Isaac De Forest
1616-1674
Born: Leyden, Netherlands
Died: New Amsterdam, New York, USA
<strong>Isaac</strong>, son of Jesse and Marie (du Cloux) De Forest, was baptized at Leyden, Holland, July 10, 1616. With his brother, Henry, then thirty years of age, Isaac, who was ten years his junior, quitted Amsterdam, October 1, 1636, in a small vessel called the"Renssalaerwyck," which belonged to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first patroon. They reached New Amsterdam in safety and settled upon the broad fertile flat called "Muscoota," now the site of Harlem, upper New York City. Henry had a grant of two hundred acres; Isaac, a strip of one hundred acres along the Harlem river and part of the later day Morris Park. Henry, the wealthier and apparently the abler of the two brothers, died July 26, 1637. The interests of his widow were safeguarded by Dominie Evarardus Bogardus, as her attorney. She married again. Isaac was still unmarried, and for several years remained at Harlem raising tobacco and selling it at New Amsterdam for transport to Holland. On June 9, 1641, he married "Sarah du Trieux of New Amsterdam, spinster," daughter of Phillip du Trieux and Jaqueline Noiret, founders of the Truax family of America. He became a wealthy tobacco dealer and brewer of New Amsterdam, and was appointed in 1658 by Governor Stuyvesant and council a "great burgher." When the English fleet took New York in 1664 he was one of the persons of distinction seized and held. His will is dated June 4, 1672. He died in 1674. His widow died in 1692.
<p> </p> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recapping the de Forest story from Isaac's point of view, his father, Jesse, a cloth dyer and merchant, was born in Avesnes, Hainaut, (now part of Belgium) which had belonged to France but was then part of the Spanish Netherlands. The family moved to Sedan prior to 1601. </span></span><br><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Huguenots they were fleeing religious persecution. By 1615 the whole family had moved to Leyden, Holland (where many of the Puritans from England were also now living). Isaac de Forest, the seventh recorded child of Jesse de Forest and Marie du Cloux, was baptized in Leyden Holland on the 10th of July 1616, at Walloon Church.<sup><span style="color: #473624;">i</span></sup></span></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><sup><span style="color: #473624;"></span> </sup></span></span><br> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B1/B1595/14MB1595.html</span></span> </sup></span></span></div> <span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><sup> </sup> </span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac grew up there listening to his father plan his own Virginia Colony. His father died when he was about eight and his older brother, Hendrick about eighteen. Twelve years later Hendrick, Isaack and their sister Rachel set sail for the new colony of Rensselaerswyck on the Hudson River. On March 5, 1637, the ship anchored off Manatans. Isaack was 21. His brother, Hendrick, died shortly thereafter in July 1637.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531863" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Widow and children return to Leyden and in 1626 and then there is a gap in the record until 1636</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In default of documentary evidence, family historians had assumed that Isaac accompanied his parents to Oyapok in the emigration of 1623, and that he returned to Leyden in 1626 with his widowed mother and his brothers. However, as we have learned from the lost Journal, the family stayed behind and father Jesse was lost to sun stroke in the Carribean. From this 1626 down to 1636 no record rediscovered as of 1900 revealed anything as to his life. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531864" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>1926-36 <em>La Montagne</em> family<em> boards with the de Forests</em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span> <div><span style="font-size: medium;"><img class="decoded" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Quirepieterskerkleiden.jpg" alt="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Quirepieterskerkleiden.jpg" width="200" height="150" border="0"></span><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the decade from 1926-36, the widow Marie du Cloux de Forest resided on the Voldersgraft, a street near St Peter's church in Leyden. </span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quirepieterskerkleiden.jpg</span></span> </span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is probable that she supported herself by boarding students of the University. Among her lodgers was Doctor Jean Mousnier, surnamed for unknown reasons La Montagne, a native of Saintonge, in western France. Jean had arrived in Holland with his father some years previous. In the Walloon round robin of 1621 the elder man is recorded as pharmacist and surgeon and the junior as student in medicine. The tremulous handwriting of the surgeon may indicate that he had reached an advanced age.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> Jean Mousnier La Montagne entered medical school in Leyden in 1626 <p> </p> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The son, Jean Mousnier La Montagne, returned to Leyden, and inscribed himself at the University as a medical student on the 7th of July, 1626. This date would have been shortly the arrival of his family’s return with their friends the de Forests from the western shores of the Atlantic.</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jean Mousnier La Montagne was a man of character and ability, imbued with a spirit of adventure and destined to play a conspicuous part in the history of New Netherland. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531866" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Jean Mousnier La Montagne<em> and Rachel de Forest are married in 1626</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the 27th of November, 1626, “Jean Mounier (La Montagne) subscribed in marriage with Ragel de Foree,” the witnesses being the bride's uncle “Geraerd de Foree” and his wife Hester de la Grange. The novel spelling of the names is accounted for by the fact that the record is in Dutch. Jean Mousnier la Montagne was at this time thirty one years old, while his wife could not have been above seventeen. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531867" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Jean & Rachel emigrated to Tobago for a brief period <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Subsequent records show that the Jean & Rachel emigrated to Tobago, an island off the northern coast of South America then belonging to the Dutch. It may be that this movement was followed by other members of the de Forest family. Rachel returned in 1631 to Leyden leaving her husband behind. Five years later La Montagne reappeared in Holland, renewing his membership at the University on the 3d of March, 1636. