"New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch; Vol. IV, Council Minutes 1638-1649," translated by Arnold J.F. Van Laer, edited by Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1974.
+ July 21, 1638: "Jan Damen, plaintiff, vs. Abraham Isaacksen Planc and Dirck Holgersen, Noorman, defendants. The plaintiff requests to be master of his house and that the defendants be ordered to acknowledge him as such and to stay away from the plaintiff’s house. The defendants are ordered to keep away from the plaintiff’s house and to leave him master in his own house.
"Dirck Holgersen, Noorman, plaintiff, vs. Jan Damen, defendant, for assault. Parties are ordered to submit testimony, the case being put over to the next court day." Page 18.
+ Aug. 5, 1638: "Cornelis Dircksen, plaintiff, vs. Adriaenne [Cuveliers], defendant. The defendant is ordered to satisfy the plaintiff’s [claim]." [Footnote: Manuscript destroyed. In the calendar entry the name is given as "Cuvelzeers," but this is probably a mistake. In Dutch records the name is frequently spelled "Cuvilje," which is probably a phonetic rendering of the French name "Cuvelier," of which "Cuveliers" is either a variant or the possessive form. It is also possible, however, that the Dutch form "Cuvilje" should be interpreted as "Cuville," it all depending on whether the final e was accented or not.] Page 18.
+ Feb. 10, 1639: "Ulrich Lupoldt, plaintiff, vs. Maryn Adriaensen, Hendrick Jansen, tailor, Dirck, the Noorman, and Jan Lemmet. Whereas the defendants, contrary to the ordinance, have without consent been aboard the ship De Liefde, this being their first offense, they are condemned to pay a fine of 20 stivers each for the benefit of the fiscal." Page 38. A number of New Amsterdam residents were prosecuted for going aboard the ship and at the following court session, held Feb. 17, the ship’s skipper was prosecuted because "it was well known to the defendant that his ship’s crew, for whom he is responsible according to he charterparty, have sold diverse merchandise in the ship" and thus "rob the Company of their freight charges and duties." Page 39.
+ Oct. 3, 1641: "Cornelis Willemsz, plaintiff, vs. Dirck Volckersz, defendant. Default." Page 123.
+ Dec. 13, 1641: "Cornelio vander Hoykens, fiscal, plaintiff, vs. Gerrit Gerritsz, defendant, on account of cordage which the defendant is alleged to have stolen from the Company’s yachts and sold according to the depositions. Plaintiff demands that the defendant be punished according to his deserts. It is ordered that the defendant be placed under arrest in the guardhouse; also, that Dirck Holgersz be not allowed to leave the country before the case is disposed of." Page 132.
+ Jan. 16, 1641: "Cornelio van[der] Hoykens, fiscal, plaintiff, vs. Gerrit Gerritsen and Dirck Hollegersz defendants. Dirck Volkersz declares under oath in court that be bought rope from Gerrit in good faith and did not know but that it was his own. Gerrit and other sailors on the yacht Real are ordered to appear next Thursday to draw lots as to who of them shall be punished or meanwhile to satisfy the fiscal." Page 134.
+ March 27, 1642: "Cornelio vander Hoykens, fiscal, plaintiff, vs. Jan Celes, defendant, for shooting hogs according to the depositions. The defendant admits having shot a hog which was not his in the mouth, being white, which hog he says he gave to the planters of Dirck the Noorman. Hendrick de Boer says that he does not known that it was another man’s hog which was shot. Ordered that the fiscal shall cause the planters of Dirck the Noorman to appear on the next court day to be then personally examined." Page 137.
+ June 11, 1643: "Hendrick Lie, plaintiff, vs. Jan Forbus, defendant, for payment of fl. 38. The defendant says that the money in his hands was attached at the request of Dirck Volkersz and if Dirck is willing to vacate the attachment, he is willing to pay. Jeams Jaspaer declares under oath that the half of the aforesaid money is due him, whereupon Forbus is condemned to pay fl. 19 to him. The rest will be left until eight days from now, unless Dirck proves that the attachment was sued out at the proper time." Page 195.
+ June 18, 1643: "Hendrick Lie, plaintiff, vs. Dirck Volckensen, defendant. The plaintiff’s demand is denied as the attachment was sued out at the proper time." Page 197.
+ June 15, 1645: "Dirck Volckersz, plaintiff, vs. Jacob Stevensz, defendant, about the purchase of a gun. Ordered that parties bring proof at the next session.
"Dirck Volckertsen, plaintiff, vs. Jacob Stevensen, defendant, about the purchase of a gun. Plaintiff demands delivery of the gun. Parties agree, on condition that defendant pay fl. 10 as an indemnity for non-delivery." Page 268.
+ June 23, 1645: "Dirck Volckertsen, plaintiff, vs. Jacob Stevensen, defendant, about the purchase of a gun. 1 Default." Page 268.
+ June 8, 1646: "Dirck Volckersen, plaintiff, vs. Antony de Hooges, defendant, for damages suffered through defendant’s detention of the sloop Renselaerswyck. The complaint and the answer of the parties having been read, de Hooges is discharged and plaintiff ordered to institute his action against Nicolae Coorn." Page 316.
+ June 8, 1646: "Jacob Hendricksen, soldier, is commanded not to trespass any more on the lot of Dirck Volckersen and not to molest Dirck any more, on pain of punishment." Page 317.
+ June 24, 1646: "Fredrick Lubbersen, plaintiff, vs. Dirck Volckersen, defendant, for [payment of] stipulated freight. Parties agree in court to submit their case to arbitrators." Page 325.
+ Aug. 23, 1646: "Dirck Volckertsen, plaintiff, vs. Laurens Pietersen, defendant, for the payment of about 150 gl. Defendant admits that he owes something. Ordered that the attachment shall remain in force and that meanwhile parties shall reach an agreement." Page 337.
+ Nov. 30, 1646: "Dirck Volckertsz, vs. Jan Haes, defendant for damage done to the plaintiff’s house. Defendant says if plaintiff can prove that he knocked down any part of the framework of the roof of the house, he will build the same up again. Ordered that plaintiff shall prove his charge." Page 348. This is one of three lawsuits filed against Jan Haes that day, one of which concerns damage to clapboards.

"New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch; Register of the Provincial Secretary, Volume I, 1638-1642," translated and annotated by Arnold J.F. Van Laer, edited by Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, 1974.
+ May 7,1638: "Antenuptial settlement by Adrienne Cuville on her children by Guillaume Vigne, her first husband.
"We the undersigned, Willem Weyman, smith and Jan Tomasen Groen, as referees, do by this instrument attest and certify for the real truth that Dirck Volgersen Noorman and Ariaentje Cevelyn, his wife’s mother, came before us in order to enter into an agreement with her her children whom she has borne by her lawful husband [Willem Vienje], settling on Maria Vienje and Christina [Vienje], both married persons, on each the sum of two hundred guilders as their portion of their father’s estate, and on Resel Vienje and [Jan] Vienje, both minor children, also as their portion of their father’s estate, on each the sum of three hundred guilders; with this provision that she and her future lawful husband, Jan Jansen Damen, shall out of the remainder of the property be bound to bring up the above named two children until they attain their majority, without using more than the interest, and be bound to clothe and rear the aforesaid children as children ought to be [clothed and reared], to keep them at school and to give them a good trade, as parents ought to do. Thus is done in New Netherland on the island of Manhattan and in Fort Amsterdam, the last of April 1632. In confirmation of which this was signed by Jacob Planck, the writer of this instrument; also with this sort of mark X, after which was written: This is the mark of Dirck Volckertsen Noorman; Jan Tomasen Groen, and This is the X mark of Willem Weyman.
"The preceding agreement is recorded here with a view that if lost an authentic copy may again be obtained here, [the record] having been found by me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary, to agree with the original. Done this 7^th of May 1638, at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland." Brackets and varying spellings are in original. [Footnotes: Dirck Volgersen Noorman – His real name seems to have been Dirck Holgersen. He was the husband of Christina Vigne. See J.O. Evjen, "Scandinavian Immigrants in New York," pages 68-79; Arisentje Cevelyn – Elsewhere referred to as Adriane Cuville, or Cuvilier, from Valenciennes, France; Willem Vienje – Guillaume Vigne. Among his Dutch neighbors he was known as Gulyn, or Willem Vienjee, or Vinje; Resel Vienje – Rachel Vigne. She afterwards married Cornelis van Tienhoven; Jan Vienje – Jean Vigne. According to the Labadist missionaries, Danckers and Sluyter, he was born in New Netherland and in 1679 was about 65 years of age. Hence he is held to have been the first child of European parents born in New Netherland. See I.N. Phelps Stokes, "Iconography of Manhattan Island," 4:40; "signed by Jacob Planck – March 4, 1634, Jacob Albertsen Planck was engaged by Kiliaen van Rensselaer to serve for three years as schout of the colony of Rensselaerswyck. He was then at Amsterdam and sailed in the beginning of May for New Netherland. As it is not known that he had been in New Netherland before that date, the year 1632, given as the date of the document, is probably wrong and should be 1635 or later. At that time, however, Jean Vigne would, according to the Labadist missionaries, have been 21 or more years of age, which does not agree very well with the provision in the document as to his being made to attend school.] Page 12-13.
+ May 1, 1638: "Promisory note of Dirck Holgersen to Director Kieft.
"Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Dirck Holgersen, Noorman, to me well known, who freely and deliberately acknowledged that he was indebted to the Hon. Mr. Willem Kieft, director here in New Netherland for the General Chartered West India Company, in the sum of seven hundred and twenty guilders, payable in three installments; the first instalment of fl. 300 Dirck Holgersen shall be bound to pay on the fairday of Amsterdam 1638; the second instalment of fl. 300 in like manner on the fairday of Amsterdam 1639; and the third and last instalment of fl. 120 on the fairday of Amsterdam anno 1640. He hereby promises to pay the aforesaid money honestly and honorably into the hands of the Hon Mr. Kieft, or his successor, free of costs and charges, without any gainsay, submitting to that end his person and property, real and personal, present and future, without any exception, to the control of all courts, judges and justices under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Court of Halland, and to all other courts, judges and justices, without any exception. In testimony and token of the honest truth, I have subscribed this with my own hand. Thus done in For Amsterdam in New Netherland, this first of May Ao. 1638.
"This is the X mark of Dirck Holgertsen Noorman." [Footnote: "fairday of Amsterdam" – Sept. 22.] Pages 22-23.
+ July 22, 1638: " Declaration of Mauritz Jansen and Pieter de Mey regarding an attempt of Jan Damen to throw Dirck Holgersen’s wife out of doors.
