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born ca. 1618, Groot Holum, Ostfriesland
died 17 February 1700/1, Hurley, New York
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born in Amsterdam [?], probably ca. 1635
died 6 September 1714, Hurley, New York
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Peeck DeWitt
MVDW 11
TGE 11. x.
Family 9.
Birth Date (maybe 1676?) - Death Date (after 1730)
born in Kingston or Hurley, New York
no baptism record
in Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston: in spring 1669 a Lutheran pastor arrived in the colony, and Peeck and some of his siblings may have been baptized in the Lutheran community, for which no record has been preserved
Presumed buried in Kingston, New York; possibly buried in Hurley or Mombaccus (Rochester, Ulster County), or (maybe more likely) in the Mount Marion vicinity, Saugerties? See notes on his father’s page and below about where he lived and moved, and burial location of his daughter Anna, for example
named for relatives on father’s side? (It is possible his father’s godfather was Peke Aytken in Groot Holum, who married his father’s half-sister)
See WikiTree record
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Marytge Janse Vandenberg
married 2 January 1698, Manhattan (banns posted 10 December 1697)
New Amsterdam Marriages, p. 87: “Ingeschreven den 10 [December]: Peeck de Witt, j. m. Van Kingstouwne, en Marÿken Jans, j. d. Van N. Albanien, beÿde woonende alhier. Getroúwt Ao. 1698 den 2 Jan.”
birth date - death date
(before 1723)
birthplace
(Albany, N.Y.?)
His parents are Father (presumed Jan Vandenberg) and Mother
burial location
Evans (p. 6) says “At the time of his first marriage he was living in New York City.” Evans (p. 6) calls her Marytje Janse Vanderberg (of Albany)
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Maria (Teunis) DeMott
married 21 December 1723 at Kingston, New York
Kingston Old Dutch Church Records p. 545 (record 520): “Peek de Wit, widower of Marytjen van den Beck, and Maria Deunies, widow of Jacob Demoot, born in Hoogduytsland [Germany], and both resid. under the jurisdiction of Kingstown. Banns registered, 1 Dec.”
birth date - death date
birthplace
(Evans, p. 6, says born “in Germany”)
His parents are Father (presumed Teunis Name TBD) and Mother
(Evans says she is widow of Jacob De Mott, so De Mott would not be her father’s name.)
burial location
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with Marytge Vandenberg
MVDW 77
TGE 75. i. Family 31.
baptized 13 November 1698 (New York City per Evans, p. 10) - death date
baptism witnesses: Dirk Slyk, Jaquemyntje Teunis j.d.
married 3 June 1720 Hugo Freer at location
burial location
Tjerck DeWitt (1)
MVDW 78
TGE 76. ii.
baptized 11 February 1700 (Kingston) - died in infancy (before 1703)
burial location
MVDW 79
TGE 77. iii. Family 32.
baptized 12 September 1703 (Kingston) - death date
married 7 August 1737 Marjory Sissen (Sissem) at location
burial location
Jannetje DeWitt
MVDW 80
TGE 78. iv.
baptized 24 March 1706 (Kingston) - death date
baptism witnesses: Cornelis Swits, Jannetie de Wit
marriage date and location
burial location
MVDW 81
TGE 79. v.
baptized 18 February 1709 (Kingston) - died 14 July 1781
baptism witnesses: Teunis Tappen, Sarah Schepmoes
married 24 November 1744 Ann Harris at location
burial location
Catrina DeWitt
MVDW 82
TGE 80. vi.
baptized 17 June 1711 (Kingston) - death date
baptism witnesses: Johannes Rutsz, Rachel Bogardus
marriage date and location
burial location
with Maria Teunis DeMott
MVDW 83
TGE 81. vii. Family 33.
baptized 23 May 1725 (Kingston) - death date
baptism witnesses: Jury Overpag, Christina Jurye
married 26 November 1748 Arie [Arrie] Van Etten at location
burial location
MVDW 84
TGE 82. viii. Family 34.
baptized 30 April 1730 (Athens [Greene County], New York, church records, per Evans, p. 10)
died 1 April 1814
married 30 November 1749 Frederick Winne (see Maria DeWitt MVDW 218, dau. of Jan 75, who married Christian Winne 1757, and Annetje DeWitt MVDW 214, dau. of Jannetje 73, who married Arent Winne 2 Feb 1753) at location
married
13 (or 3?) May 1758 Jan L. DeWitt (MVDW 230, son of Lucas MVDW 76, so a cousin once removed) at location
burial location
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Notes
He is named sixth in his father’s will.
