Hendrick Van Dyck was an ensign in command of the Dutch forces in their early wars with the Indians. He was the first Schout Fiscal -- a sort of judge and sheriff-in New Amsterdam, and held his office until 1652. He was one of the original grantees, from the West India Company, of plots of land at New Amsterdam, his lot being on the west side of what is now Broadway, below Trinity Church, and running to the North River. His son Cornelius removed to Albany, N. Y., where he practiced his profession as physician. This Cornelius had a son, Jacobus Van Dyck, also a physician, who settled at Schenectady, N. Y., and was the surgeon at the fort there at the time of the burning of the town, by the Indians, in 1690. Jacobus died at Schenectady in 1759. He left several children one of whom was Lieutenant-Colonel Cornelius Van Dyck, of the First New York Regiment, commanded by Colonel Goose Van Schaeck, during the Revolutionary War. From one of the other sons Vedder Van Dyck is descended, his grandfather being Jacob and his father Peter Van Dyck. His mother, Eleanor Vedder, was also a descendant of the earliest Dutch settlers who came to New Amsterdam.