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- About Aeltje Pieterse van Couwenhoven
Aeltjem was born an illegitimate out-of-wedlock daughter to her mother Marye du Trieux by Pieter Wolphersen van Couwenhoven. However, Maria's first husband was Cornelis Volckertsen Viele.
reference to her illegitimate birth
I, the undersigned Pieter Wolphersen, hereby acknowledge for myself, my heirs and successors that this day, date underwritten, I have adopted,as I do hereby adopt, Aeltjem Pieters van Couwenhoven, my own daughter, whom I have begotten and procreated by Maria de Truy, promising therefore that from this date I shall do by the above-named, my daughter, as a god fearing father is bound and ought to do by his own legitimate daughter; therefore, I hereby discharge and release Cornelis Volckersen, husband and guardian of the aforesaid Maria de Truy, from all charges and responsibilities incidental to the bringing up of a child till she becomes of age; I, Pieter Wolphersen, promising to look after the child, to let her learn to read and to bring her up according to my means.
Furthermore, if I do not beget any children by my present wife, the above named child shall be my rightful heiress and inheritrix, as if she were duly begotten in lawful wedlock, and if it happens that children be begotten by me and my wife, the above named Aeltjen Pieters shall receive, like the legitimate children on my side, a just child's portion of all such goods, means and effects as it shall please the Lord God Almighty to bestow on me. Requesting that this may have effect before all courts, I have signed this without fraud in the presence of the subscribing witnesses hereto invited. Done, the 7th day of January 1642.
This is x the mark of Pieter Wolphersen
Jacob Couwenhoven
Philippe du Trieux
Acknowledged before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary on January 7, 1642. Lt. Pieter Wolphertse Van Kouwenhoven commissioned a Lt. during the Esopus War on June 30, 1663. Lt. Pieter Wolphertse Van Kouwenhoven in 1688 at Brewer, Elizabethtown, Essex County, New Jersey.
- Capt. Johannes, third son of Sander Leendertse, settled in Schenectad; and married, first, Annatie, daughter of Jan Peek and Maria De Truy, hi; wife. Jan Peek was an early settler of New Amsterdam, where for man; years he and his wife kept an inn. The creek at Peekskill takes its nane from Jan Peek. He married in New Amsterdam, Feb. 20, 1650, Mari (De Truy) Yolchers, widow of Cornelis Yolchers. She was probably : daughter or granddaughter of Philip Du Trieux, a Walloon, born in 1585 Their daughter Annatie was born Oct. 15, 1651.
from: Eldredge Genealogy: a record of some of the descendants of William Eldredge of Yarmouth. page 30
https://archive.org/details/eldredgegenealog00eldr/page/30/mode/2up?q=trieux
- Note on Find a Grave:
She was one of the most colorful characters in the Truax clan and was called by her father as "My Favourite Black Sheep". She was a "tapper" or tavern keeper, as were both her husbands. The fact that she was the one in charge is indicated by the marking of "The Tavern of Marie du Trieux" on the shore at the front of Maiden Lane. She was constantly in trouble with the authorities, and was finally banished from New Amsterdam in 1664, for shady business dealings and keeping a disorderly tavern. Some of the charges specifically mention her tapping after hours and during prayers, selling spirits without a license, and selling liquor to the Indians. She and her husband were eventually allowed back into New Amsterdam, but at some point she moved to Schenectady where her brother lived.
Her original name was Du Trieux when she was born. The Du Trieux Family were Walloons, people of Celtic stock in northern France (present-day Belgium), French speaking, who became Protestants in larger members at the Reformation. The small area of Europe, which at the time was under Spanish rule, was marked by bloodshed, repression and wide-spread loss of life. Many of the Du Trieux Family fled. Some found sanctuary in England and a large family group went, in exile, to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, which had recently declared its independence from the Spain, the Du Trieuxes and other Walloon families settled in Leiden and Amsterdam. As skilled artisans, these Walloons found employment, assistance, civil and religion freedom.