"This day, the 22d of July 1638, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Mourits Jansen, assistant, aged 20 years, and Pieter de May, aged 24 years, and jointly declared by true Christian words in place and with promise of an oath, if necessary, that it is true and truthful that the wife of Dirck Holgersen, Noorman, being at the house of Jan Damen and said Jan Damen telling her that she must go out of the house, she refused and did not intend to leave the house, whereupon Jan Damen aforesaid pushed said Dirck Holgertsen’s wife out of the house, as she would not depart by fair words. Dirck Holgersen thereupon coming to defend his wife, Jan Damen, drawing a knife, made a cut at said Dirck Holgertsen, who took up a post and struck Jan Damen with it. This is all. They, the deponents, concluding herewith their declaration, etc. Maurits Jansen. Pieter de Mey." [Footnote: Wife of Dirck Holgersen – Christina Vigne. Jan Damen was her step-father.] Pages 38-39.
+ July 22, 1638: "Declaration of surgeon Gerrit Schutt and Jan Pietersen respecting the above assault..
" This day, the 22^nd of July Ao. 1638, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, appeared Gerrit Schut and Jan Pietersen, alias Comrade Jan, at the request of Dirck Holgertsen, Noorman, and jointly declared by Christian words, in place and with promise of an oath if necessary, that it is true and truthful that they, the deponents, being some days ago at the house of Jan Damen, there saw and heard what follows.
"First, Jan Damen dunning Dirck Volgertsen for payment of fl. 20, Dirck answered that he did not owe him anything. Jan Damen thereupon replied: ‘Begone out of the house!’ and forthwith threw Christina, Dirck Holgersen’s wife, out of doors and struck her. Furthermore, drawing a knife, he cut and thrust at said Dirck Hollegersen’s wife, as appears from the skirt which she then had on.
"Further, Dirck Holgersen, seeking to defend his wife, threw a pewter can at Jan Damen, but missed him, whereupon Jan Damen made for him with a naked knife in his hand, cutting and thrusting at him and, as the said Dirck sought to defend his life, Dirck aforesaid took up a post to keep Jan Damen off. As Dirck Holgerts was going toward the fort or elsewhere, said Jan Damen again beat Dirck Volgersen’s wife with his fists and tore the cap off her head and challenged Dirck, saying: ‘If you have the courage, draw your knife’. But Dirck, being sober, would not do so and only defended himself with a post. The deponents declare all this to be true. Done at Fort Amsterdam, the day and year aforesaid. Gerrit Schutt. This is the X mark of Jan Pietersen, nicknamed Comrade Jan." Pages 39-40.
+ May 18, 1639, lease from Director Kieft to Dirck Holgersen of a farm and stock on halves: "Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary in New Netherland, appeared the honorable, prudent Mr. Willem Kieft, director general in the New Netherland on the part of the General Chartered West India Company, of the first part, and Dirck Holgersen, Noorman, of the second part, and acknowledged that they had amicably agreed and contracted in presence of the undersigned witnesses in manner as follows:
"The Hon. Director Willem Kieft delivers to Dirck Holgersz aforesaid the following animals belonging to Messrs. the directors of the West India Company, to wit, three cows, two of which are dry and one with calf, one heifer, one bull calf, one mare of [ ] years, one mare of two years, and one stallion, the receipt of all the which animals from the hands aforesaid Dirck Holgersen acknowledges, and he shall have the use of the above mentioned cattle for six consecutive years, beginning [ ] and ending [ ].
"For each cow, Dirck Holgersen shall annually pay to the honorable director aforesaid, or to the Company’s agent, thirty pounds of butter. Also, at the expiration of the six years, animals to the same number and in as good condition as those now delivered shall first be set aside for the Company and then the parties shall divide half and half the remaining cattle which by God’s blessing shall be bred from the aforesaid animals.
"Likewise, Dirck Holgersen aforesaid shall be bound during the above mentioned six years to deliver to the Company one half of the grain which he with God’s blessing shall raise on his farm, with the express promise that he shall cultivate it, or have it [162] cultivated diligently and industriously, without attending exclusively to the increase of the cattle, in order that the Company may annually receive a good quantity of grain.
"The honorable director aforesaid promises that during the term of the lease, if diligence be used in the cultivation of the land, there shall be given to the above named Dirck Holgersen for the maintenance of servants fifty Carolus guilders a year.
"For all of which the parties bind their persons and estates, movable and immovable, present and future, without any exceptions, under submission to all lords, courts, judges and justices, all in good faith. In testimony and token of the truth two copies of the same tenor are made hereof and subscribed by the parties. Done in Fort Amsterdam, this 18th of May 1639, in New Netherland.*" [Footnote: "Not signed."] Pages 161-162.

"New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch; Volume II, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647," translated and annotated by Arnold J.F. Van Laer, edited by Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, 1974.
+ Sept. 22, probably 1645, contract of sale of a house and lot on Manhattan island from Dirck Volckertsen to Govert Aertsen: "Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, [s]ecretary of New Netherland, appeared Dirck Volckertsen, an inhabitant here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses acknowledges that he has sold to Govert Aertsen, who also acknowledges that he has bought, the house and lot belonging to him, Dirck Volckertsz, standing and situated on the island of Manhatans, where the lot of Dirck Cornelisen adjoins on the west side and that of Jan Damen on the east side, and that as large or as small as the house and lot lied within the fences, with all that is fastened by earth and nail on condition that the vendor shall be at liberty to remove six apple trees of his choice and carry them where he pleases. Also, all of the produce of the garden shall remain at the disposal of the vendor, but the purchaser may have what he needs of the vegetables for himself and his partner and a good friend at the time of the Amsterdam fair and note before. For which house and lot the above mentioned Govert Aertsen promises to pay the sum of three hundred and twenty-five guilders down at the Amsterdam fair next, when the delivery shall be made. Which being done, the vendor promises said house and lot with a proper deed, free from any claims or demands which might be made by any one in the world, all exactly as the purchaser himself [obtained the lot by] patent. In witness and token of the truth, this is signed by the respective parties to the knowledge of the undersigned witnesses, the [ * in] N[ew] Amsterdam in New Netherland.*" [Footnotes: "The 22d of September." "Date and signature destroyed." The contract falls among items from 1645. However, the two preceding items were actually from 1642.] Page 319.
+ Dec. 6, 1646, declaration of Jan Willemsen Bos and Abraham Martensen that they built a house for Dirck Holgersen on Long Island: "Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Willemsz Bos, aged 25 years, and Abraham Martensen, aged about 25 years, carpenters, who at the request of Dirck Holgersen declare before the fiscal that they, the deponents, built for Dirck Holgersen a house on Long Island, to which house they made four projecting eaves.* This the deponents offer to confirm. Done the 6th of December 1646, in New Amsterdam. Jan Wylmsen Bos This is the X mark of Abraham Martensen, made by himself Acknowledged before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary" [Footnote: "Swepen. The meaning of this word is uncertain. The house may have been built in Norwegian style, with wide projecting eaves, or with galleries."] Page 379.
+ July 2, 1647, power of attorney from Albert Govertsen to Dirck Volckertsen to receive moneys from the West India Company: "This day, date underwritten, before me, [ * ], appeared Albert Govertsz from Souwater, who appoint [419] and empowers, as he does hereby, Dirck Volckersz to ask, demand and collect all such moneys as are already due or may hereafter become due to the above mentioned Albert Govertssen from the honorable directors, all of the which shall after his death belong to Dirck Volckertsen. Thus done without fraud or deceit in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, this 2d of July Ao. 1647, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland. This is the X mark of Albertssen,* made by himself Adriaen van Tienhoven, witness" [Footnotes: "Name not give." "Thus in the original."] Pages 418-419.
+ Declarations of William Cock and others that George Holmes’ wife accused the wife of Robert Butler of having an illegitimate child: "William Cock, 27 year of age, attests at the request of Robbert Bottelaer that last Saturday afternoon the wife of Gorge Home said that Robbert Bottelaer’s wife was a whore and that she had a whore’s child. Willem Cock offers to confirm this on oath. This is the X mark of Willem Cock Christina Vienje and Maria Vienje attest the same. [495] This is the L mark of Maria Vienje* This is the X mark of Maria Vienje Adam Mat attests that Gorge Homs and his wife reviled Robbert Bottelaer’s wife, calling her a whore, which he offers to confirm [on oath]. Done at Manhatans, the 30th of September Ao. 1647." [Footnote: "Apparently intended for Christina Vienje, or Vigne."] Page 494-495.

"New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch; Volume III, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660," translated and annotated by Arnold J.F. Van Laer, edited by Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, 1974.
+ Oct. 2, 1648, contract of Jeuriaen Hendricksen to build a farmhouse for Jan Damen: "Jeurisen Hendr. Agrees to build for Jan Damen a house, 60 feet long and on each side a passageway throughout, the frame twenty-four feet wide; in front 11 feet high and in the rear 12 feet high, the read part being one foot above the ground and the front part two feet above the ground. The front room 24 feet square, with a cellar under it. To lay and tongue and groove the attic floor and to wainscot the front room all around; two bedsteads, one in the front room and one in the chamber, and a winding stair, [64] so that one can go from the cellar to the attic; the front gable perpendicular and the rear gable truncated.* In the front room a window casing with transom and mullion and also a mantelpiece. Jeuriaen Hendricksz must provide the roof with split rafters and nail on the laths, and on each beam [put] a loft bent.*
"Jan Damen is bound to furnish Jeuriaen Hendricksz and his men with food and drink until the work is completed. When the work is finished Jan Damen must pay Jeuriaen Hendricx the sum of four hundred and twenty-five guilders, once. Furthermore, Jeuriaen Hendricxsz is bound to construct everything in proper manner and to commence in eight weeks. This day, 2d of October 1648, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland. This is the X mark of Jeuriaen Hendricksz, made by himself Jan Jansz Damen This is the X mark of Dirck Volcksz, made by himself This is the X mark of Albert Jansz, made by himself." [Footnotes: "De voorgevel een staende gavel and de Achter een dwars gavel." "Op elcke balck een viler bint."] Pages 63-64.
+ June 2, 1649, lease from Dirck Holgersen to Jackem Calder of the piece of land on Long Island: "Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jochem Calder, of the first part, and Dirck Holgersz, of the second part, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses acknowledged and declared that in all love and friendship they had mutually entered into and concluded a certain contract in regard to the lease of a certain piece of land, on the conditions hereinafter written: Dirck Holgersz leases to Jochem Calder a certain piece of land, situated on Long Island, together with the land heretofore leased by him, Dirck, to Jochem Calder, for the term of twenty consecutive years, commencing anno 1651 and ending anno 1671. The lessee shall have the land rent free for the first six years and during the other fourteen following [106] years shall pay annually for the use of said land (of which the lessee shall cultivate and use as large or as small as part as he shall see fit) the sum of one hundred and fifty guilders in such pay as shall then be current. All of the expenses which the lessee shall incur in building, fencing and whatever else is necessary shall be at the charge of the lessee, who shall make such improvements as he shall think fit; and if it happen that he, the lessee, should die, it is stipulated that the lessor shall not be at liberty to eject the wife or descendants from the land against their will. The fences or any other improvements made by the lessee, of whatever nature they may be, shall at the expiration of the twenty years belong in full ownership to the lessor, his heirs and successors, without their paying anything for them. For further security and the performance of this contract the parties bind their respective persons and properties, submitting to that end to all courts and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed by the parties and by Jan Nagel and Pieter Jansz Noorman, witnesses hereto, this 2d of June Ao. 1649, in New Amsterdam. This is the X mark of Dirck Holgersz, made by himself This is the X mark of Jochem Calder, made by himself This is the PI mark of Pieter Jansz, witness, made by himself Jacob Kip> Jan Nagel > witnesses" Pages 105-106.
