Re: Anthony Jansen Van Salee
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In reply to:
Anthony Jansen Van Salee
Sandee Roberts 6/22/98
My ancestor, Willem Jansz van Borckelloo, married Cornelia van Salee in Brooklyn, 1658.Your ancestor was my ancestor's first father-in-law, who was married to Grietje Reniers, the first prostitute of New Amsterdam.If you want a fictional treatment of these people in New Amsterdam, read The Drowning Room, by Michael Pye, unfortunately,not a book that sticks to the facts as closely as one would wish.There is a lot of factual information about van Salee in New Amsterdam in The Washington-McClain Ancestry, by Charles A. Hoppin, vol. 3.