Marie du Trieux was born in Amsterdam, Holland and baptized there April 5, 1617. She was the daughter of Philipe du Trieux and Jacquemine Noiret. Her mother died when Marie was about three years old. Her father married Susanna du Chesne, probably his first wife's cousin, on August 30, 1621 in Amsterdam. On March 9, 1624 her parents were given a letter of transfer from the Walloon Church in Amsterdam to take their family to the New World. So it was that on March 20, 1624, Marie du Trieux, at the age of seven, set sail aboard the ship New Netherland to become one of the first settlers of New Amsterdam (New York).They settled at Fort Orange (Albany). By 1625 the family was living on Manhattan Island where Marie spent most of her life. Before she was married Marie had born two children. Her first child, Aeltjen Pieters, was raised by the father, Pieter Wolphersen, and his wife. Her second child, Aernoult, whom she named after her grandfather, Aernoult Noiret, was baptized May 27, 1640 in the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam. Marie married in 1640 or 1641 Cornelis Volkertsen. Cornelis, a trader and ship owner, was a close family friend probably thirty years her senior. (Aernoudt signed his name as an adult in 1661 "Aernoudt Corn. Wilen" indicating that Cornelis was his father.) Cornelis quit the sea at the time of his marriage to Marie and opened a tavern called "Marie's Tavern" on Manhattan Island. It was located on the East side of the Great Highway (Broadway) about 400 feet south of Wall Street. They had three more children, Cornelis, Jacomyntje, and Pieter, before Cornelis died about 1649.On February 20, 1650 Marie married Jan Peek, was also an early settler of New Amsterdam, and the town of Peekskill, NY takes its name from him.
Jan and Marie continued to run her tavern and were in trouble frequently for tapping after 9 pm, tapping on Sunday or serving liquor to Indians.During the next seven years Jan and Marie had four children, Anna, Johannes, Jacobus, and Marie. During this time they had become so blatant in their ignoring of the laws concerning the selling of liquor to Indians that they finally were prosecuted severely. The action was brought against Marie, the wife of Jan Peek, whereupon January 4, 1664 "Marie de Truix, fined 500 guilders and costs, and to be banished from the Island of Manhattan." Marie moved to Schenectady and Fort Orange, probably living with her sons. Jan Peek must have died during that time, for there is no further mention of him in the records. After the English took over the government Marie returned to Manhattan, living for a while on Dukes street. Sometime after 1671 Marie is said to have moved again to Schenectady where she died. It is not surprising that the sons of Marie du Trieux, born of a French mother and Dutch father, raised by an English stepfather and having many Indian children for playmates, would grow up to be linguists. The oldest, Aernoudt, would be credited with creating the alliance between the English and the Iroquois league that thwarted French attempts at invasion. He is also thought to have been the first European explorer of the Ohio Valley. He was often the official interpreter in dealings with the Indian people. Cornelis, the second son, also served as official interpreter at times and is thought to have married a woman who was half Indian, half Dutch. He was not interested in exploration, preferring to follow the family line of business. He opened a tavern in Schenectady.
Peter, the third son, was not listed as official interpreter but was known to be close to the Indian people. Peter was a farmer who acquired large pieces of land before his death about 1685.
These three sons who gave their surname as Viele are the progenitors of the Veile family in America. They received large land grants from the Indians, in appreciation of their deeds. Marie was a business woman, and knew about equal rights. She was a wild one. She was independent, daring and had a free will. Her descendants become some of the most distinguished families of New York. Among them is our President Theodore Roosevelt and his niece, First Lady Eleanor.
John Jacob Astor is also a descendant through his mother, Caroline Schermerhorn. A granddaughter married into the English Banking House of Child and Company and one of her descendants established the Daily Advertiser in New York.
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- Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Indes
Name Maria Philippe du Trieux
Gender Female
Birth Date 5 apr. 1617 (5 Apr 1617)
Birth Place Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
Death Date 28 feb. 1671 (28 Feb 1671)
Death Place Schenectady, Albany, New York, USA
Death Age 53
Father
Philippe du Trieux
Mother
Jacquemijne Noirett
Spouse
Jan Peeck
Cornelis Volckertsen Seylemaecker (viele)
Children
Jacobus Janse Peeck
Anna Peeck
Maria Janse Peeck
Cornelis Cornelissen Viele
Johannes Peek
URL http://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-paans-en-teloosen/I105300.php
- Maria du Trieux
Baptized 5 apr 1617
From: http://bobmurg.home.att.net/marie_du_trieux.htm
THE MURGITTROYD FAMILY ASSOCIATION
The Story of an American Family
The Wallons were French speaking inhabitants of the Low Countries who in the later part of the sixteenth century fled from their homes on account of religious persecutions. Under the leadership of Jesse de Forest some of the Walloons who had gone to Leyden sought to emigrate from there to Virginia, but finally came over to Manhattan in 1623 with Capt. Cornelis Mey. These were the first settlers of New Netherland. Philip du Trieux seems to have been one of these earliest settlers, for he was here in Minuit's administration (1624-28) and was in 1638 Court Messenger for the West India Co in New Amsterdam. Philip appears to have been murdered by the Indians, together with his son Philip, before 1653. Philip's daughter was Marie Du Trieux.