+ Aug. 4, 1649, deed form Cornelis van Tienhoven to Abraham Isaacksen Planck of a lot in the Smith’s valley on Manhattan Island: "…in length on the west side, next to Dirck Holgertsz’ lot, sixteen rods and nine feet …" Pages 126-127.
+ Aug. 7, 1649, deed from Cornelis van Tienhoven to Dirck Volckertsen of a lot in the Smith’s valley, on Manhattan Island: "This day, date underwritten, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary here, conveys to Dirck Volckerssen a lot of his land situated in the Smits valley, on the island of Manhatans, by virtue of the patent granted to him by the honorable director general and council; in width on the south side, at the strand, seven [128] rods and six feet; in width in the rear, on the north side, seven rods and nine feet; in length on the east side, sixteen rods and nine feet; in length on the west side, sixteen rods and six and one-half feet, and that in true and full ownership, provided that he, Dirck Volckerssen, or whoever obtains his right, shall be subject to whatever the lord may hereafter claim. Which said Cornelis van Tienhoven hereby relinquishes the ownership of the said lot, of the dimensions aforesaid, conveying the same to the above named Dirck Volckerssen, or whoever may obtain his right, in true ownership, without retaining any claim of ownership thereof, but relinquishing the same henceforth and forever. He, Cornelis van Tienhoven, therefore promises to hold this conveyance firm, binding and inviolable, under submission [of his person and property] as by law provided. Without fraud or deceit this is signed by the grantor and witnesses, the 7th of August Ao. 1649, New Amsterdam, New Netherland." Pages 127-128. [Note: This was one of the three properties sold by van Tienhoven in Smits valley within the same week.]
+ declaration of Lourens Pietersen and Johannes Forbes about the purchase by Dirck Holgersen of a plantation on the west sideof Mespath kill, L.I.: "Before me, Jacob Hendricksen Kip, [clerk] appointed in the absence of the secretary by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared Lourens Pietersen form Thonsberch in Norway, aged about 30 years,* an inhabitant here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses declares that it is true and truthful that now and about eight or nine years ago, the precise day or time being unknown to him, Dirck Holgersen purchased from Cornelis Willemsen, planter of the said Dirck Holgersen, a certain piece of land, being a plantation situated on the west side of Mespachtes, opposite Ritchert Bridnel’s, which was cultivated by the said Cor. Willemsen, for the sum of [221] one hundred and twenty guilders, of which sum he, Corn. Willemsen, when the purchase was made, owed one-half to Dirck Holgersen and in addition then received a barrel of good beer on account; he continued to reside with said Dirck Holgersen and without doubt was paid the balance of the money before he went from here to the north, which was fully three or four years after the purchase was made. All of which he, Lourens Pietersen, declares to be true and that this [declaration] is made b him solely to bear witness to the truth. In testimony whereof this is signed by the deponent and the witnesses, this 22d of March Ao. 1651, in New Amsterdam. This is the X mark of Lourens Pietersen, made by himself Jacob Jansen Huys, witness Gerret Jansen, witness Acknowledged before me, Jacob Kip, Clerk
"Jan Forbus from Sweden, aged 50 years, being heard, declares before the undersigned witnesses that he confirms the foregoing declaration of Lourens Pietersen, except that he does not know for how much the land was sold and how the payment was made; offering to confirm the same on oath if necessary. Done, Manhatans in New Netherland, date as above. Johannes Forbes Jacob Jansen Huys> Gerret Janesn>witnesses Acknowledged before me, Jacob Kip, Clerk" [Footnote: "At this point the words ‘and Jan Forbus from Sweden, aged 50 years,’ are crossed out."] Pages 220-221.
+ March 28, 1651,deed from Dirck Holgersen to Pieter Hudde and Abraham Jansen of land on Mespath kill: "Before me, Jacob Kip, in the absence of the secretary appointed by the honorable director and council of New Netherland, appeared Dirck Holgersen, an inhabitant here, who declared that he had sold and conveyed, as he does hereby [see and convey], to Pieter Hudde and Abraham Jansen, in company, a certain parcel of land situated on Mespachtes kil, opposite Ritchert Bridnel’s, formerly belonging to Cornelis Willemsen, containing according to the patent twenty-two morgens, one hundred and forty-six rods; which land he, the grantor, conveys to the said Pieter Hudde and Abraham Jansen, in company, in true, free and rightful ownership, therefore renouncing all title and interest which he had therein and giving authority to enter on, cultivate and use the said land free and unmolested, on condition that the reservation mentioned in the patent as to the acknowledgment of the lords and patrons of this country be complied with; placing the above mentioned Piter Hudde and Abraham Jansen in his estate, real and actual possession of the land aforesaid and renouncing all claim thereto, henceforth and forever. He promises, therefore, to hold this his deed and conveyance firm, binding and inviolable, under binding obligation according to law. In testimony whereof I have signed this with the witnesses, this 22d of March, 1651, New Amsterdam in New Netherland. This is the X mark of Dirck Holgersen, made by himself Jacob Jansen Huys, witness Gerret Jansen, witness Acknowledged before me, Jacob Kip, Clerk
"This day, the 28th of March Ao. 1651, the honorable Petrus Stuyvesant and the council of New Netherland has accepted the foregoing testimony as to the purchase of the land referred to and accordingly have ratified the above conveyance executed by Dirck Holgersen in favor of Pieter Hudde and Abrham Jansen. In witness whereof this is signed by the honorable director general on the date above written at Manhatans in New Netherland. P. Stuyvesant" Pages 222-223.
+ July 6-7, 1651, inventory of the personal estate of Jan Jansen Damen: "Inventory of the personal estate left by Jan Jansen Damen, deceased on the 18th of June, as found by the honorable Mr. La Montagne and the respective curators, viz: Jacob van Curlaer and Tomas Hall, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 6^th of July 1651, as follows: … [272] 1 gun at Dirck Noorman’s to have a stock made" Pages 267-276.
+ Sept. 19, 1651, deed from Dirck Holgersen to Roelof Teunissen of a house and lot in the Smith’s valley on Manhattan Island: "On this day, the 19^th of September of the year one thousand six hundred and fifty-one, before me, Jacob Kip, clerk appointed here by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared Dirck Volckertsen, burgher and resident here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses declared that he transferred and conveyed, as he hereby does by virtue of the deed executed to him, the grantor, under date of August 4, 1649, by Cornelis Tienhoven, by virtue of his patent, to and for the behoof of Roelof Teunissen from Gottenborgh, at present skipper of the small ship Keyser Karel, his certain house and lot, standing and lying on the island of Manhatans, in the Smits valley, on the East river, between the lot of Abraham Verplanck and the portion which the grantor reserves, being in width on the south side, on the road, three and one half rods and three feet; in the rear, against the land of Cornelis van Tienhoven, on the north side, three and one half rods and four and a half feet; in length, on the west side, sixteen rods, six and a half feet, and on the east side sixteen rods, nine feet, and this in true and free ownership. He, the grantor, declares that according to the written agreement he was fully satisfied and paid the purchase money before the execution hereof; he therefore puts the aforesaid Roelof Teunisen in his stead and real and actual possession of the aforesaid house and lot and relinquishes all further claim and ownership for the behoof aforesaid from now on forever, expect that the aforesaid Roelof Teunisen or he who may [308] acquires his title remains subject to whatever the lords and patrons may claim, as mentioned in all patents. He, Dirck Holgersen, promises to hold this his deed and conveyance firm, binding and irrevocable and to observe and fulfil the same, all under submission [of his person and property] according to law. In testimony whereof the original hereof in the record is signed by the grantor and cedent, together with Jacob Jansz Huys and Bartel Jansz, both invited hereto as witnesses. Done as above, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland. This is the X mark of Dirck Holgersen, made by himself Jacob Jansen Huys Bartel Jansen Acknowledged before me, Jacob Kip, Clerk" [Dirck’s name is spelled both Volckersen and Holgersen.] Pages 307-308.

"Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. II, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York," by Thomas G. Evans, 1901, reprinted by The Gregg Press in 1968.
+ DirckVolckertszen, daughter Rachel, baptized Sept. 8, 1641. Sponsors were Abraham Isacszen Plancke, Laurens Pieterszen, Adriana Van Tienhoven. Page 12.
+ Dirck Volkerstszen, son Volckets, baptized Nov. 15, 1643. Sponsors were Cornelis Tienhoven, Secretaris; Jans Janszen dam; Philip Graer; Marie Philips. Page 16.
+ Christina Vynen, wife of Dirck de Noorman (?), was a sponsor at the baptism of Jan, son of Roelandt Hack, Wardt., on Dec. 14, 1643. The other sponsor was Abraham Jsaac Planck. [Actually states, in Dutch: "Christina Vynen en de huisvr. Van Dirck de Noorman."] Page 16.
+ Dirck Volckertszen, daughter Ariaentje, was baptized Aug. 21 1650. Sponsors were Jan Vinge, Claes Corszen, Lysbeth Cregiers, Aefje Van Tienhoven. Page 27.
+ Dirck Volckertszen, daughter Janneken, was baptized Dec. 7, 1653. Sponsors were Abraham Planck, Pieter Janszen Noorman, Marritie Abrahams. Page 36.
"Baptisms at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (1639-1730)," manually Entered by Theodore Brassard. http://www.altlaw.com/edball/dutchbap.htm#1639
1641 – Date: 8 Sept Parents: Dirck Volckertszen. Child: Rachel. Witnesses: Abraham Isacszen Planck, Laurens Pieterszen, Adriaen Van Tienhoven.
1643 – 15 Nov; Dirck Volkertszen; Volckert; Cornelis Tienhoven-secretaris, Jans Janszen dam, Philip Graer, Marie Philips
1643 – 14 Dec; Roelandt Hack Wardt; Jan; Abraham Isaac Planck, Christina Vynen and husband, Van Dirck de Noorman
1650 – 5 Jun; Jochem Kier; Michiel and Dorothe-twins; Dirck de Noorman and his wife Chrystyn, Pieter Andrieszen, Daniel Sergiant, Elisabeth Cregiers, Claertie Ebels
1650 – 21 Aug; Dirck Volkertszen; Ariaentje; Jan Vinge, Claes Corszen, Lysbeth Cregiers, Aefje Van Tienhoven
1651 – 23 Apr; Jan Hermanszen Schut; Fytie; Dirck Volckertszen, Ariaentje Damens, Rachel Van Tienhoven
1653 – 7 Dec; Dirck Volckertszen; Janneken; Abraham Planck, zen Noorman, Abrahams
1659 – 21 Dec; Sara Dircks de Noorman; Sara; no witnesses

"New York Historical Manuscripts, Dutch, Volume V, Council Minutes, 1652-1654," translated and edited by Charles T. Gehring, The Holland Society of New York, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, 1983, page 16.
