Claude (le Maistre) de le Metre (abt. 1620 - abt. 1683)

Born about 1620 in Richebourg, Artois, Pas de Calais, Grand Nord, France

Ancestors

Husband of Louise Quennell — married 29 Oct 1638 in Canterbury, Kent, England

Husband of Jeanne de Lannoy — married 19 May 1648 in Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands

Husband of Hester (Du Bois) du Bois — married 24 Apr 1652 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Descendants

Died about 1683 at about age 63 in Harlem, New York City, Province of New York

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Biography

Name

Claude or Glaude le Maitre aka De La Matter, La Maitre, or Delamater

Claude signed his name as "Gilande Le Maistre"^[1].

"The name Delamater, was originally Le Maitre (the Master or Lord) also De Le Maitre, De Maitre, De Maistre, and finally became quite extensively spelled in the family Delamater, thus anglicising it, by incorporating the phrase "De Le" changed to "De La" into the surname. Some spell the name De La Matei." -- from "Genealogy of Descendants of Claude Le Maitre (Delameter)," page 3.

Claude Le Maistre (Delamater),^{[2] [3]} born 1620, was a native of Richebourg, in Artois, France and the ancestor of the entire Delamater family in the United States. An exile from his home at Richebourg, in Artois, it was while living in the Loyerdwarsstraet, at Amsterdam, April 24, 1652, that Claude married as his second wife Hester Du Bois, a daughter of Pierre Du Bois, (his first wife was Jeanne De Lannoy). Claude and Hester made their home at Flatbush (Midwout), from 1652 till 1662; where four of their children, Jan, Abraham, Isaac and Susanna were born. While there Claude worked as a carpenter. With Meyndert Coerten, Walraven Luten, Pierre Billion and others, he applied, August 22, 1661, for land on Staten Island; but only Billion and Luten settled there, while he and Coerten soon came to Harlem, where Delamater served four terms as a magistrate, between 1666 and 1673. He bought two allotments of land, from Daniel Tourneur, for which he took out a patent June 25, 1668. In 1675 he was chosen a deacon, but his sympathies were with the French church and service, whence arose the controversy with the town regarding the parish clerk's salary, which so disturbed his latter years. If impetuous, Glaude was not incapable of generous acts when approached kindly; and his obstinacy in maintaining what he conceived to be his rights can hardly be deemed a defect in his character. He died in or about 1683, his years having exceeded three-score and ten. After his death, Hester married Jan Tibout, the parish clerk.

Birth

1611 in Richebourg, Artois, France

1620 in Richebourg, Artois, France

Parents

• Father: Guillaume le Maistre

Marriages

1) Louise Quennell, born ca. 1615 at Richebourg, Pas de Calais, Artois, France, on October 29, 1638 in Canterbury, County, Kent, England. Louise died May 6, 1646, aged 31, at Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands ^[4] England. Claude moved to Canterbury England where he married and had children.^{[5] [6]}

Children by Louise Quennell were^[7][8]

1. Susanne, baptized 28 February 1640/41 as daughter of Claude Mettre and Louyse Couelle; sponsors: Jacques Caulet; Pierre du I-lo; Jacquemeinne Cauelle; and Susanne le Houc. d. A daughter of Glaude le Mettre died 29 March 1642.^[9][10]
2. Marye, baptized 11 May 164-3 as daughter of Glaude le Maittre; sponsors: Piere de la Pierre; jean Manneque, young man; Marye, wife of jean Manneqe; and Marye Feret, daughter of Vincant. d. 10 Sep 1643 in Canterbury, Kent, England^[11][12]
3. Abraham - b: 6 May 1646 in Leiden, Zuid, Holland, Netherlands c: 6 May 1646 in Leiden, Zuid, Holland, Netherlands ^[13][14]

None of the children seem to have survived. Deaths may have occurred in Kent, England and Leiden, Zuid Holland...what happened to this family?

