Jan Monier DE LA MONTAGNE
Birth:
1632
Leyden, Zuid, Holland, Netherland
Death:
Abt 1673
New Harlem, New York City, New York
Marriage:
10 Jun 1663
New Harlem, New York City, Ny Reformed Dutch Church
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
Ancestry World Tree
Internet IGI, Feb 2008
Pedigree Resource File
Internet IGI, Feb 2008
Pedigree Resource File
Notes:
Historical information included in notes.
Note: The following information is obtained from Lois Stewart; Ancestry.com:
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, Jr., usually known as Jan La Montagne, Jr., was born in Leyden, Holland, in 1632, the third son of Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne and his first wife Rachel DeForest. He was baptized on 24 April 1633 in the Walloon Church of Leyden. In adulthood he became the oldest living son.
As a four-year-old, Jan traveled to New Amsterdam in 1636 with his family on board the Rensselaerswyck. He early joined the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and taught school for a few months in 1652. Then he was made commissioner of accounts for the Dutch West India Company, a position which he held for about a year. Entering into partnership in trade with Vincent Pikes in 1654, he sailed for Holland that summer on board the King Solomon. There were a number of business matters for him to clear up. His mother's uncle, Gerard DeForest, head of the DeForest business ventures, had recently died. Jan also represented the heirs of Rachel DeForest in the division of the estate of his own uncle, Jean DeForest, who had died in Leyden before 1646. He had tobacco to sell on consignment for his uncle Isaac DeForest, with instructions to buy goods in return. He also came to stock up on merchandise for his own business venture and, it seems, to look for a wife.
On 14 March 1655, Jan La Montagne married Peternella Pikes at Slooterdyk, a village about a mile from Amsterdam. The marriage was performed by Pastor Meursius. Peternella, daughter of Jan Pikes and sister of Vincent Pikes, was born about 1634 in Holland. She stayed in Holland until her first child was born, later that same year, but Jan returned to New Amsterdam soon after the wedding.
Jan La Montagne bought his uncle Isaac DeForest's house on Marckveltsteeg in New Amsterdam on 26 September 1655, preparing for the arrival of his wife and baby. Jan was already making his mark as a solid citizen. He was the first enrolled on the list of the Great Burghers of New Amsterdam on 10 April 1657. He was Farmer of the Retail Excise [tax collector] in 1657 and he was made a Fire-Warden on 23 December 1658.
One of the first to take up land at the proposed New Harlem village (an enterprise in which he felt a special interest because of its location near his father's abandoned farm Vredendael), Jan sold his house on the Marckveltsteeg to John Verveelen on 27 June 1659 and moved to New Harlem.
Jan La Montagne lived the rest of his life at New Harlem, one of its most prominent citizens. He was chosen deacon of New Harlem RDC in 1660, schepen (magistrate) on 3 November 1661, schout (deputy sheriff) in 1662, and Town Clerk from 1662 to 1672. In November 1662 Jan La Montagne's term as deacon of the church expired, but he was re-appointed schepen at that time.
Peternella Pikes La Montagne must have died about this time. She left three small sons. With the children to care for, Jan La Montagne must have felt it was urgent to marry again quite quickly. He married Maria Vermilye (Marie Vermeille) on 10 June 1663. Dominie Selyns officiated at the double wedding, for the bride's sister Rachel Vermilye was married at the same time to John Terbosh. Both were daughters of Isaac and Jacomina (Jacobs) Vermilye, a French Huguenot family newly arrived in New Harlem. A little older than her new spouse, Maria Vermilye had been baptized on 2 August 1629 in Leyden, Holland.
