Captain Jan Janse Van Dyke, son of Jan Thomasse Van Dyke and Tryntje Achias or Haegen, was born circa 1650 at Netherlands.^1,2,3

     Jan emigrated in 1652.⁴

     Jan married Teuntje Thyssen Lanen Van Pelt, daughter of Matthys Van Pelt, on 9 May 1673, at New York City, New York.^1,4,5

     Circa 1679, Jan resided in New Utrecht, (an area in the vicinity of what is now known as Fort Hamilton) where he was magistrate in 1679. Governor Leisler by commission which is recorded in the 'Documentary History of New York', vol. xxxvi., at page 142, commissioned him in December 1689, aLieutenant in Jan Hanse's company of New Utrecht militia, of which Joost Van Brunt was Ensign of Foot. In 1700, he was commissioned Captain by Richard (Coote) Earl of Bellomont. In September, 1726, he sold for £1676 to his son-in-law, Capt. Rutgent Van Brunt, who had married his daughter Jannetji, his homestead in New Utrecht with sixty acres of land and also a large tract of land at Canarsie, N. Y.⁶

     Captain Jan Janse Van Dyke left a will on 16 May 1735; The Will, which was admitted to probate in New York County, November 9, 1736, and is recorded in the Surrogate's office in Liber 13 of Wills, page 35. The witnesses to the will were Cornelius Van Brunt, Joost Van Brunt, Theodore Ellsworth, and Christopher Codwise. The preamble to the Will is as follows:
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.. In the Name of God, Amen. I, John Van Dyck of New Utrecht, in Kings County, on the Island Nassau, in ye Province of New York, Yeoman, being of perfect health, both in body and mind, and knowing the certainty of death and uncertainty of the time of its approach, Do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I bequeath my soul to God who gave it, my body to the earth from whence it came to be decently interred at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, in certain hopes of Resurrection and the Union of my body and soul at the last day and of Eternal Life through the sole merits of my blessed Savior Jesus Christ and as to what worldly estate God hath pleased to Bestow upon me and that shall belong to me at the time of my Dec'se after my just debts and funeral expenses are paid and satisfied, I give, devise and bequeath of the same in manner and form following ...
By his will he gave to his children 'John Van Dyck, Mattys Van Dyck, Catherine, widow of Daniel Hendrickson, Jannetji, wife to Capt. Rutgers Van Brunt, Angennetj, wife to Simon De Hart' all his personal estate after paying legacies; to his grandson John Stephens, five shillings; to his granddaughter, Teuntji, widow of John Sleigh, £25; to his grandchildren Ii the children of my daughter Catleyntje deceased which was the wife of Garret Kette1tas in number 3 sons and 3 daughters each 5 shillings'; to his 'great grandson John Van Buren, son of my granddaughter Teuntji Richon deceased which was wife of Dr. John Van Buren, Jr., £25. to be paid when he comes of age.' He appointed as executors his 'sons John Van Dyke. Mattys Van Dyke, Rutgers Van Brunt, and Simon De Hart.^7,4'

     Jan died in 1736.^8,4

     Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, son of Thomas Janse Van Dyke, was born in 1605 at Amsterdam, N Holland, Netherlands.²

