Individual Details

Jacob's emigration was about 1626 from Netherland to New Amsterdam with wife and child. Jacob's family escaped Catholic persecution in La Rochelle (which fell to the Catholics in 1628 after a long siege) and fled to the Netherlands where they settled as religious refugees. Jacob was the Secretary of the Dutch West India Company and he is reputed to have made several trips back and forth to America. There is disagreement over whether or not he immigrated to New Amsterdam with his family. Either he did immigrate with them and died shortly after arrival or he died in the Netherlands just prior to the family's emigration.

Birth	Abt 1600	La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes, France
Marriage	Ca 1624	Maritje Baddie
Death	By 1636

Spouse	Maritje Baddie ( - 1697)
Child	Magdalena Jacobse Verdon (1625 - 1698)