hmtl5 Aernoudt Viele b. 27 May 1640 New Amsterdam d. 1704 Long Island, Kings County, New York: Hedges Genealogy

Aernoudt Viele

Male 1640 - 1704  (63 years)

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  • Name Aernoudt Viele 
    Birth 27 May 1640  New Amsterdam Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 27 May 1640  New Amsterdam Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 1704  Long Island, Kings County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Burial Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, Albany County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I5811  Hedges
    Last Modified 27 Jun 2025 

    Father Cornelis Volkertsen Seylmacker Viele,   b. 6 Apr 1574, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 May 1648, New Amsterdam Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Maria du Trieux /Truy / Truax,   b. 5 Apr 1617, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1684, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 1639  New Amsterdam Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F2520  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Gerritje Gerritse Vermeulen,   b. 1642, Amersfoort, Amersfoort Municipality, Utecht, Netherland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jul 1700, Albany, Albany County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 1677  [1
    Children 
     1. Willempie Viele,   b. 1664
     2. Maria Viele,   b. Abt 1668   d. 8 Feb 1690, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years)
     3. Aernout Viele,   b. Abt 1677, Albany, Albany County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Philip Viele,   b. 17 Jun 1679, Albany, Albany County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1761, Kingston, Ulster County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Family ID F2543  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Jun 2025 

  • Event Map
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  • Notes 
    • Arnout, son of Cornelis Vielè, the first settler, married Geeritje Gerritse of Amsterdam; the records mention but three children, - Arnout, Willempie, who married Symon Jacobse Schermerhorn, and Maria (211-3), who married first Matthys Vrooman, and secondly Douwe Aukes of Schenectady. He usually resided in Albany and was for many years provincial interpreter at all the important negotiations with the Indians, and at their yearly gatherings at Albany. On account of their high esteem for him and as a recognition of his services, the Mohawks in 1683 gave him a parcel of land above Schenectady on the north side of the river called Wachkeerhoha.

      In 1687 while on his way to Ottawa to trade with the natives, he was taken prisoner by the French. (211-4)

      Espousing the cause of Leisler in opposition to Col. Ingoldsby he was dismissed from his office of interpreter, after which he retired to Long Island (211-5), but being held in "great esteeme with the Indians" and "being a good and faithful interpreter," he was recalled and reinstated in his office. (212-1) At the burning of Schenectady in 1690, his son Arnout was carried away to Canada and remained with the Indians three years, but on the occasion of the attack made upon the Mohawk castles by the French in 1693, he escaped. (212-2)

      The above mentioned grant from the Mohawks was that parcel of flat land afterwards called the Fourth flat. It is not probable that Vielè settled upon it, or that his title was regarded as good, for it was about this time occupied by Ludovicus Cobes and his son-in-law Johannes Kleyn (212-3), under title received from the trustees of the township in 1684.

      A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times.
      page 211-212.
      and
      https://www.philippedutrieux.com/downloads/Descendants-of-Philippe-du-Trieux--5-generations.pdf
      [1, 4]
    • Aernoudt bap. at R.A. May 27, 1640. Witnesses: Isaac de forest, Teunis Cray, Schippr. (Captain); Jan Cant. No further record.
      House of Truax, page 9.
      [2]
    • Note on Find a Grave:
      explorer, He was an independent trader and served as a interpreter and principal mediator between the Mohawk Indians and the English in New York State. Aernoudt, would be credited with creating the alliance between the English and the Iroquois league that thwarted French attempts at invasion. In 1660, he signed a petition of prominent fur traders asking for more regulation of the trade. In 1687, he was part of a trading expedition to the Ottowa country and beyond to the Great Lakes region, where his party was taken captive by the French, and held for four months in Quebec. In 1692, he led an expedition into the Ohio River Valley to set up trading. He and his companions spent the next two years exploring the area, and in doing so became the first white men to travel the entire length of the Ohio River.
      [3]
    • Notes
      Aernoudt Viele and Gerritje Gerritse Vermeulen had the following children:
      43. i. WILLEMPIE4 VIELE was born in 1664. She married (1) SIMON JACOBSE SCHERMERHORN, son of Jacob Janse
      Schermerhorn and Jannetie Egmont, about 1683 in Albany, Albany, New York. He was born in 1658. He died about 1698. She married
      (2) LEVINUS WINNE on 20 Jun 1699 in Albany, Albany, New York. She married (3) JOHANNES VAN HOESEN on 19 Jun 1709 in Albany, Albany, New York.
      44. ii. MARIA VIELE was born about 1668. She died on 08 Feb 1690 in Schenectady, Albany, New York. She married (1) MATHYS
      VROOMAN. She married (2) DOUWE AUKES.
      iii. AERNOUT VIELE was born about 1677 in Albany, Albany, New York.

      https://www.philippedutrieux.com/downloads/Descendants-of-Philippe-du-Trieux--5-generations.pdf
      [5]
    • LKH note: Is this Aernoudt Viele?

      In 1683 the Mohawk Sakemakers conveyed this flat to Arnout Cornelise Viele, — 16 or 17 morgens — for services rendered as interpreter, — lying over against the [second] flat occupied by Jacobus Peek, — and by the Mohawks called Wachkeerhoha.

      A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times.
      page 72.
      [6]
    • 8 Feb 1690 - Schenectady
      Arnout's son Arnout was taken captive and carried away to Canada.
      [7, 8]

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [S151] Allen L. Truax, House of Truax: from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, page 9, https://archive.org/details/houseoftruaxfrom00trua/page/n51/mode/2up.

    3. [S6] Find a Grave.

    4. [S154] Johnathan Pearson, A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times, page 211-212, https://archive.org/details/historyofschenec00pe/page/158/mode/2up.

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

    6. [S154] Johnathan Pearson, A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times, page 72, https://archive.org/details/historyofschenec00pe/page/158/mode/2up.

    7. [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.

    8. [S155] Schenectady County Historical Society, The story of the Schenectady massacre, https://archive.org/details/storyofschenecta00unse_0/page/n1/mode/2up.