Black Water at the Flat Lick

In 1634 the catastrophic storm tide of the Terrible Water Flood hit Nordstrand Island off the North Sea coast of Denmark and Germany and set the stage for the marriage of Volkje Jurians and Jan Fransse in 1639 in Amsterdam. They set sail for the New World shortly thereafter and settle in Albany, New York as one of the first forty families there. This book brings to life their adventures in colonial New York as well as the lives of their descendants as they move into Pennsylvania, Virginia, ...