Evans (p. 6) says “At the time of his first marriage [1698] he was living in New York City. Subsequently he went to Dutchess County, where he settled on land purchased by his father from Col. Petrus Schuyler, of Albany, Sept. 6, 1698. This land was conveyed to him by his father by deed, dated Feb. 7, 1700, and in 1715 he exchanged it, with Col. Henry Beekman, for land in Ulster County, whither he subsequently removed.”
When he remarries in 1723, the church record says he is living in the jurisdiction of Kingston, which generally means not within the town proper but somewhere close enough not to be considered part of some other town (like Marbletown or Hurley or Coxing or Mombaccus, or Saugerties or Dutchess County . . . probably). You can be from somewhere else (even Albany) and get married in Kingston, but the record will try to show accurately where you are living.
From Documentary History of Rhinebeck (see full source citation below), p. 26:
The deed from Peek DeWitt to Henry Beekman, Jr., bears date the 9th day of August, 1715, and reads as follows:
To all christian people to whom these presents shall or may come, Peek De Witt, of Dutchess, in the province of New York, in America, sends greeting. Now know yea [sic] that the said Peek De Witt by and with the consent and good liking of Maritje, his wife, testified by her signing and sealing of these presents, for divers good causes him thereunto moving, but more especially for and in consideration of an exchange of a certain tract of land lying and being in the county of Ulster, in the corporation, Kingston, on the south side of the Rondout creek, above the great fall, in said Rondout Creek, and of ten acres of fly or meadow, lying on the north side of said Rondout creek, between the fly of John Frere and the fly of Coll. Henry Beekman, this day conveyed and assured unto the said Peek De Witt by the said Coll. Henry Beekman, have given, granted, bargained, sold, released, certified and confirmed * * * unto Henry Beekman, jr., of Kingston, in Ulster County, gent. the just third part of all that certain tract or parcell of land, situate, lying, and being in Dutchess County, beginning at the north bounds of the land of the said Coll. Henry Beekman, and so along Hudson’s river to a certain small creek or run of water to the north of Magdalene’s Island and as far into the woods as the said patent for the said land to Coll. Peter Schuyler extends, with the just third part of the mill, and mill creek, and the appurtenances thereunto belonging, together with all and singular the orchards, buildings, gardens, fencing and improvements on the same, to have and to hold the said just third part of the said tract or parcell of land, mill and mill creek, with all and singular the profits, benefits, advantages, commodities * * * unto him, the said Henry Beekman, jr., his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof the said Peek DeWitt, and Maritje, his wife, have hereunto put their hands and affixed their seals, in Kingston, this ninth day of August, in the second year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George, by the grace of God of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., Anno Domine, 1715.
Peek signs with his initials, and Maritie with a mark. Source is given as Ulster County, Liber No. 66, Folio 383, Wattingham, clerk. Documentary History goes on to describe the land as 5,541 acres adjoining the patent of Henry Beekman Sr., obtained in 1697, covering most of the town of Rhinebeck.
Peek transferred the parcels shown as No. 3 and No. 4 in the above map to Beekman, according to some accounts. (Those don’t appear to match the description given in the deed.) See Historic Old Rhinebeck, available online. |
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Sources
I’m just beginning to list sources here. Apologies for not being more complete. I will continue to add to this list as I have time. There are many sources of information on the DeWitt family line, some better than others.
Printed sources:
The DeWitt Genealogy: Descendants of Tjereck Claessen DeWitt of Ulster County, New York; compiled by Mary V[eldran] DeWitt (b. 1895) (privately published; no year indicated). This volume includes only names and dates, no attributions or locations or other stories or information are included. It includes nearly 2800 DeWitt descendants, some with more details, some fewer. It also includes some information on spouses and their parents. The laboriously typewritten volume came from years of personal research, often onsite in Ulster County; the current location of notes from this research is not known, but some of them may have gone to the Genealogical Society of Bergen County (New Jersey), where Mary DeWitt grew up and lived much of her life.
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or ’Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660. Transcribed and edited by Roswell Randall Hoes, Chaplain U.S.N., corresponding secretary of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, etc. New York 1891; original publication De Vinne Press, New York; available today from Higginson Book Co., Salem, Mass., 508-745-7170. Detailed information about baptisms has been filled in through the end of 1687, marriages through 1701. More information is available. Records begin 1660. Other baptisms may have taken place in Hurley and other locations nearby; also from time to time itinerant ministers would travel through and perform various rites, not always entered in the books.
