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After his escape from the Jesuits, Hendrick returned to New Amsterdam where he was a sailor for a time and, with his brother Pierre, visited his family in Europe. "They must have been in Copenhagen, because Hendrick's name appears in the public records as 'HENDRICK MARTENSEN VANCOPENHAGEN". He served as a soldier at Fort Orange and Wiltwyck. He went to Quebec as an interpreter for the Mohawk Indians and became a member of their tribe. He married a daughter of their cheif November 20, 1658. They had one son born in 1659 named Robert Richard Wiltsee. Some time later Hendrick left his wife and son with the tribe and returned to New Amsterdam where he met and married Margaret Meyers. She was born at Fort Margaret, the Dutch Colony in Brazil. When her father died, she and her mother moved to Newtown, Long Island.
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HENDRICK MARTENSEN WILTSEE, son of PHILLIPPE and SOPHIA WILTSEE, married Margaret Meyers, widow of Herman Jensen and daughter of Jan Meyers and Teuntjie Straitman January 10th 1660. Margaret Meyers WILTSEE was born in the Dutch colony at Fort Margaret in Brazil and came to New Amsterdam with her mother after her father died in Brail. Margaret died June 26, 1704 at Newtown Long Island, New York. Margaret was Hendrick's second wife. His first wife had been the daughter of an Indian Cheif. They had one son ROBERT. After Margaret's death, Hendrick married his third wife Styntjie Christina Adriance. Hendrick Martensen Wiltsee died in 1712.
The children of HENDRICK MARTENSEN WILTSEE and Margaret Meyers Wiltsee were:
1. Sophia, born Dec. 11, 1661;
2. Jannetje, born January 7, 1663;
3. Barber born March 1,1665;
4. Marten born April 3,1667;
5. Hendrick born November 29, 1669;
6. Meyndert, born February 11, 1672;
7. Theunis born November 29, 1674; and
8. Jacob born March 18, 1676.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
1623 - 1712 (~ 88 years)