Individual Details
Greitjen Peiters
(1620 - 1683)
She possibly is the Greitjen Peters who married Isaac Hermans Op den Graeff, based mostly on the fact that his wife was the daughter of someone named Peter from among not a very large pool of people.
SHirley Webb has a fourth: Margaret Greitjen Peiters Doors d 1683
m Isaac Hermans OpDen Graeff. It is thought that the wife of Isaac
Hermans, whose name was Gritjen Pieters or Peters, was
possibly a daughter of Peter Doors. There is no proof. The notion
is based on the fact that clearly her father's name was Peter, and
there is a small pool of known Mennonites named Peter who could have
been her father around. White doesn't list her as one of Peter's
three "known" children. (White doesn't mention that Agnes/ Neess,
wife of Matthias/ Theiss Doors, see below,
was allegedly Herman Op den Graeff's daughter Hillekren, either.
Why do I get the idea White isn't real impressed with the Scheuten
manuscripts?)
The source of this idea is the Scheuten manuscripts,
a document of apparently unknown origin, which presents straightforwardly
in tabular form with no documentation whatever quite a number of
interesting notions, including that Herman Op den Graeff's grandmother
was a Habsburg princess (his father appears to have been Abraham
Graeff of Kempden but it isn't proven), and his wife was a Plantagenet
(the English Norman royal dynasty)! Iris JOnes and Miller include
copies of the genealogical charts from the Scheuten manuscripts in her
update on the status of research on possible links between the
Op den graeff family and the others in the Fall, 1997 issue of
Krefeld Immigrants.
In the fall 1998 issue of Krefeld IMmigrants, Jones has an addendum
that clarifies much; others had sent her more info in the meantime.
See the discussion on my Op den Graeff page. The Scheuten manuscripts
are a private Scheuten family version of their family history allegedly
written by either a 17th century Krefeld Mennonite Preacher named
Scheuten or his 18th century son, first mentioned in Samuel Pennypacker's
writings between 1892 and 1897 and "the original" found in the private
possession of a Sheuten family member in 1928 dated 1928! SEveral
copies now exist in Germany, and the degree to which they differ from
each other is demonstrated by a set of copies of the same tables, of
Herman's immediaet family only, from a different copy of the manuscript,
which refers to Isaac's wife only as "Grietjen" or "Margaret" , no
Peters, no indication that she was a daughter of Peter Doors.
Jones traces the notion that Peters ever appeared after "Grietjen" and
finds that when Niepoth says it he appears to cite Hull ( William
Penn and the DUtch Quaker Migraton to Pennsylvania) who is the first
as far as she can tell to state this and gives no source at all!
However, the actual source is the 1681 Krefeld Quaker wedding certificate,
which both Hull and Niepoth use as their principal source documents in
analyzing the relationships between the Krefeld emigrants; they both
appear unaware that the Scheuten manuscripts exist. Grietjen signed
the wedding certificate of her brother in law and his bride along
with her husband; "Grietjen Peters".
SHirley Webb has a fourth: Margaret Greitjen Peiters Doors d 1683
m Isaac Hermans OpDen Graeff. It is thought that the wife of Isaac
Hermans, whose name was Gritjen Pieters or Peters, was
possibly a daughter of Peter Doors. There is no proof. The notion
is based on the fact that clearly her father's name was Peter, and
there is a small pool of known Mennonites named Peter who could have
been her father around. White doesn't list her as one of Peter's
three "known" children. (White doesn't mention that Agnes/ Neess,
wife of Matthias/ Theiss Doors, see below,
was allegedly Herman Op den Graeff's daughter Hillekren, either.
Why do I get the idea White isn't real impressed with the Scheuten
manuscripts?)
The source of this idea is the Scheuten manuscripts,
a document of apparently unknown origin, which presents straightforwardly
in tabular form with no documentation whatever quite a number of
interesting notions, including that Herman Op den Graeff's grandmother
was a Habsburg princess (his father appears to have been Abraham
Graeff of Kempden but it isn't proven), and his wife was a Plantagenet
(the English Norman royal dynasty)! Iris JOnes and Miller include
copies of the genealogical charts from the Scheuten manuscripts in her
update on the status of research on possible links between the
Op den graeff family and the others in the Fall, 1997 issue of
Krefeld Immigrants.
In the fall 1998 issue of Krefeld IMmigrants, Jones has an addendum
that clarifies much; others had sent her more info in the meantime.
See the discussion on my Op den Graeff page. The Scheuten manuscripts
are a private Scheuten family version of their family history allegedly
written by either a 17th century Krefeld Mennonite Preacher named
Scheuten or his 18th century son, first mentioned in Samuel Pennypacker's
writings between 1892 and 1897 and "the original" found in the private
possession of a Sheuten family member in 1928 dated 1928! SEveral
copies now exist in Germany, and the degree to which they differ from
each other is demonstrated by a set of copies of the same tables, of
Herman's immediaet family only, from a different copy of the manuscript,
which refers to Isaac's wife only as "Grietjen" or "Margaret" , no
Peters, no indication that she was a daughter of Peter Doors.
Jones traces the notion that Peters ever appeared after "Grietjen" and
finds that when Niepoth says it he appears to cite Hull ( William
Penn and the DUtch Quaker Migraton to Pennsylvania) who is the first
as far as she can tell to state this and gives no source at all!
However, the actual source is the 1681 Krefeld Quaker wedding certificate,
which both Hull and Niepoth use as their principal source documents in
analyzing the relationships between the Krefeld emigrants; they both
appear unaware that the Scheuten manuscripts exist. Grietjen signed
the wedding certificate of her brother in law and his bride along
with her husband; "Grietjen Peters".
Events
| Birth | 1620 | ||||
| Marriage | 1640 | Crefeld, Germany - Isaaks Hermans Op den Graeff | |||
| Death | 1683 | Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania | |||
| Death | 19 Nov 1683 | Palatine, Pennsylvania | |||
| Alt name | Margaret Greitjen Peiters Doors |
Families
| Spouse | Isaaks Hermans Op den Graeff (1616 - 1669) |
| Child | Dirck Op den Graeff (1642 - 1697) |
| Child | Herman Isaacs Op den Graeff (1644 - 1704) |
| Child | Margrit Isacks Op Den Graef (1645 - 1685) |
| Child | Adolphus Op Den Graef (1648 - ) |
| Child | Vonder Op Den Graef (1651 - ) |
| Child | Margaretha Op den Graeff (1651 - ) |
| Child | Jacob Op den graeff (1653 - ) |
| Child | Abraham Isaac Op den Graeff (1660 - 1731) |
| Father | Pieter Dohrs (1580 - 1638) |
| Mother | Lysgen "Elizabeth" Grietes ( - 1680) |
| Sibling | Peter Doors (1609 - 1689) |
| Sibling | Mathias Dohrs (1614 - 1663) |
| Sibling | Reiner Doors (1607 - 1677) |