Transcriber’s Note:
This letter was a typed copy. I do not know whether the original had the
name of the child under the date of baptism or not but it was unfortunately not
on this copy. Neither was there any clue as to where the record was found. We believe that the first date (1701) was
for their son Jan and that the second (1704) matched that for their daughter
Jannetje.
41 Ormond Place, Brooklyn, N.Y., March 7, 1910.
Mr. Henry J. Aten,
Hiawatha, Kansas
My dear sir,
Pardon me for allowing your letter of the 11th of February to remain unreplied to before this date. It seemed next to impossible to give it the attention it required before today.
A careful search of the records of the Amsterdam Dutch Church appears to reveal nothing in the way of baptisms of members of the Aten family up to 1705, this being a couple of years longer than you asked me to search.
The earliest records of the Brooklyn Dutch Church have yet to be found, and none of the names Adrian or Paul appear. However, I append the following
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Date of baptism Parents Sponsors. |
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Sept.21, 1701, Thomas Ate Jan Ate Elsie “ Lysbeth Schilman April 18, 1704, Thomas Aten Thomas Scilman Elsje “ Marytje Aten |