2502.Andries Rees van der Lippstadt. Born ca 1630 in Lippstadt, Germany.234 Andries died in New Amsterdam aft 1674.234 Religion: Lutheran.
Ancestors of the Rees/Race family in America, Andries Rees and Celitje Jans arrived in New Amsterdam (New York) before 1656. Andries came from Lippstadt on the River Lippe, Germany. He was a soldier with the Dutch West India Company. His wife Celitje Jans, and at least one son, Willem, accompanied him. Andries was promoted to the rank of Cadet 19 Jun 1657. He bought a house on Smits Street (now William Street) in 1672, and his name appears in the New Amsterdam records as late as 1674.234,193
The New Amsterdam map, that is, the Castello Plan Map, of 1660 lists Rees as a tavern owner. Number 24, block Q, on what is now Pearl Street, south of Water Street. The house he bought in 1672 was only a block or two away on what’s now William Street.
From Scandinavian immigrants in New York, 1630-1674; with appendices on Scandinavians in Mexico and South America, 1532-1640, Scandinavians in Canada, 1619-1620, Some Scandinavians in New York in the eighteenth century, German immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, by John Oluf Evjen (1874–1942), page 427:235 Andries Rees, from Lippstadt, was one of the signers of the petition of the Lutherans at Amsterdam, 1657, requesting that Rev. Goetwater be permitted to remain as Lutheran minister in the city. His wife was Ciletje Jans. Their son Johannes was baptized in New Amsterdam on April 26, 1656. Andries, on his arrival at New Amsterdam, was probably a soldier. In June, 1657, he was promoted to "the rank of a cadet." When the government desired to billet off soldiers in 1665, Andries, being approached, said he could take no soldiers, because he "is afraid of being robbed!" He was engaged in tapping in 1660 and afterwards, being several times arrested for tapping and playing at nine pins on holidays. When arrested in 1663, he admitted that he had "tapped on Sunday," but "after the preaching," what he was entitled to. Moreover, he did "no business during the week." He was liberated. In 1674 he had property on the present William St., between Hanover Square and Wall St., then known as Smith St.