The Duyckinck Family And Allied Families 1638

"Evert Duyckinck...came to this country about 1638 from Borken, a village of North Brabant in Holland. He was in the service of the Dutch West India Co., and in 1640 was stationed at Fort Hope, near the present site of the city of Hartford, Conn...On September 9, 1646, he was married to Hendrickje Simmons, a young woman from Noordthorn...He was appointed Fire Warden in 1674 and admitted as freeman of the City of the City of New York in 1698...Probably he died in 1702..."--P. [ix]-x. Descendants lived in New York and elsewhere.