When Dirckje Jansen Meyers was born in October 1649, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, her father, Jan Dirckszen Myer, was 29 and her mother, Catharina Tryntje Grevenraet, was 22. She married Enoch Michielsen Vreeland on 5 June 1670, in Bergen Township, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 5 October 1688, in Bergen Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in First Dutch Reformed Churchyard, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, United States.
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Also referred to as the First Dutch War. This was an entirely sea-based conflict that arose by trade disputes between the United Provinces of the Netherlands against the Commonwealth of England. Ended with the Treaty of Westminster; Holland agreed to respect the Navigation Act and compensate England accordingly.
The City of Amsterdam Town Hall was opened by Mayor Cornelis de Graeff on July 29, 1655. This structure would end up being converted into the Royal Palace of Amsterdam in the future (1806-1810).
Historical Boundaries: 1661: New Netherland 1676: New Jersey Colony, British Colonial America 1683: Bergen, New Jersey Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Bergen, New Jersey, United States 1840: Hudson, New Jersey, United States 1862: Absorbed by Bergen Town
Irish (Cork, Wexford and Louth) and English: variant of Mayers .
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from Meyer . Compare Myers .
Americanized form of German Meyer , with excrescent -s.
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