Marie (Blanchan) Crispell (1640 - abt. 1679)

Born 7 Mar 1640 in Armentieres, Flandre, France

Ancestors

Wife of Anthoine (Crispell) Crispel — married 31 Jan 1660 in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg (Germany)

Descendants

Died about 1679 at about age 38 in Hurley, Province of New York

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Biography

Marie Blanchan, daughter of Mathieu Blanchan (aka Matthew Blanshan), a Huguenot (Protestant) from Noeuville-au-Corne, Ricame, Artois, France, was born in Armentieres, in the province of Flandres francaises (Arrondissement de Lille), in March 1640. At the time, the town was under the rule of the Roman-Catholic Spanish Hapsburg dynasty. With increasing persecution of French Huguenots by both the Hapsburgs and the French monarchy (Louis XIII), the Blanchan family soon fled to Mannheim, a Protestant-held city in Baden-Wurttemberg (Germany). There, on January 13, 1660, Marie (aka Maria) Blanchan married Antoine (Anthony) Crispell, also a French Huguenot, originally from l'Artois province (Nord-Pas de Calais), France.

Anthony and Maria Crispell left for the New World on April 27, 1660 in "De Vergulde Otter" ("Gilded Otter"). They landed at New Amsterdam in New Netherland. Many French Huguenots settled in this Protestant-led Dutch colony. First going to Esopus, now part of Kingston, NY, the Crispell family settled in nearby Hurley. On June 7, 1663, when the Indians destroyed the village, his wife and infant daughter (Marie-Magdalene) fled. Anthony was captured by the Indians, but was soon released. The next year, the entire province was taken over by the English from Dutch rule.

Anthony & Maria (Blanchan) Crispell had the following children:^[1]

1. Maria Magdalene CRISPELL, christened: 12 FEB 1662 in Hurley
2. Peter CRISPELL christened: 21 DEC 1664
3. Lysbet (Elisabeth) CRISPELL christened: 3 OCT 1666; d: infant
4. Lysbet (Elisabeth) CRISPELL christened: 15 OCT 1668
5. Sara CRISPELL christened: 18 JUN 1671
6. Jan (Jean/John) CRISPELL christened: 21 JUL 1674 in Ulster, NY

Maria died about 5 years after Jan's birth in Hurley, Ulster, New York. Anthony then re-married to Petronella leMan (or deMond) in about 1680.

Antoine Crispell's will was dated November 6, 1707, probated June 10, 1708 in Curacao, D.W.I. [Dutch West Indies]. He is said to have died in New Palz, New York, where he and his 2 wives are buried with a memorial plaque.^[2][3]

Marie (Maria) Blanchan^[4]

ALT: Marie Crispell

Marriage: 13 JAN 1660 in Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden^[4]

Husband: Antoine Crispell

Immigration to New Netherland: April 1660

Death Date & Place: ca. 1679 in Hurley, Ulster County, NY

Sources

1. ↑ William Douglas Simms Genealogy on RootsWeb - Maria Blanchan. Cites primary & 2ndy Sources.
2. ↑ "The Van Benthuysen Genealogy," by A. S. Van Benthuysen and Edith McIntosh Hall (1953) pg. 458
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #8039380 Antoine Crispell. Photographs of grave marked (20th Century) at the Huguenot Cemetery, New Palz, Ulster Co., NY, USA.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Horton: Part II, "The Crispell Connection"

• Kimball G. Everingham's Genealogical Database on RootsWeb - Marie Blanchan. Cites several primary & secondary sources.
• Evans, Thomas G., The Crispell Family of Ulster County, N.Y., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890) Vol. 21, Page 84
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Ancestral File Number: 77JJ-N1: Ancestral File Number: G83N-PP
• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/21920874/family
• Horton, Monte., ""The Memory of the Just Is Blessed": The Ancestry and Extended Family of Chrétien du Bois, bailli, lieutenant, greffier, et receveur de la Comté de Coupigny, notaire, homme de loi, laboureur et marchand; Resident of Wicres, then of Herlies" in DuBois Family News, (June 2011–Feb 2013): 5–7; 3–6; 4–7; 3–6: http://www.dbfa.org/newsletter8archives.htm.
• Birth and death year (1640-1679) on findagrave.com. Find A Grave: Memorial #8039380 Antoine Crispell. Photographs of grave marker (20th Century) at Huguenot cemetery, New Paltz, NY.
• http://www.blanshan.com/Maria_Blanshan_Crispell.html - Includes photographs of cemetery and memorials.