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| Christina Vigne | see FAMILY TREE | |
Born: Abt. 1614 St Waast-La-Haut, Vallenciennes, Nord, France
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| Married: 1630 New Netherlands
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| Died: After 21 Feb 1662/63 Bushwyck, Kings, New York |
FATHER
MOTHER
HUSBAND
CHILDREN
1. Grietje Dircks
b. Abt. 1632
m.11 May 1658 Barent Van Flaesbeck
2. Magdalena Dircks
b. Abt. 1636
m. 24 Oct 1652 Cornelisz Van Dort
m. 3 Mar 1657 Herman
Rosenbrans
3. Sara Dircks
b. Abt. 1638
4. Rachel Dircks
bap. 8 Sep 1641
m. 11 Nov 1663 Jan Escuyer
5. Volkert Dircks
bap. 15 Nov 1643
m. Annitgen Phillips
6. Jacob Dircks
b. Abt. 1646
7. Ariaentje Dircks
bap. 21 Aug 1650
m. 25 Mar 1680 Charles Huysman
8. Jannetje Dircks
bap. 7 Dec 1653
m. 7 Oct 1674 Pierre Schamp
Christina Vigne
by Susan Brooke
Mar 2021
Christina Vigne was born in Valenciennes, France sometime between 1610-1614.
When her mother and her brother were bequeathing money to her and her siblings,
her name appeared after her sister, Marie, making it appear Maria was the
older sister. She came to New Amsterdam with her family around 1624 as a young
girl and married Dirck Volkersten around 1630. Her sister Maria's first husband
died leaving Maria a widow with a young child, and Maria remarried to Abraham
Verplanck about 1632. Their father, Guleyn Vigne, died about the same time
and their mother, Adrienne Cuvelier remarried to Jan Daman. Their mother made a
settlement on her four children
"with this provision that she and her future lawful husband, Jan Jansen Damen,
shall be bound to bring up the above named two children until they attain their
majority, and be bound to clothe and rear the aforesaid children, to keep them
at school and to give them a good trade, as parents ought to do." The four
children names were: Maria, Christina, Rachel and Jan. (1)
In
1638 they were all living in the same household. Maria now married to
Abraham Verplanck had three young children and was pregnant with her fourth.
Christina, married to Dirck Volkersten, also had three young children. Their
sister Rachel was fifteen and their brother Jan about fourteen. The household
consisted of six adults and eight children. Their step-father, Jan Damen, wanted
the married daughters out of his household.
Damen instituted proceeding against his (step) sons-in-law, Dirck
Volckertszen and Abraham Isaac Ver Planck, "to have them ordered to quit his
house and to leave him the master thereof". Volckertszen countered with a
suit for assault in which witnesses testified to an attempt made by Damen to
throw Volckertszen's wife "out of doors". It appears Christina had been injured.
(2)
Dirck Volckertszen and family moved to Green Point on Long Island and
the Ver Plancks moved to Paulus Hook. Christina and Dirck had eight children,
but only four of their baptisms have been found so far. Christina was also a
witness to a couple of baptisms in 1643 and 1650. She was also a witness to the
birth of her daughter Grietje's child, Chrstina Hagel, in 1655. (3)
Their
second daughter, Magdalena Dircks, according to one report, "left her
record on the early Dutch manuscripts because of her quick temper, said to be
inherited from her mother Christina. --- Both she and her second husband were
constantly making, and in, trouble according to voluminous court records. --- In
1657 Magdalena was shipped back to Holland for "tongue wagging". But her
husband went over and brought her back and their son Alexander was bap 12 Apr
1659." Magdalena was also supposed to have been fluent in the "Indian
language."(4) Her first husband was killed in an Indian attack and she
experienced the massacre at Esopus in 1663.
The Indian Wars of 1643-1645
forced Dirck and Christina to return to Manhattan. They had a house where 259
Pearl St. is today. (5) (See map below)
Christina died sometime after
21 Feb 1663 when "the wife of Dirck Volkertsz" is referred to in
a Court proceedings as allegedly having slandered Jan Cornelis Zeeuw.
