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Jan Luykens (Lücken) was the head of one of the 13 [[Krefeld (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)|Krefeld]] families who landed in Philadelphia on 6 October 1683, and settled in [[Germantown Mennonite Settlement (Pennsylvania, USA)|Germantown]]. He was a Quaker, a citizen of Krefeld, but was a native of [[Wesel (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)|Wesel]]. When the land was divided among the Germantown settlers by lot on 25 October 1683, Luykens as a farmer acquired 200 acres. Jan served as constable of Germantown in 1691-1695, as sheriff in 1694-1695, and died in 1744.
= Bibliography =
Cassel, Daniel K. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Geschichte der Mennoniten. </em>Philadelphia, 1890: 36-44.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 697.

Hull, W. I. <em class="gameo_bibliography">William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania. </em>Philadelphia, 1935.

Niepoth, W. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Die Eltern und Voreltern des Johann Luyken. </em>1935 and 1948.
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