New York - Maryland connection:

Govert Loockerman was the original patentee of the property in the
neighbohood of Hanover Square and had three children. (HAnover Square
was recently visited by the Prince Charles and company to dedicate a
garden to those British citizens lost in the World Trade Center
collapse on Sept. 11, 2001). One daughter was married to Cornelius
Dircksen, the ferryman, who ran the original ferry to Brooklyn.
Another daughter was married to Peter Cornelisen Vanderveen and then
she was later married to Jacob Leisler. Govert Loockerman died in 1671
and his widow lived to 1678. His son Jacob Loockerman, was a
physician, and sold the family's property to his brother-in-law, Jacob
Leisler before leaving for St. Mary's City, Maryland where Govert
Loockerman his father had acquired ;large possessions (Valentine
1856:75).