Vincent de la Montagne - Biographical Sketch

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: New York Colony
Surnames/tags: Montagne Bruen

Introduction

This page includes biographical Information on Thomas Montagne (1691-1761) which was published in the book: History and Genealogy of the Earles of Secaucus, with an account of other English and American Branches by Isaac Newton Earle. History and Genealogy of the Earles of Secaucus, with an account of other English and American Branches, Marquette, Michigan: Guelff Printing Co., 1925. This is a "secondary" source and is provided for background information only.

CHAPTER SEVEN. THE MONTAGNE FAMILY.
Begins with this introduction on pg 361.

On Feb. 8, 1755, Morris Earle (abt.1734-1780) married Anna (delaMontanye) Earle (1737-1815), a lady of Huguenot extraction, of noble descent, and a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families in the early history of New York. The record of this marriage is on the register of the Old Dutch Church, New York, as follows: “Morris Earle and Johanna Moun- tany, Feb. 8th, 1755.”

As all the Earles of Marmaduke Earle Sr (1696-bef.1765) (Father of Morris) line known to us today, one of the most numerous branches of the Secaucus family, are descended from Anna de la Montanye, it will be of interest to a large number of our readers to know something of her ancestry.

We shall therefore pause to trace the rise of this stream, which had its fountainhead in hranee and which, in the person of our revered ancestress, is now about to unite with the English stream whose course we have been following.

The information on the Montanye Family is quite large so it has been divided up by person.

1. Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne - Biographical Sketch Settled in New Amsterdam in 1637 (pg. 362). Wikitree: Jean (Mousnier) de la Montagne Sr (bef.1595-abt.1670)
   
   
2. Jesse De Forest - Biographical Sketch - Came to America with the colony of Walloons, and Dr. Montagne accompanied them (pg. 364). WikiTree: Jesse (Desforetz) De Forest (1576-1624)
   
   
3. Jean de la Montagne Jr - Biographical Sketch The third son of Dr. Montagne and Rachel de Forest (pg. 378). Wikitree: Jean (Mousnier) de la Montagne Jr (1633-1672)
   
   
4. Vincent de la Montagne - Biographical Sketch, the second son of Jean de la Montagne, Jr., and Peternella Pikes (pg. 380). Wikitree: Vincent de la Montagne Sr (bef.1657-1735)
   
   
5. Thomas Montagne - Biographical Sketch A Son of Vincent de la Montagne born Feb. 15, 1691, Anglicized Surame: Montanye (pg. 381). Wikitree: Thomas Montagne (1691-1761)
   
   
6. Rebecca Bruen - Biographical Sketch The wife of Thomas de la Montagne (pg. 382). Wikitree: Rebecca (Bruen) Montagne (1691-1775)
   
   
7. Nelly Montanye - Biographical Sketch A daughter of Thomas Montagne, married Isaac Vredenburgh (pg. 388).
   
   
8. Rev. Benjamin Montanye - Biographical Sketch Another child of Thomas Montanye (pg. 388). Wikitree: Benjamin Montayne (1745-1825)
   
   
9. Rev. Thomas Benjamin Montanye - Biographical Sketch Son of Rev. Benjamin Montanye (pg. 391). No Wilitree Profile

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Vincent de la Montagne - Biographical Sketch

The second son of Jean de la Montagne, Jr., and Peternella Pikes was Vincent. He is referred to in Valentine’s Manual for 1862 in the following language:

“A grandson of John de la Montagne (Sr.), named Vincent, was born April 22, 1657, and died May 26, 1773, at the advanced age of one hundred and sixteen years.”

The latter part of this statement is incorrect, due to a confounding of two Vincents.

Vincent de la Montagne was a brickmaker, living, according to Pastor Henriens’ visiting list, in Nieuwe Straat (New Street). Afterwards he lived “at Sclavonia, in Bowery Division of Out Ward.” He was a constable there in 1695.

“Here, fourteen years later, his domestic peace was interrupted by the wiles on one Cordaz, a neighbor brickmaker, who, found guilty, was fined by the Court of Sessions. Vincent left the city, perhaps temporarily. He was living in 1713.”

Vincent married, March 5, 1684, Adriana, daughter of Jan Thomasz Aken, or, as it is given in the records of Dutch Church, New York, “Adriantje Jans.”

The mother of Adriana was Apollonia Swits, who was the daughter of Cornelis Claessen Swits and Airaantje Cornelis Trommels.

Swits was the son of Claes Cornelissen Swits, born in Switzerland. He was killed by an Indian on Manhattan Island, at Turtle Bay, in 1641. (Mentioned in this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War)

This unprovoked murder led to the Indian troubles which finally drove Doctor Montagne and other settlers from their homes.

Cornelis Claessen Swits was killed in battle with the Indians, on Manhattan Island, Sept. 15, 1655. His wife and daughter were taken prisoners by the Indians and not ransomed till the close of November of that year.

As these are our ancestors, their history, which Riker says, “challenges romance,” is of thrilling interest to us. What is known of it may be found in the “History of Harlem,” pp. 148 to 154, 178 to 186.

Vincent de la Montagne and Adriana Aken had eleven children.