When Cornelius Jacobse Suydam was born about 1695, in Flatbush, Kings, New York, United States, his father, Jacob Hendricksen Suydam, was 30 and his mother, Seytje Jacobs, was 26. He married Margrietje Van Sicklen about 1728, in Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States in 1790.
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Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Suijdam, itself a variant of Zuijdam or Zuidam ‘south dam’, a habitational name from a dam so named near Maasland.
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