Aitken, William B., Distinguished families in America descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.

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CHAPTER VIII

captain JAN JANSE VAN DYKE

(D) Captain Jan Ja nse Van Dyke, son of Jan Thomasse
Van Dyke, born not long before the year 1652, died in 1736;
married May 9, 1673, in New York City, Teuntje or Tryntje
Thyssen Lanen Van Pelt, daughter of Matthais Van Pelt,
also known as Thys Lanse Van Pelt and as Matthys Lanez
Van Pelt Lanen, a Walloon who emigrated from Li^ge in
1663, and settled in New Utrecht. A. D. MeUick, in the
Story of an Old Farm, says that in some instances the Chris¬
tian name of the father served as a surname for the children,
and that the Lane and Van Pelt famiHes of Somerset and
Hudson Counties, N. J., originated in Mattys Lanez Van
Pelt Lanen. Matthais Van Pelt was undoubtedly of the
same family and probably a brother of Woughter or Wouter
Teunisz Lanen Van Pelt who in 1695 ptirchased a farm of
Thomas Janse Van Dyke and who with Ort Van Pelt pur¬
chased in 1717 part of the HarHngen Tract in Somerset
County, N. J. Wouter Van Pelt married Jannetje Schaus of
Gowanus. His will, dated May 20, 1728, recorded in New
York County, names his children: Teunis; Alexander; Peter;
Johannis; Mary; Elizabeth; and Jacomyntie and grand¬
daughter Margaret Bennet.

Captain Jan Janse Van Dyke resided in New Utrecht,
where he was a magistrate in 1679. Governor Leisler by
commission which is recorded in the Documentary History
of New York, vol. xxxvi., at page 142, commissioned him
in December, 1689, ^ Lieutenant in Jan Hanse's company
of New Utrecht militia, of which Joost Van Brunt was

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