CHAPTER VII

THOMAS JANSE VAN DYKE; DERRICK VAN DYKE AND CAREL

VAN DYKE.

(A) Thomas Janse Van Dyke, son of Jan Thomasse
Van Dyke, bom about 1632, was the oldest son and had just
about reached his majority when he sailed with his father from
Amsterdam, Holland, to New Amsterdam in the early part
of the year 1652. He owned a farm of about fifty acres in
New Utrecht where he resided until 1677. In 1673 he was
a magistrate of New Utrecht. In 1677 he sold his farm
there to Rutgert Joosten Van Brunt and moved to a farm
in Brooklyn which he sold in 1695 to Woughter Van Pelt.
He married Maritje Andriessen. Their children were:
al.    Jan Van Dyke of Middlesex, N. J., married Geesje

DeGroot.
all.   Andries Van   Dyke,   baptized  August   11,   1675.

Removed to Newcastle County, Delaware,
alll. Nicholas Van Dyke, married on April i, 1689,
Tryntje Rinerse Arnds, daughter of Rinier Amds of
Flatbush, Long Island. They had a daughter Tryntje
Van Dyke, baptized August 4, 1690. In Stiles' History
of Brooklyn at page 203 is given a copy of the charter
to the inhabitants of Breucklen by Governor Dongan
bearing date May 3, 1686, and among the names of the
inhabitants with a statement of the number of years
each had lived in the country are found: Hendrick
Veghten, 27 years; Claes Arentse Veghten, 27 years;
Claes   (Nicholas)   Thomas  Van   Dyke,   native,   and

Achias  Janse Van D^^ke, 36  years.    He married 2d

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