Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Joannes Nevius, Schepen and Third Secretary of New Amsterdam Under the Dutch, First Secretary of New York City Under the English: And His Descendants, A. D. 1627-1900
The following two hundred and three spellings are, in most cases, made by church officials (ministers or clerks), or by draftsmen of deeds, wills, etc or by printers, and not by the persons themselves. They are given, first, as a curiosity to show how it is possible for a little name of six letters to become changed in the course of a few genera tions through carelessness or ignorance, into almost every conceivable form different from the original; and, second, to illustrate the unusual difficulties with which the au thor has had to contend, in tracing out the various branches and members of the families descended from Joannes Nevins. The eleven names now in actual use by known de scendants ofjoannes are marked with an asterisk.
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