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GROUP 1 ~ The "Dutch" Line

Adrian Pieterse Kinne

of

The Netherlands (before 1663)

New York (1663)

New Jersey (by 1710)

Information from Catherine DiPietro

Revised 14 December 2007

 

General Information

Dutch Ancestry?

 

The information on this page is based on the research of Catherine DiPietro, founder and administrator of the RootsWeb KINNEY list, and is presented here with her permission.
 

Adrian Pieterse Kinne (m. Willempe Wyckoff) arrived from the Netherlands in 1663.  He appears in various records in Flatbush and Flatlands, King's County, New York.  By 1710 he was a member of the Six Myl Run Church, Franklin Park, Somerset Co., New Jersey.

 

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The following (with minor edits) is from a December 2007 email from Catherine DiPietro in response to questions from the DNA project administrator:

[Published sources for Adrian are] the Wyckoff Family genealogy book "The Wyckoff Family in America" addition 3, volume 2, page 505 and "Genealogies of New Jersey Families" volume 1 (ISBN 0-8063-1491-5)

Adrian is listed on the Kings County 1687 Oath of Allegiance "The Roll off those who have taken the Oath off Allegiance in the Kings County in the Province of New Yorke the 26: 27: 28: 28: and 30th day off September in the third yeare of His Maytsh Raigne Annoque Domine 1687." Near his wife's father (Peter Wyckoff) and the father of girls that Adrian's sons marry...in Flatlands:

Pieter Claasen wijckoff 51 Jaere

Simon Janse Van Aerts daalen 34 Jeare

adriaen kume 27 Jeare

In the handwritten version, it is extremely likely this is Adrian Kinne.  This source is where the "arrived about 1660" originated.  Checking all available passenger lists for 1650-1670's and the "Ariaen Pieterse Kume, from Vlissingen" is listed on the "De Sint Pieter" ship's list October 16, 1663 (as reproduced in the "Yearbook of the Historical Society of New York - 1902 pg 27) is again - extremely likely.

If he arrived under only his patronym then this could also be him..."Andries Pieterse" from Bergen on 15 Mar 1663 on board "De Rooseboom"

The Flatlands and Flatbush were both in Kings county but were two distinct areas even back in 1687.

 

Adrian swore oaths of allegiance from Flatlands in both 1687 and 1698.  His children's baptisms can be found in Flatbush Dutch Reformed.  In other early New Amsterdam records - Adrian's son Peter appears as "Pieterse Kimme."

Among the first/charter members of Six Myl Run Dutch Reformed church (now Franklin Park, Somerset Co, NJ), on 15 Nov 1710 is "Adrian Pietersen Kinnen" , son Peter Kinne and, shortly afterwards, Ida Willemse, wife of Pieter Kinne are listed as members.

Do not be surprised if somewhere along the DNA research that Adrian's son Leonard's line differs from the other sons.  Leonard's line fell victim to the early fraudulent genealogies of Gustave Anjou (1863-1942), emigrated to US in 1890 after serving a Swedish prison term for forgery. Anjou created bogus genealogies for anyone who could pay his fee of $9,000 or more.  Any line relying on info from Anjou needs to be researched again.

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The following (minor edits, e.g., email address removed here) is from:

 https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/th/read/KINNEY/2007-12/1196687560
From: Catherine DiPietro

Subject: [KINNEY] "Dutch" Kinne's

Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:12:40 -0500 (EST)

Greetings Folks,

I must offer one caveat for those researching "Dutch" Kinne's.  Although Adrian Pieterse Kinne married an undoubtedly Dutch woman - Willempe Pieterse Wyckoff (daughter of Peter Claeson Wyckoff and Gretje Van Ness) - and attended only Dutch Reformed Churches and the children baptised in those churches have decidedly Dutch forenames..... don't run out to buy wooden shoes and delft plates just yet.  Your ethnicity is still probably Irish or Scottish.

There were quite a number of Scots and Irish descendants living in the Netherlands from the British Isles.  Some, like the Huguenots, were there to escape religious persecution.  The Dutch also imported some fierce Scottish clansmen to assist in driving off the invading Vikings.  Legend has it that the Dutch Rosenkrantzs are actually McDonalds who fought so well that the Dutch awarded them a "crown of roses" (rosenkrantz in Dutch) in gratitude.  The Clan Kinnear is one possibility for Scottish Kinney - another is McKinneys from the west of Scotland.

I am thrilled that people are able to make connections to my Adrian Kinne research but please keep the "Dutch" in quotes for the time being.

Good Ancestor Hunting,

Cathy DiPietro, list admin

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