THE VAN DYKE FAMILY                 179

Fransyntie Hendricks of Flatbush and lived on a farm
which he owned at Gowanus, Brooklyn, until about the
year 1703, when he moved to Somerset County, New
Jersey, where he attended the Dutch Church at Six
Mile Run. He is supposed to have returned to his
farm in Brooklyn for in 1715 he was a private in Cap¬
tain Aersins' company of King's County militia. In
a petition for lands for the Dutch churches at Flatlands
and Flatbush bearing date August 8, 1711, appear the
names Nicholas Van Dyke, deacon, and Lucas Stevense,
elder, and the request for two lots in Flatbush describes
them as on the north side of lands of Colonel Gerardus
Beekman, Jacob Hendrickse, and Roelof Van Kerk on
the south side of the lane leading to Gowanus. In
1724 he sold his Brooklyn farm of 200 acres to Joseph
Hagemon and removed to Newcastle County, Dela¬
ware. Their children were:
(i)    Thomas Van Dyke, born April 11, 1693.

(2)    Geesje Van Dyke, bom October 4, 1694.

(3)    Maria Van Dyke, born July 3, 1696, married
Joseph Golden.

(4)    Henricus Van Dyke, bom May 3, 1698.

(5)    Johannes Van Dyke, bom March 22, 1700.

(6)    Antje Van Dyke, born JiUy 5, 1704.

(7)    Abraham Van Dyke, who had a farm at Yellow
Hook, now Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, N. Y.

(8)    Nicholas Van Dyke, baptized April 5, 1708, mar¬
ried Lytic Dirks and had a son Hon. Nicholas
Van Dyke, bom September 25, 1738, died in 1789.
He was Major of militia in Newcastle County,
Delaware, during the Revolutionary War. In 1774
he was a member of the Committee of Correspondence
and in 1776 Deputy to the Convention; he was a
member of the Continental Congress from 1777 to
Feb. I, 1783, when he became Govemor of the Colony
of Delaware, and administered the office until his
death in 1789, the year that the Colony became a
State of the Confederation.    His son, Hon. Nicholas