Inc Wyckoff House & Association

Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Wyckoff families in America, especially the descendants of Pieter (Peter) Claesen Wyckoff. Pieter (1625-1686) emigrated in 1637 from Amsterdam, Holland to Fort Orange, New York. He moved in 1649 to New Amsterdam, and later settled in what became Brooklyn, New York. Pieter acquired land after finishing his term as an indentured servant. A home was built ca. 1652 by Governor...

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...