Engeltje Laurens Pieterszen

1646 - 1714  (68 years)

• Name	Engeltje Laurens Pieterszen  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Jul 1646	New York, New York, United States   [1, 2]
  Baptism	15 Jul 1646	New York, New York, United States
  	Dutch Reformed Church
  Gender	Female
  FSID	LZ9T-373  [1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Death	Aug 1714	Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I45730	footsteps | Bunker
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Laurens Pieterszen,   b. 1613, Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway d. 1664, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	unknown
  Mother	Annetje Pieters,   b. 1620, Germany d. New Ultrecht, Kings, New York, United States
  Relationship	unknown
  Marriage	18 Aug 1641	New Ultrecht, Kings, New York, United States
  Family ID	F25225	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jan Cornelissen Van Cleef,   b. 1627, Netherlands d. 1699, New Ultrecht, Kings, New York, United States (Age 72 years)
  Children	+ 1. Rebecca van Cleef,   b. 1672, Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States d. 15 Nov 1755, Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States (Age 83 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
  Family ID	F25226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 07 March 2025, 19:56), entry for John Smith V (PID https://ark.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:G72P-5H4 ); contributed by various users. https://ark.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:G72P-5H4 [S288] FamilySearch.org, Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1Z-T2NK : Thu Apr 03 19:16:19 UTC 2025), Entry for Engeltje Laurens Pietersen Van Cleef. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1Z-T2NK [S323] FamilySearch.org, Netherlands, Marriages, 1565-1892, "Netherlands, Marriages, 1565-1892", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FN83-836 : 7 February 2020), Engeltie Pieters in entry for Jan Cornelis, 1657. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FN83-836 [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Thomas Grier Evans and Reformed Dutch Church (New York City), Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Baptisms from 25 December, 1639, to 27 December, 1730 (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901), digitized by FamilySearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 21 December 2015). 21357952 [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QV2K-VKM6 : 13 December 2015), Isabrandt Van Cleef, 1728; Burial, , , ,, ; citing record ID 75686169, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. He was born July 17, 1678, at New Utrecht, New Netherlands, the son of Jan Cornelisse Van Cleef/Cleve and Engelje Laurens Pietersen. He died in 1728. The date of January 13, 1729 is the date his estate was inventoried. He married Jannetje Aertse Vanderbilt, the daughter of Aris/Aert Janse Vanderbilt and Hillitje Remse Vanderbeek. Father: Jan Van Cleef, 1627-28, likely born in Amsterdam, Holland. Mother: Engeltje Laurens Pietersen Van Cleef , born Jul 1646 in Germany, baptized on July 15, 1646, d 1715 (aged 68–69) [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Bergen, Teunis G.. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y., from Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700: With Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies, Comp. from Various Sources. United States, S. W. Green's son, printer, 1881. Contains a biography of the Rapalje family in which Sarah is mentioned, as well as her parents, husbands, and children. Teunis Bergen is a well respected researcher of the area and includes many sources in his work. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, BYU FHL, Microfiche #CS4S. G46x G 2018. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Reason: Lists Jane Van Cleef as a child or Isbrandt Van Cleef and Jannetje Vanderbilt, but no other information is given about Jane Van Cleef. . [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Reason: Says, "Aaron [Van Cleave] married Rachel Schenck, daughter of Jan Roelofse Schenck and Sara Willemse Van Kouwenhoven, in September 1734 at Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey." (From "The Van Cleef Family" by Wilson V. Ledley, Library of Congress #75-7491). Furthur it states that from a manuscript by R.S. Harvey, Aaron and Rachel were married on September 24, 1734. .