In December 1663, Jan La Montagne took on the job of voorleser of New Harlem, a job which included all possible clerical duties: lay-leader of the church, school-master, reader of sacraments, record-keeper, and town clerk. The Dutch West India Company agreed in 1664 to help pay the salary of Jan La Montagne as voorleser at New Harlem, but shortly thereafter control of the colony passed to the English. Jan La Montagne registered clear disapproval of the change of government. He resigned as schout and refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the new British government. Instead he seems to have devoted himself as voorleser to the job of building a new church for New Harlem. He started the building campaign in January 1665 with a feast to honor ex-Director Stuyvesant, who departed for Holland six months later to defend his surrender of the colony. Jan La Montagne spent the next three years building the church, which was finished in January 1668.
Jan La Montagne's last official act as Town Clerk of New Harlem was to record a case of assault on 23 April 1672. Below this entry is written: Here ends the register....of Jan de La Montagne....[who] died in 1672. Jan La Montagne made his will on 13 May 1672, but only the date of the record remains. He was buried in the little cemetery back of the church he had built.
His widow, Maria (Vermilye) de La Montagne, was left with three stepsons and four young children of her own, with one more expected. On 26 September 1675 she married the widowed Isaac Kip, son of Hendrick and Tryntie Kip. Isaac Kip was a yacht captain, engaged in the river trade between New Amsterdam and Fort Orange, but after his second marriage he lived in New Harlem. His youngest son, Johannes Kip, is on record as living with Maria Vermilye and possibly so did some of the other Kip children. Isaac Kip and Maria Vermilye had no children from their second marriages. Within three years of this marriage, Isaac Kip died. The magistrates of New Harlem were called upon on 25 July 1678 to make inventory of the household goods. Now widowed for the second time, Maria Vermilye continued to live in New Harlm for another eleven years. She was buried on 23 November 1689 in New Harlem, New York City.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION: (Numbered in order of original footnotes):
1. WK NR132 Quitanties on Vol. Jaar den. The Sheriffs of the city of Leiden make known that Joannes Monier de la Montaigne junior, aged about 23 years, for himself as well as for his sister, authorized by Jacob Kip, secretary of the city of New Amsterdam in New Netherlands, as being married to Maria Monier de la Montagne, both left children of the late Rachel de Forest, raised by Jean Monier de la Montaigne, acquired by them on the 5th November anno 1654, registered in the Orphan-Poorbook folio 11 v.divide all such goods, writings, papers, and drafts,until this day in the Orphanage at this place in trusty deposit have been laid and rested.
2. Riker, Harlem, 94.
3. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 29. The record reads: Jan Montagne, widower of Petronella Pyckes, and Maria Farnelie, j.d. from Leyden.
4. Riker, Harlem, 204, 641-642..
5. Riker, Harlem, 281.
6. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 40. The marriage record is of their betrothal on 12 September 1675, noting that Isaac Kip was the widower of Catalyntje Hendricks and that Maria VerVelje was the widow of Joh. De La Montagne. The marriage itself was celebrated in New Harlem on 26 September 1675.
7. Riker, Harlem, 786.
8. Riker, Harlem, 786.
9. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 44.
10. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 96.
11. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:45. The baptismal sponsors were Isaac deforest, Jacob Kip, Esaias Horne, Agnietie Jillis, and Anna Pikes.
12. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 54.
13. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:52. Baptismal sponsors were Nicasius de Sille (Fiscael), Rachel de la Montgne, Elisabeth Pieces.
14. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:77. Baptismal sponsors were Willem de La Montagnie, Gerrit Van Trieht, Jacomina Jacobs.
15. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66.
16. Riker, Harlem, 594. The identity of this second
17. Riker, Harlem, 594.
18. Riker, Harlem, 786.
19. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66.
20. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:94. Baptismal sponsors were Isaac Vermelia, Rachel VanderBosch.
21. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 82.
22. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:100. The baptismal record gives the parents as Jean de Lamontagne and Marritie Waldron, instead of Marritie Vermilye. The assumption has been made that this is just a clerical mistake, since Jan Lamontagne (3rd generation) did not marry until 1678 and then he married Annetie Waldron and not Marritie. Baptismal sponsors of the child were Jacob Kip and Lysbeth Lubberts.
