FAMILY HISTORIES

  MY EARLIEST FAMILIES

I have found that I have 19 ancestors who were on the Mayflower in 1620. Some of them are James Chilton and his

daughter Isabella and the parents of Priscilla Alden and Miles Standish. For a complete list of the these persons, go to Mayflower-Passengers.

My earliest Dutch ancestor to come to America was that of Philippe du Trieux and Jacquemyne Noirett and their daughter Maria Du Trieux. Maria was baptized in the Walloon Church in Leiden, Holland on 5 Apr 1617 . The family came to New Amsterdam about 1624 on the Eendracht.  

A 1644 map of New Amsterdam is marked "The Tavern of Marie du Trieux". Marie was eventually banished from New Amsterdam for her constant trouble with the law.  She kept a disorderly tavern, sold spirits to the Indians and also sold liquor during prayers and after 9 PM . The charges were specifically for "tapping after hours".  

Maria was married twice, first, to Cornelis Volckersten Viele and later to Jan Peek. Cornelis Viele was born in Hoorn, Holland in 1613. Maria and Cornelis were married 9 Jun 1641 in New Amsterdam. They had 4 children. Their first child Aernout Cornelis was born before their marriage. I am descended from their 4th child, Pieter Cornelis.  Pieter was baptized in the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church on 9 Feb 1648.  Cornelis Viele died on 16 Mar 1648 in New Amsterdam, NY. Maria married Jan Peek on 20 Feb 1650. They had 4 children. After Jan Peek’s death, Maria lived with Pieter in Schenectady where she died before 1684.  

Jan Peek was born in Holland about 1625. He married Maria Du Trieux on 20 Feb 1650 at the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church. Jan went into the tavern business with his wife. He also traveled up the Hudson River to Albany. The Town of Peek's Kil (Peekskill, NY) was named for him. He spoke Dutch & English. He acquired land in Beverwyck (Albany) in 1655. The last record of him was in Albany in Jan 1663.

 English Families

After the Mayflower there were many ships that came to America from England. Go to

http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shiplist.htm for a list of these early ships.

I have tried to provide a genealogy of many of My Families back to their immigrant ancestor.

Winthrop Fleet

The Winthrop Fleet was a group of eleven sailing ships under the leadership of John Winthrop that carried approximately 700 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630.

Sanford Family

John Sanford came to America in 1631 as a part of the Winthrop Fleet. His second wife was Bridget Hutchison, the daughter of William Hutchison and Anne Marbury. Shortly after John Sanford's marriage to Bridget, the Hutchison family was banished from Boston for Anne Marbury's speaking out against the Church in Massachusetts Bay. The Sanford and Hutchison families moved to Portsmouth, Rhode Island. John Sanford later became President of the Rhode Island Colony.
There are over 1,000 members of this family on the web site. My grandmother, Maude Sanford, is a descendent of this John Sanford

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DUTCH LANGUAGE  

At this point I think that it is necessary to provide some background material. You will see that many given names use Dutch spelling. Female names end in “tie”, “tje” or “ian”. It is usually fairly easy to determine the English name. Surnames were not required until the English took over New Amsterdam in 1664. Up until that time a patronymic system was used. Both males and females had their father’s given name as their surname with an “se” suffix. The Dutch “van” or “from” was used with many names. An example would be Pieter Hermanse Van Antwerp. Women’s family names were used in vital records for almost 100 years.  

 

  Cliff Lamere has examples of patronymic names at:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Aid/AID-Dutch-Naming.htm

The example Cliff uses is for persons in my family.

Dutch & English Names

  Nicknames and English Equivalents
  Anthony=Teunis, Annetje=Annetje, Cornelia=Neeltje? The Dutch often used shortened names and other 

  nicknames.   

  Also, during the course of the 18th century, the descendants of Dutch settlers began to slowly appropriate English customs, including the use of the English equivalents of their first names. Annetje   may be in records as Anna , Jan as John, and so on. Need some help? Try these sources:

http://www.hopefarm.com/dutchnam.htm

 The pronunciation of Dutch names is at:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Misc/PronunciationDutch.htm

 

 Cliff Lamere has quite a bit of other information on his web site at:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/

 Traditions of the Dutch Colonists and Other Important Informationhttp://www.boydhouse.com/michelle/newneth_guide/index.html

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HOW AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED

 

 Ship Lists

  The most comprehensive list of ships that brought family members to America is found at:

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/index.shtml   Ships are listed by name by year.

