Rapalje Family Line

Rapalje Family Line

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Grandy's 8x Great-Grandmother:

My 10x Great-Grandmother:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 11x Great-Grandmother:

Sarah Jorise Rapalje (1625 - 1685)

Sarah Jorise Bogaert

Also known as: "Sara Jorise Rapalje", "Sarah Rapelje", "Sara de Rappelje", "Sara Rapaille", "Sarah Joris Rapalje", "Rapelle", "Bergen"

Birthdate: June 9, 1625 (First European Born in Dutch Colony)

Birthplace: Fort Oranje, Nieuw Nederland

Denomination: Dutch Reformed Church (Calvinism)

Date of Marriage: August 19, 1654

Place of Marriage: Nieuw Amsterdam, Nieuw Nederland

Death: November 4, 1687 in Wallabout, Kings County, Province of New York

Burial: Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Flatbush, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York

Occupation: Farmer's wife

Wiki: she was the first child of European parentage born in New Netherland. Her chair is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, and is thought to have been brought to New Netherland by the family. Her wedding Medallion is in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The fireplace, mantle, and clock from the Rapalje family homestead are also in the Brooklyn Museum.

Parents:

Joris Janssen Rapalje

1604-1662

Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico

1605-1689

Family 1

Spouse:

Family 2

Spouse:

Teunis Gysbertsen Bogaert

Theunis Gysbertz Bogaert

Also Known As: "Theunis Gijsbertsz in den Boogaertman", "Theunis Gijsbertsz Bogaert", "Teunis Gijsbertszen", "Theunis Gijsbertsen", "Bogaert". "Bogaerts", "Bogart"

Birthdate: 1625

Birthplace: Heikoop, Utrecht, Holland, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden

or, Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Denomination: Dutch Reformed Church (Calvinist)

Public Service: was selected magistrate (like his father-in-law) in Breuckelen for the years 1663, 1673. He served as a representative from the Dutch towns to confer with the governor.

Death: 1699 in Wallabout, Kings County, Province of New York

Burial: Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Flatbush, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York

Children:

1. Aertje Teunis Bogart 1655-1750

2. Catalyntje Tunisen Bogaert 1657-1707

3. Neeltje Tunisen Bogaert 1660-1660

4. Aaltje Theunise Bogaert 1661-1735

5. Annetje Teunisen Bogart 1665-1750

6. Neeltje Teunise Bogaert 1665-1745

7. Gysbert Teunisse Bogaert 1668-1732

About Sarah Jorise Rapalje

First European Born in Dutch Colony: Sarah Jorise Rapalje

At her wedding, Sarah was presented with a medallion (given by her 1st husband, Hans Hansen Bergen), which has been handed down over the generations. One side shows a 17th-century Dutch couple being blessed by a Christ figure with an inscription that translates as, “Behold this young woman whom I love and none other. She is my true one, my love and is next to God alone." The reverse side appears to depict Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the text reads, "May my Creator create us, whole flesh and bone into one." The medallion was at some point incorporated into the base of a tankard, and today it’s in the possession of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

http://ancestorbios.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-european-born-in-dutch-colony.html

The Holland Society of New York From the Vaults: The Rapalje Cradle

Many are familiar with Catalina Trico, Joris Jansen Rapalje, and their daughter, Sarah Rapalje, who was the first child of European descent born in New Netherland. We found a copy of this sketch depicting the Rapalje/Rapelje/Rapelye family homestead in New Amsterdam during our office move. The chair, fireplace, mantle, and clock from the Rapalje family homestead are in the Brooklyn Museum, according to the text on the back of this framed picture. The sketch provides an interesting glimpse into everyday life in a New Netherland family home.

http://www.hollandsociety.org/vaults-rapalje-cradle/

Sarah Rapalje's chair

It's in the warehouse of the Museum of the City of New York.