Claude is often confused with another Claude le Maistre who lived in Canterbury during the approximate same timeframe and had three children by his wife Mary as recorded at the Walloon Church:^[15]

1. Marie, baptized 6 March 1630/31 as daughter of Claude le Maistre.
2. Pierre, baptized 17 February 1632/33 as son of Glaude le Mettre and Marye, his wife.
3. Claude, baptized 1 November 1635 as son of Claude le Mestre.

All three of these children as well as Claude and the wife Mary are recorded in the Walloon Church registers with deaths prior to our Claude's marriage to Louise:

A child of Glaude le Maistre died 20 February 1636/37.

A child of Glaude le Maistre died 22 February 1636/37.

Claude le Maistre died 12 September 1638.

A child of Glaude le Mestre died 19 September 1638.

The widow of Glaude le Mestre died 10 October 1638.

2) Jeanne de Lannoy on May 19, 1648 at Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands.^[16] After the loss of his wife, Jeanne de Lannoy, and their children, Claude Le Maistre moved to Amsterdam, Tranner's Cross Street, Netherlands. Then he married another Huguenot refugee, Hester DuBois, on April 24, 1652 .^[17]. No children have been found from his marriage to Jeanne de Lannoy.

3) Hester/Ester Du Bois on April 24, 1652 at the Walloon Church, Amsterdam, Nord Holland, Netherlands.^[18] Hester born Oct 1, 1625, at Canterbury, England to Pierre du Bois (1598-1680) and Catherine Wibaut Clarisse (<1603-1633); died ca. 1710, at New Haerlem, New York^[19]

Immigration

Claude and Hester immigrated in May of 1652 to Midwout (Flatbush), Brooklyn, New Amsterdam in Nieuw Nederland (New York in 1664).^[20]

Children

Children of Claude and Hester (DuBois) Le Maistre:

1. Jan, born in 1653, baptized March 9, 1653, married Ruth, daughter of Resolved Waldron, August 11, 1678^[21], had nine children, and died 1702.
2. Abraham, born at Flatbush, in 1656, removed in his early manhood, with his brother Jacobus, to Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y. He there married, June 18, 1682, Celeste, daughter of Cornelius Vernoy, and had four children. He married a second wife, Elsie, daughter of Jurian Tappan, and Avidow of Hillebrant Lechier, about 1692, having five children. A magistrate and elder at Kingston, and prominent in public affairs, he closed a useful life November 20, 1734.
3. Isaac de La Maistre, born 1658, married Cornelia Everts (Van Ness), of Albany, about 1681; he served the town in various offices; his home was in Harlem; their children were: i. Hester, baptized April 7, 1683, at Albany, married first Simon Van Ness, from that place, January 15, 1701, but in 1716 a farmer at Newark, N.J., and second, Frans Spuys, October 4, 1733.; ii. Evertie, baptized January 14, 1685, married Bernardus Verveelen, April 6, 1713, had eight children.; iii. John, b. baptized January 16, 1687, married Annatje Waldron, June 11, 1714, had ten children, and died about 1743; iv. Abraham, baptized March 29, ^[22] , married Catharine, daughter of Johannes Benson, February 21, 1718, had four children, and died December 8, 1771. Was owner from 1727 to 1742 of the Louvre, or Jones' Woods Farm. He lived for some years at Tappan, N.Y., but returned to New York, where he died.; v. Isaac, baptized March 29, 1693^[23], married Belitie Waldron, August 9, 1717, had four children; vi. Rebecca, baptized November 25, 1696, married Captain Isaac Delamater, October 20, 17 17, had fourteen children; vii. Jacob, born April 9, 1699; viii. Susanna, who married Johannes B. Waldron, June 5, 1719, had five children; ix. Cornelia, who married Cornelius Ouackenbos, June 16, 1726, had one child.
4. Susanna, born 1660, married Arent Harmanse Bussing, February 24, 1673, had three children. ^[24]. Susanna died sometime before Mar 31, 1678, when her husband remarried^[25]
   
