Encyclopedia of Biography of New York: Captain Abraham Van Wyck was a member of the Provincial Militia and his sword is still preserved at his homestead at West Neck, LI, NY. He married Elizabeth Wright and their daughter Zeruah vowed she would never change her name and kept her vow by marrying her cousin Abraham Van Wyck.
The present descendants of the Van Wyck family are connected with most of the old and aristocratic families of early New York, including those of Van Cortlandt, Livingston, Van Rensselaer, Beekman, Hewlett, Lefferts, Lot, Lorillard, Ludlow, Polhemus, Governor Seymour and Chancellor James Kent, Stuyvesant, Van Vechten, Ver Plant and others. The name Van Wyck is one of the many Dutch place names, indicating the point whence the immigrant came to America.
The first in this country was Cornelius Barentse (son of Barent), who was described in the early Dutch r