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
Part VII – House of Truax – Second Generation (Philip, Rachel, Sara)
Part VIII – House of Truax – Second Generation (Susanna, Rebecca, Abraham)
Part IX – Randolph’s House of Truax – Introduction
Part X – Randolph’s House of Truax – First Generation
Part XI – Randolph’s House of Truax – Second Generation (Philippe, Maria)
Part XII – Randolph’s House of Truax – Second Generation (Sara, Susanna, Rachel) – below

Tonight is ladies’ night, as we hit three more of Philippe’s daughters. Next up are Abraham and Rebecca. Then we make some corrections before resuming. In the meantime, please witness Sara, Susanna, and Rachel, as contrasts to Maria. Then, I have not much of the manuscript remaining, but for miscellaneous notes – but interesting ones.

Randolph’s House of Truax – Second Generation – Sara, Susanna, Rachel

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6. Sara2 du Trieux, born in New Netherlands, as distinctly stated in her marriage banns. These banns were published on June 9, 1641, to “Isaacq de Foreest, j. m. Van Leyden”. Isaac de Forest was baptized at Leyden, Holland, July 10, 1616, and was a son of Jesse de Forest. The probable friendship of these two families in Holland has already been discussed. Isaac de Forest had immigrated with his brother Hendrick and his sister Rachel in the Rensselaerswyck, which sailed from Amsterdam on Sept. 25, 1636, and arrived at New Amsterdam March 5, 1637, after many delays. This family has been so fully written in “A Walloon Family in America” that it is only necessary to give an outline of it here. It would seem that Isaac de Forest had been a staunch friend of Maria Peeck through all her many vicissitudes. He was one of the witnesses at the baptism of her illegitimate child in 1640, a year before his marriage to her sister. He was the guardian of her minor children on her second marriage, and she constantly went to him for aid. He died in 1674. His widow, Sara du Trieux, or Sara Philips, as she was sometimes called, died on November 9, 1692.

Children: 14 (de Forest), 11 sons and 3 daughters, all baptised at New Amsterdam:-

21. i. Jessen3, bap. Nov. 9, 1642. Named for his grandfather, Jesse de Forest. Died in infancy.
22. ii. Susanna3, bap. Jan. 22, 1645; marriage banns to Pieter de Riemer, widower, Jan. 3, 1665.
23. iii. Gerrit3, bap. May 21, 1646; died in infancy.
24. iv. Gerrit3, bap. June 10, 1647; no further record.
25. v. Marie3, bap. Jan. 10, 1649; died young.
26. vi. Michael3, twin to Marie, bap. Jan. 10, 1649; died young.
27. vii. Jan3, bap. March 27, 1650; marriage banns to Susannah, daughter of Nicholas Verlet, June 8, 1673.
28. viii. Philip3, bap. July 28, 1652; married Tryntje, daughter of Hendrick Kip, Jan. 5, 1676.
29. ix. Isaac3, bap. April 25, 1655; married Sept. 4, 1681 Lysbeth, daughter of Lawrence Van der Spiegel.

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30. x. Hendrick3, bap. Sept. 9, 1657; marriage banns July 5, 1682, to Femmetje, daughter of Barent Van Flaesbeek.
31. xi. David3, bap. Aug. 1, 1660; died in infancy.
32. xii. David3, bap. Dec. 19, 1663; died in infancy.
33. xiii. Maria3, bap. July 7, 1666; married first June 15, 1687, Bernard Darby of London; married second, 1706, Isaac, son of Peter de Riemer (her sister’s husband – a son by his first wife).
34. xiv. David3, bap. Sept. 7. 1669; married about 1696, Martha Blagge.

