Early African & Indigenous Presence in the Tappan Patent & Bergen County
Thu, Feb 16
|Zoom Lecture
The Zoom BCHS Lecture Series, "African & Indigenous Presence in the Tappan Patent & Bergen County" with Teresa Vega on February 16th, 2023 is booked full! (well over 100 participants.) You can go on a wait list and if there is space available due to no-shows - you'll be able to also join.
Time & Location
Feb 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Zoom Lecture
Guests
About the Event
The Early African and Indigenous Presence in the Tappan Patent and Towns of Bergen County, NJ
Teresa Vega will be talking about how her diverse ancestors left New Amsterdam and moved to East Jersey, (Tappan Patent) in 1683. From the early 1600s until 1865, her ancestors were enslaved by the founders of the Tappan Patent, Blauvelt-Haring-Schmidt family. Other ancestors married into the Afro-Dutch Manual/Mann, DeVries and Van Donck families of New Amsterdam and the Tappan Patent. Teresa’s ancestors include: The original Munsee inhabitants of NY, NJ and CT who occupied New Amsterdam and the Ramapo Mountains; A Dutch pirate who “turned Turk” and married a Mudejar woman of Moroccan descent in Cartagena, Spain whose 2 sons ended up in New Amsterdam in 1630; A few of the first enslaved Angolans who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1626; The first enslaved people not only from West African, Latin America and the…