Leentje De Duistscher

Leentje was first married to Jochem Pieterzen (Kuyter). Kuyter was slain by the Indians March 1654.

She was massacred by Indians 15 Sep 1655.

Kuyter was married to Lentie Martens, who possibly was a sister of his friend, Jonas Bronck. As Bronck's full name appears to have been Johannes or Jonas Martensen Bronck, his father's name was Marten or Morten; hence the daughter's surname would be Martens.*

On April 24, 1654,

"Leyntie Martens, widow of Jochem Pr. Kuyter, late elder and schepen of New Amsterdam, confers powers of attorney upon Govert Loockermans, merchant, and Dirck Van Schelluyne, notary public, especially for the purpose of representing her in settling affairs regarding lands named Segendael with ... Stuyvesant ..., Roodenborch, Cornelis Potter, as per contract dated Sept. 23, 1651. Witness Arent Van Hattem, Burgomaster, and Paulus Leendersz Van Die Grift, schepen." (Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, 1900, p. 178.)

Lentie Martens did not long remain a widow. On December 18, 1654, she was married to Willem Jansen, from Gelderland, the superintendent of the Harlem plantation. But during the outbreak in the fall of 1655, she too was killed by the Indians. She was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. Kuyter left no children.

For obvious reasons having to do with the dates of her second husband's children, Leyntje cannot be the mother of the two children. These boys were born in Gelderland while Leytje was in the wilds of New Netherland married to he first husband

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Mrs. De Duistscher was born from 1613 to 1614, in Heerde, Gelderland, Netherlands. She married Wilhelm Janszen Van Heerden de Duyster about 1634, in Heerde, Gelderland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died before December 1654, at the age of 41.