 His mother Margarita was Moorish and Van Salee was a Muslim; he may have been the first of this background to settle in the New World.A Qur'an said to have belonged to van Salee was auctioned in the late 19th century, after having been owned by a descendant, Robert Bayles, a one-time president of The Market and Fulton National Bank of New York.Anthony Janszoon van Salee was Jan Janszoon's fourth child, born in 1607 in Cartagena, Spain, as the second child of his second wife, Margarita, a Moorish woman.