EKK wrote: "BUT I find it hard to believe that a child 12 years, 11 months old, married Theuniszen VanZell on 19 April 1654 and married by a Dutch Reformed minister. 'It don't fit.' It does fit. Herman Theuniszen Van Zell was also underage at 19, and it is in the records that the authorities insisted he get a parent's permission to marry. This took six months, as the parent was back in the old country. They were married by the Rev. Samuel Drisius in the NYRDC.