Biography Sarah Jorissen Rapalje was born in Fort Orange, New Netherland on June 9, 1625 to Joris Jansen Rapalje and his wife, Catalyntje Trico, and was the first female Dutch child born in New Netherland. She married her neighbor Hans Hansen Bergen in 1639, and they had eight children together. On 19 August 1654, about a year after the death of her husband Hans, she married Teunis Bogert (Bogaert), and they had two children together. She died in 1685 in New York at the age of 60, and was buried in Brooklyn, New York. Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island had already been built when the family moved and was where Sarah’s other siblings were born.[1] The area around the fort was called New Amsterdam[2] and was where the settlers built their homes. Sarah’s parents settled in section G, Number 7 (Pearle Street) on this map and as shown on this map.[3][4] Sarah’s father served in one of the first forms of representative government as one of the ‘‘Twelve Men’’[5][6] and in other official capacities. Birth Sarah Joris Rapalje was born in Albany on July 9, 1625 to Catalina Trico and Joris (George) Rapalje, and was the first female Dutch child born in the settlement known as New Netherland.[7] Her parents left for the settlement just twelve days after being married[8] and sailed on the Eendtracht to what was then called Fort Orange. Sarah was born a year after their arrival and may have been born in a bark hut, which were the quarters for the first new settlers as described by her mother, Catalina.[9]

Marriage

Sarah married at a very young age. She was only 14 years old in 1639 when she married her neighbor, Hans Hansen Bergen (marriage record not located).[10] Hans was a ship’s carpenter[11] and was a party to purchase half interest in a sloop[12][13] Sarah, herself owned a piece of property on Beaver Street in 1653.[14] We do not know how old Hans was, but we do know that he passed away in 1654, only 15 years following their marriage.[15] At that time Sarah was only 29 years old, and already had borne eight children. Of the eight children from Sarah’s first marriage, seven survived into adulthood. Only one, the youngest one, appears to have died at a young age.

Sarah next married Theunis Gysbertszn Bogaert on August 19, 1654. Theunis then became step-father to Sarah’s seven surviving children, and together they had seven more children, six surviving into adulthood.

Death

Sarah died in 1685, during her 60th year. Her mother, Catalyntje Trico outlived Sarah, her oldest daughter. Catalyntje died in 1689, at age 84, four years following Sarah’s death.[16]

Rapelje died in 1685 in Boswijck, a village that became the modern Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. By the time Rapelje died the New Netherland colony had been ceded to the English in 1664, and was rebranded the Province of New York.

It has been estimated that Sarah Rapalje’s offspring numbers at least a million descendants.

Among her notable descendants is actor Humphrey Bogart. [37] Research Notes Sarah’s sister, Marratie was also born at Fort Orange before the family moved in 1626 after the island of Manhattan[38] was purchased for settlement by Peter Minuit.[39] Teunis Gysberts Bogaert/Theunis Gysbertse Bogaert was selected magistrate (like his father-in-law) in Breuckelen for the years 1663, 1673.[40] He served as a representative from the Dutch towns to confer with the governor.[41]

