DE VERGULDE OTTER (The Gilded Otter)

New Netherland Ships Passenger Lists Project

I've started reconstructing ships' passenger lists from various source (see below for details) and will be providing these lists online as I complete them. In some cases, I've been able to reconstruct names for a ship list that has never been published before! In other cases, I've been able to add names to previously published lists. This is an Olive Tree exclusive. This is a huge project, one I am working on alone, and I will complete it as time permits. If you would like to help Olive Tree bring such databases to the Internet for all to use FREELY, please read about the two ways you can help. With a little expenditure of time or money on your part, you can help make this project (and others) a reality. Lorine's Research Notes With Sources: I reconstructed the names of those sailing on various ships from the following sources. Please note that not every source was used to reconstruct every ship. I have indicated which sources were used for each individual: Abstracts from Notarial Documents in the Amsterdam Archives by Pim Nieuwenhuis published in New Netherland Connections in series Vol. 4:3,4; Vol. 5:1-3 (hereafter NNC) Early Immigrants to New Netherland 1657-1664 from The Documentary History of New York (hereafter EINN) Settlers of Rensselaerswyck 1630-1658 in Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (hereafter VRB) E. B. O'Callaghan's Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany NY (hereafter CHM) New World Immigrants: List of Passengers 1654 to 1664 edited by Michael Tepper (hereafter NWI) Emigrants to New Netherland by Rosalie Fellows Bailey, , NYGBR; vol 94 no 4 pp 193-200 (hereafter ENN) De Scheepvaart en handel van de Nederlandse Republiek op Nieuw-Nederland 1609-1675 unpublished thesis by Jaap Jacobs [hereafter JJ][Olive Tree Genealogy database] The records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 [hereafter RNA] [an online book from Ancestry.com]

Sailed from Amsterdam after 22 December 1657, with Capt. Jan Jansen Bestevaeer, arrvied Amsterdam before 18 March 1657

• Claes Pouwelsen, mason, from Ditmarsen [NWI]
• Jan Jansen Van Den Bos, mason, and his brother, 13 years old [MWI]

Soldiers listed as about to embark for New Netherland in the ship Otter on 27 Apr. 1660 [It is believed Otter and the Gilded Otter were the same vessel]:

• Jan VRESEN, Adelborst [cadet] from Hamburg, wife and 2 children, 11 and 9 yrs old
• Jacob LEYSELER, from Franckfort
• Coenraet LOCKER, from Nurenbergh.
• Daniel LENGELGRAAFF, from Amsterdam
• Thomas VORST, from Bremen
• Harmen HELLINGH, from Reeda
• Gysbert DIRCKSEN, from De Schans te Vooren [near Voorne?]
• Teunis WARTEN, from Gorcum ~ assigns two month's wages per year to his wife
• Wybreg HARMANSZ, of ~~~~~~
• Ferdinandus WILLAYS, from Cortyrck
• Reiner CORNELIS, from Utrecht, to be discharged whenever he requests it, to follow his trade
• Joost KOCHUIJT, from Brugge
• Jan VAECX, from Nieustad
• Jan RIET, from Bon
• Jan CLASEN, from Out-Seventeer
• Paulus METTERMANS, from Leuven.
• Pieter TEUNIS, from Flensburg

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