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Laurens Pieterszen

Laurens Pieterszen

Male 1613 - 1664  (51 years)


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  • Name Laurens Pieterszen  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Suffix de Noorman 
    Birth 1613  Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Gender Male 
    FSID LCMK-2D6 
    Death 1664  Bushwick, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Burial 1664  New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 14] 
    Person ID I45727  footsteps | Bunker
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2025 

    Family Annetje Pieters,   b. 1620, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. New Ultrecht, Kings, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 18 Aug 1641  New Ultrecht, Kings, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Engeltje Laurens Pieterszen,   b. Jul 1646, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1714, Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F25225  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 

    • Laurens Pieterszen de Noorman van Tønsberg

      * First Name: Laurens
      * Last Name: Patronymic for "son of Pieter."
      * Toponym: de Noorman = "the Norwegian"
      * Toponym: van Tønsberg = "from Tønsberg"

      Laurens was known as "Laurens the Norman." He was from Tonsberg on the southern shore of Norway near the border with Sweden. We can place him in New Amsterdam at least by 1639, because on June 16, 1639 he was declared the sole heir of Roeloff Roeloffsen. Subsequently his name appears on deeds and other court records and in church records.

  • Sources 
    1. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
      https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60525/records/132217562

    2. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
      Name: Louwerens deNoorman
      Maiden Name: Pieterse
      Birth Date: 1613
      Birth Place: Tonsberg, Tønsberg kommune, Vestfold fylke, Norway
      Death Date: 1664
      Death Place: Bushwick, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States
      Cemetery: Bushwick Dutch Reformed Cemetery
      Burial or Cremation Place: Bushwick, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States
      Has Bio?: Y
      URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem...

    3. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1932) - Extracts; Publication Place: New York; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Page Number: 361.
      Name: Loras Peterson
      Residence Date: 1667
      Residence Place: Newtown, Long Island, Queens, New York, United States

    4. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1933) - Extracts; Publication Place: New York; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Page Number: 31.
      Name: Loras Peterson
      Residence Date: 1670
      Residence Place: Newtown, Long Island, Queens, New York, United States

    5. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1932) - Extracts; Publication Place: New York; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Page Number: 365.
      Name: Loras Peterson
      Residence Date: 1666
      Residence Place: Newtown, Long Island, Queens, New York, United States

    6. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Place: New York, New York; Year: 1641; Page Number: 426.
      Name: Laurens Pietersen
      Arrival Year: 1641
      Arrival Place: New York, New York
      Source Publication Code: 9180.10
      Primary Immigrant: Pietersen, Laurens
      Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of first mention of residence in the New World. Other genealogical and historical data is also provided. Article three in this source, "The First Germans in New York," was indexed as source no. 1898 in PILI first
      Source Bibliography: TOLZMANN, DON HEINRICH. The First Germans in America. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1992. pp. 1-46, 389-436.
      Page: 426

    7. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674.
      "Laurens Pietersen or Laurens Pietersen Noorman, from Tonsberg, in Norway, was in New Amsterdam as early as 1639. On June 16, of that year, he was declared sole heir to the real and personal property of a Roellof Roellofsen, the witnesses being Pieter Jansen, likely the Norwegian by that name, and Hans Stein. In the Calendar of Wills, where this declaration is contained, Laurens is called ' Laurens Pietersen van Tonsback'. (Tonsberg). In the Church Records of New Amsterdam, containing the netry of his marriage with Anetie Pieters from "Brutsteen," Germany - August 18, 1641 -, it is stated that he is from Tonsberg.
      His name appears quite often in the church records as sponsor -- August 8, 1641, for Rachel, daughter of Dirk Hogersen, the Norwegian; December 8, in the same year, for Rommetje, the child of Hans Hansen van Nordstrand in Holstein; May 21, 1646, for Nicholas, a son of Barent Janszen; April 14, 1647, for Aert, a child of Caesar Albertsz; March 20, 1650, for Nicholas, a son of Barent Jansen; january 28, 1663, for Joost, the son of Barent Joosten and his own daughter Sytie."

