Part I – House of Truax – Etymology
Part II – House of Truax – Historical
Part III – House of Truax – Church records
Part IV – House of Truax – New Amsterdam records
Part V – House of Truax – First Generation
Part VI – House of Truax – Truax Genealogy (Land Records)
Part VI – House of Truax – “First” Generation – Maria – below

Let’s try to finish the “First Generation” tonight. I am intrigued by the mention of my ancestor Maria – it says here she was perhaps an older sister of Philippe, but this is later corrected – hang tight. (SPOILER: She turns out to be second generation.)

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First Generation

Maria du Trieux (Peek), perhaps an elder sister of Philippe, was the widow of Cornelius Volkertse when she married Jan Peek in New Amsterdam, on the 20^th of February 1640. In 1664 she was called “one of the oldest inhabitants of New Amsterdam[“]; as per Prof. Pearson, who further says:
“Jan (Peek), an early settler of New Amsterdam, where for many years he and his wife kept an inn. Frequent prosecutions were instituted against them for selling spirits without license, and for selling to the Indians. In 1655 he sold two houses in Fort Orange (Albany) to Johannes Dyckman for 1627 guilders. The creek at Peekskill takes its name from him.”

“Maria Peek, wife of Jan, late in life resided in Schenectady, perhaps with her son Jacobus.”

They had issue as per the “N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Records of the Reformed Dutch ch. Of N. Y.”

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1654. Nov. 9. “Maria de Truwe def’t in action. On the petition of Mary de Truy ordered:- Petitioner is referred to Govert Loockermans and Isaack de Foreest, guardians of the minor children. Signed “Mary de Truwe, wife of Jan Peeck.” (See records of “New Amsterdam” Vol I, p 261. Also for other matters, see pp. 265, 268, 270 and 272. Ibid, Vol III, pp 168 and 409. Ibid, Vol IV, p 343 and Vol II p 184).

1661. Thursday Nov 8. One Mary de Truy, widow, requests the appointment if Isaack de Foreest and Govert Loockermans as guardians of her minor children. Estate also has a mortgage on house of Andries Joghims. (See “N. Y. Year Book of the Holland Society,” 190_, p 121, from “Minutes of Orphans Court” in City Clerks office of N. Y. City).

Source:

Truax, T. de T., House of Truax. “Bien faire et ne rien craindre.” Historical Genealogy of the Truax-Truex Families of the United States and Canada, descendants of Philippe de Trieux, the first Huguenot-Knickerbocker of that name who settled in New Netherland in 16__ and embracing his posterity to the present date a period of nearly three centuries of Twelve Generations. Manuscript. From New York Public Library, Call No. NYGB Coll-94 Box 1 and Box 2.http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b18209329~S1 . (Accessed 18Jul2015)

[An interesting history of this manuscript can be found athttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~truax/TheHouseofTruax.html]