THEUNIS WILLEMSEN
ZWAANENDAE SURVIVOR
1632
Recorded at New
Amsterdam is an affidavit of Theunis Willemsen that he was
a
survivor of the 1632
Zwaanendael massacre. This document written in 1632 stated
that
Willemsen survived
Swaanendael.
In 1908 Jerome Wiltsee
Sr, of Nebraska published his family genealogy claiming an
ancestor was on of two
small boys who hid in the bushes and lived but were found later by
natives
and held captive until
they escaped to freedom in New Amsterdam . This account was
demolished
by another genealogist
and most historians concluded there were no survivors of the
atttack
on Zwaaneddael for lack
of corroborating evidence.
Abstract: March 13,
2019, Delaware Coast Press, Michael Morgan Delaware Diary.
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