+ Feb. 26, 1652: "Claes Hendrix, plaintiff, against Dirrick Volckartsen; demands from him 2 beams, each 22 feet long, 2 pieces [ ] and 22 pieces 16 feet long.
"The defendant is willing to deliver them.
"Claes Hendrix, plaintiff, against Dirrick Volckartsz, for the sum of 104 guilders for goods received, to be paid in beavers. The director and council order the defendant to pay by next May in [ ] servant."

"Council Minutes, 1655-1656," translated and edited by Charles T. Gehring, The Holland Society of New York, Syracuse University Press, 1995, page 3.
+ Probably January 1655: "[Order for Scout of Breuckelen to return boar to Dirck Volckertsen]
"The honorable lords high councilors of New Netherland having seen and examined the material submitted concerning a certain boar in dispute between Dirck Volckertsz and Pieter Cornelisz living on Long Island in the jurisdiction of Breuckelen, find, according ot the decision of arbitrators dated 19 Dec. and additional documents presented to us, that the aforesaid boar belongs to Dirck Volckertsz, and therefore order Davit Provoost, as schout of the place, to notify the aforesaid Pieter Cornelisz to restore and return the boar to Dirck Volckertsz as owner, with expenses.
"Done at New Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra (was signed: ) Nicasius de Silla, Cor. Van Tienhoven.

"The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 anno Domini," edited by Berthold Fernow, published under authority of the City of New York.
+ Jan. 26, 1654 – "Uldrick Jansen, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckersen, deft. Both in default." Vol. 1, page 154.
+ Feb. 16, 1654 – "Uldrick Jansen, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckersen, deft. Both in default." Vol. 1, page 160.
+ Feb. 16, 1654 – "Dirck Volkersen, pltf. v/s Age Bruysen, deft. For payment of a certain lot. Parties being heard, it is ordered that pltf. shall deliver the deed, and deft. shall then pay." Vol. 1, page 161.
+ Oct. 15, 1655 – Dirck Holgersen, Noorman, taxed 10 guilders on list of "persons being summoned remain absent." Vol. 1, page 274.
+ Oct. 25, 1655 – "Reyer Stoffelsen, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckertsen, deft. Deft, in default. Default was granted only for the payment of fl. 9. Now due since 3 years." Vol. 1, page 386.
+ Nov. 8, 1655 – "Sybout Claessen, as att’y for Ryer Stoffelsen, pltf. v/s Dirck Holgersen, deft. Defts. 2^d default. Being for payment of fl. 8. Belonging to Ryer Stoffelsen. Requests sequestration and satisfaction. The Court ordered as Dirck Holgersen is in the 2^d default, that he deposit the said fl. 8. within 8 days in the Secretary’s office." Vol. 1, page 390.
+ Jan. 24, 1656 – "Symon Joosten, pltf. v/s Dirck Holgersen, deft. Pltf. demands payment of fl. 49. 14. For disbursements in the year 1654. Deft. acknowledges the debt; says he cannot pay at present, requests time. C. van Tienhoven, being present in Court, remains bail for the payment by deft. in six weeks. Therefore deft., or in his default, the bail was condemned to pay within six weeks." Vol. 2, page 21.
+ Feb. 21, 1656 – "Dirck Claessen Pottebacker, plft. v/s Dirck Holgersen, deft. Pltf’s wife appeared in Court says, that she has missed a canoe, which she purchased from Pieter Vander Linde and after seeking for it every where finally found it before deft’s house and land, who refused the same to her, notwithstanding reasonable salvage was offered. Requests the Court to condemn him to deliver it. Deft. says a certain canoo was brought by some Englishmen on his land, and as the same lay a long time there without a person coming after it, he found, that it was very much out of repair. He repaired and rebuilt it. Offers to give it up to the pltf. on condition, that she will pay him for the repairs, wages and salvage. Parties being heard, the Court referred the parties to Lambert Huybertsen Mol, and Cornelis Jansen Clopper to value the labor and repair expended on the canoe, and if possible to reconcile the parties, or to report to the Board." Vol. 2, pages 38-39.
+ April 3, 1656 – "Symon Joosten, pltf. v/s Dirck Holgersen, deft. Pltf. requests payment as heretofore. Deft. acknowledges the debt. Whereas by the last order hereupon the Fiscal remained bail for the payment, Dirck Holgersen is ordered to make an assignment, when the Fiscal undertakes to pay." Vol. 2, page 83.
+ Oct. 30, 1656 – "Schout d’Silla, pltf. v/s Dirck Holgersen Noorman, deft. Deft. in default. Pltf. demands, that the Court appoint Commissaries to take information in his presence as to how Dirck Volckertsen wounded Jan Perie. The request being deemed just Schepens Jacob Stryker and Hendrick Kip are appointed Commissioners." Vol. 2, page 200.
+ Nov. 6, 1656 – "N. de Silla, pltf. v/s Dirck Holgersen, deft. Deft. requests by petition copy of the Officers demand, as he has not time to appear, to answer to the same by the next Court day. Pltf. rendering briefly his demand, thereupon was endorsed – The Court grants deft., according to his peition, copy of the demand to answer thereunto in writing by the next court day." Vol. 2, page 222.
+ Dec. 11, 1656 – "Jan de Pree requests by petition, that Dirck Volkertsen be ordered to settle with him for the pain, surgeon’s bill, and loss of time which he incurred from a stab in the side received from said Dirck. Whereupon is endorsed – The petitioner may summon his party at the next Court day, and then, if he thinks fit, institute his action." Vol. 2, page 246.
+ Dec.18, 1656 – "Sara Pietersen, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckertsen, deft. Deft. in default." Vol. 2, page 246.
+ Dec. 18, 1656 – "Grietie Provoost, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckertsen, deft. Deft. in default." Vol. 2, page 246.
+ Dec.18, 1656 – "Jan de Pree, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckertsen, deft. Deft. in default. Pltf. rendering his demand in writing requests, as before, that deft. be condemned to pay for loss of time, pain, and surgeons fees for the wound received from deft. The Honble Schout d’Silla maintains that pltf. Jan Perie has no cause of action, as he began the quarrel, and wounded the deft. by sticking a knife in his body. And whereas the deft. is in default, the pltf. was ordered to summon him again, and then to prove his statement." Vol. 2, page 247.
+ Jan. 8, 1657 – "Jan de Perie, pltf. v/s Dirck de Noorman, deft. Pltf. exhibits, pursuant to the order of 18^th Decembr last, two separate declarations, one of Jan Fredericksen and one of Paulus Heymans, by which it appears, that Dirck de Noorman attacked him the pltf. and chased him from the Strand to the Clapboards, as is more fully detailed in the certificates rendered before Notary de Vos. Requesting, as before, that deft. be, therefore, condemned in the time lost by him and Surgeon’s fees. Deft. says, that he was not the first to draw his knife, that the pltf. had forced him to it, he having first struck him on his shoulder with a knife, which he also broke having struck his truss, and he afterwards tried to kill him with a naked dagger. The Court ordered the deft. to prove his statement by the next Court day, when further disposition shall be made." Vol. 2, page 255-256.
+ Jan. 25, 1657 – "Dirck Volckertsen, pltf. v/s Jan Peeck and his wife, Mary, defts. Pltf. requests that defts., whom he has summoned as witnesses in the case between him and Jan Perie, cooper, would please testify to the truth. Jan Peeck therefore declared, that in the morning as he lay abed, he saw Jan Perie and Dirck Volckertsen playing at dice together on the floor for a ---- and heard Jan Perie, while playing, give Dirck Volckertsen frequently the lie, whereupon Dirck Volckertsen contradicted, and a first fight followed; and as he, deponent, said to them that he could easily sell his wine without trouble, they went away, without his knowing anything more. Mary d’Peeck, also heard, confirms the declaration of her husband above given, and declares she afterwards heard Jan Perie say, ‘There’s Dirck the Noorman who has a box of zeewan in his sack; and he should play or the D---l should take him"; also that Jan Perie’s man told her, he saw his master thrust his knife into Dirck the Noorman’s truss. Dirck Volckertsen answers in writing Jan Perie’s demand, concluding, that the plft. Jan Perie’s entered demand be dismissed and he be condemned in the costs. Whereupon asked, if he have further evidence; he says, Yes; Jan Perie’s man, but that the others have been to him, and he is gone away. Wherefore the case is postponed." Vol. 2, pages 270-271.
+ Jan. 29, 1657 – "Dirck Vockertsen, pltf. v/s Jan Fredericksen, Jan Perie’s servant, deft. Pltf. requests, that deft. shall testify to the truth before the Court as to what he saw relative to the drawing of the knife between him pltf. and Jan Perie. Therefore aforesaid deft. appeared in Court and declares that he saw, on coming out of the house, Jan Perie and Dirck Volckertsen standing opposite each other, each with a knife in his hand, and that Dirck Volckertsen thrust first, and stabbed Jan Perie in his belly, and that Jan Perie then thrust with the point of the knife on Dirck Volckertsen’s truss, and saw Jan Perie afterwards chase Dirck Volckertsen with a dagger. And further he cannot declare." Vol. 2, page 278. [The court records don’t list the outcome of the case.]
+ May 3, 1657 – "Pursuant to your order to make known the damage suffered by individuals from the survey of this City, the heirs of decd Aryaendie Cuvilje claim, for breaking fences and injury to grain etc. in consequence of running the Walls of this City through their land, to have been damaged as much, as arbitrators shall in fairness estimate. Was undersigned Abraham Verplank, J. Vinge, the mark of D. Folckertsen. Apostile: - Burgomasters intention is, that the damage from the last survey be brought in and not from that previous and consequently the petitioners’ request cannot be granted. Yet it will be attended to. Done May 3^d 1657. At Amsterdam in N. Netherland." Vol. 7, Administrative Minutes of New Amsterdam, pages 158-159.
+ March 4, 1658 – "Claas van Elslant the Elder, pltf. v/s Maria Verplanck and Dirck Volckersen, defts. Defts in default. Pltf. demands, that an order be issued in the name of the Court to summon the defts. for the next Court on pain of being deprived of their privilege." Vol. 2, page 345.
