Aert Petersen Tack

Abt 1620 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Aert Petersen Tack  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1620	Etten, North Brabant, Holland, Netherlands   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  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.
  Person ID	I18656	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Family 1	Grietje Vooght,   b. Bef 1645   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6848	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

  Family 2	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).
  Children	1. Cornelis Artse Tack,   b. 14 Aug 1661, Fort Orange, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory d. Yes, date unknown   2. Grietje Artse Tack,   b. 16 Aug 1663, Wiltwyck, New Amsterdam, New Netherland Territory d. Aft 1720, Machackemeck, Orange County, New York (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F6066	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

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• Sources

  [S168] Kuykendall, Gene (1997)"Family History Our Dutch Heritage" http://w3.gorge.net/forest/FAMILY%20HISTORY%20BY%20GENE.htm. [S168] Kuykendall, Gene (1997)"Family History Our Dutch Heritage" http://w3.gorge.net/forest/FAMILY%20HISTORY%20BY%20GENE.htm, ca 1635 (Reliability: 3). [S396] Stowell, Emily AMERICAN NOMADS(1988: Iris Press, Del Mar, California), p 488 (Reliability: 3).