_Andrew BRECKENRIDGE _+
|
_Andrew BRECKENRIDGE _|
| (.... - 1826) m 1871 |
| |_Isobella JAMISON ____
|
_David BRECKENRIDGE __|
| (1773 - 1843) m 1805 |
| | ______________________
| | |
| |_Elizabeth FERGUSON __|
| (.... - 1827) m 1871 |
| |______________________
|
|
|--Elizabeth BRECKENRIDGE
| (.... - 1809)
| _John MACMILLAN ______
| | (1725 - ....)
| _Neil MACMILLAN ______|
| | (1750 - ....) m 1770 |
| | |_Mary BLEU ___________
| | (1730 - ....)
|_Charlotte MACMILLAN _|
(1786 - 1875) m 1805 |
| _John MCCONOCHY ______
| | (1720 - ....)
|_Isabell MCCONOCHY ___|
(1750 - ....) m 1770 |
|_Sarah MCNEIL ________
(1725 - ....)
_John CHENOWETH _____+
| (1682 - 1746) m 1705
_John CHENOWETH _____|
| (1706 - 1770) m 1730|
| |_Mary CALVERT _______+
| (1687 - 1745) m 1705
_William CHENOWETH __|
| (1732 - 1771) m 1860|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Mary M. SMITH ______|
| m 1730 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Samuel CHENOWETH
| (1770 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Jane ? _____________|
m 1860 |
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
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_FA12
[2832]
Line 29305 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:
_FA12 PLAC NOTE see Samuel(5) Jonathan(4) Wlliam(3) John(2)
[2537] UPDATE: 1997-04-18
[2538] !NOTE: THIS LINE IS NOT WELL-DOCUMENTED AND IS CONSIDERED SPECULATIVE.
[2539]
!RESEARCH: Arnold J. F. Van Laer, NEW YORK HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS DUTCH Vol I;
1638-1642 ; Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1974 ; pp 196-197
Morris Library, University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: Lease from Jonas Bronck to
Pieter Andriessen and Lourens Duyts. They shall be at liberty to plant tobacco
and maize, on the express condition that every two years they shall clear new
pieces of land.... furthermore, Pieter Andriesz and Lourens Duyts bind and
pledge their persons and properties for the payment of what Mr.
Bronck has disbersed for them on board the ship De Brant van Troyen, 120
guilders, 16 stivers, of which Pieter Andriessen must pay fl. 81:4 and Lourens
Duyts fl. 49:12. Done in Fort Amsterdam, 21st of July 1639.
[2540]
!RESEARCH: Arnold J. F. Van Laer, NEW YORK HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS DUTCH Vol I;
1638-1642 ; Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1974 ; pp 263-64 ;
Morris Library, University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: Promissary note from Gerritt
Jansen from Oldenburgh to Barent Dircksen, baker; for the sum of 232 guilders.
Date not given. Laurens Duyts signed by mark.
[2541]
!RESEARCH: Arnold J. F. Van Laer, NEW YORK HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS DUTCH Vol II;
1642-1647 ; Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1974 ; pp 181-82 ;
Morris Library, University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: Deposition of Jan van
Ditmersen & Cornelius Jacobsen in regard to leather stolen by Roelant Hackwaert
from Laurens Duyts. -- Nov 1643.
[2542]
!BIOGRAPHY: John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK; 1630-1674; K. C
Holter Publishing Co. Minneapolis, MN. 1916 ; pp 193-94 ; Morris Library,
University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: Laurens Duyts of Holstein received sentancin
from Stuyvesant on Nov 25, 1658. For selling his wife, Ytie Jansen and forcing
her to live in adultery with another man, and for living himself in adultery, h
was to have a rope tied around his neck, and then to be severly flogged, to hav
his right ear cut off, and to be banished for fifty years.
[2543]
!MARRIAGE: Named in suit in New Amsterdam, 25 Nov. 1658. Calendar of Historical
Manuscripts, vol. 1, pg. 203.
[2544]
!MARRIAGE: Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, Bergen NJ (now Jersey City).;
1666ff ; Collections of the Holland Society of NY. Vol. IV. ; ; Morris Library
University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: These are arranged Baptism, Marriage,
Burials. 1665 Dec 3. Laurens Duyts & Grietje Jans. After three proclamations,
marriage concluded Jan 1, 1666.
