Person:Joris Rapalje (2)

! Married in Walloon Church in Amsterdam in 1623 and must have came to American soon after on the Unity or Netherland the first ship of the West India Company was was in Ft Orange in 1623 and in New Amsterdam in 1626

Joris Jansen de Rapalie was a French Huguenot from Rochelle in France who emigrated to America in 1623 in the ship Unity, a ship of the West India Company, and settled at Fort Orange (now Albany, New York), where he lived for 3 years. In 1626 he removed to New Amsterdam located on Manhattan Island, New York, until after the birth of his youngest child. He obtained from the West India Company a house and lot on Pearl Street where he lived for many years. The Pearl Street lot grant was confirmed to him with a deed dated March 13, 1647. On June 22, 1654 he sold his Pearl Street lot with its house that he had built-up to Hendrick Hendrickson.On June 16, 1637 he bought from the Indians a tract of 335 acres of land, he called Rennegaconock (now included within the town of Brooklyn, L.I., New York. In 1655 he became a Long Island resident for the rest of his life. He was a leading citizen, acted a prominent part of public affairs of the colony and served in the magistracy of Brooklyn. In 1641 he was elected by the people as one of 12 men to advise the Council regarding Indian policy. He died soon after the close of the Dutch administration. His widow, Catalyentie, daughter of Joris Trico, surviving him many years. She was born in Paris, France and died in Wallabout, New York, on September 11, 1689 at age 84.

Jorge (George) Jansen de Rappelje, Teunis Guysbert Bogart, and Jeremiah Remse Vanderbeeck, farmers from Waael in the Netherlands were the first men who began farming in the New Netherlands, at Wallabout, in 1625.

Joris Janszen Repalje, Huguenot, son of Jean, was baptized April 26, 1604 at Valenciennes. He was one of six children of Jean Rapareillet and his unnamed wife. He was baptized April 28, 1604, as entered in the Register of St. Nicholaes Roman Catholic Church of Valenciennes. Since 1668 Valenciennes has been in the Department du Nord of France. Previously it had been in Haincut, a province in the part of Spanish Netherlands.

The name of Joris appears as Georges, illegitimate son of Jean on the baptismal record. It was not unusual for Walloon and Huguenot parents to take their children to Roman Catholic priests to be baptized in the absence of Protestant clergy or to escape persecution. Similarly, it was not uncommon for the priests to refuse to recognize the validity of Protestant marriages, recording the children of such marriages as "illegitimate".

Joris, living in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1623, with his prospective bride, Catalina Trico, had been recruited with a number of other families, probably mostly Walloons, to go as colonists for the West India Company's venture in America. Their acceptance was subject to their being married before the ship's departure. To meet this requirement necessitated the publication of the intent to marry and the acturl marriage, a process which then usually required at least 3 weeks. The banns for Joris and Catalina were published on Saturday, January 11, 1624, and their marriage took place on Sunday, January 21, 1624 at the Walloon Church in Amsterdam. Joris was a weaver or textile worker, and Catalina was probably born in Pry, Belgium, not too far from Valencientes. Four days later, on January 25, 1624, the couple sailed on the Unity, Adrian Foriszen Tienpont, skipper. Few of their fellow passengers are known by name; though Sebastian Janszen Krol, John Monfort and his wife, Jacqueline Moreau, and about a dozen other families with marriageable daughters and sons , with 30 unaccompanied men, were aboard. Some were undoubtedly Walloons. The ship arrived in New Netherlands in late March or early April of 1624; and after a stay of just a few days, sailed up the Hudson River to Fort Orange (Albany), New York. These emigrants were the advance party for the colonization planned by the West India Company. Soon after the harvest of 1626, the Company resettled the 8 families living at Fort Orange, in Manhattan, which then became the center of operations for New Netherland. This included the Rapalje household which now included their first daughter, Sarah.

There were only 270 white inhabitants of Manhattan at that time, and sufficient land so that the families brought down river could support themselves and have sufficient left over for victualling the ships which would put into the port of trade. Since Joris could not ply his trade of weaving under the regulations of the West India Company, he found it expedient to support his family in other ways. He opened the first tavern shortly after arriving in Manhattan. He was a tavernkeeper as late as March 16, 1648 when he and 11 other tavernkeepers promised as true men to live up to the newly imposed rules in every way and as best they could. The extensive rules were designed to control "unreasonable and intemperate drinking" at night and on Sundays, and the owners of taverns were required to have some other legitimate occupation. Joris chose farming at first and went in for cattle breeding. In June 1637 Joris bought from the Indians a plantation at the cove which the Dutch named Wallabought. Many year later it became the site of the brewery. Until the farm was well established and showing a good profit, and until he had satisfactory buildings on it, Joris and his family continued to live on Pearl Street which ectended to Bridge Street where the Manhattan tavern flourished. In 1655 Joris moved his family to the farm, and remained living there until his death.[Woolley G.w Family Tree.FBK.FTW.lnk.FTW-3.FTW]

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• For more information, see the en Wikipedia article Joris Jansen Rapelje.

1.   The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent.

   John Blythe Dobson, "The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent," Annals of Genealogical Research Vol. 2, No. 1 (2006) at http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=10

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Joris Janssen "George" Rapalje, in Find A Grave.

   "He died at an election of church officers Feb 21, 1663."

3. ↑ Catalyntje’s Brave New World [1], in Serpent Publishing [2].

   "He died at an election of church officers on 21 Feb 1663"