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531868" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>In 1636 Henry and Isaac de Forest migrate to New Amsterdam as tobacco planters, with Rachel and her husband Jean La Montagnes arriving the following spring <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The de Forests had now tried emigration to the mainland and the islands of South America, result in impoverishment, suffering and defeat. Then, in the latter half of 1636, there was another movement among them to plant their name in the new world. Henry de Forest, now thirty years old, and his brother Isaac, ten years younger, decided to settle at New Amsterdam as tobacco planters. Two laborers, Tobias Teunisen and Willem Fredericks Bont, were engaged and indentured for three years of service after their arrival in America. It is possible that Henry increased his capital by his marriage with Gertrude Bornstra, the eldest daughter of a respectable Dutch family living in the grazing district of Nieuwlant. Both of the brothers as well as La Montagne seem to have been provided with sufficient means to make a prosperous start in the new migration</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The de Forests sailed first, quitting Amsterdam the first of October, 1636, in a small vessel called the Rensselaerivick. This ship belonged to Killian van Rensselaer, the first Patroon. The La Montagnes followed in the winter, reaching the Hudson early in the spring. Meantime Rachel's brothers had chosen a site for their tobacco plantation.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531869" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>The de Forest settled and faced challenges in the wilds of Muscoota, present day Harlem <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The upper portion of New York island was then a mere wilderness of virgin forest and natural clearing inhabited by bears, catamounts, painted Wickasqueeks and other wild animals, and giving small promise of the vast civilized population of today’s Harlem. To settle there was to risk life and fortune, as the events of the following decade proved. But as yet no white man habited there, and land could be had in cheap abundance. The de Forests fixed upon a broad, fertile flat called Muscoota, and became the unprosperous founders of Harlem pursued by indefatigable wrath of fortune.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531870" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Van Twiller grants land to both de Forests</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To Henry, director van Twiller granted a beautiful meadow of two hundred acres, lying between hills which rose toward the Hudson on the west, and a nameless creek that straggled southward and then eastward to empty itself into the Harlem river. Isaac obtained a strip of one hundred acres reaching from his brother's tract down to the sluggish Harlem at a point opposite the mouth of Bronx Kill, and including not a little of the region now known as Mt. Morris Park. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531871" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Typically terms for subjects of the West India Company</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The patents, that is the titles to the land, have vanished. But we may infer from other similar documents of the period that they contained some such provisions as here follow:</span></span></div> <div>“<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The said de Forest and his successors shall acknowledge their High Mightinesses, the Directors of the West India Company, as their sovereign Lords and Patroons, and at the end of ten years after the actual settlement shall render the just tenth part of the products wherewith God may bless the soil, and from this time forth shall annually deliver, on account of the dwelling and house-lot, a pair of capons to the Director for the holidays.” </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531872" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>The family settles into a roomy, fortified home</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the spring of 1637 ploughing, sowing and building commenced. Did Isaac put up a separate dwelling? Probably not at this time. There must have been too many pumas and Algonquins at hand to make a bachelor residence attractive. He doubtless shared lodgings with Henry, whose house was fairly roomy and protected, being forty-two feet long by eighteen wide and surrounded by a palisade of heavy pickets.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531873" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>After a year in there isolated compound, Henry dies and Gertrude is left a widow <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This simple fortification is one of the features of the modest settlement. The cattle and goats and poultry must have stood in sore need of it, and the four guns of the household probably did no little sentry business. One queries whether Gertrude Bornstra, now in her blooming twenty-third year, may not have shed a few homesick tears when she remembered tranquil Nieuwlant. But her troubles there did not last long. Misfortune was hard after this latest emigrating enterprise of the de Forests. Henry, the wealthiest and apparently the ablest of the two brothers, died on the 26th of July, 1637, the cause unrecorded.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531874" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>The control of the estate shifts to the widow Gertrude and La Montagne after Henry de Forests death <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No will is known to have existed. But incidents in the settlement of the estate reveal the fact that the widow was in some way the sole heir. Isaac appears as owning a small portion of the moveable property, and as having other claims of uncertain nature and amount. A third claimant was his brother Johannes, born at Sedan in 1604, who may have been in New Netherland at this time, although there is no record of his coming or residence or departure. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531875" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Gertrude represented by Everardus Bogardus <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The interests of the widow were represented by domine Everardus Bogardus as her attorney. La Montagne acted as his steward, taking personal charge of the plantation, pushing the construction of the buildings, furnishing capital and presenting final accounts. One sixth of the movable estate satisfied the conjoint demands of Johannes and Isaac. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531876" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Gertrude remarried to Andries Hudde of van Twiller’s Council <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The widow soon married Andries Hudde, a wealthy planter who had been on van Twiller's Council. In 1638 there was a vendue sale for her benefit, and La Montagne bought the property for 1,700 guilders, from which were to be deducted 680 guilders expended by him in betterments. The appraisal shows five head of cattle, four goats, twenty- eight fowls, four guns, various farming utensils, a boat two hundred pounds of tobacco, and one hundred and sixty three florins in chattels disposed of. One-half of the boat, one-half of a bull calf and the half of two kids belonged to Isaac.