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Vergulde Bever

Amsterdam, Netherlands to New Amsterdam

Sailed 17 May 1658
Arrived July 1658
Captain: Jan Reyersz van der Betts

There is no sworn statement and no captain's name.
The Gilded Beaver (Vergulde Bever) sailed from Amsterdam May 17, 1658 under Captain Jan Reyersz van der Betts arriving at New Amsterdam July 1658.
 1   Adriaen van Laer from Amsterdam - and servant
 2   Andries vander Sluys' wife - clerk in Fort Orange (Van der Sluys)
 3   child van der Sluys
 4   Anthony de Mil (de Mis) from Haerlem
 5   Mrs. de Mil
 6   child de Mil (4 years)
 7   Baby de Mil (nursing child)
 8   Charel Fonteyn - a Frenchman,
 9   Mrs. Fonteyn
10   Cornelis Andriessen Hoogland(t) - tailor
11   Cornelis Barentsen Van de Kuyl (Van der Kuyl) [see note at ship De Beer]
12   Cornelis Hendricksen van Ens
13   Gerrit Gerritsen van Gilthuys (from Gitlthuys), tailor
14   Jan Barentsen - house carpenter, and workman
15   Jan Evertsen, from Loockeren (Gloockens)
     Fare paid for by Coentraet Ten Eyck, shoemaker
16   Jan Gerretsen Buytenhuys - baker
17   Mrs. Gerretsen
18   Baby Gerretsen (nursing child)
19   Jan Gouwenberch(Gouwenbergh) from Hoorn
20   Jan Jansen - house carpenter
21   Mrs. Jansen
22*  Maria Jansen
23*  Magdalena Jansen
24*  Ariaen Jansen
25*  Sophia Jansen
26*  Christina Jansen
27   Jaques Cousseau
28   Madeleine du Tulliere (wife of # 27)
29   Peter Claessen (Pieter Klaesen) from Holstein - farmer
30   Mrs. Claessen
31   Child Claessen (3/4 years)
32   Child Claessen (6 years)
33   Peter Van Alen (Halen) from Utrecht
34   Mrs. van Alen
35   Child van Alen (1 year old)
36   Child van Alen (3 years)
37   Boy with the van Alens
     (Ancestor of the Van Alen families of Albany and Kinderhook.)
38   Simon Bouche
     Fare paid for by Jaques Cousseau
39   Tryntje Pieters, maiden
40   Willem van Vredenburch (Van Vreden Bergh)
For more information of the passengers aboard this ship, please visit Immigrants to New Netherlands
Transcribed by Alice M (Stansfield) Herzberg a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
30 July 2008


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