From the notes of Jim Tillotson:

Jim Tillotson's Notes on Roosa, Pels, De Jongh, Du Truy and Groot:

 

ROOSA (ROOS, ROOSE, ROOSS, ROSA, ROSE, DE ROOSA)

 

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RESIDENCE: ROOSA

     3592 Heyman  1593  Holland

     1796 Albert H  1610 1679 Wyntie de Jong

            Holland;NY-Ulster

     898  Arien H 1643 1700 Maria Pels     Holland;NY-Ulster

     449  Jannetje  1670 1731 Jan Van Eaton  NY-Ulster

 

HISTORY

     [GB41] Family fled on account of religeous 

     persecution from the town of Roosa in Spain-this

     pedigree originated at a time when the majority 

    of the Dutch families preferred a descent from foreign

     lands rather than acknowledge their less illustrious

     hard-working Dutch forebears who by their

     industry had made their more opulent descendents

     ancestor-conscious, andthus this must be questioned,

     and rather family possibly was originally named de

     Roos, which had lived for many generations at

     Herwynen.

 

     [NYSo] Roosa: This is a very old Dutch family, early

     identified with the history of Southern New York,

     and still has numerous representatives

     scattered all over the region.  It appears very early in

     the settlement of Kingston, and Ulster County owes

     much of its development and progress to the

     industry, intelligence and enterprise of this family.

 

     [UCBR] Ancestry traced back to Gelderland, a

      province in Holland.

 

3592-Heyman ROOSA ([NYSo] name is Heyman, surnames unknown among Dutch people).

 

     b. ca. 1593 in Gelderland, Netherlands [LDSC]

 

     ch.  m *Albert Heymans

            m  Aeldert, m. Metje Gysbrechtsdr. de ROOS

                [GB41] (ch. Lysbeth, m. Jacob GROENE

                [GB41]; Maria, m. 1630 [GB41] in Deyl. [GB41]

                Govert Hendricks van HOLTEN, bur. 23 July

                1681 [GB41] Deyl. [GB41]; Geurt Aeldertsz, m.

                3 June 1638 [GB41] Engeltien de JONGH)

 

NOTE 3592-Heyman [GB41] may have been a brother of

      Aeldert ROOSA-Aeldert (Christian name) ROOSA lived

      in Herwynen in the first half of the seventeenth

      century; son Guert married in 1638 Engeltie Ariens de

      JONGH, the daughter of Burgonmaster Arien de

      JONGH; Engeltie was the sister of Wyntie Ariens de

      JONGH who m. 1796-Aeldert Heymans ROOSA