Grietje Artse Tack

Notes:

Although Grietje was born to Aert Piertsen Tack while he was still married to Anneke Adriens, and raised by Anneke Adriens as her daughter, Grietje was actually registered as the daughter of Aert Pietersen Tack and Grietje Vooght when she was baptisized. Grietje Vooght was an indentured servant in the Tack household, and most likely was the birthmother of Grietje Tack.

Old Dutch Church of Kingston records show the following births:

Parents: Aart Pietersen Tack & Grietjen Vooght. Child: Grietjen. (baptised Aug 1663) Sponsors: Jacob Jansen, Barber Andries

Grietje married Luur Jacobsen, (Van) Kuykendall about 1680 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Luur (son of Jacob Luursen and Styntie Douwes) was born before 29 May 1650 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory; died after 1720 in Machackemeck, Orange County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
It was in Kingston that Luur Jacobsen married Grietje Tack. Old unpublished records show they rented a farm at Marbletown in 1681. The baptisms of the eleven children of Luur and Grietje are recorded in the records of the Kingston Dutch Reform Church. Kingston became the first capital of the colony of New York.

In 1664, the British, irritated by the growing population of Dutch between the British colonies of Boston and Virginia, surrounded New Amsterdam with a large naval force and forced New Netherland to become a British Colony, renamed New York.

Inheriting a strong pioneering spirit and probably sick of British soldiers and taxes, Luur and Grietje moved their family around 1698 from the vicinity of Kingston to the Delaware valley wilderness known by the Indians inhabitants as Minisink or Machackemeck (now Port Jervis, Orange county, NY).

The Kingston Dutch Reform Church records tell us only that Luur and his family were in "Minisink" by 1700. The term Minisink referred to a vast territory along the Delaware valley in the tri-state region of NY/NJ/PA. However, Only two areas were settled before 1700, Peenpack and Machackemeck. Peenpack, or the Upper Neighborhood, was well documented by Peter Gumaer and Luur was not one of the early settlers here. We know that William Tietsoort had been granted land in Machackemeck, or the Lower Neighborhood, in 1698 and we also know that Luur Jacobsen's oldest son, Jacob, married a daughter of William Tietsoort. I think we can fairly safely assume that Luur came to Machackemeck with William Tietsoort around 1698. If for no other reason than the fact that there don't seem to be any other possibilities. Old Minisink Village (Sussex Co, NJ) where Luur's sons, Jacob and Matthew later owned property wasn't settled until in the 1720's. The section of Minisink on the PA side of the Delaware wasn't settled until even later.

Initially the local Leni-Lenape Indians, (called the Delaware by European settlers), were friendly toward these new neighbors. However, the Europeans penchant for exclusive land ownership soon led to hostilities. The history books reflect Kuykendall Family members among those scalped and kidnapped by Indian raiding parties.

The van Kuykendall children and grandchildren married with the neighboring Dutch families of Westfall, Tietsoort, Westbrook, Decker, Quick, Cole, Cortright, Van Auken, Van Etten, Depue, Van Vliet etc. Also with the Huguenot French families of Gumaer, Swartwout, Cuddeback, DuBois and Freer all of whom spoke Dutch and attended the Dutch Reform Church.

Some have been led to believe that church records for the Minisink/Machackemeck (Deerpark) DRC were lost for the years 1720- 1736. Histories of the Dutch Reform Churches in America reveal the following: The Deerpark DRC was not established until 1737. Until that time, Dominies from the established Kingston DRC travelled to the remote areas to perform baptisms which were later entered into the Kingston DRC records. The first Dominie at the Deerpark DRC found notes on baptisms performed in 1716-1719 in Minisink that had never been recorded in Kingston. He appended them to the Deerpark records which actually began in 1737. Hence, the appearance of missing records for 1720-1736.

