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- Gertje Van Fulpen, as the widow Gertje Cornelis, arrived in New
Amsterdam on the ship "Beaver" on May 9, 1661, with her children aged 21,
19, 17, 15, 13, and 10 years of age. Doubtless, she later moved to the
Bedford section of Brooklyn where her younger son Cornelis was listed as
a magistrate in 1673. About 1675, she and her younger children followed
the eldest son Guysbert, who had previously gone to Albany. There she
married again, one Steven Janazen Conyn, but soon became estranged and
they separated amicably. In 1683, as Geertje Vander Hoeven, she and her
sons Cornelis and Jan, daughter Elizabeth and the latter's husband Jurian
Calijer, became members of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany.
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