7. Susanna2 du Trieux, born in New Netherlands; marriage banns July 31, 1644, to Evert Jansen Wendel. Evert Jansen Wendel was born in Embden, Friesland, in 1615. He came to New Amsterdam in 1640 in the service of the Dutch West India Company. About 1651 he removed to Fort Orange, and became prominent there. He was an elder of the Dutch church there in 1656; was appointed orphan-master in 1657; and was magistrate in 1660 and 1661. His wife died about 1660, and in 1663 he married second Maritje Abrahamse, widow of Thomas Janse Mingael, and daughter of Abraham Pieter Vosburgh, by whom he had four children. He married third Ariantje ___. He died in 1709, aged 94, and was buried under the old church then standing at the corner of Yonker and Handelaer Streets ,the present State Street and Broadway, in Albany. His will, dated June 30, 1663, speaks of his late wife Susanna de Truwe, and mentions his children Elsie, aged 16; Johannes, 14; Diewer, 10; Jeronimus, 8; Philip, 5; and Evert, 3.

Children:- 8 (Wendel), 5 sons and 3 daughters. The first four were baptised at New Amsterdam, and the last four were born at Fort Orange.

35. i. Thomas3, bap. Sept. 18, 1645. Name not given in baptismal record, but supplied by Talcott. Died young, as he is not mentioned in his father’s will. Witnesnse: Isaac de Foreest, Tryntje Roelofs.
36. ii. Elsje3, bap. Jan. 27, 1647. Witnesses: de Hr. Willem Kieft, Gouverneur, Isac de Foreest, Tryntie Roelofs. [Abraham Staats?]
37. iii. Johannes3, bap. Feb. 2, 1649. Witnesses: Philip du Trieux, Mr. Paulus Van der Beeck, Johannes Rodenburg, Marie en Sara du Trieux.
38. iv. Dievertje3, bap. Nov. 27, 1650. Witnesses: Susanna Philips (No. 7 of this genealogy). Died in infancy.
39. v. Dievertje3, born about 1653.
40. vi. Jeronimus, born about 1655.
41. vii. Philip3, born about 1658.
42. viii. Evert3, born about 1660.

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8. Rachel2 du Trieux, born at New Amsterdam; married first (banns) Sept. 30, 1656, Hendrick Van Bommel; married second, Aug. 8, 1677, Dirck Jansen de Groot. “Dirck Janszen de Groot, Wedr. Van Wybrug Jans, Rachel Detru, Wede. Van Hendr. Van Bommel, beyde woonende tot N. Yorke.”

Dirck Jansen de Groot was probably from Groet in North Holland, according to Bergen’s “Early Settlers of Kings County”, which also credits him with three wives, not realizing that Rachel Detru and Rachel Philips were one and the same person. They were living on Marketfield Street in 1686, according to Dimine Selyn’s Record. We have no record of any children by his first wife.

Children:- 10, 7 sons and 3 daughters. All baptised at New Amsterdam and New York.

By her first husband (Van Bommel).

43. i. Hieronymus3, bap. Oct 28, 1657. Witnesses: Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Trieux.
44. ii. Susanna3, bap. Jan. 25, 1660. Witnesses: Jan de la Montagne, Marie Peeck. No further record.
45. iii. Leurifaes3, bap. Aug. 20, 1662. Witnesse: Abraham du Trieux, Susanna de Foreest. No further record.
46. iv. Abraham3, bap. March 14, 1666. Witnesses: Jacob Kip, Maria Kip. No further record.
47. v. Grietie3, bap. July 1, 1668. Witnesses: Jacob du Trieux, Rebecca du Trieux. Probably died young (see No. 51).
48. vi. Philip3, bap. Feb. 18, 1672. Witnesses: Johannes de Foreest, Rebecca du Trieux. Died in infancy.
49. vii. Philip3, bap. Aug. 21, 1675. Witnesses: Philip de Foreest, Susanna Verleth. No further record.

By her second husband (de Groot).

50. viii. Jan3, bap. March 27, 1678. Witnesses: Jacob Pieterszen, Grietie J__. No further record.
51. ix. Grietie3, bap. Feb. 8, 1679. Witnesses: Johannes Thomaszen, Aech__ Jacobs.
52. x. Abraham3, bap. April 26, 1682. Witnesses, Pieter de Riemer, Be___ Ariaens. No further record.

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 at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~truax/TheHouseofTruax.html]