   
5. Hester, born 1662, married Moses Le Count, had four children. He of Kingston, N.Y.
6. Jacobus Delamater, born 1665, at Harlem, married at Kingston, September 23, 1688, Gertrude (born 1666), daughter of Martin Cornelisz. Ysselsteyn (Esselsteyn), of Claverack. He was a trustee of Kingston, and a firm supporter of the church there for some years, till he settled in Marbletown upon land (296 acres) bought in 1715, and where he died in 1741, leaving this property to his sons Isaac and Martin, and a farm at Claverack to his eldest son Claude. Had ten children.

Religion

Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant Christian: On 23 July 1664, 17 Harlem residents of both sexes had their names transferred to the register of the Reformed Dutch Church at Fort Amsterdam, among those listed were "Claude le Maistre and Hester du Bois his wife.

In 1675 he was chosen a deacon, but his sympathies were with the French church and service, whence arose the controversy with the town regarding the parish clerk's salary, which so disturbed his latter years.

Occupations

In France and England he was a Grosgrain (silk) worker. From 1652 to January of 1666, he was a carpenter and farmer-land owner in Midwout/Flatbush, Kings County, New York Province. He sold two farms in Kings County, Long Island, on 1659 and 1662. This corresponds to his removal to New Haerlem on Manhattan island in New York City. Starting in January of 1666, he was an overseer in Haerlem, a job he ended in December of that year. From 1666 to 1673 he was a magistrate in Haerlem, New York, New York.

Court Cases

Claude de La Maistre was not only a magistrate for three terms but also a defendant in the court. From ^[26]

.... On the same date (the 8th) the court-room witnessed an unusual scene. Pierre Cresson three years before had leased his farm to Claude Delamater, and things had not gone smoothly between them. In a sharp dispute about one of the oxen, which, as appeared, had died through Delamater's neglect, the latter called Cresson "a villain for driving away his wife." Mrs. Cresson was spending a season at Esopus. Coming into court with his complaint, where Delamater was sitting as one of the magistrates, the usually amiable and prudent Pierre, overcome by anger, told Claude that "he ought to slap his face." Delamater pretended forgetfulness, but remembered that plaintiff had called him names too. The court regarding both parties at fault, fined each 12 gl. and costs. Unhappily this did not end the quarrel between the Walloon and Picard.

.... The ill-feeling between [Pierre] Cresson and Delamater again showed itself when the term of three years, during which the latter had worked Cresson's farm, was closing. The court had ordered payment for the lost ox, but one of the farm tools was found broken. On September 1st Pierre in open court demanded his tools of Delamater, who was seated on the bench with his brother magistrates. Claude answered that the broken tool was at the smith's, being mended. The court, hearing what passed between the parties, referred them to their agreement of September 5th, 1667, but put the court charges upon Cresson. Shortly after Claude sent Pierre word by the constable to come and examine his tools. Cresson would do no such thing but again went to the court room, October 6th, and repeated his demand for the tools. Delamater now promised to send them by his son; but the court, to vindicate its injured dignity, directed Pierre to fetch the tools himself from the defendant's house, and fined him 12 gl. and costs of suit.

.... This chapter of incidents may fitly close with a glance at the village of New Harlem as it was in the autumn of 1673 .... [L]et us first note the occupants of the principal dwellings ere we cross the threshold, to explore the humble sphere of their domestic economy .... Demarest's neighbor, over the cross-street, is Claude Delamater, recent magistrate, testy but kind-hearted.

.... The following day Joost Van Oblinus made complaint that having sent Adrian Sammis, his wife's brother, living with him, to pasture the cattle "upon the point over against Simeon's land," he had been beaten off by Claude le Maistre with a stick.* Le Maistre said that he chased the cattle from his own fence, and not from that of the point, and admitted to have struck Adrian, but not with a stick. Poor Adrian, who could not speak for himself, being "deaf, dumb, and paralytic," had two good witnesses, Esther Tourneur and Cornelia Waldron. Esther being called in, said that Adrian coming along the fencing with the cattle, she saw that Claude had beaten him with a stick. Cornelia testified the same, and that Claude ran after them. The Court condemned Le Maistre "in an amend of 6 gl., to the behoof of the church here, with the costs hereby accruing." He was also directed to "draw in his fence by the point of his meadow forthwith, within the time of two months, without longer delay."

