He died in 1694 and his body may be buried under the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church at the juncture of Flatbush Avenue and Kings Highway in Brooklyn. His choice of surname was probably based on the Frisian name of his home, Wykhof, located south of Norden in East Frisland. After the British took over the Dutch colony, Pieter Claesen finally adopted the family name of Wyckoff in 1687. There are references indicating that Pieter Claesen signed a contract "to superintend the Bowery and cattle of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amersfoort" in 1655. Jan Pieterse Wyckoff (1665-c1730) who married Neeltje Williamse Couwenhoven.1748) Garret Pieterse Wyckoff (1662-1701) who married Catherine Johanna Nevius Marten Pieterse Wyckoff (c. 1711) who married Christoffel Janse Romeyn (c. 1656-1746) who married Gertje Charity Van Arsedalen Hendrick Pieterse Wyckoff (c. 1693) who married Adrian Pieterse Kenne Cornelius Pieterse Wyckoff (c. 1648-?) who married Matthys Brouwer Annetje Pieterse Wyckoff (1650-1688) who married Roelof Martensen Schenck (1619-1704) [[Mayken Pieterse Wyckoff (1653-1721) who married Willem Willemsen (c. Nicholas Pieterse Wyckoff (1646-1714) who married Sara Monfoort (1656-1704).Their first two children were born in Rensselearwyck but he moved to New Amersfoort (present day Flatlands, Brooklyn). After Claesen worked off his indenture, he labored as a tenant farmer, leasing land from the Rensselaer patroonship. Pieter emigrated to America in 1636, as an indentured servant to Killian Van Rensselaer, in Rensselearwyck (now Albany, New York). Pieter Claesen was born in the village of Norden in the Holy Roman Empire (present day East Friesland, Germany).
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