Jan (Jacob) Derckse Amerman worked as a sailor for the Dutch West Indies Company. He married in 1648 Trinjntie Claes, who lived in Marken in Amsterdam. They were married in Ter Burght (Den Burg on Texel). Marken was the name of an Amsterdam quarter, but also the name of the tiny island in the Zuiderzee. Ter Burght is probably the town of Den Burg on the island of Texel. Jan and Trinjntie probably set sail together, out of the Port of Texel, the large island off North Holland, the springboard for all Dutch marine adventures about 1649. Most of the ships sailed to England before sailing to the New World. (It is assumed that she may have set sail with her husband at that time).

In 1649 Trinjtie Claes and Jan Jacobse Amerman/Amberman had a son Dierck Janse Amerman/Amberman. Jan, Trinjntie and Dierck Janse Amerman lived at Mannadens, section C, which is present-day Manhatten Island, New York. See the Castello Plan 1660.

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"Descendants Of Derick Janse Amerman"

(Dirck Janssen Ammerman) compiled by: C. Theodore Ammerman
509 Ivanell
La Puente, CA 91744

Pg. 4...The earliest known ancestor of this family line was Jan Dirckee Amerman (1), who is believed to have been a sailor, sailing out of Holland. It is not known whether he sailed to New Amsterdam, (later New York), or whom his wife was, or how his infant son, Derick Janse Amerman, came to America in the year 1650.

Note 1..Letter to this compiler dated 19 Dec., 1968, from Richard H. Amerman, Editor of the Half Moon, puslished by the Holland Society of New York, quoted as follows: "Origins of our family name are still unclear; some of us think it is of Frisian inception, from "Amersma"; others that it connects in some way with the North Holland town of Amnersfoort. Some years ago while in Amsterdam, I got a copy of the marriage banns in 1648 of the couple whose son, Dirck Janse A., came as an infant to this country two years afterward. Dirck lived until about 1723. His father, according to the Amsterdam record (assuming it relates, as I think it does), from the island of Maarken in the Zuyder Zee, was by occupation a sailor. This man's name was Jan Dirckse A., so the patronymic tie-in is clear. A.ll this I relate from recollection, but I believe it correct."

The name Ammerman appears in more than one Amsterdam registration of intended marriage:

1. Jan Ammerman, from Moeri (probably Marien in East Frisia (Friesland, Germany), soldier, 29 years old, married on June 2, 1652 at Amstelveen with Annetje Roelofs, from Jever, 28 years old. (registration of intended marriage May 18, 1652, D.T.,B. 470/17)

2. Gerrit Albert Ammerman, from Westerackum (Akkum lies in East Frisia, Germany), Tailor, 24 years old with Lucia Alderts, from Herver (Westerherver lies in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), 28 years old. (registration of intended marriage Amsterdam 1671, D.T.B. 497/269)

3. Jurjen Ammerman, from Wapelersijl (Wapelersiel, East Frisia (Oldenburg, Wiedersachsen), shoemaker, 28 years old, assisted by his uncle Dirck Teunisz with Zybrighje Eylderts, from Amsterdam, 36 years old, assisted by her mother Jannetje Lubberts. (registration of intended marriage Amsterdam, October 1, 1678 D.T.B. 691/158)

4. Roelf Ammerman,m from Jever (East Friesland, Niedersachsen, Germany), blacksmith, 26 years old with Anna Jans (Jehnissen), from Jever, 29 years old. (registration of intended marriage Amsterdam, January 18, 1687 D.T.B. 659/31)

It is probable that those bearing the name Ammerman that appear in Amsterdam, originally came from Ammerland (Oldenberg, Niedersachsen, Germany).

Municipal Archives Amsterdam

D(oop), T(rouw) & B(egraafregisters) No. 466 p. 71 August 20, 1648

Register of Intended marriage

Appeared as above: registered on the deed of Nicolaas Cruquuis, minister at Ter Burght are Jacob Jansz Ammerman, sailor and Trijntie Claes, from Amsterdam, both living at Marcken.

Remarks:

Ter Burght is probably the town of Den Burg on the island Texel. I will try to find out if there was a reformed minister by the name of Nicolaas Cruquuis there. This registration on the basis of a deed probably points to this having been a hasty marriage. Perhaps because Jacob was due to sail. Perhaps Trijntie Claes sailed with him?

I don't know anything about the first generation of the Ammerman genealogy. The minister failed to give Jacob's place of birth. Both probably lived in Marken in Amsterdam, Marken was the name of an Amsterdam quarter but also the name of the tiny island in the Zuiderzee. I think that the name probably refers to the Amsterdam quarter here. They did not marry in Amsterdam, so that probably happened at Ter Burght (Den Burg on Texel).