.... A summons had been issued to Claude Le Maistre, pursuant to a motion of the constable, Oblinus, passed at the July term, to the effect that the old verdict of July 12, 1677, against George Haff and Tileman Jacobs Vandcr Mycn .... Le Maistre, be confirmed, and the debt, 85 gl., collected by execution. Le Maistre not appearing, the Court proceeded in a body to his house, but found him as unwilling as ever to admit the claim, he telling them, among other things, that he had "nothing to do with the town or town books." On this they proceeded to attach and seize three pieces of new linen, which they measured in the presence of witnesses, and found to contain 56 ells. Notice was then given by the constable, and also posted up in writing, that on Thursday, the 18th instant, Delamater's linen, unless redeemed, would be publicly sold. But the very next day (August 5, 1682), John and Isaac Delarnater, in behalf of their father, came and recovered the linen, giving security for the debt and costs, 93 gl. 10 st. So this vexatious matter, many years pending, was finally arranged; the brothers duly met their obligation, and Claude having died, his account with the town was closed by John Delamater paying a small balance "for his mother," October 3, 1685.

Land transactions

LA MAISTRE, LE MAISTRE, or LA METER, GILANDE or CLAUDE, m. Hester Du Bois; conveyed Sept. 13, 1659, to "Baertelt Claesen" (Van Ruynen) his bouwery on the W. side of the highway in Flh; as per p. 13 1/2 of Lib. B of Flh rec. July 31, 1662; he sold to Joncker Balthazer Vosch (Balthazer Vosch Junr) a farm of 21 morgens in Flh, as per p. 105 of Lib. B of Flh rec. Oct. 12, 1665, he and w. joined the D. ch. of N. Y. Issue:- (sup.) Johannes, bp. Mar. 6, 1653, in N. A. Signed his name "Gilande Le Maistre."^[27]

Death

1683 in Harlem, New York, Province of New York^[28]

Notes

Note: Claude Le Maitre/Delamater was born in France. Because of religious persecution he moved to Canterbury, England, and a few years later to Holland (Netherlands), and then in 1652 to Midwout/Flatbush, Long Island, Nieuw Nederland. Ten years later they were among the early settlers at Harlem on Manhattan Island.

Research Notes

Claude Le Maistre b: ca 1610 in Richebourg, Artois, France.

Claude Le Maistre died ca 1683 in Harlem, NY. On 23 July 1664, 17 Harlem residents of both sexes had their names transferred to the register of the church at Fort Amsterdam, among those listed were "Claude le Maistre and Hester du Bois his wife." Earlier, in the 1640s, according to Riker, he "fled as a refugee to Amsterdam, probably with his [first] wife, Joanne DeLannoy. She must have died, for he married at Amsterdam on April 24, 1652, Hester DuBois. He migrated to New Netherland later that year and settled at Flatbush, L.I. He worked as a carpenter. In 1661 he applied for land on Staten Island, but removed to Harlem, N.Y. instead. He served four terms as a magistrate at Harlem between 1666 and 1673. He bought two allotments of land from Daniel Tourneur for which he took out a patent June 25, 1668. In 1675 he was chosen a deacon, but his sympathies were with the French church and service, whence arose the controversy with the town regarding the parish clerk's salary, which so disturbed his latter years. If impetuous, Claude was not incapable of generous acts when approached kindly, and his obstinacy in maintaining what he conceived to be his rights can hardly be deemed a defect in his character. He died circa 1683, his years having exceeded three score and ten. Claude DeLamater, or LeMaistre as he was then called, had issue with his second wife Hester as follows: Jan, Abraham, Isaac, Susannah, HESTER and Jacobus. (James Riker, History of Harlem, [1904], p. 493).

