Abigail
DeFreest
formerly Van Alstyne aka van Aalsteyn, van Aalstein, van Aelsteyn, De Forest
Born before in New York, Province of New York
Ancestors 
Daughter of Marten Janse van Alstyne
and Jannetje (Cornelisz) Bogart
Sister of
Cornelis Martense (van Aalstein) van Aalsteyn, Dirkje (Van Aalstein) van der Werke, Jacob Martense van Alstyne and Isaac Martensen Van Alstyne
Wife of
David DeFreest
— married
8 Nov 1718 in Dutch Reformed Church, Albany, Albany, NY
Descendants 
Mother of
Philip DeFreest, Philip DeFreest, Jannetje (DeFreest) Winne, Marten (Freest) DeFreest, Catharina DeFreest, Susanna (DeFreest) Fonda, Maria DeFreest and Jacob DeFreest
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Abigail van Alstyne / van Aalsteyn, daughter of Marten Janse van Alstyne and Jannetje Cornelisse Bogaert, was baptised on 20 January 1694/1695 at the Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, Albany, New York. [1]
Abigail was wed to David de Freest on 8 November 1718 at the Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, New York. David and Abigail had at least eight children: [2]
- Philip, baptised 21 Feb 1719, died young;
- Philip, bapt. 1 May 1720;
- Jeanetje (Jannetje), bapt. 11 Mar 1722;
- Marten, bapt. 14 May 1724;
- Catharine, bapt. 15 Sep 1728;
- Susanna, bapt. 26 Sep 1731;
- Maria, bapt. 21 Apr 1734;
- Jacob, bapt. 3 Mar 1737.
Sources
- ↑ Albany, New York Church Records, 1683-1700
- ↑ Reynolds Cuyler, Editor, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, pp. 447-449 [on-line] http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/deforest.html Text: "(IV) David, fourth son of Philip (of Albany) and Tryntje (Kip) De Forest, was a farmer. He married Abigail Van Alstyne, November 8, 1717. Marten, Philip and Jacob lived on adjoining farms in North Greenbush, Rensselaer county, New York."
Acknowledgements
- Thanks to Albertus for creating WikiTree profile Van_Alstyne-96 on 19 February 2015.
- The WikiTree profile Aalsteyn-1 was created on 13 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.
- Thanks to Peter Scheffer for adopting Aalsteyn-1 and merging it into Van_Alstyne-96 on 25 Aug 2015.
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edited by Albertus Robert Casimir (Fuller) Jung
It's not likely that David and Abigail were her parents, because their children seem to be rather well documented and there are no big gaps in their births. But the claim that she was born in the Netherlands is not a basis for making conclusions. From your experience of DeFreest research, do you know of other DeFreest families that are possible candidates for her? Any women named Sophie or Fytje or Elisabeth?
Her history (meager as it is) seems to have come from Canadian sources, which do not always correlate well with New York records (I imagine that the people who stayed in New York were not interested in documenting the lives of their cousins who joined the enemy and later went to Canada).