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The scheme for each surname listing is as follows:

SURNAME (# of Pages devoted to this surname in Mackenzie's typescript)
Immigrant Progenitor and his wife, Aeltje, arrived in Philipsburgh 1682
Web sites, major ones first
Websites with just a few of this surname

  • E-mail addresses
  • of researchers

Bibiography: Three Hundred Years of the Progenitor Family:Immigrant Mattyszen Progenitor and his Descendants in America, Knickerbocker Press, Valatie, NY, 1973.

GENERAL SURNAME LINKS

I am not keeping track of surname discussion groups, but here are some links that I hope will be helpful.

CYNDI'S LIST - general surname sites page, includes many links not give here

ROOTSWEB SURNAME LISTS
Yahoo Groups Genealogy
Mailing lists at familysearch.org
LISTSERV catalog - enter "genealogy" in the search form
LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU - overlaps with the above
The Surname Site

GENFORUM
Ancestry's Surname Community (now includes GenConnect)
"SURNAME HELPER" (from Rootsweb and Genconnect)

Table of Contents

Acker - see ECKER

ACKERMAN (8 pages)
David Ackerman (md. Elizabeth Villier) was born in Berlicum in North Brabant ca 1615. The family came to New Amsterdam aboard the ship Fox in 1662. He died the following year. His son Lodewyck settled in Philipsburgh before 1694.
David Ackerman Descendants-1662

ADAMS  (1)

AERTSE/Aartse/Arser/Orser (5)

ALLAIRE (2)

ANDERSON (4)

ANGEVINE (3)

APPLEBY (2)

ARCHER (6)
John Cassidy genealogy page

AUSTIN (1)

AVERY (4)
Jan Evre and wife Mary came to Philipsburg before April of 1721, and had sons Jan/John and Richard.

BAHRE (1)

BAILEY (7)

BAKER (2)
John Baker, probably born in Milford CT ca 1648 and a son of Thomas Baker of Milford and East Hampton L.I., was living in Hempstead in 1698. His son Jonathan later lived in the north eastern part of Mount Pleasant.

BANKER/Bankert (4)

BANT/Bont (2)

BARKER (2)

BARNES (3)

BARTINE/Bertine (2)

BARTON (1)

Basley - see BESELIE

BATES (1)

BAYLES (1)

BECARENT (1)

BEEKMAN (2)

BERRIAN (2)

BESELIE/Basley/Besly (2)
JEAN/JOHN BESELIE, a Huguenot refugee from the Ile de Re near Rochelle, France, came to New York about 1681 with Etienne/Stephen Beselie, supposedly a brother. Jean married GRACE CERANT or Heering, apparently of French birth or parentage. They lived at Croton Point. Jean died before 1689 when his widow married Robert Williams and moved across the Croton River into Phillipsburgh with her children:

BETTS (3)

BIRD (1)

BIRDSALL (3)

BISHOP (2)
Thomas Bishop, b. about 1665, was probably son of John Bishop of Southampton, L.I.. He later settled in Westchester where he married Ruhanna (dau. of Derrick) Gerretson.

BLOOMER (4)

BONNET (2)

Bont - see BANT
Bookout - see BUCKHOUT

BOWNE (1)

Boyce - see BUYS

BRADY (1)

BRETT (1)

BROUWER/Brewer (?)

J BROWN/Braun (8)
Jan Braun of Breisach (Lorraine, France), md Marytie Hendricks of Amsterdam in Brooklyn, NY 28 Dec. 1662.

BRUSH (1)

BUCKBEE/Bugbee/Bugby (2)
Richard Buckbee came to Massachusetts in Winthrop's fleet 1630. His son John (md. Esther Wilmot) moved to Westchester.

Updated bibliography from NYPL (catnyp.nypl.org):
Jane Farrell Burgess: Genealogy of the Bugbee/Bugby family, Rockville, MD (1991)

BUCKHOUT (4)
Jan Boeckhout came from Leyden to New Amsterdam 1663 with wife Hannah and five children. His son Matthys was a member of the Philipsburgh Church by 1717.
The BOOKOUT Family - On-line database, links, family association, etc.
Thomas Bookout's FTM site

BUDD (2)

Bugbee, Bugby - see BUCKBEE

BULYEA/Belyea (1)

BUYS/Boyce/Buyce (5)
Adriaen Pieterse Buys born in Theil in North Brabant, came to New York where he md. Tryntje Van Oostrum, rem. to Bergen NJ bef. 1678. His sons Peter and Jacob res. Philipsburgh.

