7. Claas/Claes/Nicklaes Pieterz/Pieterse/Pietersen was recorded “van
Hamburgh” (1723 marriage record, Tappan). Hamburgh NY and Hamburgh NJ did
not yet exist and New Hamburgh NY—a few houses ~1680—had no Pieter(sen), so
Hamburg, Germany, is intended, a major departure point for emigrants. His
betrothal to Catalyntie was at the Dutch church, New Amsterdam, recorded 5
Feb 1701. By 1705 he was a tenant farmer on the Tappan Patent, and joined
the Tappan Church that year. In 1715 he was an Orange County militia
member. By 1727 he lived 3 miles south of Tappan in the Closter area near
Schraalenburgh, Bergen County (H.I. Durie, 1970 The Kakiat Patent, New
York, pp. 199-200). My last record of him is as a baptismal sponsor in
Tappan in 1737.