Alternate birth information (from Wikitree): Lea Willemijn, daughter of Raphael Willemijn and Lea Dircx Willmijn, aka "Lydia Willems," was baptized on 30 Mar 1636 at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

New Amsterdam - Immigrants

Lea, a niece of Peter Stuyvesant at that time Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, now the city of New York. Governor Stuyvesant gave his niece and her husband a grant of land of 200 acres in what is now the heart of New york City.

• Source: e-familytree.net
• Emigrated to New Amsterdam on the ship Pumerander Kirk in 1662.

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From Find A Grave:

Lijdia “Lea” Willems Cossart BIRTH 11 Apr 1638 Leiden, Leiden Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands DEATH unknown Bushwick, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 97949903 · View Source

Lea Villeman, daughter of (parents unknown). She married Jacques Cossart of Leyden, Holland who was also an immigrant.

They arrived in the ship "De Purmerlander Kerck," to New Amsterdam, New Netherlands in 1663 with two children.

"De Purmerlander Kerck," Captain Barentsen. Holland to New Amsterdam, Colonial New Netherlands. Left Holland 12 Oct 1662; Quick port stop 14 Oct 1662. Records of other ships taking this trip indicate about a 3 month voyage aboard the ship with arrival in early 1663 to the New Netherlands (now New York).

Additional information will be added at a later date; descendant Gloria of PA.

Family Members Spouse Jacques Cossart 1639–1685 (m. 1656)

Children David Cossart 1671–1736

Anthony Cossart 1673–1756