CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH NOTES
ON SOME OF THE PATERNAL ANCESTORS, DESCENDANTS,
AND COLLATERAL LINES, OF
FREDERICK PERRY DECOURSEY (1900-1978)
Including the families of
BOS, BRADT, CAUDEBEC, COMSTOCK, CORSA, CORSEN, CRAY, CUVILJE,
DAMEN, DECKER, DECOURSEY, DEFOREST, DEPUY, HOOGES, HELMICK, KIP,
LENT, MONTAGNE, OBLINIS, PROVOOST, RAPALJE, ROSENKRANS, ROOSA,
RYCKEN, SCHOONMAKER, VANAKEN, VANGORDEN, VERBRUGGE, VERMILYEA,
VIGNE, VOLKERTSEN
compiled by
WILLIAM L DECOURSEY
1735 - 19th TERRACE NW
NEW BRIGHTON, MINNESOTA 55112
(612)-633-5759
| 1430 | The CROY family "was an old Picard family; but when
Picardy was under Phillip, Duke of Burgundy, Jean de CROY,
grandsire of Charles, attached himself to that potent
duke, who made him a knight of the Golden Fleece, when he
first instituted that order at Bruges, in 1430."
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904),pp.30-33. |
| 1482 | Charles de CROY took his title from the estate of Chimay, to which he fell heir, in 1482, on the death of his father Philip, and which was erected into a principality four years later by the Emperor Maximilian, whose son Philip, King of Spain, conferred on the new prince the additional honors of the Golden Fleece. |
| 1495 | Charles de CROY, Prince of Chimay, married, in 1495, to
Louise, Lady of Avesnes, daughter of Lord ALLAN d'Albret.
It was by this marriage that the Land of Avesnes came into
the possession of the CROYS.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.30-33. |
| 1500s | 16th Century - The seat of many of our ancestors in the
15th and 16th century was in the area of Roune, Lille, and
Avense in Belgium (now part of northern France).
Some of the genealogy of the Walloon families of
deCOURCY, deCROY (CRAY), PROVOOST, MONTAGNE, duCHESNE,
VERBRUG, TRUEX, VIGNE, CUVEILLE (VEILE), CAUDEBEC, etc.
can be found in the 10 volume work of
It is evident that many of these Walloon families were merchants and seamen who, with their families, were settlers in the early Dutch colonies at Recife, Brazil and New Amsterdam. Branches of these families still reside in Brazil and the Antilles. Some of our early Walloon ancestors most probably were merchants and mariners operating out of the port of Bruges, Belgium which was the market center of Europe in the late 16th Century. |
| 1508 | The famous scholar, Jacques LeFEVRE of E'taples in
Picardy, made the first translations of the holy gospels
into French about 1508. Editions printed in Antwerp were
used by early Walloons and Huguenots in the awakening of a
new religious life. LeFEVRE's student, Jean CALVIN
(1509-1564), concluded that a new church must break away
from Catholicism. In 1536 he took refuge in the free
intellectual climate of Switzerland, and there he
published his INSTITUTES OF CHRISTIANITY. In Geneva, he
founded a new church and trained numerous French refugees
to become successful Huguenot missionaries and pastors in
their native land. By 1559, a French Reformed Church,
following Calvin's tenets, was formally constituted. The
influence of CALVIN's beliefs had also extended to the
Reformed Churches of Holland, Scotland, and parts of
Germany.
William Heidgerd, ROOTS OF THE NEW PALTZ REFORMED CHURCH (1983), p.4. |
| 1516 | "Pietro Martire VEMIGLI (1500-1562) was a leader of the
Protestant Reformation. Born in Florence, he became an
Augustinian monk at Fiesole in 1516. In 1541 he accepted
the views of the Protestant Reformation and was compelled
to flee to Switzerland, from there he went to Strassburg
where he became a professor of theology in 1542. He was
invited by CRANMER to come to England, and in 1547 was
appointed by Edward VI, regius professor of divinity at
Oxford. Under Queen Mary he was driven from England and
resumed his teaching in Strassburg, 1553. In 1556, he
became professor of Hebrew at Zurich. Later he went to
Holland where he married and taught.
YESTERYEARS, v.8, p.1. |
| 1527 | Frances, Lady of Avesnes, eldest daughter and heiress of prince Charles de CROY, married her kinsman, Philip de CROY, -- for their parents were cousins, --- the latter took the estates on the death of his father-in-law, in 1527, the next year further securing the land of Avesnes to his house by a release obtained from Henry d'Albert, King of Navarre, cousin to his wife, and grandfather of Henry IV of France. |
| 1533 | Philip de CROY, prince of Chimay and Knight of the Fleece, rendered important service with his Walloon troop in the war between France and Spain; and Charles V, in 1533, showed his love for his "nephew" by giving him the title of Duke of Arschot, from an estate he held in Brahant; and after the destructive war of 1543, Philip de CROY, Duke of Arschot, was created a grandee of Spain. |
| 1549 | Philip de CROY, Duke of Arschot and grandee of Spain,
died in 1549, leaving his heirs such rich possessions and
dignities, the family of CROY became "of greatest revenue
and authority of any in Belgium." Philip, second duke,
now enjoying his father's titles and estates, including
Avesnes, had great influence in governmental affairs, as
had also his brother, Charles CROY, Marquis of Havre, in
Hainault. "Great destinies were in the grasp of this
influential family. Time was to eliminate, as one of the
results, an humble transatlantic enterprise, to which some
of their born subjects were to contribute."
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.30-33. |
| 1551 | Brickje Janssen RAPALJI, dau. of Gaspard Colet RUPOLJE, of Paris France, and Breckje JANSSEN of Holland, was born 1551, at Antwerp, Holland. She married Victoire Honoires JANSSEN, son of Victor Antoine JANSSEN. |
| 1555 | Admiral Gaspard de COLIGNY unsuccessfully attempted to
establish Huguenot Protestant colonies at Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil in 1555 and in Florida in 1562-1564. Among those
in his service was Antoine de CROY, who, in opposition to
his kinsmen, embraced the Reformed religion.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.11,. |
| 1555 | The first Protestant settlement in America was the
French Reformed colony in Brazil in 1555. In 1558, one of
the party by the name of VERMEIL was martyred at Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. See:
Rev. Prof. James I Good, D.D., HISTORY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES (1899), p.7,ll, passim. (Some of our DECOURSEY ancestors were associated with the VERMILYE family for about two centuries.) |
| 1564 | Archbishop De BERGHES, who was lord temporal as well as spiritual of the Cambresis, in order to check the growing disaffection of the church, in 1564, fulminated an edict against the practice of attending the so-called Reformed preaching, reading heretical books, or chanting the psalms of Marot and Beza. This seemed to have little effect, for the numbers of the Reformed church rapidly increased, in Avesne and vicinity; and Rev. PHILLIPPE, minister of the church of Tupigny, by invitation preached for them many times in the faubourgs of the city, and organized a church, with a consistory of ten members. |
| 1566 | In August 1566, Archbishop De BERGHES sent his
emissary, Dr. GEMELLI, to to warn the Protestants of Le
Cateau (a village near Avesnes) of dire consequences if
they should not at once return to the Roman Catholic
Church. Shortly following his visit, news reached Le
Cateau from Valenciennes, a large Walloon town fifteen
miles north of Avesnes, that the people there had cast out
all the images, relics, and other symbols of Romanism from
their churches, and that the same had also been done in
many other cities. The citizens of Le Cateau, under the
leadership of Rev. PHILLIPE, proceeded to the church of
St. Martins, 25 August 1666, to follow this example, and
claim their right to order their worship as they
pleased.
Three couples were joined in marriage, 15 December
1666, by Rev. PHILLIPE, at St. Martins. One of the brides
was the daughter of Jean De FOREST, then living at Le
Cateau.
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| 1569 | Abram JANSSEN, son of Victoire Honoires JANSSEN and Brickje Janssen RAPALJIE, was born 1569, in Holland |
| 1570c | Peter deCOURSE was born c.1570 near Lille, France (then
Belgium). He was a Walloon merchant and trader. As a
mariner in the employee of the Dutch East India Company,
he was, it is said, at the site of New Amsterdam as early
as 1612. He traded extensively with the Dutch outposts
and colonies in Brazil and North America. He probably had
the following children:
(1). Jan CORSSE or CORSSEN, married 1619 in Amsterdam,
Holland to Tryntje "Catherine" Van CAMPEN - Note that a
Tryntje Van CAMPEN witnessed the baptism of a child of Jan
CORSZEN and Metje Theunis CRAY in 1676.
(2). Arendt CORSSE STAM, died 1645 at sea; married, 26
January 1638 at Amsterdam to Angenetta Gillis VERBRUG
(also known as Angenietie Gillis Ten Vaert), dau. of
Gillis Jansen VERBRUGGE and Barbara SCHUT. His widow
married Johannes de la MONTAGNE, an official of the Dutch
West India Company.
(3). Dirck CORSSE STAM, born 1608, commissary for Killian Van RENSELLAER at Fort Orange (now Albany, NY).
(4). Cornelius COURSEN (also known as Cornelis PIETERSE
VROOM), born probably at Langeraer Holland in the year
1612, died 1655, married Tryntje HENDRICKS, dau. of
Hendrick TOMASSEN and Elsie MARTENSE.
(5). Paulina CORSSEN married, in Holland, Jasper
GREVENRAET. Their dau. Janneke GREVENRAET m. Cornelis van
de VEN
(
Cornelis van de VEN and Janneke GREVENRAET baptized a
child in Recife, Brazil in 1644
Abraham GREVENRAET was sent by his father Hendrick
GREVENRAET, merchant of Amsterdam, with Dirck CORSSEN STAM
to purchase a cargo of tobacco in Virginia, 1630.
For GREVENRAET see also
For more on Pieter duCOURS, DeCOURSE, or duCOURSEN, see
See also:
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| 1572 | Initial toleration of the Calvinists and the Reformed
Church movement soon broke down in France. Twenty
Thousand Protestants perished in the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew on 24 August 1572. A period of sporadic civil
wars followed. Large numbers of merchants in the upper
and middle classes from the northern provinces fled singly
or in small groups to England and the Netherlands.
Baird's HISTORY OF THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA, Vol.I, pp.149,167,175,352,354; Woodruff, Francis E., THE COURSENS OF SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, p.15; William Heidgerd, ROOTS OF THE NEW PALTZ REFORMED CHURCH (1983), p.5; Harry T. Gumaer, A MINISINK FRAGMENT (1981), p.1-3. |
| 1579 | In 1579, Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, and other
provinces united into a free republic known as the Seven
United Provinces; achieving, after a long struggle, their
independence from Spain and the Papacy. But the remaining
Netherlands relapsed into a more servile bondage to Spain
and the Pope. The king allowed the Protestant Walloons
two years in which either to "return to the bosom of the
church" or leave the country. Thousands of Walloons
sought safety in exile.
Antoine de CROY was among those who embraced the
Reformed religion, and had attached himself with the
fortunes of Admiral COLIGNY; and another kinsman, William
ROBERT, Prince of Sedan had generously opened his gates to
their persecuted and fleeing subjects, with whose faith
and trials he was in sympathy.
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| 1580 | Jesse de FOREST was born, ca.1580, in Avesnes, Belgis
Soil of Hainault. "He was a splendid type of Walloon,
gifted with energy, initiative, and perseverance, and he
used these qualities for the benefit and welfare of his
countrymen."
Henry G. Bayer, THE BELGIANS FIRST SETTLERS IN NEW YORK (1925), p.139. |
| 1584 | Walloon refugees established a church at Leyden,
Holland, in 1584.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.74. |
| 1585 | In the writings on "The Troubles brought to
Valenciennes on account of Heresies," one notes that the
names De la VIGNE and CUVELIER (the latter the French
equivalent of the Dutch CUVILJE) frequently occur in the
index of victims of the Spanish Inquisition. Surviving
relatives likely fled religious persecution to tolerant
Holland. There, a Jean de la VIGNE served as Amsterdam's
Walloon dominie from 1585 to 1622; and there, in 1613 or
earlier, a Guillaume de la VIGNE and Adrienne CUVELIER
evidently found employment in expanding Dutch Commerce,
and their names became Dutchified.
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.2-14. |
| 1587 | A Jacob SCHUHMACHER and his wife Johannet, are
mentioned at Hirtel, Germany in 1587. Their son was one
Godmann SCHUHMACHER, mentioned in documents dated 1590 and
1592, who had a son (Jost) Quirin SCHUHMACHER of Hirtel
who married Anna --?--; his son was Hans Joachim
SCHUHMACHER of Hirtel who married twice; and a son of this
Hans Joachim SCHUHMACHER was Hans Jacob SCHUMACHER who
married Marie LORENTZ, daughter of Joh. Sebastian LORENTZ.
Daniel SCHUMACHER, son of Hans Jacob and Marie (LORENTZ)
SCHUMACHER, came to America in 1710, and was undoubtedly
the "Daniel SCHOONMAKER who was sponsor at the baptism of
Daniel LAWRENCE, son of Johannes LORENTZ, 13 December
1713.