This is available online at archive.org.
Thomas Grier Evans, The De Witt Family of Ulster County, New York (reprinted from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, October 1886), New York: Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Co., 201-213 East Twelfth Street, 1886. Available online from archive.org.
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Baptisms from 25 December, 1639, to 27 December, 1730, Edited by Thomas Grier Evans, 1901, New York, printed for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; reprinted 1968 by the Gregg Press, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. For brevity cited here as New Amsterdam Baptisms. Record of early baptisms in the Dutch Reform Church in Manhattan is also available online at archive.org, Volume 1 (1639-1708) and Volume 2 (1708-1730, plus index), as well as at openlibrary.org, which seems allied with archive.org. (Used to be online here, but that link seems to have evaporated.) Note that this (both volumes combined) is Volume II of the NYG&BS “Collections” series, which can make citation confusing. Page numbering is in a single sequence across both volumes (Vol. 1 ends at p. 333; Vol. 2 begins with p. 334).
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801, Samuel S. Purple, M.D., editor, printed for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890, reprinted 2003 by Heritage Books, Bowie, Maryland. For brevity cited here as New Amsterdam Marriages. Record of early marriages in the Dutch Reform Church in Manhattan is also available online. PDF copies can be downloaded from the Internet Archive (archive.org) in various forms: Just the index, a reworked compilation by Robert Billard (often quite useful), or in complete scanned form.
Documentary History of Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, N.Y., Embracing Biographical Sketches and Genealogical Records of our First Families and First Settlers, with a History of Its Churches and Other Public Institutions. Edward M. Smith, Rhinebeck, 1881. Available online at the Library of Congress, probably other sources as well.
Historic Old Rhinebeck, Howard H. Morse, 1908, Pocantico Printery, Flocker & Hicks, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y.; available online in multiple places.
Kingston Papers (two volumes), translated by Dingman Versteeg, with revision of pages 1-171 by Samuel Oppenheim; Peter R. Christoph, Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda, editors. Published in the series called New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, under the direction of the Holland Society of New York, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1976. These volumes can be found in multiple places online (see for example the New Netherland Institute), and the source text can be found on the Ulster County archives Website (see below, “The Kingston Papers”). First part (the Oppenheim revisions) was originally published as “The Dutch Records of Kingston,” in Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Volume XI, 1912. Note that at the end of Vol. 2 there are two separate indexes, one covering the Oppenheim revisions and the second covering the balance of the pages. This set includes not just court minutes but also an extensive collection of records kept by the court secretary, including deeds, contracts, and other miscellany.
Online sources:
English translations of Dutch colonial records, also known as “The Kingston Papers,” available online. These are the Dingman Versteeg translations. The originals are available on microfilm from the Ulster County archivist, who can be found through the same link. A cross-reference indexing the archive pages to the microfilm frames to the pages in the printed translation can be obtained from Donald Lockhart, dlockhart at rcn dot com, who includes an entertaining introduction about the misadventures of the original manuscript records in the 1800s, before they were at last safely ensconced with the Ulster County archives.
Also see The History of Kingston, New York, by Marius Schoonmaker (1888), a volume thick with detail and transcribed original records.
Ulster County, N. Y., Probate Records, In the Office of the Surrogate, and in the County Clerk’s Office at Kingston, N. Y., compiled, abstracted and translation by Gustave Anjou, Ph. D., 1906. Privately published (?) in New York, but available at genealogical libraries (NYPL and others). Subtitle: “A careful abstract and translation of the Dutch and English wills, letters of administration after intestates, and inventories from 1665, with genealogical and historical notes, and list of Dutch and Frisian baptismal names with their English equivalents.” Introduction by Judge A[lphonso] T[rumpbour] Clearwater, LL.D. This is available in reprinted form. Note that there are two distinct volumes included in this work, sometimes combined into one physical book.
Marbletown, New York, baptism records at Archive.org.
Reproduced herein:
Wills of Tjerck Claessen DeWitt and his brother Jan, who died unmarried in Kingston, 1699 (1906 Anjou edition; see link above)
Very cursory look at public records from Albany, NY, regarding Tjerck Claessen DeWitt and possible relatives.
The Peltz Record (1948)
The History of Ulster County, New York
The Oberholtzer Genealogy
Research assistance:
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