Pieter Alricks

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Husband Pieter Alricks ¹

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1 M Wiessel Alricks ¹

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            AKA: Wessells Alricks,2 Wessels Alricks
           Born:  - Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE
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General Notes: Husband - Pieter Alricks

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He came from Holland with dispatches for the Dutch government on the Delaware in 1660, as appears by Hazard's Annals of Pennsylvania. He was immediately put in command of the fort, and was soon after sent with D'Hinnoyossa "to negotiate peace" with the Governor of Maryland. In 1665, the English having conquered the Dutch, the estate of Pieter Alricks was confiscated. Some years afterward the Dutch again obtained possession not only of the banks of the Delaware, but also of Fort Amsterdam, now New York City, and held possession until the English Governor, Andross, arrived, and then the Annals inform us thus: "Nov. 10, 1674, Fort Amsterdam, New York, was this day surrendered to Governor Andross, and all the magistrates in office at the time of the Dutch coming here to be reinstated for Delaware River, except Pieter Alricks, he having proffered himself to the Dutch at their first coming, of his own motion, and acted very violently as their chief officer ever since."
William Penn arrived for the first time on the Delaware in October, 1682. He was a model of moderation, for the next day in appointing "a court of judicature," composed of six justices, the second person named is Pieter Alricks. The next year Penn laid out the city of Philadelphia, and in 1685 he bought out the title of the Indians in a large body of land lying between Philadelphia and Wilmington, extending back from the Delaware River as far as a man "can ride in two days with a horse." The first witness to this Indian deed is Pieter Alricks.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 461.

2 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 147.