Joris Jansen Rapelje, Dutch settler in colonial North America (died 1662)

Joris Jansen Rapelje

Earliest Dutch settler of New Amsterdam

Joris Jansen Rapelje was a member of the Council of Twelve Men in the Dutch West India Company colony of New Netherland. He and his wife Catalina (Catalyntje) Trico (1605–1689) were among the earliest settlers in New Netherland.