John Pruyn 
John's father was Arent Pruyn and his mother was Catherijna Gansevoort. His paternal grandparents were Frans Janse Pruyn and Alida; his maternal grandparents were Harmen Harmense Gansevoort and Maritje Leendertse Conyn. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Harmon, Frans, Alida and Lydia.General Notes
John was a man of considerable wealth for the time, and a very highly respected and valuable member of the community, as well as the church, which he repeatedly served in places of trust and honor.
He had nine children, all of whom married. Five on them married Van Vlecks, resulting in intricacies of relationship most perplexing to strangers.
John and, probably, his father and grandfather were slave-owners. Beginning in 1793 there are numerous records of the manumission of slaves in accordance to the Act of Legislature for the gradual abolition of slavery. John Pruyn, Bartholemew J. Van Valkenburgh, and John L. Goes were among the first to go on record as "manumitting, giving freedom to, and setting at liberty" some of their slaves.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1615
- b.24 May 1688
- b.~ 1623
- b.~ 1635 in Netherlands d.~23 Jan 1709 in Albany, New York
- b.~ 1688
- b.~ 1575 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 1600 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 1580 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- b.~ 1620 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium d.1704
- b.~ 1600
- b.~ 1650 in Beverwijk, Netherlands d.07 Jan 1743 in Albany, New York
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