The first mention of Marie du Trieux is in 1640 when the record of the baptism of her son, Aernout, appears on the church register in New Amsterdam. There is mention of her Husband, Cornelis Volkertszen in 1639.
From that may day in 1640 when Marie herself brings her son Aernout to baptism in New Amsterdam to the third of January, 1664, when her energetic and often spirited career in that city came to an abrupt end-- she shows herself as tavern keeper, property owner and Co-trader with her two husbands, to have been a woman of much enterprise, of considerable shrewdness and business ability and of some education--a woman of such persistent and daring courage as became the mother of pioneers.
The only mention of Marie on the records during the life time of Cornelis Volkertszen is in the suit of the wife of Jan Evertsen Bout in 1642, before referred to, which showed her as a Co-trader with her husband and in another suit in 1646 where she is fined for selling beer to the Indians -- an offense which she repeated once too often. On Feb 2, 1649, Maria together with Philip and Sara du Trieux stand godparents for child of Evert Jansen (Wendel) and Susanna du Trieux.
On Feb 20, 1650, Maria du Trieux, widow of Cornelis Volkertszen, Married Jan peek in the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam. Jan assisted her in the conduct of the tavern and from all accounts that tavern must have been the gayest spot in the little town. Maria must have made it very popular and contributed to the limit of the law -- and beyond -- to the pleasure of its guests. In 1654, the authorities are so scandalized by the frequent "tappings" after nine P.M. and on Sundays that Jan Peek's license is taken from him. On Nov 9th of the same year the court records as follows: "On the instant request, both oral and written, of Jan Peek to be allowed to pursue his business as before, inasmuch as he is burdened with a houseful of children and more besides, the Court having considered his complaint and that he is an old Burgher, have granted his prayer on condition that he comport himself properly and without blame and does not violate one or the other of the plackards on pain of having his business stopped without favor and himself punished as he deserves should he be found again in fault." As the marriage record says Jan was a bachelor when he married Marie du Trieux the "houseful of children," obviously included the Viele children. In 1653 Jan Peek is on the Muster Roll of the Burgher Corps of New Amsterdam and in 1665 he received the appointment of broker to the New Amsterdam merchants, "because he spoke English and Dutch." In 1655 he had acquired real estate in Beverwyck (Albany). This was doubtless for the purpose of obtaining the right to do trading there. He probably spent much time going up and down the Hudson and he put in often at a point where there was a little kil or brook which came to be call for him --Peek's Kil. the town of Peekskill still bears his name.
On March 23, 1652, Maria de Truye, wife of Jan Peek gives testimony as to what she has heard from an Indian concerning a trivial matter. On Dec 17, 1654, Maria brings a suit against Arent Jansen, provoost Marshal, demanding payment according to writing of fl. 14.8 and also for one cask Spanish wine and a wine glass fl. 12.8, making together fl.27.6 Deft. acknowledges the debt, but pretends to have discharged it by a certain fine which he had imposed upon the plaintiff. Defendant is condemned to pay within 14 days the fl 27.6 which he acknowledges to owe with the privilege should he have an action to institute the same. Maria thus frustrates his attempt to evade his debt. (observe she had thriftily added the wine glass to the bill!) There is much more reference to Maria du Trieux on the records than to Jan Peek, which is doubtless due to his frequent trading trips. In 1657 Jan contributed 20g. to the city treasury in common with other burghers. About this time he was arrested for beating and wounding a soldier, but said he did it only in defense of his home as the man was annoying his wife.
Maria, as the years go by adds to her family till four Vieles and four Peeks seem to compose it. She keeps ahead also with her business and gets more inclined to evade the law -- which increases in severity -- regarding the proper times for "tapping" and the more serious offense of selling liquor to the Indians. This last gets her into real trouble i 1663-4. But before then there are several interesting entries to record. One is that a petition of Maria du Trieux (June 8, 1660) was referred to Govert Lockermans and Isacc de Foreest, guardians of the minor children, which is corroborated when the next year ( 8, 1661) Mary de Truye and with her Isaac de Foreest, Old Schepen of the city and Gover Lockermans, also Old Schepen, guardians of her minor children appear before the Orphan Masters of New Amsterdam. Mary asks permission to receive the interest on 500 fl. settled on her children and secured on Peek the house of Andries Joginsen. Granted. At this time Jan was alive, so this refers to he Viele children and their patrimony. Nine years later (Feb 28, 1670), Isaacq de Foreest, as guardian of the children of Mary Peek requests the Court in New Amsterdam to be empowered to discharge a mortgage.
