Gerrit Jans Van Tuyl

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Gerrit m. Margrietje; had a boy & a girl under 16 in 1703, noted in Van Tuyl s Us/Can 929.273 V369b p. xvii.

Gerrit married Margrietje Abt 1685, New York City, New York, United States. Margrietje was born Abt 1667, Amsterdam, , New York, United States; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 9J2T-78

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Surname also found as THULL.

Notes on related first Dutch families of America includes the Van Tuyl's & reveals a bit of the history of the New Netherlands, the territory along the Hudson River of The Dutch West India Company (a group of Dutch trading merchants organized 1621), governed first by Peter Minuit in 1626 and last by Peter Stuyvesant in 1647 until 1664, when the English renamed it New York and New Amsterdam (Manhatten Island) became New York City.
These families, including the Van Tuyls, have helped to record early American history and have been recorded, in turn, as "the only legitimate nobility and lords of the soil....a roll equal to the Doomsday Book of William the Conquerer, and establishing the heroic origin of many an ancient aristocratical Dutch family." (Washington Irvings History of New York, Book VII, Chap. I)
Jan Otto Van Tuyl was involved in a bar room brawl where he knifed a man in the arm & the man bled to death. A Judge & Schepenen examined the evidence & delivered their verdict:"Death by sword & confiscation of property, so Jan Otten as a fugitive from justice sailed for America to try a new life in the New World. Source (1) " He and his wife Geertruyd with their child of two years, rode the forceful waves of freedom from Amsterdam, Holland to the shores of a new land of wilderness. New York (New Amsterdam ) in 1663 in a ship named "De Bonte Koe"--The Spotted Cow.
No history of New York is complete without including one of its first families the Van Tuyls." Source (2).
Sources for the family record are;
(1) "A Van Tuyl Chronicle" 650 Yrs. in a History of a Dutch-American Family US/Can 929.273 V369v
(2) The Van Tuyl Family by Alma H. Cramer. 929.273 Vol. 369cr p. l-14
(3) Dutch Reformed Church of New York Baptism Rec. In the New York Genealogical & Biographical
Vol. 2 974.7 B4ne.
(4) Abstracts of New York Wills, N.Y. Hist. Society yr bk. 1902 unrecorded Wills Vol. XI p 182
(5) Abstracts of Wills Liber 12 p 181-182, NYHS yr bk 1894 Vol. VIII
(6) Dutch Reformed Church Mgs., NYG&B Rec. Vol. I, 974.7 B4ne
(7) Mg. Lic. granted & recorded in. N.Y. Abstracts of Wills Liber 5-6 Vol. I, NYHS yr bk 1892 ---
1665-1707, 974.7 B4n p. 243.
(8) Dutch Reformed Church of Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y. bap. rec.NYG&B 974.7 B4ne
Vol.4 p. 10
(9) Historical & Genealogical Miscellany of N.Y., & N.J., Vol. I p. 56 by J.E. Stillwell

Jan Otten Van Tuyl, named for his paternal grandfather,attained majority( 20 yrs.) between 29 Sep 1656 and 23 Apr 1661 in the village of Gameren near the city of Zaltbommel, province of Gelre (now Gelderland), implying that he was born there between 1636 and 1641. He died before his wife's 6 Aug 1696 remarriage to Teunis Jansen Lanen Van Pelt of New Utrecht. He married before 23 Apr 1661 Geertruyt Jans daughter of Jan Geritsz Van Lent and Lijsbeth Matthijs Van Gravenweert.
Convicted of murder in obstentia by the High Bench of Zuilichem on 6 Mar 1662, he was forced to flee to Nieuw Amsterdam & appeared in New Amsterdam on 16 Apr 1663 with his wife and a 2 yr. old child, aboard "De Bonte Koe". He spent the rest of his life in New York City, where he resided on Wall St. by 1686, earning his living as a mariner. They founded the Van Tuyl family in America.
Sources: (10) New Netherland Connections, 1st Quarter 2002, 974.7 D25nne Vol 7 m 1,p.1-4
(11) A Van Tuyl Chronicle, 929.273 V 369v. Dutch Genealogy pp. 1 - 85, 475 -511,
American Genealogy pp. 589 - 603.
(12) Genealogical Tijdscrift Voor, Midden - en West- Noord- Brabant, Mar & Jun 1987,
949.246 D25g V.11

