Casper SPRINGSTEEN did not make it to the New World, but his three sons and their widowed mother did. The three sons were Johannes (or Jan) Casperse, Joost Casperse and Melchior Casperse. In 1660, the three were among twenty-two men selected by Director General Stuyvesant to establish the new settlement on Long Island which would become known as Bushwick. Prior attempts at colonization had been destroyed by the Indians in 1643 and 1655. -------------------- Came to New Amsterdam from Groningen in 1652 with wife Theuntje Jerriaens and two or more children. They settled in Bushwyck where he and his wife were still living in 1694.