Individual Details
Margriet HENDRICKSE
(Bef 1620 - 1675)
Little is known of the life of Margriet Hendrickse. Even that small amount of knowledge was reduced by the discovery that her first husband, Mathijs Jansz Van Ceulen, was not, in fact, the same person as the Director of the Dutch West India Company.
We know that she married Mathijs about 1641. [1] [2] From this, we can infer that she was born before 1623--Van Curen estimates before 1620 [3] --probably in the Netherlands. Some have suggested that she was born at Fort Orange in 1624, but the first recorded birth of a European child was in 1625. [4] An earlier version of this profile suggested that she was born in 1618, but without citation. Still others have suggested that she was born in Brazil, but that guess would have been founded on the now-discarded hypothesis that Mathijs was a Director of the DWIC. We can be fairly sure that her father had the given name of Hendrick, because of Dutch patronymic customs.
An earlier version of this profile suggested that she arrived in the New World about 1639, but cited no evidence.
As noted above, Margriet married Mathijs about 1641 (estimated from year of birth of first child), probably at Fort Orange, but Rensselaerwyck is also a possibility. Unfortunately, there are no church marriage records from that time.
They had four children, probably born at Fort Orange: [5]
Catryntje, about 1642 (so as to be 18 at time of marriage)
Annetje, about 1645 (so as to be over 21 at time of estate division)
Jan, about 1646, (so as to be under 21 at time of estate division)
Matthys, about 1648 (because he was at yet unborn upon his father's death)
Her first husband, Mathijs, died on 13 October 1648. [5] About two months later, she married her second husband, Thomas Chambers. [5] He had a property dispute with the managers of Rensselaerwyck and they removed to Esopus about 1653, becoming the first white settlers of Wiltwyck. Chambers was very successful there, eventually being made the equivalent of the Lord of the Manor of Foxhall, his home.
On 26 December 1660, she was one of sixteen receiving the first communion in the new Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston. [6]
There is a record that a "Margrita Clabbort" owned a house in Wiltwyck in 1661. [7] "Clabbort" was an alias for Chambers, so the record probably refers to Margriet.
Chambers had no children with her, nor with his second wife. Hoping to preserve his family name, he granted a portion of his coat-of-arms to Margriet's two sons, Jan and Matthys, on 28 Jan 1679. Margriet did not see this, though, having died in 1675 in Kingston. [3]
Notes
1. Van Curen, 2016, p. 2-3; citing Van Rensselaer Journals.
2. Evans, p. 254.
3. Van Curen, 1998, 1.
4. Source needed.
5. Van Curen, 2016, p.3.
6. Van Curen, 1998, p. 10.
7. Banta, p. 120.
Sources
* Banta, Theodore M. "Names of Dutch Settlers in Esopus." Year Book of the Holland Society of New York (1897 [but imaged outside cover says "1906"]). Online page images. Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=nbwTAAAAYAAJ : 2019. Translated and compiled from old court records of Wildwyck.
* Evans, Thomas G. "The De Witt Family, of Ulster County, New York." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 17 (Oct. 1886). Online page images. HathiTrust. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924061993378 : 2019.
* Van Curen, "Van Keulen/Van Keuren, Van Kuren/Van Curen," (Baltimore : Gateway Press, 1998).
* Van Curen, D. G. RTF file on CD accompanying book, "Van Keulen/Van Keuren, Van Kuren/Van Curen," (Baltimore : Gateway Press, 1998).
* Van Curen, D. G. The Descendants of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen: A history of the Van Steenberghs, Peersens, Jansens, Van Keurens and related families, from their beginnings in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Chesterfield, MO: Mira Digital Publishing, 2016.