Henry Z. Jones, Jr., THE PALATINE FAMILIES OF NEW YORK (1985), pp.938-939, passim. It is not known whether there were earlier connections between our Henrick Jochemsz SCHOONMAKER and this SCHUHMACHER family, but Chambers in his EARLY GERMANS OF NEW JERSEY suggests a possible relationship between these later 1710 Palatine families and earlier settlers in New Paltz. |
| 1595 | Dr. Johannes La MONTAGNE was born, 1595, at Saintonge.
"La MONTAGNE was not his family name, but an adjunct which
finally took the place of the former, and was originally
derived, ---as correlative facts seem to indicate, ---from
La MONTAGNE, a district of Burgundy."
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.48; E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.21n. |
| 1595 | "At Avesnes, which since the year 1559 had had a
Spanish garrison, the new (Calvinistic) religion found no
toleration; yet, nevertheless, some of its worthy people,
members of its old De FOREST family included, had embraced
the new faith, though this exposed them to imminent peril;
for woe to him who dared avow that heresy or quit the old
church.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.33.
Among the first Walloon families who were "the first to
flee their country were those of De FOREST and VERMEILLE
or VERMILYE, the latter, in the troubles of the sixteenth
century, taking refuge in England."
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| 1595 | Many wealthy protestant Walloon families from northern
France and Belgium exiled to Holland before 1595 to escape
Religious persecution. "Protestantism made some headway
in Wallonia in the 16th century, but the Spanish Habsburgs
(who had come into power through marriages and
inheritances upon the death of Mary of Burgundy) were able
to prevent the Belgian provinces from attaining their
independence as did the northern provinces, and were also
successful in stamping out Protestantism by employing
ruthless measures, including the Inquisition. Because of
Spanish religious oppression, some Walloon Protestants
fled to the neighborhood of Leiden in the Netherlands;
here they developed plans for emigrating to the New World
and may have had contacts with the Mayflower Pilgrims. In
1624 a goodly company of them left the Netherlands to
settle in New Amsterdam (now New York).
ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICAN (1965), vol.28, p.303. |
| 1595 | Coenraet van GREVENRAET "swaertveger' (sword maker) was accepted as a burgher of Amsterdam, Holland on 8 May 1595. |
| 1596 | Joris Jans Janssen de RAPALJI, son of Abram JANSSEN, was bapt. 24 August 1596, at LaRochelle, France. He married 1623, to Caroline TRICO. |
| 1598 | The Edict of Nantes was signed by Henry IV on 13 April
1598. The Edict permitted the previously persecuted
Protestants to hold any office, to organize their family
lives, to hold religious gatherings and to possess special
towns as places of refuge; but from the day of its issue,
its power was curbed bit by bit, until finally the Edict
was revoked in 1685.
Harry T. Gumaer, A MINISINK FRAGMENT (1981), p.1-4. |
| 1600 | Jean VERMEILLE, born ca.1575 at Leyden, Holland, married ca.1600, to Marie ROUBLET. |
| 1600c. | Paulina CORSSEN married, ca.1600, in Holland, Jasper
GREVENRAET. Their dau. Janneke GREVENRAET m. Cornelis
van de VEN (NY.GEN.BIOG.REC,
v.64,p.149). Cornelis van de VEN and Janneke
GREVENRAET baptized a child in Recife, Brazil in 1644.
( NY.GEN.BIOG.REC. v.61,p.245). For GREVENRAET see also N.Y.Gen. & Biog.Rec. v.13,p.10, v.60,p.202, v.61,p.41, v.63,p.10-21. |
| 1600 | The BRATT family lived in Bergen, Norway, before the early part of the fifteenth century, when it moved to the northern part of Gudbrandsdalen. The BRATTS had a coat of arms until about the middle of the sixteenth century. |
| 1601 | Jean and Marie (ROUBLET) VERMIELLE fled to England in the latter part of the 16th century, and had several children born at London. Among these was Isaac VERMILYE, born 1601. He married Jacomina JACOBS. |
| 1602 | David DAMMAN married, (intent) 14 April 1602, at
Middleburg in Zeeland, to Esther PROVOOST, bp. 13 Sept.
1574 at Antwerp, dau. of Willem and Maeijken (STEVENS)
PROVOOST.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203. |
| 1603 | Anna, a child of Jasper GRAVENRAET and Pouwelijntje
CORSSEN, was baptized 14 Oct. 1603, Amsterdam, Nieuwe
Kerk, Holland.
D.T.B. No.39; N.Y.G. & B.R., v.63, p.10. |
| 1606 | In 1606, the Walloons at Leyden, Holland founded a college, for the better training of their youth in their favorite Calvinistic theology. |
| 1606 | Henry De FOREST, son of Jesse De FOREST, was born 1606. |
| 1607 | Janneken, a child of Jasper GRAVENRAET and Pouwelijntje CORSSEN, was baptized 27 May 1607, Amsterdam, Nieuwe Kerk, Holland. D.T.B. No.39; N.Y.G. & B.R., v.63, p.10. Janneken GREVENRAET married Cornelis van der VEN and removed to Recife, Brazil, where they had children baptized. |
| 1609 | Rebecca VERMEILLE, daughter of Jean and Marie (ROUBLEY)
VERMIELLE, was born in London, England, in 1609.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.104. |
| 1610 | Kaspar, a child of Jasper GRAVENRAET and Pouwelijntje
CORSSEN, was baptized 16 May 1610, Amsterdam, Nieuwe Kerk,
Holland.
D.T.B. No.4; N.Y.G. & B.R., v.63, p.10. |
| 1610 | Jesse DeFOREST of Avesnes, Belgium, married (probably
second), 23 September 1610, in Sedan, France, Marie du
CLOUX. Jesse DeFOREST had children: Jean; Henry; Rachel;
Jesse; and Isaac. Jesse DeFOREST was the leader in
agitating the proposed migration of the Walloons to
America. According to No. 12 of the Report of Virlet
d'AOUST on Geography for 1871, the greater part of the
Walloon Colonist to America of 1623 were from the area of
Avesnes (near the present border of France and Belgium),
and they first named the settlement at Manhattan,
"Nouvelle Avesnes".
Daughters of the American Colonists, LINEAGE BOOK, vol.XII, pp.226-228, #11643; Theo. L. Van Norden, THE VAN NORDEN FAMILY (1923), pp.69; James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.70-91, passim. Following his marriage, Jesse DeFOREST, along with his brothers Gerard, Jean, Michael, and a sister Jeanne (whose husband was one CARTIER, from Columbier, France), removed down the Maas to Holland, and resided in the "Gasthuys Quarter" of Leyden. Jesse and Gerard De FOREST were by occupation dyers of cloth. |
| 1611 | Gerard de FOREST, of Avesnes, married at Leyden, 12 August 1611, to Hester, daughter of Crispin and Agnes de la GRANGE. |
| 1611 | Sr. Jasper GREVENRAET, a merchant at Ypres, Belgium is
mentioned 2 Oct 1611, in protocol No. 48 of Notary Public
Jacob DUYFHUYSEN in Rotterdam, Holland.
NY.GEN.BIOG.REC., v.64,p.149. It is noted
that one of the sponsors in the baptism in Brazil claimed
by Woodruff as being that of Jan CORSZEN in Brazil is
"Ypes Ypesen" (evidently from the same place as the
GREVENRAETS. - It also should be noted, however that
Woodruffs assumptions on this baptism have been called
into question by many and are no longer accepted as valid
by most.
See Francis E. Woodruff, THE COURSENS OF SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - A reprint from THE WOODRUFFS OF NEW JERSEY. |
| 1611 | Agniet GILLIS, daughter of Gillis Jochem Ten WAERT
[VERBRUGE] and his wife, Beicken SCHUTS, was baptized, 1
December 1611, at Amsterdam, Holland. She married first,
17 May 1633, at Amsterdam to Elias PROVOOST, bapt. 24 Oct.
1606, the son of Guilliame PROVOOST and Jenneke
EERDEWIJNS. Elias PROVOOST died, July 1636, and his
widow, Agniet Gillis, married second, 26 January 1638, at
Amsterdam, to Arent CORSSEN STAM, born 1615 in Amsterdam,
son of Cors SETTEN and Annetje GERRITS [sic]. Arent
CORSSEN STAM died at sea and his widow, Agniet GILLIS,
married third, on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam, to
Johannes de la MONTAGNE, widower of Rachel DeFOREST.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1612 | At Leiden, Holland, 12 April 1613, Jean de CROY had a child baptized in the Walloon church. |
| 1612 | "Peter COURSEN, grand-father of Cornelis COURSEN, came
as a soldier, in 1612(?); if so, oldest New York family.
His son of the same name died on Staten Island, 1657, and
his grand son, same name, Justice of Staten Island, born
1645."
Orra Eugene Monnette, FIRST SETTLERS OF PISCATAWAY AND WOODBRIDGE (1930), pp.126, 489, 1219. |
| 1612 | Elysabet, a child of Jasper GRAVENRAET and Pouwelijntje
CORSSEN, was baptized 25 Nov. 1612, Amsterdam, Nieuwe
Kerk, Holland.
D.T.B. No.5; N.Y.G. & B.R., v.63, p.10. |
| 1612 | Harmen Hendrick ROSENKRANS was born 1612, at Bergen, Norway. |
| 1613 | Gulian VIGNE was an Officer at the site of New
Amsterdam in 1613. He and his wife, Adrienne CUVEILLE,
were probably members of the crew of the Dutch trading
ship "Tiger," which caught fire, in 1613, off Manhattan
Island and was beached. The ship's crew wintered in huts
on the southern shoulder (at about 39 Broadway) of
Manhattan, and thus established the first settlement in
what is now New York. It is evident that "some
Hollanders," probably including the VIGNE's, stayed
continuously in New Netherland from 1613 on. Governor Sir
Fernando GORGES of Virginia reported to the English
government that Captain Thomas DERMER, while sailing down
the Atlantic seaboard in 1620, had conferred with "some
Hollanders that were settled in a place we call Hudson's
river, in trade with the natives." In laying out the fort
and bouweries on Manhattan, in 1625 when the regular
colonization of the island began, Kryn FREDERICKS, the
engineer for the Dutch West India Company, passed over the
near and nice bouwery site which was to turn up later as
property of Guleyn VIGNE's widow, for the engineer had
been instructed not to displace any settler from land
already cultivated.
Thomas Maxwell Potts, OUR FAMILY ANCESTORS (1895), pg.81-; Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer, HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN THE 17th CENTURY, Vol.I, p.70-; NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, pp.5-7; THE SECOND BOAT, v.1, No.2, p.18; NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol.XXXV, No.3, pp.65-69.
Guleyn VIGNE and Adriana CUVILJE had children: John
VIGNE; Maria VIGNE married Abram VERPLANCK; Christiana
VIGNE married Dirck VOLCKERTSZEN of Bushwick; and Rachel
VIGNE married Cornelius van TIENHOVEN.
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| 1614 | Jean VIGNE (1614-1691), son of Julian VIGNE and
Adrianna CUVEILLE was "the first male born of Europeans in
New Netherlands" according to the JOURNAL OF JASPER
DANCKAERTS (September 1679). He served for several years
as magistrate of New Amsterdam. His sister, Christina
VIGNE married c.1630 to Dirck VOLKERTSZEN. See also
O'Callaghan, v.2,p.322n; NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, p.2; THE SECOND BOAT, v.1, No.2, p.18. |
| 1614 | There was a Dirck VOLCKERTSEN and a Cornelius
VOLCKERTSEN in Horn, who as early as 1614 had mercantile
interests in the New World; but, according to Evjen, they
remained in Europe.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), p.68. |
| 1616 | Isaac De FOREST, son of Jesse and Maria (du CLOUX) De FOREST, was born in 1616. He married, 1641, to Sarah duTRIEUX, dau. of Philip duTRIEUX. |
| 1617 | A Henrik ROSENKRANS, between 1617 and 1629, obtained
permission to the fishery of herring and whales at the
coast of Greenland and Norway.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), p.68. |
| 1617 | Marye du TRIEUX, dau. of Phillip du TRIEUX and Jacqueline NOIRET, was baptized, 5 Apr 1617, in the Walloon Church at Leiden, Holland. She married (1) Cornelis VOLKERTZEN and (2) Jan PEECK. She was a half-sister of Sarah du TRIEUX who married, 1641, to Isaac DeFOREST. |
| 1617 | Margriet, daughter of Gillis Jochems Ten WAERT
[VERBRUGGE] and Beicken [Barbara] SCHUTS, was bapt. 17
December 1617, at Amsterdam, Holland. She married, 10
August 1637 at Amsterdam, to David PROVOOST, winedealer,
bapt. 11 August 1611, Amsterdam, son of Guilliame PROVOOST
and Jenneke EERDEWIJNS.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1618 | The Thirty Years War broke out in Germany in 1618. Small Protestant groups, whose stable position in European civilization was still insecure, were determined to break off from this condition by military means. Their cause seemed hopeless against the power of the Hapsburgs. |
| 1619 | Jan CORSSE or CORSSEN married, 1619, at Amsterdam, to
Tryntje VANCAMPEN. His widow may have been the Tryntje
VanCAMPEN that married Thuenis CRAY and had son Thuenis
who was father of Metje THUENIS CRAY who married 1673 Jan
CORSZEN. This Thuenis CRAY was son of Gerrit deCROY; had
come from Venlo in the Netherlands; and was an inn-keeper
and tapster by profession. His wife, Tryntje van CAMPEN
was appointed by the Dutch to serve meals to the
prisoners.