We have no record of when Luur or Grietje died. We know only that both are last recorded in Deerpark church records in 1720.

from: Family History Our Dutch Heritage A Research Synopsis of the Kuykendall Family: Kuykendall, Kirkendall, Cuykendall, Coykendall, etc Compiled by Gene Kuykendall, 1997 http://w3.gorge.net/forest/FAMILY%20HISTORY%20BY%20GENE.htm

1. Styntie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1682 in Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York; was christened on 2 Apr 1682 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; died about 1715 in Machackemeck, Orange County, New York.
2. Jacob Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born on 12 Aug 1683 in Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York; was christened on 12 Aug 1683 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; died between 1741 and 1744 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
3. Johannes Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1685 in Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York; was christened in in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; died between 1685 and 1688 in Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York.
4. Cornelius Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1686 in Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York; was christened on 30 May 1686 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; died after 1752 in New Jersey.
5. Johannes Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1688 in Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York; was christened on 30 Sep 1688 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; died about 1711.
6. Matheus Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1690 in Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York; died after 1754 in Anson County, North Carolina.
7. Arie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1694 in Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York; was christened on 8 Jun 1694 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; died about 1759.
8. Pieter Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1698 in Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York; was christened on 1 May 1698 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; died about 1778 in Machackemeck, Orange County, New York.
9. Annetje Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall was born on 9 May 1700 in Machackemeck, Orange County, New York; was christened on 19 May 1700 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; and died.
10. Sara Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall was born about 1702 in Machackemeck, Orange County, New York; was christened on 14 Jun 1702 in Kingston Dutch Reform Church, Ulster County, New York; and died.
11. Seytie Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall was born before 27 Oct 1706 in Machackemeck, Orange County, New York; and died.

Notes:

The son of Pieter Teunisen and grandson of Teunis Crynen of Etten. (Stowell, p 488).

Aert Pietersen Tack was recruited to settle in New Amsterdam by Adrien van der Donck. Prospective settlers for those Dutch colonies, or servants for those already established in New Netherlands, were hired or recruited in the mother country, generally in the area from which the colonial leader came -- in this case van der Donck from North Brabant.

Van der Donck at that time was seeking farmers for his Yonkers colony in the neighborhood of Breda, his birthplace. Among several he recruited were Aert Pieters Tack and Jacob Jansz/Jansen from nearby Etten, according to papers dated May 15, 1652. The two were contracted for six years. Such contracts ranged from two to six years. Passage money in these cases was usually paid by the employer. In New Netherlands, bed and board were furnished in addition to wages, which for farmhands ranged from 100 to 150 guilders a year, depending on age and experience.

After his marriage, Aert was beset with money problems, and soon deserted his young family. The nature of a number of difficulties involving Aert Pietersen Tack emerges through a sequence of court cases beginning in 1662. There were several problems with employees over wages, and that November (1662) he mortgaged the grain crop to be harvested the following year. Tack apparently left before the fall of 1663, either as the result of the Indian raid or under cover of it. His wife harvested the grain and was enjoined by creditors from using the harvest (except that which the court ordered her paid for her work in harvesting). In May 1664, further evidence of Tack's indebtedness, in this case, for cattle appeared. In July, the court took steps to condemn Tack's property for his absenting himself, and to sell it to satisfy a list of creditors. (http://www.pegrowe.com/genes/vanatta/vanatta_name_history.htm)

In May, 1664, and inventory was made of his estate, which was sold to pay his debts. The inventory included the following:

A farm containing 20 morgens* of arable land wherein there have been sown 11 schopels of winter wheat....a dwelling and lot at Wiltwyck, two mares and a young mare one winter old, a cow and a heifer two years old, a plow and its belongings, a wagon, a sleigh, a truncle cart, two harrows...one with wooden and the other with iron teeth, a fathom of rope....a rein with two bridle bits, a winnow, two hayforks, an old forest axe, a chest with old things (these Anneke Adriens appropriates for her own use), a pair of tongs and a dinner dish, a pothook, a blanket, an old bed (these three things Anneke Adriens appropriates), a water pail, a kettle, two wooden troughs, a strainer, a stoof [for warming feet over live coals], an earthen pot, a kettle filled with tar, a half barrel, a table without feet, 27 or 28 fir wood plates, a churn without bottom, some old tubs, some dreps lying in the loft, some oats worth 18 or 19 schepels, 1 or 1 1/2 schepels of peas, a bench and a chair, two lengths of old edges. Thus made in Wiltwyck this May 12, 1664. (Stowell, p 125).