CAMPBELL (1)

CANNIFF (2)

CARLE (1)

CHAMPENOIS/Shampnoy (1)

CHATTERTON (1)

CLEMENS (1)

COCKS (1)

COLES (18)

COMB (1)

Cool - see KOEL

CONKLIN (13) - Transcription by Marilyn Soper
John Conklin was born in Nottingham England ca. 1632. Mackenzie states that his family lived in Salem, MA, Southold, East Hampton, Flushing and Rye before finally moving to Eastchester in 1676.
Mark Nozell's genealogy
Sees of NY has many Conklins

Conover - see COUWENHOVEN

CORNELL (3)

CORSA/Corsen (2)

COUWENHOVEN/Covenhoven/Conover (2)
CONOVER site

CRANCKHEIT/Cronk/Hercx/Krankheit (2) - Transcription by Marilyn Soper
Herck Sybouts was born in Langendyck ca. 1630, and came to New Amsterdam, married Wyntje Theunis in 1642. They lived in the Arme Bouwery in Long Island. Their children later moved to Peekskill, Philipsburgh and Cortlandt Manor. Their grandchildren adopted the name Crankheit.

CRAWFORD (2)

CUYPER/Cooper/Cropper (3)

Cypher - see SYFFER

DANIELS (1)

DAVENPORT (3)

DAVIDS/Davis (5)

DEAN (5)

J DEARMAN (1)

DE GROOT (1)

DELAMETER (2)

DELANOY/de Lanois (5)

DEPEW (3)

DE REVERE/de Revier/Revere (4)
Abraham de Revier came from the Island of Casant in the parish of Gouda in South Holland and settled in the vicinity of Tarrytown before 1697 when he was elected the first elder of the Philipsburgh church.

According to e-mail correspondent Cor Snabel, Casant was the name of an island now called Kadzand or Cadzand, in 't Land of Kadzand, the north west part of West-Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, 975 inhabitants. The Land of Kadzand contains the communities Retrachement, Zuidzande, Nieuwvliet and Groede. The women are still wearing traditional custumes, and are 81% of the Reformed faith. The old name was Casant and the inhabitants still call the village Kezand or Kazand.

DE RONDE (1)

DEVOE/de Veaux (7)
I. Nicholas De Veaux was born in the province of Annis, France ca. 1642, and fled to Manheim Germany during the persecution of Protestants. He came to New York in 1674 about the ship Diamond. He married Marie Sie, and resided in Bergen, NJ and Hackensack, NJ. His son Abraham moved to Tarrytown ca. 1703.

II. Frederick De Veaux was from Annis France (b. 1645) and came to New York via Manheim and England, residing in Harlem, then Westchester (Fordham Manor).

DE WITT (1)
De Witt Researchers Place - comprehensive links and resources site

DISBROW (3)

DOBBS (3)

DOWNING (1)

DRAKE (5)

DROM (1)

DUSENBURY (7)

DUTCHER (4)
Jan Willemszen de Dutcher was b. in Heerden, Netherlands ca. 1635. He and wife Geertje Cornelis lived in Flatbush until 1675, then moved to Ulster County. His son Barent resided in Irvington.
Dutcher Family Page - comprehensive Dutcher surname site
Sees of NY has many Dutchers

DYCKMAN (4)

ECKER/Acker (8)

EMMONS/Emmans (1)

FALCONER (1)

FARRINGTON (5)
Edmund and Elizabeth (Newhall) Farrington arrived in Long Island, NY on the Hopewell in 1635, settling in Lynn, MA by 1655. John and Mary (Bullard) Farrington, settled in Dedham by 1656.
FARRINGTON site contains much genealogical data, plus a number of e-mail contacts

FERRIS (1)

FISH (2)

FISHER (5)

FORQUES/Forkil/Forks (1)

FOSHAY/Foseur/La Foseur (3)
Descendants of Pierre & Jean Foshay on FTM

FOWLER (11)

GALE (1)

GALPIN (1)

GARDENIER (3)
Jacob Janse Flodderse or Gardenier was b. 1630, came to Rensselaerwyck in 1642, res. Albany. In 1656 he was living in New York, on the north side of Wall Street. Later he moved to Kinderhook. His grandchildren through son Albert lived in Philipsburgh.

