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- He was an innkeeper of New Amsterdam in 1655 and was called one of the oldest inhabitants of New Amsterdam. The creek at Peekskill takes its name from him. He was buried at the old graveyard of New Amsterdam that was located on the west side of Broadway, around present-day Morris Street.
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- Cornells Volckertsen died in New Amsterdam about 1648-9, and his wife, Maria du Trieux, who was destined to be the grandmother 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.
Three hundred years with the Corson families in America.
page 101.
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- Lubbertsen had come from Amsterdam, Holland, with his daughter, Rebecca, and wife, Styntje Hendrickse, who, according to some writers, was a sister of Tryntje Hendricks. Because of the fraternization of the families of Cors Pietersen and Fredrick Lubbertsen, the compiler feels there is much to warrant this belief, although the positive proof was not found. Lubbertsen, who was born about 1603, seems to have come to New Netherland as a sailor, as did his probable brother-in-law, Cors Pietersen. He is recorded as the chief boatswain to Director Kieft in 1638, and probably had been a citizen of New Amsterdam several years prior to this date. In 1641, he was one of the twelve men chosen bv the commonality to punish the Indians for murder, and in 1643, purchased a house with about a half acre of land in the Smits Vly, for the sum of 1 ,600 guilders, or about $640.00 of the present currency. One of the improvements that he made to this house was an oven, which he stipulated should be capable of baking, at one time, the equivalent in flour of a bushel and a half of grain, which indicated that he probably employed a considerable force of workhands. He sold this house about 1657 to Jan Peeck, and re¬ moved to Breuckelen, where he took an active part in public affairs almost until his death.
Three hundred years with the Corson families in America, v.1.
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- Clement married Anna Peek, daughter of Jacobus Peek, son of Captain Jan Peek who founded Peekskill, N.Y. Jacobus was baptized in New Amsterdam Jan 16, 1656. His mother Maria Du Truex Peek "one of the oldest inhabitants of the city of New Amsterdam: died before the year 1684. The Schenectady Patent of Jacobus Peek was granted to him and to his cousin Isaac Du Truex (now Truax) by Governor Andros as of October 29, 1677.
The Devendorf Family, page 86.
https://archive.org/details/devendorffamilyc00bell/page/86/mode/2up?q=%22jacobus+peek%22 [5]
- Jan Peeck was born sometime between 1615 and 1625 (probably closer to the later), but the exact date and origin of his birth remains a mystery. He was an early settler in New Amsterdam which in 1626 was heavily forested, with rocks, glens, lakes, and Indian trails. Jan was a trader and broker between the English and Dutch merchants, and inn and tavern keeper, an early burgher of the city of New Amsterdam, and a general speculator, however, he spent much of his time in the dangerous pursuit of trading with the Indians at his trading post on the Hudson, later known as Peekskill, New York.
On February 20, 1650, Jan married Maria du Trieux, in New Amsterdam. She was an equally colourful character. Maria was constantly in trouble with the authorities for infractions and violations of law associated with her and Jan's tavern business, and was finally banished from New Amsterdam in December 1664. Jan was her second husband. Her first was Cornelis Volckertsen Viele before 1642 and possibly 1640.
The descendants of Jan and Maria lived in and around the New York/New Jersey area until the American Revolution. Because some had fought on the losing side, they were forced to leave and ended up finally in Ameliasburg Township of Prince Edward County in Ontario.
Variations of the spelling of the surname for descendants includes: Peck, Peeck, Pake, Peek, Peak, and Peack,
Data has been gathered from many sources, especially family records handed down. Full credit must be given to Ross Pake of California for his valuable research on the clan. His book added a new dimension to the family history and filled in many of the details.
https://www.bowerman.ca/jan/
- 1. Jan Peeck.
Jan married Maria du Trieux, daughter of Philippe du Trieux and Jacquemine Noirett, on 20 Feb 1650 in New Amsterdam, NY. Maria was christened 5 Apr 1617 in Leyden, Holland.
They had the following children:
+ 2 F i Anna Peeck was christened 15 Oct 1651 and died 19 Dec 1690.
+ 3 M ii Johannes Peeck was christened 12 Oct 1653.
4 M iii Jacobus Peeck was christened 16 Jan 1656.
Jacobus married Elizabeth Teunise.
5 F iv Maria Peeck was christened 6 Mar 1658.
https://www.bowerman.ca/jan/pafg01.htm
- t was about this time that Lubbertsen, doubtless with the view of establishing himself upon his Long Island farm,3 sold his house in the Smits Vly to Jan Peeck, an eccentric character, part Indian trader, part broker between the English and Dutch merchants, and part general speculator.1 His wife, Maria or Mary, managed his property, and sometimes disposed of it in his long absences. She seems also to have occasionally accompanied him on his trading expeditions, where apparently she acquired considerable acquaintance with the Indians, which she turned to advantage by selling them liquor, to the great indignation of the authorities at New Amsterdam, who, in 1664, fined her 500 guilders, and banished her from Manhattan Island for this offence, “ for which,” as they say, “ she has long been famous.” She is said, at this time, to have retired to the new settlement of Schenectady for a short period; but the Dutch regime coming to an end not long after her banishment, she soon returned to New York, and was the owner of a house on Hoogh Straet (or Duke’s Street, as the English began to call it), near the Town Hall, having in the mean time sold the establishment in the Smits Vly.
The easternmost half of his land in the Smits Vly had been sold by Frederik Lubbertsen, in 1652, to one Albert Cornelissen ; it does not appear to have been built upon at the time of our survey, and in 1656 most of it came into the possession of Jan Peeck, still apparently unbuilt upon. After Peeck had sold to Cornells Clopper, in the year 1660, the Lubbertsen house, at the corner of Maiden Lane, which has just been referred to, he seems to have built a house upon the plot which he had acquired from Albert Cornelissen, and this remained in possession of him and of his wife for many years. This house, which must have occupied the site, or a part of the site of the present building No. 207 Pearl Street, was just about sufficiently removed from the observation of the town authorities to afford a convenient drinking house for Indian visitors to New Amsterdam, and it is supposed to have been the seat of the illicit liquor traffic for which Mary Peeck was banished from Manhattan Island in 1664.
It was this Jan Peeck who, by reason of his making use, as a trading post for traffic with the Indians, of the sheltered haven afforded by the creek emptying into the Hudson River just south of the mountains of the Highlands (even wintering there with his sloop), gave the stream the name of Jan Peeck’s Kill, which name is preserved in that of the adjacent village of Peekskill in Westchester County.
[Maria] is thought to have been the person occasionally spoken of in the records about this time as “ Long Mary,” though this is not accurately known. She was either the daughter or sister of Philip du Trieux (or De Truy, as the Dutch called him). After some vicissitudes in her life, she is supposed to have married Cornelis Volckersen, one of the oldest settlers, and after his death, in 1650, she married Jan Peeck.
New Amsterdam and its people. page 300-302
https://archive.org/details/newamsterdamitsp1902inne/page/302/mode/2up
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