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  • 125Michael Pauluzen Van der Voort — (approximately 1615 to 1690) was an early resident of New Amsterdam and an early settler of Talbot County, Maryland. In New Amsterdam, in 1640, he married Marretje Maria Rapelje, whose older sister, Sarah, was the first European born in the New… …

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