He was married to Ruth Hamlin on 13 Mar 1755. Children were: Timothy Treat , Thomas Treat.

She was married to John Collins on 29 May 1599 in Bramford, Suffolk, England.

She was married to John Collins on 29 May 1599 in Bramford, Suffolk, England.

She was married to Noah Fridley on 7 Jun 1883.^{(8) (8824)}

She was married to Henry Gunnett WFT Est. 1866-1899.^{(8) (10322)}

She was married to Matthai Schaaf WFT Est. 1751-1801. Children were: Margretha Schaaf.

She was married to Ralph Or William Gernon WFT Est. 1279-1313. Children were: John Or William Gernon.

She was married to John Collins about 1601 in Suffolk, Eng.. Children were: Edward Collins.

She was married to Frank P Soule WFT Est. 1860-1903. Children were: Charles Nelson Soule.

He was married to Ane Sophie (Larsen) Andersen on 26 Nov 1880 in LUDINGTON, Michigan.

He was married to Kimberly Jean Harmon Private. He was divorced from Kimberly Jean Harmon Private. Children were: Brian Richard Trempe , Brandon Robert Trempe.

He was married to Susan Marie Harling Private. He was divorced from Susan Marie Harling Private. Children were: Derrek Christopher Trempe, Olivia Maria Trempe.

He was married to Leah Fortin Private. He was divorced from Leah Fortin Private. Children were: Richard Robert Trempe, Roger Trempe, Carol Trempe, Theresa Trempe, Thomas Trempe.

She was married to Thomas Jenner WFT Est. 1646-1689. Children were: Elizabeth Jenner.

He was married to Elizabeth Harrington WFT Est. 1479-1516.

He was married to Isabella Harrington WFT Est. 1489-1521.

He was married to Pam Woods Private. Children were: Shannon Tressler, Cassis Tressler.

She was married to John Thompson in 1640 in London, England. ^(8)(24857) Children were: John Thompson, Mehitabel Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Ebenezer Thompson.

He was married WFT Est. 1589-1636.⁽⁸⁾ Children were: Sarah Trevore.

He was married WFT Est. 1589-1636.^(25138) Children were: Sarah Trevore.

She was married to John* Gilman on 30 Jun 1657. Children were: Elizabeth* Gilman.

He was married to Catherine* Shapleigh on 16 Mar 1616/17 in Kingsweare, Devon Co., England. Children were: Lucy Treworgye, Elizabeth* Treworgye.

She was married to Humphrey Chadbourne WFT Est. 1646-1664.

He was married to Martha P. Meserve WFT Est. 1818-1850.

She was married to Abraham Fernald on 16 May 1742.

She was married to *Joris Jansen De Rapaljie on 13 Jan 1623/24. Joris Jansen de Rapalje, later known as George Rapalje, was an exile from Rochelle, France to Amsterdam. He and his wife arrived in America in 1623 on the ship Unity, which was the first group of Dutch settlers to arrive in New Netherlands. They settled first at Fort Orange (Albany) and about 3 years later at Manhattan. They had a total of eleven children.

Their daughter Sarah is presumed to be the first white female born in the colony of New Netherlands (now New York State).

On June 16, 1637, he purchased from the Indians a tract of about 335 acres "T Waale-Boght" or Wallabout (in present-day Brooklyn, between Brooklyn Heights and Williamsburg), according to O'Callaghan's History of New Netherland, Vol. II, page 581. This tract of land was on the south shore of the bay, comprising what was later the grounds of the U.S. Marine Hospital and the area between Nostrand and Grand Avenues.
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From "The Belgians, First Settlers in New York and in the Middle States", by Henry G. Bayer, 1925, pages 167-170:

"Some Walloons headed by George Jansen de Rapalie - or Rapalje, according to the Dutch spelling - settled on Long Island at the 'Waal-Bocht,' where de Rapalie bought from the Indians three hundred thirty-five acres of land. In Dutch 'Waal' means Walloon, and 'Bocht' bay, thus is was the 'Walloon Bay;' the name has become Wallabout Bay. In that section are now the well-known Wallabout Market and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Wallabout was the mooring-ground of the Jersey and other British prison-ships during the American Revolution.

These early colonists are not to be confounded with the 'Waldenses,' who subsequently emigrated from Amsterdam. The descendants of the Walloons soon spread themselves over the country in the vicinity of the 'Waal-Bocht,' and the names of many of the most respectable families on Long Island attest their Belgian and French origin.' ...