23. Riker believed that Petronella married Isaac See, but recent research by Glenna See Hill shows quite conclusively that Isaac See married Petronella Storm. It seems most likely that this child died in infancy.
24. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:109. Baptismal sponsors were Jan Duyckman and Magdalena terNeur (Tourneur). Parents were given as Jean de La Montagne and Maria Vernelje, with no mention made that the father had died prior to the birth of this posthumus child.
25. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 84.
Maria VERMILYE
Birth:
Abt Aug 1629
Leyden, Zuid, Holland, Netherland
Death:
23 Nov 1689
New Harlem, New York City, New York
Father:
Mother:
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
16 Mar 1664
New Amsterdam, New York, New York
Death:
12 Feb 1734
New Harlem, New York City, New York
Notes:
Historical information included in notes.
Note: The following information is obtained from Lois Stewart; Ancestry.com:
ABRAM DE LA MONTAGNE, fourth son of Jan La Montagne, Jr., but oldest son of his second wife Maria Vermilye, was baptized on 16 March 1664 in the New Harlem Dutch Church. He was clearly named for his uncle Abram Vermilye who had been killed just months earlier in the relief of Wiltwyck. At the baptism, his sponsors were his uncle Willem de la Montagne, his grandmother Jacomina Jacobs (Vermilye), and Gerrit Van Trieht.
Abram was just eight years old when his father died. He was apprenticed to be a weaver and must have been a good weaver, since he afterwards gave instruction in that craft to other young men of the town. He was the only son of Jan La Montagne, Jr., who stayed in New Harlem all of his life, farming and plying his craft.
On 27 March 1689, he married Rebecca Van Huyse, daughter of Theunis Idens Van Huyse and his wife Jannetie Thyssen (Van Pelt). Theunis Van Huyse was the owner of a large farm in Harlem, along the North River between present-day 89th and 107th Street, a area which was known as Bloomingdale. Rebecca had been born at New Utrecht, probably about 1670. Theunis Van Huyse spent his early days on Long Island, although it is probable that he was born in Holland in 1639, the son of Ide Van Huyse and Teuntje Teunis of Nordingen.
It seems likely that Ide Van Huyse died in Holland and Teuntje Teunis came to New Amsterdam as a widow. She married second husband Jacob Hellakers in New Amsterdam. Jacob Hellakers was a strong member of the Labadist movement, and Jasper Danckers and Peter Sluyter, Labadist travelers, stayed with Teuntje and Jacob Hellakers in 1679 in New York City. In his Journal Jasper Danckers described his hosts and their children. In his account of Theunis Idens, Dancker takes credit for reforming a reckless and irresponsible youth. Theunis became a member of the Dutch Church and of the Labadist movement on 17 June 1680 and thereafter became a pillar of the community.
Abrams mother, Maria Vermilye, died just six months after Abrams marriage, leaving her house and lot in the village of Harlem to him. Abrams rights as a patentee of New Harlem were by virtue of this freehold and upon this he drew lot #23 in 1691, which was five morgen now within Manhattans Central Park. The west side of his grant lay next to the lands of his father-in-law, Theunis Van Huyse, and Abram added to his lands by judicious exchanges with Samuel Waldron and Barent Waldron.
However, Abram evidently felt he also possessed the morgen right held by his father in the undivided common land, even though his father had sold his farm to Jan Louwe Bogert. Abram first raised the question in a letter to the Overseers of New Harlem in 1700, a letter that Bogert found so disturbing that he eventually sold the land. At last in 1723, the matter came to court and the court found against Abram.
The town records of Harlem show that Abram was a constable in 1694, a collector in 1702, and surveyor of highways in 1704 and 1707. The census of 1703 of Harlem showed Abram [unfortunately transcribed as Saml instead of Abrm in the printed version of that census] with six sons and two daughters.
In his old age, Theunis Van Huyse had his farm laid off in lots of 57 ? acres each, and he and Jannetie conveyed these parcels to their children, including Rebecca Delamontanie, giving possession by turf and twig on 22-23 June 1720.
