Wessel Ten Broeck

  General Notes:

"There are many blanks in our early Colonial Records, especially relating tothe names of those coming to New Netherland. The Records in Holland of the West India Tradinf Company were sold as waste-paper in 1821. This wanton destruction, combined with the silence of family record on the subject, leaves us only the honored tradition that Wessel Ten Broeck, the one ancestor of the several branches of the Ten Broeck family in the United States, came to the Colony of New Netherland with Peter Minuit, the first Director General, in 1626.Whether he married in the Colony or in Fatherland, and where his children were born, in not known; we cherish the hope that search of town and church records in Holland may be soon made. source: "The Ten Broeck Genealogy", compiled by Emma Ten Broeck Runk; 1897; p 8. additional source: Walter Gilbert: 6700 Cipriano Road; Lanham, Maryland, USA; 20706-3877; 301-552-9191 Peter Minuit, a French Protestant, a native of Wessel, the cosmopolitan city of Rhenilsh Prussia and adjacent to the Netherland, was the first fully empowered Director General of this new providence. He arrived in the bay of New Amsterdam early in May 1626, and at once purchased from the Indian owners the present site of New York City, and vested the title in the Dutch West India Trading Company. source: Shirley Timbrook, Owensboro, KY

Wessel married.