Sources ↑ New Netherland Institute. “‘‘A Tour of New Netherland: Fort Amsterdam’’”. Fort Amsterdam ↑ New Netherland Institute. “‘’A Tour of New Netherland: New Amsterdam’’”. New netherland Institute ↑ Overview of Deeds issued to Joris Rapalje, numbers 37 and 38 on this page. Stokes, I. N. Phelps The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928.Electronic reproduction. v. 1-4. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008. JPEG use copy available via the World Wide Web. Master copy stored locally on 74 DVDs#: ldpd_5800727_001 01-13 ; ldpd_5800727_002 01-19 ; ldpd_5800727_003 01-16 ; ldpd_5800727_004 01-16.. Columbia University Libraries Electronic Books. 2006. Columbia University Elctr. Books ↑ Translations of property and deeds: Ghering, Charles T., New York Historical Manuscripts, Dutch. Volumes GG, HH, II, Land Papers, pg 7, 9, 19, 26, 52, 54, 57. Accessed through New Netherlands Institute website: New Netherland Institute ↑ O'Callaghan, E. B. 1797-1880. The Register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1865. , pg 52. J. Munsell, 1865. , pg 52. ↑ Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol 1, pg 415. History of New York, Vol 1, pg 415. ↑ ’’Family Register’’ found in: New Netherland Connections, Vol 8, #4, pg 85-90 ↑ "Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, FamilySearch : Marriage 13 January, 1624 Amsterdam ,accessed 29 January 2016, Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1623-1625 > image 172 of 596; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague). ↑ O’Callaghan, E.B., Documents relating to the State of New-York, Vol 3. Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany, 1849. pg 49 and 50 - 51. Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany, 1849. pg 49 and 50 - 51 ↑ Hans Hansen, Lot 4 (GG: 184); George Rapalje, Lot 5 (GG: 194). Ghering, Charles T., New York Historical Manuscripts, DUTCH, Volumes GG, HH, & II, Land Papers. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1980. Pg 52 and 54. http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/research/online-publications/ ↑ Volume 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660, 59a, Pg 161, Image 167 of 477, 19 August 1649. http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/1814/0152/0217/Volume_III_-_Register_of_the_Provincial_Secretary_1648-1660.pdf ↑ Volume 4, Council Minutes (early court proceeding), September 7, 1645, pg 293 of 647. http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/9714/0152/0608/Volume_IV_-_Council_Minutes_1638-1649.pdf ↑ Volume 4, Council Minutes (early court proceeding, February 8, 1646, 305 of 647. http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/9714/0152/0608/Volume_IV_-_Council_Minutes_1638-1649.pdf ↑ Pg 302, Image 592 of 843 images: Stokes, I. N. Phelps The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928.Electronic reproduction. v. 1-4. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008. JPEG use copy available via the World Wide Web. Master copy stored locally on [74] DVDs#: ldpd_5800727_001 01-13 ; ldpd_5800727_002 01-19 ; ldpd_5800727_003 01-16 ; ldpd_5800727_004 01-16.. Columbia University Libraries Electronic Books. 2006. Columbia University Elctr. Books ↑ 1654 Deed, listed (GG?) Stokes, I. N. Phelps The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928.Electronic reproduction. v. 1-4. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008. JPEG use copy available via the World Wide Web. Master copy stored locally on [74] DVDs#: ldpd_5800727_001 01-13 ; ldpd_5800727_002 01-19 ; ldpd_5800727_003 01-16 ; ldpd_5800727_004 01-16.. Columbia University Libraries Electronic Books. 2006. Columbia University Elctr. Books, image 702 ↑ Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909. A History of the City of Brooklyn: Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh. 2 volumes. Brooklyn: Pub. by subscription, 1867 and 1870. Vol. 1, page 87 ↑ New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol 3, Pg 562, Pub NYGBS 1890. https://archive.org/stream/collectionsofnew03newy_0#page/561/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 10 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n25/mode/2up ↑ 19.00 19.01 19.02 19.03 19.04 19.05 19.06 19.07 19.08 19.09 19.10 19.11 19.12 19.13 19.14 New Netherland Institute, Sarah Rapalje 1625-1685, Notable Dutch-American’’. http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/sarah-rapalje ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY.pg 14 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n33/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 17 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n39/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 21 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n47/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 26 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n57/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY.pg 30 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n65/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 35 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n75/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 36 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n77/mode/2up ↑ New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol 3, Pg 520, Pub NYGBS 1890. https://archive.org/stream/collectionsofnew03newy_0#page/519/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 40, https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n85/mode/2up ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 29.6 Bogart, John Albert, 1889-. The Bogart Family: Tunis Gysbert Bogaert And His Descendants. Scranton, Privately printed by Haddon Craftsmen, 1959. Pgs 107-110. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062847850;view=1up;seq=129 ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 47, https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n99/mode/2up ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Vol 2, Pt 1, Pub 1901, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, NY. pg 56 https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n117/mode/2up ↑ Holland Society of New York. Year Book of the Holland Society of New York. New York: The Secretary, Theodore Banta, 189, pg 146. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101062238876;view=1up;seq=184 ↑ Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York. Index to the First Book of Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn, 1957. pg 6 Children. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077221166;view=1up;seq=25 ↑ ’’‘Pg 80’’’ NYGBS, New York Dutch Church Baptism Index, 1639-1675. Pg 12 of 89. ‘‘access through NYGBS website’’ ↑ ’’‘Pg 80’’’ NYGBS, New York Dutch Church Baptism Index, 1639-1675. Pg 71 of 89. ‘‘access through NYGBS website’’ ↑ ’’‘Pg 93’’’ NYGBS, New York Dutch Church Baptism Index, 1639-1675. Pg 34 of 89. ‘‘access through NYGBS website’’ ↑ New Netherland Institute, ‘‘Sarah Rapalje (1625-1685), Notable Dutch-American. http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/sarah-rapalje/ ↑ New Netherland Instute. “‘’A Tour of New Netherland: Manhattan’’”. Manhattan ↑ New Netherland Institute. ‘‘The Dutch on the Delaware’’. Dutch on the Delaware ↑ O’Callaghan, E.B., The Register of new Netherland, 1626 to 1674. Pub 1865, Pg 75, Albany, NY: J. Munsell. https://archive.org/stream/registerofnewnet00ocalrich#page/74/mode/2up/search/Bogaert ↑ O’Callaghan, E.B., The Register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674. Pub 1865, Albany, NY: J. Munsell. Page 149 Allaben, Frank. The Ancestry of Leander Howard Crall…Monographs on the Crall, Haff, Beatty, Asfordby, Billesby, Heneage, Langton, Quadring, Sandon, Fulnetby, Newcomen, Wollet, Cracroft, Gascoigne, Skipwith, Plantagenet, Meet, Van Ysselsteyn, Middagh, Bergen,and De Rapalje Families, with Coat Armor, Pedigree Charts and Documentary Appendices. The Grafton Press; New York; 1908, Pages 292-296. Wikipedia contributors, "Sarah Rapelje," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Rapelje&oldid=767075468 (accessed February 28, 2017). Ancestral Lines Guilford S. Tingley Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families Abbreviation: Geneal. Notes of NY and New Eng. Family Author: Compiler: S.V. Talcott Publication: Clearfield Company, 1883 Note: from Family Tree Maker CD157 Early New York Families Disk 2 First Families of New York Abbreviation: First Families of New York "Clare Balding." Who Do You Think You Are? (Series 14, Episode 3). BBC One. 20 July 2017

