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 Abt 1619 - Abt 1699 (80 years)
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| Name |
William Jansen TRAPHAGEN |
| Birth |
Abt 1619 |
Lemgo, Lippe, Germany  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt 1699 |
Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States |
| 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Brooks, Christopher, The Life of Willem Jansen Traphagen, (unpublished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.
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| Person ID |
I1514 |
Main |
| Last Modified |
15 Feb 2004 |
| Family 1 |
Joosje Willems NOORTRYCK, b. Abt 1627, Amsterdam, , Netherlands d. Aft 1688, Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States (Age > 62 years) |
| Marriage |
6 Feb 1661 |
Brooklyn, Queens, New York, United States |
| Notes |
- !Marriage: Loree Lee shows this marriage in the Brooklyn Dutch Church, Kings, New York.
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| Children |
| | 1. Rebecca TRAPHAGEN, c. 19 Jun 1662, Bushwick, Kings, New York, United States d. Hurley, Ulster, New York, United States |
| | 2. Willem TRAPHAGEN, b. Abt 1664, Bushwick, Kings, New York, United States d. Aft 26 Apr 1736, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States (Age > 72 years) |
| | 3. Hendrick TRAPHAGEN, b. Abt 1666, Bushwick, Kings, New York, United States d. Aft 1723 (Age > 58 years) |
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| Family ID |
F594 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
24 Mar 2025 |
| Family 2 |
Jannetje Claesen GROEVNIS, b. Abt 1620, Meppelt, Drenthe, Netherlands d. Abt 1657, , , New Netherlands (Age 37 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Oct 1646 |
Amsterdam, , Netherlands |
| Notes |
- !Marriage: They gave intentions to marry on 20 Oct 1646.
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| Children |
| | 1. Johannes TRAPHAGEN, c. 1 Aug 1647, Amsterdam, , Netherlands d. Died Young |
| | 2. Helena Or Electa TRAPHAGEN, c. 5 Sep 1649, Amsterdam, , Netherlands d. May 1732, Brabant, Ulster, New York, United States (Age ~ 82 years) |
| | 3. Johannes TRAPHAGEN, c. 26 Mar 1651, Amsterdam, , Netherlands d. Died Young |
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| Family ID |
F602 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
24 Mar 2025 |
| Family 3 |
Aeltje Dirksen MEERMANS, b. Abt 1635, Steenwyck, Overyssel, Netherlands d. Abt 1660, , Kings, New York, United States (Age 25 years) |
| Marriage |
1 Jun 1658 |
New Amsterdam, Kings, New York, United States |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F603 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
24 Mar 2025 |
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