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531877" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Isaac’s station in life was rather modest at the time of his brother’s passing</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Such was the modest outfit of a settler who once farmed it in the neighborhood of Mt Morris Park while watching against the pumas of Washington Heights and the Wickasqueeks of upper Harlem. We can imagine that as this juncture Isaac might confronted some doubts, for it was questionable whether the de Forests of Avesnes had profited financially by Protestantism, exile and the founding of cities.</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The continuation of the family name in America now depended on a single unmarried youth of twenty-two. For several years Isaac remained at Harlem, raising what tobacco he could from his hundred acres, and selling it in the village of New Amsterdam for transport to Holland. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531878" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Rachel died around 1641 and Issac married soon after</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before long his sister Rachel died, the date undiscoverable as yet, but probably in the early months of 1641. It may have been the loneliness resulting from this bereavement which led him to seek out a partner for life. On the 9th of June, 1641, Isaac de Forest of Leyden, bachelor, was married to Sarah du Trieux of New Amsterdam, spinster.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531879" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Sarah du Trieux’s parents among the first families in the Colony of New Netherlands <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The bride's father and mother undoubtedly came over on the New Netherland, in the famous voyage of 1624. Sarah may have opened her eyes in one of the bark cabins which the Walloons inhabited during the very beginnings of New York City. If she were exactly seventeen years old at the time of her marriage, her birthday would have fallen on the 9th of June, 1624. Sarah de Rapalye, who is sometimes called the eldest child of New Amsterdam, was born on the 9th of June, 1625. Of course , there were babies born in the New World when it was still a settlement and had not achieved the status of a colony. The baptismal record of Sarah du Trieux has perished and she may have been married at sixteen or earlier or later. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531880" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Phillipe & Noiret start their family in Amsterdam before emigrating to the New World where he worked as a court messenger and ended up living in Smith’s Valley, Manahattan</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her parents were Philippe du Trieux and his wife was Jacqueline Noiret. The patronymic du Trieux or de Trieu is probably derived from the village of Trieu in Belgium. Individuals bearing the patronymic du Trieu or Trieux abound in the Walloon church registers of Holland as early as 1584, wandering from city to city and from country to country, apparently in search of employment or business. One Jean du Trou, with a wife and five children, proposed to accompany Jesse de Forest to Virginia in 1621. A Philippe du Trieux, whom we may safely assume as Sarah's grandfather, died in Norwich, England, previous to April, 1601. His son Philippe, the emigrant to New Netherland, resided for several years in Amsterdam, and had two children baptized there, Philippe in 1619, and Madeline in 1620. It may be that his next child was the Sarah of the bark cabin of the emigration of 1623. We know little of his life in New Amsterdam, except that in 1640 he was “court messenger,” and obtained a title to lands in “Smith's Valley” on the Island of Manhattan.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531881" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Issac and Sarah’s first child died in infancy <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Forest, at the date of his marriage, already had a dwelling on his plantation and a tobacco house also. Sarah and Issac’s first child was their son Jessen, named after the first emigrant, who died in infancy.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531882" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Baptisms witnessed by Issac de Forest <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He witnessed the baptism of Aernoudt Corneliszen Viele , son of Cornelis Volkertszen Viele and Maria du Trieux, on 27 May 1640 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isaac de Foreest, Teunis Cray, Schippr & Jan Cant. (His father's name is not given in the baptism record, and so there is a doubt as to his paternity. Viele Records has shown that he bore the name Aernoudt Corneliszen Viele throughout his adulthood. Either 1) his parents were not married at the time he was born, but married later. Or 2) he was an illegitimate son of his mother who was taken in as a son by her first husband and adopted the Viele family name and identity. The name, Aernoudt, would have come from his mother's maternal grandfather)</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac immigrated with his brother Hendrick and sister Rachel aboard the Rensselaerwyck which sailed from Amsterdam on 25 Sep 1636, and arrived at New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637, after many delays. He was guardian of his wife's sister, Maria's children from her second marriage.</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest witnessed the baptism of Anna Peeck , daughter of Jan Peeck and Maria du Trieux, on 15 October 1651 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Jsaac de Foreest, Aert Willemszen, Rebecca du Trieux, Wyntie Aerts).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest witnessed the baptism of Isaac Van der Beek , son of Paulus Van der Beek and Marie Thomasdr Badie, on 5 November 1656 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Mr. Gysbert van Imbroek, Isaac de Foreest, Tryntie de Haes, Petronella de la Montagne).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest witnessed the baptism of Johannes Beekman , son of William Beekman and Catalina de Boog, on 22 November 1656 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isaac De Forest, Andries Beekman).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest witnessed the baptism of Hieronymus Van Bommel , son of Hendrick Van Bommel and Rachel du Trieux, on 28 October 1657 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Trieux).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest witnessed the baptism of Marritje de Haes , daughter of Andries Pieterszen de Haes and Catharina Hagedoorn, on 1 August 1659 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isac de Foreest, en s.h.v.).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest witnessed the baptism of Isac Bujou , son of Pieter Bujou and Francyn Boujas, on 10 August 1661 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isaac de Foreest, Susanna de Foreest).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest witnessed the baptism of Femmetie Dirckse , daughter of Dirck Jansen and Marritje Teunis Nyssen, on 6 January 1664 at Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, Breuckelen, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, (sponsors Isaack Foreest, Anneken Lodowyns).