Jan married Geertruijt Jansdotter Van Lent 1660, , , Netherlands. Geertruijt (daughter of Jan Gerritsz Van Lent and Lijsbeth Mathijs Van Gravenweert) was born Abt 1635, , , Netherlands; died 1700, New Utrecht, Brooklyn, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 9J2T-8F

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Geertruyt Jans Van Lent ( used her Mothers maiden name,Van Gravenweert in church and baptismal records) was, along with her daughter Neeltje, a church member in 1686-7, though Jan Otten was not. She died after 11 Apr 1699, presumbably in New Utrecht, where she had moved at the time of her 1696 second marriage, 6 Aug 1696, to her second cousin, Teunis Janse Lanen Van Pelt.
In the New Utrecht,Kings co. census 1698, she is listed with 5 Children of her 2nd hus. & his first wife Greitje Jans,both of whom had died.
"The widow of Jan Otten Van Tuyl died after 11 Apr 1699 when, as "Getruyt Johnse Van Tuyl alias
Van Pelt," she testified about the will of Dr. Daniel De Hart of New York (New York Co. Wills 5:339-40
FHL #497,593; abstracted in 'Abstracts of Wills on file in the surrogate's office, City of New York, 17 vols.,NYHS for 1892-1908.) Larry Van der Laan has pointed out that "Tryntien" in the household of " Teunes Van Pelt" in 1698 may actually be amisreading of "Truijtien,"an infrequent diminutive of Geertruy. From the correction of"The Royal Ancestry of Jan Otten Van Tuyl" vol.7 pp1-4 at p.4.
Her first husband was John Otter

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The Van Tuyl Genealogy, by Mary Ellenor Stafford Bowman.
Stories regarding Old Decatur House, across from the White House, Washington D.C., always include Baron Van Tuyl, Russian Minister to the United States, who lived there ca 1824, Marie Beal in her publication, "Decatur House and it's Inhabitants" (1954), refers to Baron Van Tuyl as " Major General Baron Feodor Vasil Teil-Van-Seroskerken." "Baron de Van Tuyl was a gentleman of eminence in Russia. As the name Van Scroskerken indicates, he was of Dutch extraction, like a number of the Russian nobility of that time. He had risen to the rank of a Major General in the Russian Army, and had been accorded the distinction of having an Island named after him by a Russian sea captain." (also see copies of the old newspaper, The Washington Post and Times Herald,Saturday 3-9-1957 p. A8, and Teusday 3-12-1957 p. B3.)
It has been pointed out that Otto is not a Dutch name but a German. However, living so close to Germany, it is probable that there was intermarriage. The final two paragraphs of the translation read as follows: "By royal decree of March 31, April 25, & 7 May 1822, it is ordained that all legitimate members of the house of Van Tuyl shall bear the title & style themselves Baron or Baroness."

A successful Gameren farmer, he incurred crushing debts after his first wife's death. He was the first Van Tuyl to leave no estate for his children. Death: Zuilichem Judicial Archives Geloftesignaat, 677:28, 26 Apr 1666. On this day Geerlof, Geertien and Geurt, children of the late Oth Jansz van Tuyl and Neelken Geerloffsdr, declared that they buried the dead body of their father, which they did in reverence to him, out of honesty and fatherly love, but not as heirs of their father, and only to assist with that which is required because of the death of their mother.
Sources: (1) New Netherland Connections, 1st Quarter 2002, 974.7 D25nne V. 7 m.1, p. 1-4
(2) A Van Tuyl Chronicle 929.273 V 369v pp.1-4, 69-85, 475-511,589-603. Based on the Historical Researches of : Jan N.A. Groenedijk, Rory L. Van Tuyl, Rochus D.Van Tuyl,Preston C. Burchard
(3) Genealogical Tijdschrift Voor, Midden- en West-Noord-Brabant ,Mar & Jun 1987,
949.246 D25g V.11, pp.1-8, 81, 101-107.
Ott Janse married (2) Stijntje Jans Van Herwignen mg. 26 Mar 1643, they had a son Geurt b. 19 Oct 1645

