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1 . Pieter Janse Loockermans, geboren in 1612, Turnhout, gestorven na 1658. [Aantekening 1]
2 . Jan Loockermans, geboren circa 1593, Turnhout, gestorven. [Bron 2]
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Arriveerde in Nieuw Amsterdam on 1642. Inwoner van Beverwijck in 1658...
Pieter Janse Loockermans, native of Turnhout, province of Antwerp, Belgium, was in New Amsterdam as early as 1642. He had brothers, Govert and Jacob, and had married Maritje ?. In his marriage contract, dated Apr. 19, 1664, Willem Teller names his living children by his first wife, Margariet Donckesen, and appoints as guardians, Hon. Sander Leendertse Glen and Pieter Janse Loockermans, uncles of said children
Loockermans is in Frankrijk geboren en was 13 jaar toen zijn ouders zich in Turnhout vestigden.
Govert en zijn zus Anna en broer waren Protestant en moesten Turnhout ontvluchten, eerst naar Holland en daarna naar Nieuw Amsterdam. Zij zijn de voorouders van illustere Amerikanen als Theodore en Franklin Roosevelt.
Edwin R.Purple.
GOVERT LOOCKERMANS, the most noted of his family, was born at Turnhout, a town in the Netherlands, and came to New Amsterdam in April, 1633. It appears he left Holland with Director General Wouter Van Twiller in the ship Soutberg, which captured on her voyage a Spanish caravel, the St. Martin, to which vessel he was transferred, and which was brought safely into port. With him came Jacob Wolfertsen (Van Couwenhoven), whose first wife, Hester Jans, was a sister of Loockerman's first wife. Upon his arrival he was taken into the service of the West India Company, as clerk, but he soon left this employment and engaged in business on his own account.
In 1640 he went back to Holland, where he married 1st, in Amsterdam, Feb. 26, 1641, Ariaentje Jans, with whom he returned to New Amsterdam in the ship King David, Job Arentsen, Master, arriving here Nov. 29, 1641.
In 1666 he became a resident of Long Island in the vicinity of New Utrecht.
On the 13th of July, 1670, he was commissioned Lieutenant of a company of foot in New York, and probably died late in the autumn of that year
Olof Stephenszen Van Cortlandt came to New Amsterdam in the. ship Haring in 1637, a soldier in the West India Company's Service. He was promoted by Gov. Kieft, and in July, 1639, appointed Commissary of Cargoes, at a salary of thirty guilders ($12) per month. In 1645 was elected one of the Board of Eight men to adopt measures against the Indians, and in 1649, one of the Board of Nine men, of which body the following year he was President. He was elected Schepen of the City in 1654, and in 1655 was advanced to the higher position of Burgomaster, an office he held during the years 1656-58-59, 1662-63 and 1665. He was Alderman in 1666-67, 71, and succeeded Mr. Isaac Bedlow, upon the death of that gentleman, in the same office in 1673. His place of residence was in the Brouwer Straat, now Stone Street, where he was also engaged in business as a Brewer, in which occupation he became wealthy. "He had the character of being a worthy citizen and a man most liberal in his charities." He died April 4, 1684, having survived his wife about a year.