<sup><span style="color: #473624;">ii</span></sup></span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531883" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Baptisms witnessed by Sarah du Trieux <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She witnessed the baptism<sup><span style="color: #473624;">iii</span></sup> of Jacob du Trieux , son of Philippe du Trieux and Susanna du Chesne, on 2 December 1645 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Jan Evertszen Bout, Marie du Trieux, Sara du Trieux).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Johannes Evertsen Wendel , son of Evert Jansen Wendel and Susanna du Trieux, on 2 February 1649 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Philip du Trieux, Mr. Paulus Van der Beeck, Johannes Rodenburg, Marie en Sara du Trieux).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Jesse de la Montagne , son of Dr. Johannes de la Montagne and Agnietie Jilles, on 6 April 1653 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Sara du Trieux, Anna Stam).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Catalyntie Andriese de Haes , daughter of Andries Pieterszen de Haes and Catharina Hagedoorn, on 29 August 1655 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Johannes de Peyster, Mr. Gysbert Van Inbroeck, Sara de Foreest).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Jacobus Kip , son of Jacob Hendricksz Kip and Maria de la Montagne, on 15 October 1656 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isaac Kip, Johannes de la Montagne, Agnietie Jillis, Sara du Trieux).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Hieronymus Van Bommel , son of Hendrick Van Bommel and Rachel du Trieux, on 28 October 1657 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Trieux).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Marritje de Haes , daughter of Andries Pieterszen de Haes and Catharina Hagedoorn, on 1 August 1659 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Isac de Foreest, en s.h.v.).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Albertus Ebbing , son of Hieronymus Ebbing and Johanna de Laet, on 6 June 1663 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Timotheus Gabry, Sara de Foreest).</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux witnessed the baptism of Jannetie Jeuriaense , daughter of Jeuriaen Janszen and Harmentje Jans, on 8 August 1663 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Jeronymus Ebbing, Sara de Foreest).</span></span></div> <div> </div> <a name="_Toc163531884" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Family of Isaac de Forest and Sarah du Trieux <ul> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jessen de Foreest b. 9 Nov 1642, d. in infancy</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Susanna de Foreest b. 22 Jan 1645</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gerrit de Foreest b. 21 May 1646, d. b Jun 1647</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gerrit de Foreest b. 10 Jun 1647</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marie de Foreest b. 10 Jan 1649, d. b Jul 1666</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael de Foreest b. 10 Jan 1649, d. young</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jan de Foreest b. 27 Mar 1650</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Philip de Foreest b. 28 Jul 1652</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Foreest b. 25 Apr 1655</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hendrick de Foreest b. 9 Sep 1657</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">David de Foreest b. 1 Aug 1660, d. b Dec 1663</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">David de Foreest b. 19 Dec 1663, d. b Sep 1669</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marie de Foreest</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">David de Foreest</span></span></li> </ul> <a name="_Toc163531885" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>received a grant for a "bouwery", married and <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac received a grant for a "bouwery", a narrow strip of land nearly a mile in length. He probably raised tobacco while he lived with his sister. He had married Sarah du Trieux, daughter of Philippe du Trieux and Susanna du Chesne, at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, on 9 June 1641. That same year he made a contract to build his own house on his own bouwery. Isaac became a modestly prosperous merchant and was involved in many land deals. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531886" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Isaac moved leased out the 100 acres and moved to New Amsterdam, thus escaping the direct ravages of the 1643-45 Indian War <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1643 the one hundred acres were leased on shares to John Denton, and de Forest moved into the village of New Amsterdam, where he opened a tobacco warehouse in the Old Church, a deserted building which stood on the Strand, now Pearl Street. Thus he escaped personal exposure to the Indian war of 1643-45 which desolated Harlem and drove La Montagne from his plantation of Vredendal. No doubt the de Forest farm was ravaged and tenant Denton had to suspend his tobacco culture. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531887" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Isaac served as orphan master after the Indian War <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac was also very involved in public affairs. "He was made one of the 'orphan masters of New Amsterdam,' and there were, alas, may orphans in those days when so many fathers had been butchered by Indians. Sometimes the orphan masters had to ransom children whom Indians had carried off. Isaac in this capacity once paid 60 guilders ransom for a little boy and 94 guilders for a little girl. When in 1655 there was a proposal to repave Brouwer Street, he united with the nine other property owners on that street who offered to bear the cost themselves.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531888" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>After returning briefly to Harlem, Issac sold most of the land and took up brewing</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The war ended in a treaty, and the Harlemites recovered their boweries. In 1647 both La Montagne and de Forest formally renewed their titles there, the former for two hundred acres, the latter for one hundred. Three years later de Forest sold the greater part of his land to Wilhelmus Beekman. Thereafter he did more or less brewing, in partnership with Johannes Verveelen, or by contract with Jacob van Couwenhoven. His malt house and his residence were in Stone street. His hop farm and an orchard also were at Norman's Bight.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531889" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Isaac prospered as a brewer <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By 1657 he had formed a partnership with Johannes Verveelen for a very successful brewery. "Not every one could pursue this trade; for the authorities in their efforts to have only really good beer on sale had passed a stringent ordinance that 'only those shall be brewers who are known to have sufficient skill in the art."