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Jan Otto Van Tuyl
1632 - 1690 (58 years)-
Name Jan Otto Van Tuyl Born 1632 Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands 
Gender Male AFN 9J2T-78 Died 1689-1690 At Sea Person ID I302 James Henry Martineau Last Modified 27 Oct 2015
Father Ott Jansz Van Tuyl, b. 1596, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands , d. Bef 26 Apr 1666, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands (Age 70 years) Mother Neelken Geerlof Aertsdr, b. Abt 1610, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands , d. Bef Mar 1643, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands (Age ~ 33 years) Married Bef 24 Nov 1627 Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands Family ID F651 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Geertruijt Jansdotter Van Lent, b. Abt 1635, , , Netherlands , d. 1700, New Utrecht, Brooklyn, New York, United States (Age ~ 65 years) Married 1660 , , Netherlands Children 1. Otto Van Tuyl, b. 1661, Gameren, Gelderland, Netherlands , d. 19 Dec 1705, At Sea (Age 44 years)2. Cornelius Jans Van Tuyl, b. Abt 1662, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. 1689, At Sea (Age ~ 27 years)3. Gerrit Jans Van Tuyl, b. Abt 1663, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. 1702 (Age ~ 39 years)4. Neeltje Jans Van Tuyl, b. 16 Nov 1664, New York City, New York, United States , d. 1726 (Age 61 years)5. Elizabeth Jans Van Tuyl, b. 30 Jan 1667, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. 1729 (Age 61 years)+ 6. Annetje Van Tuyl, c. 7 Apr 1672, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. 3 Dec 1703, , Richmond, New York, United States (Age ~ 31 years)7. Aert Janse Van Tuyl, c. 27 Jan 1675, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. 1705, At Sea (Age ~ 29 years)8. Alexander Van Tuyl, c. 22 Aug 1677, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. Yes, date unknown9. Isaac Van Tuyl, c. 5 Jan 1681, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. Bef 27 Nov 1728 (Age ~ 47 years)10. Abraham Van Tuyl, c. 5 Jan 1681, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands , d. Bef 29 Sep 1735 (Age ~ 54 years)Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 Family ID F89 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - 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
- Surname also found as THULL.