New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam // Curator Confidential

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Very interesting. Does the name Castello come from an existing person at that time? I have thousands of DNA matches in America and Canada at ancestry and my heritage who all have ancestors from the settlers period, many names keep coming up Wyckoff, Schenck, Couwenhoven, Tienhoven, Vigne, Roos, Waldron, Voorhees, etc., in 14 years of research I have not been able to link it to my own ancestors in the Netherlands, I was born in the Netherlands myself. My mother has ancestors with the name Kesteloo from the province of Zeeland. You may write it differently as Castello, but in Dutch pronunciation it sounds the same, There is still 1 mysterious person about whom clarity has never been found Dirk adriaensz from Dreumel who came with Adriaan Van der Donck, My father's ancestors come from Dreumel for hundreds of years, I would very much like to know who could be related to Dirk adriaensz