<sup><span style="color: #473624;">iv</span></sup> </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531890" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Montagne driven from his land in the 2nd Indian War and returns to Holland before the end of his life</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A second Indian war running through 1655 and 1656 drove La Montagne anew from his misnamed Peacedale (Vredendal), and the bankrupted man gladly accepted the post of vice director at Fort Orange. There he remained until the English conquest in 1664. He then departed for Holland, broken in fortune, in health and in heart. Jesse de Forest, Minuit and La Montagne, all the notable figures connected with the Walloon colonies in America, were pursued by misfortune and finally slept in unknown graves.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531891" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Issac’s career features public service from the 1650s onward</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Forest, coming later than his father upon the scene of colonization, inherited something more of tranquility, and also a few honors and emoluments. He was one of the Nine Men (advisory committee) in 1652 and became an inspector of tobacco in 1653. Also in 1653 he purchased a house on Brouwer Street, which is now known as Broad Street. </span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He became the “farmer of the revenue” of the weigh-house in 1655 and 1656, elected schepen by forty votes in 1656, appointed small burgher in 1657, great burgher and schepen in 1658, and farmer of the tavern excise in 1660.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531892" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Despite delays, Isaac ultimately became a Great Burgher <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His election to the common council took place on the 31st of January, 1656, and it is doubtful if he was permitted to exercise the duties of the office, inasmuch as he was not then a great-burgher. In April of the following year he petitioned for a great-burgher right, alleging that he had resided in the city upwards of twenty years had built largely there, and performed many services.</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The aldermen replied that his request could not be granted “according to the order of the Director General and Council, and the explanation of the Great and Small burgher right.” Yet the Director and Council appointed him great-burgher on the 28th of January, 1658, and schepen five days later. Had there been in this whole matter some “old knickerbocker hostility” to the aggrandizement of a Walloon? It is worth noting that Stuyvesant had a Huguenot wife and that his sister had a Huguenot husband.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531893" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>When the English invaded Isaac saused consternation by overestimating their numbers <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The English took possession of the Dutch colony in 1664. Isaac had been away and returned just as the English were surrounding the area. He was arrested by the British and subsequently released. He reported to the Dutch authorities that he had seen 800 soldiers. "After the surrender had taken place the citizens had discovered that the English force was no stronger than that of the Dutch, great indignation was expressed against poor Isaac, who 'greatly exaggerating the English force, was believed.' "</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531894" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>It appears was financially sound but not wealthy</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From 1660 onward, Isaac de Forest frequently appears in record as a money-lender, though never to the extent of more than five or six hundred guilders. It is impossible to make out positively whether he was a wealthy man, or not. In 1653, when the defenses of New Amsterdam needed strengthening, he paid a special tax of one hundred florins, while no one else paid more than one hundred and fifty. In April, 1664, in a petition for leave to open a lane, he claimed that his house was an “ornament to the city.” In September, 1664, he was seized and held as a hostage by the English, as though he was a person of prominence and importance. </span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet in March of the same year a list “of the most affluent inhabitants of this city” rates him at only fifteen hundred florins while many other estates range from ten thousand to fifty and eighty thousand.</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Had he possessed wealth and lost it? Had he transferred it to his wife? Had his fourteen children impoverished him? He could not have dowried them to any considerable amount for only one of them, the eldest daughter was married and the eldest living son was but fifteen years old. There is no discoverable inventory of his estate neither at the period of his own decease, nor at the decease of his wife. </span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His will throws no light on the question, for it is a conjoint instrument giving everything to survivant and simply proving that both parties had property of unknown value. This will was made “in the year after the nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, sixteen hundred and seventy-two, the 4th of June, being Tuesday in the morning, about 9 o’clock in the presence of Wm. Bogardus, Public Notary residing in New Yorke.”</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The “testator was sickly and the testatrix sound in body, but both fully using their understanding, memory and speech as outwardly appeared and could not be perceived to the contrary.” </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531895" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Only 7 of 14 children survived Isaac & Sarah <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The children named in the instrument were Susannah, Johannes, Philip, Isaac, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hendricus</span>, Maria, and David, showing that seven had fallen victims to the untoward conditions of colonial existence. Susannah, the only married one, had been for seven years the wife of Peter De Riemer. The next eldest Johannes, a student of medicine, was twenty-two years old. Little David (named after two previous Davids) was an infant of thirty three months.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531896" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>Will allows the survivant to remarry and provides for the childrens welfare and education</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The will permitted the survivant to marry, on condition of providing for the children, who must have” victuals and cloths” as well as “schooling for reading and writing,” and moreover be taught “an art or trade.” The guardians appointed were Mr Symore Johns Romyn, the testator's “trusty and known friend,” and Mr. Jacob Kip, their “Cosin” husband of Maria La Montagne, daughter of Isaac de Forest's sister Rachel.