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https://www.geni.com/people/Sara-Rapelje/6000000000375062794

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTHG-DHQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Rapelje

http://ancestorbios.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-european-born-in-dutch-colony.html

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/sarah-rapalje/#

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LTHG-DHQ/sarah-jorise-rapalje-1625-1685

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rapalje-30

https://www.longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I2273&tree=Vanderbilt

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Grandy's 9x Great-Grandfather:

My 11x Great-Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 12x Great-Grandfather:

Family

Spouse:

Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico

1605-1689

Catalyntje Jeronimus Repalje

Also Known As: "Catherine Jeronimus Trico", "Catalyntie Jeronimus Trico", "Catalyntje Trico", "Catharina Triko", "Pasque Troco", "Catherine Rapalje", "Catherine de Rapalje", "Catherine Trico", "Catalina Tricot", "Catalyntie Tricault", "Catalyntie Trico"

Birthdate: 1605

Birthplace: (in modern France), Pris, Hainut, Spanish Netherlands

Christened: 1605 at Prisches église Saint Nicolas

Denomination: Roman Catholic / Dutch Reformed Church (Walloon Calvinist)

Date of Marriage: January 21, 1624

Place of Marriage: Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Death: September11, 1689 in Walabought, Long Island, Province of New York

Burial: in the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Flatbush, Kings County, NY. The cemetery is within the grounds of Erasmus Hall High School

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jeronimus Trico and Michèle Sauvagie

Children:

