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Zuid-Holland. He apparently owned a good amount of land and he
continued to add to his holdings over the years. The old records in the
Schiedam municipality show that he purchased 1/9 of a man's land in
Spaland in 1633, and then purchased from a widow in 1636 her lands from
North Kethel to Groeneweg. He served as an alderman or magistrate in
Spaland from about 1613 until he died in 1640. He lived his entire life
during the lengthy war with Spain and the Catholic Church. Spaland is
near Delft, which was the fortified capital of the war effort. His father died
at the young age of thirty, and one can speculate that he might have been
a casualty of the war for independence. Pieter then had three stepfathers
between 1580 and 1590, and some of them may have also been felled in
the very fierce fighting during that period. His last stepfather was Dirk
Peurman. Generations of Poot "bouwman" preceded him, and five more
generations of Poot bouwmen and aldermen followed. Around 1602 he
married Martijntgen Cornelisdr Verhouck. She was born in nearby
Vlaardinger Woud about 1580 and she died in Spaland on May 7, 1653.
Pieter was the father of Huibrecht Pietersz Poot.

Huibrecht Pietersz Poot [119]
1610 - 21 Oct 1690

He was a "bouwman" and landowner in Groeneweg and Kethel, Zuid
Holland. In Schiedam he left many legal records that show him managing
the inheritance estates of his brother Cornelis and other relatives. He
held the important office of Church Master in Kethel 1641-1643. He was
an alderman 1648 - 1664. He was a prominent "welgeboren" or well-born
man. He was first married in Kethel Dec. 29, 1635 to Neeltje Pietersdr.
After his first wife's death, he remarried to Neeltje Harmensdr Koeckoeck
in nearby Overschie on Oct 14, 1645. His son Pieter held two church
positions. As Deacon of the Poor, Peter was responsible for disbursing
funds to the needy. Another son, Harmen, was a wealthy "bouwman"
owning land and many animals. Harmen leased some of his land to tenant
farmers.
(The children of Huibrecht’s second marriage are direct ancestors to J.W.
and W.F. Poot. He was grandfather to the famous poet H.K. Poot.)

Abraham van Poot, M.D.
Born 1617? in Amsterdam. Death date uncertain, but after 1690.

Abraham belonged to one of the first families of Amsterdam (North
Holland), but his family is sometimes confused with the Poots from
Abstwoude (South Holland). His father, Harmen Huybert van Poot, was a
painter of subjects on wood in Zwanenburgwal (North Holland). Abraham's
oldest brother, Petrus van Poot, was a preacher in Pijnacker (South
Holland). His next younger brother was named Herman. His youngest
brother was Huybert van Poot, after whom the famous poet (H.K. Poot) was

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