[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Lents and Krankhytes " were of common origin in Germany and located at a very remote period in Lower Saxony, where they enjoyed a state of allodial independence, at that day regarded as constituting nobility. They were possessed of the state or manor of Ryck en, from which they took their name, then written Von Rycken, indicating its territorial derivation." Hans Von Rycken, lord of the manor, and his cousin Melcbior, of Holland, headed eight hundred Cru-saders in the First Crusade, under Walter the Penni-less, in 1096, and Hans perished. " In the Spanish war, Captain Jacob Simons de Rycke, a d ealthy corn merchant of Amsterdam, and a warm partisan of the Prince of Orange, distinguished himself by his mili-tary services." He was the father of Jacob de Rycke, who is supposed to have been the father of Abraham de Rycke, who emigrated to this country in L688. Abraham de Rycke died in 1689, having had by his wife Girtie, daughter of Hendrick Hermenson, nine children, among whom were Rycke Abramsen, of Cortlandt Manor, who adopted the name of Lent; Jacob, born in 1643, who assisted Ryck Abramsen in the purchase of Ryck's patent; Mary, born 1649, married to Sibout H. Krankheyt, of Cortlandt Manor; and Aletta, born 1653, who married Captain John Harmense, of the Manor of Cortlandt.