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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE FLIERBOOM FAMILY.
THE FLIERBOOM FAMILY.-The first American ancestor of the Flierboom
and Vlierboom families was Mattys Flierboom, a Hollander, who
emigrated to America somewhere about 1660 and settled at New
Orange (Albany), where he became a man of note, rising to the
dignities and honors of a judge of the courts at Albany. There
he reared a family of five children: Caroline, Wellempie, Maritie,
Servaes, and Jacob, and perhaps others. About 1692 the family
removed to New Amsterdam, where Wellempie married in 1693 Cornelius
Eckerson. Caroline, in 1693, married Cornelius Janus Haring.
Maritie married in 1694 Rynler Reyserick. Servaes, in 1697,
married Gertrude Lesting. Jacob married in 1699 Maritie Peters
Haring. All these, except Servaes, became residents of Bergen
County. Jacob, at the division of the Tappan patent, bought
a large farm at what is now Rivervale, in Washington Township.
He owned other lands there. His issue were Mary, Matthew, John,
Abram, Rynier, Jannetie, James, and Jannetie. All of these except
Matthew were baptized at Tappan. Jacob's children (a large family)
located west of the Hackensack on lands bought of John McEvers,
and their descendants are scattered over Bergen County, some
having taken the name of "Freeborn."
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 164.
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