Garrison - see GERRETSON

GEDNEY (5)

GERRETSON/Garrison (5)

GIBBS (1)
Andrew Gibbs, probably son of Andrew Gibbs and Hannah Smith of Jamaica and g'son of Andrew and Elizabeth Gibbs of Southampton, res. Fordham Manor, d. 1761.

GRAHAM (1)
Dr. Isaac Gilbert Graham, s/o Andrew Graham M.D. & Martha Curtiss, was b. 1760, Woodbury CT. Served in Rev. as surgeon's mate. Md. Aeltje Bankert. D. 9/1/1848.

GRAVENSTEIN (1)
Gerret Gravenstein was b. in Germany and settled in Philipsburgh, md. Catrina Jurckse in 1751.

GRIFFEN (7)

GUION/Guyon (3)

HADLEY (1)

HAIGHT/Hoyt (5)

HAINES (1)

Bonnie Miller is researching the HARNES surname which might be the same as this (see Profiles).

HALE (1)

HALL (2)

HAMMOND (6)

HARRIS (1)

HART (3)

HATFIELD (3)

HICK (1)

HILEKER (3)

HITCHCOCK (3)

HOFF (1)

HONEYWELL (2)

HORTON (9)

Hoyt - see HAIGHT

HUGHSON/Huson (1)

HUNT (16)

HUNTER (3)

Huson - see HUGHSON

HUSTIS/Husted (2)

HYATT (4)

IRVING (1)

JEFFRIES (1)

JEWEL (4)

JONES (10)

JORDAN (1)

JURCKSE/Yerks (5)
Paulus Jurckse by 1658 was living in Esopus, Ulster County, later moved to Albany. His grandson Harmen lived in Philipsburgh near Hawthorne.
Bob Yorks family page
Vicki Cooper's FTM site, with emphasis on Loyalist descendants

Kiffen - see SNIFFEN

KIPP (4)|
Edward Kipp's home page - links and resources site

Bibliography: Kip, Frederic Ellsworth, 1862, History of the Kip family in America. Available on microfilm at NYS Library, Albany.

KNAPP (2)
The KNAPP Database - a comprehensive gedcom/archives/links site, leaning a bit towards New England lines

Kranckheit - see CRANKHEIT

KOEL/Kohl/Cool (1)
Johan Jeurian Kohl and wife Margaret Tys came from Germany to Philipsburgh ca. 1720.

LADUE/Ladew (1)

LA FORGE/Lefurgy (3)

La Foseur - see FOSHAY

LAMBERTS (2)

LAMOUREUX (3)

LANDRINE (1)

Lavines - see LEVINES

LAWRENCE (8)

Lefurgy - see LA FORGE

LEGGETT (6)

LENT/Lint/Lynt (17)
Abraham Ryck came to New Amsterdam and md. Greitje Hendricks. He resided in New Amsterdam until some timeter 1662 when he settled on the Arme Bouwery in Astoria L.I. where he died 1689. His son Abraham adopted the name Riker, but the other children went by the patronymic Abramse and the surname Van Lent supposed to have been the family name of their maternal granfather Hendrick Hermanszen.

From the NY State Library in Albany:
Lent, Nelson Burton, 1856- , History of the Lent (Van Lent) family in the United States, genealogical and biographical, from the time they left their native soil in Holland, 1638-1902. Microform [s.l. : s.n.], 1903 (Newburgh, N.Y. : Newburgh Journal Print. House)

LEVINES/Lavines (7)

LOCKWOOD (3)
Lockwood Family Tree

LOSEE/Lozier (3)
Jan Cornelis Lozier, known also as de Zieuw, came to New Amsterdam 1651 with wife Juneken Pieters and sons Cornelis and Jan, and settled in Bushwyck. Some of his descendants lived in Greenburgh before 1778.

