User talk:HenkCS/Emigrants from Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe/Drenthe

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[9 December 2013]

VAN VEGHT, VECHTE, or VEGHTEN, KLAES ARENTSE (prob- ably at one period from Vechten, a hamlet in Utrecht, or the river Vecht in the Netherlands), emigrated from Norg in the province of Drenthe with w. Lammetshe and 3 chil- dren in 1660 and settled in Brn, where he owned a farm in Gowanus as early as 1672, on which he resided and on which the old stone and brick house near Fifth Ave., erect- ed in 1699, now (1880) about disappearing, was probably built by him. On ass. rolls of Brn of 167 and '83; took the oath of allegiance there in 1687; on cen. of 1698; member in 1677, and an elder in the R. D. ch. of Brn in 1681. There was a Teunis Dirkse Van Vechten who emigrated in 1638 and settled at Greenbush opposite Albany, whose descend- ants are to be found in the vicinity of Albany, Catskill, etc., but have seen no evidence of his relationship to Claes Arentse. Issue:- Hendrick Claesen; Gerrit Claesen; and (sup.) Michael Claesen. Signed his name "Klaes Arents Vecht."--henk 18:14, 9 December 2013 (UTC)