Aeltje Dirkse Smit

"After her husband's death, Anneken made arrangements to take her little daughter(Aeltje) back to Patria. She sailed on "De Trouw," in July, 1661. Having attended to some interests of her own, in Holland, and having collected the back pay due from the Company to her late husband, she returned to New Amsterdam, and married Abel Hardenbroeck, before December, 1662." -Min. of Orph. Court, I: 225. The orphan-masters required her and her new husband to hypothecate their properties in New Amsterdam as security for the girl's inheritance of 1,700 guilders.-Ibid., I: 231.

~• page 234 of I.N.Phelps-Stokes' Castello Plan Notes