1650 Falconer - Immigrants to New Netherland

New Netherland 1621-1664

Immigrants to New Netherland
1650
Falconer
(Valckenier)
Sailed March/April, 1650
Skipper, Willem Thomassen
Arrived New Amsterdam June, 1650

Jacob Wolphertson¹

Jan Adriessen,² of Beren Bach

Jan Evertsen Boudt³

140 persons

"...as the ship de Valckenier now lies ready to sail on her departure for New Netherland, and full one hundred and forty persons have offered to emigrate to that country at their own expense, and have been accepted, and as still upwards of thirty persons additional have solicited and requested a passage in said ship, who must be refused, because there is not accommodation in the vessel for the, she being not more than a hundred and sixty lasts burthen or thereabouts.⁴

^1,2,3Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York, B. Fernow, (c)1881, Vol XII, pg 66-67
⁴Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York, E. B. O'Callaghan, (c)1856, Vol I, pg 376-77.