Laurens ("the Great Dane", "the Great Shoe") Duyts 
Laurens, known as "the Great Dane", "the Great Shoe", was born about 1610 in Holstein, Denmark. "the Great Dane", "the Great Shoe"'s father was Richard Duyts. He was an only child. He died on January 14th, 1668. He was buried in Bergen, Bergen Co., New Jersey.General Notes
Laurens and his wife arrived in New Netherland in July of 1639 on the ship "The Fire of Troy".
This was a private armed vessel, engaged by Captain Jochem Kuyter, also from Holstein, a man of wealth and distinction who sailed from Hoorn, bringing with him farmers, herdsmen and laborers to start a new Colony, located in present Harlem. [Dyane Dye Wood, 1986]
The Court Minutes of Harlem relate that Laurens Duyts of Holstein received sentancing from Stuyvesant on November 25, 1658, for selling his wife, Ytie Jansen, and forcing her to live in adultery with another man, and for living himself in adultery, he was to have a rope tied around his neck, and then to be severly flogged and have his right ear cut off, and to be banished for fifty years. He went across the Hudson River to Bergen (now Jersey City where he died and was buried on January 16, 1668.
"the Great Dane", "the Great Shoe" and Ytie were married in a religious ceremony before 1639. They had a son named Hans Laurentszen.
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Hans Laurentszen Duyts
Hans Laurentszen was born on September 23rd, 1644 in New Amsterdam. He died after 1708 in Staten Island, Richmond County, New York.
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