Events
| Birth | Bef 1620 | Netherlands |  | ||
| Birth | 1624 | Fort Orange, New Netherland |  | ||
| Residence (family) | From Abt 1641 to 1648 | Fort Orange, New Netherland - Mathijs JANSEN van Ceulen | | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1641 | New Netherland - Mathijs JANSEN van Ceulen | | ||
| Marriage | Abt Dec 1648 | Thomas CHAMBERS | | | |
| Property | 1661 | a house - Wiltwyck, New Netherland | | | |
| Death | 1675 | Kingston, Ulster, New York, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | | |
Families
| Spouse | Mathijs JANSEN van Ceulen (1600 - 1648) |
| Child | Catryntje MATTHYSSEN (1642 - ) |
| Child | Annetje MATTHYSSEN (1645 - 1721) |
| Child | Jan MATTHYSSEN (1646 - 1724) |
| Child | Matthys MATTHYSSEN (1648 - 1730) |
| Spouse | Thomas CHAMBERS (1620 - 1694) |
Notes
Birth
Source is listed as:Ulster Co. Wills, p. 33, 34, 128; N.Y. Gen. & Biog. Rec. Vol. 17, p. 256; Vol 72, p. 308; Rensselaerswyck Court Min. p. 40; Comp. Vol. 5, p. 187.
NYGBR, v. 17 is wrong
Renssalaerswyck Court Min, p. 40 is wrong
I couldn't find the other three.
Marriage
Brink says 1652. There are problems with a date that late. [Brink, "Invading Paradise," p. 37]Property
She is referred to as "Margrita Clabbort". "Clabbort" was an alias of Thomas Chambers.Miscellaneous
==Quoted from Van Keuren source==Notes for MARGRIET HENDRICKSE:
Court case between Margriet, listed as "widow of Mattys Jansz", and Willem Jeuriansz, dated 15 Oct, 1648, was put over to the next court day. On 22 Oct, 1648, the director promises to "help the widow" recover the 50 florins owed her by Willem Juriaensz. Margriet and Thomas Chambers were married before 16 Dec, 1648, as a court proceeding over 2 ankers of Brandy on that date identifies Thomas as "husband and guardian of his wife". In 1656, suit was filed against "Margriet Clabborts" for beer and other liquors fetched at the tavern of Herman Bamboes. Clabborts, or Clapboard, was a commonly used reference for Thomas Chambers.
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Endnotes
1. D. G. Van Curen, Descendants of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen, RTF file on CD accompanying book, "Van Keulen/Van Keuren, Van Kuren/Van Curen," (Baltimore : Gateway Press, 1998), entry 1; supplied by D. G. Van Curen, , Boise, ID 83709, 1998 [presumably]. This is an extensive descendancy with informal citations to sources and brief proof arguments. The CD is informally labelled.
2. D. G. Van Curen, The Descendants of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen: A history of the Van Steenberghs, Peersens, Jansens, Van Keurens and related families, from their beginnings in Kingston, Ulster County, New York (Chesterfield, MO: Mira Digital Publishing, 2016), p. 2.
3. D. G. Van Curen, The Descendants of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen: A history of the Van Steenberghs, Peersens, Jansens, Van Keurens and related families, from their beginnings in Kingston, Ulster County, New York (Chesterfield, MO: Mira Digital Publishing, 2016), pp. 2-3, citing van Rennsalaer journals.
4. Thomas G. Evans, "The De Witt Family, of Ulster County, New York," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 17:251-259 (Oct. 1886); online page images, HathiTrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924061993378 : viewed 16 February 2019).
5. D. G. Van Curen, The Descendants of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen: A history of the Van Steenberghs, Peersens, Jansens, Van Keurens and related families, from their beginnings in Kingston, Ulster County, New York (Chesterfield, MO: Mira Digital Publishing, 2016), p. 3. At the time, she was pregnant with her first husband's child.
6. Theodore M. Banta, "Names of Dutch Settlers in Esopus," Year Book of the Holland Society of New York (1897 [but imaged outside cover says "1906"]); online page images, Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=nbwTAAAAYAAJ : viewed 1 March 2019).
7. D. G. Van Curen, Descendants of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen, RTF file on CD accompanying book, "Van Keulen/Van Keuren, Van Kuren/Van Curen," (Baltimore : Gateway Press, 1998), entry 1; supplied by D. G. Van Curen, , Boise, ID 83709, 1998 [presumably]. This is an extensive descendancy with informal citations to sources and brief proof arguments. The CD is informally labelled.
8. D. G. Van Curen, Descendants of Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen, RTF file on CD accompanying book, "Van Keulen/Van Keuren, Van Kuren/Van Curen," (Baltimore : Gateway Press, 1998), entry 1; supplied by D. G. Van Curen, , Boise, ID 83709, 1998 [presumably]. This is an extensive descendancy with informal citations to sources and brief proof arguments. The CD is informally labelled.