Pieters, Dirk (d. 1612)
Dirk Pieters, a Mennonite preacher, lived at Hoorn, originally a member of the Frisian branch and an elder of the congregation, later apparently joining the Waterlanders. In 1610 he opposed the union of some English Brownists (see Smyth) with the Waterlanders at Amsterdam. He died in 1612.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1876): 37.
Scheffer, Hoop and Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, Nos. 480, 531; II, Nos. 834, 1361.
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