Marten's children were born in New Netherlands. He was a French Huguenot -------------------- See Wikipedia Captain Martin Cregier came to New amsterdam for the West India Company. He was a soldier, a trader and had one of the three taverns across from the Villiage Green on Heerenstraat (Broadway) as early as 1647. in 1653 he was made one of the first two Burgomasters of New Amsterdam. He was Burgomaster again i n 1660 and 1663. His 1663 tenure was interrupted when he took a company of solders after the Indian party that has massacred settlers at what is now Kingston NY. He wrote of that expedition in his Journal.