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Posted by: Barbara Terhune	Date: November 15, 1999 at 11:33:40
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Recently we came across a most intriguing bit of information and thought it should be shared. No doubt many of the old pro genealogists already have this goodie. But I suspect that there are at least a few - like me - who will dance for joy.

In an article titled THE NORWEGIAN BRADT FAMILY, © by Lorine McGinnis Schulze

website address: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/albradt.htm

we came across the following:

(second paragraph after November 1 and 2 Log Book entries)

"Andriessen and his partners were to operate a mill....Van Rensselaer entertained the hope that Albert Andriessen would succeed as a tobacco planter. On December 29, 1637, he wrote to Director William Kieft that he should assign some of the young men on board the "CALMAR SLEUTEL", commanded by Pieter
Minuit and sailing in the same month, to tobacco planting with Andriessen "if he has good success," otherwise they were to serve with the farmers.

"These young men were inexperienced, it seems. One, ELBERT ELBERTZ, from Nieukerck, EIGHTEEN years old, was a WEAVER; Claes Jansen, from the same place, seventeen years old, was a tailor; Gerrit Hendricksz, also from the same place, fifteen year old, was a shoemaker." (emphasis added)

Her sources for the entire article are listed as:

1. Scandanavian Immigrants to New York 1630-1674 by John O. Evjen. 1916
2. Bradt: A Norwegian Family in Colonial America by Peter R. Christoph

This ELBERT ELBERTZ *must* be our Immigrant, Albert Albertszen. The age is right, the time is right, the ship is right and he's a weaver!!!

We look forward to hearing from others and their opinions - pro or con.

Barb

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