Rebecca must have died about 1725. After that date her sons left Harlem and scattered into New Jersey and upstate New York.
In 1729 Abram sold his land to his brother-in-law, George Dyckman, who owned an adjoining part of the old Van Huyse farm. In 1733, Abram was still living, with a second wife Aeltje Hoogland.
Abrams grave was in the old Harlem graveyard, beneath a rough stone inscribed A.L.M., 12 Feb 1733/34.
No will has been found in New York or New Jersey for Abram, but there is a docket in the colonial papers of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, in which Isaac, Edward [Ide], and Joseph Montanye bring suit in 1744 against Matthew Benson of Hackensack, New Jersey, for debts owned to Abraham Montanye, in their capacity as executors of the last will and testament of said Abraham. Matthew Benson moved to Hackensack in 1731 from Harlem, while Abram was still alive. Since only two of Abrams children are recorded in the baptismal records of Harlem, it would be extremely helpful if we could find a copy of Abrahams last will and testament. Based on New Jersey records and patterns of family association, there are ten known children of Abram and Rebecca (Van Huyse) Delamontanie. This order of birth may not be correct but the place of these descendants in this family becomes more and more certain as evidence continues to mount.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
1. Baptismal Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City. New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record 7(1876) 23; 13 (1882) 70, 169.
2. Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County,
Long Island, New York. Polyanthos Reprint: 1973. 151, 301, 357.
3. Danckaerts, Jasper and Peter Sluyter, Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in
Several of the American Colonies in 1679-80. Brooklyn: 186
4. Docket #24467, Colonial New Jersey Supreme Court Records, New Jersey Archives,
Trenton, New Jersey
5. Honeyman, A. Van Doren, ed. First Reformed Church, Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms;
Translated and compared with Original Records, Somerset County Historical
Quarterly 2 (1913) 214-217.
6. Janeway Account Books, Rutgers University Library, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
7. Rankin, Russell Bruce. Eighteenth Century Freeholders in New Jersey: Somerset
County, Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 17:90.
8. Randolph, Howard S.F. Teuntje Teunis and Her Descendants, Tracing the Families of
Van Huyse, Van Schaick, DeNys, and Hellakers, New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record 59 (1928) 4-16.
9. Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origins and Early Annals. Privately
printed, 1881. 521-525.
10. - - -. Revised History of New Harlem, Its Origins and Early Annals. New York,
1904. 591-597.
11. Stryker-Rodda, Kenn. The Janeway Account Books 1735-1746. The Genealogical
Magazine of New Jersey, 33 (1958) 79.
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Isaac DE LA MONTAGNE
Chr:
19 May 1669
New Amsterdam, New York, New York
Death:
Marr:
3
Petronella DE LA MONTAGNE
Chr:
14 Mar 1671
New Amsterdam, New York, New York
Death:
Marr:
4
Birth:
16 Apr 1673
New Amsterdam, New York, New York
Death:
3 Jul 1734
New York City, Ny, New York
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Jan Monier De La Montagne - Maria Vermilye
Jan Monier De La Montagne
was born at Leyden, Zuid, Holland, Netherland 1632.
His parents were Jean Mousnier De La Montagne and Rachel De Forest.
He married Maria Vermilye 10 Jun 1663 at New Harlem, New York City, Ny Reformed Dutch Church . Maria Vermilye was born at Leyden, Zuid, Holland, Netherland Abt Aug 1629 .
They were the parents of 4
children:
Abram De La Montagne
born 16 Mar 1664.
Isaac De La Montagne
christened 19 May 1669.
Petronella De La Montagne
christened 14 Mar 1671.
Johanna De La Montagne
born 16 Apr 1673.
Jan Monier De La Montagne died Abt 1673 at New Harlem, New York City, New York .
Maria Vermilye died 23 Nov 1689 at New Harlem, New York City, New York .