Call Number: ARC.001
Extent: 2.5 Linear feet, in 3 manuscript boxes and 1 oversized flat box
This collection of papers contains historical documents created by the descendants of early English and Dutch settlers in colonial New Amsterdam. The Bennets, Lakes, Stillwells and Van Sicklens were English families who lived in the Netherlands and then emigrated to New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century. William Adrianse Bennet settled Gowanus for the Dutch in 1636, while Jan Lake, Nicholas Stillwell and Dutchman Fernandus Van Sicklen were part of the group that settled the English town of Gravesend with Lady Deborah Moody in 1643. Both of these areas are now part of Brooklyn, New York. The collection is divided into three series. The first series contains the papers of descendants of the Bennets and Ryders; the second series contains the papers of the descendants of the Lake, Stillwell and Van Sicklen families; and the third series contains photographs and postcards of the Bennett, Ryder, Vorhis, and Valentine families. Photographs of family members from the Van Cleef and Sillwell families are also included in series three. The documents, the majority of which are wills, deeds and indentures, were created from 1670-1915; the photographs range from the 1870s to 1979.
Names:
- Bennet, Cornelius W., ca. 1776-ca. 1852
- Bennet, Gitty, b. ca. 1774
- Bennet, Willem Willemse, ca. 1639-ca. 1694
- Bennet, Willem
- Bennet, Winant, 1740-1816
- Bennett, Edward, b. ca. 1863
- Bennett, Ellen, 1818-1894
- Bennett, Elley May Ryder
- Bennett, Gertrude Ryder
- Brown, Abraham, b. ca. 1802
- Lake, Coert, 1760-1846
- Lake, Court D., 1788-1874
- Lake, Daniel, 1696-1776
- Lake, Daniel, 1783-1827
- Lake, Derrick, 1765-1832
- Ryder, Charles M., 1844-1917
- Ryder, Gertrude M., 1844-1916
- Stillwell, Jaques, fl. 1805
- Stillwell, Nicholas, 1709-1781
- Vanderbilt, Aaron
- Williams, Gertrude Ryder Bennett
- Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
- Bennet, Wynant, ca. 1716-ca. 1768
- Lake, Derick, ca. 1720-ca. 1800
- Stillwell, Jaques I., 1801-ca. 1863
- Stillwell, Jaques J., 1827-1884
- Van Sicklen, Ferdinand, ca. 1801-1849
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Gowanus (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Genealogy
Types of material:
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Indentures
- Legal documents
- Photographs
- Postcards
- Receipts (financial records)
- Wills