Jessé De Forest: Founder of New Netherlands, and his daughter Rachel

 Jessé de Forest (1576 – October 22, 1624) was the leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions. They emigrated to the New World, where he planned to found New Amsterdam, which is currently New York City.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess%C3%A9_de_Forest







 




https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Desforetz-3




Walloon Settlers Monument, built 1924, lower Manhattan.
Jessé de Forest named. 




The ancestry of Jessé De Forest, Walloon Leader, to fourth Great Grandmother Wyntje Krom.  Wyntje was born in 1793 in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York. Wyntje married Martinus Davis on Feb. 20, 1814, in New Paltz, New York. Their children were: Cornelius Deyo Davis, Caroline Davis, Peter E. Davis, John Davis, Sarah M. Davis, Charles E. Davis.



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