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From: "Peter Christoph" <>
Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Adriaen BLOCK
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:44:14 -0500
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Adriaen Block was buried in (Old) Amsterdam on 7 April 1627. The
biographical note on him, written by Charles Gehring, in The Encyclopedia of
New York State reports that he never returned to the New World after his
disastrous visit here.

Peter

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From: "E Johnson" <>
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Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Adriaen BLOCK


>I had wondered if anything was known of any descendents of Adriaen
> BLOCK, seafarer-explorer, who sailed to North America about 1613 and
> who returned to the old country about 1614.
>
> I had wondered if anything further was known of one Aderiaen, aka
> Aerjan BLOCK, "Varensman" (seafarer), who baptized five children
> between 1607 and 1615, in [Old] Amsterdam [Holland], with wife Neeltje
> Henrix. Those children were Stijntjen, 1607; Henrik, 1610; Neeltje,
> 1612; and twins Neeltje and Jan, in 1615.
>
> I had wondered if the Aderiaen, aka Aerjan BLOCK, father of children
> (above) found in doopregisters index of [Old] Amsterdam [Holland],
> might be the same as the Adriaen BLOCK, seafarer-explorer, who sailed
> to North America in 1613.
>
> I had wondered particularly whether or not any possible descendents of
> Adriaen BLOCK, seafarer-explorer, who sailed to North America in 1613,
> were known to have settled in North America.
>
> Thank you all,
> Liz J
>
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