Note: From a paper Titled THE WEMPLE FAMILY by William C. Wemple sent to m
e by Michael Lee Wemple on Sept 5, 1996:
After the death of her husband, Jan Barentse Wemp, we find Maritie wit
h a valuable estate and many responsibilities. From the following pet
ition it would seem that she had the assistance of her son-in-law, Ja
n Cornelissen van der Heyden.
We have not the date of the death of Jan Barentsz, but it occurred bet
ween May 18, 1663 and June 28th of the same year and the management o
f his estate by his widow, Maritie Mynderts would seem to prove he
r a woman of ability.
She was one on the Myndertse family of two brothers of which were amon
g the early settlers of Beverwyck (Albany). They came from Iveren an
d were know as Myndertse and Carsten Fredeickse.
They were members of the Lutheran Church of which Myndert was an elde
r and Carsten a deacon in 1680. The unsettled condition of the earl
y Dutch family names is well known by this family. Those of Carsten r
etained the name of Frederickse while the descendants of Myndertse som
e took the name of Myndertse, his Christian name, and others took tha
t of Van Iveren, the place from which he came from in Holland.
(The petition reads as follows): Petition of Jan Cornelissen van der H
eyden and Paulus Cornelisse van der Hayden, concerning the estate of J
an Barentse Wemp.
To the Noble, Very Worshipful, Their Honors the Director General and C
ouncil of New Netherlands,
Noble, Very Worshipful Gentlemen -
Whereas Maritie Menderts, widow of Jan Barentsen Wemp, deceased, a res
ident of the Colony of Rensselaerwyck, finds herself extremely injure
d and damaged, because some creditors or Aert Pieterson Tach, in the E
sopus, have not hesitated to sell his Aert (Pietersen movable and immo
vable goods there, as also his horses and cattle and have partially re
ceived the proceeds thereof, by try to collect them, while the whole p
roperty was mortgaged and secured to her deceased husband and herself
, who has had no opportunity during the last winter to assert her goo
d claim, why he mortgage bond should have the preference to a later on
e, and to personal debts.
Therefore - We the undersigned agents of the aforesaid Maritie Meynder
s request -
In consideration that the house, barn, grain stalks, horses, cattle, e
ven the land have been paid for by the said Jan Barentsen Wemp decease
d, That your Honorable Worship will please to order, that the creditor
s aforesaid, who have already been paid and still try to collect thei
r debts, abstain therefrom and give up their presumptions until the af
oresaid widow shall by virtue of her mortgage bond have had her clai
m adjudicated and satisfied and that for this end the Honorable Cour
t at Wiltwyck (Kingston) be written to and directed to assist the wido
w to obtain her just claim.
Asking for your Honorable Worship´s favorable answer we remain, Your H
onorable Worship´s subjects. Paulus Cornelissen, Jan Cornelissen van d
er Hayden. Amsterdam In N. Netherland. the 25th April 1664.
On this May 9, 1664, before the honorable Court of Wildwyck, there bei
ng then present the Schout, Roelof, Swartwout, and the Commissaries, A
lbert Gybertsen, Tjerck Claesen deWit, Thomas Chambers and Gysbert va
n Imbroch,
Appeared the worthy persons, Jan Cornelissen van der Heyden and Pauliu
s Cornelissen, attorneys for Maritje, widow of Jan Barentsen Wemp. an
d informed the aforesaid Honorable Court of the following Lords acknow
ledgement, with the request to enter the same in the minutes, it read
s word for words as follows:
Before me, Cornelius van Ruyven Secretary in the services of the Honor
able Chartered West Indian Company in New Netherland.
Appeared the worthy Aert Pietersen Tack, who in the presence of the Ho
norable Lord Councillors deSille and Johan de Decker, acknowledged tha
t he is really and truly indebted to the worthy Jan Barentsen Poest a
s follows:
For two horses in beavers value, fl. 600
Another horse, 106 schepels of wheat, or in beavers, fl. 318
For a cow, fl. 115
Also in beavers, fl. 100
Total in beavers, value, fl. 1233
Also in sewart received, fl. 300
Which sum of twelve hundred and thirty-three guilders, in beavers or i
ts value, and three hundred guilders in sewart, the said Aert Pieterse
n receives and promises to pay to the aforesaid Jan Barentsen or his a
ttorney, within three years, paying each year a just third, with 10 pe
r cent interest thereon from this day.
To secure the aforesaid Jan Barentsen Poest in the full payment hereof
, he, the appeared, mortgages and binds his farm lying in the Esopus
, between Tjrck Claesens and Jan Willemsen Schoon´s together with th
e dwelling house, barn and loft, four horses and one cow, and all othe
r appurtenances thereunto belonging, nothing excepted, and also all hi
s estate, real and personal, present and future, submitting the same t
o the jurisdiction of all judges and courts.
A few days later, widow Maritje Wemp leased her bouwery (farm) at Sche
nectady. This farm was located on what is now known as Van Slyck Islan
d.
The following is a continuation of the unpublished manuscript, sent t
o the compiler on September 28, 2000 by Michael Lee Wemple of Bay City
, MI, started in Jan Barentse Wemple´s Note Pages. This manuscript wa
s written by William Barent Wemple, compiler of the first part if thi
s genealogy from 1885-1913.
. . . On June 12, 1664, Maritie Mynderts, widow of Jan Barentsen Wemp
, was about to marry Sweer Theunissen Van Westbroeck (who was also kno
wn by the name of Sweer Theunissen Van Velsen), and before the ceremon
y was performed, they entered into an agreement with the guardians o
f the children brought forth between herself and Wemp, concerning th
e settlement upon them of a portion of the father´s estate (see docume
nt No. 23). On the same day, Maritie Mynderts and Sweer Theunissen Va
n Westbroeck, made an ante-nuptial contract in regards to the contempl
ated marriage and its stipulations include the conditions that, in th
e event of the mother´s death, the children shall receive $640.00 fro
m her estate in addition to the portion settled on them from their fat
her´s property by preceding agreement (see document No. 24).
Document No. 23 is an exceedingly valuable record from a genealogica
l standpoint, as it is positive proof of the names and ages of Jan Bar
entsen Wemp´s children and is attested b the signature of of the mothe
r, together with those of her future husband, the children´s guardian
, the officer of the Colony at Rensselaerwyck, and the famous Arent Va
n Curler, commissioner. It also mentions sufficient property, which ha
s been pledged for the execution of its terms, to show that Jan Barent
sen Wemp, who although a comparatively young man of about 45 years a
t the time of his death, was what might be called moderately wealthy m
an of those days, even though all personal property, and doubtless oth
er real estate, is not spoken on in the contract.
To one who has carefully followed, by perusal, the various documents i
n the progression of the work to this point, it must be readily manife
st that Jan Barentsen Wemp was not only a man of considerable means fo
r his time but occupied a place of distinction in the Colony, having a
ttained it by thrift, industry and perseverance, rising from what wa
s certainly an humble position, as shown by the first document. Probab
ly no better example of the consideration in which he was held by hi
s contemporaries can be given than to enter into a brief explanation a
s to the custom of writing names. If he had been merely a person of th
e lowest class, he would have been distinguished either by his nicknam
e Jan Barentsen Poest almost exclusively, or simply as Jan Barentse
n, without hardly an allusion to his surname |
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