John H. Innis NEW AMSTERDAM and its PEOPLE; Berthold Fernow, RECORDS OF NEW AMSTERDAM, v.I, p.192; SEVERSMITH - SMITH GENEALOGY, p.22-23; Dorothy Niebrugge Hults, NEW AMSTERDAM DAYS AND WAYS (1963), p.150; N.Y.G.&B.R., Vol.5, p.9.
Note that a Tryntje Van CAMPEN witnessed the baptism
of a child of Jan CORSZEN and Metje Theunis CRAY in 1676.
See
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| 1619 | Johannes Monerius Montanus (Jean MOUSNIER de la
MONTAGNE), age 24, registered as a student at the
University of Leyden, Holland on 19 November 1619, to
study medicine under the learned HEURNIUS. De la MONTAGNE
was a boarder in the family of one Robert BOTACK, a
shoemaker on the Voldersgraft; and he attended the French
Reformed Church.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.70-91, passim. |
| 1620c | Jan Jansen VanBREESTEDE married Engeltje JANSE and had
4 children: Jan m. Marritje LUCAS and remained in
Manhattan; Tryntje m. Rutger Jacobse vanSCHOENDERWORT,
progenitor of the RUTGERS family; Dorothy m. Volckert
Janszen DOUW, who settled Hurley; and Elsie m. (1) Adrian
PIETERSEN, m. (2) Hendrick Jochemsz SCHOONMAKER, m. (3)
Cornelis Barentsen SLEGHT. It appears that Jan Jansen
VanBREESTEDE may have married, as his second wife,
Marritje ANDRIES, daughter of Andries LUYCASZEN and
Jannete SYBYNS. See
Hood, Dellman O. THE TUNIS HOOD FAMILY (Portland, Oregon 1960), pp.12-20, passim. |
| 1621c | "Some of the fugitive Walloons retired at first into
Flanders, hesitating, perhaps, to quit the country, as the
state of the Protestant was somewhat improved under the
more humane rule of Philip IV. The family of OBLINUS fled
from Houplines, two leagues northwest of Lille; and that
of DePRE, from Comines, a few miles below Houplines."
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.67,67n. |
| 1621 | On 28 March 1621, Jean de CROY baptized a child in the Walloon Church at Leiden, Holland. |
| 1621 | Phillip deTRIEUX, widower, of Robey (Robaix) Department
du Nord, France, married second, 17 Jul 1621, in the
Walloon Church of Leiden, Holland to Susanna deCHESNE,
born, 1601, of Sedan, assisted by Jean PINSON, her cousin.
NY.GEN.&BIOG.REC. v.57,p.216.
Their daughter, Sarah DuTRIEUX married, 1641, to Isaac
DeFOREST. See
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| 1621 | Jesse deFOREST presented a petition to the British
Ambassador at the Hague, 31 July 1621, to settle in
Virginia. The British conditionally accepted the offer,
12 August 1621; but when unacceptable restrictions were
put on by the English authorities, the Walloon traders
turned to the Dutch and the "Dutch West India Company" was
formed to trade with the Indians in America at the Dutch
colonies in Brazil and New Amsterdam. Jesse deFOREST's
eldest son, Jan deFOREST, married Maria VERMEULEN or
VERMILLYA. See also
O'Callaghan, v.I, p.186n; Henry G. Bayer, THE BELGIANS FIRST SETTLERS IN NEW YORK (1925); James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.70-91 O'Callaghan, DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK, vol.III, p.9. |
| 1621 | A "Promise of certain Walloons and French to Emigrate
to Virginia", written in French and dated 5 February 1621,
was submitted to Sir Dudley CARLETON, British Ambassador
in Holland. This petition applied for permission to
settle in Virginia, fifty or sixty families, Walloon and
French, all of the reformed religion. Among the
signatures are those of Mousnier de la MONTAGNE, medical
student; Mousnier de la MONTAGNE, apothecary and surgeon;
Henry LAMBERT, woolen draper; Jan DeCROY (CRAY), sawyer
with wife and five children; Pierre QUESNEE (CHESNE),
brewer; Jesse DeFOREST, dyer with wife and five children;
Jan GILLE (VERBRUGGE?), labourer with wife and three
children; Jan DeTROU (deTRIEUX), wool carder, with wife
and five children; Jean CAMPION, wool carder; Philippe
CAMPION, draper; et.al.
See John C. Hotten, THE ORIGINAL LISTS OF PERSONS OF QUALITY (1880), Reprinted 1968., p196-198; Henry G. Bayer, THE BELGIANS FIRST SETTLERS IN NEW YORK (1925), pp.138-148; James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.82-91. (Note: The "Walloons" are often classed as "Huguenots", and descent from them is accepted by the Huguenot Society; however, they were a distinct group separate from the Huguenots from the South of France. Most of them were from the upper class merchants and aristocracy of Belgium and Northern France who could afford to exile to escape religious persecution.) |
| 1621 | In 1621, Jan de CROY joined with others of the Leiden
refugees in a petition, later granted, to be permitted to
emigrate to America; and, with a wife and five children
was one of those who had arrived in New Amsterdam as early
as 1626.
Woodruff, Francis E., THE COURSENS OF SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, p.15. |
| 1622 | Frustrated by the restrictions placed by the English on
their request to set up a colony in Virginia, the Walloons
(i.e. French-speaking Belgians then residing in Holland)
applied in the spring of 1622 to the States of the
Province of Holland for transportation to New Netherland
as colonists, and the matter had been referred to the
Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company.
J. Franklin Jameson, NARRATIVES OF NEW NETHERLANDS (1909), p.75n. |
| 1623 | Jean La MONTAGNE, latterly a boarder, with other "students," in the family of Thomas CORNELISZ, on the Breedestraat, in Meat Market Row, is found to have quit the University of Leyden in 1623, and appears to have joined the naval campaign for Brazil. |
| 1623 | Joris Jans Janssen de RAPALJE, son of Abram JANSSEN,
arrived in New Amsterdam in 1623. He married to
Catalyntje "Caroline" TRICO of Valenciennes. He lived at
Albany, New Amsterdam & Brooklyn, New York, and died
ca.1665.
THE SECOND BOAT, v.1, p.7; v.8, p.13; Orra Eugene Monnette, FIRST SETTLERS OF PISCATAWAY AND WOODBRIDGE (1930), p.489; Frank L. VanWagnen, ANCESTORS OF GARRET CONRAD VanWAGNEN (1946), pp.65-77, Appendix J; Margherita Arlina Hamm, FAMOUS FAMILIES OF NEW YORK (1902), pp.61-70; Frank Allaben, ANCESTORS OF LEANDER HOWARD CRALL (1908), pp.265-298; Henry A. Stoutenburgh, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY (1901), pp.440-450; William A. Eardeley, CHRONOLOGY AND ANCESTRY OF CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW (1918), pp.201-206. |
| 1624 | In March 1623/24, a company of Walloons, with their
families (about 30 families in all), sailed for America in
the "New Netherland," in command of one familiar with the
voyage, Captain Cornelis MEY. Captain MEY was to be
Governor in New Netherland, with a deputy in the person
of Captain Adrian TIENPONT, who accompanied him. This
lone ship, and other vessels sent out by the company soon
after to the West Indies, were designed merely to secure
possession of the country. The grand business at hand was
the conquest of Brazil. In December 1623, twenty-two war
ships, under the command of Admiral Jacob WILLEKENS, left
Holland to operate against the Spanish settlements in the
West Indies and Brazil. Among the Walloons who enlisted
in this grand naval expedition were Jesse De FOREST and
Jean de la MONTAGNE. On 20 May 1924, in Battery Park, City of New York, near the place where the Walloons landed three hundred years earlier, a memorial was dedicated in their honor The modest monument was fashioned from the granite of Hainault, from which Belgian province the first settlers in New York and the Middle States, originated. The inscription reads:
BY THE CONSEIL PROVINCIAL DE HAINAUT IN MEMORY OF THE WALLOON SETTLERS WHO CAME OVER TO AMERICA IN THE "NIEU NEDERLAND" UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF JESSE DE FOREST OF AVESNES THEN COUNTY OF HAINAUT ONE OF THE XVII PROVINCES |
| 1624c | Johannes Van BRUGH, son of Pieter VERBRUGGE and Helena
POTTAI was born, about 1624, in Haarlem, Holland. He
married, 24 Apr 1658, to Trijntgen ROELOFS, dau. of Roelof
JANSEN and Anneke JANS, and widow of Lucas RODENBURG, Vice
Director of Curacoa, who died about the year 1656.
Gillis VERBRUGGE of Amsterdam, in his will dated 3
July 1635, calls this Peter, "Pieter VERBRUGGE my
brother." (Archives of Amsterdam. Protocol of
Notary J.C. Hogeboom, Inventory No. 839).
(Note: According to some the POTTIER's were closely
related to the deCOURCYs in Europe.
On a list of those of French birth who had resided in Olde
Ulster before the close of the year 1700 is listed the
name of Jean Baptiste du POTIER along with LeFEVRE,
HASBROUCK, duBOIS, VERNOOY, de la MONTAGNE, duPUY, BAYARD,
GUMAER, and others associated with the CORSSE CORSZEN
families.
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| 1624 | On 9 Mar 1624, Philippe DuTRIEUX received from the church at Leiden a certificate of transfer "pur West-inde," meaning that he was about to sail for New Netherland. Philippe duTRIEUX was therefore among the Walloons who sailed at the end of Mar 1624 on the ship "Nieuw Nederland." |
| 1624 | Hendrick Jochemsz SCHOONMAKER (1624-1682c.), son of
Jochem SCHOONMAKER, was baptized 29 November 1624, at St.
Petri Church, Hamburg, Germany.
Heidgerd, Ruth P., THE SCHOONMAKER FAMILY, Part One (1974). |
| 1625 | On 4 January 1624/25, Gerard De FOREST appeared before
the burgomasters at Leyden and stated that his brother
Jesse had "lately departed with the vessels for the West
Indies." He requested to be licensed, in his stead, to
dye serges and camlets in colors, as the number of dyers
engaged in this specialty would not thereby be increased.
His request was granted.
In the summer of 1625, the yacht "De Vos" brought news
of WILLEKENS' success in Brazil, but reported that Jesse
DeFOREST had died (probably at the siege of San Salvador).
Bereft of their father while yet under age, the children
looked to their uncle, Gerard, for needed counsel; "and
there is pleasing evidence that the relations of the uncle
and nephews were intimate and confiding."
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| 1625 | Some Walloon families, headed by Joris (George) Jansen
de RAPALJE, settled on Long Island at the "Waal-Bocht,"
where de Rapalie bought from the Indians three hundred
thirty-five acres of land. In Dutch "Waal" means Walloon,
and "Bocht" bay, thus it was the "Walloon Bay;" the name
had become Wallabout Bay. In that section is the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
Henry G. Bayer, THE BELGIANS: FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW YORK (1925), pp.167-170. |
| 1625 | Sari RAPALJI, dau. of Joris Jans JANSSEN de RAPALJI and
Caroline TRICO, was baptized, 9 June 1625, on Long Island,
New York. She is reported to have been the first female
child of European parentage born in New Netherland. Sarah
RAPELJE married first, 1639, to Hans Hansen Von BERGEN
(overseer of a tobacco plantation on Manhattan) and second
to Tunis Gysbertse BOGAERT; and she died before 1687 (or
1694), after giving birth to fourteen children. She "was
maternal ancestor of the most notable families of Kings
County, New York, while old directories of Staten Island
show also the name of RAPALJE."
Henry G. Bayer, THE BELGIANS: FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW YORK (1925), pp.167-170; John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.56-59. |
| 1625 | Sarah du TRIEUX, dau. of Phillip and Susanna (duCHESNE) TRIEUX, was born, 1625, in New Amsterdam. She married, 1641, to Isaac DeFOREST (1616-1674). |
| 1626 | Jan de la MONTAGNE, left Saintonge, France about 1610
and in 1619 was studying medicine at the Univ. of Leiden,
Holland. He had come to New Netherlands with Jesse
deFOREST; but upon the latters death, he returned to
Leiden with the widow, deFOREST, whose dau. Rachel
deFOREST he married first 27 Nov 1926 in Leiden, Holland.
He married secondly 18 Aug 1647 to the widow of Arent
CORSSE STAM.
See O'Callaghan HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.21n. |
| 1626 | Upon the death of Jesse De FOREST at Brazil, Jan de la
MONTAGNE returned to Leyden, Holland, and enrolled anew at
the University there as a "student of medicine, " 7 July
1626. He had taken convenient lodgings on the
Voldersgraft with the widow, Marie (Du CLOUX) deFOREST,
whose only daughter, Rachel deFOREST, he married as his
first wife, 12 December 1626, at the Walloon Church in
Leyden. Jan and Rachel (deFOREST) MONTAGNE had children:
Jolent, Jan, Rachel, Maria, Jesse, and William. Johannes
de la MONTAGNE married secondly, 18 Aug 1647, to Agritta
GILLIS, the widow of Elias PROVOOST and Arent CORSSE STAM.
See O'Callaghan HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.21n; Theo. L. Van Norden, THE VAN NORDEN FAMILY (1923), pp.65-67.
