Howard: I concur with your recent conclusion: "As to the two wives of Fredrick Lubbertszen -- My guess is that the first was Styntie Jans and that the Styntie Hendricks ref. is a mistake: the clerk had Hendricks on the brain after writing Tryntie Hendricks." And here is another record to support that conclusion: "On 13 Nov 1636 Frederick Lubbertsen, freeman in New Netherland, requests [of the directors at Amsterdam] that his wife, Styntgen Jansen (Jan’s daughter), may join him at the first opportunity, according to the declaration of Wouter van Twiller, and as there is still due her husband by the Company, from over three years ago, six months’ wages at 20 guilders per month, which the Directors have always promised to give her when her husband should return, and he now remains there [in New Netherland], therefore she requests that she may receive the same. (S) S=Stokes; Isaac Newton Phelps, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 6 vols." Source = http://members.tripod.com/vandergrift/lubbertsdoc.htm This lengthy web page repeatedly states that Styntje was the sister of Claes Jansen van Naerden, aka Claes Jansen de Ruyter, who came from Naarden. However it is not obvious to me from the content provided how that conclusion may be determined. Can anyone provide evidence to support or refute this identification? And here's where we (or at least I) left off the last time that the origins of Frederick Lubbertszen were discussed on this list... http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Dutch-Colonies/2003-04/1051317777 Thanks for any "new" information, Perry Streeter (mailto:perry@streeter.com) http://www.perry.streeter.com