On Nov 9, 1654, Marritie Trompettus (Bugler) brings a suit against Maria de Truye to recover fl. 3.11 for the sale of fish to the defendant. Maria acknowledges the debt, but says she sent the money by the servant and it fell into the ditch; that she has now no more money but will pay it at the first opportunity. "The plaintiff is satisfied and the two women are reconciled."
In 1660 (Sept) the Sheriff, who seems always to have his eye on her, accuses her of "tapping" after nine P.M. She defends herself saying "two sat at her house who counted their money which she owed them and she did not tap a drop." The Court believed her and the case was dismissed.
In 1662 Maria brings suit against a carpenter, Marten Clasen, to whom she had advanced money to build her a house requiring him to give her back her money or to build her the house. In this same year (1662) she brings suit against a Ritzert Airy, whom she says owes her 54g. on which he is to pay her 12g. She produces her book to prove her position. This show she could read and write and had business methods.
On Jan, 1663, Maria brings suit against Herman, the soldier, saying that 15 legs of venison were stolen from her sister and that defendant visited her house. Defendant denied it saying he was sent by his master to fetch his wife. This is interesting, because of her reference to her sister, probably Sara, wife of Isaac de Foreest.
No trouble came to Maria de True that she did not bring her grievances to Court and in general she was right. But she was not French in vain and knew how to evade difficulties. On one occasion brought into Court about some affair in which her husband was concerned, she replied "that she does not trouble herself about her husbands affairs" (Jan, 1660), that the plaintiff must "look to him." A little later she is confronted by a man who does not like the beavers she has sold him; in this case her answer is: "she must speak with her husband." This constantly appearing in Court was the habit of the town, where no two women had a trivial quarrel but the Court must decide between them. Probably " the Court" sat on his front "stoep" waiting to adjust any simple matter that needed attention.
On Dec 18, 1663, it is requested of the Court that Maria de Truye be fined 18g. heavy money or 36g. in light money for selling liquor at forbidden hours and 50g. because her chimney is out of order. The Court fines her 18g. in zeawart for tapping on Sunday and orders her to have her chimney cleaned.
On Dec 30, 1663, Maria de Truye, wife of Jan Peek, is prosecuted for selling brandy to Indians. This in spite of the warning given her husband in 1654. For this offense on Jan 3, 1664, she is sentenced to pay 500g. and to banishment from the island of Manhattan. On Jan 24, 1664, Maria Peek, "one of the oldest inhabitants of New Amsterdam," asks for remission of her sentence and for leave to remove to Fort Orange (Albany). From Albany she retired to Schenectady where two of her Viele children and two of her Peek children settled. In Schenectady she lived on West corner of Front and Church Streets. She died before the year 1684. There is no record of the death of Jan Peek nor mention of him after Jan, 1663.
https://www.deloriahurst.com/deloriahurst%20page/2386.html
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- I, the undersigned Pieter Wolphersen, hereby acknowledge for myself, my heirs and successors that this day, date underwritten, I have adopted, as I do hereby adopt, Aeltjem Pieters van Couwenhoven, my own daughter, whom I have begotten and procreated by Maria de Truy, promising therefore that from this date I shall do by the above-named, my daughter, as a god fearing father is bound and ought to do by his own legitimate daughter; therefore, I hereby discharge and release Cornelis Volckersen, husband and guardian of the aforesaid Maria de Truy, from all charges and responsibilities incidental to the bringing up of a child till she becomes of age; I, Pieter Wolphersen, promising to look after the child, to let her learn to read and to bring her up according to my means. Furthermore, if I do not beget any children by my present wife, the above named child shall be my rightful heiress and inheritrix, as if she were duly begotten in lawful wedlock, and if it happen that children be begotten by me and my wife, the above named Aeltjen Pieters shall receive, like the legitimate children on my side, a just child's portion of all such goods, means and effects as it shall please the Lord God Almighty to bestow on me. Requesting that this may have effect before all courts, I have signed this without fraud in the presence of the subscribing witnesses hereto invited. Done, the 7th day of January 1642.
This is x the mark of
Pieter Wolphersen
Jacob Couwenhoven
Philippe du Trieux
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary
- It 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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