THE VAN DYKE FAMILY                 201

Comet, Gysbert Bayard, Quartermaster," as shown in N. Y.

State Historian's Report for 1896.    They had children:

(i)    Annetje Verkerk, bom October 29, 1682, died yotmg.

(ii)    Annetje or Anna Verkerk, baptized January 20, 1684,

died June 27,1754, married June 6, 1706, Jan Van Dyke.

(iii)    Sybrech Verkerk, baptized May 4, 1695, married

William Van Duyn of SomerviUe, N. J.
(iv)    Mayke or Mary Verkerk, married, first, Nicholas
Van Brunt, son of Nicholas Rutgers Van Brunt, and had
children: Nicholas, Roelof, and Jacques.    She married,
second, Samuel Groenendyck.
(v)    Jannetje Verkerk, married Hendrick C. Kuypers.
(vi)    Sarah Verkerk, married Hendrick Emans.

(vii)    Jan Roelofs Verkerk, married,  first, Elsje ------ ;

second, Annetje------, who had a daughter Lea Verkerk,

baptized in New Utrecht in 1741, married Cornelius
Van Der Veer, who was born December 5, 1731, son of
Cornelius Van Der Veer and a descendant of Cornelius
Janse Vanderveer who came from Holland to America
in 1659.
Jan Van Dyke and Anna Verkerk his wife resided at
Maplestown, about three miles from Spotswood, Middlesex
County, N. J., where he owned 2135 acres of land as shown
by his wiU which was recorded in the office of the Sec¬
retary of State at Trenton, N. J., on June 28, 1765.    In
a   "List   of   the   militia   under   the   command   of   Coll.
Thos: Harmar in the year 1715 New Jersey,"  recorded
in Colonial Records, vol. Ix., page 72, in Sixth Company,
Peter Demont, Captain, are found the names of privates
Abra. Van Veghte and Derick Van Veghte, and in Fifth
Company of same regiment is found the name of our ancestor,
"private Jno. Vandike."    When New Brunswick, N. J., was
first settled in 1681 it was called "Prigmore's Swamp."   It
increased in size and importance and was incorporated as a
city on December 30, 1730, by charter of King George II.
Its first Mayor was Thomas Farmer and John Van Dyke was
one of the first Aldermen.

In his will he mentions his wife Ann and appoints her