Source: The Von Nieuwkirk, Nieukirk, Newkirk Family by Adamson Benytley Newkirk, from Speical Number of Publications of the GEoealogical Soceity fo Pennsylvannia (March 1934) 1- 105; Additions by William J Hoffman: Vol XIII 1-2 (Oct 1938) 122-126

[Dr newkirk's alignment of familes had been adhered to throughout this compilaiton; his spellings of proper names usually so. Familes not herein carried forward will, in many instances, be found mord fully treated of in the Collections which bear his name in the GEnealogical Society of Pennsylvania.]

Some descendeants of Gerret Cornelisse and Mattheus Cornelisse Van Nieuwkirk

from the Manusrcipt of the Late Adamson Bentley Newkirk, MD or Los Angeles, Ca

In the collection of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

The name Newkirk is not commong in the United States; yet aside from the members of the family to be traced in the following pages, there are others found throughout the country.

The list of Palantines remaining in New York in 1710 contained the entry "Johan Henrick Newkirk, 36; Anna Maria 33; Johannes 11; John Henrick, ded." The descendents of this family mainly reside in Orange and Ulster Counties, New York; but are to be found in many parts of the United States and Canada. Johannes, or John, son of John Henry or Johan Henrick, had eelven children, became failry wealthy for his time and died, according to the probate of his will, at WAllkill in 1777.

In 1738 a German named Hendrick Nikerick [Hendrick Nikerick, aged 32 in ship Nancy, William Wallace, master, qualified September 20, 1738 - Pennsylvania ARchives, Second Serices, Vol xvii, 164] arrived at Philadelphia and settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. His descendants are numerous. Those remaining about Reading, Pennsylvaia, assumed the name Newkirk, while those in Washington County, Maryland took that of Niekirk. Descendants of the latter are to be found at Republic, Ohio or as having migrated therefrom.

There have been Newkirk arrivals from Holland in recent years, with the prefix van; others iwthout it. Also a number of Germans named Newkerchen, who have adopted the form Newkirk.

this brief explanation will suffice to show that all Newkirks found in the United States are not tracable to t he same progenitor.

Cornelisse Van Niuewkirk, some time resident of Slichtenhorst in Gelderland, Holland was the father of two sons who sailed on the Dutch ship Moseman for New Netherland, 25 April 1659. A diligent serach for futher information concnering him has not yet been productive.

[Slichtenhorst, a small district south of the city of Nijkerk, where many of the estates, or farms, belonged originally to the Adelijk Juffronwen-Stift (convent for ladies of noble birth), at Hoch-Elten, Germany, near the Dutch frontier.

As articles in teh New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, for January 1934, by Richard Schermerhorn, Jr entitled REPRESENTATIVE PIONEEER SETTLERS OF NEW NETHERLAND AND THEIR ORIGINAL HOME PLACES, gives five settlers as from Nykerck, Gelderland; one from Nieuenkerk, Zeeland, and one from Niewkerk, Rhine Province. Among the best known settlers from Nykerck (Nijkerk) was Brant Aertz van Schlichtenhorst whose name derived from the district about five miles to the southward - Cf. an Armory of Amerian Familes of Dutch Descent, by William J Hofman, ME, in the foregoing publication, July 1933 pp 22 et seq

Another article in the same publication for April 193, NOTES ON OLD DUTCH-AMERICAN FAMILES, by William J Hoffman, ME, draws attention to the inestimable value of the Dutch patrinomic to students of Dutch Geneaology, and calls for careful reading -0 Ed -------------------- Mattheus Cornelisse Van Nieuwkerk

Sex: M

Birth: ABT 1600 in Holland

Father: Aerdt "KIl Herman" Gerrits b: ABT 1575 in Arokemehen

Mother: Elbertgen Woltersand

Marriage 1 Bijtie Gerrits b: in Putten, Holland, Netherland

Married: 9 NOV 1630 in Putten, Gerlderland, Holland

Children

Gerret Cornelisse Van Nieuwkerk b: 1631 in Putten, Gerldeldand, Holland

Matteus" Cornelis Hermans" Van Nieuwkerk b: ABT 1642 in Putten, Gelderland, Holland