He was probably a son of Jan Dyckman, Commies of Fort Orange and Beverwyck and was born in 1662. (109-1) Marrying Jannetie, daughter of Cornelis Vielè, his father-in-law conveyed to him a farm below the Aal Plaats which he abandoned by reason of the Indian alarms after the year 1690. (109-2)
Notes
(109-1) His mother Maria, 10 April 1676, bound him to Maj. Abram Staas, he then being about fourteen years of age. Not. Papers, I, 556.
(109-2) Land Papers, VII, 78.