Jochem Kierstede1

#23682, (say 1618 - 27 September 1647)
Father*____ Kierstede
Birth*say 1618He was born say 1618.1 
Baptism1 January 1647He sponsored the baptism of Roelof Kierstede on 1 January 1647 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New Netherland.2 
Death*27 September 1647He died on 27 September 1647; in the wreck of the Princess.1 

Citations

  1. [S1347] Berthold Fernow, editor, The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674, seven volumes (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1897), II: 330-331. Order of the Commissioners, 14 Feb 1658 regarding the lot represented by the " deed, passed by said Heer Kieft in the Year 1647 aforesaid, to the behoof of Joghim Kierstede, (copy hereunto annexed), his brother Hans Kierstede, Surgeon of this place, claims a right to the lot lying south of the petitioners sheeted and fenced ground; Whether, in regard that neither Joghim Kierstede, the first owner, drowned in the Princess, nor Hans Kierstede holding actually his deceased brother's deed for eleven consecutive years, has not only not built on it, but allowed it to remain, as it still lies unsheeted, unfenced and unelevated." The ship Princess, sailing from New Netherland to Amsterdam on 18 Aug 1647, sunk off the coast of Wales on 27 Sep 1647. Most on board drowned, including former Director William Kieft and Dominie Everardus Bogardus. See New Netherland Connection 4:4 and O'Callaghan's Register of New Netherland, p. xv. Hereinafter cited as Records of New Amsterdam.
  2. [S1171] Thomas Grier Evans, editor, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Baptisms From 1639 to 1730 (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901), p. 21. Roelof, son of Mr. Hans Kierstede and Sara Roelofs, bapt. 1 Jan 1647; sponsors Jochem Kierstede, Annetje Bogardus, Tryntje Roelofs.