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- CORNELIS VOLCKERTSEN VIELE, the grandfather of Elizabeth and Blandina Viele who married the brothers, Jacob and Benjamin Corssen, came 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 Dec. 3, 1635, having worked his way over on the boat. (Minutes of the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, 1635-36; see N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Record, July, 1918, Vol. 49, pp. 224, 228.)
Cornelis Volckertsen Viele soon returned to New Netherland as he was a trader and tavern-keeper in New Amsterdam in 1639. He kept his tavern and resided upon the east side of Heerewegh or Broadway, upon a land grant which was conveyed to him by the Dutch authorities about that time. He married, previous to 1640, Marye du Trieux, who was baptised in the Walloon Church at Leiden, Holland, Apr. 5, 1617, as the daughter of Philippe du Trieu (Trieux) and Jacquemine Nouret (Noiret). Marye’s mother presumably died while she was an infant, as the same Walloon Church Register records the Act of Betrothal of July 17, 1621, of Philippe Dutrieux, of Robey (Robaix) Department du Nord, France, worsted dyer, aged 34, widower of Jacquemine Noiret, and Susanna du Chesne, aged 20, orphan, assisted by Jean Pinson, her cousin. On Mar. 9, 1624, Philippe Dutrieux received from the church at Leiden a certificate of transfer “pour Westinde,” meaning that he was about to sail for New Netherland. (Extracts from the Register of the Walloon Church at Leiden, given at the end of Miss K. K. Viele’s Sketches of Allied Fami¬ lies, Knickerbocker-Viele.)
When Cornelis Volckertsen Viele came to New Amsterdam, he probably lodged at the tavern of Philippe du Trieux and thus became acquainted with his future wife. The latter had an illegitimate daughter, who was afterwards adopted by Pieter van Couwenhoven. It may be well to believe as Miss K. K. Viele suggested in a letter to Mr. van Laer, that Cornelis Volckertsen Viele “remained away from New Amsterdam long enough for Marye du Trieux to perhaps have married Pieter van Couwen¬ hoven and then returned like an Enoch Arden.”
Cornells Volckertsen Viele and Marye du Trieux had the fol¬ lowing children baptised in the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam :
Aernoudt, bapt. May 27, 1640, witnesses were Isaac de Forest, Tennis Cray, Schipper (Captain), Jan Cant;
Cornelxs, bapt. Feb. 5, 1643, witnesses were Philip du Trieux, Anneka Bogardus, Gerrit Molenaer;
Jacomintje, bapt. Aug. 20, 1645, witnesses, Jan Evertsen Bout, Isaac Abraharnse, Schipper (Captain), Susanna du Trieux;
Pieter, bapt. Feb. 9, 1648, witnesses, Aert Willemse, Goelman, Henry Schouten tot Vlissingen (Sheriff of Flushing), Evert Van Embden, Maria Thomas, Barentie Gerrits.
(N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Soc. Col, Vol. 2, pp. 10, 14, 19, 24.)
Cornells Volckertsen died in New Amsterdam about 1648-9, and his wife, Maria du Trieux, who was destined to be the grand¬ mother of Blandina and Elizabeth Viele, married in. 1650, Jan Peeck, part Indian trader, part broker between the English and Dutch merchants, and part general speculator. Maria du Trieux, called de Truye by the Dutch, continued with her second husband to operate the tavern, but Jan Peeck's trading expeditions made It necessary for him. to be away from home for long intervals, at which time his very capable wife managed the tavern business. It was in 1664, while thus engaged, that the authorities at New Amsterdam accused her of the serious offense of selling liquor to the Indians. That she must have been guilty of “bootlegging” is evident, as she was fined 500 guilders, and banished from New Amsterdam.
Maria is said, at this time, to have taken up her residence in the settlement of Schenectady, for a short period; but the English took over control of New Amsterdam the following year, and. Maria soon returned to New York and took up her residence in a house on Hoogh Street. Notwithstanding this little escapade, this woman was evidently a good mother as her children became leaders of the pioneers of those days.
Aernoudt had probably the greatest influence with, and enjoyed the greatest confidence of the Redskins of any man of his day. Pie organized large trading and exploring expeditions, penetrating far west into the unknown wilderness. He is credited with being the first white man to view the Ohio River. The early records of our country recount the achievements of Aernoudt Cornelisen Viele, who, as a representative of the government, was entrusted time and time again with bringing to a successful conclusion diffi¬ culties or threatened difficulties with the Indians. For a complete account of these achievements, see pages 1 to 30 in the Viele Family, by Kathryn K. Viele, who sums up these records with the following :
“Here ends the public records of as good a public servant as this country has ever had. One gets a glimpse in these dry records of the difficult life of the early settlers, with enemies and possible enemies on every side. Constant and unremitting had to be the watch on the “Wilden,” capable of such fearful vengeance. None but an intrepid spirit could face them again and again and keep control of them as did Aernoudt Cornelisen Viele.
“We find him associated with the English officials, with military officers, with the French and English Commissioners and with Jesuit priests. And although often placed in trying circumstances in his position as go between, he retains to the last his good name with both sides. Once he was outwitted, perhaps by the Jesuit de Lamberville and the wily French agents, but he failed not to talk to the Indians in the tone of one who expects to be obeyed.
“Take him all in all he was a fine type of the sturdy Dutch pioneers who wrestled so persistently to secure the lands which are ours today. It was due to such as he that the French in the North were held in check and our Empire State was preserved to the English until it became American.”
