Leendert Arentszen de Grauw

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....................................................................... Note: Leendert arrived in New Amsterdam on the ship "Dolphin" in 1638.

• Leendert Arentsen De Grauw
• father - Arent De Grauw
• mother - unknown
• born - ca.1585
• died - before 24 Mar 1664
• married - Madeleine 'Leuntje' Alberts Leydecker

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They arrived in Fort Amsterdam, NY, 1638 on the ship Den Dolphyn, which left Holland in September 1637.

The De Grays or De Graws. Family tradition relates that the De Grays were of French origin, migrated to Scotland, thence to Holland, and so to America. It is not unlikely that the tradition is an attempt to explain the derivation of the name, which at first sight has a French aspect. However, it is simply a partial translation of the earlier Dutch ioiia^de Graauw, "the Gray,'" the prefix being the Dutch for "the," and not the French for "of." The name may have been given originally on account of some distinguishing personal peculiarity. The common ancestor in this country doubtless was Leendert Arentse (Leonard, son of Aaron ), who came to New Netherland from Holland in the early part of the year 1638, in the ship Dolphin, after a stormy voyage, of which he retained a vividly-unfavorable recollection.

1 We have no account of the family he brought over with him, but no time was lost by him in binding out one of his sons in the service of Jan Jansen Damen—a service so distasteful to the lad that he promptly ran away, so that his father was sued (May 27, 1638) for breach of the indentures, and threatened with punishment if he did not send the boy back.

2 Director-General William Kieft leased to Leendert, May 18, 1639, Bowery No. 3, on Manhattan Island, formerly occupied by Peter Bylevelt, and on Oct. 19, 1645, he received a patent for 39 morgens of land, comprehending this farm, which in 1663 was sold to Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, and was thereafter known as Stuyvesant's Bowery,

3 and gave its name to the famous thoroughfare in New York. Having been bequeathed a legacy in Holland, he gave a power of attorney to Claesen Lydecker, Sept. 12, 1648, to collect it for him.

4 He probably died in 1664, prior to March 24 of that year.

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