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Not all of the families on your list descend from the Plockhoy (Menist) settlement, and not all on your list were Dutch.
One example: Peter Enloes was not a member of the Plockhoy colony. He and family came to the Dutch settlement of New Amstel (New Castle) in 1657. He was not Dutch, but Flemish, having come from Duisberg, Flanders.
The 1671 census was taken seven years AFTER the Plockhoy settlement was destroyed "to a naile" by the English force that took over the Dutch colonies in 1664.
If you have solid evidence showing which families you list here were Dutch Menist families from the Plockhoy settlement, please share it.
Some of these families were indeed of the Plockhoy colony, but others almost certainly were not. Some of these folks could have moved in later, settling on lands that had been partly cleared after the Plockhoy colonists had been there for only a year, then abandoned when that settlement was destroyed.
The Maryland colony had been contesting for possession of this territory for years. Some settlers of Lewes came up from Maryland or even from Virginia after the end of the Dutch period; other settlers came from the New York area --government of which also wanted to retain possession of this strategic location.
Let's not create a new "myth" or "find" a cohesive ethno-religious group where there isn't one. What your list here contains are the surnames of various early Lewes area settlers, many of whom arrived at different times not long after the destruction of the Plockhoy colony. But this list of names does not represent any single religious group, and not all were Dutch.
Thanks,
Liz J
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