DEWITT & VERNOOY LINES continued

INDEX

FOURTEENTH GENERATION

9120. POSS. Jan de Witt (see notes)

a Jan De Witt was Capt. of the "Vos" on its return from exploring the Hudson R. in 1614. This Capt. DeWitt was Capt. of the "Vos" also in 1612.

9121. POSS. Jacomina Van Barenstijne (see notes)

 
On the following page, I have listed every part I could find of the Dordrecht de Witt clan, that might have connected (4560) Nicholas with Jan de Witt, Grand Pensioner of the Netherlands. I conclude that there is no direct connection; but there seems ro be a heraldric connection that ought to be taken seriously. Because thr DeWitts seem to have been in Ostfrieslaand for some time when Nicholas was born, I don't think he was the son of (9120) Jan; but I can't rule this out offhand. A proper DNA study, including Nicholas' line, would probably help somewhat. It is unfortunate that the male line of the famous Dordrecht de Witts is extinct, but there is always hope that a cousin from there will surface.

There is a DeWitt DNA study online, but I haven't seen results from anyone in Nicholas's line -- neither in the study, nor in Ysearch. The lines of Pieter Jans of Long Island and Charles of VA (The two appear to be very distantly related to one another) are well represented; but their connection to the Dordrecht de Witts and to Tjerck and Nicholas has not been demonstrated, so these are of little value to us at present.

The best discussion I've seen so far on this and other DeWitt lines is at http://dewittville.com/history/coatofarms.htm (though they sport a coat of arms for a different branch of the family)

"`Grootholdt' signifies `Great Wood'; Zunderland is possibly Saterland, a district of Westphalia on the southern border of East Friesland. On the other hand, "Zunderland" may be a mis-reading of "Emberland", the present-day Emden, the seaport in East Friesland which was heavily bombed in the last war. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was a place of refuge for Dutch Protestants, who fled there from Spanish inquisition. The place was under the protection of the States General of the Netherlands, who maintained a Dutch garrison there. The city looks like Dutch and has a large Dutch Reformed Church."

-- http://www.en.com/users/drose/DeWitt/277.html

(2280) Tjerck Claesen DeWitt [presumably] used a wax seal engraved with the coat of arms borne by (72961iii_c4VI_B) Jan Jacobsz DeWitt, Grand Pensionary of Holland:

"It seems, from records, that he was connected with the distinguished De Witt family of Dordrecht, Holland, but the line of connection does not appear. He had a wax seal engraved with the coat of arms borne by Jan De Witt, the Grand Pensionary of Holland. The seal was round, and engraved with a hare and a dog at the top and a dog at the bottom, and there were initials at the top, the first of which looks like a G. (strikeouts in original genealogy) Undoubtedly he brought this seal over with him, and it may have belonged to some forefather."

"Handwritten note in margin next to crossed-out text: “I have seen the old record in the County Clerk’s office in Kingston and it is the Dordrect seal. Mary V. DeWitt April 1967.”

-- http://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/oberholtzer.html; From the "Oberholtzer Genealogy" Photocopy with a handwritten note on it from Mary V. DeWitt, dated April 1967. This excerpt is from pages 136 and 137 of the book.

The strikeouts are intriguing. If there is a genuine armorial connection here, it links the Ulster County family with the DeWitts of Dordrecht, Zuid Holland. (4560) Nicholas DeWitt's parents are, however, unknown. Some favor (9120) Jan as his father; and others have also been proposed. No such connection is proven. Nicholas or his father may have fled advancing Spanish armies to find refuge in Emden. There was more than one DeWitt line in the Netherlands at the time, and the Dordrecht family had many branches; so there are many possibilities.
 

 

9122. Cornelis Pieterz

9123. unknown (F)

REF: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3306405&id=I5166
SRC: none given

9124. prob. Luykas unknown

9125. poss. Marritje unknown

The names are derived from those of Andries' children

9126. poss Jan Sebyns

9127. poss Barbara unknown

The names are derived from those of Jannetje' children. Sebyns appears to be of French or English derivation, likely Walloons or Huguenot

9132. Barent Van de Cuyl

9133. Marje Leenderts

REF: http://data.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedfam&f0=12229&f1=2039

Some have (9133) Marie's surname as "Graw", but I suspect this is a confusion with Marretje Leenderts de Graw, who married Barent Jacobsen Cool

Barent was contemporary with an artist named Gysbrecht van der Kuyl (1604-1673), but I don't know what connection, if any, existed between the two.

FIFTEENTH GENERATION

18240. Willem de Witt

18241. Maria Van Wegel/ Wezel

REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=26767212

"The listed father of (4560) Nicholas /Claes De Witt is speculative: At least three choices are offered...

"It is said that the DeWitt family was living at Grootholdt, in Zunderlandt (Westphalia), at an extremely early date and was prominent in the official, social and civil life of Holland.

"In the Royal Library at The Hague, the `Geschlacten von Dordricht' gives the descent of the DeWitt family f[ro]m the years 1295 to 1639."

-- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/dewitt.html

SIXTEENTH GENERATION

36480. Jan DeWitt

36481. Klara Van Veveren/ Bevern

REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/PRF/pedresource_file_frame.asp?recid=90243989

36482. Thomas Claesz van Wesel

36483. Christina Van Slingeland

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