Family:Albert Ploegh and Rachel Pier (1)

Parents: Hendrick Ploegh and Tryntje Ostrander Albert Ploegh b. Abt 1673 Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States	Parents: Jan Theunissen and Maritje Jans Rachel Jansen Pier b. 1658 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands d. 22 Apr 1705 Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA

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Facts and Events

Marriage^[2]

17 Apr 1699

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Hendrick Ploegh	1700 Kingston, New York
2.	Teunis Ploegh	1701 Kingston, New York

References

Dutch Reformed Church (Kingston, New York), and Roswell Randall Hoes (ed.). Baptismal and marriage registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston: Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck and often familiarly called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660. (New York, 1891)
marriage # 143.

17 April 1699, Allert Hendricksen Ploeg, j.m., born and resid. in Kingstown, and Rachel Pier, widow of Arie Franssen, born in Amsterdam, and resid. here [in Kingston]. In the presence of Ariaan Roos, Geesje Pier, Maria Nucella, and Mary Singer, was Rachel Pier, with her chemise over her clothes, married to Albert Hendrickse Ploeg, by me [Domine] Nucella.
↑ "This curious custom, occasionally practiced in Great Britain and America, was based on an erroneous belief that a widow, when married in this manner, relived her new husband from all responsibility for debts contracted by the first husband." Footnote, Kingston Reformed Church Records