Johannes Huyck (abt. 1590 - bef. 1657)

Born about 1590 in Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

Descendants

Died before 5 Jul 1657 before about age 67 in New York

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Biography

Jan Huygen came from a prominent family in Wesel. In 1608 he married Sybilla Raet, daughter of Arndt Raet. Her sister Gerdrudt married Peter Minuit. After Peter Minuit took his leadership role in the New Netherland colony, he arranged for his brother-in-law to come to the colony as the storekeeper, and also to serve as a sieckentrooster or krankenbezoeker. This position, roughly translated as seeker-out of the sick, was a combination lay preacher and male nurse. This was a recognized ecclesiastical office in the Reformed Church, permitted to hold church services, lead psalm singing, to perform marriages and baptisms, and read spiritual texts and commentaries to the people, but not allowed to administer Holy Communion.^[1][2] Jan Huygen was examined April 2, 1625, and approved by the Consistory of Amsterdam for services in New Netherland. He probably traveled to New Netherland on the Arms of Amsterdam with de Rasiere, arriving July 28, 1626.^[2]

His emigration to New Amsterdam in the ship "Seagull" landed 4 May 1626 on Manhattan Island. He became "Koopman" or keeper of the stores in the fort which guarded the settlement of 30 rude houses of bark. It is stated that Jan and Peter were Wallons [sic] (Belgians) and spoke and wrote only in French. Jan served as lay reader in Church services.^[3]

Name

Jan "Huijke" or Huygen or Huyck

Immigration

On May 4, 1626, 30 families, including Johannes and Lisabeth Huyck, arrived in the New World. Many of the families were Walloon, from the French/Flemish border. It has been stated that both Peter and Johannes spoke and wrote French only. Although the expedition was Dutch, the first colonists were Dutch Huguenots who had gone to the Netherlands for religious freedom. ^[3]

Second Marriage and Later Death

Jan Huijgen married Lisabeth Peters as his second wife, date and place uncertain. He died before 5 July 1657, when Lisabeth Peters and Dirk Weijerts registered their intentions of marriage in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam; the record of their intentions identifies her as the widow of Jan Huijgen.^[4]

Some histories and genealogies have mistakenly identified Lisabeth as a sister of Peter Minuit. This theory may have originated with Cuyler Reynolds.^[5] This mistake may derive from sources that indicate that Jan Huyck was a brother-in-law of Peter Minuit, which information was interpreted to mean that the wife of Jan Huyck was a sister of Pieter Minuit. To the contrary, Jan Huygen and Peter Minuit were brothers in law because they married sisters. Jan Huygen married Sybilla Raet, daughter of Arndt Raet, and Peter Minuit married Sybilla's sister Gerdrudt Raet.^[6]

Death

Died 1657 in New York

Sources

1. ↑ Inventory of the church archives of New York city. Prepared by the Historical records survey, Division of professional and service projects, Work Progress Administration. New York City, New York, August 1939. page 1.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wardell, citing information online Aug 1999 from Scott Herrington (Arizona State University), citing C.A. Weslager, A Man and His Ship: Peter Minuit and the Kalmar Nyckel, 1989.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Quoted from Descendants of Hendric Huyck.
4. ↑ Purple, Samuel S., editor. Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. 1. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890. page 21.
5. ↑ Reynolds, Cuyler Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 4 volumes, 1911). vol. 1: page 397
6. ↑ Wardell, citing information online Aug 1999 from Scott Herrington (Arizona State University), citing C. A. Weslager, A Man and His Ship: Peter Minuit and the Kalmar Nyckel, 1989.

• Descendants of Hendric Huyck, Fulton County, Ohio GenWeb site.
• Wardell, Patricia A. Early Bergen Families. File: BCFam-Huyk.pdf, page 3: "Huygen, Jan." Accessed 20 Jan 2017. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA. Ancestral File Number: R1JZ-KF
• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Huyck-85 created through the import of EED1.ged on Sep 15, 2011 by Richard Draper. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Richard and others.
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