     Jan married Unknown "Surname Unknown" 1st.³

     Jan married Tryntje Achias or Haegen circa 1625.¹

     Circa 1631, Jan. The son of Thomas Van Dyke, was the founder of the Van Dyke family in America. He, with his two brothers, Hendrick Thomasse and Nicholas Thomasse, came to New Amsterdam from Amsterdam, Holland, in the year 1652 with his wife Tryntje (or Achias) or Haegen and seven children. They traveled on the good ship Bonta Ke (Spotted Cow). It is said that she was his second wife and that his first wife was the mother of four of his children.
He was one of the founders in 1657 of New Utrecht, where Director-General Peter Stuyvesant had permitted the establishment of a town comprising about one thousand acres divided into farms of fifty acres each. The early settlers in America could not purchase land from the Indians without permission of the government and when a purchase was arranged it was followed by a special grant allowing the formation of a settlement or town. This is in accordance with the 'Law of Nations' expressed in Wheaton. Jan Thomasse Van Dyke owned one of these farms and in 1659 added to it a tract of meadow land extending toward what is now called Coney Island.
The Director-General and Council at Fort Amsterdam on October 2, 1659, made the following proclamation: 'The Director-General and Council notify the inhabitants of the Town of New Utrecht to keep good watch and for the purpose of keeping good order they have appointed and set as in other cases the person Jan Thomassen to the office of Sergeant, they therefore order the inhabitance of the Town of New Utrecht to obey and acknowledge as Sergeant the above named Jan Thomassen.' This was the commission of Sergeant Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.

It was often the custom of the Dutch to refer to a person by mentioning his first name and the first name of his father. Jan Thomasse would mean John the son of Thomas, and Jan Janse, John the son of John. To this would be added the name which indicated generally the place from which he came; thus Beekman was 'the man of the brook,' Van Dyke was the man of the dyke. The name was spelled in many ways, often in the same family. It was spelled Van Dyke, Van Duyk. Van Dike, Vandike, Van Dyk, Van Duyck. and Van Dyck. The correct way of spelling the name of the family founded by Jan Thomasse Van Dyke is Van Dyke. Dutch parents in naming their children would generally give to the oldest son the name of his paternal grandfather, and to the second son the name of his maternal grandfather, The two oldest daughters would receive the names of their grandmothers in the same order. According to the Register of New Netherland Jan Thomasse Van Dvke was for many years a Magistrate of Fort Orange and New Utrecht.^4,5

     Jan emigrated in 1652, with his two brothers, Hendrick Thomasse and Nicholas Thomasse, came to New Amsterdam in America in 1652.^6,1,5

     Jan was he was appointed one of the schepens of New Utrecht by Govenor Colve. in 1673 at New York.⁶

     Jan died circa October 1673, at Utrecht, Kings, New York; soon after being appointed for under date October 16, 1673, it was stated in 'documentry History of New York', Vol.II, 577 and 659 the following entry:
'The Governor hath, from the nomination made by the Magistrates of the town of Utrecht selected Jan Gysbertse Van Meteren as a Magistrate in place of Jan Thomassen now lately deceased.^1,7'

     Jan was s'old at auction to 'Rut Joosten' (Van Brunt) for 2500 Guilders; his new farm was at the same date sold to Cryn Janse (Van Meteren) for 2000 Guilders; and his 2 houseplots in the village to Hendrick JanseVan Dyck for 750 Guilders, as per town records. There was a Jan Tomassen on the Delaware in 1659, as per p. 286 of Vol. XII. of Doc. of Col. His. of N. Y., who possibly may have been this Thomas' on 25 January 1675.⁸

     Jane Wyckoff Van Dyke, daughter of Nicholas Albert Van Dyke and Sarah Hendrick Eldert, was born on 16 July 1838 at Flatlands, Kings, New York.^1,3,4

     Jane married Daniel Lott Suydam, son of Jeromus Suydam and Harriet F. Voorhees, on 29 January 1862, at Flatlands, Kings, New York.^1,3,5

     Jane Wyckoff Van Dyke was involved in the probate of the estate of Nicholas Albert Van Dyke on 7 September 1881 at Kings, New York.⁶

     Jane died on 26 February 1912, at Kings, New York, at age 73,⁷ and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York.⁸

     Her estate was probated on 15 March 1912. Her children, Sarah, Nicholas, Harriet and Jerome, Sarah, Nicholas, Harriet and Jerome were listed as people of interest.⁹

     Jane Wyckoff Van Dyke, daughter of Peter Albert Van Dyke and Ruth Hendrickson, was born on 7 February 1835 at New York.¹

     Janneke was baptized on 16 December 1705.¹