According to Ernest Thode's German English Genealogical Dictionary, a Morgen is defined as, theoretically, the amount of land that one man and an ox can plow in one morning.

In October of 1664, Jacob Jansen (Van Etten), a farmhand of Tack (who later married Tack's ex-wife, Annetje Ariaens), sued for wages due him. The following month, Jacob himself was sued to collect a debt of wheat which he admitted but explained that he couldn't pay due to being sick with fever. He was granted time until the Tack estate was settled, when he presumably could collect wages due him. In January 1665, Annetje Ariaens requested relief from her debts because her effects had been sold "on behalf of creditors of her absconded husband". That same month, Jacob again requested the court that he be paid his wages from the estate in the amount of "388 guilders heavy money in wheat". He was told he could be paid after prior preference creditors were satisfied.

(http://www.pegrowe.com/genes/vanatta/vanatta_name_history.htm)


Betty Price posted the following to the Kuykendall page on Genforum.

For the benefit of those Kuykendall (and various spellings) descendants just learning about their heritage and for those who continue to add research to that which they already have, I want to let you know about an article just published in "New Netherland Connections" which is published quarterby by Dorothy A. Koenig, Editor. Internet address: dkoenig@library.berkeley.edu

In Volume 7, Number 2 of the April, May, June Edition 2002, front page, an article entitled "Aert Pieterszn Tack" by Frans Gouverneur of the Netherlands, tells many of us, myself included, about the family, parents and grandparents of our Aert Pieterszn Tack, father of Grietje Tack who married our First Born American Luur Jacobszn Van Kuykendall from whom all bloodline Kuykendalls, by any spelling, descend.

Mr. Gouverneur has translated much of what he found in the Holland records into English for our benefit for which I am grateful. I have great difficult in reading or interpreting the Dutch writings. His article includes sources which are very important.

One thing which I noticed in particular was his "spelling" of our given name, "Luur Jacobszn van KUIJKENDAEL." I think this is the first time that I have seen it spelled that way. However, in all of the writings that I have seen, the name is obviously outstanding and noticeable with any spelling. Even when it is found as "Kuy Kendall" two words, sometimes without the KUY. Careful research is important in that case.

Aert married Anneke Adriens about 1660. Anneke (daughter of Aerjan "Adrian" Jans and Geerthen Jans) was born on 29 Aug 1645 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; died after 1690 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
After Aert deserted his wife, and married another women while still legally wed to Annetje, the following proclamation was issued: Aert Pietersen Tack fails to appear and remains contumacious, finding himself unable to defend, justify or purge himself; therefore, the fiscal, nomine officii, concludes that the first wife, Anneke Adriens, must be granted letters of divorce and permission to marry another man, and furthermore that the fiscal and all other officers of justice should be authorized to arrest the defendant, Aert Pietersen Tack, and to confine him her in a proper place of detention, to be taken to the place where it is customary to execute justice, in order to be severly flogged with rods, having two distaffs above his head, and further to be branded with two distaff marks on his back and to be banished from this province. Done at Fort Amsterdam, the 21st of August, 1664. (Stowell, p 127).

Anneke m. 2nd Jacob Jansen Van Etten, and had several children by that marriage. She is considered the matriarch of two families: all Kuykendalls, whatever the spelling, and all Van Ettens in America. (Stowell, p 488).

Notes:

Emily Stowell writes, in her historical novel AMERICAN NOMADS, that Adrian Jans "came to Draedvadt in 1657 (when the) Indian troubles had just hotted up...Governor Stuyvesant sent (Adrian) to help move the scattered settlers' houses into the village and help put up the palisades. He was a house carpenter...(during the warfare with the Esopus tribe, the tribe) ambushed the soldiers and settlers down by the ball court near the Strand, collected the ransom for their prisoners, then tortured and killed seven of them....Adrien was one of the sorry seven. Burned alive like the rest..." (Stowell, p 78).

Aerjan married Geerthen Jans before 1645. Geerthen was born before 1625 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]