Rev. Gideon Schaats

He was a schoolteacher at the Hauge and later at Brielle from 1626 where he was tutor to the children of Count de Treslong.

His wife Agnietje was governess of the Counts daughters.

Later he opened a small school in Beest, County of Buren.

He is buried under the floor of the church in Leerdam

http://genforum.genealogy.com/scates/messages/6.html: Dom Gideon SCHAETS, b. 1607, Leerdam, South Holland; d. Feb 27, 1694, buried under the floor of the church; m1. Nov 5, 1634, Agnietje Moens/ Moriaens (b. 1610, d. 1666). Her family had been in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy for generations, and were high government officials at The Hague. However upon the ascension of Philip II, they joined the Reformation forces. He was a schoolteacher and tutor at the Hague and later at Brielle, where he had moved (1626) to tutor the children of Captain (Count) de Treslong, appointed military governor at Brielle, an heir and relative of the Countess of Buren. There he met Agnietje, Gouverness of the Count's daughters, at the governor's house, and there they were married. They later moved to Beesd/Beest, County of Buren where he opened a small school, which he kept for 12 years. He was educated by his father, then by the learned theologian, and later university professor, Gisbertus Voltias.

for an account of his troubles in Rensellaerwyck see his dau. Anneken's profile. Evidently he had a posting as a Domine there.

Schaats, Domine Gideon, became the second minister of the church in Beverwyck, in 1652. Having become incapacitated by age to perform the duties of his office Demine Dellius became his coadjutor in 1683. He died in 1690 in his 83d year. On the 22d of August, 1683, he married widow Barentje Hendrickse in New York, he being then 75 years old; she d. in 1688. Three of his children reached mature age; Reynier, the eldest son; Anneke, who married Thomas Davidtse Kikebell, of New York, which whom she had some disagreements which were finally amicably arranged; and Bartholomeus who passed over to Holland, in 1670 and on his return settled in New York as a silversmith. According to the church records, he, with Catalyntje Schaats, [perhaps his wife] abiit cum testimonio Neo Eboraca in 1706. He is said to have died about 1720, leaving a son Reynier from whom are descended all of the name now in this country. O'Callaghan's Hist. of N. Netherland. He had a daughter Antje, bp. in N.Y. Feb. 27, 1715. [Bartholomeus Schaats m. Jacoba Kierstede, widow, in N.Y., April 21, 1734].