The third child of Jean or Johannes de la MONTAGNE by
his first wife was Jean MONTAGNE, born, 1632, in Leyden,
who married first to Petronella PICKOLL, and then married
as his second wife, 10 June 1663, Maria VERMILYE, born
1629, dau. of Isaac VERMIELLE, and was thus an uncle by
marriage of Isaac VERMILYE who married, 16 Jan 1707, to
Josyntje OBLINIS, widow of Teunis CORSSE. After the death
of Jan MONTAGNE, his widow, Marie VERMILYEA married, 26
Sept. 1675, Isaac KIP.
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| 1626 | Dirck VOLCKERTSEN "de Noorman" (also known as Dirck HOLGERSEN) came from Bergen, Norway to New Amsterdam, probably in the group of Northmen for which Secretary Isaac De RAISIERE had applied to the West India Company in 1626 --- Northmen who would know how to render pitch from the pines in the New World. |
| 1627 | Jolent, son of Jean and Rachel (De FOREST) de la MONTAGNE, was baptized in 1627, but "their precious first-born" was "destined soon to be taken from them." |
| 1629 | Marie VERMILYE, daughter of Isaac VERMEILLE, was
baptized, 2 August 1629, at Leyden. Jean DIMANCHE and his
wife, Marie VERMEILLE, stood as godparents. Marie
VERMILYE married, 10 June 1663, as his second wife, to Jan
de la MONTAGNE, son of Jean and Rachel (de FOREST) de la
MONTAGNE. Marie VERMILYE married second, 26 Sept. 1675,
to Isaac KIP.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.104-105. |
| 1630 | Dirck VOLCKERTSEN married, before 1630, to Chistina
VIGNE, dau. of Guillaume and Andrienne (CUVEILL) VIGNE,
Walloons from Valenciennes in the north-eastern part of
France (then Belgium).
Daughters of the American Colonists, LINEAGE BOOK, vol.XII, pp.226-228, #11643; v.XIII, p.361-364, #12854; Virkus THE COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY. |
| 1630 | Arendt CORSSE (Sometimes called "Arendt STAM") and his brother Dirck CORSSE (Sometimes called "Dirck STAM") were both in the employ of the Dutch West India Company as early as 1630-1633. Abraham GREVENRAET and Dirck CORSSEN STAM were sent by Abraham's father, Hendrick GREVENRAET, merchant of Amsterdam, to purchase a cargo of tobacco in Virginia. NY.GEN.BIOG.REC., v.61,p.245. Note: Some of the early deCOURCY'S used the Dutch version of the French name "COURSIER" (pronounced "Coursay") which translates into the Dutch as "STAM" and into English "RACER". In other instances the "COURCY" surname was Dutchified by adding of the "n" sound as in COURSEN in keeping with the traditional Dutch Patronymic naming system. |
| 1630c | Mathias BECK who had succeeded Lucas RODENBURGH as vice director of Curacao, married Leonora GREVENRAET who was probably a dau. of Guilliam and Aldegonde (BONAERTS) GREVENRAET. |
| 1630 | On 16 Oct 1630 an association was formed between Kileaen van RENSSELAER, et.al, and Capt. David PIETERSSEN de VRIES for planting a colony on the South River. |
| 1630 | Albert Andriess BRADT de Norman (1607c.-1686) and
Arent Andriesse BRADT, brothers, first emigrated as early
as 1630, and were among the early settlers at
Rensselaerswyck. They came from Fredrikstad, a town at
the mouth of the Glommen, the largest river in Norway.
Albert Andriess BRADT, known as "de Noorman" was a land
owner and tobacco farmer at Bushwick, New York, 13 August
1630. He established himself a few miles south of Albany
on a stream, "Norman's Kil," where he built a mill. He
married first to Annetie BARENTS von Rolmers (also called
Annitje ALBERTS). They had children: Barent; Eva BRADT,
married first, 1647, to Anthony de HOOGES and m. second,
1657, to Roeloff SWARTWOUT; Storm (1636-c.1679) m.
Hilletje LANSINCK; Engeltje married Teunis SLINGERLAN of
Onisquathaw; Gisseltje married Jan van ETTEN; Andries;
Jan; and Dirck. See:
Daughters of the American Colonists, LINEAGE BOOK, vol.XII, pp.226-228, #11643; Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, DUTCH HOUSES IN THE HUDSON VALLEY (1929), pp.64-65; Rosalie Fellows Bailey, DUTCH SYSTEMS IN FAMILY NAMING (Reprint No. 12, from the NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY - March 1953, Dec. 1953), p.13; John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.19-43; E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND (1848), v.II, p.437. |
| 1630s | David Pietersen deVRIES, b. La Rochelle, France c.1592
was a Dutch navigator and colonizer. He founded Dutch
colonies and trading posts in Brazil and in what are now
the states of Delaware, Virginia, and New York between
1630 and 1644. Arendt CORSSE STAM, Dirck CORSSE STAM,
and Cornelius Pieterszen CORSEN (CORSSE) were all three
at one time in the service of David Pietersen deVRIES.
David Pietersen deVries, KORTE HISTORIAEL ende JOURNAELS (Leiden Holland 1655). J. Franklin Jameson, ed. NARRATIVES OF NEW NETHERLAND. C.H.B. Turner, compiler, SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE, p.71. |
| 1632 | On 2 April 1632, Capt. John MASON wrote a Letter to [Mr. Secretary COKE?] protesting the presence of the Dutch in New Netherland. See O'Callaghan, v.1, pp.415-417. (John MASON (c1600-1672) of Hartford and New London, CT was an ancestor of Fred P. DECOURSEY of Minneapolis, MN. See Mears-Mason line in another volume in this series.) |
| 1632 | Johannes VERMILYE (1632-1696), son of Isaac and Jacomina (JACOBS) VERMEILLE, was born, 1632, at Leyden, Holland. |
| 1632 | Gulian VINGE died before 30 April 1632. His widow,
Adriane CUVELLIER married second, 30 April 1632, to Jan
Jansen DAMEN. He was probably the "Jan Damont, laboreur"
who had signed the round robin of Walloons seeking
passage to "Virginia" in 1621. If so, he undoubtedly
migrated to New Netherland with the other Walloons in
1624, --- long after the VIGNES had arrived there. After
his marriage to Ariaentje CUVEL, Jan Jansen DAMEN removed
to New Amsterdam, "where he was elected one of the Eight
Men; amassed considerable wealth, and was one of the
owners of the privateer La Garce. In 1649-50 he went to
Holland with C. van TIENHOVEN, to defend Peter STUYVESANT
against the complaints of Van der DONCK and others, and
died on his return, 18 June 1651." He appears to have
not had children of his own, but he adopted Jan Cornelis
BUYS (who assumed his name), son of his sister,
Hendrickje (DAMEN) BUYS.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I, pp.434-5; James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.613n; NEW YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPT, v.1, p.6.
In a settlement with her children by her previous
marriage to Guleyn VIGNE, Ariaentje CUVILJE promised each
of her married children, Maria and Christina, 200 guilders
from the estate of their father, "her lawful husband
deceased," and promised each of her unmarried children,
Jan and Rachel, 300 guilders plus their keep and schooling
until of age. Dirck VOLKERTSEN, Christina's husband,
witnessed the agreement. Jan ROOS of Haarlem, Maria's
husband, died without having done the same, leaving a son,
Gerrit Jansen ROOS. Maria took a second husband, Abraham
VERPLANCK of Edam, who had arrived in America in 1634 with
his cousin, Jacob PLANCK, the first commissary (clerk) of
Rensselaerswyck.
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| 1632 | The third child of Johannes de la MONTAGNE by his first
wife, Rachel deFOREST, was Jean MONTAGNE, born 1632 in
Leiden, who married first to Rachel MONTOUR and then
married, 10 June 1663, as his second wife, Maria
VERMILYE, b. 1629, dau. of Isaac VERMIELLE, and was thus
an uncle by marriage of Isaac VERMILYE who married, 16
January 1707, Josyntje OBLINIS, widow of Teunis CORSSE.
After the death of Jan MONTAGNE, his widow, Marie
VERMILYEA married Isaac KIP.
Mrs. Robert DeForest, A WALLOON FAMILY IN AMERICA, v.i,p.105-106, v.ii,p.285. James Riker, HISTORY OF HARLEM (1881), p.166,574; Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207.
Jan La MONTAGNE (1632-1672), son of Jan or Johannes de
la MONTAGNE and Rachel de FOREST, was born 1632 at Leiden
Holland. He married first, in Holland, to Petronella
PIKES (a sister of his partner, Vincent PIKES, and a
daughter of Jan PIKES), by whom he had a son Vincent and
perhaps a son Johannes who married Annetje WALDRON. Jean
Mounier de la MONTAGNE (1632-1672) married second, 10 June
1663, Maria VERMILYEA, who bore him: Abram MONTAGNE
married Rebecca TEUNISSEN; Isaac MONTAGNE married Hester
Van VORST. Jan La MONTAGNE was one of the leaders of the
settlement of Haarlem, on the Island of Manhattans.
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| 1633 | Arent CORSSE (STAM) was commissary at Fort Nassua (now
Gloucester, NJ) prior to 1633. In the employ of the Dutch
West India Co., in 1633, he purchased "from the right
owners and Indian chiefs" land on the east bank of the
Schuylkill River, in the old Indian district of Passvunk,
and within the present First Ward of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Here a trading post was established to
"restrain the encroachments of the Swedes who were boldly
pushing their boundaries northward on both sides of the
South (now Delaware) River and seeking to monopolize the
trade with the Indians." Fort Beversrede was
subsequently erected on this site in 1646. Arent CORSSEN
STAM was a brother of Dirck CORSSEN.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I,p.124n,142, 156,156n,359; v.II,p.81,81n; Theo. VanNorden, VAN NORDEN FAMILY, p.65-66. N.Y.GEN.BIOG.REC., v.22,p.1, v.9,p.58. O'Neill's TERRA MARIA, v.I,p.158. COLONIAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK (1853), v.1,p.280, 588, 593, 598, v.2,p.180. PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE, v.15 (1891), p.252-253; HOLLAND DOCUMENTS, v.VIII, p.55. |
| 1633 | Elias PROVOOST, bapt. 24 October 1606, son of Guilliame
PROVOOST and Jenneke Eerdewijns, married Agniet JELLIS on
17 May 1633 at Amsterdam, Holland. Agniet JELLIS had been
baptized on 1 December 1611 at Amsterdam, daughter of
Gillis Jochem ten WAERT [VERBRUGGE] and his wife Beicken
SCHUTS. Elias PROVOOST died in July 1636 and his widow
married, second, 26 January 1638 at Amsterdam, to Arendt
CORSSE STAM. Elias and Agniet PROVOOST had three children
two of which died young. Their son, Johannes PROVOOST,
bp. 27 March 1636, Old Church, Amsterdam, married first to
Sarah STAATS, dau. of Dr. Abram STATTS of Albany; and he
married second, 25 June 1685, to Sarah WEBBERS.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203. |
| 1633 | Casper or Jasper VARLETH was a resident of the Dutch settlement of Fort Good Hope (near present Hartford, Conn.) as early as the completion of the Fort in 1633. He married ca.163 to Judith --?-- and had children: Nicholas VARLETH married (1) Susanna Jillis, dau. of Gillis Jansz VERBRUGGE and Barbara SCHUT, and m. (2) 14 Oct. 1656, Anna (STUYVESANT) BAYARD; Mary VERLETH m. (1) Johannes AMBECK or VanBEECK, and m. (2) Paulus SCHRICK; Jane VERLETH; Catharine VERLETH m. Aug. 1657 Francoys de BRUYN; and Judith VARLETH m. 23 May 1666 Nicholas BAYARD. |
| 1634 | Rachel La MONTAGNE, daughter of Johannes and Rachel (De
FOREST) de la MONTAGNE, was baptized, 1634. She married
Dr. Gysbert Van IMBROCH or Van AMBURGH.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), Appendix, p.785. |
| 1635 | Jan de PRE, was born at Commines in 1635, "a Fleming, but of Walloon or French descent, judging from his surname." |
| 1635 | Gillis VERBRUGGE of Amsterdam, Holland, in his will
dated 3 July 1635, names "Pieter VERBRUGGE my brother."
(Archives of Amsterdam. Protocol of Notary J.C. Hogeboom, Inventory No. 839). N.Y.Gen.Biog.Rec. v.66, p.2-11,166-177. |
| 1636 | Jan JANSEN and his wife Engeltje JANS, from "BREESTED"
(Bredstedt, in Schleswig, Denmark), came to New Amsterdam
about 1636. They had the following children: Tryntie,
who was married to Rutger Jacobsen SCHOONDERWORTH or Van
WOERT, and whose descendants assumed the name of RUTGERS;
Jan Jansen Van BREESTED, who in 1647 married Marritje
LUCAS (ANDRIES); Dorothea JANS van BREESTEDE, who in 1650
was married to VOLCKERT JANSZEN from Frederickstadt, and
whose descendants comprise the DOW family of New York;
Elsie JANS van BRESTEDE, who was married three times.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.213-214, 221-224. |
| 1636 | On 3 March 1636, Dr. La MONTAGNE renewed his membership
at the University of Leyden; but he was to soon give up
his practice in Holland and leave for New Netherland.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.89. |
| 1636 | In the year 1636, Henry De FOREST was of the age of thirty years; "his brother Isaac, ---an infant of four months when the bells rang for the great fire at the University of Leyden, --- had grown to be a young man of twenty;" Jean, the eldest brother, a dyer by occupation, had recently taken a wife, and was living at the Hoogerwoert in Leyden; while Jesse, the other brother was dead. |
| 1636 | Johannes PANHUYSEN, of Leyden, was director of the West
India Company, in 1636, and represented Leyden in the
Chamber at Amsterdam, in which office he had succeeded
Johannes De LAET. Johannes PANHUYSEN had married a
daughter of Gerard De FOREST. Gerard's son, Crispin De
FOREST, with encouragement from his brother-in-law, laid
plans to enter the lucrative tobacco trade in New
Netherland, which had taken on new importance, with the
failure of that crop in Virginia. The promise of great
wealth and a chance to escape the plague that then swept
Europe, prompted Henry and Isaac De FOREST to become
partners in their cousin's venture and turn their backs on
Holland. The plan seemed complete when their only sister,
Rachel, and her husband, Dr. La MONTAGNE, agreed to go."
