Grietjen Aertse (Tack) Tak (abt. 1663 - aft. 1720)

Born about Aug 1663 in Wiltwijck, New Netherland

Ancestors

Wife of Luur (Jacobsen) Van Kuykendaal — married 1681 in New York

Descendants

Died after 1720 after about age 56 in Machackemeck, Orange, New York

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Biography

Grietjen Tack was born in August 1663 at Wiltwyck, New Netherland (later to become Kingston, New York). She married Leur Jacobsen Van Kuykendal and was the mother of at least eleven children.

She was most often recorded with the name Grietje. Other variants of her given name found in contemporary records include Grietie and Margrietjen. In publications from more recent times, her name may be found as Margaret and other variant forms. She sometimes is designated with patronymic names such as Aertse, Aerts, Aertze, and Aartz, derived from her father's given name of Aart or Aert. During her life, she was recorded with her family name of Tack or Tak. Publications from more recent times sometimes give her the family name "van Kuykendal" (or variants) that her husband was occasionally called by and that was used by her descendants.

Baptism

Grietjen was baptized in the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, New York, in August 1663. ^[1][2] She was recorded as a child of Aart Pietersen Tack and Grietjen Vooght. Witnesses were Jacob Jansen and Barber Andries.^[1]

Parents

Her father, Aart Pietersen Tack, was in the Netherlands at the time of Grietjen's baptism, so he could not have been present for her baptism. He appeared before the Schepenen in Etten, Brabant, on 9 May 1663 and again on 23 June 1663, and was recorded as a passenger departing the Netherlands for New Netherland in January 1664 . To have been in Etten on 9 May 1663, he must have departed from Wiltwyck by February 1663. To have fathered Grietjen, he could not have left Wiltwyck before about December 1662.^[3] The identity of the woman, "Grietjen Vooght," whose name appears alongside his name on Grietjen's baptism record, has been a subject of speculation. This is not the name of the wife of Aart Pietersen Tack, who was Annetje Ariens. There is no other record of a Grietjen Vooght or anyone else named Vooght in the Kingston area. Gouverneur noted that "voogd" is a Dutch word meaning "guardian," and suggested that a woman named Grietjen (probably Geertje Jans, the mother of Annetje Ariens) was referred to as "Vooght" because she was acting as a guardian in the absence of the child's father. ^[4] In the following year, Annetje obtained a divorce from Aart Tack, complaining that he had deserted her and had married another woman in Amsterdam in Holland while still married to her. Some descendants interpret the names on Grietjen's baptism record as evidence that the child Grietjen was the product of an affair between Aart Tack and a woman named Grietjen Vooght, and suggest that this Grietjen Vooght may have been the woman who Aert Tack married in Holland.^[5] This interpretation is difficult to credit. New Netherland churches sometimes recorded the baptism of the child of an unmarried mother, with a record that typically indicates that the mother was not married and gives the name of the father (if the mother named the father). When a father is named, there may be notations about the repercussions for the named father (for example, whether he disclaimed fatherhood). Nothing in the record of Grietjen's baptism suggests that the mother was not married, or that the mother had identified another woman's husband as her child's father. Additionally, if Aert Tack had fathered another woman's child born in Wiltwyck in 1663, that adulterous relationship surely would have been mentioned in the complaints against him that Annetje presented in 1664 when seeking a divorce. Finally, since Grietjen's mother was busy having a child in New Netherland in August 1663 or thereabouts, it not plausible that she could have traveled Amsterdam to marry Aert Tack before he departed from the Netherlands in January 1664. Accordingly, Annetje Ariens is identified here as the mother of Grietjen Tack.

Marriage

Grietje Tack married Luer Jacobsen (a.k.a. van Kuykendael) by 1681 (based on baptism date of first child). They probably married in Kingston, New York in 1680 or 1681, during an interval for which marriage records have been lost. There are no known records of Kingston marriages in 1680 and only three records of marriages in 1681, all in last three months of the year.^[6]

Grietje and Luer appear to have resided in or near Kingston in the first few years of their marriage. The birth and baptism places recorded for some of their children indicate that they were in Rochester, Ulster County, by about 1690 and removed to the Minisink valley region by 1698.

Children

Children of Grietjen Tack and Luer Jacobsen were:^[7]

1. Styntie (Styntjen) (baptized 1682), married Jurian Abel Westvaal
2. Jacob (baptized 1683), married Adrientjen Tietsoort
3. Johannes (baptized 1685), died young
4. Cornelis (baptized 1686), married Jannetje Westvaal
5. Johannes (baptized 1688)
6. Mattheus (born about 1690-1692; no baptism record)
7. Arie (baptized 1694), married Margrite Quick
8. Pieter (baptized 1698), married Femmetjen Dekker, died 1778
9. Annetje (baptized 1700)
10. Sara (baptized 1702)
11. Seytie (baptized 1706), married Arien "Ary" Van Etten

These children's baptisms were recorded in the Kingston Old Dutch Reformed Church.

