Early New Netherlands Settlers


Jochem <?> Wessels

17 July 2013

Generation 1 1. Jochem <?> Wessels (Rn=30549), who was born 1615 at Germany and died 1680 at 65 years of age. He married before May 1652 Geertruy <Hieronimus> ? Hoffmeyer/Wessels (Rn=30566). Occupation 1 - - Baker. First Residence - - Germany. Second Residence - - Beverwyck, New Netherland in 1651. Emigration - - Emigrant in 1651 from Germany to Beverwyck, New Netherland. Will - - His will was dated 9 February 1680. Source [Record: July 1998 page 147] Source [Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel E Bradt by Bertha G Bradt 1943 page 10] Source [Settlers of Rensselaerwyck by A J F Van Laer 1908 page 44] Children of Jochem <?> Wessels and Geertruy <Hieronimus> ? were as follows: 2. i. Catrina <Jochem> Wessels Staats (Rn=212). She married 1684 at Albany, Albany County, New York Abraham <Isaac> Staats Doctor, Major (Rn=191), who was born January 1620 at Amsterdam and died before October 1694 at Albany, Albany County, New York at 74 years of age, a son of Isaac <Johannes> Staets (Rn=33032) and Sarah <Jacques> Lawers Staets (Rn=33052). First Residence - - Albany, Albany County, New York. Source [The Staats Family by Evelyn S Carothers 1987 page 9, 17] Source [Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel E Bradt by Bertha G Bradt 1943 page 10] 3. ii. Hendrick <Jochem> Wessels. 4. iii. Andries <Jochem> Wessels.