George de Rapalie or Rapelje was the progenitor of the respectable family of that name on Long Island. The wife of George de Rapalie was Catelina Trico; these two persons are the only ones so far identified as having been on the first passenger boat - the New Netherland.

In the Documentary History of New York, III, 49-51, are two depositions made in 1685 and 1688 by Catelina Trico, one of the company who came out in the first voyage. She gives interesting details respecting the distribution of the immigrants to the Connecticut River, Delaware River, and Manhattan, and concerning her voyage with the remainder, about eighteen families, up to Albany, where she lived three years, 'all of which time the Indians were all quiet as lambs.'

Some historians say that it was at Wallabout, on June 9, 1625, that was born to the Rapalies, the first female child of european parentage in the Province. An event full of human interest as well as a purely historic one. The name of the little Walloon was 'Sarah'.

There have been various statements in regard to the residence of the Rapalies at the time of the birth of Sarah. But the depositions of the wife, Catelina Trica, made in New York, before Governor Dongan, the year prior to her death (she died in September 1689), establish the time of her arrival in this country and her first residence.

They went first to live at Fort Orange (Albany) where they remainded about three years, and where Sarah was born. They afterwards removed to Manhattan and from there to the Waal-Bocht, and this explains the confusion as to the exact place of her birth.

Sarah de Rapalie, or Rapalje, who gave birth to fourteen children, was the maternal ancestor of several of the most notable families of Kings County, while old directories of Staten Island show also the name of Rapalje, under which the Rapalies were known.

At the age of twenty-nine, she was the widow of Hans Hansen Bergen, the ancestor of the Bergen family, with seven children. She afterwards married Theunis Gysbert Bogaert, the ancestor of the Bogaert family in this country.

Two travelers, Dankers and Sluyter, in 1679, visited Catelina Trico, who lived in Brooklyn in a little house by herself, 'with a garden and other conveniences,' and evidently regarded her as a distinguished historical personage. Her progeny numbered 150.

It will be observed that the statement calling her daughter Sarah 'the first born Christian daughter in New Netherland', does not conflict with the statement of Jean vigne that he was the first 'male' born of European parents in the province."

Page 259:

"The 'Treatise' of the [Holland] Society states: 'In 1623 we have an authentic record, all originals on file at Albany, of the arrival of a Dutch ship, 'De Eendraght' (The Union), at Manhattan with entire families, as appears by the affidavit of Catalyntie Tricot, wife of Joris de Rapalje. The record about the arrival of the ship 'De Eendraught,' Captain Arien Joris, at Manhattan, in the spring of 1623, sets forth that of the passengers eight men were left at Manhattan, two men and six families were sent to the South River (the Delaware), two men and six families were sent to the Fresh Water (Connecticut) River, and sixteen families, mostly Walloons, were taken to Fort Orange, near the site of Albany of today.'

To begin with, those names Catalyntie and Rapalje are Batavian disguises as Baird calls those clever transformations, for those people were not Dutch but Walloons, as we have seen.

As to the authentic record appealed to, it is surprising that the Society should change the date of arrival and the name of the boat set forth in said authentic records, filed at Albany."
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From "The Documentary History of the State of New York", by E.B. O'Callaghan, 1850, Vol. III, pages 49:

"N.York, february 14: 1684-5.

The Deposicon of Catelina Trico aged fouer score yeares or thereabouts taken before the right honorable Coll. Thomas Dongan Leut. and Governour under his Ralal highness James, Duke of Yorke and Albany etc. of N York and its Dependencyes in America who saith and Declares in the presens of God as followeth:

That she Came to this Province either in the yeare one thousand six hundred and twenty three or twenty fouer to the best of her remembrance, and that fouer Women Came along with her in the same Shipp, in which ship the governor Arian Jorissen Came also over, which fouer Women were married at Sea and that they and their husbands stayed about three Weekes at this place and then they with eight seamen more went in a vessell by order of the Dutch Governor to Dellaware River and there settled. This I Certifie under my hand and ye seale of this province.

Tho. Dongan."


From the same book, page 51:

"THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN IN ALBANY.
[N.Y. Col: MSS. XXXV.]

