Hi Donna, You wrote: > I am also related to the Bloodgoods, but have done little research on them. > The mother of Kniertje Marston was Geertje Frans Bloodgood. > Don't you mean that Kniertje Marston was the _granddaughter_ of Geertje Frans Bloodgood? The marriage record of Jan Marston and Geertje Bloodgood is given in Dutch on page 214 of David William Voorhees' edition of the Flatbush Church records, and the English translation is on page 215: The couple was betrothed on 19 Nov 1677 and married at Brooklyn on 9 Dec 1677: "Jan Mastingh, young man at Flushing with Geertje Franssen Bloedgoed, young lady from Amsterdam in Holland, residing at Flushing..." Frans Marston was baptized at the New York Reformed Dutch Church on 30 Oct 1678 [page 134 of the published records]: Jan Maston, Geertie Frans; Frans; Pieter Janszen, Lysbeth Bloetgoet Kniertje Marston was named after her maternal grandmother, Kniertje Pieters Meet, and was the daughter of Frans Marston (son of Johannes Marston and Geertje Frans Bloodgood) and Maria Haff (daughter of Laurens Juriaenszen Haff and Kniertje Pieters Meet). [Note: Johannes Marston and wife Geertje Frans Bloodgood had no daughter named Kniertje. See the will of John Marston of Flushing, dated 23 Sep 1712; proved 14 Apr 1721; Abstract of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Volume II. 1708-1728), Liber 9, pages 232-233] Kniertje Marston (styled "Conertie") was named in the will of her father, Francis Marston of Flushing, dated 23 Mar 1748, proved 17 Aug 1748. See Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Volume IV. 1744-1753), Liber 16, page 192. For further research on the Bloodgood family, see the book, _Ancestors and Descendants of Captain Frans Janse Bloetgoet, Vol 1..., 1963, by George Bloodgood (1966; revised 1980). Best regards, Pam Sears