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.89. |
| 1636 | On Saturday, 7 June 1636, Gerard De FOREST attended his son Crispin and nephew Henry, as voucher for registration of their wedding bans; and on 1 July 1636, a double wedding took place at Amsterdam, Holland. Henry De FOREST, son of Jesse De FOREST, married to Gertrude BORNSTRA. Crispin De FOREST, son of Gerard De FOREST married to Margareta BORNSTRA. |
| 1636 | After having left a small number of new settlers at New Amsterdam, the ship "King David," Captain David De VRIES, and a company's ship, the "Seven Stars," departed the colony, 13 August 1636. |
| 1636 | Albert ANDRIESSEN BRADT apparently returned to Holland
(perhaps on business), for on 26 Aug. 1636, the following
contract was signed at Amsterdam, Netherlands: "In the name of the Lord, Amen. On conditions hereafter specified, we, Pieter Cornelissen van munnickendam, millwright, 43 years of age, Claesz jans van naerden, 33 years of age, house carpenter, and albert andriessen van fredrickstadt, 29 years of age, tobacco planter, have agreed among ourselves, first to sail in God's name to New Netherland in the small vessel which now lies ready and to betake ourselves to the colony of Rensselaerswyck for the purpose of settling there on the following conditions made with Mr. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, as patroon of the said colony, etc. "Thus done and passed in good faith, under pledge of our persons and property subject to all courts and justices for the fulfillment of what is aforewritten, at Amsterdam, this 26th of August 1636. "In witness whereof we have signed these with our own hands in the presence of the undersigned notary public . . . .
"Pieter Cornelissen "albert andriessen "Claes Jansen "J.Vande Ven, Notary."
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| 1636 | Dirck CORSSEN STAM was an employee of Killian van
RENSSEALEAR and supercargo of the "Rensselaerswyck" which
brought 38 persons including 6 women & several children to
New Amsterdam in 1636. See:
Mrs Robert DeForest, DEFOREST, A WALLOON FAMILY IN AMERICA, v.I,p.71-78,102. |
| 1636 | The yacht "Rensselaerswyck" set sail from the Texel for
New Amsterdam, 1 October 1636, carrying colonists to Fort
Orange in the service of the Patroon, Killian Van
Rensselaer, of Amsterdam, Holland. Jan TIEBKINS was
skipper. Derick CORSSE STAM, brother of Arent CORSSE
STAM, was supercargo of the ship. Among the company on
board were Henry de FOREST and his bride (Gertrude
BORNSTRA); Isaac De FOREST, with his servants, Tobias
TEUNISSEN and Willem Fredericks BONT, both natives of
Leyden; Albert ANDRIESSEN (BRADT) and his wife Annetje
BARENTS of "Rolmers" and two children; and Arent
ANDRIESSEN.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.91, 784. |
| 1636 | An agreement between Albert Andriessen (BRADT), and
Kiliaen Van RENSSELAER was signed in Amsterdam, Holland on
26 August 1636. It states that Albert ANDRIESSEN was a
tobacco planter. He sailed from Trexel, 8 October 1636,
accompanied by his wife, Annetje BARENTS of "Rolmers", two
children and his brother, Arent ANDRIESSEN on the ship
"Rensselaerswyck," which arrived at New Amsterdam, 4 March
1637. The voyage was through rough seas, and a son born
to his wife during the voyage was named "Storm." The log
of the ship contains under the date of Sunday, 2 November
1636, the following entry:
"Drifted 16 leagues N.E. by E.; the wind about west,
the latitude by dead reconing 41 degrees, 50 min. with
very high seas. That day the overhang above our rudder
was knocked in by severe storm. This day a child was born
on the ship, and named and baptized in England stoerm; the
mother is annetie baernts. This day gone."
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| 1637 | Maria La MONTAGNE, daughter of Dr. Johannes La MONTAGNE
and Rachel de FOREST, was born 26 January 1637, at sea off
the island of Madeira. She married, 14 Feb. 1654, to
Jacob Hendricks KIP.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I, p.180n; v.II, pp.21n,213n. |
| 1637 | On 13 Apr 1637, Dirck CORSSEN, commissioner or skipper of the yacht "the RENSSELAERSWYCK" witnessed the purchase by Killian van RENSSELAER of extensive land surrounding present day Albany, New York. See O'Callaghan, v.1, p.124,124n. |
| 1637 | George RAPALJE was patentee of an Indian Tract at
Papskeena, New Netherland, 16 June 1637.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.581.. |
| 1637 | Henry De FOREST died, 26 July 1637, at New Netherland. His widow, Gertrude (BORNSTRA) De FOREST, married the following year to Andries HUDDE, son of Rutger HUDDE and Aeltie SCHINCKELS. |
| 1637 | David PROVOOST, bapt. 11 August 1611, Amsterdam, son of
Guilliame PROVOOST and Jenneke EERDEWIJNS, winedealer,
residing at the Heerenmarckt, married Margrieta JELLIS, on
10 August 1637 in Amsterdam. Margriet, baptized at
Amsterdam on 17 December 1617, was the daughter of
Jellis/Gillis Jochems Ten WAERT [VERBRUGGE] and Beicken
[Barbara] SCHUTS.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1637 | In a letter dated 21 Sept. 1637 (addressed to Pieter Cornelisz, master millwright and partner to Albert Andriessen), Kiliaen van RENSSELAER sent greetings to Albert ANDRIESSEN. |
| 1638 | Arent CORSSEN STAM married, 26 January 1638, at
Amsterdam, Holland, to the widow of Elias PROVOOST, Agniet
JELLIS, baptized 1 December 1611, daughter of Gillis
Jochem Ten WEART [VERBRUGE] and Beicken [Barbara] SCHUTS.
Arent CORSSEN STAM and Agniet GILLIS VERBRUGGE had one
son, Gerrit Arentszen STAM, bp. 7 November 1638, at
Amsterdam.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1638 | David William PROVOST, of a French Huguenot family,
came from near Rouen in Normandy, in 1638, to New
Amsterdam. His son, Benjamin PROVOST, born at Hartford,
Conn., bapt. 17 July 1646, m. 11 June 1666, Sara BARENTS
of Haerlem, Holland, afterwards m. 5 Nov. 1671, Elsie
Alberts of New York, whose dau. Margaretta PROVOOST, bap.
16 Sept. 1673, married, 21 Oct. 1695, to Jacob CODEBEC.
Cuddeback, William Louis, CAUDEBEC IN AMERICA (1919), p.53. Susanna Jillis, first wife of Nicholas VARLETH, is said to have been a sister of Margaret Jillis, the wife of David PROVOOST. Purple, Edwin R., HISTORY OF ANCIENT FAMILIES OF NEW AMSTERDAM AND NEW YORK (Privately Printed, N.Y. 1881), pp.81; SOME OF THE ANCESTORS OF THE REVEREND JOHN SELBY FRAME AND HIS WIFE CLARA WINCHESTER DANA, (Privately published 1948), pp.98-99. |
| 1638 | The partnership between Albert Andriessen (BRADT) and
Pieter CORNELISZ apparently soon broke up; for in a letter
dated 8 May 1638, to Peter Cornelisz, Kiliaen van
RENSSELAER wrote: "Albert Andriessen separated from you,
I hear that he is a strange character, and it is therefore
no wonder that he could not get along with you." On 29 Dec. 1637, Van RENSSELAER wrote to Director William KIEFT that he should assign some of the young men on board the "Calmar Sleutel," commanded by Pieter MINUIT and sailing in the same month, to tobacco planting with Albert ANDRIESSEN "if he has good success," otherwise they were to serve with the farmers. In a letter of 10 May 1638, to Albert ANDRIESSEN, Van RENSSELAER acknowledged that he had received a letter from Albert ANDRIESSEN stating that the tobacco looked fine; but he was desirous to get full particulars, including a sample of the tobacco. He expressed his dissatisfaction with the dissolution of the partnership between Albert ANDRIESSEN and Pieter CORNELISZ, and wanted to know the cause of Albert ANDRIESSEN's dispute with the officer and commissary Jacob Albertsz PLANCK and his son. He informed ANDREISSEN that he was obliged to uphold his officers, and promised that he would stand by him and cause him to be "provided with everything;" however, he would not suffer bad behavior. He also informed him that he had heard from several people that he was "very unmerciful to his children and very cruel" to his wife; and he was to avoid this "and in all things have the fear of the Lord" before his eyes and not follow so much in his own inclinations. Van RENSSELAER also censured Albert ANDRIESSEN for cheating Dirck CORSZEN STAM. It seems that Albert ANDRIESSEN had traded furs with Dirck CORSZEN STAM, contrary to contract; and for seven pieces of duffel he had given him only the value of twenty-five merchantable beavers. Later it seems that Van RENSSELAER suspected that Dirck CORSZEN STAM was an unfaithful supercargo and at fault in the matter of the furs, and he wrote to Albert ANDRIESSEN, 13 May 1639, that he should write him the truth of the matter and pay him (RENSSELAER) what he still owed Dirck CORSZEN. If Albert ANDRIESSEN was to act honestly, he was to receive supplies for himself, his people, and the Indian Trade, at a discount from superintendent Arent van CURLER. Van RENSSELAER informed Albert ANDRIESSEN that he would try to sell his tobacco at the highest price and give him a bonus; however he complained that some of the barrels of "tobacco was so poor and thin of leaf that it could not stand being rolled." The shipment was also short of the weight shown on the manifest. He cautioned Albert ANDRIESSEN to improve his quality and keep better accounting of expenses and receipts from tobacco.
The patroon, Van RENSSELAER, had several disagreements
with the brothers, Albert and Arent ANDRIESSEN over their
accounting practices and operation of the tobacco
plantation; however, they apparently were showing a profit
for the patroon, so he seems to have tolerated them.
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| 1638 | Willem KIEFT, the third Director-general of the New
Amsterdam colony, arrived at the Manhattans on 28 March
1638, in the Herring, one of the Dutch West India
Company's ships. His first step, on his assumption of the
reins of Government, was to organize a council of which he
should retain the entire control. He named to the board,
Doctor Johannes La MONTAGNE, a learned Huguenot gentleman,
who had arrived in the country in the course of the
preceding spring or summer, to whom he gave one vote,
while he reserved two to himself. Cornelius van
TIENHOVEN, a native of Utricht, and one of the oldest
residents in the province, who had hitherto acted as
book-keeper for the Dutch West India Company, was promoted
to be colonial secretary; and Ulrich LUPOLD was continued
as schout-fiscal, or sheriff, and attorney-general. Among
the other officers and servants of the company were David
PROVOOST, commissary of provisions; Jacob van CULER,
inspector of merchandise; Jacob STOFFELSEN, overseer;
Philip de TRUY (du TRIEUX), court messenger; Gerrit SCHULT
and Hans KIERSTEDE, surgeons; Frederick LUBBERTSEN, first
boatswain; Tymen JANSEN, ship-carpenter; et.al.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I, p.180-181.
(Frederick LUBBERTSEN and his first wife, Styntje
HENDRICKSE lived at what is now the northwest corner of
Maiden Lane and Pearl St. on Staten Island. They were the
maternal grandparents of Maritje van de GRIFT, who became
the wife of Cors Pietersen's eldest son, Capt. Cornelis
CORSSEN. This house was sold about 1657, by Fredrick
LUBBERTSEN, to Maria Du TRIEUX (widow of Cornelis
VOLKERTSEN) and her second husband, Jan PEEKE, who
occupied the house until about 1660, when they sold it to
Cornelis CLOPPER.)
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| 1638 | On 1 May 1638, Dirck HOLGERSEN (Dirck VOLKERTSEN?) gave a note to Director KIEFT for 720 guilders. |
| 1638 | From about 1632, Dirck VOLCKERTSEN and Abraham
VERPLANCK had made their home with their wives' mother,
Ariaentje CUVILJE, and step-father, Jan Jansen DAMEN.
Their families grew, and in 1638, when old Jan DAMEN tired
of being steward for all of Guleyn VIGNE's offspring, he
threw the whole bunch of VOLKERSENS and VERPLANCKS out of
the house, injuring Dirck VOLCKERSEN's wife, Christina
(VIGNE) VOLCKERTSEN, in the process. In July 1638, Jan
Jansen DAMEN brought suit against Abraham VERPLANCK and
Dirck HOLGERSEN: "On motion of the plaintiff the
defendants were ordered to quit his house and to leave him
master thereof." Dirck however, charged Jan DAMEN with
assault and furnished witnesses who testified "regarding
an attempt of Jan DAMEN to throw his step-daughter,
Christine, Dirck's wife, out of doors."
