Hi Pam, Thanks very much for the feedback, or should I say, for the rescue. Also thanks for the corrrection about Teunis. I had been looking at these Dushane connections for years & still had this one listed twice. Must have forgot my glasses while doing data entry that night. Last first because it's faster: > I almost hesitate to mention the "other" Egbert family of Albany, but you should at least be aware there was one (Teunis Teuniszen de Metselaer and wife Egbertje Egbertse). I think they're not part of the New Castle County crowd. Here is one I hesitate to mention: There was also a Barent Egberts(en), from Schuttdorp in Benthem (Dutch, near the current border with Belgium), who had a town lot in New Castle. He was married on 15 November 1657, New Amsterdam, to Aechtje Alberts of Embderlandt. He moved to Delaware after the English takeover; this group was enumerated in Wharton's 1671 census of the Delaware and was dead before 1677. They were said to have three daughters, Abiah, Anna and Henrietta, before Aechtje died and Barent married again to Rebecca ___ (who??). I don't see bapts for these three daughters in New Amsterdam, but did find a Tryntie bp. to them there in 1658. In New Castle, Barent died; Rebecca married again to Thomas Spry; by 1677 they occupied the Barent property. His will mentions the Barent Egbertson daughters: New Castle, Delaware. Dr. Thomas SPRY. Apr. 6, 1685. Dec. 7, 1685. A:69. Four children, Annesky EGBERT and Abiah EGBERT, and Abraham and daughter Sarah SPRY of Plymouth; my adopted son Joseph BISSE, alias SPRY. John MANDY, Mr. James WILLIAM, Dr. LATWOOP. Exc. James WILLIAMS, John MANDY. Before 1693, Abiah married Jan Gerritsen, son of Gerrit Jansen van Beck, the smith. I don't see any obvious connection to the Egbert Egbert group, who came later to new Castle, and settled not in New Castle town, but further south in the county. For more on the Barent Egberten group, see Peter Stebbin's Craig's "1671 Census of the Delaware." DUSHANE. Here is more, in case anyone needs it or can connect. > Michiel Du Chesne and wife Susanna baptized 3 children at Port Richmond: > Antoni in 1710; Valentine, 21 May 1716; and Cornelius, 9 Oct 1720; and > this family also disappeared from Staten Island records. Yes, at least two other Dushane brothers also moved to Delaware. Michael and Susannah van der Hoeven appear in several baptisms at Port Richmond (Staten Island), between 1710 and 1734. But by 1723 he must have already been established in St Georges Hundred, New Castle County as early as 1723, when he bought land: [NCC land records] G-1:320. Deed. 27 Nov 1723. James & Urian ANDERSON to Michael DUSHANE of St Georges Hundred, yeoman. Wits: John REES & Johannes JACQUETT. Rec: 31 Aug 1724. Jerome Dushane also buys land in 1723, also from another ANDERSON, maybe same as the others above: 18 Feb 1723 Deed from James ANDERSON of St George's Creek, yeoman, & Sarah, his wife, to Jerome DUSHEIN, yeoman. Rec" 11 Mar 1723/4. (G-1:297) The other two Dushane brothers, Garret and Valentine, also probably moved to Delaware. Garret, son of Garret Dushane and Elizabeth Lamoreux, bp 21 January 1708 - New York Dutch Reform Church, died in Kent County Delaware in 1788, leaving a wife, Mary __. I need wife's name here. This Garret DuShane is probably the one who was an elder of Old Drawyer's Church in 1746. Elders that year were: Garrett DuShane, David Witherspoon [husband of Hester van Bebber, stepmother of Rachel Peterson DuShane --whose first husband had been Andrew Peterson)], James McCoomb, Garrett Rothwell, Cornelius King [marr. to Annetje (Leendertse) Vandegrift, aunt and uncle of the Kings of Lackford Hall], Joseph Hill, James Anderson and James Vance. Valentine DuShane died 2 March 1735 - St. George's Hundred, Newcastle Co., Del; [NC Co Deed N 222 June 19,1741-- David Stewart yeoman purchases the land 140 acres from Valentine DuShane and Isaac DuShane-- sons and executors of Valentine DuShane (will recorded March 2, 1735/6) of St Georges Hundred Yeoman Deceased --for the sum of one hundred and eighty pounds.] It adjoined the land on which David lived and a tract called Chesley, belonging to John and Joseph Ashton and extended from the shore of Delaware river to the mouth of Little St George's creek. EGBERTS again. Back to Egbert Egbert children. Another land record in New Castle county. There were several changes of hands of the land after the division following the death of Egbert Egberts. This record here might help others: Mortgage. 9 Dec 1768. Robert Watt, shoemaker, and Mary his wife, of Redlyon Hun. in Co. of New Castle, in consideration of the sum of 259 pounds grant unto William Kirkpatrick of Amwell in Co. of Hunterdon in Province of New Jersey, clerk, three parcels of land herein described. This is whereas Egbert Egbertson, late of New Castle Co., dec'd., in his lifetime was seized of a plantation tract of land which he purchased of Andrew Jubart by Deed, dated 16 Aug 1734. Then sd Egbertson died Intestate leaving five children (viz) Abraham, Isaac, Catharine and John Egbertson and Susannah, the wife of Nicholas Belveal; they received an Order of Orphans Court, dated 16 April 1745, to divide sd land. Share of 24 acres devised to sd John Egbertson was sold by his Deed Poll, dated Feb 1751/2, unto Francis Anderson. Then sd Anderson and Margaret his wife, by their Deed Poll dated 27 May 1754, granted same to afsd Robert Watt. Land is situate in Redlyon Hun. and bounds the lands of sd Catharine Egbertson, William Piper, dec'd. and Andrew Jubart. Then Andrew Daly, who intermarried with sd Catharine, by their Deed dated 17 Feb 1754, grant their share of 22 acres unto afsd Robert Watt. It bounded the lands of Adrian LaForge and Francis Anderson. Then Andrew Jubart and Sarah his wife, by their Deed dated 15 May 1744, granted a parcel of land situate in the Town of St.Georges on St.Georges Creek, bounding land of Cornelius Dushane, unto sd Watt. Terms are sd Watts to pay sum of 240 pounds on 7 Feb 1773 w/interest, agreeable with settlement made between sd Watt, Executor of the Estate of William Piper, dec'd., and William Kirkpatrick and his wife Margaret. Signed: Robert Watt, Mary Watt (mark). Wit: Samuel Floyd, John Anderson. 8 Dec 1769 'Rec'd 21 pounds 14 shilling 3 pence, part of Mortgage'. Rec: 25 Sept 1769. (Y1-665) I would love to get a handle on the correct Anderson family. Because of the many Swedish and Finnish people in this area, it's hard, but it's in the works. > I have found nothing further on the brothers of Egbert, namely Johannes > and Isaac on Staten Island, but mentioned in the will of Teunis > Egbertsen. Many members of this greater Egbert family removed to New > Jersey and lived in either Bergen, Essex, Monmouth, Somerset, Hunterdon > or Middlesex Counties Thanks. I am starting to think it was only Egbet's family in Delaware. Apprectate the effort. Well now. Maybe someone will find something of interest in the records above. I am always happy to hear from anyone who is interested. Hopefully I can come back in a while and post more about this family. For now, if anyone connects in here, please do let me know. Thanks again, Liz J