1. JAN THOMASSE1 VAN DYCK was born Abt. 1554 in The Netherlands, and died Unknown.
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I haven't found any information on the parents of Thomas Janse Van Dyck. However, I am including here some notes referencing some historical works on the succeeding Van Dyck families. More notes are included with specific individuals in my family line: Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vol I. Van Dycke, Domienicus and Marigrita--Hendrick, bap. Aug. 25, 1763. Van Dyck, Domenicus and Marigreita--John, bap. Aug. 11, 1765. Van Deyck, Dominicus and Hanna--John Cock, bap. Dec. 2, 1787. Van Dyck, Hendericus and Styntie--Hendericus, bap. April 26, 1767. Van Deyck, Hendericus and Christeyntie--Roelof, bap. July 23, 1775. Van Dyck, Johannis and Annatie--Johannis, bap. June 23, 1771. Van Dyck, Johannis and Annatie--Gerrit, bap. Sept. 28, 1773. Van Deyck, Johannis and Annatie--Maregreita and Annatie, bap. April 16, 1775. Van Dyck, Petrus and Rachel--Rebecca, bap. Nov. 6, 17 68. Van Deyck, Verdenantus and Aeltie--Catreina, bap. Nov. 28, 1784. Van Deyck, Verdenantus and Aeltie--Hendericus, bap. Feb. 11, 1787. Van Deyck, Verdenantus and Aeltie--Antie, bap, Aug. 18, 1789. Van Deyck, Wyllim and Maria--Dominacus, bap. June 21, 17 82. Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vol IV. Jan Van Dyck, son of Jan. Janse Van Dyck and Teuntje Tyssen Van Pelt, was baptized Nov. 19, 1682; married, June 6, 1706, Annetje Van Kerk (daughter of Roelof Janse Van Kerk and Catherine Simons). He left New Utrecht in 1720 and settled at Fresh Ponds, Middlesex County, N. J., about three miles from Spotswood. In a list of the militia under command of Col. Thomas Harmer, in 1715, recorded in "Colonial Records," Vol. IX, p. 72, in Fifth Company, "John Van Dike" is listed as a private. His will, dated "Corporation of New Brunswick," April 12, 1757, is recorded on page 484, Liber H, Trenton. The family Bible of Jan Van Dyck and his wife Annetje (Anna) Ver Kerk, was, in 1890, in possession of Rev. J. Addison Henry, D. D., of Philadelphia, and the records were photographed by William H. Rue, of that city. Jan Van Dyck and his wife are buried in the old Ten-Mile Run burying-ground, two or three miles above Rocky Hill near the New Brunswick pike. He died in 1764, over 80 years old. His children: 175.
The major part of the following record, showing the ancestral line of some Somerset Van Dyke families, (being specially brought down to the Bedminster family of that name), was compiled by me from original sources and placed in the hands of the Editor of the Quarterly before the publication of the "Beekman-Van Dyke Genealogy." Learning of the appearance of that comprehensive work I have consulted it, and find in it a few new items applicable to this article (chiefly of intermarriages), which I have now incorporated herein. The printed work referred to is, as a matter of course, of wider scope and fuller of details than the following is intended to be, and is sure to be appreciated by the many New Jersey families having descent from the immigrant, Jan Thomasse Van Dyck, of New Utrecht. Jan Thomasse Van Dyck, the first of the name in America, was the son of Thomas Van Dyck and his wife, Sytie Dirks, of Amsterdam. There were two other sons, Nicholas Thomasse and Hendrick, but there is no evidence that any of the Holland family came to America except Jan Thomasse, who emigrated in 1652 and settled at New Utrecht, Kings county, now part of the city of Brooklyn. His wife, who came with him, was Tryntie Achias Haegen. In O'Callahan's "Documentary History of New York" are found several references to him. Some follow. In 1657 he was granted 25 morgens (50 acres) of land. (Vol. I, p. 413). In May, 1659, he appears in a drawing for lots of meadow land at New Utrecht. (Ibid, p. 417). Feb. 23, 1660, he is referred to as "Overseer over all" and as "Sergeant." (Ibid, p. 419). On June 12, 1660, he accompanied Lord General Peter Stuyvesant to Canarsie, where a piece of meadow was given the town of New Utrecht. He is here referred to as Assistant Secretary of that town, Custodian of its Records, etc. (Ibid, p. 421). On January 26, 1660 he joined with four others in a letter to the Fiscal, complaining of the damage done daily by the hogs in consequence of the insufficiency of the fences, "so that they also had a mind to be neglectful if nothing was done to abate the evil." (Ibid, p. 417). According to the "New Netherlands Register" he was appointed Magistrate of New Utrecht in 1659, and also, subsequently, on Feb. 23, 1660, Dec. 22, 1661, and Aug. 18, 1673. (Pp. 80, 81). According to "Documents Relating to Colonial History of New York," on Aug. 24, 1662, he is mentioned as one of three Commissioners of the village of New Utrecht. (Vol. 14, p. 515). Later he is spoken of as having been selected by the Council of War as one of four Schepens of the village. (Vol. 2, p. 577). In the book "Abstracts of Wills," New York. Documented by Carl Flanagan, 1999.
Child of JAN THOMASSE VAN DYCK is:
