Regular readers may know that the van Beverhoudt line is my longest family line in the Virgin Islands. While no one is sure when exactly they arrived, my 7th great grandfather, Claudius (Claudi) van Beverhoudt is recorded in the St Thomas landlister as residing on St. Thomas in 1693. Descendants of Claudi are still living there today (and one of them is a regular blog reader!). This is an unbroken string of van Beverhoudts in the Virgin Islands for 318 years! So imagine my surprise when I discovered that Claudius’ son, my 6th great grandfather, Johannes van Beverhoudt, Claudizoon, and his entire family, shows up in the records of the Colony of New York around 1750. In fact Johannes and his sons (including my 5th great grandfather, Claudius) were naturalized citizens of the Colony of New York.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
The van Beverhoudts Take Manhattan
Bloomingdale, to be specific.
Regular readers may know that the van Beverhoudt line is my longest family line in the Virgin Islands. While no one is sure when exactly they arrived, my 7th great grandfather, Claudius (Claudi) van Beverhoudt is recorded in the St Thomas landlister as residing on St. Thomas in 1693. Descendants of Claudi are still living there today (and one of them is a regular blog reader!). This is an unbroken string of van Beverhoudts in the Virgin Islands for 318 years! So imagine my surprise when I discovered that Claudius’ son, my 6th great grandfather, Johannes van Beverhoudt, Claudizoon, and his entire family, shows up in the records of the Colony of New York around 1750. In fact Johannes and his sons (including my 5th great grandfather, Claudius) were naturalized citizens of the Colony of New York.
Regular readers may know that the van Beverhoudt line is my longest family line in the Virgin Islands. While no one is sure when exactly they arrived, my 7th great grandfather, Claudius (Claudi) van Beverhoudt is recorded in the St Thomas landlister as residing on St. Thomas in 1693. Descendants of Claudi are still living there today (and one of them is a regular blog reader!). This is an unbroken string of van Beverhoudts in the Virgin Islands for 318 years! So imagine my surprise when I discovered that Claudius’ son, my 6th great grandfather, Johannes van Beverhoudt, Claudizoon, and his entire family, shows up in the records of the Colony of New York around 1750. In fact Johannes and his sons (including my 5th great grandfather, Claudius) were naturalized citizens of the Colony of New York.
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