Zeeuw had been accused of hitting one of her children. (6) She is thought to
have been deceased by Apr 24, 1677 when Dirck Volckertszen distributed his
properties among his children without imposing upon them the obligation of
caring for their mother, as would be expected were she then alive. (2)
When her brother Jan Vigne died in 1689 his will left money to the children of
my deceased sister Christina Dircksen. (7)
Sources
(1) Word Document found on Ancestry.com
"Dirck Volgersen Noorman and Ariaentje Cevelyn, his wife's mother, came before us in order to enter into an agreement with her children whom she has borne by her lawful husband Willem Vienje, settling on Maria Vienje and Christina Vienje, both married persons, on each the sum of two hundred guilders ... and on Resel Vienje and Jan Vienje, both minor children, also as their portion of their father's estate, on each the sum of three hundred guilders; with this provision that she and her future lawful husband, Jan Jansen Damen, shall be bound to bring up the above named two children until they attain their majority, and be bound to clothe and rear the aforesaid children, to keep them at school and to give them a good trade, as parents ought to do." This agreement was dated "the last of April 1632," but was not recorded until 7 May 1638. [New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Volume 1, ed. and trans. by Arnold J. F. Van Laer. Baltimore, 1974, The editor, Van Laer, was of the opinion that the year 1632, given as the date of the document, is probably wrong and should be 1635 or later. The document was certified by William Wyman, blacksmith, and Jan Thomaisen Groen, and witnessed by Jacob Albertsen Planck who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1634 on the "Eendracht."]
(2)
Early Settlers of Bushwick, Long Island, New York and Their Descendants, Vol 1
by Andrew J. Provost, Jr. 1949
The date of Dirck's marriage in New
Amsterdam is approximately fixed by a deposition made by his wife's mother,
April 30, 1632, then the widow of Willem Vigne and about to marry Jan Jansen
Damen a wealthy citizen of New Amsterdam, in which she describes her daughter
Christina as a married person. Prior to this marriage, Dirck had lived in
New Amsterdam on a road fronting the East River in a house that he sold in 1645.
(New Amsterdam and Its People, p. 321 by John H. Innes).
Dirck and his wife
were living in the Damen home in 1638 when Damen instituted proceeding against
his (step) sons-in-law, Dirck Volckertszen and Abraham Isaac Ver Planck, "to
have them ordered to quit his house and to leave him the master thereof".
Volckertszen countered with a suit for assault in which witnesses testified to
an attempt made by Damen to throw Volckertszen's wife "out of doors".
Thereafter, intervals of family friendliness, and of quarrels over property
interests, appear to have existed from time to time until the estate was settled
in 1660. Damen had died in 1651, and his wife did not appear personally,
but were represented by counsel, one Augustyn Heermans to whom, Oct. 16, 1661,
Dirck conveyed "his certain fourth-part of the inheritance which belongs to him
from his wife's parents, except the one-eighths-part of a pasture field in
Maiden Lane in rear of Lysbet Tysen."
Little of record is found to indicate
closely when Christina Vigne may have died. Her appearances in the records
of the New Amsterdam Dutch Chuch include; Dec 12, 1645, when as a
baptismal sponsor she is amed as wife of Ditck Volckertszen; June 6, 1650, Dirck
de Noorman, and Christina his wife, sponsors for twin children of Jochem Kier (Caljer);
Dec 7, 1653, named as other of a child of Dirck Volckertszen; Sept 26, 1655,
co-sponsor with Jochem Caljer at baptism of her granddaughter Christina Nagel;
and in the Records of the Town of Bushwick, Feb. 21, 1663, "the wife of Dirck
Volkertsz" is referred to in a Court proceedings as allegedly having slandered
Jan Cornelis Zeeuw. However, in 1688 her brother Jan Vigne referred to his
sister Christina as being then deceased. Christina, although no
specifically named in the Court proceedings of 1663 must, in the absence of
other evidence, be tentatively identified as such wife, and considered to have
been then living. Her death appears to have occurred between Feb 21, 1663
and Apr 24, 1677 when Dirck Volckertszen distributed his properties among his
children without imposing upon them the obligation of caring for their mother,
as would be expected were she then alive. Christina was undoubtedly the
mother of all the children of Dirck Volckertszen hereinafter named as his issue.
