I have been checking family linkage for a few years now. Awhile back I came across this story from my family line. Its long, but interesting.
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Hendrick Herchsen Cranckheyt/Krankhite/Krancheit: This is a Great Grandfather on his mothers side. Her name was: Sophia Hendrickse Wiltsie
Indians stole Wiltsie Boys--- SECOND GENERATION

Phillippe Maton (Wiltsee) and his wife Sophia Ter Bosch sailed aboard the ship NEW NETHERLAND with their son Pierre and their Daughter Lyntje. The Dutch Settlers Society Yearbook (D.S.Y.B.) gives the following account:
"The ship NEW NETHERLAND arrived at the North River (Hudson River) the beginning of May, 1624. Eight men were left at New Amsterdam (New York) and the rest continued up river to Fort Orange (Albany) where they helped build a fort. In 1626 Phillippe and his family established a home in Waalbought, Long Island. In the summer of 1632, he took his sons, Pierre and Hendrick and one servant to a new settlement at Fort Swaanendael, now Lewis, Delaware where Phillippe was murdered and the boys taken captive by the Delaware Indians.

About a year later, the boys were turned over to the Mohican Indians and taken to Canada where they remained in the custody of Jesuit Priests for seven years until they escaped. The records of Paul Le Jeune S.J. and Anna De Noue, S.J.. Father Devoste, and Father Daniel, show the boys made their escape November 29, 1640. In 1633, about a year after the boys were captured, their Mother and sister Lyntje returned to Holland where Sophia died in 1646."

After his escape from the Jesuits, Hendrick returned to New Amsterdam where he was a sailor for a time and, with his brother Pierre, visited his family in Europe. "They must have been in Copenhagen, because Hendrick's name appears in the public records as 'HENDRICK MARTENSEN VAN COPENHAGEN". He served as a soldier at Fort Orange and Wiltwyck.

He went to Quebec as an interpreter for the Mohawk Indians and became a member of their tribe. He married a daughter of their chief November 20,1658. They had one son born in 1659 named Robert Richard Wiltsee. He left his wife and son with the tribe and returned to New Amsterdam where he met and married Margaret Meyers. She was born at Fort Margaret, the Dutch Colony in Brazil. When her father died there she and her mother moved to Newtown, Long Island where Margaret Died June 26,1704."
HENDRICK MARTENSEN WILTSEE, son of PHILLIPPE and SOPHIA WILTSEE, married Margaret Meyers, widow of Herman Jensen and daughter of Jan Meyers and Teuntjie Straitman January 10th 1660. Margaret Meyers WILTSEE was born in the dutch colony at Fort Margaret in Brazil and came to New Amsterdam with her mother after her father died in Brail. Margaret died June 26, 1704 at Newtown Long Island, New York. Margaret was Hendricks second wife. His first wife had been the daughter of an Indian Cheif. They had one son ROBERT. After Margarets death,Hendrick married his third wife Styntjie Christina Adriance. Hendrick Martensen Wiltsee died in 1712.

The children of HENDRICK MARTENSEN WILTSEE and Margaret Meyers Wiltsee were: Sophia, born Dec. 11, 1661: Jannetje, born January, 7, 1663; Barber born March 1,1665; Marten born April 3,1667; Hendrick born November 29, 1669; Meyndert, born February 11, 1672; Theunis born November 29, 1674; and Jacob born March 18, 1676. Marten married Maria Van Wyck.

Life was wrought with danger and intrigue in those days. Pretty interesting. Amazing that anybody lived long enough to pass on their genes.

These kind of threads are interesting.
Good stuff.

Very cool. I think one of the greatest ways to save American and Western Culture is to show our children how they are personally connected to it. History comes alive and important when you see that your grandparents, other relatives and therefore you are a part of it. The liberals in schools mostly only show the worst of American History in an attempt to break American Patriotism. Children should learn both the good and the bad of their families history.

I recommend that everyone looks into their family history. www.familysearch.org is a very useful, free, phenomenal resource for doing so. They literally have billions of documents available on line, including birth, christening, marriage, deeds, purchase, tax, inheritance, photos, death records and much, much more.

On family search, you can quickly check to see if you are related to someone such as:

Hendrick Martensen Wiltsie
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14 March 1623 – December 1712
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I am not, but many of you may well be.

Keith

Just reading this I think we are really a bunch of spoiled people if we think we've got it tough. Just surviving back then was a challenge.

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Cliff notes please

Maybe you just need a speed reading class, lol. Just relax and wait on the rest of the story !

Thanks for reading. It always amazes me the metal made of these people.