Domine Samuel Drisius

Rev. Samuel Drisius arrived in New Amsterdam in 1652, coming from Leiden (NL). He came to become the assistant pastor of the Reformed Church.

marriage to GREVENRAET

1659 14 Feb; Samuel Drysius, Predict. tot N. Amsterdam; Lysbeth Grevenraedt, wid Elbert Elbertszen Glasern
Having remained unmarried until he reached the mature age of forty-seven, Drisius appropriately secured a license on St. Valentine's Day, 1659 (Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 23) to wed Lysbeth Grevenraedt, widow of Elbert Elbertsen, who, "in trying to board the ship Bontekoe [Spotted Cow], was drowned in the North River," in 1655.-Min. of Orph. Court, I; 2.