1. Sarah Jorise Rapalje 1625–1685

2. Marritje Jorise Rapalje 1627–1685

3. Jannetje Jorise Rapalje 1629–1699

4. Judith Jorise Rapalje 1635–1726

5. Jan Joriszen Rappalje 1637–1663

6. Jacob Joriszen Rapalje 1639–1643

7. Catalyntje Jorise Rapalje 1641–

8. Jeronimus Joriszen Rapalje 1643–

9. Annetje Jorise Rapalje 1646–1694

10. Lysbeth Jorise Rapalje 1648–1712KW6​​

11. Daniel Joriszen Rapalje 1650–1725

About Joris Janssen Rapalje

One of the first colonists & settlers of New Netherland & New Amsterdam

He and his wife Catalina (Catalyntje) Trico (1605–1689) were among the earliest settlers in New Netherland.

Council of Twelve Men - August 1641

Joris Jansen Rapelje was a member of the Council of Twelve Men in the Dutch West India Company colony of New Netherland.

In August 1641, Willem Kief, the Director of New Netherland, summoned twelve prominent settlers to New Amsterdam to advise him on relations with the Indians.

Tavern Keepers and Brewers of Early America

RAPALJE ANCESTRY

THIS BLOG WILL ATTEMPT TO TRACK DESCENDANTS OF JORIS JANSEN RAPALJE (1604-1662) AND CATALINJE TRICO (1605-1689), WHO IMMIGRATED TO MANHATTAN FROM HOLLAND IN 1624, SAILED UP THE HUDSON RIVER TO FORT ORANGE (ALBANY) AND RETURNED TO SETTLE IN MANHATTAN IN 1626.

http://rapaljeancestry.blogspot.com/2011/10/sarah-rapaljes-chair.html

Ships Passenger List for De Eendracht 1624 Amsterdam to New Netherland:

The Eendracht sailed from Amsterdam on January 25, 1624.

Joris Rapalje and Catalina Trico were married in Amsterdam on January 21, and we know from her depositions that they sailed on this ship.

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/endracht1624.shtml

*Notes on above Passenger List:

There's a problem with this, because the ship 'Eendracht'...as (according to Wikipedia) it wasn't even built and sea worthy until 1655. But if there was another ship named "De Eendracht" that sailed in 1624, there is no record of it, other than this list...which needs confirmation & citation.

Biography of Joris Jansen Rapalje

Joris was born in 1604 in Valenciennes which at the time was a town in the province of Hainut in the southern part of the Spanish Netherlands (now in the Nord department of northern France).

Joris was the youngest child of Jean Rapareilliet, unfortunately his mother is not named on his baptismal record (normal practice).

Baptism

Joris was baptised 28th April 1604 in the church of St Nicolaes in Valenciennes under the name “Georges Rapareilliet”.

Georges/Joris’ baptismal record lists him as an illegitimate child (this is not the case for his six older siblings), there are several theories to explain this, the strongest of which is that Joris’ mother was not his father’s wife (Elizabet) but rather an unnamed woman with whom his father had an affair.

Early Life

Joris’ (step- ?) mother, Elizabet, died when he was nearly two years old and his father died not long after meaning Joris would have grown up in the household of an older sibling or perhaps an aunt or uncle or god-parent.

Alleged references in colonial documents to a link between Joris and the port city of Rochelle, France have led some genealogists to suggest that Joris had traded as a merchant in Rochelle prior to moving to Amsterdam, however, it seems highly unlikely that a poor nineteen year old Walloon boy might have travelled 700 km south to Rochelle to become a merchant before then travelling a further 1,000 km north to work as a poor textile manufacturer in Amsterdam.

Marriage

An intention to marry, Dutch “ondertrouwregister”, was lodged in Amsterdam 13th January 1624 for a marriage between “Joris Raparlie from Valenciennes, boart worker, age 19 years, residing on the Walenpad, and Catharina Trico from Pris in Wallonsland, accompanied by Mary Flemengh, her sister, riesiding in the Nes, age 18”. (NB: a boart worker is involved in the manufacture of woven cloth from wool).

On 21st January 1624 they married in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam.