(3) New York Baptisms
1643 Nov 15; Dirck
Volkertszen; Volckert; Cornelis Tienhoven-secretaris, Jans Janszen dam, Philip
Graer, Marie Philips
1650 Aug 21; Dirck
Volkertszen; Ariaentje; Jan Vinge, Claes Corszen, Lysbeth Cregiers, Aefje Van
Tienhoven
1643 Dec 14; Roelandt Hack Wardt; Jan; Abraham Isaac Planck, Christina Vynen, and wife of Dirck de Noorman.
1650 Jun 05; Jochem Kier; Dorothe (twin); Dirck de Noorman & wife Chrystyn,
Pieter Andrieszen, Daniel Sergiant, Elisabeth Cregiers, Claertie Ebels
1650 Jun 05; Jochem Kier; Michiel (twin); Dirck de Noorman & wife Chrystyn,
Pieter Andrieszen, Daniel Sergiant, Elisabeth Cregiers, Claertie Ebels
1659 Apr 12; Herman Hendrick Rosencrans, Magdalena Dircx; Alexander; Barent Gerritszen, Sara Dircx
(4) Imprints on the sands of time: left by certain Kelly's, Lampman's, Craig's amd Fergusons's by Henry R Kelly, 3rd edition 1972
Volckertsen - Again Josephine Frost's book "Ancestors of Edward Eldredge" is the source for some of the following-
Madalene (Magdalene) Volckertsen married 22 Mar 1657 Harmen Hendricksen (Rosekrans)
of Bergen in Norway, according to "Orphan Masters Records of New Amsterdam pp.
4, 29, 179, 192. " She has left her record on the early Dutch manuscripts
because of her quick temper, said to be inherited from her mother Christina.
Ensign Dirck Volckertsen, a Norwegian, was in New Amsterdam as early as 1638 and
18 May 1639 leased property on the Bowery. He married Christina
Vigne. He obtained a patent 3 Apr 1645 for 25 morgens on the East river
and Maspeth Kill, which he sold in 1653 to Jacob Haye. He was a ship
carpenter, lived various places and was assessed in Brooklyn in 1675 and its
magistrate in 1681. In 1689 he was appointed Ensign of Militia of the Town
In old documents he is frequently called Dirk, the Norman. He married
Christina daughter of Julian Vigne and Adriana Cuveilla. Date of death not
found. Vol. 9 N. Y. G. & B. in the list of old (AQ) members has Dirck de
Noorman en Maria Vigne wife, both deceased. Dirck Volckertsen was a
prominent farmer in Brooklyn at Bushwyck Creck and his house built in 1640 is
described in the provost Family History p. 77
In Vol. 90 N. Y. G. & B. is a
humorous and well documented article on "The First American Mrs. Rosecrans"
(Magdalena Volckertsen) by Mr. David V. Bennett. The evidence is that both
she and her second husband were constantly making, and in, trouble according to
voluminous court records. The following is excerpted - Magdalena Dircks,
styled "Flying Angel" in Dutch West Indies correspondence, daughter of Dirck
Volckertsen the Norman and wife Christina Vinge whose parents were Guillaume
Vigne and Adrienna Cuvelier per Journal of Jaspar Danchaerts 9/1679. She
was widow of Cornelis Hendricksen Van Dort, 1655. She refused the action
of the Court in appointing her uncle Jan Vigne the Schepen to look after her
affairs. The real rub between Magdalena and her uncle Jan was about the
estate of her grandmother Ariantje Cuvelier who died 1657. In 1632
Ariantje, about to be married to her second husband Damen, made settlement to
her children by Guleyn Vigne of 200 guilders each to Maria and Christina, both
married, and 300 guilders each to the unmarried Jan and Rachel. Maria's
husband Jan Roos of Harlem died leaving son Gerrit Janse Roos. Maria
married second Abraham Ver Planck of Edam who arrived in 1638 with his cousin
Jacob Planck, the first commis of Rensselaerwyck. The Dirck Volckertsen
and Abraham Ver Planck families lived with mother Ariantje and stepfather Jan
until later in 1638 when Jan threw them all out injuring Dirck's wife Christina
in the process. Volkerstsen then settled at Green Point across the East
river." In 1657 Magdalena was shipped back to Holland for "tongue wagging".
