Pieter Abrahamszen van Deursen

"PIETER ABRAHAMSZEN VAN DEURSEN, son of Abraham Pietersen Van Deursen and Tryntje Melchiors of New Amsterdam; bp March 23, 1642 at N.A. where he m Oct. 10, 1666, HESTER WEBBERS, 'j.d. Van Amsterdam,' b at N.A. in 1648, dau of Wolfert Webber and Anike Coos of Holland (m 1641), and sister of Wolfert Webber, who kept a tavern on the road to Harlem about the year 1650. She was also a niece of Henricus Selyns, minister of the Dutch Church at New York from 1682 to 1701, and by his will, dated April 22, 1703, proved April 1, 1706, was left '200 gilders with all the apparel of made cloths belonging to my body, of Silk, Linnen, and Wollen.'

In 1686 Pieter Van Deursen was living on the west side of Broad Street, New York, and was by occupation a cooper."

Van Deursen family, Volume 1

by Albert Harrison Van Deusen

page 11

His Baptism was at the Dutch Reformed Church. Sponsors were Everardus Bogardus, Olof Stephenson Van Courtlant, Jan Janszen Darn, and Maritje Teunis.

baptism

1642 Mar 23; Abraham Pieterz; Pieter; Everardus Bogardus, Olof Stephenszen Van Courtland, Jan Janszen dam, Marritje Teunis