Pieter Van Brugh

Roeliff Jansen (1602–1637) was born in Marstrandsön, a small island situated in Bohuslän province in Norway, today a part of Kungälv Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden.

[citation needed] In 1699, Van Brugh's prominence led to his appointment as Mayor of Albany which he held until the following year.

In September 1700, he was part of an expedition that traveled west into the Iroquois country in an attempt to establish a fort among the Onondaga.

Van Brugh was one of the last people to be interred beneath Albany Dutch Reformed Church.

[citation needed] Pieter was the great-granduncle of American Revolutionary War soldier, Peter Gansevoort.