Cornelis Van Cleaf (1601 - abt. 1686)

Born 1601 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Descendants

Died about 1686 at about age 85 in New York [uncertain]

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Biography

Cornelis Van Cleef ^[1], gives Cornelis as the patronymic of Jan Van Cleef. The article entitled "Finding the Patronymic of Jan Van Cleef in Little-Used New Amsterdam Records" by Henry B. Hoff, F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S. describes how the writer was able to find the one document, a contract of sale (in Dutch) translated into English on microfilm that gives the name Jan Cornelissen van Kleef. The entire text of the document is included in this article.

Cornelis Van Cleef / Cleaf and his wife Marieken sourced from FamilySearch. ^[2] They are referenced in numerous trees on-line as from "One World database."

Sources

1. ↑ pages 110-111 of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 128 #2, April 1997
2. ↑ pedigree resource file https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SY5P-DSN

• Elmer Leonard Hauser Genealogy
• William Howard Hauser Genealogy
• Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven
• ancestry.com RootsWeb's WorldConnect
• Todd Memmott

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to William Hauser for starting this profile.