hmtl5 Agnietie "Agnes" du Trieux b. 25 Dec 1675 New York d. 1746 Craven County, North Carolina: Hedges Genealogy

Agnietie "Agnes" du Trieux

Female 1675 - 1746  (70 years)

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  • Name Agnietie "Agnes" du Trieux 
    Birth 25 Dec 1675  New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Baptism 29 Dec 1675  [1, 2
    Death 1746  Craven County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Blackshear Family Farm Cemetery, Jones County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I6005  Hedges
    Last Modified 27 Jun 2025 

    Father Jacob du Trieux,   b. 2 Dec 1645, New Amsterdam Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1709, New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Lysbeth Post,   b. 18 Jul 1655, New Amsterdam Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1733, New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 26 Sep 1674  Orange County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F2541  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Benjamin Stout,   b. Abt 1669, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1734, New Castle County, Delaware Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Family ID F2627  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Agnistie, bapt. Dec. 29, 1675. Wit: Pieter de Riemer, Agnietie Bonen. No further record. (Mar. Benjamin Stout.) (T.T.H.)
      House of Truax, page 15. [1]
    • Note on Find a Grave:
      [In listing her birth, FindAGrave has no function for choosing older, colonial names. Her birth is probably Gravesend, Long Island]
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      Agnietie Truax (or du Trieux) was said to be born on Christmas Day and baptized on 29 Dec 1675 in New Amsterdam. Her parents were Jacob du Trieux and Lysbeth Post.

      Agnes married Benjamin Stout sometime before 1711, most likely in New Jersey. Some genealogists think he may have been married before to a Mary Leonard. In 1712, Agnes is a member of the Middletown Baptist Church and Benjamin has served as Sheriff of Monmouth. By 1715, they have moved to Appoquinimink Hundred, Delaware. (This becomes New Castle, Kent Co, DE) Benjamin appears to already have children when his father, Richard Stout, dies in 1705. [WFT 9 June 1703 - proved 6 Oct 1705, Middletowne, NJ. Six sons (including Benjamin) and 3 daughters are named, as well as a dau/law - meaning there is a dec'd son = 10 known children.

      Benjamin gifts land in 1721 to adult sons Charles (of nothing further, except he sells this land in 1727) and to Benjamin. (d. Delaware 1740: WFT 25 Apr 1740, proved 10 June)

      Father Benjamin died in 1734, with Agnes and son Jacob petitioning the court to sell the house. 1740 is not only the year Agnes' son Benjamin died but also the year her daughter Agnes and husband Alexander Blackshear sell his inherited land and begin their move to North Carolina. Several accounts say Agnes (and one other person not named) accompany them to NC. She may have died there sometime around (or after) 1745. The other person is not Jacob's or Benjamin's widow (Elizabeth Lewis) as they can be accounted for in Delaware. It is unknown what happened to son Charles or who this traveling companion might have been.

      Anyone having further information on Agnes after 1740, please share. The above biography is a compilation of several accounts. Other than the land records, WFTs (Wills and Final Testaments) or other court actions, the story needs more proof.
      [2]
    • AGNIETIE ELIZABETH TRUAX was born on 05 Dec 1675 in Gravesend, New York. She died after 1734 in New Jersey. She married Benjamin Stout, son of Richard Stout and Penelope Van Princes, after 1691. He was born about 1669 in Poss. Middleton, New
      Jersey. He died in Oct 1734 in New Castle, Delaware.

      Benjamin Stout and Agnietie Elizabeth? Truax had the following children:
      112. i. PENELOPE4 STOUT was born in 1702 in Hopewell, Cumberland, New Jersey, USA. She died on 11 Jul 1776 in Hopewell,
      Mercer, New Jersey, USA. She married (1) WILLIAM MERRILL. He was born about 1700 in Hopewell, NJ. He died in Aug 1740 in Hopewell, NJ.
      ii. BENJAMIN STOUT was born in 1709. He married (1) ELIZABETH LEWIS.
      iii. JACOB STOUT. He died in 1795.
      iv. AGNES B. STOUT.
      v. CHARLES STOUT

      https://www.philippedutrieux.com/downloads/Descendants-of-Philippe-du-Trieux--5-generations.pdf
      [3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S151] Allen L. Truax, House of Truax: from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, page 15, https://archive.org/details/houseoftruaxfrom00trua/page/n51/mode/2up.

    2. [S6] Find a Grave.

    3. [S147] Association of Descendants of Philippe du Trieux, https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~truax/dutrieux.html.

    4. [S147] Association of Descendants of Philippe du Trieux, https://www.philippedutrieux.com/downloads/Descendants-of-Philippe-du-Trieux--5-generations.pdf, https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~truax/dutrieux.html.