Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyke was born in the Netherlands in 1604. He emigrated in 1634. He died in New York in 1676. His descendants lived in New York and many now live in Canada.
Cornelis was born in Utrect, Netherlands in 1604 and died in New York in 1676. His descendants lived in New York and many now live in Canada. Includes Van Slyke and related families.
In 1634 the Dutchman Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyke set out on a perilous journey to New Netherland (present day New York). He was a thirty year old carpenter and mason whose skills were desirable in the new colony. Little did he know that a lifetime of adventure and hardship awaited him. Within a few years after his arrival in the New World he would meet a French-Mohawk woman named Ots-Toch. Together they carved out a life in the wilderness, raising three children who became valued interpreters for the Dutch, British, and Iroquois. This is the story of Cornelis and Ots-Toch, and of Ots-Toch's father Jacques Hertel, interpreter in New France (present day Quebec) to Samuel de Champlain, the Father of Canada. This book also follows the descendants of Cornelis and Ots-Toch to 5 generations.
Cornelis Anthonissen Van Slyck was born in Breuckelen, Netherlands in 1604. He emigrated in 1634 and settled in New York. He married Otstoch in about 1835 in Canajoharie, New York and they had five children. He died in 1676. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New York.
Settlement in New Netherland (New York) did not begin until Fort Orange (Albany) was built in 1621. Willem Pieterse Van Slyke sailed from Holland to the New World in 1660 on De Trouw. His uncle Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyke had settled in New Netherland in 1634. This book follows Willem Pieterse and his descendants down 5 generations. It is fully sourced with footnotes. It also reveals for the first time, the origins of Willem and his uncle Cornelis in Breuckelen in the Netherlands.