Immigrant Ships
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Ship Rensselaerswick

This ship sailed from Amsterdam 25 Sept. 1636; anchored off The Texel, [a North Sea island off of Holland], 8 Oct. 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, New Netherland, 4 March 1637; and arrived at "foort aeranien" [Fort Orange- Troy, N.Y.], on 7 April 1637.

There is no list of passengers on this voyage. However, it was recorded that there were thirty-eight laborers assigned to various farmers on the Rensselaer estate, a large grant of land held by Killian Van Rennselaer, a diamond merchant of Amsterdam.

Columns represent: Name, country to which they belong.

Passengers names recorded are:

1  Pieter Cornelissen                   Monnickendam, North Holland
2* Pieter Claesen Van Norden
3  Simon Walischez


Transcriber's Notes:

*  An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not
   the transcriber, or is used to call your attention to additional information
   in the transcriber's notes.

*  "foort aeranien" was the name for Fort Orange - Troy, N.Y.


2  is also identified simply as Pieter Claesen

Source: "The Wyckoff Family in America", third edition 1980
Gateway press, Baltimore, MD; Introduction, page 3.

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