[2545]
!RESEARCH
In a message dated 11/7/98 8:56:52 AM, jbutler@UH.EDU writes:
> http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/gean/phdphd.html (research on
> Laurens Duyts with references.
[2546]
Laurens Duyts, a Dane, born in Holstein in 1610, was the progenitor of one of
the Dye families in America. (1) He died January 14, and was buried on
January 16, 1666 at the Dutch Reformed Church burial ground in Bergen (now
Jersey City), New Jersey. Nothing is known about his parents or the town of
his birth.
[2547]
He married first, about 1639, Ytie Jans, perhaps a sister of Gerrit Jansen of
Oldenburg, Holstein, who was a sponsor for her daughter Margarets baptism.
Ytie was still living in 1684. On November 25, 1658, she was sentenced to a
whipping and banishment for living in adultery with Jan Parcell. John
Parcell, alias Borcher, of Huntingdonshire, Eng., for living in adultery with
Ytie Jans, to be placed at the whipping post with two rods in his arms, to be
banished for 20 years, and pay a fine of 100 guilders ($40), with costs. A
petition submitted to the Council on December 12, 1658 by John Parcell and
Ytie Jans, two sorrowful sinners, ask for pardon and leave to marry. The
Council allowed them to remain three months to settle their affairs, but must
separate from each other at once. Official records become strangely silent
at this point, but Jan must have found a way to marry Ytie, since a wife by
that name survived him and was his widow in 1684. They provided a home for
their children from previous marriages and at least two of their own. (2) On
June 13, 1674, Ytie was named as a sponsor at the baptism of Catharine,
daughter of son Hans. Jan Parcell died in 1677, his will proved on September
28 of that year. Ytie, along with step-sons John and Thomas Parcell, appear
on the rate list of Newtown in 1683. In March 1684 she petitioned the Council
concerning a dispute over lands near Gravesend - the last time her name
appears in the public records.
[2548]
His second wife was Grietje Jans, said to be the sister of his first wife. (3)
The banns for this marriage were proclaimed for the first time on December 3,
1665. After three proclamations, Laurens and Grietje were married on January
1, 1666, in Bergen, New Jersey. Theirs was the first such ceremony of record
a the Dutch church in this newly-formed settlement. Grietje survived her
husband and testified in the New York court on January 25, 1668.
[2549]
Laurens Duyts arrived in America in July of 1639 on the Fire of Troy, a
private armed vessel, engaged at Hoorn, Holland by Captain Jochiem Pietersen
Kuyter. Kuyter, a Danish gentleman, was accompanied by his friend and
countryman, Jonas Bronck. All were perhaps fugitives from the Thirty Years
War, drawn at first by the promise of freedom and opportunity to Holland.
But, as conditions there became more unsettled and trade declined, they along
with a multitude of other expatriates, looked toward New Netherland which was
extolled as beyond the finest country in the world, where everything can be
produced that is grown in France or the Baltic and whose young settlements
were free from all tyranny and the corruption of European society. Kuyter
shipped a large cargo of cattle aboard the ship, and he and Bronck were
accompanied by their families and many herdsmen, farmers and several laborers.
[This shipload must have made an impact of sorts on the community of New
Amsterdam, which, at the time, was estimated to have had a population of under
one thousand.] Kuyter immediately obtained a grant of about four hundred
acres, bordering on the Great Kill (Harlem River) from about the present 127th
to 140th Streets in New York City. (4) Bronck settled directly opposite his
friends land on five hundred acres purchased from the Indians and now part of
the borough of the Bronx. (5) Laurens Duyts and Pieter Andriessen, (6) also a
passenger on the Fire of Troy, leased portions of Broncks land, July 21,
1639, for three years, for raising tobacco and maize, from the proceeds of
which they were to reimburse Bronck the one hundred and twenty-one florins for
their passage, which he had originally paid. They were to clear and cultivate
a fresh spot every two years for the raising of their tobacco and maize, and
then that spot was to return to Mr. Bronck for the planting of grain. Laurens
Duyts was frequently on the move, what might be called an itinerant farmer,
leasing the land he tilled. Nicknamed Laurens Grootschoe (big shoe), he was
often quarreling with other residents and in trouble with Dutch authorities.
