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THE MERSELES FAMILY
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE MERSELES FAMILY is still numerous in Hudson and Bergen
Counties. They trace their lineage to Pieter Marcelisen (Marcelis), a native
of the little Town of Beest, near Leerdam, in the Province of Utrecht, Holland. He left Amsterdam in April, 1661, with his wife, four children (aged,
respectively, twelve, six, four, and two years), and two servants, on the
Dutch West India ship " Beaver," and arrived at New Amsterdam on the
9th of May of the same year. The ship's register shows he paid 232 florins
passage-money for the family of eight persons, all of which goes to show
that even then he must have been a man of considerable means. He removed to Bergen, where he settled, and where his wife died in 1680, and he
followed her in 1681. His issue were James, Jannekie, Pieter, Merseles,
Elizabeth, and Hillegond. These all married and remained at Bergen.
Peter, the eldest son, died wealthy. Some of his descendants settled in
Rockland County, N. Y., and in the north end of Bergen County.
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