Dirk Janse de Groot
Abt 1670 - -
Name Dirk Janse de Groot Birth Abt 1670 [1] Gender Male Person ID I5982 Hedges Last Modified 27 Jun 2025
Father Symon Symonse Groot, b. Abt 1620, Neth 
d. 1699 (Age 79 years) Mother Rebecca Philippe du Trieux, b. Abt 1637, New Amsterdam d. Abt 1695, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York (Age 58 years) Family ID F2558 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lysbeth Vander Voken Marriage 1706 [1] Family ID F2617 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Jun 2025
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Notes - On the sad night of Feb. 8th, 1690, his Symon Groot's sons, Symon, Abraham, Philip, Dirk and Claas were taken captive by the French and Indians and carried to Canada; the following year they were redeemed. (Pearson, First Settlers of Schenectady.)
House of Truax, page 13.
[2] - DIRK JANSE3 DE GROOT (Rebecca2 du Trieux, Philippe1 du Trieux) was born about 1670. He married Lysbeth Vander Volken, daughter of Claas Lourense Vander Volgen and Maritie Swart, in 1706.
Dirk Janse De Groot and Lysbeth Vander Volken had the following children:
i. ISAAC4 GROOT was born on 28 Jan 1724/25.
ii. NEELTJE GROOT was born on 06 May 1728. She married Pieter Van Vranken on 03 Mar 1748.
iii. SIMON GROOT.
iv. NICOLAAS GROOT. He married Maritje Tymessen on 01 Jan 1733.
v. CORNELIS GROOT. He married Maria Van Vranken, daughter of Andries Van Vranken, on 24 Nov 1752.
vi. SIMON DE GROOT. He died in 1713 in Schenectady, NY.
vii. PHILIPPUS GROOT. He married Elizabeth de Graaf, daughter of Andries de Graaf, on 20 Jun 1747.
viii. MARIA GROOT.
ix. ABRAHAM GROOT. He married Rachel de Graaf, daughter of Jesse de Graaf, on 04 Apr 1752.
x. REBECCA GROOT. She married Isaac Quackenboss on 27 Oct 1735.
https://www.philippedutrieux.com/downloads/Descendants-of-Philippe-du-Trieux--5-generations.pdf
[1] - 8 Feb 1690 - Schenectady
Five brothers Symon, Abraham, Philip, Dirk and Claas were taken captive and redeemed a year later.
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- On the sad night of Feb. 8th, 1690, his Symon Groot's sons, Symon, Abraham, Philip, Dirk and Claas were taken captive by the French and Indians and carried to Canada; the following year they were redeemed. (Pearson, First Settlers of Schenectady.)
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Sources - [S147] Association of Descendants of Philippe du Trieux, https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~truax/dutrieux.html.
- [S151] Allen L. Truax, House of Truax: from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, page 13, https://archive.org/details/houseoftruaxfrom00trua/page/n51/mode/2up.
- [S154] Johnathan Pearson, A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times, page 244-270, https://archive.org/details/historyofschenec00pe/page/158/mode/2up.
- [S155] Schenectady County Historical Society, The story of the Schenectady massacre, https://archive.org/details/storyofschenecta00unse_0/page/n1/mode/2up.
- [S147] Association of Descendants of Philippe du Trieux, https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~truax/dutrieux.html.