Unconfirmed histories
There were stories about the family being tax collectors in the municipality Nigtevecht, but I have never found proof of this. It is however possible that the Huydecoper van Nigtevecht family had certain rights, freedoms and duties related to raising taxes in the area as "Lordship of Nigtevecht" from the Dutch "Heerschap". Hence the descriptsion "Huydecoper Lord of Nigtevecht" or Huydecoper Lordship of Nigtevecht". The Dutch titles can be a bit confusing in English as it had changed a bit overtime.
heer / mijnheer = mister, common use of sir.
Lower nobility title "Heer" or "Jonkheer" = Young Lord, but often uses as Sir.
High Nobility title "Heer" = Lord, Lordship. Also used in the Bible as Lord of Israel, Lord Jesus.
There are more stories associated to the name Nigtevecht for which I haven't found proof. One if this is that a naval vessel called "the Nigtevecht" ended up in the army of one of the Kings of England together wit a vessel called "The Vreeland". However I found old recordings of ships loaned from the Dutch to English Kings no evidence of this, nor being ceased by the English Kings. This would also be impossible because the VOC ships where merchant vessels, not naval ship. There were VOC ships called Nigtevecht, Vreeland and Breukelen around 1650, this information can easily be found.
But there was a vessel captured by the English Navy called the "Hilversum" which was then incorporated into the English Navy.