See also: Children of Luur Jacobsz van Kuijkendael and Grietjen Aartse Tack on WikiTree

Death

No reliable record of her death has been found. Contributors to this WikiTree profile indicated that she died in Machackemeck (in the Minisink region) in 1720 or on 1 July 1744, citing Internet "sources" including the Edmund West Family Data Collection on Ancestry.com. The Machackemeck location is likely to be correct. Kuykendall said that Grietje (who he called "Marguerita Tack Kuykendall") and her husband were "both living as of 1720." ^[8]

Church Records

Baptism

• 1663. Aug. Aart Pietersen Tack, Grietjen Vooght. Grietjen. Wit.: Jacob Jansen, Barber Andries. ^[1]

Children's baptisms

1. 1682. 2 April. Leur Jacobz, Grietie Aartz Tack. Styntie. Wit. Styntie Douwes, Claas Teunisse^[9]
2. 1683. 12 Aug. Luyr Jacobsz, Grietie Aartz Tack. Jacob. Wit.: Annetie Arys, Jacob Janz van Etten. ^[10]
3. 1685. 20 April. Leur Jacobz, Grietie Tack. Johannes. Wit.: Cornelis Aartz Tack, Sytie van Etten. ^[11]
4. 1686. 30 May. Leur Jacobz, Grietie Tack. Cornelis. Wit.: Andries Pieterz, Marritie Davidtz.^[12]
5. 1688. 30 Sept. Lur Jacobs, Grietje Arents Tack. Johannes. Wit.: Johannes de Hooghes, Johannnes Evers, Gritje Adriaens. ^[13]
6. 1694. 8 June. Leur Jacobsen, Grietje Tak. Arie. Wit.: Jan Van Etten, Jannetje Rosa. ^[14]
7. 1698. 1 May. Luir Jacobse, Grietje Tack. Pieter. Wit.: Pieter van Etten, Hyltje van Etten. ^[15]
8. 1700. 19 May. Luir Jacobsen, Grietje Tack. Annetje. Wit.: Willē vā Vredenburg, Cornelia Swart. ^[16]
9. 1702. 14 June. Luir Jacobsen, Grietje Tack. Sara. Wit.: Pieter van Etten, Eva de Hooges. ^[17]
10. 1706. 27 Oct. Leur Jacobse van Kuykendaal, Grietie Tak. Seytie. Wit.: Manuel van Etten, Antie Dovers. ^[18]

Baptismal witness

• 1720. 18 Sept. Ary Van der Merken, Zara Bont, Douwen. Wit: Jury Jacobsz a Kuykendaal. Margrietjen Tak. [Maybe this is her...] ^[19]

Research Notes

From merge: Birth Date 1663-05-29,1663-08-16 ,1663-08-16 Kingston, Ulster, New York. Death Date 1744-00-00 ,1720-00-00 Minisink, Orange, New York, USA Machackemeck, Orange, NY

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Hoes, page 3, #26; also see Image of page from published book of transcribed records. Note: Hoes indicates that the day of the month was torn off the record.
2. ↑ Member-contributed information for this profile included indications that Grietjen was born on 29 May 1663, 18 June 1663 (citing sources including the Edmund West Family Data Collection and Ancestry Family Trees), was baptized on 5 August 1663 (citing the Heritage Consulting Millennium File published by Ancestry.com Operations Inc.), or was baptized on 16 August 1663 (citing a Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application). None of the cited sources is a reliable source for 17th century New Netherland, and none of these specific dates is supported by any known contemporary record.
3. ↑ Gouverneur, pages 31-32.
4. ↑ Gouverneur, pages 31-32.
5. ↑ Profiles created to represent Grietjen Vooght include Vought-108 and Vooght-2.
6. ↑ Hoes, page 505. Note: Numerous internet "sources," including the Ancestry.com databases Edmund West Family Data Collection, the Millennium File, and Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, assert a marriage date in 1680 or 1681, but there is no indication that any of them have a basis other than a reasonable inference from the first child's baptism.
7. ↑ Kuykendall, pages 387-388
8. ↑ Kuykendall, page 46.
9. ↑ Hoes, page 61, No. 258.
10. ↑ Hoes, page 19, #318.
11. ↑ Hoes, page 24, #417.
12. ↑ Hoes, page 26, #470.
13. ↑ Hoes, page 32, #592.
14. ↑ Hoes, page 42, #805.
15. ↑ Hoes, page 52, #1022. Also see image of page from book.
16. ↑ Hoes, page 59, #1171.
17. ↑ Hoes, page 66, #1326.
18. ↑ Hoes, page 78, No. 1599. Also see image of page from book
19. ↑ Hoes, page 132, #2805.

• Gouverneur, Frans C.M. "Aert Pieterszn Tack". New Netherland Connections. Berkeley, CA: Dorothy A. Koenig, 1996-2010. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008. Vol. 7, no. 2, pages 29-36.
• Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (De Vinne Press, New York, 1891)
• Holman, Tyler (assembler). The Legal Documents of Aert Pietersen Tack. Assembled from Kingston Court Papers and other cited documents.
• Kuykendall, George Benson. History of the Kuykendall Family since its Settlement in Dutch New York in 1646. Portland, Oregon: Kilham Stationery & Printing Co., 1919. Pages 387-388.
• Wardell, Patricia A. Early Bergen County Families, File BCFam-T.pdf, "Tack, Arie/Aert Pieterszen" and File Kuykendaal.pdf, "Kuykendaal, Leur Jacobszen." Accessed 26 Jan 2017. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/

See also:

• Ancestry Family Trees. URLs: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/172521/person/249787554/facts and https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/172521/person/249664507/facts
• Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc

Acknowledgments

• Arletta Hudson
• Merry Kennedy
• Eric Shawula
• Ann Hise
• Richard Draper