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531897" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a><em>In his mid 50s Isaacs had no extended family with him in the New World</em> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was fifty six years since Isaac de Forest had uttered his birth cry in Leyden, and thirty six years of that time had been passed in New Netherland, not counting a possible three years stay there during boyhood. Barring his wife and surviving children, he was pretty well alone in the world now. Brother Henry had been buried at Vredendal thirty five years prior. Then brother Johannes had come over and had gone back to Holland again. Also brother David had come over and had a child baptized here in October, 1659. But he too had gone back again and was now in Holland.</span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac had lost seven children. His Uncle Gerard eighteen had passed 18 years prior. Grandmother Anne had passed thirty-two years before. His brother Jesse was departed, when and where remained unkown. The family spoke French when they arrived. Next it had to be Dutch, then English. </span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531898" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Isaac passed away in 1683 and his widow died ten years later <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac de Forest died two years after this walk homeward from notary Bogardus’ office. His widow sold the Old Kerck, lot Isaac's former tobacco house, on the 30th of June, 1683. Some ten years later on the 9th of November, 1692 she rejoined her husband.</span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531899" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Issac died in his mid 50s <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"July 25, 1674, two years after Isaac made his will, he was mentioned for the last time on the court records. His case was postponed until the next court day, probably because of illness on his part. At any rate, we know that he died soon afterward, aged fifty-six."<sup><span style="color: #473624;">v</span></sup></span></span></div> <a name="_Toc163531900" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Isaac DeForest’s children and the four branches of the family <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac DeForest, Jesse's son, arrived from Leyden, Holland, March 5, 1637. Isaac made the voyage aboard the ship, Rensselaerwyck. This ship was jointly owned by Isaac's uncle, Gerard DeForest, and Killian Van Rensselaer. Also arriving in New Amsterdam with Isaac, was his brother Hendrick DeForest and his sister Rachel DeForest. Hendrick died shortly after his arrival, on July 26, 1637. </span></span></div> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Philip DeForest, Isaac's son was born July 28, 1652 in New Amsterdam. Philip eventually settled in Beverwyck, NY. Today, Beverwyck is now known as Albany, NY. Philip DeForest is the founder of the Albany branch of DeForests. Sometime around 1800 the name DeForest transformed to DeFreest in Rensselaer County, New York. It is in honor of the DeFreest family that the Hamlet of DeFreestville received its name. The other hamlet within North Greenbush settled by our de Forest cousins is Wynantskill. </span></span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac DeForest, Jr. was born April 25, 1655 in New Amsterdam and continued to live and raise his family in New Amsterdam. </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our ancestor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hendrick DeForest</span> was born September 9, 1657 in New Amsterdam and is the founder of the Long Island branch. </span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The last born, David DeForest, born September 7, 1669 in New York City, was the founder of the Stratford, Connecticut branch.</span></span></li> </ul> <a name="_Toc163531901" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Isaac’s Children <a name="_Toc163531902" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418"></a>Letters of Administration for the children of Isaac and Sarah <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not long after the death of Sara (du Trieux) de Forest “his Excellency Benjamin Fletsher, Esq. Governur and Cap Generall of the Province of New Yorke and its Dependences” was petitioned by her children to grant letters of administration to two among them, “Isaacq and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hendricus</span>.” In the body of the document, mentioned as parties consenting, appear John, Susanna, and Philip. The signatures read Isaac de Foreest, Henricus de Foreest, Davydt de foreest, Mrya de forest showing that the family name had already yielded in a measure to Dutch influence. </span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Doctor Johannes de Forest, eldest son of Isaac who survived him, married Susanna Verleth, but left no descendants bearing the name. Philip, husband of Tryntie Kip, became ancestor of the Albany de Forests. Tryntie’s brother Hendrick Hendricksen Kip was Charity’s 3x great grandfather. Their parents, Hendrick Hendricksen Kip and Tyrntie Lubberts, were thus ancestors of two lines of DeForests. Isaac, husband of Lysbeth Vanderspiegel, remained in New York and left many representatives. The progeny of our Hendrick and Femmettia van Flaesbeek appear both on Long Island and in New York. Susanna married Peter De Riemer, father of alderman Isaac De Riemer, who some years later married her sister Maria. </span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Long Island Branch was founded by Hendrick De Forest and Femmettia / Fiammettia (Phoebe) Van Flaesbeek. They settled on Long Island, first at Bushwick and then at Madman's Neck. Their children were Barent / Barnet (b 1684), Sarah (1686), Gerrit (1689), Henricus (1691) became a a sea captain, Susannah (1693), Phoebe (1695), Maria (1696), and Jesse (1698). Susannah married Abraham Koning. </span></span></div> <div> <div style="page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #473624; font-size: small;">i</span><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/rdcmarr.htm. Isaac De Forest died in 1674 at New Amsterdam, New York County, New York.</span></span></span></div> <br><br> <div><sup> </sup></div> </div> <div> <div style="page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #473624;">ii</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #473624; font-size: small;">http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p35.htm#i27037</span></span></span></span></div> <div><sup> </sup></div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="sdendnotesym" name="sdendnote3sym" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=899077959087403418#sdendnote3anc"><span style="font-size: small;">iii</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">Sarah du Trieux</span></span> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #473624; font-size: small;">http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p35.htm#i27038</span></span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #473624; font-size: small;">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p189.htm#i89087</span></span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Citations:</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1193] Frederic Ellsworth Kip, History of the Kip Family in America (n.p.: unknown publisher, ca. 1928), p.43. Hereinafter cited as Kip Family in America.