Person:Jan De Duyster (1)

1 Sept. 1689, Jan appears as "ye duitcher" in Ulster Co., N. Y., and took the oath of English allegiance (Hist. Ulster Co., 69). "Jan Willemszen" with the subsequentIy notorious Aert Peterszen Tack, 5 Aug., 1660, purchased of Johanna de Laet, widow of Jan de Hulter, and wife of Hieronymus Ebbinghs of Hamburg, 48 morgens, 2 rods of land at Esopus, for 600 guilders, payable in three annual installments in grain and beavers (Pearson’s Renssealerwyck, 276-7). Jan Willemszen made his mark. Tack, 14 Aug., 1661 (K., 7), appears in Kingston, and "Jan Willemszen" the same year (1897, Holl. Soc., 131). Burhan’s Genealogy, p. 2, mentions an unconfirmed statement of the late Jonathan W. Hasbrouck that in 1663 "Jan Willemszen and his wife" in court at Kingston referred to Jacob Burhans as capable of testifying to their good character, as he came from their town Einigen in Brabant. 18 Sept., 1663, "Jan Willemszen" was fined for venturing outside the Kingston stockade, without a guard, in violation of the decree made after the Indian massacre of 7 June, 1663. 14 Sept., 1673, "Jan Willemszen" was lieutenant under Capt. Matheis Mathysen at Kingston (N. Y. State Hist. Rept., 1-383), and 1686-7 "Jan Willemszen" was corporal under the same captain, with "Rullof Johnson" as a private (id. 2-451), and in 1687 "John Williamson" with "Barend a holender" (? Barent de Duytscher), were "fottmen" in Capt. Tomes (Thomas) Gersones’ Co. (id. z-449).

1.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (R) (2). (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).