CORNELIS CORNELISEN VIELE was only six years old when his father died. He grew up under the care of his very capable mother and step-father with an understanding of the Indian — his ways, his language and his manner of trading — which fitted him to be an interpreter and a friend of the Red man as was his brother Aernoudt. He seems to have gone to Schenectady, possibly with his mother in 1664, where he conducted a tavern and no doubt a trading business with the Indians in connection with same. There is record of his acting as interpreter and of his refusing so to act. There is record of a gift to him from the Indians, which vouches for their friendly feeling, and, doubtless, their sense of obligation, for the Indians never forgot a friend any more than they did an enemy.
His license as a tavern keeper in Schenectady was granted to him in 1672,.as a special favor from the Albany authorities for services rendered to them, so that Cornelis Cornelisen Viele, while not the brilliant man that Aernoudt was, takes the position of a dignified, substantial, and worthy representative of that brave and hardy band of pioneers, who held for many years the outposts of civilization in New York State.
Cornelis Cornelisen Viele is mentioned among the heads of Schenectady families who received relief from Albany after the massacre of 1690.
Cornelis Viele married Suster - - and had the following
children :
annetje Viele;
Corn elis Viele;
Debora Viele;
Elizabeth Viele, married Jacob Corssen prior to 1701 ;
Pieter Viele;
Blandina Viele, married, first, Jan Jansen van Woggelum, second, Benjamin Corssen, both of Staten Island.
Annetje Viele;
Volkert Viele.
(Viele Records, p. 92.)
Three hundred years with the Corson families in America.
by Orville Corson.
page 99-103 [3]
- On the page following the View of the Marckveldt and ‘T Water is a Plan of New Amsterdam as it existed from about 1644-1657. This is a reproduction of a plan of New Amsterdam, compiled from the Dutch and English records, by J. H. I lines in his remarkable volume, New Amsterdam and Its People. The plot is the lower tip of Manhattan Island, which today is the heart of the financial and business district of the largest city in the world, New York City. In order that the site of New Amsterdam as shown on this early map may be made more clear, in its relation to the position of the modern New York City, the location of the present Wall St., Exchange Place, New St., and Broad St. are shown in dotted lines. The location of these modern streets in the New York financial district was furnished by Mr. John R. Goubeaud, of the New York City Engineering Department.
In addition to the references, listed by Mr. Innes on his original plan, the compiler has added the location of four homes of ancestors of the Staten Island-Pennsylvania group of the Corsons in America. The buildings located are :
No. 1. The house of Cors Pietersen and his wife, Tryntje Hendricks;
No. 2. The house of Fredrick Lubbertsen and his first wife, Styntje Hendrickse, the maternal grandparents of Maritje van der Grift, who became the wife of Cors Pietersen’s eldest son, Capt. Cornelis Corssen ;
No. 3. The house of Cornelis Volkertsen and Maria Du Trieux, whose granddaughter, Blandina Viele, married Benjamin Corssen, a son of Captain Cornelis Corssen of Staten Island ;
No. 4. The house of Joannes Nevius, about 1655. The great granddaughter of Joannes Nevius, Margarietje Neefies (Nevius) married Cornelis Corsen, of Bucks County, Pa., a grandson of Capt. Cornelis Corssen.
The building (No. 2) on the Northwest corner of Maiden Lane and Pearl St., was sold about 1657, by Fredrick Lubbertsen, to Maria Du Trieux and her second husband, Jan Peeck. The build¬ ing designated No. 3, which seems to have been located at the inter¬ section of the modern Exchange Place and Broadway, was probably the first house built on Broadway south of Wall St. after 1644, at which time a lease on this land to Jan Damen expired. Here in this building, Cornelis Volkertsen and Maria Du Trieux kept a tavern, probably until the death of Volkertsen, before 1650. Maria Du Trieux and her second husband, Jan Peeck, seem to have occupied the Lubbertsen house (No. 2) until about 1660, when they sold it to Cornelis Clopper. At this time they seem to have acquired the eastern half of the Lubbertsen Lot, which had been sold previously to Albert Cornelissen, and to have erected here a building used as a tavern, which remained in their possession for many years. Mr. Innes on page 302 of his history has the following: “This house, which must have occupied the site, or a part of the site of the present building, No. 207 Pearl Street, was just sufficiently removed from the observation of the town authorities to afford a convenient drinking house for Indian visitors to New Amsterdam, and is supposed to have been the seat of the illicit liquor traffic for which Mary Peeck was banished from Manhattan Island in 1664.’’ This incident is related in a subsequent chapter.
You will probably agree with the compiler, that it is a privilege, enjoyed by few American families, to be able, almost three hundred years after, to see, in a view of New Amsterdam, the house occupied by the progenitor, and to see located on a plan of this early settlement, the buildings in which at least five maternal ancestors of our family lived and raised their children.
Three hundred years with the Corson families in America.
page 33-34
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- Cornelis Volckertsen Viele
Cornelis Viele was probably born in Hoorn, North Holland. Certainly a trader and tavern-keeper of New Amsterdam in 1639; probably a sailmaker and trader of Hoorn. A document dated June 5, 1614 states that Cornelis Volkertszen, Bookseller resided at Hoorn on the Nieuwland (street) in the house called "`t Vergulde Claver" (the golden clover). He was an investor in the ship "The Fortuyn" which explored the Hudson River in 1613 just four years after Henry Hudson (1609). He was also an investor in the New Netherland Company formed to explore and settle New Amsterdam. He evidently followed his investment by settling in New York.
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