</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1739] Howard S.F. (ed. from a manuscript by T. de T. Truax) Randolph, "The House of Truax", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.57, 58 (1926, 1927): 57:217. Hereinafter cited as "Truax, NYGBR 57 (1926-27)."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1591] Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.10. Hereinafter cited as MDC.</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:87. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:92. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:148. Parents Jan de la Montagne, Agneta ten Waert. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:155. Parents Andries de Haes, Catharina de Haes. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:177. Parents Jacob Kip, Secrets., Maria de la Montagne. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:181. Hieronymous; parents: Hendrick Van Bommel, Roselle du Trieux. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 6:44. Marritje; parent: Andries de Haes. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 6:153. Albertus; parents: Jeronymus Ebbing, Johanna de Laet. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 6:154. Jannetie; parents: Jeuriaen Janszen, Harmeyntje Jans. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1739] Howard S.F. (ed. from a manuscript by T. de T. Truax) Randolph, "The House of Truax", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.57, 58 (1926, 1927): 57:218. Hereinafter cited as "Truax, NYGBR 57 (1926-27)."</span></span></span></div> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a</span></span><br></span> <div><sup> </sup></div> </div> <div> <div style="page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #473624; font-size: small;">iv</span><span style="font-size: small;">Citations for Isaac de Forest:</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1376] W.E. De Riemer, The De Riemer Family: AD 1640(?)-1903 (New York: T.A. Wright, 1905), p.15. Hereinafter cited as The De Riemer Family.</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1739] Howard S.F. (ed. from a manuscript by T. de T. Truax) Randolph, "The House of Truax", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.57, 58 (1926, 1927): 57:217. Hereinafter cited as "Truax, NYGBR 57 (1926-27)."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S2668] Dorothy A. Koening and Pim Nieuwenhuis, "Catalina Trico from Namur (1605-1689) and Her Nephew Arnoldus de la Grange", New Netherland Connections Vol.1 no.3 (1996): page 62. Jasper Dankaert's Journal. Hereinafter cited as "Trico, NNC 1 (1996)."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1591] Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.10. Hereinafter cited as MDC.</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:28. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1739] Howard S.F. (ed. from a manuscript by T. de T. Truax) Randolph, "The House of Truax", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.57, 58 (1926, 1927): 58:78. Hereinafter cited as "Truax, NYGBR 57 (1926-27)."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:97. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:177. Parents Mr. Paulus Van der Beeck, Maria. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1654] James R. Gibson, "Some Records of the Beekman Family", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.19, pp.41-52 (April 1888): p.42. Hereinafter cited as "NYG&BR 19:41-52."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:178. Parent Willem Beeckman. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:181. Hieronymous; parents: Hendrick Van Bommel, Roselle du Trieux. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 6:44. Marritje; parent: Andries de Haes. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1631] "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 6:93. Isac; parents: Pieter Bujou, Francyn Boujas. Hereinafter cited as "BDC."</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S2935] A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), page 114. Femmetie; parents: Dirck Janssen, Marritie Teunis (from the ferry). Hereinafter cited as OFDRC Brooklyn.</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1193] Frederic Ellsworth Kip, History of the Kip Family in America (n.p.: unknown publisher, ca. 1928), p.43. Hereinafter cited as Kip Family in America.</span></span></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[S1739] Howard S.F. (ed. from a manuscript by T. de T. Truax) Randolph, "The House of Truax", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.57, 58 (1926, 1927): 57:218. Hereinafter cited as "Truax, NYGBR 57 (1926-27)."</span></span></span></div> <div> </div> </div>
<strong> Isaac</strong>, son of Jesse and Marie (du Cloux) De Forest, was baptized at Leyden, Holland, July 10, 1616. With his brother, Henry, then thirty years of age, Isaac, who was ten years his junior, quitted Amsterdam, October 1, 1636, in a small vessel called the"Renssalaerwyck," which belonged to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first patroon. They reached New Amsterdam in safety and settled upon the broad fertile flat called "Muscoota," now the site of Harlem, upper New York City. Henry had a grant of two hundred acres; Isaac, a strip of one hundred acres along the Harlem river and part of the later day Morris Park. Henry, the wealthier and apparently the abler of the two brothers, died July 26, 1637. The interests of his widow were safeguarded by Dominie Evarardus Bogardus, as her attorney. She married again. Isaac was still unmarried, and for several years remained at Harlem raising tobacco and selling it at New Amsterdam for transport to Holland. On June 9, 1641, he married "Sarah du Trieux of New Amsterdam, spinster," daughter of Phillip du Trieux and Jaqueline Noiret, founders of the Truax family of America. He became a wealthy tobacco dealer and brewer of New Amsterdam, and was appointed in 1658 by Governor Stuyvesant and council a "great burgher." When the English fleet took New York in 1664 he was one of the persons of distinction seized and held. His will is dated June 4, 1672. He died in 1674. His widow died in 1692. Their children were: <ol><li>Jesse, born 1642, died young;</li><li>Susannah, born 1645, married Peter De Reimer;</li><li>Gerrit, born 1647, died young;</li><li>Michael, born 1649, died young;</li><li>John, born 1650, "chivurgeon," [i.e., chirurgeon] or physician;</li><li>Philip, born 1652, a cooper;</li><li>Isaac, born 1655, a baker;</li><li>Hendrick, born 1657, a glazier;</li><li>Maud, born 1666, married Bernard Darby;</li><li>David, born 1669, a glazier.</li></ol>
Hendrick (De Foreest), came from Utrecht; owned a bouwerie on Manhattan Is., and died in 1638; his second son, Isaac, a brewer, married Sara Du Trieux, or Truax, at New Amsterdam, June 9, 1641, and their son, Philip, baptised July 28, 1652, removed to Beverwyck, where he was a cooper.
