Editing Cornelius Vanderbilt (section)

==Ancestry==
Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertson or Aertszoon ("Aert's son"), was a Dutch farmer from the village of [[De Bilt]] in [[Utrecht (province)|Utrecht]], Netherlands, who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] (later New York) as an [[indentured servant]] in 1650.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornelius Vanderbilt [1794-1877] |url=https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/cornelius-vanderbilt/ |publisher=New Netherland Institute |access-date=January 28, 2020 |archive-date=January 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127031230/https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/cornelius-vanderbilt/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Dutch ''[[van (Dutch)|van der]]'' ("of the") was eventually added to Aertson's village name to create "''van der Bilt''" ("of the Bilt"). This was eventually condensed to Vanderbilt.<ref>{{cite book |first=William Augustus |last=Croffut |title=The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune |publisher=Belford, Clarke |url=https://archive.org/details/vanderbiltsands02crofgoog |year=1886 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/vanderbiltsands02crofgoog/page/n25 1]–9| via=Archive.org}}</ref>
[[Anthony Janszoon van Salee]] was one of Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-great-grandfathers.<ref name="Nexus 1996. pp. 21-23">''Nexus: the Bimonthly Newsletter of the New England Historic Genealogical Society'', Volumes 13-16. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1996. p. 21-23</ref>