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Laurens Pietersen

Also Known As: "The Noorman", "Laurens", "Laurits", "Laurens de Noorman", "Laurens Pieterszen de Noorman"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norge (Norway)
Death: circa 1664 (39-56)
Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland
Place of Burial: Bushwick, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States of America
Immediate Family:

Son of Pieter Jansen Pietersen and Elizabeth Jans Woertman, @
Husband of Annetje Pieters
Father of Sytie Laurens Ridder and Engeltje Emans

Managed by: Martin Severin Eriksen
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About Laurens de Noorman

   * Born c1620, Tonsburg, Norway

* Died: after 1664
* Married: Engiltie Pieterse, 18 August 1641, New Amsterdam
* Father:
* Mother:
Engiltie Pieterse:

   * Born: Bruchsteen, Germany

* Died:
* Father:
* Mother:
Children:

1. Sijtie Laurens

   * b. c1642

* m. Barent Joosten Ridder
2. Engeltie Louwerens

   * b. c1646, New Amsterdam

* d. after 1715
* m. (1) Jan Van Cleef, before 10 March 1660/61
* m. (2) John Emans, March 1700/1701, Gravesend RDC
NOTES: Called Laurens the Noorman. Ledley puts the marriage at 1641. Jeff Snedeker places the marriage in 1642; Snedeker, "The Men Who Fought the Manhattan Indian War: Part II, The Roster," New Netherland Connections, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1999). Snedeker places the birth of Sytie at 1 June 1642, with Laurens Pietersz marrying a second time, 18 August 1642, to Annetie Pieters. Also see Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674.

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bstevens/VanCleef.html#anch...

in New Amsterdam

as early as 1639. On June 16th of that year, he was declared sole heir to the property of Roelof Roeloffsen. ••• Laurens married a woman from Germany named Annetje Pieters on August 18, 1641 in New Amsterdam. They had two daughters, Sytie born in 1642, and Engeltie born in 1646. On March 12, 1647, Laurens obtained a lot in Manhattan on the south side of Prince Street and about 50 feet from Broad Street. The house he built was the first one on Prince Street. On March 22, 1651, he purchased a plantation on the west side of Mespeth Kill, Long Island, “opposite to Richard Brudenel.”

Laurens' name appeared as sponsor for baptisms of several Norwegians in New Amsterdam from 1641 to 1663.

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1494. Laurens Pietersen, born 1616 in Tonsberg, Norway; died 1665 in Bushwick, NY. He married 1495. Annette Pieters August 18, 1641 in New Amsterdam,NY.

1495. Annette Pieters, born 1620 in Germany; died 1660 in Bushwick, NY. She was the daughter of 2990. Cornelius Guertse De Cruuff and 2991. Alerfghen Cornelisdr.

Children of Laurens Pietersen and Annette Pieters are:

747 i. Sijtje Laurense Pietersen, born 1642 in New Amsterdam,NY; married Barent Joosten Ridder.

ii. Jan Laurense Pietersen, born March 23, 1641/42 in New Amsterdam.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hill/ancestorsofm...

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PIETERSEN, Laurens

   * Born: Abt 1616, Tonsbergen, , Norway

* Married: 1641, Gravesend, Kings, New York, United States
Marriage Information:
Laurens married ANNETIE in 1641 in Gravesend, Kings, New York, United States. (ANNETIE was born about 1620 in Norway.)
LAURENS, Sytje

   * Born: 1642, New Amsterdam, Kings, New York, United States

* Married: 7 Dec 1658, New York, Kings, New York, United States
Marriage Information:
Sytje married Barent Joosten RIDDER on 7 Dec 1658 in New York, Kings, New York, United States. (Barent Joosten RIDDER was born in 1638 in Emberland, Netherlands and died after 1698.)
http://members.fortunecity.com/mahmoud/3318.htm

http://members.fortunecity.com/mahmoud/4040.htm

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RECORD:

1. Paul J.. Vandeventer, Van Deventer Family 1550 - 1977, The, 1978 McClain Printing Co. Parsons, W. Va.(Cristobelle Van Deventer 1949 E. W. Stephens Co. Columbia, Mo.], pg. 206, Paul J. Vandeventer, Kerens, W. Va. 26276. "Laurens Pietersen from Tonsbergen in Norway and his second wife Annatie, who had taken up his residence in Gravesend.. He had been spoken of some years before as of good report amongest the English in and near New Amsterdam."

sources

Scandinavian immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, K.C. Holter, 1916

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Laurens de Noorman's Timeline

1616
1616
Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norge (Norway)
1642
June 1, 1642
Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland
1647
September 29, 1647
Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland
1664
1664
Age 48
Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland
1965
June 10, 1965
Age 48
July 30, 1965
Age 48
December 15, 1965
Age 48
????
Tonsburg, Norway
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Tonsbergen (Noorwegen)