Evert Willemsz, later known as Everardus Bogardus, was born in 1607 or 1608 and arrived in New Amsterdam in 1633 where he married the widow, Anneke Jans in 1638. He later died in 1647. Anneke was born in Flekkeroy, Norway and in 1623 married Roeloff Janz. They immigrated to New York in 1630. Anneke died in 1663.

"Jacob Leisler ... from Frankfort, came to New Netherland a soldier in the West India Company's service in 1660. He embarked in the ship Otter from Amsterdam, the 27th of April of that year. There was a tradition among his descendants that he came originally from France, and a vague report, a hundred years or so ago in New York, that he was Swiss. It is more likely that he was born in Frankfort, and was, therefore a native of Germany."--P. 7. ...