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    8. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The Op Dyck genealogy, containing the Opdyck-Opdycke-Opdyke-Updike American descendants of the Wesel and Holland families.
      "1660, Mch. 16; .. 1662, Jan. 9; .. 1664, July 3. Johannes Loras, his mother, brothers, and step-father Loras Peeters at Gravesend.

      1670, Mch. 10. Johannas Loroson of Maspeth Kills buys of his father-in-law (step-father), land 45 rods broad and 300 rods long, with salt meadows thereto belonging, 'between the land of Jno. Riders and the sd land of Jno. Woolstoncraft *** for a certain parcel of money in hand paid.' (Newtown Rec. I, small page 134.)

    9. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The Op Dyck genealogy, containing the Opdyck-Opdycke-Opdyke-Updike American descendants of the Wesel and Holland families.
      "Some dissatisfaction arising, Gov, Nicolls on Nov. 6, 1667, cited Louris Petersen &. others to appear and show by what title they hold 'the land you are seated upon at Mespat Kills * * * heretofore belonging to Mr. Robert Clark,' Thomas Wandell and Daniel Whitehead certify Oct. 8, 1667, 'that Louris Petersen hath bought and paid for a tract of land to James Clark, surgeon, of late deceased of Mespat Kills,' and which the widow acknowledged."

    10. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, New Amsterdam Baptisms from 1639-1730 These are complete to the end of 1730 as per Vol II of the Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901'.
      1646 Jul 15; Laurens Pieterszen; Engel; Pieter Janszen Noorman, Adriaen Laurens de Noorman, Maryken Thymens

    11. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, New Amsterdam Baptisms from 1639-1730 These are complete to the end of 1730 as per Vol II of the Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901'.
      1642 Jun 01; Laurens Pieterszen Noorman; Sytie; Hans Hanszen Noorman, Gysbert Corneliszen, Cornelis Willemszen, Christina Vynen

    12. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The Op Dyck genealogy, containing the Opdyck-Opdycke-Opdyke-Updike American descendants of the Wesel and Holland families.
      "1660, Mar. 10. Lourens Petersen, the norman, states that his wife Ammetie Peters is deceased; that he is now engaged to marry Styntie Laurens of Gravesend; and as he has two children, daughters, by his first wife, of whom one is married to Barents Joosten, the other yet a minor, he desires guardians appointed for them in the division of their mother's estate. Appointed accordingly.... (Dutch MSS. IX, 123.)

      1661, Jan. 20. The guardians of Lourens Petersen's report that a partition has been agreed upon, and that Engeltie Peters, the daughter of Lourens Petersen, wants them to surrender her share. Referred to the father...... (Dutch MSS. IX, 502.)

      1661, March 10. Engeltie being married to Jan van Cleef, the father Lourens Petersen has no objection to her share being given her.....(Dutch MSS. IX, 555.)"

    13. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The Op Dyck genealogy, containing the Opdyck-Opdycke-Opdyke-Updike American descendants of the Wesel and Holland families.
      "In the new world, people not only early, but often. the Dutch church records are full of second and third marriages. It was required by the laws of New Netherland that any widow, or widower, about to contract a second marriage and having already children, should apply for the appointment of guardians of the children, in order that their share of the estate under the Dutch rules might first be set aside for them. On March 16, 1660, we find on the records that 'Stincha (Christina) Loras widow' (of Louris Jansen Opdyck deceased) had such guardians appointed for her children, Peter, Otto, and Johannes, The estate was appraised at 2,100 guilders (a considerable sum in those days), of which she received one half upon her declaration to the English of Gravesend that this was the law of Holland: a pretty strong proof that she was a woman of force of character and of consideration. Six days earlier, Lourens Petersen, from Tonsbergen, in Norway, a widower, also states that his wife Annetie is deceased, that he is now engaged to marry 'Styntie Laurens' of Gravesend, and desires trustees appointed for a division of a proper share of their mother's estate to his two daughters; which is accordingly done, as recorded in the minutes of the Council at Fort Amsterdam. Lourens Petersen had been married at New Amsterdam in 1641, and had there baptized his daughter Sytie in 1642 and his daughter Engeltie in 1646:"

    14. [S288] FamilySearch.org, Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-2YHT : Tue Apr 01 00:50:56 UTC 2025), Entry for Louwerens Pieterse de Noorman.
      https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-2YHT


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