Continued Vreugdenhil commentary: 24-27

    Name                  Guns  Adty.       Date   Length   Beam    Depth
11. Edam                  28-34  A          1644   124      28      11
                  The length of this ship was said to be 120ft in the
                    Staat van Oorlog te Water for the year 1654, but
                    lists in 1652, 1653, and 1665 give the length as 124ft.

24. Goes or Ter Goes      40-48  A          1641   125      31      12
      The Staat van Oorlog te Water for the year 1654 gave the length as 124ft

25. Gorcum or Gorinchem   30-36  M          1639   115-7/11 27-3/11 10-10/11

26. Gouda                 28     A          1636*  116    29     11-1/4
      The Gouda may be one of the ships sold in 1648 and then reacquired in 1652

27. Graaf Willem          12     F          1644   74    18-1/2     8
      In 1648, the Graaf Willem was armed with 2-bronze 6pdr, 
         4-bronze 3 and 4pdr, and 6-iron 4pdr guns

More Vreugdenhil commentary

This is a continuation of what I started on the other blog:

    Name                  Guns  Adty.       Date   Length Beam   Depth
11. Edam                  28-34  A          1644   124    28     11
                  The length of this ship was said to be 120ft in the
                    Staat van Oorlog te Water for the year 1654, but
                    lists in 1652, 1653, and 1665 give the length as 124ft.

12. Eendracht             41-48  N          1639   130    32     12

13. Eendracht (galjoot)   24     M (bought) 1647

14. Eenhoorn              22*    Z          1639*  100*   25*    10*

15. Hoorn                 29-32  N          1636   120    27     11

16. Engel Gabriel (jacht) 16*    A          1636   78*    20*    8.5*
        This jacht was sold in 1637 and replaced by the Drente

17. Enkhuizen             28-30  N          1645   116    26-1/2 10
        This was the ship commanded by Dirk Gerritsz Pomp in 1654

18. Wapen van Enkhuizen   30-34  N          1645   120    29     11-1/4
        This was the ship commanded by Gerrit Femsen in 1652-1653

19. Fazant                28-32  A          1646   120    29     12
        This was the ship commanded by Jan de Lapper in 1652-1653

So are there any hidden sources for the Driedaagse Zeeslag?

From a search of the obvious sources at the Nationaal Archief in The Hague, it seems that there are no sources that give details about the Dutch ships or fleet in the Battle of Portland (early 1653), or as the Dutch call it, the Driedaagse Zeeslag. My question is if there are some sources either in private hands or in places that we have not though to look? We have Dr. Ballhausen's book, but what he has seems to be speculative, at best. I even think that his map might be incorrect. We have really good information from April to October 1653. There are good fleet lists and ship data for that period. The data for the Battle of Dungeness is adequate, but I don't have all the details that I would like. There is also said to be good data for the Battle of the Kentish Knock, such as the reports given to Witte de With after the battle, but I don't have those.

My Ancestor Matilda Lehman

I am starting to have more confidence that my ancestor, Matilda Lehman (sometimes phonetically spelled as Matilda Lemon), was born in "Holland". Both in the 1870 and 1900 United States Census, Matilda Lehman's son, Solomon Beardsley, told the census that his mother was born in "Holland". She was apparently born in 1812, although I don't know at what location. So perhaps I really do have a Dutch connection.