WIFE

Mary

CHILDREN with Mary

1. Anna Gerritsen
    b. 1664 Gravesend
    d. 15 Mar 1729

2. Remmington Gerritsen
    b. 1667
    d. 4 May 1715 Egg Harbor, Cape May, NJ

3. Samuel Gerritsen
    b. 01 Oct 1671
    m. 14 Jan 1695
    d. 4 Sep 1763

4. Mary Gerritsen
    b. 1673
   d. 16 Jul 1755 Philadelphia, PA

5. Rachel Gerritsen
    b. 1675
    d. 27 Mar 1757

Gerrit Remmersen
by Susan Brooke
Jul 2021

According to the bible record kept by his son Samuel Gerritsen, Gerrit Remmersen was born in "Oostvriesland in a village named Pilsum" in 1634. (1) He came to "Amersfoort" (Flatlands) in 1658 and married Mary, the widow of Willem Gerritsen, in 1663. (2) (3) They had five children and then in 1678 when his son Samuel would have been about seven, the whole family "removed out of the bay to York Island to a hamlet named Sapochkanika." (Greenwich) (4)  Gerrit Remmersen died shortly after the move and was buried "in Stuyvesant's church."  (5  )

His widow, Mary, in 1678 had nine children, four from her first husband and five with Gerrit Remmersen.  Her oldest child was 27 and her youngest child only 3. On 5 Dec 1679 his widow Mary received a land grant from the Governor for 139 acres. She sold this land in 1692. (6)  However the family moved to Gravesend, Kings, Long Island, NY in 1685. (7) Mary died there in 1721 at the age of 85. (8)

Sources

 Bible originally kept by Samuel Gerritsen in which he starts with the birth of his father, and then his parent's children.
NYG&B Record Vol 133, #3 (see page for son Samuel Gerritsen)

(1) "In the year of our Lord 1634 my honorable father Gerrit Remmersen was born in Oostvriesland in a village named Pilsum."
NYG&B Record Vol 133, #3

(2) "In the year of our Lord 1658 my honorable father Gerrit Remmersen arrived in this land at Amersfoort."

(3) "In the year of our Lord 1663 my honorable father married my honorable mother, my father aged 28 years and my mother aged 26 years."

(4) In the year of our Lord 1678 the first of May my father and my mother with her family removed out of the bay to York Island to a hamlet named Sapochkanika.

(5) "In the year of our Lord 1678 the 27th December my honorable father fell asleep in the Lord on a Tuesday in the Morning, and was buried in Stuyvesant's church aged about 44 years.

(7) In the year of our Lord 1685 the first of May my honorable mother removed with her family to Gravesant.

(8) In the year of our Lord 1721 the 24th day of May my honorable mother fell asleep in the Lord on a Wednesday just before midnight and was brought to the grave on that Saturday in Gravesants Churchyard aged around 85 year

(6) The Iconography of Manhattan Island by Door I. N. Phelps Stokes pg 83-84

Mary Rameson, of King's County, of Long Island, Widdow, to Egbert Heerman, of the City and County of New Yorke, Yeoman.  Deed dated Oct. 13, 1692 Liber Deeds, XVIII: 200-203

Conveys "All that a certain house Barne Orchard Farme or parcell of Land situate lyeing and being on the West Side of Manhattan Island in the Citty and County of New Yorke one part whereof Containeth Sixty one Acres and twenty two rods  neere Clap board ffly beginning at a certain Ditch by the Rivier Side rangeing thence North Easterly thirty four degrees One hundred thirty four rods to Clap board ffly rangeing thence South easterly fifty six degrees by the Land of Johannes Couwenhoven seventy and three rods rangeing thence south westerly thirty four degrees by the Land of Casper  Castersen and Peter Jacobsen one hundred thirty and four rods to the Lands of Yealous Hansen and thence rangeing by the said Yealouses Land North Westerly fifty and six degrees to the first station of the Ditch Seventy three rods the remainder of said of Land (the whole) being in two parcells containing Seventy Eight Acres and three quarters Containing in the whole parcell now sold and conveyed as aforesaid one hundred thirty nine acres three quarters and seventy two rods according to the severall Surveys under the Surveyers hand made of the parcells the fifth day of December in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred and Seventy and nine by order of Sir Edmund Andros the Late Governour of this province of New Yorke.  Together with, "etc.  "Signed with the marke of Mary Ramson." Rem Gerritsen, eldest son of Gerrit Remmersen, also signed this deed.