Peter Santomee

• manumitted slave: see I.N. Phelps-Stokes page 75 for land grant by Kieft... He had the south end of the old Wouter Van Twiller grant... along with other former slaves

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• http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/7313/5067/3659/6.2.pdf search on " Santome "

Santomee/Santome is mentioned in Black & White in Manhattan Thelma Wills Foote (2004) Oxford ISBN 0-19-508809-3 0-19-516357-3 (PBK.)

one citation: "..“in 1683, some free black landowners sold their land holdings on Manhattan Island to white settlers-for example the Tucker, Dyckman, Bleeker, and Hertzing families148 – departed the island with the outmigration of some colonial Netherlanders and settled in Brooklyn, New Utrecht, and New Jersey. Through the practice of intermarriage, godparenting, and the adoption of orphans from their free-black community, the remaining black landowners on Manhattan Island managed to transmit their land to their heirs, who held on o the landholdings until the 1710s and 1720s. At the time of his death in 1694, Salomon Pet

There is an early baptism: 1643 Mar 01; Pieter Portugies-Neger; Elisabeth; Sebastiaen-Neger, Pallas-Negrinne Van Angola for whom we don't have a profile on Geni. Might this Pieter be Peter Santome?