Eleanore M White

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Berry families who came mainly from England, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Some immigrated to New Jersey and New York. During the 1700s, some settled in Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Some married members of the Choctaw Indian tribe. In the 1800s, some moved into Alabama,...

Peter Claesen (1625-1694) emigrated in 1636/1637 from Amsterdam, Holland to Fort Orange, New Netherland, and worked on the van Rensselaer estate. He married Grietje van Ness, moved to New Amsterdam in 1649, and settled in what became Brooklyn, New York. He assumed the surname Wijckoff (i.e. Wyckoff) when the British took Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and throughout the United States. Some descendants lived in Ontario and elsewhere...