LYON (4)

Lynt - see LENT

MABIE (5)

MAJORY (1)

MANGHEM (1)

MANN (2)

MARTINE (2)

MARTLING (6)
John Mareline was b. at St. Eustasius in the Dutch West Indies. He came to New York and married in 1675 Aeltje Jans. The res. New York, Staten Esland, and Karl's Neck. Their son Abraham settled in Philipsburgh and md. Rachel Devow.
Marting Genealogy

MATTHEWS (1)

MCCHAIN (1)

MCCORD (3)

MCDONALD (1)

MEKEEL/Michaels/McKeel (3)

MERRITT (7)

Michaels - see MEKEEL

MILLER (4)
I. James Miller b. in England about 1630, settled in Norwalk, CT 1656. His son James moved to Rye, whose son Anthony lived in White Plains.
II. Nicholas Muller and John Muller, probably brothers, were born in Germany, and both resided in Philipsburgh by the 1730s.

MINNERLY/Minner (3)

MONTROSS (5)

MORGAN (3)

MOTT (2)

MUNSON (1)

NELSON (3)
John Nelson was b. in Norfolk, England ca. 1640. His descendants spread over Flatbush, Mamaroneck, Putnam & Dutchess Counties, and Philipsburgh.

NEWMAN (1)

NODINE (1)

OAKLEY (8)
Don't know if this is the same family or not::ACKLEY

also: John Cassidy genealogy page

ODELL (11)

ONDERDONK (2)

Orser - See AERTSE

PALMER (10)

From the catalog of the NY State Library at Albany:
Palmer, David Alan, 1929-, The genealogy of one line of descendants of William Palmer of Wethersfield, Conn. and Westchester, N.Y. : covering the period from about 1590-1994 : four hundred years of family history, [Sudbury? Mass.] : D.A. Palmer, [1994]

PARDEE (2)

PARK (2)

PAULDING (4)

PEARCE/Pierce (2) - Transcription by Stephen Pierce

PELL (4)

PHILIPSE (3)

Pierce - see PEARCE

PINCKNEY (2)

POST (3)

Bibliography:
According the site owner, "The Post Families of New Jersey" by Dirk P. De Young published in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. X, No. 1. January 1935 is considered an unreliable source

POWELL (1)

PUGSLEY (4)

PURDY (7)

Purdy CD available for $50.00 from:
          Alec PURDY
          935 Main St. #301
          El Segundo, CA 90245.

Bibliography at NYS Library at Albany:
The Family and Descendants of Francis Purdy of Fairfield, Connecticut, by Louis E. Bieringer
Purdy Family History by Arlene H. Greeley

QUINBY (2)

REED (2)

REMSEN (1)

REQUA (5)

Retan, Reton - see RUTAN

RICH (2)

ROBINSON (1)

RODMAN (2)

ROMER (2)
I. Jacob Romer was b. Switzerland ca 1714, came to Philipsburgh before 1753, when he is listed on the church membership list.
II. Hendrick Romer was a brother of Jacob, also b. Switzerland, settled in Philipsburgh some time before his marriage in 1743 to Mary Gardenier.

ROSELL (2)

RUSSEL/Rosell (1)

RUTAN/Retan/Reton (2)

RYDER (3)

SADDEOR (1)

SCHUERMAN (2)

SCOFIELD (8)

See - see SIE

Shampnoy - see CHAMPENOIS

SHARPENAT (1)

SHERWOOD (9)

SHUTE (2) 

SIE/See (6)
Isaac SY arrived in New Netherlands in 1674, coming via Manheim and England. He lived in Flatbush, Staten Island and Harlem before coming to Tarrytown prob. in the 1690s.
Sees of New York
Lisa Shea's SEE family site

Updated genealogy by Glenna See Hill: NYG&B Record, vol. 114 (1983)

SMITH (4)

SNIFFEN/Kiffen (4)

SOULICE (1)

SPRINGSTEEN (3)

STEPHENS (2)

STIVERS (1)

