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Jan Gerritsen Strycker

Jan Gerritsen Strycker

Male Abt 1610 -


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  • Name Jan Gerritsen Strycker  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Birth Abt 1610  Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9] 
    Gender Male 
    FSID M7S7-VHJ  [4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21] 
    Immigration 1652  New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Religion Between 1654 and 1697  Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Dutch Reformed Church, Elder & churchmaster 
    Occupation 1679  Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gunsmith and armourer 
    _MILT New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Captain of Long Island Dutch Militia 
    Death Long Island, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 7, 8, 9] 
    Person ID I45511  footsteps
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Father Gerret Hermans Strycker,   b. Abt 1584, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1650, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Family ID F25034  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lambertje Roelofse Suebering,   b. 1616, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 1675, Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1632  Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Aeltje Janse Stryker,   b. Abt 1641, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1697, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    +2. Jannetje Jan Strycker,   b. Abt 1635, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Apr 1715, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 80 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    +3. Eytje Janse Strycker,   b. 1651, Ruinen, De Wolden, Drenthe, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 1687, Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 36 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F24946  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

  • Notes 


    • Genealogical Record of the Strycker Family (1887) by William Scudder Stryker:

      Jan Strÿcker was born in Holland in the year 1615. He emigrated from Ruinen, a village in the province of Drenthe, with his wife (Lamberje Sueberling), two sons and four daughters, and arrived at New Amsterdam in the year 1652. Leaving behind him all the privileges and rights which might be his by descent in the old world, he sought to start his family on new soil in habits of industry and honesty. He was a man of ability and education, for his subsequent history shows him to have been prominent in the civil and religious community in which his lot was cast. His first wife in Holland was named Lambertje Seubering, and by her all his children were born there or in this country. She was certainly living in 1663. After her death he married, April 30, 1679, Swantje Jans, the widow of Cornelis De Potter, of Brooklyn. She died in the year 1686. On March 31, 1687, he married a third time, Teuntje Teunis, of Flatbush, widow of Jacob Hellakers, of New Amsterdam. She survived her husband. She is recorded as having united with the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam March 3, 1697. Jan Strycker remained in New Amsterdam a little over a year after his arrival there, and in the year 1654 he took the lead in founding a Dutch colony on Long Island at what was called Midwout, probably from a little village of that name in the province of North Holland. It was also called Middlewoods, possibly from some of the features of that locality. The modern name of the place is Flatbush. On the nth of December, 1653, while still in New Amsterdam, Jan Strycker joined with others in a petition of the Commonalty of the New Netherlands and a remonstrance against the conduct of Director Stuyvesant. The petition recited that "they apprehended the establishment of an arbitrary government over them; that it was contrary to the genuine principles of well regulated governments that one or more men should arrogate to themselves the exclusive power to dispose at will of the life and property of any individual; that it was odious to every free-born man, principally so to those whom God has placed in a free state on newly settled lands. We humbly submit that 'tis one of our privileges that our consent, or that of our representatives, is necessarily required in the enactment of laws and orders." It is remarkable that at this early day this indictment was drawn up, this " bill of rights " was published. But these men came from the blood of the hardy Northmen and imbibed with the free air of America the determination to be truly free themselves.

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      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 1615
      Birth Place: Ruinen, Drenthe, Netherlands
      Death Date: 1697
      Burial Date: 17 Feb 1697
      Father: Gerrit Strycker
      Spouse: Lambertje Seubering
      Children: Angenietje Strycker
      Spouse Father: Hendrick Seubering

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      Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt (died 1681) came from Holland with wife Geesje Willemse (died 1683). Their children include Gilliam, Wyntje, Jan, Cornelius, a son, Claesie, Roelof, Marretje and Pieter.

      Jan Cornelisse Boomgaert was born at Flat Bush, Long Island and married Angenietje Strycker, daughter of Jacob Gerritse Strycker and Lambertje Senbering. Children of Jan and Angenietje includes Geesie, Lammetje, Jacob died young), Jacob, Ragel, *Johannes, Cornelis, Jacobus, Albeert, Aaltje and Roeloffse. [* Johannes (is Jan in Dutch) Bogert

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