Maryn Adriansen

He had a daughter around 1631, either in the Netherlands or Renssalaerswyck, Brechje Maryns, who would marry Claes Cornelisze Egmont Van Voorhout and have issue.

Adriansen contracted with Kiliaen van Rensselaer to serve as a tobacco planter for the period of three years on January 12, 1631.

He sailed with his wife Lysbet Thysen and a child and a few farm workers from Texel aboard De Eendracht shortly after July 7, 1631.

He arrived at Fort Orange, part of the patroon of Rensselaerwyck, located on the Hudson River (in today's Capital District near Albany, New York.

In 1643, he took part in a Shrovetide dinner meeting at the home of Jan Jansen Damen, with other guests including Kieft, Cornelis van Tienhoven and Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck[7] During dinner, the men discussed the Indian situation and Van Tienhoven produced a petition advocating the massacre of the Native American population.

(Pennoyer later testified in regard to the matter, on the 23d of March 1643; that he had heard Adriaensen's wife Lysbet Tyson say in the tavern after he had asked her twice what ailed her, "Robert, my husband, will kill the commander; go and catch him" [10]).

[14] At some point Adriaensen returned to New Netherland some years and on May 11, 1647, Director Kieft granted him patent for 50 morgens of land[15] on the west side of the North River, known by the name of "Awiehaken", now Weehawken[13] On April 18, 1670, the government of the Province of New Jersey (posthumously) confirmed the grant to Maryn Adriaensen for a parcel of land called Wiehacken in the jurisdiction of Bergen on Hobooken Creek, 50 morgen Dutch measure originally given on May 11, 1647.