Arie Fransen DeLong - New Netherlands Connections

For quite some time I've subscribed to Dorothy Koenig's New Netherlands Connections. This is a 28 page newsletter concerning Dutch connections to New Netherlands, including New York City. It's published quarterly. The March 2005 edition concerns Ellener DeLong Winan, 3rd cousin 5 times removed. Also included is her ancestry.

I was unaware of what and where New Netherlands was so checked Wikipedia. "New Netherland was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylavania and Rhode Island. New Amsterdam was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on Upper New York Bay."

Though I have a generation earlier on record, Franciscus De Langet, the author of the article, John Baldwin begins with the son of Franciscus..Arie Fransen. He is my 7th great grandfather with several spellings of his name. In my files Arie is Arie Franssen De Langet. His name means "Adrian, son of Frans". "He first appears in New York in 1670 as a militiaman of Ulster County. About 1677 he married Rachel Jansen Pier, the daughter of Jan Teunissen Pier and his wife Maria Jans."

Arie may have been in New Netherland as early as 1659 arriving aboard the ship De Trouw (The Faith) from the Netherlands as 'Arent Franken from Jever'. "Jever is a town near the North Sea coast of Germany not too far from the Dutch border. Of interest is that there is a town called Lange about ten kilometers southeast of Jever. Could this be the source of Arie's surname occasionally spelled Langet or Langerth? Or did DeLong simply derive from his stature, since 'de lang' is Dutch for 'the tall'? Arie's children generally used the spelling DeLang for their surname; his grandchildren used DeLong." The writer seems to feel that Ari had children from an earlier wife.

He is last found in an Ulster County deed dated February 1694 as Ariann ffrance. After his death, Rachel married Albert Hendrickson Ploeg on April 17, 1699.

Jan (Johannes) DeLang is Arie's son...the sixth of ten children. "He was born about 1680 in Rochester, Ulster County, New York according to the record of his marriage at Kingston on Sept. 29, 1712 to Anna Magdalena Wyser, born in Germany, daughter of Joann Conrad Wyser/Weiser, Sr. and his first wife, Anna Uebele. Jan and Anna Magdalena crossed the Hudson from Ulster County to Dutchess County about 1716."

I'm going to continue this writing in the next blog. Genealogy is a great way to learn geography. Try it...you'll like it.