Individual Details

Notes for Pieter Dewitt from Kathryn DeWitt Gazaway-
-- Ref Helen Perry Collection (HPC)., pg 69 - age of Peter: Peter (2) DeWitt, not found of Bapt. records or place of birth is realistically identified as an infant immigrant with his father Pieter Janson in 1652.
-- HPC PG 330: P. 240 - Whereas Peter DeWit died interstate, letters of administration are granted to his wife Sarah Albertsen, Nov. 7, 1721. Her Ref: Vol. II. P. 240; Liber 9, pg. 264 of NEW YORK Hist Soc year 1892.
-- Tythables of New Castle (both sides of Delaware River) 1676: Peter d'Witt - 1; Humphrey Nicollis - 1; Jan Barentse - 1; Henrick Franssen - 1; Sybrant Janes -1; ect. ect. -- (HPC, pg. 526 - Vol 13 of Gen. Mag. of NJ)
-- Notes from Helen Perry Collection, pg 70: ....Peter DeWitt is visualized as living on Manhattan Island until 1661, when at about ten years of age, he removed with father to the village of Boswyck on Long Island, then under construction. Lived within the stockade, and helped work the exterior farm lands until about 1672, by which time he had married and his daughter Maria had been born. He was not found on records in Bushwick again until 1705. It seems Peter DeWitt removed with Kin & friends from Long Island to the Delaware River area which is now New Castle.
-- Look up - East India Company - (Dutch Trading Company) - Also it is thought that one of this Dewitt family ran a trading post in East Indies.
-- A Tax list of 1676 records Peter DeWitt as a property owner at Appoquemia on Christiana Creek. Living near Engelbert Lott and Barnet Gerritsen of Long Island, Gerrison was co-worker with Peter Jansen DeWitt at Boswyck and married daughter of Direk Volckertsn. The Lotts were related also. HPC, pg 70.
-- HPC., 64 ADDENDA her Ref: Gen. Soc. of PA. Vol I. p. 31: This area, located on both sides of the South River and containing Fort Amstel and outlying Dutch farms, was established by the West India Company before 1623. Taken over by the English in 1664, it was soon recaptured by the Dutch to continue as a part of New Netherland until 1675 when, under treaty of peace made by Holland and England, it was ceded to England and renamed New Castle. In 1682, the area was added to William Penn's grant and became Newcastle County of the province of PA. Later was transferred to the provinces of Delaware and New Jersey. Grandpa Artie told me this history and about William Penn. He talked of a trading Post that someone in the family owned. He talked about the Lott family and a family whose name made me think of a dentist. (Onderdonck?).

Birth	Bet 1650 and 1655	Holland (prob)
Marriage	Abt 1670	New York, British America - Sara Alberts
Death	1721	Bushwick, Long Island, New York, British America

Spouse	Sara Alberts (1650 - 1721)
Child	Maria Dewitt (1671 - 1710)
Child	Pieter Dewitt (1673 - 1750)
Child	Barent Dewitt (1675 - 1747)
Child	Benjamin Dewitt (1680 - )
Child	Abraham Dewitt (1685 - 1761)

Father	Pieter Jansen Dewitt (1624 - 1705)
Mother	Dorothea Volckers (1630 - 1658)
Sibling	Maria Dewit (1652 - 1699)
Sibling	Catharyn Dewit (1654 - 1734)
Sibling	Volckert Dewitt (1657 - 1695)