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  • Name Frederick Van Lieuwen 
    Born of Lieuwen, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5624  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Children 
     1. Jan Frederick Van Lieuwen,   b. From 1647 to 1648, of Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Catharina Van Lieuwen,   b. Abt 1648, of Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 16 Nov 1684 to 18 Feb 1690/1691, Amersfort, Kings, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years)
     3. Hendrick Van Lieuwen,   b. of Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2419  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES;
      1. The book, “A history of the Camfield family: with special emphasis on the descendants of John Freeman Camfield and Margaret Singleton Camfield…,” by Ernest Ross Camfield (Privately printed; 1999), “THE FAMILY OF VAN LIEUWEN AND ITS TIES WITH THE CAMFIELDS GENERATION,” p. 265:
      “Frederick Van Lieuwen immigrated to New Amsterdam in 1652; which as stated before in the Longstreet section was the year in which the Dutch Admiral, Van Tromp, sailed the English channel with a broom at his mast head, it was seven years after the appointment of Peter Stuyvesant to the Directorship of the new Province, and two years preceding the organization of the first religious congregation on Long Island. He was the first of all those interrelated families to come over. He preceded the Langestraets by five years and the Lanen Van Pelts by eleven years. Not much is known about Frederick Van Lieuwen. He came from Utrecht, having been probably a resident of Leuwen, which is a village in Gelderland, located on the Waal River. He brought his family with him and settled in the village of Jamaica, located on Long Island. He had a total of nine children, many of whose descendants are still in Somerset County, New Jersey. History does not record all their names, however we do know the following: (Sources: "EARLY SETTLERS OF KINGS COUNTY," Bergen, pages 343-344)
      CHILDREN:
      -Jan Frederick Van Lieuwen. Born: 1647-48 in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He married Aeitje Jans, daughter of Jan Jensen. He was on the assessment rolls of Brooklyn 1675-1693. He was a Deacon in the Reformed Dutch Church; he took the Oath of Allegiance in 1687 in Brooklyn. He had eight children all of who were baptized in the Kings County Reformed Dutch Church.
      -Catharina Van Lieuwen. Born about 1648
      -Hendrick Van Lieuwen”

      2. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), p. D-15:
      “… the first comers were the family of Van Lieuwen, in 1652, in the year when Van Tromp was parading the English Channel with his broom aloft, seven years after the appointment of Peter Stuyvesant to the Directorship of the Province, and two years before the organization of the first congregation on Long Island. Next came the Longstreets, in 1657, five years later, and two years after the building of the church at Flatbush. Then arrived the family of Lanen van Pelt, in 1666, the year before the English seizure of the province, and fourteen years before the organization of the church at New Utrecht.
      Although the family of Van Lieuwen preceded the Longstreets by five years, and the natural course of historical statement would therefore demand that account be first given of them, yet the logical arrangement of a genealogical narrative requires that the Longstreets be given precedence: they are the main branch, and any other course would beget confusion.
      By way of preliminary, a statement in respect to Dutch names is needed. They then made but little use of family names. Many of them had none. Even in the most formal and important documents men are frequently designated by their Christian names alone; and that, where they were possessed of patronymics. It was, however, the custom to add to a man's own Christian name that of his father. These peculiarities cause much trouble, in tracing genealogies. There is one drawback on this difficulty, however, which is that the name of a person, as written, usually gives the Christian name of his father; thus Stoffel Dircks, means Stoffel the son of Dirck; Thys Janse means Thys the son of Jan. The terminations used for this purpose were various, but principally these: s, z, es, se, ces, en, sz.”

