Francis Rombouts

He was probably worth, as near as can be estimated, about ten thousand dollars, which was then, however, considered an independent fortune.

In 1671, Rombout bought his first house at Nieuw-Amsterdam from Captain Paulus Leenderzen Vandiegrist.

His political principles were of a liberal character, and his manners and address grave and dignified.

On May 31, 1665, Rombout married Aeltie Wessels in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam.

Widowed a second time, he married, on September 8, 1683, Helena Teller Bogardus Van Bael.

[4] The Rombout Patent was a Colonial era land patent issued by King James II of England in 1685 sanctioning the right of Francis Rombouts and two partners to own some 85,000 acres (340 km2) of land in the southeast of the then Province of New York that had purchased from the Wappinger people.