A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 105
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] York. Bertine of New Rucheli.e. The ancestors of the Berlincs, or Berteins (as the name was originally spelt,) were Protestants, inhabitants of Rochelle, in France. On the Revocation of the edict of Nantes, Pierre Bertine fled from France to England, and soon after came thence to America. Two bro-thers by the name of Peter and James were living at New Rochelle in l7i-2. Peter left three sons, James, Peter, and Isaac, and a daughter Elizabeth. James mar. Deborah Cozine, and had James, Thomas, Hannah, who mar. Wil-liam H. Pinckney of Eastchester, Sarah, mar. Henry Remsen, Eliza, mar. Gilbert Hatfield, and Julia who mar. Gershom Smith. BiRDSALL OE Peekskill. Dauicl Birdsall of Peekskill, b. 17lh January, 1734-5, d. Oct. 29th, 1800, mar. Hannah, she was b. 7th Nov. 1737. Their children were, 1. Daniel, jr., of Peekskill, who mar. 1st, Phoebe Brown, and secondly Letitia Lewis, and left William B. of Peekskill, James, of New York, Samuel of Cincinnati Ohio, Daniel, Mary, who mar. Medad Raymond, Anne Eliza and Hannah, 2. Samuel, left William, who mar. 1st, Nancy Haws, 2nd, Spock, and had Samuel of Peekskill. 3. Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1758. 4. Mary Hannah, b Sept. 1760. 5. Elizabeth, b. 8lh July, 1765. 6. Martha. Bx.EECKER. Jan Jansen Bleeckcr, a native of Meppel in the Province of Overyssel, Holland, came to New Amsterdam from Holland in 1658, and subsequently removed to Albany. He was one of the first aldermen named in the charter of Albany, A. D.