambert Dorlant emigrated in 1663, settled at first in Brooklyn, then on Staten Island, and finally on the Raritan as early as 1717. Garret Dorlandt and Merretien, his wife, who resided near New Brunswick as early as 1709, was a son of Jan Gerretts, whose father, Garret, emigrated in 1652 and settled in Bedford, Brooklyn .

http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=231186 Records of the Dorland Family in America : embracing the principal branches, Dorland, Dorlon, Dorlan, Durland, Durling in the United States and Canada : sprung from Jan Gerretse Dorlandt, Holland emigrant, 1652 and Lambert Janse Dorlandt, Holland emigrant, 1663 by John Dorland Cremer Byron S. Adams, Washington, D.C., 1898 pg. 35 JAN GERRETSE DORLANDT was the first Dorland immigrant to this country of whom we have certain record, and the progenitor of the larger branch of the family in Americ pg. 36 An inferential tradition is that he was a young man when he came to try his fortunes in the New World. Lacking definite information, we may surmise that he was, say, twenty-three or twenty-five years of age ; and from this we may set down the year of his birth as approximately 1625 or 1627. We know that he was still living as late as 1711, so that we may be assured that he attained the ripe old age of at least eighty-four years. pg. 39 The tradition is that he was unmarried, as well as young, when he came to America. § We have no information as to his first marriage or as to his first wife. But we know that one of his sons, probably the eldest, was born in 1655, and from this we may infer that he took unto himself a wife within a year or two after his arrival on American soil. § This tradition has been encountered among living descendants of both the emigrant brothers. IrvingP. Dorland, of New York City, a descendant of Jan Gerretse, says : " I have always believed my ancestors were Dutch and came from Holland. I was told two brothers came here unmarried." Nathaniel McPherkson Durling, of Raritan, N. J., expresses the same tradition, handed down in his family from Lammert Janse — that "the two emigrant brothers came from Holland and settled on I,ong Island, and were unmarried in Holland." pg. 40 From this first marriage sprang at least five children, whose careers we are able partially to trace. His first wife seems to have died in the interval between 1663 and 1666 ; and about the year 1667 he married Anna REMSEN, daughter of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck and Jannetje Rapalie. By this second marriage he had at least five additional children, and several of these were baptized in the Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn.--henk 13:25, 26 January 2013 (EST)