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Volckertsen and Pieter
* Jacobus Calyer, a grandson-in-law of Pieter Praa, and his family farmed the western portion of Greenpoint, and lived in the house built by Volckertsen.

Volckertsen and when
He initially commuted to his farm by boat and may not have moved into the house full time until after 1655, when the small nearby settlement of Boswyck was established, on the charter of which Volckertsen was listed along with 22 other families.

Volckertsen and .<
The first recorded European settler of what is now Greenpoint was Dirck Volckertsen ( Batavianized from Holgerssøn ), a Norwegian immigrant who in 1645 built a-story farmhouse there with the help of two Dutch carpenters .< sup ></ sup > It was built in the contemporary Dutch style just west of what is now the intersection of Calyer Street and Franklin Street.

died and about
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.
T. V. Barker, who developed the classification-angle system, was about to begin the systematic compilation of the index when he died in 1931.
Two days before he was taken sick, Cousin Elec was out worrying about what too much rain might do to his sweetpeas, and Cousin Elec had always preserved in the top drawer of his secretary a mother-of-pearl paper knife which Theresa had coveted as a child and which he had promised she could have when he died.
The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.
He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).
Years before she died, Agrippina had visited astrologers to ask about her son ’ s future.
Aimoin, who died about 1010, must be distinguished from Aimoin, a monk of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, who wrote De miraculis sancti Germani, and a fragment De Normanorum gestis circa Parisiacam urbem et de divine in eos ultione tempore Caroli calvi.
Alaric died soon after in Cosenza, probably of fever, at the age of about forty ( assuming again, a birth around 370 AD ), and his body was, according to legend, buried under the riverbed of the Busento.
Born and generally active in Mantua about 1540 ( Brulliot says 1560 ) and died at Rome in 1623.
Amalric's two older sons Guy an John, boys of about eight years of age, died early in 1205.
He died in the year 107, aged about 95.
The first born was a son Mihdí Effendi who died aged about 3.
She told everyone that the money came from her father, who died at about the same time.
When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.
" The 3, 000 Italian prisoners, who included General Albertone, appear to have been treated as well as could be expected under difficult circumstances, though about 200 died of their wounds in captivity.
The third letter is extant, but no trace of an answer appears in St. Gregory's correspondence, owing probably to the fact that the pope died in 604, about the time it reached Rome.
The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.
Cyril died about 444, but the controversies were to continue for decades, from the " Robber Synod " of Ephesus ( 449 ) to the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ) and beyond.
By the time he was about 10, Defoe's mother Annie had died.
When they were together one day on the Acropolis of Athens, Perdix was asking Daedalus about his son who had died, Icarus.
Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday.
Snake asks him how he feels about the people who died saving his life, but the President only offers half-hearted regret, to Snake's disgust.

died and 1678
** John Jenkins, English mathematician ( died 1678 )
# Margrave George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 3 May 1678 – 29 March 1703 ) died unmarried.
When she became pregnant, her marriage was announced publicly ( on 1 October 1678 ), and Sarah retired from the court to give birth to her first child, Harriet, who died in infancy.
Jordaens died of the mysterious Antwerp disease (' zweetziekte ' or ' polderkoorts ' in Dutch ) in October 1678, which, on the same day, also killed his unmarried daughter Elizabeth, who had lived with him.
** Henry Scougal, Scottish theologian ( died 1678 )
* March 31-Andrew Marvell, poet ( died 1678 )
** Marchamont Needham, journalist and pamphleteer ( died 1678 )
* November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet ( died 1678 )
** Nicholas French, pamphleteer ( died 1678 )
** Martin de Barcos, French Jansenist theologian ( died 1678 )
* date unknown-Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, maxim writer ( died 1678 )
On 26 August 1678 he died, being seventy-two years of age.
She died in childbirth bearing his only son, Francis, in 1678, and Godolphin never remarried.
John Jenkins ( 1592 – 1678 ), English composer, was born in Maidstone, Kent, and died at Kimberley, Norfolk.
* 23 September – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian composer ( died 1678 )
He died in Wethersfield in November 1678.
# Anne, born 1662, died 1678.
Finally, in 1678 Tokugawa Tsunashige died.
* Willem Piso, Dutch physician and naturalist ( died 1678 )
* Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet ( died 1678 )
* Sir William Forester ( 1655 – 1718 ), his son, inherited Dothill from his half-brother, Richard Steventon ( died 1659 ), in about 1675, and beceme a Member of Parliament in 1678.
Leverett died in office, reportedly from complications of kidney stones, on 16 March 1678 / 9, and was interred at the King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston.
A brother of his mother was Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer ( died 1720 ), admiral and commander-in-chief, had entered the navy under the protection of the Duke of Buckingham, as a lieutenant, in 1678.

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