Catelyn Trico aged about 83 years born in Paris doth Testify and Declare that in ye year 1623 she came into this Country with a Ship called ye Unity whereof was Commander Arien Jorise belonging to ye West India Company being ye first Ship yt came here for ye sd Company; as soon as they came to Mannatans now called N:York they sent Two families & six men to harford River & Two families & 8 men to Delaware River and 8 men they left att N:Yorke to take Possession and ye Rest of ye Passengers went with ye Ship up as farr as Albany which they then Called fort Orangie When as ye Ship came as farr as Sopus which is 1/2 way to Albanie; they lightned ye Ship with some boats yt were left there by ye Dutch that had been there ye year before a tradeing with ye Indians upont there oune accompts & gone back again to Holland & so brought ye vessel up; there were about 18 families aboard who settled themselves att Albany & made a small fort; and as soon as they had built themselves some hutts of Bark: ye Mahikanders or River Indians. ye Maquase: Oneydes: Onnondages Cayougas. & Sinnekes, with ye Mahawawa or Ottawawaes Indians came & made Covenants of friendship with ye sd Arien Jorise there Commander Bringing him great Presents of Bever or oyr Peltry & desyred that they might come & have a Constant free Trade with them wch was concluded upon & ye sd nationas came dayly with great multidus of Bever & traded them wth ye Christians, there sd Commander Arien Jorise staid with them all winter and sent his sonne home with ye ship; ye sd Deponent lived in Albany three years all which time ye sd Indians were all as quiet as Lambs & came & Traded with all ye freedom Imaginable, in ye year 1626 ye Deponent came from Albany & settled at N:Yorke where she lived afterwards for many years and then came to Long Island where she now lives.

The sd Catelyn Trico made oath of ye sd Deposition before me at her house on Long Island in ye Wale Bought this 17th day of October 1688.

William Morris
Justice of ye pece"
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From "New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch", by Van Laer, 1974, p.286:

"Egbert van Borsum, aged about 30 years, at the request of Catelyn Trico, attests ... that Catelyn came to the house of Master Hans [Surgeon Hans Keirstede] and asked Master Pauwel [Surgeon Paulus van der Beeck, or Becke]: 'Why do you beat my daughter?' He, Pauwel, answered: 'You lie.' She replied: 'You lie like a villain and a dog.' She, Catelyn, raising her hand, Master Pauwel struck Catelyn and then called her a whore and wampum thief, which she called people to witness....

On January 12, 1645: Catalyn Trico, plaintiff, vs. Pauwel van (der) Beeke, defendant, for defamation. Plaintiff demands satisfaction for the injury done to her (character), which she proves by two witnesses. Defendant is ordered to prove what he said or, if he can not do so, defendant shall acknowledge that he knows nothing of the plaintiff that reflects on her honor or virtue. Defendant declares that he can not prove the slanderous remarks made to her and that he has nothing to say against her that reflects on her honor or virtue. For the blow struck by the defendant he shall pay fl. 2:10 and Pauwel is warned not to do so again on pain of severer punishment."
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From "The Hardenbergh Family", by Myrtle Hardenbergh Miller:

"Joris came to America from Rochelle, France, on the ship Eendraght, or Unity, a ship of the Dutch West India Company, in 1623. He settled at Beverwyck (Albany) being one of the earliest Walloon settlers in New Netherland. Here he lived until 1626, at which time Peter Minuit ordered all farmers to go to Manhattan so that the uplands could be cleared for farming, so Joris went to New Amsterdam where he and Catalyntje opened the first tavern, or tap house, as it was then called, and located on the north side of Pearl Street. He sold this house and lot June 22, 1654 to Hendrick Henderson for 800 guilders. On June 16, 1637 he bought a tract of about 335 acres of land from Indian Chiefs Kakapeteyns and Pewichaas, called 'Remegakonck', on Long Island, for which he was given a patent June 17, 1643. This land was located opposite to Corlear's Hook in the bend of the Mereckkawick, the Indian name for Brooklyn, and is the same as Wallboght Cove. This land passed to his eldest son Jeronimus. On this tract in 1869 was located the U.S. Hospital Navy Yard, between Nostrand and Grand Avenues, Brooklyn, New York. In 1648 or later Joris moved to this 'Breucklen' and built the first house erected on the island. His lot patent was dated Marcy 18, 1647. This Long Island plantation became the family homestead. Vingboom, the map maker, accredits four plantations to 'Gegoergesyn', farms No. 37, and No. 38. This was hilly land.