Only eight days between announcement and marriage is against all socially acceptable norms of 17th century Dutch society and many researchers suspect that the West India Company must have used its influence with the Dutch church to ensure that Joris and Catharina could be married before they departed for the colonies.

Emigration

The first vessel to bring agricultural colonists to the Hudson Valley was the Eendracht (named for a phrase in the Dutch national motto, the ship's name is usually translated as “Unity”) which sailed from Amsterdam on 25th January 1624, arriving in Hudson Bay spring of the same year. This was the ship of Adrian Jorisszen Tienpoint who became the first Governor of New Netherland.

The best accounts of the ships’ arrival and subsequent events in the following weeks are Catharina’s own famous depositions of 1680 and 1688. Joris and Catharina settled at Fort Orange (present day Albany, NY) with several other families.

Fort Orange

Previously an armed trading outpost the West India Company wanted permanent settlers to strengthen the validity of their claim to the territory.

Joris’ first child, Sara, was born at Fort Orange on 9th June 1625.

Sara claimed in her life time to have been the "the first-born Christian daughter" in the colony of New Netherlands. This is often mis-quoted as the “first-born Christian child”, in either case it is highly possible that neither statement is true, Sebastian Janszen Krol said in a statement to the Amsterdam Consistory, on 14th November 1624 , "that there are pregnant women there [meaning the colonies in America]." As Krol would have departed Fort Orange mid-1624 to be in Amsterdam in November and Sara was not born until mid-1625 the pregnant women referred to cannot have included Sara’s mother.

New Amsterdam

All the families at Fort Orange were relocated by the West India Company to the new settlement of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island soon after the harvest of 1626.

At first the family probably lived near the East River.

Later the family built two houses at numbers 17 and 19 Pearl Street (daughter Sara by then was married and living at number 15).

Joris’ other ten children were born in New Amsterdam and it is likely the family lived on Pearl Street until 22nd June 1654 when Joris sold his property and removed to his farm at Wale bocht, where he lived the rest of his life.

Colonial records show that Joris worked as trader and tavern keeper as well as being part-owner of a privateer and entering public office and is referred to in one legal document as a "chief boatswain".

Joris was appointed to the famous Board of Twelve Men between 29th August 1641 and 18th February 1642 to advise Governor Kieft on policy for dealing with the native Indian population.

1646 Lot outside fort walls

For an eye witness description of the area see NEW NETHERLAND IN 1627. LETTER FROM ISAACK DE RASIERES TO SAMUEL BLOMMAERT

Home of the Rapelje family, foot of 34th Street and the North River. Drawing by Eliza Pratt Greatorex

Brooklyn

Joris bought, on 16th June 1637, a farm containing one hundred and sixty morgens or three hundred and thirty-five acres from the Indians land at the Wallabout (the Dutch called it Wale bocht) in present Brooklyn - the first acreage to be purchased in that part of Long Island, adjacent to the East River. This famous Rapalje farm was called "Rinnegakonck" because it was at a stream named such by the indians.

On the 17th June 1643, his Indian purchase was patented to him by Governor Kieft, described as "a piece of land called Rinnegakonck [Waaleboght, or Wallabout Bay], formerly purchased by him of the Indians, as will appear by reference to the transport, lying on Long Island, in the bend of Mereckkawick [Indian name for Brooklyn], east of the land of Jan Monfoort, extending along the said land in a southerly direction, towards and into the woods ..."

In 1655, 1656, 1657, 1660, and 1662 he was a schepen (magistrate) in Breuckelen (Brooklyn).

Death

Joris died during a meeting of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn 21st February 1663 and was allegedly the first person to be buried in the cemetery of that church (the church still stands on the corner of Flatbush and Smith Streets in Flatbush, NY).

Legacy

There is a 1768 portrait by John Durand called "Rapalje Children" at the New York Historical Society. The description at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RapaljeChildren.jpg describes Garrett Rapalje (b. 1730), his wife Helena de Nyse (b. 1732) as the parents of the four children Garrett II (b. 1757), George (b. 1759), Anne (b. 1762), and Jacques (b. 1752). Garrett was the son of George Janse Rapalje and Diana Middach. The caption says he was "descended from Joris Jansen Rapalje, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam."