The VOLCKERTSENS settled at Green Point, across the
East River; and the VERPLANCKS at Paulus Hook, across the
North River.
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| 1638 | Derrick CORTSEN STAM and Arent CORTSEN STAM were
granted "a Parcell of land in James Island, conteyning 10
po. in breadth and 8 po. in length," 11 October 1638,
"Near adj. to Capt. William PEIRCE his store. Graunted by
Act of Assembly, 20 Feb. 1636 &c. Fee Rent: 1 Capon on
the feast of St. Thomas, provided &c."
CAVALIERS and PIONEERS, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1800, v.1, p.98. |
| 1638 | Cors PIETERSE, also known as Cornelius Pietersen VROOM,
(born ca.1612, probably son of Peter de COURSE), stated in
affidavits in 1638 and 1639 that hew was then aged 26
years and from "Langeraer" (about 6 miles from Leiden,
Holland). He married Tryntje HENDRICKS, dau. of Hendrick
TOMASSEN and Elsie MARTENSE. See:
Rosalie Fellows Bailey, DUTCH SYSTEMS IN FAMILY NAMING (Reprint No. 12, from the NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY - March 1953, Dec. 1953), p.10. |
| 1639 | On 18 May 1639, Director KIEFT leased to Dirck HOLGERSEN, a "bouwery and stock on halves." |
| 1639 | Sari RAPALJI, dau. of Joris Jans JANSSEN de RAPALJI and
Caroline TRICO, married first, 1639, to Hans Hansen Von
BERGEN. He was overseer of a tobacco plantation on
Manhattan. They had children: Anneken; Brecktje; Jan;
Michiel; Joris; Marretje; Jacob; and Catalyn.
Henry G. Bayer, THE BELGIANS: FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW YORK (1925), pp.167-170; John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.56-59. |
| 1639 | In June 1639, George BERLEMYER was indentured to serve Teunis CRAY for one year. |
| 1639 | On 22 Sept 1639, --?-- Abbesen assigned all his rights to the maize land near Fort Hope to Teunis CRAY. |
| 1640 | Joost OBLINUS, son of Joost and Martina OBLINUS, was born, 1640, in Holland. |
| 1640 | It appears that Isaac VERMILYE (recorded as Isaac
WURMEL on civil records) may have spent some time at
Mannheim between 1637 and 1660.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.105. |
| 1640 | Abram RYCKEN was patentee for land on Long Island, 8
May 1640, and for a lot in New Amsterdam, 8 April 1643.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.581; Rosalie Fellows Bailey, DUTCH SYSTEMS IN FAMILY NAMING (Reprint No. 12, from the NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY - March 1953, Dec. 1953), p.6; William A. Eardeley, CHRONOLOGY AND ANCESTRY OF CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW (1918), pp.61-65. |
| 1640 | Philip DeTRUY was patentee of land at Smith's Valley,
Manhattan, 22 May 1640.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.581. |
| 1640 | Aeroudt, child of Cornelis VOLKERTSEN VEILE and Mary
deTREIX was baptized 27 May 1640. Witnesses were Isaac
deFOREST, Jan CANT, and Teunis CRAY, Schipper (Captain).
NY.GEN.&BIOG.REC v.57,p.216. Orville Corson, THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE CORSEN FAMILY, v.1,p.97-103.
According to one record, "Mary duTRIEUX earlier had
an illegitimate dau. by Cornelius VOLKERTSEN VIELE, and
Peter Van COUWENHOVEN adopted this child."
Aeroudt CORNELISEN VIELE is credited with being the first white man to view the Ohio River.
Cornelis VOLKERTSEN VIELE was the grandfather of
Elizabeth and Blandina VIELE who married the brothers,
Jacob and Benjamin CORSSEN, Sons of Capt. Cornelis CORSSEN
and Maritje van der GRIFT. VIELE was from Kniphausen in
Oldenburg. He sailed for New Netherland on the ship "de
Eendracht" which left Holland in May 1634. He returned on
the same ship, which reached Amsterdam before 3 Dec 1635,
having worked his way over on the boat.
Cornelis VOLKERTSEN VIELE and his wife, Marye du
TRIEUX had four children baptized in the DRC of NA
Note: It appears as though the VEILE surname was earlier CUVEILLE in France. |
| 1640 | Teunis CRAY of Venlo gave receipt for two imported "milch cows" which he hired from the Company, 20 June 1640. |
| 1640 | Jean Mosnier de la MONTAGNE was in chief military command in Manhattan from 1640-1645. |
| 1641 | Isaac deFOREST married, 1641, to Sarah duTRIEUX, dau.
of Philip duTRIEUX and Susannah DE CHINEY (De CHESNE).
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), Appendix, pp.781-784. |
| 1641 | Derek CORSON on papers dated 13 July 1641 gave his age
at that time as 33 years old. He would have been born in
1608. He served the Dutch West India Company for several
years. He worked the cargoes.
Information from Della N. PENNEY of Duquesne, PA. |
| 1641 | Anthony de HOOGES entered the employ of the the Patroon
of Rensselaerswyck as under bookkeeper and assistant to
Arent van CURLER. He sailed from Trexel, 30 July 1641, on
"den Coninck David," the skipper being commanded to allow
him to eat and sleep in the cabin. The translation of
this order of the West India Company is as follows: "The directors of the West Indian Company, Chamber of Amsterdam order and direct Job ARISSEN, skipper of the ship named "d' Co. David" to transport in said ship under his command and to permit to sleep and eat in the cabin the person of Anthony de Hogus in the service of Mr. renselaer and Johan Verbeck with his wife and daughter and maid servant, and Geertgen nanninx, with son and little daughter, provided he bring with [him] a musket or firelock and sword of [his] own, with his accompanying baggage specified below and marked with the mark of the Company; and for transporting these the skipper shall upon [declaration] signed by said Anthony de Hogus, be paid for board --- stivers a day, according to the amount agreed upon with Mr. renselaer for board of his colonists. Done at Amsterdam, the 10th of July 1641. ss. Fredr: Schulenbr:"
Anthony de HOOGES brought letters of introduction to
Director General William KIEFT and also to Arent Van
CURLER, to whom he was sent as an assistant. On his
voyage (which was an unusually stormy passage), he kept a
journal, which was sent to Killian Van RENSSELAER and
excerpts from which are printed in OLDE ULSTER
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, v.5,
pp.240-245. That Van RENSSELAER admired and
thought highly of young Anthony de HOOGES is evident in
letters from RENSSELAER to van CURLER, Domine
MEGAOPOLENSIS, and HOOGES himself.
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| 1641 | On 29 August 1641, a board of "Twelve Men" were chosen
by the commonalty at large to co-operate with Director
General Willem KIEFT and the council. This was the first
elected representative body of record in what is now New
York. These delegates were David Pietersen De VRIES,
Jacques BENTYN, Jan DAMEN, Hendrik JANSEN, Jacob STOFFELS,
Maryn ADRIAENSEN, Abram MOLENAER, Fredrik LUBBERTSEN,
Joachim PIETERSEN, Gerrit DIRCKSEN, George RAPELJE, and
Abram PLANK.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND (1845), p.242-3. |
| 1641 | "In 1641, Governor Kieft sent Dr. Johannes de la
MONTAGNE as temporary commander at Fort Hope," a Dutch
fur-trading post on the Connecticut River where the city
of Hartford now stands. "The Fort was settled shortly
after 1624, according to tradition, by Walloons. Its
chief civilian was Casper VERLETH, whose son Nicholas
VERLETH married first, Susanna JILLIS, supposed sister of
Margriet GILLIS Ten WAERT, and second, in 1656 Anna
STUYVESANT, sister of Gov. Peter STYVESANT and widow of
Samuel BAYARD."
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1641 | William Monjour La MONTAGNE was born in 1641. He was
for several years secretary to the town of Kingston. He
married, 1673, Eleanor de HOOGES, dau. of Anthony and Eve
Albertse (BRATT) de HOOGES.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I, p.180n; v.II, pp.21n,213n. |
| 1641 | Rachel, dau. of Dirck and Christine (VIGNE) VOLCKERTSEN, was baptized 8 Sept. 1641. Sponsor was Laurens PIETERSEN Noorman. |
| 1642 | On 2 January 1642, the Fiscal arrested Gerrit GERRITSEN and Dirck HOLGERSEN (VOLCKERTSEN) for stealing rope from the yacht of the West India Company. GERRITSEN was brought to the guard house in chains; while HOLGERSEN was ordered not to leave until the case had been decided. Two weeks later, HOLGERSEN declared, on oath, that he had bought the rope of GERRITSEN in good faith. GERRITSEN and the sailors of the yacht "Reael" were ordered to appear next day in court to draw lots for punishment, or meanwhile satisfy the Fiscal. John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.69-70; Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, v.I, pp.78-79. |
| 1642 | Cornelis VOLCKERTSEN was fined in 1642 for having kept a disorderly house. |
| 1642c | Albert Heymanse ROOSA married about 1642, to Wyntje Aariens de Jonge, dau. of Adrian Miertensen de Jongh. They had children: Arien ROOSA m. Maria, dau. of Evert PELS; Heyman ROOSA m. Margaret ROOSEVELT; Jan Albertse ROOSA m. Helligoud Williams vanBUREN; Aaghe ROOSA m. 1670 Dr. Roeloff KIERSTED; Mary ROOSA, m.1672, Laurens Jansen KORTRIGHT vanBEEST, son of Jan BASTIAENSEN; Neeltje ROOSA m. 1676 Henry PAWLING; Jannetje ROOSA m. 1679 Mathys Ten EYCK; Wyntjen ROOSA m. Nicholas DePUY; Aert ROOSA; Annetje ROOSA; Guert ROOSA. OLDE ULSTER HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, v.8, p.233-243; James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.412n; Eva Alice Scott, JACOBUS JANSEN VAN ETTEN (1952), p.133-135. |
| 1642 | In February 1642 Teunis CRAY was given power of attorney to Frans Joosten of Bruges. |
| 1642 | Anthony de HOOGES, as assistant to Arent van CURLER, was credited from 10 April 1642 till 10 April 1644, with a salary of f. 150 a year. |
| 1642 | David de VRIES, Director General Willem KIEFT, Joachim Pieterszen KUYTER and Jan Jansen DAMEN were the first churchwardens and consistory to superintend the erection of a church of the Reformed Religion on Staten Island in 1642. - J. Franklin Jameson, NARRATIVES OF NEW NETHERLAND (1909), p.212,212n,226; E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND (1845), p.260. |
| 1642 | Jannekin, dau. of Teunis CRAY and Tryntie van CAMPEN, was baptized, 4 May 1642, in the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam. She married Dirck JANSZEN. |
| 1642 | Arendt CORSSE gave a power of attorney to Govert LOOKERMAN of New Amsterdam, dated 4 Aug 1642, to receive moneys from one David PROVOST. CALENDAR OF THE N.Y. HISTORICAL MSS., part I,p.19. Percival G. Ullman THE COURSENS,p.16-17. |
| 1642 | On 31 August 1642, Catalina TRICO and her daughter, Sarah RAPALJI, made a declaration "respecting the conduct of Tryn JONAS, midwife, when sent for to attend said Trico." (Note: Tryn JONAS was mother of Anneke JANS who married first to Roelof JANSEN and second to Everardus BOGARDUS.) John O. Evjen SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.89-115. |
| 1642 | Rem Jansen VANDERBEECK married, 1642, to Jannetje RAPALJE, daughter of Joris Jansen and Catalyna (TRICO) RAPALJE. Their descendants took the surname "REMSEN". See: THE SECOND BOAT, v.8, p.13: |
| 1642 | Herck SYBRANTS (also known as Hendrick SIBOUTSEN KRANKHEYT), married, 1642, to Wyntje Theunis CRAEY and thus was an uncle to Metje Theunis CRAY who married Jan CORSZEN in 1673. Herck Siboutssen's daughter, Tryntje, married Ryck Abrahamsen LENT. She was Mother of Maria LENT who married Abraham VanAMBURGH, and grandmother of Elizabeth van NOMBERG who married, 10 Nov 1726, to Teunis CORSA (Dennis DeCOURSEY). On 28 Aug 1650, Herck SIBRTS and his wife Wyntje CRAY were witnesses at the baptism of Jan, son of Hendrick CORSENS. See James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.166; William A. Eardeley, CHRONOLOGY AND ANCESTRY OF CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW (1918), pp.33-35. |
| 1642 | Teunis CRAY agreed, as part of a lease, to plaster and make a house tight once, to enclose a yard in the rear, and to lay wood in. On 1 December 1642, he contracted for a post and rail fence around his land. In 1642-43, he rented a small house on the corner of present Bridge and Broad St. for 40 guilders a year. |
| 1642 | Elsie Janse (VanBREESTEDE) was in the service of
Cornelis MELYN of Staten Island, who brought suit against
Egbert WOUTERSZEN, husband and guardian of Engeltje Jans,
her mother, for damages on account of Elsje's marriage
engagement before her term of service to him had expired.
