Let us pick a date: 1765.... Dr. James' personality was fully formed; families around them in Hackensack were taking sides. Who would he align with?
It is not hard to imagine that there were family friends and relatives in the area with whom the van Beurens had been associated for a century.
Meyers
Grevenraets
Van Horns
Van Buskirks
As I wander through the records of New Amsterdam, connections keep popping up.
One today is Laurens Andriessen van Buskirk . The Van Buskirks became fierce Loyalists.
The Earles did too.
Laurens son, Andries Van Boskerke married Anna Elizabeth Grevenraet in 1720
The couple Catherine Andriesse Meyer (Grevenraet) and Jan Dircksen Meyer are great grandparents to Dr. James vB.
All these "first families lived together on the tip of Manhattan during the short history of New Netherland.
