Interesting relative of the Vanderbilt's
Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607–1676) was an original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherland. Van Salee is believed to be the son of Jan Janszoon (Jan Jansen), a Dutch pirate who after 1619 served a Moorish state on the Barbary Coast.His mother Margarita was Moorish and Van Salee was a Muslim; he may have been the first of this background to settle in the New World.
Van Salee's notable descendants include the Vanderbilt dynasty in the United States and Europe
Following numerous legal disputes, including with representatives of the Dutch Reformed Church, whose council reprimanded Van Salee and his wife for not behaving as "pious Christians", he was ordered to leave New Netherlands. But, after he appealed to the Dutch West India Company, Van Salee was allowed to settle on 200 acres (0.81 km2) in what would become New Utrecht and Gravesend, Brooklyn, at the southwestern end of Long Island. He became one of the largest and most prominent landholders on the island. In 1643 he purchased a house on Bridge Street in New Amsterdam, in defiance of the court order excluding him from that settlement. He became a successful merchant and creditor in New Amsterdam, while owning several properties throughout the region.
He had married Grietse Reyniers in 1629 in Amsterdam; she was born in Germany. The couple had four daughters together. They married into respectable colonial commercial families:
Eva Antonis, married Ferdinandus van Sycklin, an early immigrant to New Netherlands and the namesake for Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn. She is an ancestor of Robert Bayles, the last descendant to own Van Salee's Qu'uran. According to Van Dyck Roberts, she was baptized.
Cornelia, who married William Johnson
Annica, married Thomas Southard. Their daughter Abigail was the great-great-grandmother of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sara, married John Emans.
Van Salee's notable descendants include the Vanderbilt dynasty in the United States and Europe.
Do the Rainere's(different spelling) tie in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Janszoon_van_Salee
Nice link to Dutch East India Company, Pirates, Moors, Muslims.
Another I just started on. Wolfert Gerritse van Couwenhoven. Lots of interesting offspring from this branch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfert_Gerritse_van_Couwenhoven
I have to get some sleep. Anyone can pick up on it if they want.