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- 1). SOURCE: Book--THE DIRECT ANCESTRY OF THE LATE JACOB WENDELL OFPORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, WITH A PREFATORY SKETCH OF THE EARLY DUTCHSETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW NETHERLAND, 1614--1664. BY JAMESRINDGE STANWOOD, OF BOSTON; COPYRIGHT, 1882, pages 17-34 & 47. Theentire book is 51 pages in length.
www.neflin.org/srrl; Heritage Quest Online
The genealogy lineage was obtained beginning with the ancestor fromthe Netherlands to America and the subsequent generations listed inthe book to c.1882 A.D. Even though the book is well over a hundredyears old and the copyright laws are now somewhat laxed with it'susage, only excerpts were noted in this work. The full lineage forthose that are interested is available on the Internet site listedabove. START: (Page 18) *"The use of patronymics was common amongthe Dutch, the father's name being annexed to that of the son ordaughter, with the terminations se or sen, used indescriminately.Thus, for instance, the name of Evert Janse Wendel, Anglicised, meansEvert Wendel, son of Jan (equivalent to Johannes, or John)."**"Although Evert Janse Wendel is recorded upon apparently excellentauthority as having been of Embden, the author, after the most carefulresearch, announces his conviction that the family naame was notnative to that place. From as thorough a scrutiny as possible of allinformation in the matter to which he has gained access, he is of theopinion that the first representatives of the family in Embden wereoriginally natives of ancient Rhynland or Delftland (the present SouthHolland), who fled thence, as did many other Dutch families of theperiod, from religious persecutions or the Duke of Alva, then Regentof Philip II, in the Netherlands...he indicates as the most probablelocalities the cities of Delft, Haerlem, Leyden or Rotterdam."
[Transcribed 08 January 2007, SLJuhl, compiler]
Much information and records on the family have been now stored atboth of the Harvard University libraries.
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