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- Note on Find a Grave:
Isaac Phillipse Du Trieux (Truax) was baptized into the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam, now New York City, New York County, New York April 21, 1642. Records show he was the son of Philippe Antoni Du Trieux and his wife Susanna Du Chesne Du Trieux. He settled in Rotterdam, New York as early as 1670. About 1680, he married Maria Willemse Brouwer, probably in Albany County, New York, and their children were: Abraham, William, Isaac, Lysbeth, Jacob, Johannes, Eva, Sarah and Maria. Before 1684, the family moved to Corlam, now known as Schenectady, where he ran a tavern with his cousin Jacobus Peek. Isaac was listed as a freeholder in Schenectady in 1684. He was among those who escaped the Schenectady Massacre of 1690 by the French and Indians and received "8 ells of pennestout and 40 ells of linen" as a refugee of that disaster. Isaac died in 1702 at Schenectady and is presumed buried there.
Bio by John E. Sherman
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- Isaac, bap. At New Amsterdam April 21, 1642. Witnesses, Mr. Herman Beyniers, Jan Willemazen Schut, Philip Garritsz., Sara du Trieux, Sara Roelofs.
House of Truax, page 5.
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- Isaac Truax was the progenitor of the Schenectady branch of the Truax family. He settled on the “second flat" of the Mohawk River as early as 1670. The following extract from the minutes of the Court of Schenectady: “Jacobus Peeck, (his cousin, no.18 of this record) (H.S.F.R.) and Isaac de Treux humbly request, that their Worships will recommend them to his Honor the Governor General, for the second flat on this side of “the Mohawk River, provided they pay the proper proportion of the amount advanced for the purchase of all the lands. Their Worship promise to recommend the case of the petitioners to his honor, the General. By order of the Court, Ludovicus Cobes, Secr. Below stood: "They shall have preference, when it is thought advisable to occupy the land. Done in New York, 0ct. 29, 1677. Signed E. Andros.”
On Feb. 8, 1690, occurred the massacre by the French and Indians at Schenectady. Isaac Truax was among those who escaped for in the "List of the Goods sent from New York and received from Mons. Jans Hendricksen Brujn and Johannes Proofost to be distributed among the Refugees of Schoonechtede” we find that "Isack de Tourex" received 8 ells of pennestout, and “Isack Teuerx" 40 ells of linen.
Isaac Truax died before 1705, for in that year his widow, Maria, obtained permission from the trustees of Schenectady to sell 8 morger of land from the "second flat".
House of Truax, page 14-15.
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- Philippe Du Treux, a Walloon, came to New Amsterdam during the administration of Governor Minuit, 1624-29; — was appointed court messenger or rnarshall, 1638, aud in 1640 received a patent for a lot in "Smit's valey" [Pearl street], New Amsterdam. He was born in 1585, married Susanna De Scheene and had seven children, three sons and four daughters, of whom Rebecca married Simon Simonse Groot, afterwards of Schenectady, and Susanna was the wife of Evert Janse Wendel of Beverwyck.
About the year 1670, his son Isaac, then about twenty-eight years of age, came to Schenectady and settled upon the Second flat on the south side of the river. This flat consisting of 221 morgens with 10 morgens of woodland adjoining, was granted to him and his cousin Jacobus Peek in 1677 by patent of Gov. Andros.
He married Maria daughter of Willem Brouwer and had four sons and three daughters. His death probably occurred about 1705; the following year his widow sold eight morgens of her land to Jacobus Peek.*
A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times.
page 158-159.
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- Second Flat.
This farm beginning at a little above " Reghel brugse kil " \ was first taken up by Jacobus Peek and Isaac Du Trieux about 1670, and patented to them in 1677.
It contained twenty-two and one-half morgens or forty-five acres and twenty acres of woodland.
In 1706, Maria widow of Isaac Du Trieux had permission from the trustees of Schenectady to sell to Jacobus Peek eight morgens of land on this flat.
Johannes and Jacobus, sons of Jacobus Peek, became the owners of the whole tract. It is now owned by John McCue on the west end, Abraham A. Bratt on the east end.
A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times.
page 69.
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1642 - Abt 1702 (59 years)
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