Manuel de Gerrit de Reus, "swager van Angola"

modern page about his life

http://newamsterdamhistorycenter.org/2018/02/12/from-slavery-to-fre...

related individuals

Van Angola, Emanuel Swager (Swager = brother-in-law) Emanuel Swager Van Angola ---children of Emanuel Swager Van Angola

1• Dominicus, bp. 27 Jan 1641 NYC Ref Ch (wit: Francisco, neger; Grache, negrinne) (father’s name in bp. record: Emanuel Swarger; no mother’s name in bp. record); apparently d.y.

2 • Barber, bp. 28 Sep 1642 NYC Ref Ch (wit: Andries Van Angola, Marie Van Angola, ; Van Anthony Fernando) (father’s name in bp. record: Emanuel Swager, Van Angola; no mother’s name in bp, record)

3• Elisabeth, bp. 28 Oct 1644 NYC Ref Ch (wit: Francisco, Neger, Lucretie d’Angola, Negrinne) (father’s name in bp., record: Emanuel Swager, van Angola; no mother’s name in bp. record)

4• Dominicus, bp. 16 Feb 1648 NYC Ref Ch (wit: Franciscus, Neger, Pallas, Negrinne) (no mother’s name in bp. record; father was Emanuel, Swager Van Angola)

5• (poss?) Simon, bp. 22 Aug 1649 NYC Ref Ch (wit: Anthony en Susanna) (no mother’s name in bp. record; father was Emanuel Neger) The text is as follows: " • 1649 Aug 22; Emanuel Neger; Simon; Anthony and Susanna" This is inconclusive.

---Sources: Baptisms in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York [City], 1901 (Collections of the NY Genealogical & Biographical Society, Vol. III)

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• granted land by Peter Stuyvesant (citation needed... Perhaps it was Kieft?)

• convicted by lot for killing Jan Primero; reprieve came after the rope for two nooses broke