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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.
12 mar 2013 · In 1652, Pieter signed a contract to “superintend the Bowery and cattle of Pieter Stuyvesant in New Amersfoort” (Flatbush, Brooklyn)—which was a West India Company- owned tract— and Pieter and Grietje moved to what is now known as the Wyckoff Homestead and Farm, the oldest structure in New York City and a National Historic Landmark.
The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead in Flatlands, Brooklyn, New York City, is a National Historic Landmark. It is believed to have been built before 1766.
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 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.
18 maj 2008 · Wyckoff Avenue is named for a Dutch family that first arrived in Brooklyn in the 1650s. In fact the house of the first Wyckoff in Brooklyn — Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, first built in 1652– still stands at Clarendon Road and Ralph Avenue in East Flatbush and has been preserved as a museum.
