Carsten JANSEN

BET 1622 AND 1628 - AFT 1699/0

Personal Information:

  • OCCUPATION: Farmer
  • NATIONALITY: Dutch or Scandinavian
  • PROPERTY: 1633, 40 acres of land, Gravesend, Long Island, NY (present-day Brooklyn)
  • BORN: BET 1622 AND 1628, ? Gravesend, Long Island, New York
  • DIED: AFT 1699/0, New Amsterdam, New York
  • IMMIGRATED: 20 DEC 1655/56
    • Listed on passenger manifest for the ship De Bever, possibly arriving from Amsterdam (this may have been a return voyage)

Individual Notes

  • There is also a "Carsten Jansen" on the passenger manifest for the ship 'De Purmerlander Kerck', sailing from Amsterdam on 12 Oct 1662, arriving in New Amsterdam on 18 Feb 1663
  • Carsten's name seen in town records of Gravesend and Flatbush from 1657 into the 1700's
  • That he was living in an English settlement suggests that he was of Scandinavian descent
  • Recorded as witnessing wills and deeds 21 Jan 1666, 27 Jan 1666; wills on two other occasions, 10 Feb 1682 and 29 Aug 1683

Family:

Wife: Barbara

  • MARRIED:

Children:

  1.  + Peter CARSTENSEN
  2.  + Jan CARSTENSEN

Source references

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