+ March 8, 1658: "Claas van Elslandt, the Elder, v/s Maria Verplank and Dirck Volckersen,* by order of the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens, defts, Pltf. says, the defts. refuse to pay the Church money for a grave for their, the defts. decd mother. Defts. say, they have not refused as they have once paid, and counted the money to Cornelis van Tienhoven. Pltf. is asked, why he was so slow in collecting the Church fees? Answers and declares, that Cornelis van Tienhoven said, there are your fees, I shall make it right with the Church Wardens. Defts. say, they paid 50 gl. – 30 gl. In Holland Currency and the remainder in zeawant. The Court condemned the heirs in general to satisfy the Church Wardens within the space of eight days." [Footnote in source: * Maria Vinje, wife of Abraham Verplanck, was a daughter of Ariantje Cuville, widow of Gulyn Vinje, who took as second husband Jan Jansen Damen an died in 1655. Dirck Volkersen married Christina Vinje, and Cornelis van Tienhoven the third sister Rachel. Jan Vinje, ex-Schepen at this time, was their brother. He died in 1691.] Vol. 2, page 349-350.
+ March 28, 1658 – "Aucke Bruynsen and Dirck Volckersen appear in Court and said Aucke requests his lot to be set off. The Magistrates give for answer, that the Surveyor shall be ordered to measure off their share for parties and to satisfy parties." Vol. 2, page 366.
+ April 1, 1658 – "Aucke, Bruynsen, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckersen, deft., demands, that he may set off his place, which he bought from the deft. The Burgomasters inform the Court of the inspection taken by them of the ground in question, also the contract made thereof and that Dirck Volckersen cannot fulfill it. The Court therefore allows Aucke Bruynsen to set off his ground as Dirck Volckersen has no ground to make a common passage." Vol. 2, page 368.
+ June 17, 1658 – "Willem Doeckes, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckersen, deft. Deft. in default. Pltf. requests, that the attachment served on the fl. 26. In Salomon La Chair’s hands may be declared valid. The Court declares the attachment invalid, as he is the Burgher of this City." Vol. 2, page 403.
+ Aug. 19, 1659: "Raghiel van Tienhoven appears in Court, requests by petition that Abraham Verplanck and Augustyn Heermans shall be directored by the Court first to exchange the inventory and next the papers which will be produced by parties on both sides, in order that, such being done, parties may deliver into the Court their respective documents by due inventory on the next Court day, under such penalty as to the Court may seem meet. On the written petition of Raghiel van Tienhoven, Abraham Verplanck, Augustyn Heermans and parties are ordered to exchange on both sides their papers used in the suit and to produce their deduction vouches, documents and intendit on the next Court day." Vol. 3, page 27.
+ Sept. 23, 1659: "Raghel van Tienhoven requests by petition, that Abraham Verplank and Augustyn Heermans her adversaries shall be ordered to furnish her, the petitioner, authentic copy of the compromise made by Dirck van Schelluyne regarding the settlement of dispute between her husband and the heirs of Adriana Cuvilje, decd. Whereupon it is ordered: - Petition is granted and adverse parties shall be ordered to communicate to petitioner authentic copy of compromise.
"On the written petition of Raghel van Tienhoven, Abr: Verplanck and Augustyn Heermans are hereby ordered by the Court to communicate to Raghel van Tienhoven authentic copy of the compromise, made by the Notary Dirck van Schelluyne in the dispute between Cornelis van Tienhoven and Abraham Verplanck, Dirck Volckersen and Jan Vigne all heirs of decd. Adrianna Cuvilje, relative to the award of Adriaen van der Donck, Joannes van Brugh, and Joannes de Decker all arbitrators in the abovenamed question. – Actum." Vol. 3, page 56.
+ Jan. 20, 1660 – "Dirck Volckerzen, pltf. v/s Jan Andrieszen, deft. Deft. in default." Vol. 3, page 104.
+ Jan. 23, 1660: "Burgomasters and Schepens of the City of Amsterdam in N. Netherland having considered and read the papers, documents and vouchers produced on both sides in the suit between Raghel van Tienhoven, pltf., against Abraham Verplanck, Jan Vigne and Augustyn Heermans, defts. for satisfaction and payment of two thousand and forty one guilders forty stivers, which the pltf. demands from defts. according to a/c and obligation signed in the presence of arbitrators; against which defts. say, that errors have been found in the papers and writings exhibited to the arbitrators and request review of a/cs. Burgomasters and Schepens having examined and weighed, what is material, find that parties fully settled and balanced in the presence of Mr. DeDecker, Adriaen van der Donck, Mr. Joannes van Brugh and Dirck van Schelluyne as arbitrators, the heirs of Adriane Cuvilje remained indebted to Cornelis van Tienhoven in the sum of three thousand five hundred and eighty six guilders, nineteen stivers being signed Ao 1655 the 2^nd June; therefrom must be deducted fifteen hundred and forty five guilders five stivers, which Cornelis van Tienhoven was yet indebted to the estate of Adriane Cuvilje decd, so that there yet remains the demanded fl. 2041: 14 according to the obligation of 2^nd October 1656, and whereas Tienhoven cannot defend, in consequence of absence, this settlement nor render other a/cs; and parties have settled a/cs in presence of arbitrators, and the same has been twice signed by the heirs, to wit on the 2^nd June 1655 and on the 2^nd Octob. 1656, from which it appears, that they had a year and a day’s time and if they had to offer any thing or required review of a/cs, they could do so before the signing of the last obligation and before the departure of Cornelis van Tienhoven; Therefore no review of a/cs can be granted to the defts., but they are condemned to pay the pltf. the full demanded sum of fl. 2041: 14 according to the obligation, with costs of this suit. Thus done and adjudged in the Court of the Burgomasters and Schepens of said City. Ady as above. Marten Kregier." Vol. 3, pages 112-113.
+ Jan. 27, 1660 – "Dirck Volckerzen, pltf. v/s Jan Hendrickzen, deft. Defts. 2^d default. Pltf. is ordered to furnish party copy of a/c." Vol. 3, page 115.
+ April 25, 1662 – "Jan Rutgerzen, pltf. v/s Dirck Volckerzen, deft. Both in default." Vol. 4, page 67.
+ Feb. 21, 1665 – "Tryntje Jellis, arrestant and pltf. v/s Dirck Volckerzen, arrested and deft. Deft. in default. Burgomaster Olof Stevenzen van Cortlant entering represents, that he allowed the deft. to go home, as Isaack de Foreest became bail for the judgment for deft. and that he should appear in court." Vol. 5, page 191.
+ Feb. 21, 1665 – "Dirck Volckerzen, pltf. v/s Rutgert Janzen, deft. Pltf. in default; deft. sick." Vol. 5, page 191.

"Colonial Charters, Patents and Grants of the Communities Comprising the City of New York," by Jerrold Seymann, the Board of Statutory Consolidation of the City of New York, 1939.
+ Gov. Thomas Dongan’s 1686 patent for Bushwick outlines the history of the land that became Bushwick. It was copied from the "Book of Patents," VI:146.
"Richard Nicolls Esqr Governour Genll under his Royll Highss James Duke of Yorke & Albany now his Present Majesty of all his territoryes in America hath by patent under his hand & Seale bearing the date the twenty fifth Day of October 1667 Given Granted Ratified & Confirmed unto Peter Johan Dirick Norman paulus Richards David Yeokins & Long Gisbert as patentees for & on behalfe of themselves and their Associates the ffreeholders & Inhabitants of a certaine towne scituate lyeing & being in the west Rideing of York shire now kings county upon Long Island commonly Called & knowne by the name of Boswick." Page 466.
+ The Royal Patent for Bushwick is dated Oct. 25, 1667 and is recorded in "Book of Patents," VII:370. It was issued under "Anne by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France & Ireland Queen."
"Richard Nicolls Esqr Govor Genall and undr his Late Royall Highnesse James Duke of Yorke and Albany of all his Territories in America HATH by Patent undr his hand and Seale Bearing date the Twenty fifth day of Octor one Thousand Six hundred Sixty Seaven given granted ratified & confirmed unto Peter Jansen Derick Norman Paulus Richards David Yoakims & Long Gysbert as [474] Pattentees for and on Behalfe of themselves & their associates the freeholders and Inhabitants of a certain Town Scituate Lyeing & Being in the west Rideing of York Shire now Kings County on Long Island commonly called or knowne by the name of Boswick ALL that the Township of Boswjck aforesd & all the Lands thereunto adjoining & Belonging within the Bounds and Limites herein after particularly exprest …" Pages 473-474.

"Early Settlers of Bushwick, Long Island, New York," Vol. 1, by Andrew J. Provost Jr., 1949, pages 85-94.
"DIRCK VOLCKERTSZEN, son of Volckert ---, born in Norway as early perhaps as 1595; died at Bushwick, Long Island, N.Y. between April 24, 1677, when he is recorded as conveying most of his Bushwick lands to his children, and 1683 when, if living, his name would have been listed in the Bushwick rate list of that year.
"He married at New Amsterdam, ca. 1630, Christina, born in France, ca. 1610, daughter of Willem (Guillaume) Vigne and Adrienne Cuvelier who came to New Netherland from France in about 1614.
"It is considered that Dirck was probably one of the earliest Euuropeans to settler in New Netherland, and that he had lived for a time in Hoorn, on the peninsula of North Holland, where he practiced as a builder and shipwright; and that he was a resident of Hoorn in 1621 when he, and others, petitioned the States General of the Netherlands for permission to send a ship t New Netherland with merchandise. [Footnote: "Evjen, in his ‘Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674,’ is inclined to doubt that this petitioner was the Dirck Volckertszen who, a few years later, is recorded at New Amsterdam, but offers no convincing proof in support thereof. Evjen also expresses the opinion that Dirck’s name was probably Dirck Holgertsen. This deduction must be considered highly improbable. The present compiler has so found Dirck recorded on only one occasion, i.e. When he leased some land on Long Island in 1651 to Jochem Calder (Caljer) – See Foot-Note, p. 87. In the many other records he is named: as Volckertszen, Folkertse etc. and quite often as Dirck de Noorman. While he was a continuous resident, 1660-1677, of the small colony at Bushwick, where he was intimately known by the inscribers, his name is given as Dirck Volkerse in some 30 appearances in the Town Records."]
[Page 86.] "Little of record is found to indicate closely when Christina Vigne may have died. Her appearance in the records of the New Amsterdam Dutch Church include: Dec. 12, 1645, when as a baptismal sponsor she is named as the wife of Dirck Volckertszen; June 5, 1650, Dirck de Noorman and Christina his wife, sponsors for twin- children of Jochem Kier (Caljer); Dec. 7, 1653, named as mother of a child of Dirck Volckertszen; Seprt. 25, 1655, co-sponsor with Jochem Caljer at baptism of her granddaughter Christina Nagel; and in the records of the Town Of Bushwick, Feb. 21, 1663, ‘the wife of Dirck Volkertse’ is referred to in a Court proceedings as allegedly having slandered Jan Cornelis Zeeuw. However, in 1688 her brother Jan Vigne referred to his sister Christina as being then deceased. Christina, although not specifically named in the Court proceedings of 1663 must, in the absence of other evidence, be tentatively identified as such wife, and considered to have been then living. Her death appears to have occurred between Feb. 21, 1663 and Apr. 24, 1677 when Dirck Volckertszen distributed his properties among his children without imposing upon them the obligation of caring for their mother, as would be expected were she then alive. Christina was undoubtedly the mother of all the children of Dirck Volckertszen hereinafter named as his issue.
