Grietje Artse Tack

1663 - Aft 1720  (57 years)

• Name	Grietje Artse Tack  [1]
  Birth	16 Aug 1663	Wiltwyck, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1720	Machackemeck, Orange County, New York   [1]
  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
  Person ID	I18646	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Aert Petersen Tack,   b. Abt 1620, Etten, North Brabant, Holland, Netherlands d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Anneke Adriens,   b. 29 Aug 1645, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands d. Aft 1690, New York (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1660
  	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).
  Family ID	F6066	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Luur Jacobsen, (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Bef 29 May 1650, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory d. Aft 1720, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1680	Kingston, Ulster County, New York   [3]
  	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
  Children	1. Styntie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1682, Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York d. Abt 1715, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York (Age ~ 33 years)   2. Jacob Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. 12 Aug 1683, Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York d. Between 1741 and 1744, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (Age 57 years)   3. Johannes Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1685, Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York d. Between 1685 and 1688, Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York (Age ~ 0 years)   4. Cornelius Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1686, Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York d. Aft 1752, New Jersey (Age ~ 67 years)   5. Johannes Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1688, Marbletown Twp, Ulster County, New York d. Abt 1711 (Age ~ 23 years)   6. Matheus Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1690, Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York d. Aft 1754, Anson County, North Carolina (Age ~ 65 years)   7. Arie Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1694, Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York d. Abt 1759 (Age ~ 65 years)   8. Pieter Jacobszen (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1698, Rochester Township, Ulster County, New York d. Abt 1778, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York (Age ~ 80 years)   9. Annetje Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall,   b. 9 May 1700, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York d. Yes, date unknown   10. Sara Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Abt 1702, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York d. Yes, date unknown   11. Seytie Jacobse (Van) Kuykendall,   b. Bef 27 Oct 1706, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6838	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

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  Birth - 16 Aug 1663 - Wiltwyck, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory Marriage - Abt 1680 - Kingston, Ulster County, New York Death - Aft 1720 - Machackemeck, Orange County, New York  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S472] Winn, Velma K.-Family Researcher Family History Website. [S168] Kuykendall, Gene (1997)"Family History Our Dutch Heritage" http://w3.gorge.net/forest/FAMILY%20HISTORY%20BY%20GENE.htm. [S396] Stowell, Emily AMERICAN NOMADS(1988: Iris Press, Del Mar, California). [S109] Gleason, Grace-Family researcher (Gedcom September, 2002).