      3. The book “Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with Its Related Families…,” by Edward Mayes (Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Rutland, VT; 1989?), p. D35-D36:
      “Frederick Van Lieuwen (or Van Liew, as it was sometimes spelled) immigrated to New Amsterdam in 1612; which, as remarked in connection with the first Longstreets, was the year in which the Dutch Admiral, Van Tromp, sailed the English Channel with a broom at his mast-head, was seven years after the appointment of Peter Stuyvesant to the Directorship of the Province, and two years before the organization of the first religious congregation on Long Island. He was the first of our related families to come over, preceding the Langestraets by five years, and the Lanen van Pelts by eleven years. Not much is known of him. He came from Utrecht, having been probably, at one period, a resident of Leuwen. a village in Gelderland, on the river Waal. He brought his family with him, and settled in the village of Jamaica, on Long Island. He had in all nine children, many of whose descendants are still to be found in Somerset Co., N. Jersey. Their names are not all known, but among them were the following:
      (1) Jan Fredericks. Jan Fredericks was probably the oldest child; born in Utrecht about 1647-48. He marred Aeltie Jans, daughter of Jan Jansen. Was on the assessment rolls of Brooklyn in the years 1675. '76, ’83, and '93; deacon in the Reformed Dutch Church there, in 1683; took the oath of allegiance, there, in 1687. Issue: Jan, bapt. Dec. 9. 1677; Margriet, bapt. Mar. 14, 1680; Abraham, bapt. July 9, 1682; Grietje, bapt. Apl. 20, 1685; Dina. bapt. Mar. 25, 1687; Esje, bapt. Nov. 10, 1689: Hendrick. bapt. Apt. 30, 1694: and Elizabeth, bapt. Dec. 13, 1697 -- All in the Kings County Churches.
      (2) Catharina, of whom next.
      (3) Hendrick. ___ Hendrick was baptised Oct. 14, 1683: married. 1st., ApI. 18, 1713, Geerje Corteiyou of New Utrecht (at which place he probably resided at one time); married, 2nd, Marya ___, and had by her a son, Jurien, who was bapt. Aug. 26, 1721, in New Utrecht.
      Catharine Van Lieuwen, wife of Dirck Langstraet, was one of the oldest children, probably the second. She was born about 1648-1650, and in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, in all probability must have married about 1669, as her family began to be born about 1670. We have no indication of the date of her death, further than this: that one of her sons was born about 1680, and her husband married a second time in February, 1690; so that she must have died between those dates. It was probably after 1685.”

      4. The book “Register in Alphabetical Order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y.; from its first settlement by Europeans to 1700; with contributions to their biographies and genealogies,” by Teunis G. Bergen (New York: S.W. Green's Son, 1881), pp. 343-44:
      “Van Liew or Lieuwen, Jan Fredericks, emigrated in 1652, as per his marriage record, from Utrecht, having been probably at one period a resident of Leuwen, a village in Gelderland, on the Waal, in the Netherlands; m. Aeltje Jans dau. of Jan Jansen. On ass. rolls of Bro of 1675, '76, '83 and '93; deacon in the R. D. ch. in 1683; and took the oath of allegiance in Bro in 1687. Issue: - Jan, bp. Dec. 9, 1677; Margriet, bp. Mar. 14, 1680; Abraham, bp. July 9, 1682; Grietje, bp. Apl. 20, 1685; Dina, bp. Mar. 25, 1687; Esje, bp. Nov. 10, 1689; Hendrick, bp. Apl. 30, 1694; and Elizabeth, bp. Dec, 13, 1697 - all in the Kings Co. churches. There was a Frederick Van Liew of Ja, L. I., who emigrated from Utrecht and had 9 children, many of whose descendants are to be found in Somerset Co., N. J., and whose s. Hendrick, bp. Oct. 14, 1683, m. 1st Apl. 18, 1713, Geertje Cortelyou of N. U. (at which place he probably at one period resided), m. 2d Marya ___, and had a s. Jeurien (by 2d w.) bp. Aug. 26, 1721, in N. U.
      Abbreviations: Bro. = Brooklyn; Flds = Flatlands; N.U. = New Utrecht; D. ch = Dutch Church; N.A. = New Amsterdam; cen = census; Gd = Gravesend; Flh = Flatbush; Ja = Jamaica.”