<font size="4">GENERATION IX -<strong> Isaac De Forest</strong><strong><font face="Times New Roman">, </font></strong><font face="Times New Roman">son of<strong> Jesse Deforest </strong>and <strong>Marie du Cloux</strong>, was born in Leyden, Holland on 17 July 1616.<strong> </strong>(From "Defreest Family History" except where noted otherwise.) He arrived from Leyden, Holland, on 5 March 1637. Isaac made the voyage aboard the Ship <em>Rensselaerwyck. </em>This ship was jointly owned by Isaac's uncle, <strong>Gerard DeForest</strong> and <strong>Killian Van Rensselae</strong>r. It was Isaac who founded the DeForest family in the United States. Isaac married </font><strong><font face="Times New Roman">Sara du Trieux </font></strong></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">on 9 June 1641. Sara was one of the first born children in the New Amsterdam Colony in 1624. Isaac and Sara had fourteen children. Of the fourteen, four sons were responsible for the four main branches of the DeForest Family and the various spelling found today in the United States. Isaac established himself as a "free merchant." He was a tobacco planter for a number of years. Isaac bought and sold beaver skins, as well as land. He lent money and was a large-scale brewer. Isaac became one of the Nine Men in 1952.The purpose of this board of men was to give opinions on matters submitted by the Director and Council. A few years later, Isaac became a Schepen. In 1644, when the English took control of New Amsterdam, they took Isaac prisoner, but he was quickly released. Isaac died on 25 July 1674. He was probably buried in the Old Grave Yard of the Dutch Reformed Church. [Some of the data in this paragraph was a part of the data Kevin DeFreest of Randolph, New Jersey, provided in the submission -- and acceptance -- of Isaac DeForest in "America's First Families Ancestor Roll of Honor." "The Defries Family - Descendants of Gilles DeForest," says Isaac was born on 10 July 1616 and died in 1674 in New Amsterdam, New York. It also says that he married Sara du Trieux on 9 June 1641 in New Amsterdam, New York and that she was the daughter of<strong> Phillip du Trieux </strong>and <strong>Susanna du Chesne</strong>.<br>The children of <strong>Isaac DeForest</strong> and<strong> Sara du Trieux</strong>, as stated in "Ancestors of Asher DeFrees" :<br>+1.</font><strong><font size="4"> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">Isaac DeForest</font></span></font></strong><font size="4"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000"> </font></span> died in 1700 in New York, New York [He was born born 25 April 1655 in New Amsterdam, New York, see the next generation, below.<br> 2.<strong> Hendrick DeForest </strong>died in Madman's Neck, Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He married on 5 July 1682 in New Amsterdam, New York, Femmetje [female] <strong>Phoebe Van Flaesbeck</strong>, born on 23 January 1660/1661 in Breukelen, Kings County, New York.<br> 3. <strong>Jesse DeForest</strong> was born on 9 November in<strong> </strong>New Amsterdam, New York. He died in 1642 in New Amsterdam.<br> 4.<strong> Gerrit DeForest </strong>was born 21 May 1646 in New Amsterdam, New York.<br> 5.<strong> Gerrit DeForest </strong>was born on 10 June 1647 in New Amsterdam, New York<br> 6. <strong>Marie DeForest </strong>was born on 10 January 1648/1649 in New Amsterdam, New York.<br> 7. <strong>Michael DeForest</strong> was born on 10 January1648/1649 in<strong> </strong>New Amsterdam, New York. He died young.<br> 8. <strong>Jan DeForest</strong> was born on 27 March 1650 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died on 8 June 1673 in New York, New York. Jan married on June 1673 in New York, New York, <strong>Susanna Verlet.</strong> She was born in 1650.<br> 9. <strong> Philip DeForest</strong> was born on 28 July 1652 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died on 8 August 1727 in Albany, New York. He married on 5 January 1675/1676 in Rensselaerwyck, New York, <strong>Tryntje Kip</strong>. She was christened on 2 February 1904.<br> 10. <strong>David DeForest</strong> was born on 1 August 1660 in New Amsterdam, New York. He married <strong>Temmetje Flaesbeck Bamns</strong>.<br> 11. <strong>David DeForest</strong> was born 17 December 1663 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died about 1663.<br> 12.<strong>Marie DeForest</strong> was born 7 July i666 in New Amsterdam, New York. She died on 15 June 1687 in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. Marie married first on 15 June 1687 in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, <strong>Bernard Darby</strong>. She married second in 1706 <strong>Isaac De Riemer</strong>. He was born on 27 February 1613/1614 in Amsterdam, South Netherlands. Isaac died in New York.<br> 13. <strong>David DeForest</strong> as born 7 September in New Amsterdam, New York. He died in 20 April 1721 In Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. David married in 1696 in Stratford<strong>,</strong> <strong>Martha Blagge</strong>.<br>The children of <strong>Isaac DeForest</strong> and <strong>Sara du Trieux</strong>, with some differences from listing above, are from "The Descendants of Gilles DeForest" :<br> 1. <strong>Jesse de Forest</strong> was born on 9 November 1642 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died in 1642 in New Amsterdam.<br> 2. <strong>Gerrit de Forest</strong> was born on 21 May 1646 in New Amsterdam, New York and died about 1646.<br> 3. <strong>Gerrit de Forest</strong> was born on 10 June 1647 in New Amsterdam, New York.<br> 4.<strong> Marie de Forest </strong>was born on 10 January 1648/1649 in New Amsterdam, New York.<br> 5. <strong>Michael de Forest</strong> was born on 10 January 1648/1649.<br> 6. <strong>Jan de Forest</strong> was born on 27 March 1650 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died on 8 June 1673. Jan married <strong>Susanna Verlet</strong> on 8 June 1673 in New York, New York.<br> 7. <strong>Phillip de Forest</strong> was born 28 July 1652 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died on 8 August 1727 in Albany, New York. Phillip married <strong>Tryntje Kip </strong>on 5 January 1675/1676 in Rensselaerwyck, New York.<br>+8. <strong>Isaac de Forest </strong>was born on 25 April 1655 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died in 1700 in New York, New York.<br> 9. <strong>Hendrick de Forest </strong>was born on 9 September 1657 in New Amsterdam, New York. He died in 1715 in Madman's Neck, Hempstead, Long Island, New York. Hendrick married <strong>Femmetje Phoebe van Flaesbeck</strong> on 5 July 1682.<br>10. <strong>David de Forest</strong> was born on 1 August 1660 in New Amsterdam, New York. 7 December 1663 in New Amsterdam, New York. He married <strong>Femmetje Flaesbeck Bamns</strong>. <br>11. <strong>David de Forest</strong> [sic] was born 17 December 17 December 1663 in New Amsterdam, New York<strong> </strong>and died about 1663.<br>12. <strong>Marie de Forest</strong> was born 7 July 1666 in New Amsterdam, New York. She married first <strong>Bernard Darby</strong> on 15 June 1687 in New Amsterdam, New York<strong> </strong>and married second <strong>Isaac de Reimer</strong> in 1706.<br>13. <strong>David de Forest</strong> [sic] was born 7 September 1669 in New Amsterdam, New York and died 20 April 1721 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut. He married <strong>Martha Blagge </strong>in 1696 in Stratford. </font></font><p align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></p>