Arent TRAPHAGEN

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!Baptism: His children were all baptized in the Rhinebeck Reformed Dutch Church.

!Sources: Kingston Reformed Dutch Church
2. Rhinebeck Reformed Dutch Church.
3. Pamphlet of the Beekman Arms Hotel (caveat)
4. Rhinebeck German Reformed Church.

Arent married Lea VAN ETTEN on 14 Sep 1739 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States. Lea was christened on 20 Oct 1717 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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!Marriage: Married in the Rhinebeck Dutch Reformed Church

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!Death: His will was dated 26 Apr 1736 and his wife is called a widow on the 1738/39 tax list for Rhinebeck.

!Sources: Kingston Reformed Dutch Church
2. Wills of Ulster County, New York
3. Kingston Papers

Willem married Geesje Arentsen PIER on 30 Apr 1699. Geesje was christened on 25 Mar 1677 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States; died after 1738 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Name: Willem is how it is shown in the old records.

!Birth: [email protected] says he was born: abt 1616, Lemgo, Amt Lemgo,
Leppe, Germany. A deposition before the Court of Kingston on August 26, 1761
says he was about 55 years old.

!Biography: An interesting biography of Willem was written by Christopher
Brooks in which he states that Willem was the progenitor of three families in
early Dutch New York and New Jersey: The Traphagen family, the Burhans family
through his daughter Helena and the Ostrander family through his daughter
Rebecca. All I know about Willem is thanks to Mr. Brooks.

Brooks, Christopher, The Life of Willem Jansen Traphagen, (unpublished
biography, 4 pages, libraries of the CompuServe Genealogy Forum: file iname
TRAPHAGEN.ZIP) (FILE 72)

He appears to have been a rather fiery man who left possessions Lemgo, in the
old German County of Lippe, to settle in the new world sometime between the
years of 1647 and 1658. The death of his first wife Jannetje sometime around
1657 led to a second marriage to Aeltje Dirksen soon after. She evidently died
shortly after bearing him a child, for he remarried again in 1661 to Joosje
Willemsen. During this time he was involved in several lawsuits that resulted
from debts.

In 1661, at the urging of the Dutch governor to outlying farmers who were
subject to Indian attacks to form towns, Willem joined with twenty-two other
men to form the town of Bushwick, which was on Long Island not far across the
river from New Amsterdam. (Today Wushwick Ave. runs east and west in New York
City sort of dividing Brooklyn and Queens.) By 1664 Willem was in trouble with
the local magistrate for calling him a 'false judge' and later that year his
further trouble with the same judge resulted in his being banished from the
town.

Not much is known about him for several years until he appears in Kingston, NY
in 1671 where he gives a deposition which outlines his family connections in
sort of a will, ...'whereas the aforesaid Willem Trophagen is Considering the
approach of death, therefore he has deemed it proper to make known the
Conditions of his family...'. If he was close to death, he beat it and
survived, apparently, another 28 years, although his deathdate of 1699 is not
conclusive. He appears a number of times in the court and land records of
Kingston from 1671 to 1688 and his will survives dated February 16, 1685.

Brooks, Christopher, "The Life of Willem Jansen Traphagen" (unpublished
biography, 4 pages, libraries of the CompuServ Genealogy Forum: file name:
TRAPHAGEN.ZIP) (file 72)

!Will: His will was dated 16 Feb 1685.

!Sources: Teunis G. Bergen, Early Settlers of Kings County, p 306
2. Holland Society Yearbook, 1897, 1898
3. Anjou's Ulster County Wills, p 46
4. N.Y. Dutch Church records
5. Collection of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Volume IX, Marriages in the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City, 1639-1801, 1940, New York.
6. Amsterdam Marriage Intentions FHL#0113208, Bk. 471,p. 349
7. Records of Brooklyn Dutch Church
8. Kingston Dutch Reformed Church-Members.

William married Joosje Willems NOORTRYCK on 6 Feb 1661 in Brooklyn, Queens, New York, United States. Joosje was born about 1627 in Amsterdam, , Netherlands; died after 1688 in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Marriage: Steve Spicer - [email protected] says they were married 15 Jan 1661
in New Amsterdam or Brooklyn. There seems to be two records of their
marriage. One in the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church on January 15, 1661
and in the First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn on February 6, 1661.

Notes:

!Marriage: Loree Lee shows this marriage in the Brooklyn Dutch Church, Kings, New York.

Notes:

!Action: Verify the name Johannes from Steve Spicer - [email protected].

!Occupation: All that is known of Johannes is from a deposition that his son
gave before the court of Kingston in 1671 about his family in which he
stated..."Willem Trophagen...son of Johannes Trophaegen, doctor and medical
officer of the manor at Hemelyck in the diocese of Minnen (Stift Minnen) under
the Count Vanderlip, born in the city of Lemmichor -- Hendrick Trophaegen being
the brother of the appearer's father. ([email protected])

Jan + Eledt DELANDAL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Name: Christopher A. Brooks indicates her name is Eledt (Helena) Delandel or
Derandal.