Casper Varleth 
Casper was born in 1591 in Cologne, Germany.1 Casper's father was Nicolaes Varleth and his mother was Francina Jacobs. His maternal grandfather was Abraham Jacobs. He had two brothers and a sister, named Pieter, Daniel and Catherina. He died at the age of 61 in September 1652 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.1 General Notes
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BIOGRAPHY: Casper Varleth and his wife Judith came to America in December 1650,arriving on the ship Fortune. In 1650, Casper and his son Captain Nicolaes, along with two others, chartered a ship to transport passengers to settle in the New Netherlands. They came from Utrecht, Holland. Casper was in business with his brother Pieter in the silk industry there. In 1625 he requested permission from Amsterdam, Holland to locate his silk mill in Utrecht.
BIOGRAPHY: "Judith and her sisters remembered that her brother Nicolaes had a son named Abraham born aboard the ship in a great storm a few days before the ship arrived at a place made or called Martin's Vineyard."
BIOGRAPHY: Mrs. Casper Varleth was among the organizers of the first Assemblies. Judith had a sister named Sarah. Casper and Judith had four daughters and a son.
BIOGRAPHY: Marie was their eldest daughter. She married three times. All her husbands were burgomasters and schepens in New Amsterdam and Ft. Orange. By her third marriage to William Teller, they had a daughter named Jane who married Arent Schuyler, a son of the immigrant, Philip Pietersen Schuyler.
BIOGRAPHY: Casper and Judith had a seconddaughter Judith, who was arrested and put in prison in Hartford, Connecticut, accused of being a witch. She was released by Governor Peter Stuyvesant. Judithmarried Nicholas, the son of Governor Stuyvesant's sister, Anne. Judith's brother, Nicholas, helped in her release, too. He had married Anne Stuyvesant, the sister of the Governor and the widow of Samuel Bayard.
BIOGRAPHY: Casper andJudith's daughter Catherine married Francis de Bruyn. There are many of their descendents still living in New York City by the name of Brown, Bruen or Brewen.
BIOGRAPHY: Their daughter Jane married Augustyn Heermans who came from Bohemia through Holland to America in 1633 or 1643.
BIOGRAPHY: Casper's father was named Nicolaes Varlet. He had been a Protestant refugee from the Spanish Netherlands. His son Casper went to America. His son Pieter lived in Amsterdam, Holland and his son Daniel lived in Duinkerken, Belgium. Nether Pieter nor Daniel came to America.
BIOGRAPHY: When Nicolaes Varlet died he was buried in Geuzenkerof, in Cologne, Germany.
BIOGRAPHY: The Varleth name vanished early inthe history of the colony.
‌Casper and Judith were married in a religious ceremony on October 17th, 1615 in Ultrecht, Holland.1 They had three sons and seven daughters, named Abraham, Nicholas, Jacobus, Janetie, Mary, Maria, Judith, Catharina, Anna and Sarah.
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Children
Janetie Varleth
Janetie was born in 1621 in Ultrecht, Holland.1 She died at the age of 65 in 1686 in Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Maryland. She was buried in Garden Of Bohemia Manor.1 1
Nicholas Varleth
Nicholas was born in 1622 in Ultrecht, Holland.1 He died at the age of 53 in 1675.1
Mary Varlet
Mary was born in 1627 in Ultrecht, Holland.1 She died at the age of 75 in 1702 in New York, New York.1
Anna Varlett
Anna was born about 1637 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.1 She died in 1685 in Evergreen, Accomack County, Virginia, USA.2
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