Re: Jan Broersen from Curacao to NY aboard "Blue Cock"
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In reply to:
Re: Jan Broersen from Curacao to NY aboard "Blue Cock"
Mary Hanon 8/05/04
Hellp.
I'd like to correct some things which I said in my last posting, which I have now found are not correct.
The husband of Christina Cappoens was Jacob Hey or Hay or Hays, a merchant trading in the West Indies, and he was indeed a very wealthy man.But he was not the same man as Captain Jacob Huys.Evidently there are records of a later voyage Jan Broersen took with a Captain Jacob Huys, but this man was demonstrably alive after Christina Cappoens' husband Jacob Hay died.
Another mis-concenption I had was that Captain Jan De Vries captained The Blue Cock. It appears now that he was captain only of about 130 soldiers who arrived on The Blue Cock, not of the ship itself.
The Captain of The Blue Cock or De Bleauwe Haen was Willem Cornelissen Oudemarkt.
Another thing I have learned since posting to the forum was that Captain Jan De Vries died in the wreck of "De Prinses Amalia"/ "The Princess Amelia" 29 September 1647
off the coast of Wales.This was the ill fated voyage that took the lives of Kieft and Domine Bogardus, and many others as well.
Thank you for keeping my interest in The Blue Cock in mind as you continue your research.
Regards,
Sharilyn Whitaker