The
video below is extremely interesting. In my opinion, the end of the video is
anti-semitic. Slave trading was obviously a very lucrative enterprise and
created some very wealthy people. Notice, the name Roosevelt
above.
Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt, the immigrant
ancestor of the Roosevelt family, arrived in New Amsterdam (present
day New York City) some time between 1638 and
1649. About the year 1652, he bought a farm from Lambert van Valckenburgh
comprising 24 morgens (that
is, 20.44 ha or 50.51 acres) in what is now Midtown
Manhattan, including the present site of the Empire State Building. The property
included approximately what is now the area between Lexington Avenue and Fifth Avenue bounded
by 29th St. and 35th St.
Claes' son Nicholas was the first to use the
spelling Roosevelt and the first to hold political office, as an alderman. Nicholas' children Johannes and
Jacobus were, respectively, the progenitors of the Oyster Bay and Hyde
Park branches of the family. By the late 19th century, the Hyde Park Roosevelts were
generally associated with the Democratic Party and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts with the Republican Party. President Theodore Roosevelt, an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, was the uncle of Eleanor
Roosevelt later wife of Franklin Roosevelt. Despite political differences that caused family members to actively
campaign against each other, the two branches generally remained friendly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aa3Wu6ocV0http://israelect.com/reference/WillieMartin/ROOSEV~1%20%5BD%5D.htm
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