Philip Janszen Ringo - Missing Child

Started by Alex Moes on Wednesday, August 23, 2017
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http://ringofamilyhistory.tumblr.com/ writes at length about another son :

...JAN PHILIPSZEN (John, the 1st) RINGO was probably born about 1652 when his parents, Philip Janszen Ringo and Geertje Cornelis, were living at Fort Beversreede on the Schuylkill River near its confluence with the Delaware. (This fort was located on the river bank in what is now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania southeast of the Walt Whitman Bridge.) He apparently returned with his parents to New Amsterdam and there is irrefutable proof that he lived through boyhood and became a sailor at an early age.
He first appears in the records of New York on Thursday, June 30, 1671 at the Court of Albany, Rensselaerawyck and Schenectady, where under the name of Jan Ringo, he gave a deposition that he and Jacob Wybensz were sailors on the yacht of Pieter Jacobsz., Master, which had brought shipments there from Boston, and that they had carried all the goods of Mr. van Bael from their ship to the yacht of Luycas Andriesz.
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