Garret Dircksen Croesen^[1]

Abt 1638 - 1680  (~ 42 years)

• Name	Garret Dircksen Croesen  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
  Born	Abt 1638	Groningen, Netherlands   [2, 3, 6, 13]
  Gender	Male
  Buried	1680	Flatbush, Kings, New York, United States   [2]
  Died	7 Mar 1680	Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States   [2, 3, 8]
  Person ID	I14147	Costner Descendants
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Dirksen Croesen,   b. 1617, Wynschoten, Utrecht, Netherlands ,   d. 7 Mar 1680, Richmond, Richmond, New York, United States  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Lucretia Merritt,   b. 1617, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands ,   d. 7 Mar 1680, Richmond, Richmond, New York, United States  (Age 63 years)
  Married	1631	Ultrecht, Netherlands
  Family ID	F3984	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Neeltie Jans Staats,   b. 9 Sep 1640, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States of America ,   d. 1695, New Amsterdam, New York, USA  (Age 54 years)
  Married	30 Oct 1661	New York, United States   [10, 17, 18]
  Children	1. Derrick Croesen,   b. 16 Jul 1662, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States ,   d. 25 Dec 1731, Southampton, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States  (Age 69 years)   2. Elsje Croesen,   b. 1663, New Amsterdam, New Netherland ,   d. 1716, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, British Colonial America  (Age 53 years)   3. Catharine Croesen,   b. 16 Jun 1670, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States ,   d. 1709, Staten Island, Richmond, New York, United States  (Age 38 years)   4. Hendrick Croesen,   b. Abt 1674, New Netherland ,   d. Abt 1760, Richmond, New York, British Colonial America  (Age ~ 86 years)   5. Annetje Croesen,   b. 16 Sep 1677, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ,   d. 15 Sep 1779, Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey, United States  (Age 101 years)
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F3993	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Individual Note Had 7 children 5 boys all stayed in NY or NJ except one boy who went to Bucks Co. Pa. Other spellings of the name are Kroesen, Crousen Garret came first to Brooklyn also lived in New Amsterdam, Breuckelen(then Staten island). Collections of New York Genealogical Society, Volume I, page 139, book1897. He left Winschoten, the Netherlands a village in the Province of Groningen prior to May 1, 1661 and came to America arriving in Breuckelen (Brooklyn) New York. Received a land patent on Staten Island in 1677. Garret occup. was that of a Cooper Owned land in Brn between that of jacob Brouwer and that of Volkert Hendrickse Bries or Breets, and on ass. rools of Brn of 1675 and 76. In 1677 he obtained a patent for 160 acres from Gov Andross on S.I. to which he removed. In 1677 he had 600 acres on Staten Island. Ancestry and family search and geneanet and roots web all show father as Dirksen Croesen Garret's patronymic of Dircksen implies that his father was named Dirk or Dirck (but not Dircksen!). Nothing is known about Garret's parents. For more information, please see: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/images/5/54/Names_in_the_Netherlands.pdf The parents of Garret Dircksen Croesen are unknown. For the most recent and scholarly research published to date on Garret Dircksen Croesen, please see Warren D. Cruise, The Croesen Families of America (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., [1998]). ===== Gerrit Dircksen Kroesen was born before 1640. He was a native of Wynschoot, in Groningen, Holland, and first appears in New Netherlands, at Brooklyn, Long Island in 1661. Lila James Roney, "The Kroesen-Croesen Family of Staten Island and Bucks County, Pennsylvania", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.75 (1944): 75:97. Married Neeltje Jans, daughter of Jan Pieterszen and Elsje, at Old First Dutch Reformed Church, Breuckelen (Brooklyn), Kings Co., Long Island, New York, on 30 October 1661. A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), page 212. Gerrit Dirckzen Crousen, to Neeltje Jans, "from N(ieuw) Nederl(an)t; witnesses: Jan Pietersz, father of the bride, Jeurie Janszen, on the side of the bridegroom. He was a member of the at Old First Dutch Reformed Church, Breuckelen (Brooklyn), Kings Co., Long Island, New York, on 29 May 1661 Gerrit Dirckszen Crousen, van Wijnschoot, witnesses Teunis Nyssen and Jan Martyn. Ibid., page 20. Witnessed the baptism of Elsje Pieterse Staats , daughter of Pieter Janszen Staats and Anna Janse Van Dyck, on 18 December 1661 at Old First Dutch Reformed Church, Breuckelen (Brooklyn), Kings Co., Long Island, New York, (sponsors Garret Croesen, Tryntie Jans, Grietie Jans). Ibid., page 111. Elsje; parents: Pieter Jansen, Annetie Jans, "from Cujanes". On 19 Nov 1670 the Court at New York found that a ten pound fine levied against Gerrit Croosen for assaulting Adam Brouwer's wife, and a ten pound find levied against Adam Brouwer for assaulting Gerrit Croosen were found to counterbalance one another and so were c For the most recent and scholarly research published to date on Garret Dircksen Croesen and his descendants, please see Warren D. Cruise, The Croesen Families of America (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., [1998]).

  
  

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