STORM (7) - Transcription by Marilyn Soper
Dirck Gorisz Storm was b. ca. 1630 in North Brabant, Holland. Came to New Amsterdam 1662 on the ship Fox. After living for several years in New Amsterdam, they moved to Brooklyn, Flatbush, Bedford, then Orange County. Later he moved to Philipsburgh.
Tracy Reinhardt's page

From the NY State Libary at Albany:
Storm, Raymond William, 1887, Old Dirck's book; a brief account of the life and times of Dirck Storm of Holland, his antecedents, and the family he founded in America in 1662. [New York?] 1949

STOUTENBURGH (1)

STYMES (5)

SUTTON (4)

SWARTWOUT (1)

Bibliography available at NY State library, Albany:
Weise, Arthur James, 1838-1910 or 11, The Swartwout chronicles 1338-1899, New York, Trow directory printing and bookbinding co., 1899.

SYFFER/Cypher

TANKERE (1)

TAXTER (1)

TAYLOR (3)

TELLER (3)

TICE/Tys (1)
Johann Philip Tys or Linnebecker [sic?] came from Germany to Philipsburgh before 1719. They seem to be the same as the KAUS or "Tys Kaus" family of Columbia County.

Bibliography:
"The Tice Families in America", by James Strode Elston, The Tuttle Publishing Co. , Rutland, Vermont, 1947
also Henry Jones: More Palatine Families

TINCKELBACH (1)
Paulus Tinkelbach came from Germany to Philipsburgh some time before Sept. 2 1722 when he married Maria Apollonia widow of Urbanus Hants.
A Tinkelpaugh line

TIPPET (3)

TOMPKINS (2)
A Tompkins line

TRAVIS (3) - Transcription by Marilyn Soper

TREADWELL (2)

TUCKER (1)

TUTTLE (1)
Joseph Tuttle md. Lysbeth Gardenier (d/o Albert Jacobs Gardenier), res. Philipsburgh.

UNDERHILL (9)

VAIL (4)

VALENTINE/Valentyn (20)

VAN AMBURGH (1)

VAN CORTLANDT (2)

VAN DYCK (2)

VAN HOUTEN (3)

VAN LENNEP (1)

VAN NOSTRAND (2)

VAN TASSEL (13)
Cornelis Janszen Van Texel was b. Schoondenwoert, South Holland ca. 1600. Came to New Netherlands, md. Catoneras daughter of Wyndice, sachem of the Montauk Indians. Their son Jan Cornelisres. Ryck's Patent.

VAN WERT/Van Wart (11)
Jochem Woutersz Van Wert b. ca. 1637,md. Christina Jans (Snediker), res. Long Island, moved to Tarrytown 1683.
Dutch Renderings
More Van Werts

VAN WORMER (3)

VERMILYE (2)

VINCENT (2)

WALDRON (3)

WARD (6)

WARNER (1)

WASHBURN (4)
"Washburn was in Duxbury, Mass., as early as 1632. He came from Evesham, Worcestershire, an ancient town situated on the river Avon, and was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, Mass.; d. before 1670."
"Most Washburns in America are assumed to be descended from either John Washburn Jr., John's younger brother Philip Washburn (about 1624-after 1700), or William Washburn (1601-1659) who may have been related to John and Philip in some way."

WILDEY (3)

WILLIAMS (8) (and associated CORNELL family)
I. Guiliam Cornelis of Walloon birth or ancestry came to New Amsterdam in 1642 and settled in Flatbush. His grandson Francois Guiliamse or Williams moved to Philipsburgh and md. 1) Ursula DAVIDS and 2) Jannetje BEASLEY.

II. Robert WILLIAMS settled in Kitchewan (Croton Point) before 19 Feb. 1689 when he married Grace CERENT widow of Jean BESELIE. Shortly after, then moved across the Croton River into Philipsburgh.
III. John WILLIAMS md. Abigail ________, resided in Westchester, died in May 1729.

WILSEA/Wilsey/Wiltze/Wilsze (5)
A WILTSIE line

"Memoir of Philippe Maton Wilsee and his Descendants"

WYBART (1)

Yerks - see JURCKSE

YOUNGS (2)

ZYN/Sine (1)

 
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