[88] "Dirck Volckertszen had obtained small burgher rights at New Amsterdam in April, 1657, indicating that this must have been considered his legal residence at the time. A deed executed in 1661 describes him as a resident of Boswyck. This is confirmed by his being cited as one of the twenty-three Bushwick residents who petitioned the Governor in 1661. In 1663, he was listed as a member of the Bushwick militia; his name, as a freeholder, appears in the patent granted to the Town of Boswyck by Governor Nicholl, Oct. 25, 1667, but is omitted in the Dongan Patent of 1687; he appears in the Bushwick rate list of 1675, but not in the rate list of 1683; neither was he listed as taking the oath of allegiance at Bushwick in 1687. On April 24, 1677, he recorded conveyances of his Bushwick properties to his sons and sons-in-law (Records of the Town of Boswiyck), after which he is no longer found of record. It is considered he died before about 1680, and that he would have been more than eighty years of age at the time of his death.
"The information relating to Dirck’s later years is chiefly confined to the preserved Dutch manuscript forming the Records of the Town of Boswyck, and is not extensive. No scribe of these records appears to have thought it necessary to pay a deserved tribute to the services that Dirck naturally would have contributed in the lay-out of the village, and in the construction of its buildings, the docks at the water-ways, the roads and the highly important palisade; nor of his lore in Indian warfare and the stimulation of his belligerent personality in creating courage and initiative in those fellow settlers who had but recently arrived from European counties.
"By 1664, when his civic and military services were substantially completed, Dirck had long since passed his prime. If not the most influential man in the community, Dirck, nevertheless, must be considered to have become its patriarch. He was by far its oldest constituent. On May 11, 1664 he was chosen by the justices of the town to be Supervisor of Fencings, an office which, no doubt, included the upkeep and proper location of property boundaries, and suitable for his advanced age. [Footnote: "Bergen, in his ‘Early Settlers of Kings County, New York’ says Dirck Volckertszen was a Bushwick magistrate in 1681. No authentic record is found to show he ever held such office. It may have been considered that his temperament did not lead itself to impartial judicial procudere. Moreover, in 1681, Dirck would have been at least eighty years of age, perhaps considerably older, and there is good reason to believe he died before 1680. Bergen’s obvious error has been copied by other commentators."] Two years later, Dirck evidently felt unable to continue manual labor. On Jan. 1, 1666, he recorded a contract with his son, Volkert Dircks, whereby the son was to have the father’s land, stock, equipment etc. For a period of five years for one-half of the grown products, maize , tobacco, rapeseed etc. The document was subscribed to by both parties in the presence of Ryck Leidecker and Barent Joosten, justices of the Town of Boswyck.
[Page 89.] "Dirck is recorded Jan. 12, 1666 as a contributor toward the support of the Bushwick minister; Mar. 8, 1667, he entered into an agreement with David Jochemsen, his adjacent neighbor to the north, regarding a right-of-way to Jachemsen’s land ‘as long as Dirck should own his land.’; July 28, 1668, being cited as having refused to report the amount of his land within fence, for the reason that some of it was without profit to him, the Justice of the peace at New Amsterdam directed the constable and overseers at Boswyck to take into consideration Dirck’s excuse and, in case they find him guilty of ‘unmannerly conduct’ to reprimand him, or to impose a fine, ‘as they shall deem in law and fairness to be befitting.’ April 11, 1671, following the death of Dirck Volckertszen’s daughter, Margaret (Grietje Dircks) Dirck and his two sons (Volkert and Jacob Dircks) were appointed guardians of his daughter’s children. The precaution of including his sons in the guardianship was probably due to Dirck’s advanced age; on the same day, Dirck recorded a document that transferred to Barent Gerrets (husband of the deceased daughter) ‘a piece of land and meadow in the town of Boswyck on the south side of the Kingsway along the Kill, i.e. the Woodpoint, on the north side of Hendrick Backers, at the meadow of said Barent Gerrets.’ The property so conveyed, apparently, had theretofore been given by Dirck to his daughter Margaret, and was now being recorded to her widower in order that, under an agreement entered into by Gerrets in the guardianship papers, the interests of Dirck’s orphaned grand-children would be protected; Grerets having therein pledged his land, meadow and four house lots in the town (Boswyck) as security until ‘the children come of age or desire to marry.’ The several recorded conveyance of properties made by Dirck to his other sons-in-law in 1677 refer to such properties as gifts theretofore made to their respective wives.
"In 1677, evidently in anticipation of approaching death, Dirck Volkerse executed and caused to be recorded the documents conveying Bushwick properties to his sons-in-law, hereinsabove referred to, and also to his two sons, as follows:
"I – CONVEYANCE, April 24, 1677, DIRCK VOLCKERSE TO JAN LESQUIER, for the reason that Lesquier has married Rachel Dircks, Dirck’s daughter, of eleven morgens of land at Boswyck to whom, Rachel, he had before this given the land, and in addition another ten morgens which he, Jan Lesquier, had bought from another of Dirck’s daughters, i.e. Magdalena, for from her husband Harmen Hendrickse, making in all twenty-one morgens of land and meadow, at Green Hook near Mespatt Kill, south-west of David Jochemse and northeast of Dirck Volkerse. Witnessed by Jost Kockuit, Jasques Cossert, Pieter Janse Wit and P. Clocq.
"1685, Sept. 17 – Jan Lequer declares he cedes and transfers to Volkert Dircksen the above lands conveyed to him by Dirck Volckerse.
"II – CONVEYANCE, April 24, 1677, DIRCK VOLCKERSE TO HIS SON VOLCKERT DIRCKS, resident of Boswyck, ten Morgens of land next to land of Charles Houseman, and also ten morgens which he had heretofore given to his daughter Ariantie Dircks, married to Charles Housman, with one morgen of meadow over the Wood Point which land and meadow he, Dirck Volckerts had purchased of Charles Housman. Subscribed to by Dirck Volckertse and Charles Housman.
"III – CONVEYANCE, April 24, 1677, DIRCK VOLCKERSE TO HIS SON JACOB DIERCKS, resident of Boswyck, ten morgens land between land of Jan Lesquier and other land of Dirck Volckerse, and also one morgen of meadow. Witnessed by Pieter Janse Wit, Jacques Cossart and P. Clocq.
[90] "IV – CONVEYANCE, April 24, 1677, DIRCK VOLKERSE to PIETER SCHAMP, his son-in-law of Boswyck, husband of Dirck’s daughter Jannetie Dierckse, ten morgens of land on north side of Volckert Dirckse, the said land and a piece of meadow having already been given to his daughter Jannetie Dierckse. Witnessed by Jost Kockuit, P. Clocq and Pieter Jan Wit.
"1688, April 17 – ‘The above land conveyed by Pieter Schamp to David Jochemse.’ …
"The foregoing several conveyances made by Dirck Volckertszen to his sons and sons-in-law in 1671 and 1677 must be regarded as of real genealogical importance. They not only furnish authentic record of Dirck’s children, and the marriages entered into by his daughters, but also confirm the list of these children, and their general order of birth as given herein on page 93, which data had been, more or less, tentatively arrived at by tedious research, before the ‘conveyances’ were unearthed.
"From the sources of information available, it is estimated that Dirck Volckertszen’s original Bushwick holdings amounted to between 400 and 500 acres, and that approximately one-half was still in his possession shortly before his death. …"
[Page 91.] "The preserved records concerning Dirck Volckertszen show him to have been a colorful person, of robust character and impulsive temperament. He appeared quite often in the courts as both plaintiff and defendant. His altercations with his wife’s step-father, Jan Jansen Damen, hereinbefore mentioned, may, perhaps, have been abetted by his brother-in-law Cornelis Van Tienhoven secretary of the Colony, whose malign character came to be generally recognized and who after a stormy career, left the scene in a manner so enshrouded in mystery as to suggest self destruction.
"White it is clear that numerous quarrels occurred in Damen’ step-family, it should not be overlooked that at the baptisms of Dirck Volckertszen’s found recorded children (Sept. 1641-Dec. 1653) all of his male in-laws, Damen, Van Tienhoven, Ver Planck and Vigne, served as sponsors on at least one occasion, and Ver Planck twice. That some animosity may have existed between Volckertszen and Vigne, and carried over to the next generation, is suggested by the fact that in 1655 when Dirck’s daughter Magdalena, a recent widow, applied to the Orphan’s Court for the appointment of guardians for her child, she repudiated the appointment of her uncle, Jan Vigne, as being her adversary, and obtained in his stead the appointment of the other uncle, Abraham Ver Planck.
"Dirck Volckertszen was taken into court Jan. 8, 1656, by one Jan de Perie under the charge that Dirck had assaulted him and ‘chased him from the Strands to the Clapboards.’ The trial was a lengthy one, with several testifying witnesses who saw the struggle, and was not conluded until June 29, 1658 when Dirck, who had pleaded self-defense, agreed to pay a fine for wounding his antagonist. However, Dirck appears to have pressed his cause further by a court procedure against a servant of the plaintiff who had testified, and who, Dirck charged had committed perjury.
"The last record we have of Dirck’s court experiences appears to make him the complainant against Jan Cornelis Zeeuw, a Bushwick neighbor, under an action in which Dirck alleged the defendant had given a besting to one of his, Dirck’s children, and in which Zeeuw alleged that Dirck’s wife had applied to him, Zeeuw, an insulting epithet. The dispute was referred to a board of Arbitrators, consisting of Pieter Jans Widt, Gysbert Teunisz and Barent Joosten, which, February 12, 1663, found: ‘that the above named occurrences shall be null and void without being recalled again, at this nor at any time, upon the penalty for who ever first makes mention, or touches thereon, of paying 25 guilders to the poor of Boswyck.’ Subscribed to by Jan Cornelis Zeeuw. Dirck Volkersz and by each of the arbitrators. If this finding were approved by the court, as appears probable, it may well have been the first effective suppression in New Netherland of a potential public scandal, and an example well worthy the attention of our present day courts of justice.
[Page 92.] "Dirck’s apparent tendency to challenge constituted authority, seems to have been inherited by some of his daughters, as will be inferred from what is hereinafter cited with respect to three of them. Except for these, his issue and descendants, from what has been learned of them, appears to have led normal, tranquil lives.