 

  1624 Endracht  http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/endracht1624.shtml

              Marriages on Ships to America http://www.theshipslist.com/Forms/BMD.htm

 

Th          The Ships List http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html

 

Pass      Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships from Norway Heritage http://www.norwayheritage.com/ships/

     

  Pictures of Early Ships http://www.modelsailingships.com/update/index.html

 

Im          Immigrant Ship Passenger Lists http://khuish.tripod.com/ships.htm

 

Sai         Sailing Warships from 17th Century http://www.sailingwarships.com/

 

  Ships List Online http://shipslists-online.rootschat.net/  

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NEW YORK STATE WEBSITES


     New York Cemetery Addresses http://www.dos.state.ny.us/cmty/CemeteryList.HTM

      Rootsweb Cemetery Records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/  

 

Feral         Funeral Homes On-Line http://www.us-funerals.com/funeral-homes.html

    

      New York Old Dutch Graves http://www.thepastwhispers.com/nyolddutchgraves.html  

1840          US Census Records for Rev War Pensioners http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840/       

 

Blank         Blank Census Forms http://www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/census.aspx

     Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/

       

      New York State Census and Research http://www.nyscensushunt.com/  

Vital          Vital Records Information for New York Counties http://www.vitalrec.com/nycounties2.html

US C         Census Maps from 1790 http://www.mycensusmaps.com/all.htm

      New York Genealogy Databases http://www.allvitalrecords.com/index.asp?state=NY 

      Reformed Dutch Church in America http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12710a.htm  

                 Birth and Marriage Records http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/vitalrecords.html

Dutch       Reformed Church Records http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy

Lut            Lutherans in New Netherland, 1656 and Later Years www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutheranheritage.newnetherlutherans.html

      F          Church Births, Marriages, & Deaths from 1688 to 1804 http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/eglise%20toc.html

The A        American Revolution and Its Era http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html  

      Original Colonies http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html   

     National Genealogical Society http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/  

                  

      Original Colonies http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html

  

U             US 1895 Atlas http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/  

An             

       Atlas of Canada http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/historical/territorialevolution  

Ma             Map Collections http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

                  Palatine Settlements in New York http://www.fortklock.com/Psettlements.htm  

 d Ma        Railroad Maps  1828-1900 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html  

Mapp        Mapping the Middle States from Colonial Times www.jonathansheppardbooks.com/JSBMaps/MiddleMaps.htm#newyork

   

    Norwegian Immigrants            http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/norwegian_migration.html

     New York State Naturalization Indexes http://www.jgsny.org/nynats.htm

Jame       

       Inventory of the James Riker Papers, 1660-1989 http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/human/mssjasriker/

       Scandinavian Immigrants in New York – 1630-1674 http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycoloni/evjen/evjtitle.html

   

     Early America Digital Library http://www.earlyamericanimages.com/  

     New York State Newspapers http://www.50states.com/news/newyork.htm

  

     New York State Newspaper Project http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/  

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FAMILY HISTORIES

 

People of Albany County

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/pcalhindex.html

Albany for more than two generations before 1800. These names and many others are being studied as a part of the Colonial Albany Social History Project. Many of them are included in my family.

 

 Robert Sanders

 Storm Van der Zee

 Rachel Van Valkenburg Radcliff

 Ariantie Visscher Wendell

 Jeroninmus Wendell

 Janet Glen Cuyler

 Hendrick Halenbeek

 Frans Janse Pruyn

 Jacob Janse Schermerhorn

 Catharina Van der Heyden De Garmo

 Hendrick Gerritse Van Wie

 Pieter Winne

 Joseph Yates

 Volkert Janse Douw

 Jochem Ketelhuyn

 Jacob Loockermans

 Marselis Janse Van Bommel

 Guert Hendrickse Van Schnhooven

 Leendert Gansevoort

 Albert Janse Ryckman

 Joseph & Johannes Van Zandt

 

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Major Families  

  Websites that provide information about the families of my ancestors:  

  Schermerhorn Family http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_25.htm

  Bradt Family http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/bradt/

  Teller Family: http://www.ldorvdor.net/teller.html

  Brink Family: http://www.hopefarm.com/brink.htm

  Fonda Family: http://www.fonda.org/

  Huguenot Freer Family: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~sfreer/huguenot.html

  Gardenier Family: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clifflamere/Misc/GardenierMessBd.htm

  Knickerbocker Family: http://www.knic.com/

  Schenectady Families: http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/


  Van Valkenburg Family: http://www.navvf.org

  Van Woert Family: http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/tulip/561/
 

  Wing Family: http://www.murrah.com/gen/wing.htm

  

 Dutch Notables

 There are several Notable Persons in my family history. They include, Henry Fonda, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor                Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Herman Melville. Information about them and many other persons are found in    this list:  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nnnotables/

 My relationship to President Martin Van Buren is listed on the Columbia County page.

 

                                                              

                                                            

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