Introduction
 

ONE:  FROM THE WAAL TO WALL STREET

  1    The Fox and the Tree
                    ● The Fox
                    ● The Tree

  2    Where They Came From
                    ● Netherlands
                    ● Gelderland's Good Land
                    ● The Tielerwaard

  3    Their Names
                    ● The Game of the Name
                    ● Patronymics
                    ● Baptismals

  4    Jan Joosten
                ● Knights and Squires?
                    ● The Manor?
                    ● Melchior, "Arience"... and Eerke?
                    ● Antwerp?
                    ● Jan Gijsbertsen
                    ● The Untitled Line
                    ● "Van Meteren"

  5    Maycken Hendricks
                ● Her Name
                    ● Her Birthplace and Parents
                    ● Possible Siblings
                    ● Willem Krom (Crom)

  6    Their Children
                ● Kroms (Croms) or Van Meterens?
                    ● Lysbet
                    ● Geertje
                    ● Gysbert
                    ● Joost Jansen
                    ● The Case for Hendrick
                    ● The Case for Maria
                    ● The Case for Catherine
                    ● The Miller's Sons

  7    Their Voyage
                    ● At Sea
                    ● Fellow Passengers

  8    Their Arrival
                    ● The Date
                    ● New Netherland
 

TWO:  SETTLEMENT

  9    To Wiltwyck
                ● The Hudson Valley
                    ● Stuyvesant's Lawsuit

 10    June 7, 1663
                ● The Attack
                    ● Those Captured
                    ● Their Rescue

 11    The Family du Bois

 12    New Yorkers
                    ● Oaths of Allegiance
                    ● Schepen Jan Joosten

 13    On to East Jersey

 14    What Became of Joost Jansen

 15    Estates
 

 THREE:  JOHN VAN METRE, INDIAN TRADER

 FOUR:  THE LATER VAN METRES

 FIVE:  BURNS(ES) AND HEDGES(ES)

 B-1    The First of the Burnses
                ● Not Oor Rabbie
                ● Time-Honored vs. Comprehensive
                ● Opequon Creek
                ● William Sr. and Jo(h)anna
                ● The First Generation
                ● A Note on Consanguinity

 B-2    The Early Hedgeses
                ● The Migrating Paterfamilias
                ● Marylanders
                ● 1738: On to the Opequon
                ● Solomon and Rebecca
                ● Joshua and Elizabeth
                ● Jonas and Agnes
                ● Ruth and Abraham
                ● Some Robinsons and Tabbs

 B-3    The Second of the Burnses
                ● William Jr. and Magdalena
                ● Lany's Family
                ● The Evanses
                    ● The Second Generation
                    ● Opequon Creek in 1810
                    ● A Parting Glance

 B-4    William III and Creative Jane
                ● The Third of the Burnses
                ● The Marshalls
                ● The Baneses
                ● The Stretchers
                ● Medway and New Carlisle
                ● The Third Generation

 B-5    The Ohio Hedgeses
                ● Almost Impassable
                ● Children of Second Cousins
                ● Alexander and Ellen
                ● The Aunties
                ● The Earsoms and Saxbes (Saxbys)

 B-6    Jacob, Margaret, and the Dixons
                ● Dry Goods
                ● The Fourth Generation
                ● Elusive Elliott
                ● The Dixons of Cumberland County
                ● The Dixons of South Main Street
                ● Stones from the Brook
 

 SIX:  PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH (AND SWISS)

 P-1    Andrew Snyder, Aged 112 Years
                ● How Swiss Became Dutch
                ● Passage from Switzerland
                ● About Intercourse (PA)
                ● "The Secret of the Old Mill"
                ● Continental Soldier
                ● The Mill and Magdalena
                ● Barbara and the Children
                ● (Very) Old Age

 P-2    Mary Ann and the W(e)ikels
                ● Bound Out
                ● Going by Wikel
                ● Westward to Amanda
                ● Sinkey vs. Sinkey
                ● On to Atlanta, Illinois
                ● Centenarian
                ● Sterling Qualities

 P-3    Samuel and Leah
                ● Where Did They Marry?
                ● Comrade Wikel
                ● Mary Elizabeth and the McChesneys
                ● Multiple Middletowns

 P-4    Leah's Upps
                ● George and Lydia
                ● George Jr.
                ● Samuel
                ● Jesse
                ● Daniel
                ● Henry
                ● Abraham (Abram)
                ● Catherine
                ● Susannah
                ● John Peter

 P-5    Upp from Ob
                ● Ultimately Opp?
                ● A Few Notes About York County, PA
                ● Johann Peter and Maria Catherine
                ● A Few Notes About Southwestern Germany
                ● The House of Heintz/Hoens
                ● Just Plain Peter and Maria Catharina
                ● (Johann or Philip?) Jacob and (Anna or Maria?) Catharina
                ● The House of Knor(t)zer
                ● Georg Christoph & Company
                ● Balthasar's Last Testament
 

 SEVEN:  THERE'S LOTS OF GOOD SMITHS IN THE SEA

 S-1    Susannah and Josiah
                ● Smith Starts with See (via Lafferty)
                ● Mary's Testimonial
                ● Susannah and Her Sampler
                    ● Smith vs. Smith: Josiah over Peter
                    ● The Benevolent Father of All
                    ● Sarah Smith Mount Sever
                    ● Garret the Gatekeeper
                    ● Branch Hill
                    ● Josiah and Susannah's Three Sons
                    ● And One Niece
                    ● Jerome and the Texas Smiths
                    ● Doctor Lucian
                    ● Rings Down the Ages

 S-2    Alonzo and Ellen
                ● "Alonso and Ella"
                    ● Paintersville
                    ● Their Six Children
                    ● Mingo, Urbana, and Oakdale
                    ● Quiet Noblemen
                    ● The Joy of His Life

 S-3    Five of Their Children
                ● Hal the Dentist
                ● M.L. the Doctor
                ● Sam and Clarence
                ● Leanna
                ● M.L.'s Letters

 S-4    Herbert Gustavus and His Wives
                ● Gus and Debbie
                ● Mila (aka Maria aka Hilda?)
                ● The Gilded Age
                ● The Grass Widow and the Attorney at Law
                ● A Record in Memoriam
                ● Earl and Hettie
                ● Ora and Mame
                ● Cora and Kansas City MO
                ● Grandfatherhood

 S-5    The First Aunt Mellie

 S-6    To Be Frank
 

 EIGHT:  ACH DU LIEBER LUDEKE

 

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