1643 In the Wapen van Rensselaerswyck Sailed from the Amsterdam in September, 1643 Skipper, Jan Simonsz Arrived at New Amsterdam in March, 1644 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/shwvrens.html Persons to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck: Jan Dircksz >From Bremen, (Germany); was commissioned skipper of the colony's yacht Rensselaerswyck on Aug. 25, 1643, when he would seem to have been in Amsterdam, though he had been in New Amsterdam as early as Aug. 4, 1639. >From Sept. 14, 1648, to stubble time 1649, he occupied a farm at Bethlehem, which March 1, 1650, was leased to Jan Helms, for f445 a year. In 1651 he was in Catskil and Feb. 20, 1659, he conveyed his farm there to Eldert Gerbertsz Cruyf, in exchange for a house in Beverwyck.