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Subject: [D-Col] Smeets/Lambertsen/Giberson/Van Pelt/Laen
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:12:35 EDT

Listers

I have been reading thru the discussions of Smeets which involved Adriaen
Lambertsen and the following from Liz Johnson. I would like to see more
discussion about the referenced families OR Lambertsen/Laen marriage as I am
trying to research them. (Help)


> Adriaen Lambertsen SMEETS, b. ca. 1625, who is said to have come from near >
Tiel, Gelderland.
> His family is discussed in Dorothy Koenig's article, "European Origins of
> Adriaen Lamberts Smith and the Brother's Laenen Van Pelt," from "New
> Netherland Connections," Vol 4, #1, Jan/Feb/Mar 1999. In this article,
> Dorothy quotes from a manuscript of George H Budke's, as follows: "neither
> his birth nor his mariage was found recorded..." --although Budke notes
that
> "a thorough search of the early registers of the Church of Tiel" was
> conducted" for Adriaen's birth and mariage records.
>
> I understand that Adriaen's patronymic is Lammerts or Lambertsen; therefore
> his father's name was probably was Lammert (or Lambert, Lambrecht, etc.).
> But could SMEETS be Adrian's father's surname, and if so, was that a
> patronym? Or a toponym... (if there could have been a town by that name
> somewhere)? Or could SMEETS be an equvalent of SMIT (meaning "One whose
> occupation is a smith"), as in the example seen in Ted and Jerry's
exchange,
> above?
>
> Perhaps more information has come to light since Dorothy wrote her article,
> which I have been carefully studying. And perhaps someone here might care
to
> speculate upon my question as to the etiology of the SMEETS name.
ALSO
correspondence sent to me from another Giberson descendant
repeating what Dorothy Koenig and Carole Osborne Cole state from Beekman.
(Repeat).

On p. 121 of Beekman's "Early Dutch Settlers" is this reference:

"We find Daniel Hendrickson first mentioned in Book C of Deeds p. 78 in our
county clerk's office. An agreement dated September 23, 1693, is here
recorded between Daniel Hendrickson and "John Gibbonson" as name is spelled,
of Flatbush, Kings county L.I., of the one part, and William Whitlock of
Middletown, Monmouth county, of the other part. . . . Daniel Hendrickson
conveyed 28 acres of this tract to Gybertsen or Guisbertsen as name is
spelled, who with Ester his wife, by deed dated December 22d, 1701, conveys
it to John Ruckman. This Guisbertsen was the progenitor of the Giberson
family as name was afterwards spelled, and I think was really a VanPelt."

On p. 122 is the following:

Teuntje Thyse Laen VanPelt, the mother of Daniel Hendrickson's wife, came to
America with her father and settled at New Utrecht, L.I. Her brother
Guisbert married Jannetje Adriens Lambertszen, and removed to Monmouth
county. He wrote his name or was known as "Gisbert Laen," and he and his
wife are among the organizing members of the Dutch church in 1709." NEED MORE
INFO ON THIS COUPLE.

The surnames of Tice, Tysen, Lane, Van Pelt, and
Guisbertson/Giberson/Gibbonson all seem to trace back to VanPelt as various
descendants chose different aspects of these names to identify themselves and
differentiate themselves from their fathers, uncles and cousins.

Genie Giberson

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