"Evert Jansen Wendel, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1615 in Embden, East Friesland, now Hanover, Holland. From there he went with the Dutch West India Company to New Netherland, in America, arriving there in 1640. He lived at New Amsterdam for about five years, removing then to the settlement on the Mauritius, as the Dutch called the Hudson river. Here he had a license to deal with the Indians in beavers and peltries, and he evidently lived near Fort Orange. Later he lived in Albany until his death in 1709. He held several important public offices in the settlement such as magistrate of Fort Orange in 1660-61. He was also regerenden dijaken of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church. He married (first) July 31, 1644, at New Amsterdam, Susanna, daughter of Philip De Trieux, "Marshall of New Netherland," and his wife Susanna, of Smit's Valley, New Amsterdam. He married (second) 1663, Maritje Abrahamse Vosburgh, of Beverwyck, widow of Thomas Jansen Mingael. He married (third) Ariaantje ---. Children of first wife: Thomas, Abraham, Elsje, baptized in 1647; Johannes, mentioned below; Diewer, baptized in 1653; Hieronymus, baptized in 1655; Philip, baptized in 1657; Evert, baptized in 1660. Children of second wife: Isaac, Susanna, Diewertje."
