DE MEYER, Nicolaes In the earliest records De Meyer is called "Nicolaes Van Holsteyn." He came about 1655 from Hamburg, in Schleswig Holstein, and was a baker by trade. In the city of New Amsterdam he served as Schepen, and under English rule in New York as Alderman and Mayor. He possessed considerable real estate. His name does not occur in the list of citizens who aided the city in 1664 by lending money to repair the fortifications, yet De Meyer must have been wealthy at the time, for ten years later he was worth 50,000 fl., only one man in the city (Frederick Philipsen) being rated as wealthier than he. In 1655 he married Lydia Van Dyck; after her death he married Sarah, widow of John Wicksteen. He died in 1690.
