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- THE De GROOT
FAMILY.
THE De GROOT FAMILY, still numerous in Bergen and Hudson Counties,
are of Holland descent. William Pietersen de Groot came to America
in 1662, on board the ship "Hope," with his wife and
five children. They were from Amsterdam, Holland. Dirck Jansen
de Groot, a native of Rylevelt, in Holland, came to New Amsterdam
as a soldier in the Dutch service, on board the ship "Spotted
Cow," April 15, 1660, leaving behind him his wife, Grietie
Gerrets, and two children. In April, 1663, Dirck's brother, Staats
de Groot, who, the ship's register says, was a resident of Tricht,
Holland, came to America on the same ship which had brought over
his brother. Staats brought over with him his brother's wife
and children. Staats married, in 1664, Barbara Springsteen. Dirck
and his first wife, Wybrig Jans, resided in New Amsterdam until
1679, when they removed to Flatbush, L. I., where they remained
permanently. From Flatbush several of the children removed to
Hackensack in 1695-96. Staats first settled at Brooklyn, where
the assessment roll of 1675 showed him to be a taxpayer. He was
of a roving disposition. In 1678 he was living in Westchester
County, N. Y. He next turned up at Bergen, N. J., where, in June,
1678, his second daughter was baptized. While living at Bergen,
where many of his relatives lived, he became in 1686 one of the
Tappan patentees. He was at New Amsterdam in 1688, and probably
never located on his Tappan lands. He died between 1688 and 1704,
having deeded or willed his lands to his wife Barbara, who was
a daughter of Casparus Springsteen, of Groningen, Holland. His
children were Yoost, Neltje, Mary, and Geesie. Yoost settled
at Tappan and his descendants spread into Bergen County. The
descendants of Dirck and William Pietersen de Groot spread through
Bergen County from Bergen and Hackensack, where they settled.
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- Source: Genealogical
History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey, Editor,
Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing
Company, 1900, pages 162-163.
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