At the trial, 11 Sept. 1642, Elsie Janse (VanBREESTEDE)
testified that her mother and another woman had brought a
young man to Statten Island whom she had never seen
before, and desired her to marry him. She declined at
first, as she did not know him and had no inclination to
marry, but finally she consented. She concluded her
testimony by returning in court the pocket handkerchief
she had received as a marriage present. On the 16th of October following, she made a declaration that she sent for Adrian PIETERSEN and that on his coming to Staten Island, she accompanied him on board his yawl. A week later, MELYN and the Fiscal had PIETERSEN before the Court charged him with Elsie's abduction. PIETERSEN was ordered to bring her into court, deliver her to MELYN, and receive her again from him on giving security for the payment of any damages that Melyn may have suffered.
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| 1642 | In November 1642, Dirck HOLGERSEN conveyed to Govert AERTSEN a house and lot on Manhattan Island. |
| 1643 | In the fall of 1642, there had been some incidents of
violence by renigade Indians. After some traders had
stole a dress of beaver-skins from an Indian whom they had
previously stupefied with brandy, he vowed revenge. An
Englishman in the employ of David De VRIES was killed
shortly after; and in a few days following, Gerrit Jansen
Van VORST was also slain, while engaged roofing a house.
The chiefs of the tribes, desiring peace, offered
restitution to the Dutch, but it was refused by KIEFT. In
February 1643, in spite of the warning of cooler heads
such as Johannes La MONTAGNE and David Pietersen De VRIES,
who counselled patience, humanity and kindness to win over
the Indians, KIEFT, at the urging of a militant group led
by Jan Jansen DAMEN, Abraham PLANCK and Maryn ADRIAENSEN,
ordered a pre-emptive sneak attack on the Indians at
Pavonia. Over One Hundred and Twenty Indian Men, Women,
and children were slaughtered in their sleep. According to one account, "Sucklings were torn from their mothers' breasts, butchered before their parents' eyes, and their mangled limbs thrown quivering into the river or the flames. Babes were hacked to pieces while fastened to little boards --- their primitive cradles! --- others were thrown alive into the river; and when their parents, impelled by nature, rushed in to save them, the soldiers prevented their landing; and, thus, both parents and offspring sunk into one watery grave. Children of half a dozen years; decrepit men of threescore and ten, shared the same fate. Those who escaped and begged for shelter next morning, were killed in cold blood, or thrown into the river. Some came running to us from the country, having their hands cut off; some lost both arms and legs; some were supporting their entrails with their hands, while others were mangled in other horrid ways too horrid to be conceived. And these miserable wretches, as well as many of the Dutch, were all the time under the impression that the attack had proceeded from the terrible Mohawks." This senselessly violent act by the Dutch Soldiers infuriated the previously peaceful Indians surrounding New Amsterdam, and this act was to prove troublesome to the white colonists (both Dutch and English) in the future.
The dismay felt by the Indians following this massacre
was expressed in the words of an Indian sachem of the
Manhattans, addressed to Ambassador David Pieterszen de
VRIES at a subsequent peace conference: "When you first
arrived on our shores, you were often in want of food. We
gave you our beans and our corn. We let you eat our
oysters and fish; and now for a recompense, you murder our
people. The men whom you left here at your first trip, to
barter your goods until your return, we cherished as we
would our eyeballs. We gave them our daughters for wives,
and by these they have children. There are now numbers of
Indians who come from the mixed blood of the Indians and
Swannekins (white man). Your own blood have you spilt in
this villanous manner."
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| 1643 | Tradition says that Guleyn VIGNE's wife, Ariaentje
CUVILJE, had been endowed by her schismatic forbears with
a violently rebellious streak, and it was reported in
Holland that she played football with Indians' heads
brought to Fort Amsterdam after KIEFT's unholy attacks in
1643. Following the massacre of the Indians by the Dutch
soldiers at Pavonia, Ariaentje CUVILJE, "Van TIENHOVEN's
mother-in-law, forgetful of those finer feelings which do
honor to her sex, amused herself, it is stated, in kicking
about the heads of the dead men which had been brought in,
as bloody trophies of that midnight slaughter."
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I, p.269. |
| 1643 | On 24 February 1643, in spite of the pleadings of David
Pietersen De VRIES, Jan de La MONTAGNE, and the Rev.
BOGARDUS for patience, humanity, and kindness towards the
Indians, Jan Jansen DAM, Maryn ADRIAENSEN, and Abraham
PLANCK, three members of the late board of the "Twelve
Men," signed a letter to Director General KIEFT advocating
an attack against the Indians. They presented the
petition in the name of the commonalty from which they had
no authority. KIEFT assented to this plea, and the resulting outrages against the Indians in February and their retaliation in March threatened to be almost fatal to the Dutch Colony. In March, Captain David P. DeVRIES and Jacob OLFERTZSEN volunteered to meet with the Indian Sachems to negotiate a peace. On 22 April 1643, De VRIES concluded a Peace Treaty with some of the tribes. The peace, which had been concluded in the spring, was considered by the River Indians in every respect unsatisfatory. The presents they had received were looked upon as by no means commensurate to the enormous losses which they had experienced at the hands of the white men. Pacham, the leader of the Tankitekes of Haverstraw, stimulated the Indian villages to rise and massacre the Dutch. Hostilities again commenced. KIEFT, who never respected either popular rights or popular representatives, found himself in a position that he had to consult the commonalty. The people met at the fort and were called upon to elect representatives. Joachim PIETERSEN, Jan DAMEN, Barent DIRCKSEN, Abraham PIETERSEN, Isaack ALLERTON, Thomas HAL, Gerrit WOLFERTSEN, and Cornelis MELYN were chosen as a board of "Eight Men" to advise the Director. Among the electors of this board were Teunis CRAY, Jacob STOFFELSEN, Reyner JANSEN, Albert JANSEN, Isaac de FOREST, Govert LOOCKMANS, Jacob COUWENHOVEN, Willem ADRAENSEN, Jan VERBRUGGE, Benjamin PAWLEY, Cornelis VOLCKERS, Abraham PLANCK, Heindrick Heindricksen KYPE, Laurens PIETERSEN, Cornelis Lambertsen COOL, Claes Jansen RUTGER, et.al.
At the first meeting of the board of Eight Men, Jan
Jansen DAM was excluded from the board, as the others
refused to sit with him, he being one of the three signers
of the letter of the 24 of February demanding permission
to attack the Indians.
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| 1643 | Kiliaen Van RENSSELAER complained in a letter of 16
March 1643, to Arent van CURLER Albert ANDRIESSEN had
received special privileges, since "his cows are not
mentioned in the inventory sent him." Van CURLER was
ordered to include the cows in the inventory or make
Albert ANDRIESSEN leave the colony and pay for pasturing
and hay for the past year.
Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, p. 661-663, 696. |
| 1643 | On 9 April 1643, Teunis CRAY joined in a complaint filed by Peter VANDER and Barnet DIRKSEN. |
| 1643 | Adriaen PIETERSEN of Alcmaer was in Manhattan by 3
March 1640. His first wife was Grietje PIETERS. He
married 2nd, 17 May 1643, Elsie Janse, daughter of Jan
Jansen VanBREESTEDE and Maritje ANDRIES, and stepdaughter
of Egbert WOUTERSZEN. Elsie's children by Adriaen were:
Jannetje m. Jan Barentsen KUNST; Syntje m. Jacob Abramsz
SANTVORT; Lysbet, d.y.; and Pieter, who was brought up by
his step-father, Hendrick Jochemsz SCHOONMAKER, and shared
equally in his estate.
Heidgerd, Ruth P., THE SCHOONMAKER FAMILY, Part One, p.4; Hood, Dellman O. THE TUNIS HOOD FAMILY (Portland, Oregon 1960), pp.12-20,37-46, passim; |
| 1643 | David PROVOOST was patentee of a lot in Dew Amsterdam, 2 June 1643. |
| 1643 | Arien ROOSA, son of Albert Heymanse ROOSA was born 3
June 1643, in Holland. He married Maria, dau. of Evert
PELS.
Eva Alice Scott, JACOBUS JANSEN VAN ETTEN (1952), p.133-134. |
| 1643 | Jan Gilliszen VERBRUG joined in signing a petition of election, 13 Sept. 1643, with Theunis CRAY (father-in-law to be of Jan CORSZEN). He was a son of Gillis Jansen VERBRUGGE (also known as Joakin Ten Waert) and Barbara SCHUT; and brother to Angeneta Gillis who married first Arendt CORSSE and second Johanne VERMILYEA; and also brother to Margaret Jillis who married David PROVOST and was ancestor of Rachel vanGORDEN who later married Teunis CORSA (Dennis DECOURSEY). |
| 1643 | Volckert Dircksen, son of Dirck and Christine (VIGNE) VOLCKERTSEN, was baptized 15 Nov. 1643. |
| 1643 | Christina (VIGNE) VOLCKERTSEN, wife of Dirck VOLCKERTSEN, was sponsor for a child of Roland HACKWARDT on 14 December 1643. |
| 1644 | Cornelis van de VEN and Janneke GREVENRAET (dau. of
Jasper and Paulina (CORSSEN) GREVENRAET) baptized a child
in Recife, Brazil in 1644. - See:
NY.GEN.BIOG.RECORD, v.13,p.10, v.60,p.202, v.61,p.41,245, v.63,p.10-21, v.64,p.149. |
| 1644 | Jacob le MAIRE was an official in the Dutch colony in
Brazil, 1642-54. He married Catrina Van der VEN, daughter
of Cornelis and Janneke (GREVENRAET) Van der VEN.
N.Y.G.&B.R., v.64, p.149. |
| 1644 | Adrian VIGNE was patentee of a double lot in
Manhattans, 25 April 1644.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.581. |
| 1644 | In May of 1644 between four and five hundred persons in
the Dutch West India Company's service at the Dutch
outposts in Maranham and Recife, Brazil were forced out by
the Portuguese and were forced to take refuge in Curacoa.
"As it was impossible to furnish, or indeed to procure
food for so many people, it was determined to remove the
greater part of them to New Netherland. One Hundred and
thirty soldiers under the command of Captain Jan de FRIES,
and a number of other persons the whole amounting to about
two hundred souls, were accordingly embarked on board the
Blue Cock, commanded by Captain Willem Cornelissen
OUDEMARKT, for New Amsterdam. See
O'Callaghan, v.I, p.309-310.309n, 423-424. |
| 1644 | Cornelius van TIENHOVEN was patentee of 12 morgens, 14
July 1644.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.581. |
| 1644 | A lease held by Jan DAMEN on land located at the
intersection of the modern Exchange Place and Broadway
expired in 1644. It was on this land that was later
located the house and tavern of Cornelis VOLKERTSEN and
his wife Maria Du TRIEUX, whose granddaughter, Blandina
VIELE, married Benjamin CORRSEN, a son of Captain Cornelis
CORSSEN of Staten Island.
Orville Corson, THREE HUNDRED YEARS WITH THE CORSON FAMILIES IN AMERICA (1939), v.1, pp.33-34. |
| 1644 | Jan Broerse (DECKER) came from the West Indies in the "Blue Cock" in 1644, and settled in Albany. He served under Jacob Hay (HUYS) in the West Indies, and was probably a teen-ager at the time (probably no more than 14 years old). |
| 1644 | On 13 September 1644 Teunis CRAY, Isaac DEFOREST, Jan
VERBRUGGE, and others met under the direction of KIEFT to
elect six representatives to consider propositions on how
to best deal with providing for the refugees from Brazil.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.1,p.283-285. |
| 1644 | Upon Arendt Van CURLER's departure for Holland, in October 1644, Anthony deHOOGES was entrusted with the position of acting commissary-general, or superintendent of the colony of Rensselaerswyck. He served as business Manager of the colony until Van SCHLLICHTENHORST's arrival on 22 March 1648. |
| 1644 | Arendt CORSSE had one Moerheart Laurens Cornelison
arrested in 1644, for expressing himself disrespectfully
of one Doretor (Director?) KIEFT. See
COLL. OF N.Y. HISTORICAL MSS., p.28; Ullman, p.17. William KIEFT was Governor of N.Amsterdam from 1637-1647. |
| 1645 | Gerretje, dau. of Theunis CRAY and Tryntje van CAMPEN, was baptized, 8 Jan 1645. She married Jan Geritszen de VRIES van DALSEN. |
| 1645 | Following the Indian war of 1643-45, the families of Dirck VOLCKERTSEN and Abram VERPLANCK returned to Manhattan Island and eventually moved to houses built on adjoining lots in Smit's Valley. (Pearl St. from Wall St. North). |
| 1645 | Dirck VOLCKERTSEN was patentee of 25 morgens at
Mespath, 3 April 1645.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.583. |
| 1645 | Cornellis, son of Cornelis Pieterse VROOM CORSSE and
Tryntje HENDRICKS was baptized 23 Apr 1645 in the DRC of
NA. He married 1666 Marrytje JACOBS van der GRIST. He
was named in a patent 30 Dec 1680 and was designated
"Captain" in a record at Albany, 21 Dec 1680. He died 7
Dec 1693. Among the bequests in his will dated 8 Oct 1742
were all his lands in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey "to his
sons Douwe and Benjamin." Cornelius CORSSEN VROOM had
sons: Jacob; Cornelius, bpt. 13 Aug 1681, a Justice of the
Peace on Staten Island; Christian, a judge and Lt. Colonel
in 1738; Daniel, bpt. 8 Feb 1690; and Benjamin who removed
in 1726 to Bucks County, PA and left descendants who used
the DECOURSEY surname. See
Orville Corson's THREE HUNDRED YEARS WITH THE CORSON FAMILY. Also see Ira K. Morris, MEMORIAL HISTORY OF STATEN ISLAND. J.S.Schenck, HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Rev. A. Stapleton, MEMORIALS OF THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA, p.80. AMERICAN ANCESTRY, p.163. |
| 1645 | Arendt CORSSEN was a plaintiff on 15 Aug 1645.