His name appears in the court records of New Amsterdam on more than fifteen
occasions between 1643 and 1658. The culmination of his courtroom experiences
occurred on November 25, 1658, when Pieter Stuyvesant rendered one of the
severest verdicts in New Netherland history: For selling his wife, Ytie
Jansen, and forcing her to live in adultery with another man and for living
himself also in adultery, he was to have a rope tied around his neck, and then
to be severely flogged, to have his right ear cut off, and be banished for
fifty years. He went to Bergen, New Jersey and died there. Perhaps a
fitting epitaph is the fact that even after death his name appeared in the
court minutes. A dispute arose between two parties over the disposition of
fifty schepels of Laurens wheat, brought by his widow in a canoe to New
Amsterdam (called New York City by this date).
[2550]
Issue:
by his first marriage -
I. Margaret, bapt. December 23, 1639; m. Abodia Wouters (7)
ii. Jan Laurens, bapt. March 23, 1642; d. 1679; m. 1st, Jannetje Jeuriaens,
October 2, 1667, and 2nd, Neeltje Adriaens, September 27, 1673 (8)
iii. Jans Laurens, bapt. September 28, 1644; d. after 1706; m. 1st, Marritje
Satyrs [prob. Mary Sawtelle], and 2nd, Mrs. Sarah (------) Fountain
by his second wife -
iv. Catreyn (Catharine), b. the end of March or beginning of April 1667
[2551]
Notes:
(1) The name of Dye is thought to be a corruption of the Danish name, Duyts,
changed at first to Dey, Deay, Die, Day and other variations, and finally
Anglicized to Dye. There were Dyes from England and Deys from Holland who
lived in the same areas of New York and New Jersey as did Laurens Duyts
descendants. Adding to the confusion, Duytsman to the early Dutch settlers
was a German, although it is well established that Laurens was of Danish
extraction.
(2) Jan Parcell had four children, two of whom were probably from his first
marriage. Son William and daughter Catharine were probably from his second
marriage, while Thomas and John were born earlier. Laurens and Yties son,
Jan, leased a farm at Dutch Kills, Long Island, on the 8th of January 1669
from Jan Parcell, and lived there at the time of his second marriage in 1673.
Son, Hans, is also mentioned in Newtown records and married the daughter of a
Newtown resident. Jan and Hans sister, Margaret, apparently also resided in
Newtown for a time.
(3) On November 25, 1658, Grietje Jansen, for living in adultery with Laurens
Duyts, was to be conducted to the whipping post, and fastened thereto, the
upper part of her body being stripped naked, and two rods placed in her hands,
to be afterwards conducted, in that manner, outside the city gates, and
banished from the province for the term of thirty years, with costs.
(4) Kuyters life in New Netherland was certainly not without incident. He
persevered despite enormous odds in an attempt to develop his land on the
flats of Harlem. Added to his frustrations on this score, he incurred the
wrath of Governor Kieft, when he stood alone with the unimpeachable churchman,
Dominie Bogardus, in condemning Kiefts Indian policies and informed the
Directors of the Dutch West India Company of Kiefts misrule. Pieter
Stuyvesant, who succeeded Kieft, inherited his hatred of Kuyter. Kuyter was
fined one hundred and fifty guilders and sentenced to three years in exile. A
twist of fate put the retiring Kieft and Dominie Bogardus on the same
Netherland-bound ship with Kuyter. The ship wrecked on the rocky coast of
Wales and many persons were killed, including Kieft and Bogardus. Kuyter was
miraculously saved and returned, first to Holland for exoneration, and then
back to New Amsterdam, where he was promptly reinstated in his several offices
and in the good graces of Stuyvesant. As he was attempting to improve his
land once again, this time with Stuyvesant and others as partners, he was
murdered by Indians on March 2, 1654.
(5) Jonas Bronck, the first recorded white settler of Westchester County, New
York, erected on his land a stone house covered with tile, barns, barracks,
and a tobacco house. He died in 1643, leaving among his effects a Danish and
Latin library containing books on theology, medicine and law.
(6) Pieter Andriessen eventually moved to Long Island, where he was to learn
about Indian raids from personal experience. On October 13, 1655, he and five
other persons were attacked at his home, four wounded and all captured. It is
probable that he was one of the many captives who were later released for
ransom by the Indians.