Further Reading

Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World, 2005

Russell Shorto, Amsterdam, 2013

George Olin Zabriskie, "The Founding Families of New Netherland, No. 4 - The Rapalje - Rapelje Family", 1972

Hugh T. Law, "Chapter 7, Ancestors Traced to France: Joris Jansen De Rapalje and Catharine Trico," How To Trace Your Ancestors to Europe, 1987

Teunis G. Bergen, "The Bergen family, or, the descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, one of the early settlers of New York and Brooklyn, L. I., with notes on the genealogy of some of the branches of the Cowenhoven, Voorhees, Eldert,, Stoothoof, Cortelyou, Stryker, Suydam. Lott, Wyckoff, Barkeloo, Lefferts, Martense, Hubbard, Van Brunt, Vanderbilt, Vanderveer, Van Nuyse, and other Long Island families", 1876

John Blythe Dobson "The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent", 2006

History of the City of Brooklyn, Volume 1, page 24-25 (and others), page 85-87 {includes chain of title} by Henry R. Stiles (1887) see especially, footnote on pages 89, 90 & 91

History Aid for Fort Orange "Eight refugee families from the Spanish Netherlands were brought to provide labor and grow food for the fort, but they were relocated to Manhattan Island two years later for their own safety..."

Family

Spouse:

Elizabeth Lodewyck Baudouin

1560-1605

Elizabeth Lodewyck Rapareilliet

Also Known As: "Elizabet Rapareillet", "Elizabeth Baudoin", "Elizabet Baudewyn"

Birthdate: 1582

Birthplace: Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Denomination: Roman Catholic / Dutch Reformed Church (Walloon Calvinist)

Death: 1629 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Burial: February 1606 at Hainaut, Belgium

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jehan Baudouin and Colette [?]

Children:

1. Jejenne Rapareillet 1578–1620

2. Marie Rapareilliet 1580–

3. Jeanne Rapalje 1590–1600

4. Olivier Rapareilliet 1593–

5. Anne Rapareilliet 1595–1600

6. Francois Rapareillet 1596–1600

7. Bon Rapalje Rapalije 1596–1600

8. Antonie Rapalje Jannsen 1598–

9. Nicolas Janssen Rapalje 1598–1600

10. Jean Rapalje II 1600–1600

11. Antoinette Rapelet 1602–

12. Joris Janssen Rapalje 1604–1662

About Jean de Rapareillet

Jean Rapareilliet was born in 1552 in Valenciennes, Nord, France to Jacques Raparlier and his wife, Breckje De Rapalje. He married Elizabeth Baudoin in 1577 in Valenciennes, Nord, France. They had 12 children in 25 years. He died on February 23, 1606, in Valenciennes, Nord, France, at the age of 54.

It has been proposed that this father of an early New Netherland immigrant was a "renowned" Dutch/Flemish painter. Modern genealogists are neither able to find any examples of his work nor any mention of him in histories of Dutch Flemish art. Perhaps the adjectives 'renowned' & 'important' should be taken under advisement.

Jean RAPALJE was born about 1552 in Valenciennes, Hainaut, France. He died on 20 February 1605/6 at the age of 54 in Valenciennes, Hainaut, France. He was buried on 23 February 1605/6 in St. Nicholas Parish, Valenciennes, Hainaut, France. Jean was also known as Jean Jannssen Rapareillet. He has reference number 406. He was an important Flemish painter in the late 1500's to early 1600's "Colonial history of New Jersey First series Vol 32"

one site ?? gives name as Abraham Raparillet)

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Jean-Rapareilliet/6000000000423625827

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LR4C-DPR

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~tqpeiffer/genealogy/Documents/Surnames/MMPS/Rapalje/Rapalje%20MMPS%20Surname.htm

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GH9R-CKQ

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rapalje-20

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Rapalje is 'Dutchification' of French name Rapareillet.