"Dirck Volckertszen’s Long Island property was a true peninsula, being almost surrounded by tide water. Its frontage on the East River was almost one mile in length, and it had nearly equal frontage on the two Kills. The river front was bordered by rather high banks covered with wild cherry trees. In the rear of these the land became gradually higher and then sloped down to the rear meadows on Mespat Kill. The property was called Cherry Point by the people on Manhattan who delighted in its sight when the cherry trees were in bloom. Later, when the trees had disappeared and its grain fields came to be admired by the people on Manhattan Island, the property was named Green Point; and as Greenpoint it continued to be known long after it became the populous 17^th Ward of the City of Brooklyn.
"Dirck, his sons and grand-sons, cultivated their lands with the help of slave labor. Their surplus products were conveyed by barge and sold in the markets of New Amsterdam and New York. Following the permanent removal of two of the grand-sons to New Jersey, and of the third grand-son to another part of the town of Bushwick, their inherited lands were sold in 1718 to Capt. Peter Prass. …
"Students of the early pioneer and colonial periods have reached the opinion that Dirck Volckertszen must be considered to have been one of the three outstanding personalities in the history of the town of Boswyck; the others being Peter Jans De Witt, a contemporary, and Peter Prass of the following generation. This is probably an entirely just appraisal. If Dirck was less honored by selection for public service, than were De Witt and Prass, it is to be remembered that his residence in the township was limited to the last few years of his long life; whereas the others were residents from early manhood to old age.
"Dirck Volckertszen appears to have possessed some quality, personality of individualism, that caused his memory to survive long after other early settlers of Boswyck had been forgotten. It may have been his apparent urge to hoe his own row, without leading, or being too much led, that thus set him apart from his fellow settlers.
"The inhabitant of, and the present casual visitor to, the area will find little, to-day, to remind them that Dirck de Noorman was once its largest proprietor and a commanding figure. Norrmans Kill, the ital stream that bore his name until changed to Bushwick Creek and which his house continued to face for more than two hundred years, has been filled in and its meadows graded to develop McCarren Park; and industrial buildings have long since covered the site of dirck’s home plot. …
[Page 93.] "Since Dirck Volckertszen was married in New Amsterdam as early as about 1630, and the preserved baptismal records of the New Amsterdam Dutch Church begin about the middle of 1639, the birth dates of his children who were both during that period can be only roughly estimated.
"Issue.
"1 – Margaret (Grietje) (2) Dircks, born in New Amsterdam ca. 1632; d. ante April 1, 1671; m. 1^st. Jan Hermanszen Schut, d. ca. 1652; m. 2^nd. Sept. 22, 1652 Jan Nagel; m. 3^rd. Mar. 11, 1658 Barent Gerretszen. (Continued on p. 95)
"2 – Magdalena (2) Dircks, b. in New Amsterdam ca. 1636; m. 1^st. Cornelis Hendricks Van Dort, d. 1655; m. 2^nd. 1657 Harman Hendricks. (Continued on p. 98)
"3 – Rachel (2) Dircks, bp. N.A. D.Ch. [New Amsterdam Dutch Church] Sept. 8, 1641; m. Nov. 11, 1663 Jan Lequier. (Continued on p. 103)
"4 – Volckerts (2) Dircks, bp. N.A. D.Ch. Nov. 15, 1643; d. ca.1701. (Continued on p. 110)
"5 – Jacob (2) Dircks, baptism unrecorded; may have been born ca. 1646 … It would appear that Jacob left no issue; that he inherited only a ver small part of his father’s large estate; and died between 1687 and 1698."
[94] "6 – Adriantje (2) Dircks, bp. N.A. D.Ch. Aug. 21, 1650 … She married ca. 1675 Charles (Carel) Houseman …
"7 – Jannetje (2) Dircks, bp. N.A. D.Ch. Dec. 7, 1653, as Janneken … She married Oct. 7, 1674 Pieter Schamp (Pierre de Champs) (Continued on p. 106)
"8 – Sara (2) Dircks, born prob. Ca. 1638; m. ---? As, Sara Dircks de Noorman, she is recorded as the mother of a daughter, Sara, baptized at N.A. D.Ch. Dec. 21, 1659, with no sponsors. The absence of the father’s name in the record suggests it may have been a posthumous child. Sara must be definitely considered a child of Dirck Volckertszen, although she is not so named in the several conveyances of his Bushwick properties in 1677, nor is she otherwise found of record." [A handwritten note refers to page 100, where the following appears: "Alexander Rosenkranz, baptized April 13, 1659, New Amsterdam Dutch Church, with sponsors Barent Gerritszen (p. 95), and Sara Dircks identified as sister of the child’s mother and listed herein as No. 8 of Dirck Volckertszen’s issue on page 94."]

"The First American Mrs. Rosencrans," by David V. Bennett, in "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," vol. XC, January, April and July 1959.
+ "The read rub between Magdalena and her uncle Jan had to do with the estate of her grandmother, Ariaentje Cuvilje, who had died in May of that year [1655] possessed of the residuary estates of the wealthy Jan Jansen Damen, her childless second husband, who had died in June of 1650. The inventory of Damen’s holding is seventeen pages long. From Ariaentje, as his ‘sole heir,’ stem the titles to some of the most valuable land on earth, the Wall Street belt across lower Manhattan. The old lady was hardly in her grave before her four heirs-at-law – her son and, as their wives’ guardians, her three sons-in-law – were splitting hairs in the calculation of fourths. The church had to go to court to collect its fee for her burial.
"Of the three sons-in-law, Dirck Volckertsen ‘De Noorman,’ Magdalena’s father, was the ‘oldest stander’ in the community. He had come from Norway at some time before 1632, probably in the group of Northmen for which Secretary Isaac De Raisiere had applied to the West India Company in 1626 – Northmen who would know how to render pitch from the pines here. In 1632, Ariaentje Cuvilje, about the be married to Damen (the ‘Old Jan’ of the Manatus map of 1639), made the customary settlement with her children by her previous marriage, to Guleyn Vigne, promising each of her married children, Maria and Christina, 200 guilders from the estate of their father, ‘her lawful husband deceased,’ and promising each of her unmarried children, Jan and Rachel, 300 guilders plus their keep and schooling until of age. Dirck Volckertsen, Christina’s husband, put his mark to the agreement. Jan Roos of Haarlem, Maria’s husband, died without having done the saem, leaving a son, Gerrit Jansen Roos. Maria took a second husband, Abraham Verplanck of Edam, who had arrived America in 1634 with his cousin, Jacob Planck, the first commis (clerk) of Rensselaerswyck.
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"Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674," by John O. Evjen, 1916, pages 68-79.
+ "Dirck Holgersen, or Dirck Volckertsen Noorman, was from Norway. We do not know when he came to New Netherland. He was, however, one of its early settlers. The claim of J.H. Innes [Footnote: "J.H. Innes, New Amsterdam and Its People."] and others that Holgersen is the same person as Dirck Vockertsen, in Hoorn, who chartered a ship to carry on trade with New Netherland, is unfounded. Equally unfounded is the claim that he is the brother of the contemporary Cornelius Volckertsen, in New Amsterdam.
"The fact is that there was a Dirck Volckertsen and a Cornelius Volckertsen in Hoorn, who as early as 1614 had mercantile interests in the New World, but remained in the Old. There was also a Dirck ‘Volckertsen’ (Holgersen), and a Cornelius Volckertsen in New Amsterdam. These are not brothers: the sources do not indicate that they had any particular interests in common; that they either associated at the usual family gatherings or gave any other evidence of consanguineous relationship. Cornelius was probably Dutch, he was never called Cornelius Holgersen. Dirck [69] Volckertsen can be a Dutch name. (As early as 1522 a Dirck Volckertzoon Coornhert, known in the annals of theology, saw the light of day.) Dirck Holgersen was a Norwegian, as is indicated by the cognomen ‘Noorman,’ so frequently given to him in the sources, (Dirck = Hendrick or Didrick). Whenever he is called ‘Volckertsen,’ a corruption of ‘Holgersen’ is evident." Pages 68-69.
+ Concerning the knife fight with Jan Perie: "The case was begun in December, 1655. It concluded June 29, 1658, when Holgersen, who was then city carpenter, consented to pay the fine for wounding Jan Perie." [Footnote: Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, vol. I, page 190.] Page 75.
+ "After the cessation of the Indian troubles Dirck Holgersen appears to have removed to his farm at Norman’s Kill. For in a deed of October 17, 1661, ‘Dirck Volckers, of Bushwyck, as husband and guardian of Christina Vinge, daughter of the late Geleyn Vinge and Adriana Cuvilje,’ conveyed to Augustine Herman, ‘his certain fourth part of the inheritance and succession which belongs to him from his wife’s parents, except the eighth part of the fourth part of a little field to pasture cattle, situated on the Maadge Paadje, in the rear of Lysbet Tysen’ (Valentine, Manual of … the city of New York, 1865, p. 686f). [Footnote: Cf. New York Colonial Documents, vol. XIV., p. 511.]
"On March 24, 1662, some landowners of Bushwick, of whom Holgersen was one, petitioned those in authority to get a road made through their land at Bushwick.
"In April 1662, they petitioned the Director-General and Council to be excused from fencing in their lands, ‘especially as wood is growing scarce around there and hard to obtain, and the fences would cost a great deal.’
"It appears that Holgersen gave some of his land to the village of Bushwick. [Footnote: New York Colonial Documents, vol. XIV, pp. 523, 524.] He was a magistrate of the place in 1681, and ensign of the local militia in 1689. He was assessed there in 1675. But also the city of New York taxed him fl. 5, in 1677. In 1674 his name is found on a list of owners of houses and lots of the city of New Amsterdam. His property was classed in ‘fourth [78] class’ property, no value being given. [Footnote: Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1675-1776, 1905, vol. I, p. 50. Year Book of Holland Society, 1896, p. 167.] It was situated on the west side of the present Pearl St., between Franklin Square and Wall St., known at that time as Smith’s Valley." Pages 77-78.

"Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. II, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York," by Thomas G. Evans, 1901, reprinted by The Gregg Press in 1968.
+ Dirck Volkerstszen, son Volckets, baptized Nov. 15, 1643. Sponsors were Cornelis Tienhoven, Secretaris; Jans Janszen dam; Philip Graer; Marie Philips. Page 16.

"New Amsterdam and Its People," by J.H. Innes, New York, 1902.
+ "Claes Carstensen, together with Jans Forbus (usually spoken of as Jan de Swede), Pieter Jansen Noorman, Dirck Volckertsen and Jacob Haes, formed a little clique of Scandinavians, closely associated in various enterprises, and owners at an early date of a large portion of the lands embraced in the present Williamsburgh and Green Point in Brooklyn." Page 162.
