| Passenger List De Bontekoe |
| Sailed 16 April 1660 from Amsterdam, arriving New Amsterdam Captain Pieter Lucasz Jan Soubanick, from Byle in Drenthe Albert Jansz from Drenthe Pieter Jacobsz, from East Friesland Cornelis Bartels, from Drenthe Steeven Koorts from Drenthe, wife and 7 children; 22, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 yrs old Jan Kiers, farmer, and wife from Drenthe Focke Jansz, farmer from Drenthe, wife and 7 children: 19, 17, 13, 11, 9, 3 yrs old, and nursing child Claes Arentsz from Drenthe, wife and 3 children: 6, 4, 3/4 yrs old and a boy aged 14 Gerrit Egbertsz, farmer's servant from Meppelt Beertien Dircx, maiden from Drenthe Egbertie Dircx, maiden from Drenthe Pieter Jansz, shoemaker from Drenthe, wife and 4 children: 15, 13, 9, 1/2 yr old Coert Cartensz, famer's servant from Drenthe Roeloff Swartwout, farmer (on his return to New Netherland where he previously resided) Cornelis Jacobsz Van Leeuwen in the employ of Swartwout Arent Mertensz from Gelderland in the employ of Swartwout Ariaen Huijbertsz from Gelderland in the employ of Swartwout Albert Heymans, farmer, from Gelderland, wife and 8 children: 17, 15, 14, 9, 8, 7, 4, 2 yrs old Peter Timkam, tailor from Nimwegan, in the service of Director Stuyvesant Jan Jansz Mol Annetie Harmens, maiden, resides with Paulus Leendertsz Van de Grift Beletie Foppe, resides with Jacob Leendertsz Van de Grift Elias Gijseling from Zeeland List Of Soldiers Claes Petersen, Adelborst from Detmarsum Claes Hayen from Bremen Jan Petersen from Detmarsen Gerrit Manneel van Haen Conraet Croos from Switzerland Hendrick Eyck from Srahuys Christian Bartels Ruysh from Amsterdam Hendrich Steveterinck from Osnasnigge Peter Martens from Laens John Hamelton of Hamelton [owes David Craffort for his transprotation] Johan Verpronck from Bonn above Ceulen; a Smith and Baker [Johan Spronck from Bonn above Ceulen] Jan Wilekheresen from Bergen in Norway Peter Petersen from Amsterdam, with his Wife and 3 children Brant Kemenes from Dockum [Brant Hemmes from Dockum] Dirck Jansen from Rylevelt Harman Jansen Engsinck from Oldenseel [Assigns wages per yer to Beertie Jansen, his mother] Johannes Levelin from Bulhausen Michiel Brouwnal from (Berg) Mont-eassel Jurriaen Fransen [name crossed out] Jans Hansen Graer [name crossed out] Original Sources: New World Immigrants: List of Passengers 1654 to 1664 edited by Michael Tepper. Emigrants to New Netherland by Rosalie Fellows Bailey, NYGBR; vol 94 no 4 pp 193-200. |
| Nearly all online mentions of De Bontekoe provide the literal translation of Spotted Cow. Here, likely for the first time, you will learn that De Bontekoe was named after Willem Ysbrants Bontekoe who travelled from Holland to the East Indies 1618-25. The book he wrote of his adventures was the most popular adventure book of seventeenth century Holland. It was reprinted every two years for over a century. |
| The oldest multinational corporation in history was the VOC (United Company for the East Indies), a trading company that existed from 1602 to 1799. In 1618, the VOC sent the ship �Nieuw-Hoorn,� with Willem IJsbrandz (�IJ� is the Dutch way to write �Y�) Bontekoe as captain, on a voyage to Batavia (Jakarta) on the island of Java to trade silver for spices, tea, and coffee. Near the end of the voyage the ship exploded�the brandy caught fire and lit the gunpowder. Captain Bontekoe was saved and led about 70 men, in a small boat with sails made of clothing and almost no food or water, navigating by the stars, safely ashore. The ship "De Bontekoe," in 1660, was owned by investors in New Amsterdam. One had been an employee of the VOC in Batavia prior to moving to America. My Genealogical HomePage |