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the Governor and CouncU at Fort Amsterdam on January
16, 1657. They were Jacques Cortelyou; the Lord Coun¬
sellor and Fiscal Nicasius de SiUe; Peter Buys; Johan Zeelen;
Albert Albertsen (Terhune); WiUem WiUemse (Van Engen) ;
Jacob Hellickers (alias Swart); Pieter Jansen; Huybert
Hoock; Jan Jacobson; Yunker (or Squire) Jacobus Corlear;
Jan Thomasse Van Dyke; Jacobus Backer; Rutgert Joosten
(Van Brunt); Jacob Pietersen; Pieter Roeloffse; Claes
Claessen (Smith); Cornells Beeckman and Teunis Joosten.

There were then in New Netherlands besides Jan Thom¬
asse Van Dyke two other representatives of Van Dyke
families of Holland: Franz Classen Van Dyke or Dyck, and
Hendrick Van Dyke, who was ''Fiscall" or State's Attorney
under Governor Peter Stuyvesant, and who came to New
Amsterdam in 1640. He is the one who raised a disttubance
on Broadway which nearly caused the early finish of New
Amsterdam. He had a house and orchard just south of
where Trinity Church now stands. In 1655 he shot and
killed an Indian who was stealing fruit from his orchard.
This hasty action led to much trouble with the Indians and
many settlers were killed. He died in 1688, leaving a son
Cornelius who was the ancestor of the Albany Van Dykes
and a son Rodolphus Van Dyke who married EHzabeth
Oudenade and had a son Rev. Henry Van Dyke, born in
1740 in Nassau Street, New York City, died in 1811, who
married Hulda Lewis of Stratford. An account of this Van
Dyke family may be fotmd in Rev. G. Morgan Hill's History
of the Church in Burlington, N. J.

Tunis G. Bergen, in a footnote to his History of the Bergen
Family, says that the father of Jan Thomasse Van Dyke was
Thomas Janse Van Dyke of Amsterdam, who married Sytie
Dirks, and that they had two other sons, Nicholas Thomasse
Van Dyke and Hendrick Van Dyke.

Jan Thomasse Van Dyke was active in the affairs of the
colony from the beginning and soon received honors and
appointments under its govemment. He inherited the
qualities of energy and abiHty from his ancestors of HoUand,
a family which had long been considered one of the best