ID: I12575
Name: Symonse Symonse GROOT
Given Name: Symonse Symonse
Surname: GROOT
Sex: M
Death: Y
Reference Number: 12575 1
Event: Early Schenectady settler
Presence 1645-1690 Schenectady, NY, USA 2
_UID: 4509ACE34696478592C47115AEF445135B1F
Change Date: 26 Oct 2002 at 05:46
Marriage 1
Rebecca TRIEUX
- Married:
- Change Date:
17 Aug 2002
Children
 Dirk Symonse GROOT
Sources:
- Media: Book
Abbrev: Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady from 1662 to 1800.
Title: Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady from 1662 to 1800.
Author: Pearson, Jonathan
Publication: Originally published in Albany, NY, 1873. Reprinted 1998 by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD.
Note:
Reprint in personal holdings. http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/firstsettlers.
Repository: Name: Internet Site
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- Media: Book
Abbrev: Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady from 1662 to 1800.
Title: Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady from 1662 to 1800.
Author: Pearson, Jonathan
Publication: Originally published in Albany, NY, 1873. Reprinted 1998 by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD.
Note:
Reprint in personal holdings. http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/firstsettlers.
Repository: Name: Internet Site
Note:
Sites on the World Wide Web, which may or may not continue to exist in the future.
Text: SYMON SYMONSE, the first settler, came early to New Netherlands in the service of the West India Company, as boatswain of the ship Prince Maurice. In 1645 he bought a house and lot of Jacob Roy, in New Amsterdam. Soon after he came to Beverwyck, where he purchased or built a house, which in 1654 he offered for sale. He had lately withdrawn from the service of the West India Company, against whom he then held a claim for services of 834 guilders. In 1662, being about to remove to the Esopus, he empowered Johannes Withart to sell his house and lot; but it is evident that he changed his purpose, for in 1663 he hired a bouwery of 25 or 30 morgens, of Gerrit Bancker and Harmen Vedderen, at Schenectady, and still retained possession of his house in Albany as late as 1667. His house and lot in Schenectady, was on the north side of Union Street, 100 Amsterdam feet westerly from Church Street, running through to Front Street, and remained in the family more than a hundred years. He m. Rebecca, dau. of Philip Du Trieux (Truax), court messenger of New Amsterdam, and had the following children: Symon; Abraham; Philip; Dirk; Cornelis; Claas; Susanna, who m. Isaac Cornelise Swits; Maria, who m. Daniel Janse Van Antwerpen; Rebecca, who m. Claas Cornelise Vander Volgen; Sara, who m. Arent Vedder. On the sad night of the 8th of Feb., 1690, his five sons, Symon, Abraham, Philip, Dirk and Claas were taken captive by the French and Indians, and carried to Canada; the following year they were redeemed.
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