But her husband went over and brought her back and their son Alexander was bp 12
Apr 1659. --- Dirk Volkerstsen is on the Bushwyck L. I. assessment roll of
1675 but not of 1676. Magdalena spoke the Indian language fluently.
Husband Harmer Rosekrans died on or about 25 Jun 1692 but she lived 33 or more
years after.
(5)
Map of New Amsterdam
1660
The last record we have of Dirck's court experiences appears to make him the complainant against Jan Cornelis Zeeuw, a Bushwick neighbor, under an action in which Dirck alleged the defendant had given a beating to one of his, Dirck's children, and in which Zeeuw alleged that Dirck's wife had applied to him, Zeeuw, an insulting epithet. The dispute was referred to a board of Arbitrators, consisting of Pieter Janz Widt, Gysbert Teunisz and Barent Jossten, which, February 12, 1663, found: "that the above named occurrences shall be null and void without being recalled again, at this nor at any time, upon the penalty for who ever first makes mention, or touches thereon, of paying 25 guldens to the poor of Boswyck." Subscribed to by Jan Cornelis Zeeuw. Dirck Volkersz and by each of the arbitrators.
(7) Will of brother Jan Vigne on Wikitree
"In the name of God, Amen. Know all men whom it may concerne, that I, underwritten John Vigne, dwelling within this city of New York, considering the mortality of men... I leave to my cousin [nephew] Gerritt Jansen Roos, 56 pounds as a legacy before any division is made. I leave to Emmerantie Provost, daughter of Elias Provoost, procreated by Cornelius [Cornelia??] Roos, a parcel of ground, lying without the Wall of this city, in ye New Lots in ye street called Thienhoven street, whereof I have sold the first lot to Johannes Ellsworth, the second to Peter Pangborn, and this lot being the third lot in order and must be broad in front at the street and after, 25 Dutch wood feet, and long to the ground, granted to the late Governor Thomas Dongan...With this express condition that if she die in her minority, then it is to go to her sister Aeltie, and if she die, then to her brother Johanes. If he die, then to his brother Gerrit, and if he die in his minority, then to his mother Cornelia Roos, who has the power to sell it.
The remainder of the estate is left in 6 shares. To the children of my deceased sister Maria Ver Planck, the children of my deceased sister Christina Dircksen, the children of my deceased sister Rachel Van Thienhoven, Harme De Wolf, the children of Claas Wouterse Visser and the children of Aeltie Lamberts Wolf, on the express conditions that the three last shares, viz. Harme De Wolf, and the children of Claas Wouterse Visser, and the children of Aeltie Lamberts Wolf, shall be in room of 100 guilders made to them by the testament of my deceased wife, Emmerantie Van der Sluys, in case they will accept for it, which is left to their free choice.
I leave to my cousin [nephew] Isaac Ver Planck, my black cloth coat, and to my cousin Johannes Roos, my coat with silver buttons. And to the end that this my last will may be better performed, I have nominated and appointed my three cousins [nephews] Geritt Jansen Roos, Lucas Van Thienhoven, and Johanes Roos, executors. These present I declare to be my last will and testament, desiring ye same may be irrevocable. J. Vinge
Witnesses: Johanes Kip, Wm. Bogardus, Notary Public. Recorded in the Book of Wills, Per me Abraham Gouverneur, Clerk."
"An inventory of goods and estate of John Vigne, who died in this city the 21 of December, 1689, and taken by us, Geritt Jansen Roose, Lucas Van Thienhoven, together with John Roose, absent, living at Albany, December 30, 1689.
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