COLL. of N.Y. HISTORICAL MSS., p.911. Also Ullman, p.17. |
| 1645 | Jacob Du TRIEUX, son of Phillip and Susanna (duCHESNE)
TRIEUX, was born, 1645, in New Amsterdam, and died, 1709,
at New Castle County Delaware. He married Elizabeth POST
who was still living in Delaware in 1730.
THE SECOND BOAT, v.3, p.50-52 |
| 1645 | Isaac De FOREST was patentee of a lot in the
Manhattans, 5 Sept. 1645.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.583. |
| 1645 | Abram RYCKEN was patentee for a lot in the Manhattans,
14 Feb. 1646.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.584. |
| 1646 | In 1646, the present site of Ynkers, N.Y. was granted
to Adrain Van der DONCK, known as de Jonkheer (young
nobleman). Philipse Manor, which became a state museum is
located there. Frederick PHILIPSE, first lord of the
manor, married Cantharine Van CORTLANDT.
THE SECOND BOAT, (July 1989) Vol.10, No.3, p.6. |
| 1646 | Elias and Benjamin, twin sons of David PROVOOST and
Margiet GILLIS Ten WAERT [VERBRUGGE], were baptized at the
DRC of NY on 22 or 17 June 1646. Sponsers were Secretary
Cornelius Van TIENHOVEN, Olof Stephenszen Van COURTLAND,
Anneken LOOCKERMANS, Jillis Van BRUG, Arent KOOS and wife
(maybe Arent CORSSEN STAM and wife Agniet Jillis Ten
WAERT).
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1646 | Lysbeth, dau. of Theunis CRAY and Tryntje van CAMPEN, was baptized, 29 July 1646, in the Dutch Ref. Church of N.A. |
| 1646 | Adrian Van der DONCK says that he and KIEFT saw an
Indian painting his face with a shining mineral. They had
it assayed, and it proved to contain "gold". Arent
CORSSEN van Corenben was sent to Holland with a bag of the
yellow metal (later confirmed to be iron pyrites). The
"great ship" of New Haven, Captain George Lamberton,
sailed at Christmas, 1646, or New Years, but the ship
foundered at sea. Arent CORSSEN, Kieft's messenger, was
drowned, and "misfourtune attended all on board." The
swamped ship return into the harbor as a phantom ship,
months afterward. See Cotton Mather's
MAGNALIA, (1853),v.I,p.84 and Longfellow's poem, "The Phantom Ship." Franklin Jameson, NARRATIVES OF NEW NETHERLAND, p.299; E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.I, p.359. |
| 1646 | Arendt CORSSE STAM, died, in 1646, at sea. His widow,
Angenetta Gillis VERBRUG (also known as Angenietie Gillis
Ten Vaert), dau. of Gillis Jansen VERBRUGGE and Barbara
SCHUT, married third to Johannes de la MONTAGNE, an
official of the Dutch West India Company and Vice Director
of Fort Orange. See
REGISTER OF NEW NETHERLAND, p.49. |
| 1647 | On 15 April 1646, Claes CARSTENSEN (1607c.-1679)
married Hilletje HENDRICKS; and on 25 March 1647, he
acquired 50 morgens of land on the west side of the North
River in New Jersey, next to Dirck STRAATEMAKERS (Dirck
the Streetpaver). It had formerly belonged to Barent
JANSEN. CARSTENSEN sold it the same year to Jan VINJE, a
Walloon, and in 1667 it became the property of a Dane,
Laurens ANDRIESSEN. Claes CARSTENSEN died, 1679, at the
house of Johannes VERMELJE, and it appears he left no
relatives.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.51-53; James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), p.360. |
| 1647 | Hans HANSEN von Bergen acquired a lot, 13 March 1647,
south of Fort Amsterdam "between Jan SNEDEKER and Joris
RAPALJE," that is next to his father-in-law. On 30 March,
the same year, he acquired land on Long Island "on the
kill of Joris RAPALYEY bounded by Lambert HUYBERTSEN's,
Jan the Swede's plantation and by Mespath Kill as far as
Dirck VOLKERTSEN." This was at the head of the Kill of
Mespath (Indian name for Newton), or Newton Creek, a
section called by the Dutch "t Kreuppelbosch," now
corrupted Cripple Bush. The grant amounted to 400 acres.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), p.59; J. Riker, ANNALS OF NEWTON (1852); |
| 1647c | Hendrick Jochemsz SCHOONMAKER, a native of Hamburg, Germany, came to America in the service of the Dutch West India Company, and was a lieutenant "in the company of his noble Honor the Director General." |
| 1647 | Joris RAPELJE was a patentee for a lot in the
Manhattans, 18 March 1647.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.585. |
| 1647 | Teunis CRAY and C. Teunis SCHOONMAKER were patentees
for lots in the Manhattans in New Amsterdam, 15 April
1647.
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.586. |
| 1647 | In 1647, Teunis CRAY built a house with a gabled front on the corner of Stone and Broad Streets, with an outside oven in the rear. He dug a deep well nearby. |
| 1647 | Dr. Jan de La MONTAGNE, "with brightened prospects, and
about to wed the widow of Arent CORSSEN STAM, who two
years previous, sailing for Holland on the public service,
had perished at sea, took occasion, 9 May 1647, only two
days before his friend KIEFT closed his directorship, to
secure a patent for the farm Vredendal," 100 morgens of
land in the Manhattans.
James Riker, REVISED HISTORY OF HARLEM (1904), pp.149-151; E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.586. |
| 1647 | Dirck VOLKERTSEN was given power of attorney, on 2 July 1647, by Albert GOVERTSEN to receive money from the West India Company. |
| 1647 | Angenetta GILLIS, widow of Arendt CORSSE, applied for a
marriage license on 18 July 1647. She married, third, to
Johannes de la MONTAGNE. See
N.Y. HISTORICAL MSS. (Dutch), pp.111-316; Percival Ullman, p.17; Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207.
"Derick CORSSEN STAM, supercargo in the vessel which
brought the De FORESTS over, had a brother Arent, whose
widow, Agnes, a daughter of Gillis Ten Waert, was wooed by
the Doctor (Jan de La MONTAGNE), after the death of his
wife, Rachel De FOREST. As Arent had been lost at sea, it
proved an obstacle to their union, but this was overcome,
as is shown by the following proceeding of 18 July 1647:
'Mr. Johannes La MONTAGNE appeared before the council, and
requested leave to marry Angenietie Gillis Ten Waert,
widow of Arent CORSSEN. Being fully persuaded that he
perished, as the Lords Directors have written, that they
had left nothing untried to learn about him, but were
entirely ignorant of his fate; therefore if Mr. La
MONTAGNE, and she Angenietie, have no scruples regarding
it, they are at liberty to marry.' Two months later they
were married." Johannes and Angenetta La MONTANGE had two
children: Gillis and Jesse; both children died young.
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| 1647 | Barbara PROVOOST, dau. of David PROVOOST and Margiet
GILLIS Ten WAERT [VERBRUGGE], was baptized at the DRC of
NY on 15 August 1647. Sponsers were Dr. Johannes de la
MONTAGNE and Agniet Jillis Ten WAERT.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1647 | Johannes de la MONTAGNE, after the death of his first
wife, Rachel deFOREST, married as his second wife, 18 Aug
1647 at New Amsterdam, to Agritta Gillis VERBRUGGE, widow
of Elias PROVOOST and of Arendt CORSSE (also know as
Arendt STAM). Johannes and Agniet de la MONTAGNE had
children: Gilles de la MONTAGNE, pb. 18 September 1650
NYRDC; and Jesse de la MONTAGNE, bpt. 6 April 1653 NYRDC.
Both children of this marriage died young.
Mrs. Robert DeForest, A WALLOON FAMILY IN AMERICA, v.i,p.105-106, v.ii,p.285. James Riker, HISTORY OF HARLEM (1881), p.166,574; Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1647 | Anthony de HOOGES married second, October 1647, to Eve
Albertse BRATT, dau. of Albert Andriesz BRADT, "the
Norman," and Annetje Barents (vonROLMERS) BRATT.
(According to Evjen, Anthony de HOOGES was a widower with
several children.) Anthony and Eva (BRADT) de HOOGES had
children: Marie; Anna, married Warnaar HORNBEEK;
Catharine; Johanis; and Eleanor, married William de la
MONTAGNE.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.30-33. |
| 1647 | At the resignation of Governor KIEFT and the arrival of
Peter STUYVESANT in New Amsterdam, "Doctor La
MONTAGNE was continued of the Council (from 1647-1655);
Cornelis Van TIENHOVEN, Provincial Secretary; Paulus
Leendertsen Van der GRIST, commander of the Great Gerrit,
was appointed to the responsible office of Equipage
Master or Naval Agent; and 'as none of the Company's
officers could tolerably read or write the English
language,' Ensign George BAXTER was retained as English
secretary."
E. B. O'Callaghan, HISTORY OF NEW NETHERLAND, v.II, p.21n |
| 1648 | Anthony de HOOGES held the office of secretary and
"gecommitteerde" from the arrival of Van SCHLICHTENHORST
on 22 March 1648 until his death, on or about 11 October
1655.
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.30-33. |
| 1648 | In April 1648, during the building of Fort Beversrede
on the Schuylkill River (present site of Philadelphia) by
the Dutch, the Swedes (who had built an outpost down
river) protested and cut down every tree around or near
the fort. The Swedes contended that they had made first
claim to this territory, and that the Dutch were
encroaching. Intelligence of this act having been
received at Fort Amsterdam, Vice Director DINCLAGE and the
Honorable Johannes La MONTAGNE were commissioned to
proceed to the South River. On their arrival, they
obtained from the Indian Sachems a confirmation of the
original transfer to the Dutch (represented by Arent
CORSSE), of the lands around the Schuylkill, and took
public and lawful possession of the same.
Hol. Doc. viii, 55, contains this confirmation of which
the following is a translation: "We the undersigned,
AMMATTEHOORN, ALEBACKINNE, SINQUEES, rulers over the
territories and lands lying on and around the Schuylkill,
called Armenveruis, declare well and truly, that we sold
to Arent CORSSEN the Schuylkill and adjoining lands for
certain cargoes, which were not paid to us in full; but
whereas we are now fully satisfied therefore, &c., the
aforesaid chiefs do hereby grant a full and irrevocable
transfer thereof, confirming the aforesaid sale, and are
prepared on all occasions to confirm this, and to free it
from all contradiction and gainsay, to be made by any one
against the same, &c. Thus done; and in testimony of the
truth, signed by us Natives in presence of the
underwritten witnesses. Actum in Fort Beversreede in the
South River of New Netherland; was subscribed -- the mark
of AMATTEHOORN; the mark of SINQUEES; the mark of
ALABACKINNE; the mark of MICHECKSOUWABE; &c. in presence
of us subscribing witnesses, signed Augustyn HEERMANS,
Govert LOOCKERMANS, Juriaen BLANCK, Cornelis Jansen COELE
(COOL), Sander LEENDERTSEN, all witnesses to the first
contract."
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| 1648 | Gerrit, son of Theunis CRAY and Tryntje van CAMPEN, was baptized, 10 May 1648. |
| 1648 | Adriaen EVERWOU, young man "uyt de Noorman" was married
12 July 1648 at Groede, to Janneke Van AKEN, spinster from
Tielt (in West Flanders). Wintesses to the marriage are
Jan MARINISSE and Josijntje, her sister.
VAN AKEN NEWSLETTER (15 May 1989), v.6, p.17. |
| 1648 | Samuel PROVOOST, son of David PROVOOST and Margiet
GILLIS Ten WAERT [VERBRUGGE], was baptized at the DRC of
NY on 22 November 1648. Sponsers were Dr. Johannes de la
MONTAGNE and Marritje SNYERS.
Harriet Holcombe, "The Provoost Family," Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne Newsletter (Spring 1985), v.3, p.203-207. |
| 1649 | Dirk VOLKERTSON, the Norman; early settler and farmer,
Brooklyn at Bushwick Creek; built his house in 1649; he
and his wife, Christina VIGNE, became members of the Dutch
Reformed Church in New Amsterdam in 1649. Their daughter,
Magdalena Dirks, married (1) Cornelius Hendrickson
VanDORT, and married (2nd) 1657 Herman Hendrick
ROSENCRANS.
Virkus THE COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY. |
| 1649 | Harmanus Hendrickszen ROSENKRANTZ came from Bergen,
Norway to New Amsterdam about 1649. He was a soldier, and
was sometimes called "Harman the Portuguese" probably in
recognition of his service in Brazil, from which
reinforcements had been brought in 1655.
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT (8/15/59), #C3236; NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY RECORD, v.90, p.8. |