(7) A daughter, Maria, was baptized in 1671 at the New York Dutch Church. It
is assumed that Abodia Wouters is the same as Obadiah Winters who lived in
Newtown, Long Island in 1659 and later removed to Woodbridge, New Jersey.
(8) Jan lived in Harlem until 1669, when he removed to Long Island.
[2552] References:
[2553]
Riker, James, Revised History of Harlem (City of New York), its Origin and
Early Annals (1904), pp. 92, 106, 133-135, 256, 809
[2554]
Evjan, John O., Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674 (1916), pp. 9,
83, 171-173, 190, 193-195, 240, 364
[2555]
Old Bergen Church, Jersey City, New Jersey - photocopies of baptism, marriage
and burial records from old registers
[2556] Jenkins, Stephen, The Story of the Bronx (1912), p. 27
[2557] Innes, J. H., New Amsterdam and its People (1902), p. 3
[2558]
New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (1974), Volume I, pp. 196-197, 263,
264; Volume II, p. 181; Volume IV, p. 268
[2559]
Fernow, Berthold, The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 (1897),
Volume I, pp. 50, 133, 136, 139, 183, 187, 346, 399, 407; Volume II, pp. 257,
375, 379; Volume VI, pp. 108, 110
[2560]
OCallaghan, E. B., Calendar of Historical Manuscripts (1865), pp. 9, 14, 25,
141, 203, 204
[2561]
The American Genealogist, Volume XVIII, pp. 155-6; 159-162; The Fabulous
Pearsalls
[2562]
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume V, pp. 26, 31, 85;
Volume IX, pp. 32, 37
[2563]
Treman, Ebenezer Mack and Poole, Murray E., The History of the Treman,
Tremaine, Truman Family in America (1901), p. 833
[2564]
Riker, James, Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York (1852), pp. 37,
39
[2565]
Boyer, Carl, Ship Passenger Lists - New York and New Jersey, 1600-1825 (1978),
pp. 16, 21
[2566]
Transcriptions of Early Town Records of New York - Town Minutes of Newtown;
Volume I, pp. 79, 96, 140; Volume II, pp. 185, 191, 192, 203; Volume III, pp.
191-193, 200
[2567]
OCallaghan, E. B., The Documentary History of the State of New York (1850),
Volume II, p. 299
[2568] Records of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church of New York
[2536]
[SOURCE]
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, Bergen NJ (now Jersey City).;
1666ff ; Collections of the Holland Society of NY. Vol. IV. ; ; Morris Library,
University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: These are arranged Baptism, Marriage,
Burials. 16 Jan 1668 Buried Lourus Duyts at Bergen.
[2895]
[SOURCE]
Named in suit in New Amsterdam, 25 Nov. 1658. Calendar of Historical
Manuscripts, vol. 1, pg. 203.
[2896]
[SOURCE]
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, Bergen NJ (now Jersey City).;
1666ff ; Collections of the Holland Society of NY. Vol. IV. ; ; Morris Library
University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: These are arranged Baptism, Marriage,
Burials. 1665 Dec 3. Laurens Duyts & Grietje Jans. After three proclamations,
marriage concluded Jan 1, 1666.
[2897]
[SOURCE]
Named in suit in New Amsterdam, 25 Nov. 1658. Calendar of Historical
Manuscripts, vol. 1, pg. 203.
[2898]
[SOURCE]
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, Bergen NJ (now Jersey City).;
1666ff ; Collections of the Holland Society of NY. Vol. IV. ; ; Morris Library
University of DE, Newark DE. NOTE: These are arranged Baptism, Marriage,
Burials. 1665 Dec 3. Laurens Duyts & Grietje Jans. After three proclamations,
marriage concluded Jan 1, 1666.
[2221] Dau. of Richard and Alavisa "Louisa" Mills Fenwick.
_John MOORE _________+
| (1637 - 1702) m 1654
_John MOORE _________|
| (1662 - 1740) m 1697|
| |_Ann SMITH __________
| (.... - 1670) m 1654
_Fairbanks MOORE ____|
| (1700 - 1758) |
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Habadiah FAIRBANKS _|
| (1687 - ....) m 1697|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Jonas MOORE
| (1724 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
| |
|_Judith BELLOWS _____|
|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________