+ From a survey of properties in New Amsterdam: "Next in an easterly direction beyond the grounds of Govert Loockermans, stood, upon the Shore Road, in the year 1655, a builting which appears to have been, as early as 1645, in the possession of Dirck Volckertsen, on the oldest settlers; was subsequently for a time the property and probably the residence of Govert Loockermans, and then became the tavern of Sergeant Daniel Litscho. As the records of Litscho’s transactions relating to his property at this place are very imperfect, we have to glean our information largely from detached references and other scraps of information, supplying something from conjecture. … At any rate, this house upon the Shore Road was in his occupation before 1648, in which year he was one of the twelve licensed tavern-keepers in New Amsterdam. His tavern seems to have been a good-sized building, for it is occasionally spoken of as ‘the great house,’ though this is perhaps only in comparison with a small one afterwards built to the east of it. It had at least a quarter of an acre of ground attached to it, with a frontage upon the river road of some seventy-five feet, and back of its garden were a few apple-trees, which were called its ‘orchard,’ and which about the time of our survey had been subject of great depredations by the vagrant goats of the town, which were permitted to feed on the vacant ‘outhoek’ of the Jan Damen farm, extending from this point to the city ‘Wall,’ upon the north line of the present Wall Street. The tavern seems to have stood a little distance back from the line of the street, and its site is in good part occupied by the present building No. 125 Pearl Street." [Footnotes on page 268: apple-trees – "In a deed, supposed to be of this property, from Dirck Volckertsen to Govert Aersen, in 1645, the vendor of the property reserves the right ‘to remove six apple-trees’"; No. 125 Pearl Street – " The property seems in part to have belonged originally to the tract granted to Tymen Jansen, and subsequently to have been controlled by Govert Loockermans. In 1644, this portion of the Tymen Jansen patent was apparently regranted by the Director and Council to Jan Damen. Dirck Volckertsen was the husband of Damen’s step-daughter, and, probably enough, had acquired an enlargement of his ground from his father-in-law."] Pages 267-268.
+ "At the date last named [1632], as we are informed by an instrument in the Albany records, of the four children of Willem Vinje and his wife, two were married, Maria (to Abraham Verplanck), and Christina (to Dirck Volckertsen), while two, Rachel and Jan, were ‘minors’: as both of the latter, however, were married within the next six years (Rachel to the Secretary Van Tienhoven), they must have been in the latter years of their minority in 1632, and the age of Jan Vinje, according to the Labadists, which would have been seventeen or eighteen at the time, is thus confirmed." Page 307.
+ From a survey of properties in New Amsterdam, concerning a house built by Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven in 1647: "Either in this house, or in the farmhouse on the hill, the Secretary and his family may have dwelt during the next five or six years, and in the immediate vicinity he seems to have taken some interest in establishing several of his relatives by marriage, for in the year 1649 he sold, to two of his brothers-in-law, Abraham Verplanck and Dirck Volckertsen, small plots of ground upon the Shore Road in the northeastern corner of his farm near the intersection of the present Pearl and Fulton streets, where, with one or two other persons, they built a small cluster of houses, of which some notice will be taken hereafter." Page 315.
+ "In the summer of 1649, the Secretary [Cornelis van Tienhoven] had sold three plots of ground upon the river road, and near the intersection of the modern Pearl and Fulton streets, to two of his brothers-in-law, Abraham Verplanck and Dirck Volckertsen, and to one Lambert Huybertsen. These plots contained nearly half an acre each, and extended back from the river road ot the high ground in their rear. Volckertsen soon subdivided his parcel, and sold to persons who built upon their plots, so that the previously isolated state of the Secretary’s farmhouse was somewhat relieved." Page 319.
+ From a survey of properties in New Amsterdam, concerning land along what became Pearl Street by 1902: [Page 321] "Closely adjoining the house of Lambert Huybertsen, in an easterly direction, and apparently upon the site of No. 255 Pearl Street, was the small house of Hage (sometimes called Hacke, and sometimes Auke) Bruynsen, a Swede, whom we find at New Amsterdam in the early part of 1653, when he married Anneken Jans, a Danish women from Holstein. In the fall of the same year he purchased a small slip of ground here from Dirck Volckertsen, and seems to have built upon it at once. … Next beyond the house of Hage Bruynsen stood, in 1655, the residence of Dirck Volckertsen, the brother-in-law of Secretary Van Tienhoven, - not his original house at this place, built upon his acquiring the land in 1649 from the Secretary, but a later one, which he appears to have built for himself about 1651, at which time he had sold his first house to Roeloff Teunissen. Dirck Volckertsen, at the time of our survey [the 1650s], was in the later years of his life, and was in all probability at this time, the earliest European settler living in the colony. In considering him, we are going back to the days of the blockhouse and trading-post, with which he must [322] have been familiar. In the year 1621 we find Dirck Volckertsen and Cornelis Volckertsen (who was in all probability his brother), together with certain other persons, presenting a petition to the States-General of the Netherlands, praying for permission to send a ship over to New Netherland, ‘with all sorts of permitted merchandise,’ and it was, in all probability, in pursuance of this design that the two Volckertsens came over to the colony. These men, at the period of their merchandise venture, were residents of Hoorn, on the peninsula of North Holland, but they appear to have been Danes, or Scandinavians by birth, and Dirck was closely associated in New Netherland with the Swedes and Norwegians in the colony. How the Volckertsens spent their earlier years in New Netherland we do not know. When they are first met with in the records of the colony, about 1644, Cornelis was residing upon the east side of the Heerewegh, or Broadway, upon a grant which he had obtained there a short time before, and through which the modern Exchange Place runs. Here he seems to have kept a tavern for a short time, but he died before 1650, in which year his widow married Jan Peeck, of whom previous mention has been made.
"Dirck at this time was living apparently in the house afterwards known as Sergeant Litscho’s tavern, upon the road along the East River, with which he owned a small plot of land. He married, before 1632, Christina, daughter of Guillaume Vigne, or Willem Vinje, and step-daughter of Jan Damen, but her does not appear to have been on the best of terms with his wife’s family, and especially with his step-father, Jan Damen. In 1645 he disposed of his place along the river road; but four years later, having obtained a grant of land from his brother-in-law, Secretary Van Tienhoven, at the place in the Smits Vly at which we have now arrived, [323] he built a house which must have stood upon the whole or a part of the site of the modern building, No. 259 Pearl Street.
"This, with one-half of his garden of ninety-two feet front, extending back something over two hundred feet to the hill upon which the farmhouse of his brother-in-law stood, he disposed of within a couple of years to a Swedish sea captain named Roeloff Teunissen, as above stated, and he then erected upon the site of the present building, No. 257 Pearl Street, the house which he occupied at the time of our survey.
"In 1645 Dirck Volckertsen received a patent for the lands along the East River, which form the modern Greenpoint; from the appellation of "The Norman" frequently given to him the kill on the south side of his grant, known in late times as the Bushwick Creek, was in the seventeenth century usually spoken of as the Norman’s Kill. Through this tract of land a long lane or wood road stretched up from the river through the forest to the spot where, in later years, the hamlet of Bushwick grew up. Volckertsen seems to have cultivated a portion of this tract, probably residing at his house in the Smits Vly, and like many of the other farmers along the shore, sailing to and from the scene of his agricultural labors, with his sons and work hands. In 1653 he conveyed to Jacob Haie, or Haes, who appears t have been the husband of his daughter, Christina, that portion of the tract lying north of the lane just mentioned, but Haes had hardly established himself here, when in the fall of 1655, his house was burned by the Indians, as has been already mentioned. After the cessation of the Indian troubles, Dirck Volckertsen appears to have removed to his farm at the Norman’s Kill, for in a deed of 1661 he describes himself as of ‘Bushwyk.’ The entire tract eventually came into the hands of the Meserole family, descendants of Dirck’s daughter Christina, who held it until recent years, and may still hold portions of it.
"The occupant of Dirck Volckertsen’s original house upon the parcel of ground in the Smits Vly, who was still his [324] neighbor at the time of our survey, was, as has been stated, one Roeloff Teunissen. …
"The remaining house in Secretary Van Tienhoven’s hamlet near ‘The Ferry’ was, in 1655, that of his brother-in-law, Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck. This stood in a large garden, of about ninety feet front by two hundred feet in depth, and its site is believed to be covered by the modern Fulton Street. Verplanck was one of the earliest colonists, and before 1632 had married Maria, the eldest daughter of Willem Vinje, and sister of Rachel, the Secretary’s wife, and of Christina, the wife of Dirck Volckertsen." Pages 321-324.

"Historic Green Point," by William L. Felter, 1919, pages 17-19.
+ "It was only a few years after the purchase from the Indians that a number of so-called Norman families, who were really Scandinavians, settled here. One of these families, headed by Dirck Volckertsen, better known as ‘Dirck the Norman,’ came into possession of the whole of Green Point. He was one of a small group of adventurous Scandinavians who early came to New Amsterdam and engaged successfully in the business enterprises of that period. Those were the days of smuggling, of rum drinking, of hardy sailors free in the use of their dirks, of gambling, of risk and adventure. The court records in [18] the case of Jan de Pree vs. Dirck the Norman, bring to light an amusing and instructive page in the life of that day. Dirck must have thrived on litigation, for his name often appears as complainant or defendant on the court minutes.
"The patent granting the ownership of Green Point to Dirck the Norman was dated April 3, 1645. He built the first house presumably the following year. It rested upon a knoll, about where Calyer street is laid out, and from one to two hundred feet west of the present line of Franklin street, only a few feet from the exact location where more than two hundred years later the Green Point Savings Bank began its successful career. The site of the home was evidently chose with care. The lawn sloped gently in front to Norman’s kill on the south, and gradually to the East River on the west. The house was of stone, one and a half stories in height, with dormer windows, built in quaint Dutch style with old Dutch doors, studded with glass eyes, and brass knockers. Eventually, the farm, orchard, and meadows became among the best of those of early days. It was Dirck the Norman who gave the name to Norman’s kill, a name that disappeared as applied to a body of water but reappeared in the name of Norman avenue.
"By trade Dirck the Norman was a ship carpenter, an occupation that for many years kept busy many men in Green Point. Originally Green Point was an agricultural community, but two centuries after the time of Dirck, ship building became its chief industry. … Dirck, however, did not follow his trade but devoted himself to agriculture with marked success. At his death [19] his sons inherited these lands and sold them in 1718. The family then scattered, some going to Brooklyn, others to New Jersey, but wherever they went they became men of affairs and influence."

"A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County," by Stephen M. Ostrander, 1894, page 100.
"On February 19 the Director, with the Fiscal, Nicasius de Sille, Secretary Van Ruyven, and the sworn surveyor, Jaques Corteleau, came to a spot between ‘Mispat (Maspeth) Kill,’ Newtown Creek, and ‘Norman’s Kill,’ Bushwick Creek, to ‘establish a village.’ Here a survey was made, and twenty house lots laid out." [Footnote: ‘Norman’s Kill’ – So named from Dirck Volckertsen, surnamed ‘the Norman,’ to whom was granted in 1645 land on the East River between Bushwick Creek and Newtown Creek, now within the seventeenth ward of the city of Brooklyn, and still known as Greenpoint. Volckertsen lived in a stone house on the northerly side of Bushwick Creek near the East River. The house was standing until after the middle of the present century."]