It is thought and confirmed that Joris Jansen Rapelyea came from Leyden and was of Henault origin. This statement is found in the Journal of the Labadists, Danckerts, and Sluyter. The Labadists visited the Dutch in 1679-1680, and on May 30, 1680 Arnold de La Grange visited Catalyntje Trico, the aged widow of Joris Jansen Rapaille, living on the Walleboght in Brooklyn. She is mentioned as 'an old aunt of De La Grange, an old Walloon woman from Valenciennes, 74 years old.'

The original continental home of the Walloons was the Netherland province of Henault, the part of Netherland under Spain, which continued miserable existence by the side of the prosperous Dutch republic after 1578 under the name of the Spanish Netherlands. The ancient home of the de Rapallier family was the old city of Valenciennes....

Joris died soon after the close of the Dutch rule of Manhattan. He was appointed Magistrate of Brooklyn April 13, 1655. He and his wife were members of the Protestant Dutch Church 1662. He did not use the prefix 'de' in any of his signatures nor did any of his children....

Not far from the city of Valenciennes was the city of Douay where the family of Tricault lived. The immediate ancestors of both the De Rappelle and the Tricault families were weavers, the Tricault name being preserved in that of a certain woven stuff of which they were the inventors. (So as to promote agriculture in the New Netherland, one of the rules laid down by the directors of the West India Company stipulated that the weaving industry should not be practised here.)

Catalina Tricault, Catalyntje de Trico, or Trice, came to America at the age of 18 in the Eendraght with the first shipload.... Two Labadist travellers who visited the colony in 1679 have preserved in their journal an account of their visit to Catalina, the widow of Joris Rapalje as follows: 'On May 30, 1680, Arnold de La Grange with his wife, came to ask us to accompany them in their boat to Wale-bocht, a place situated on Long Island almost an hour's distance below the city, directly opposite Corlear's Hook. We reached the bay in about two hours. He had an aunt and friends living there. The aunt of La Grange is an old Walloon. She is worldly minded, living with her whole heart as well as body, among her progeny which now numbers 145 and will soon reach 150. Nevertheless, she lived alone by herself, a little apart from the others, having a little garden and other conveniences with which she helped herself.' ...

Stiles says of her later years: 'Thus peacefully and pleasantly passed the later years of this 'Mother of New York', who with her mission fulfilled, still active and with habits of industry begotten by her pioneer life, now reposed contented amid the love and respectful attentions of her kindred and her descendants.' She survived her husband many years. Her mark K.

The names of Joris Rapalje and Catalina Trico are the only names of Walloons brought to the New Netherland in 1623 that have been preserved. No records are to be found prior to 1638." Children were: *Sarah Rapaljie, Marritje Rapalje, Jannetje Rapalje, Judith Rapalje, Jan Rapalje, Jacob Rapalje, Catalyntje Rapalje, Jeronimus Rapalje, Annetje Rapalje, Elizabeth Rapalje, Daniel Rapalje.

She was married to Joris Jansen* De Rapelje on 21 Jan 1623/24 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Children were: Sara Joris* De Rapelje, Elizabeth Jorise De Rapelje.

He was married WFT Est. 1578-1625. Children were: Catalina* Trico.

He was married to Elizabeth Frantz about 1816 in Botetourt Co., Virginia.⁽⁸⁵³²⁾

She was married to Jack Challis Private.

She was married to Jim Bryolasis Private.

He was married to Virginia Shaw Private. Children were: Julie Triest, Lynda Triest, Stephen Triest.

He Private-Begin Private.⁽⁶⁶⁾ Children were: William Robert Trigg, Rosalind Beckner Trigg.

She Private-Begin Private. ⁽⁶⁶⁾ Children were: Rebecca Grace.

He Private-Begin Private. ⁽⁶⁶⁾ Children were: Frances Howerton Trigg, Alison Trigg.

Children were: Melissa Jane Miller, Michelle Janett Miller, Sheryl Elaine Miller .

She was married to Homer Hoseau Bellow Mask WFT Est. 1902-1936.^(25144) Children were: Francis Earl Mask, ??? Mask.

He Private-Begin Private.

He was married to Susan Nuckolls on 24 May 1808 in Galax, Grayson Co., VA.

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