Dirck (Claeszen) Claessen, Jr.

second marriage banns DRC New amsterdam

1663 20 Oct; Dirck Claeszen, wid Weyntie Roelofs, Pottebacker; Anneken Dircks, wid Evert Janszen

• * Johannes Dyckman, b. 1662; m. Jannetie Viele, dau. of Cornelis Cornelisen Viele and Suster, his wife, of Schenectady, the latter supposed to have been a Mohawk Indian woman. On 10 April, 1676, his mother bound him out to Major Abram Staats (Notary Papers, vol. I, p. 556). He was son of Johannes Dyckman and Maria Bosyns. Johannes Dyckman had been "first clerk" to the West India Company, he came out in 1651 and served as clerk and commissary at Fort Orange of Albany, but in 1655 was laid aside by insanity (Riker's History of Harlem, p. 545). He d. in Sept., 1672, and his wife, Maria Bosyns, in 1676. They had two children, Cornelis, b. 1647, who m. Jannetie, dau. of Dirck Claessen Pottbacker and Wyntie Roeloffs, and became the ancestor of the Bloomingdale branch of the family, and Johannes, b. 1662. Johannes was son of Joris Dyckman and Aeltie Poulus Root of Amsterdam, Holland.

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