Sources

1. ↑ Bergen Page 180
2. ↑ Riker: Page 493-495
3. ↑ Delamater: Page 17-18
4. ↑ GENI---Louise Delamater (Quennell)
5. ↑ Genealogy Report: Descendants of Guillaume LeMaistre
6. ↑ Louise QUENNELL (1617-1647)
7. ↑ Louise Quennell---by Virginia Koepplinger
8. ↑ [http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/l/a/n/Paul-Bernard-Lane-Huntington/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0062.html My Genealogy Home Page:Information about Louise Quennell
9. ↑ Collections NY Gen. & Biog. Soc.: Vol. 124, Page 15
10. ↑ Todd Is Out of His Tree
11. ↑ Collections NY Gen. & Biog. Soc.: Vol. 124, Page 15
12. ↑ Todd Is Out of His Tree
13. ↑ Todd Is Out of His Tree
14. ↑ “Baptism Waalse Kerk.” Dopen Vrouwekerk 1 Augustus 1627 - 1646., www.erfgoedleiden.nl/. Archiefnummer: 1004, Gemeente: Leiden, Inventarisnummer: 271, p. 183. Baptism of Abraham
15. ↑ Collections NY Gen. & Biog. Soc.: Vol. 124, Page 15
16. ↑ Genealogy Report: Descendants of Guillaume LeMaistre
17. ↑ “New Light on the European Origins of the Delamater and DuBois Families,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical record v 124, Jan 1993.
18. ↑ Delamater: Page 9
19. ↑ Claude (Glaude) le Maistre
20. ↑ Delamater: Page 7
21. ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record: 1678 11 Aug; Jan de La Maistre, jm van Midwout; Ruthje Waldron, jd van N. Yorke, woonende op N. Haerlem
22. ↑ NYRDC Bapt. Record: 1693 Mar 29; Isaacq de La Maistre, Cornelia Everts; Abraham (twin); Adolf Meyer, Johannes Waldron, Maria Ver Veelen, Anna Gerrits
23. ↑ NYRDC Bapt. Record: 16931693 Mar 29; Isaacq de La Maistre, Cornelia Everts; Isaacq (twin); Adolf Meyer, Johannes Waldron, Maria Ver Veelen, Anna Gerrits.
24. ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record: 1673 24 May; Arent Hermanszen, jm in't Graefschap Benthem; Susanna La maistre, jd van Midwout, op N. Haerlem
25. ↑ 1678 31 Mar; Arent Hermanszen, wid Susanna La Maistre; Divertje Lubberts, jd van N. Haerlem
26. ↑ Riker: Page 337
27. ↑ Bergen Page 180
28. ↑ Findagrave Record

• Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society (New York, 1993)
• Church Records: Samuel S. Purple's 'Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York, Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801.'; The beginning records show the date the Banns were registered, NOT the date of marriage. Starting on 9/20/1673 marriage dates are given.

• Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem (New Harlem Publishing Company, New York, 1904)

• La Fayette De La Mater. Genealogy of descendants of Claude Le Maitre (Delamater) (Albany: J. Munsell's Sons, 1882) **An interesting book capable of providing more accurate information relating late 1700's and 1800's family members. Short of fact at the beginning. Quick-803 17:03, 19 October 2015 (EDT).

• Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., from Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700: With Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies, Compiled from Various Sources. (New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.)

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• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Nam Claude LeMaistre Delamater Arrival Year 1652 Arrival Place New York, New York Source Publication Code 9448 Primary Immigrant Delamater, Claude LeMaistre In the years from 1925 to 1942, Frederick A. Virkus edited seven volumes with the title, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, published in Chicago by the Institute of American Genealogy. Each volume has a section in the main body of the work, co VIRKUS, FREDERICK A., editor. Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986. Page 25

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