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Pieter Claesen Wyckoff (ca. 1620 – June 30, 1694) was a prominent figure in Dutch and later English colonial Kings County, Long Island, New York. Most persons surnamed Wyckoff in North America, including many variations in spelling, can be traced to his family.
The Wyckoff family occupied the site for eight successive generations, until 1901 when the land and house were sold to developers. After more than a half century of disrepair and a devastating fire, the house was restored in 1982 and opened to the public as a museum. Why Wyckoff?
The Wyckoff farmhouse was built around 1652 and was home to the family of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, his wife Grietje van Ness, their 11 children, and eight generations of their descendants.
1 cze 2024 · Pieter Claesen Wyckoff (ca. 1620 – June 30, 1694) was a prominent early figure in Kings County, Long Island, New York. He superintended the bowery (farm) and cattle of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amersfoort (present day Flatlands, Brooklyn).
4 cze 2014 · On April 7, 1637, they reached Fort Orange—a tiny fortified settlement that had been hacked out of the towering pines a decade or so earlier. It was the last outpost of Dutch civilization. To young Pieter and his fellow passengers, it must have seemed farther away than the moon.
The Wyckoff House in East Flatbush, Brooklyn is considered the oldest structure in New York City and State and was the first structure designated as an individual historic landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Location: 5816 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, NY 11203 | Google Maps.
Carleton Island is located in the St Lawrence River in upstate New York. It is part of the Town of Cape Vincent, in Jefferson County. Originally held by the Iroquois, one of the first Europeans to take notice of the island was Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, in 1720.