Ott married Neelken Geerlof Aertsdr Bef 24 Nov 1627, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands. Neelken (daughter of Geerlof Aertsen and Grietgen Claesdr) was born Abt 1610, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; died Bef Mar 1643, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet]

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Death: Zuilichem Judicial Archives Geloftesignaat, 677:28, 26 Apr 1666
She was unmarried on 17 Feb 1627 when she made her will (Zuilichem Judicial Archives,673:47) but md. before 24 Nov 1627.

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After Jan Geritsz first wife died ( before 27 Sep 1652) he was still a widower in 1654. This date indicates that Geertruijt and the other children were all from his first marriage to Lijsbeth Van's Gravenweert.

He md. (2) Trijntgen Lambertsdr, Abt 1656 probably at Gameren.
Other unnamed under-age children were mentioned in the court record of 20 Mar 1661, Zuilichem,Judicial Archives, bk. 691, Minuten geloftesignaat.

Jan married Lijsbeth Mathijs Van Gravenweert Abt 1635, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands. Lijsbeth (daughter of Matthijs Aelbertsz Vans Gravenweert) was born Abt 1610, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands; died Bef 27 Sep 1652, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet]

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Source: (1) 949.2 D23b, Genealogical Repertorium 1972 & 4 Supplements, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999.
Same source for Van Gravenweert & Van Lent.

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Jan Sandersz, (sometimes called Johan) moved to Gameren at the time of his marriage in 1586.He was
mentioned together with his mother & sister on 13 Apr 1564, of age between 7 Jun 1570 & 17 Mar 1583, & died 18 May 1617 (around Midnight), married between 22 Apr & 24 Nov 1586.He was like his, father & father-in-law, alderman (and many times president) of the High Bench of Zuilchem(1589-1617. He was owner of a lot of property, inherited from his father-in-law, who was a member of the important family Van Oever, many of whom performed executive functions at Zaltbommel & Bommelerwaard. They were also major property owners in Gameren.
Sources:(1) New Netherland Connections 1st Quarter 2002, 974.7 D25nne V.7m.1,pp.1-8, 81,
101-107.
(2) A Van Tuyl Chronicle, 929.273 V369v,650 years in the History of a Dutch-American
Family. Based on the Historical Researches of: Jan N.A. Groenendijk, Rory L. Van Tuyl,
Rochus D. Van Tuyl, Preston C. Burchard.pp. 1-4, 69-85, 475-511, 589-603.
(3) Genealogical Tijdschrift Voor, Midden- en West-Noord-Brabant, Mar & Jun 1987
pp 1-4.

Jan married Marijken Van Over Between Apr and Nov 1586, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands. Marijken (daughter of Ott Van Oever and Geertken Bruystens) was born Abt 1559, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands; died Bef 21 Feb 1616. [Group Sheet]

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She was md. before 21 Mar 1578, to Jan van Hemert. Apparently he died,for she is mentioned without husband as guardian, on 22 Apr 1586. The 2nd mg. taking place between 22 Apr 1586 & 24 Nov 1586

Geerlof married Grietgen Claesdr Abt 1609, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands. Grietgen was born Abt 1588, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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A leading citizen of Gameren, he lived in the village castle, was deacon of the church, and alderman of the High Bench of Zuilichem.
He married 2nd wife Lijsken Gijsberts Abt 1630 probably at Gameren,Gelderland,Neth. She being born Abt 1600 of Gameren.