Part IV – New Amsterdam records – below

My work transcribing (parts of) the manuscript of House of Truax continues. This entry contains notes of various court records in New Amsterdam mentioning Philippe. These are the only known way of tracing our ancestor in the New World, so these slivers are quite valuable.

A question was asked about why Truax describes Philippe as a “Huguenot-Knickerbocker” – good question. I welcome comments and discussion on this!

Now, on to the transcription…

New Amsterdam records

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His [blogger’s note: I cut off part of the page, but this is certainly talking about Director Willem Kieft, who was governor from 1638-1647] first step on his assumption of the reins of government was to organize a council of which he should retain the entire control,” and, among other appointees mention is made of Philippe de Truy as “Courts messenger.” His duties consisted of serving summons, making arrests levying executions, ec., and were similar to those of a Marshall or a Constable of the present day.

The court proceedings in “Council Minutes of N. Y.,” on p 65, contains the following:-

1638 Sept. 2. “Symon Dircksen Pos vs. Philip de Truy, action of debt; claim cancelled on defendant delivering to the plaintiff all the fish in his house.”

1638 – 4^th October. In “Valentines Manuel” of 1863, page 596 appears the following:-

“Philippe de Truy, the messenger, appeared and made solemn declaration that he went on the order of Rev. Bogardus, to the house of Anthony Jansen of Salee to beseech him to pay the money for which he was delinquent, and that said Anthony said in answer, if the minister requires the payment of the money at once, then I will rather lose my head than pay him, and if he insists on this course of procuring his money, it may yet cause an effusion of blood.”

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In the “Calendar of N. Y. Hist. Mss. Dutch 1630-1631 [?] appears the following:-

“1639 Mar. 30. P. 6 Declaration. Thomas Sanderson as to words between the wife of Anthony Jansen and Philip de Truy.”

“1639 Aug. 15. P. 10. Declaration. Philip de Truy, Peter van der Linde, and Jan Hendricksen, that Edward Wilson had kicked the wife of Truy’s gardner.”

1639 August 15^th. “Philippe de Truy was 52 years old.” (“Albany Records”, p. 150)

(Note) Both of the historians, “Riker” and “Pearson”, gives the year 1585 as the date of the birth of Philippe. The above record makes his birth approx.[?] in the year 1586-7.

1640 Dec. 14. P 15. “Declaration. Philip de Truy, Juriaen Rodolff and Hans Schreuder, as to the testamentary disposition of his effects, made by Juriaen Gerles.”

1641 Oct. 15. P 17 “Receipt of Peter Andriessen for a milck cow from Philip de Truy on shares.”

1649 July 23. P 47. “Power of attorney. Cornelis Segersen of Rensselaerwyck, to Philip de Truy, to collect a debt of Jacobusoan Curler.”

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1645 – 29^th August. “O’Callahan’s History of New Netherlands,” contains the following on page 258 of Vol. I.

“Philippe de Truy, the court messenger, was ordered to invite the citizens to assemble in the Fort on the next day, at the hoisting of the color and the ringing of the bell, to hear the articles of the proposed treaty of peace read, when they were assured that if any one could give good advice, he might then declare his opinion freely.

After all were assembled, having religiously smoked the great calumet (Indian pipe of peace), they concluded in the presence of the sun and of the ocean, a solemn and durable peace with the Dutch, and both contracting parties reciprocally bound themselves honorably and firmly to maintain and observe.”

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]

Happy Hunting!

House of Truax – Church records

July 26, 2015July 27, 2015 / jannetjeb / 11 Comments

This is a continuation of my Truax transcriptions.

Part I – House of Truax – Etymology

Part II – House of Truax – Historical

Part III – Church records – below

House of Truax – Church records

p. 58

Records from the Dutch church at Leyden, Holland

1584. Jennie du Trieu, joins the church by letter from Bruges.
1585. October 2d. Peronne Brunne, wife of Jacques du Trieu, joins the church from Antwerp.
1601. April 22d. Jacquemine, widow of Philippe du Trieux, joined the church by letter from Norwich, Eng. Doubtless, she was the mother, or may have been the grand-mother of Philippe, who married Susanna Chene, and who came from Norwich and settled in Leyden at the same time. [Blogger’s note: I do not think this is at all “doubtless.” It is pure speculation. I have so far seen no indication that Philippe came from Norwich, much less at the same time.]
1607. Easter. Marie du Trieu joins the church on profession of faith.
1612. Easter. Antoinette du Trieu, was inscribed a member.
1613. December 29th. Jan, son of Jean and Marguerite de Trieu, was baptized. One Jan or Jean du Trieu, (see Baird’s Huguenot Emigration, Vol I, pp 348 & 351), a wool comber, with wife and five children, was one among others, who, in 1621 signed a document declaring his intention to go with a colony to Virginia. [Blogger’s note: this would be interesting to chase.]
1615. Easter. Elizabeth and Daniel du Trieux were inscribed members of the church.
1615. October. Cateline du Trieu, became an inscribed member of the church.
1618. December. Jaques du Trieu, was also an inscribed member of the church.
1619. July 4th. Jenne, daughter of Jen du Trieu and Marguerite de la Lew, was baptised.

p. 59
1619. February 10th. Jaques, son of Pierre du Trieu was baptised.
1620. Easter. Matthieu and Maria du Trieux were inscribed as members.

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Amsterdam, church records

1611. February 10^th. Anne, daughter of Jaques du Trieu, was an inscribed member of the church.

Family of Philippe du Trieux

1616. January 3d. Philippe, was baptised, a son of Philippe du Trieux and Jacqueline Noiret.
1619. February 10th. Philip, was baptised, a son of Philippe du Trieux and Jacquemin Nouret.
1620. February 9th. Madelein, was baptised a daughter of Philippe du Trieux and Jacquemin Noiret.

Jacomyntie see first generation.

p. 61

Jacomyntie du Trieux

perhaps a daughter of Philippe and Jacqueline Noiret married Jean de Mareetz.

They had issue as per “Doep Boeck” of the old Dutch Church of N. Y., and contained as follows in the “N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record”.

Ouders	Kinders	Getuygen
Vol 7. P 131 (350) den 18 Aug. Ao 1669. Jean de Mareetz Jacomyntie Duuns	David	David de Mareetz
Vol 7. P 166 (357) den 18 Jun Ao 1671.Jean de Mareetz Jacomina de Terreu	Johannes	David de Mareets de Jonge Magdaleentie de Terneu (Perhaps a dau of Philippe du Trieux [&] Jacquemine Noiret, and sister of Jacomyntie du Trieux).
Vol 8. P 87 (376(a)) den 12 Oct Ao 1675 Jean de Mareetz Jacomyntje du Trieux	Sara	Samuel de Mareetz, en sy huysvrouw

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 ]

House of Truax – Historical

July 21, 2015July 21, 2015 / jannetjeb / 12 Comments

This is a continuation of my Truax transcriptions.

Part I – House of Truax – Etymology

Part II – House of Truax – Historical – below

This is going to be another short one. As soon as I saw that it was tracing a possible line of descent from royalty, I skipped ahead and saw that there was no evidence other than a similar name. We simply have no basis at this point for claiming a royal line. Mr. Truax, however, provides tantalizing clues to those who might wish to chase this possibility (not me)!

p. 16

Historical

In a genealogical research for data, especially through antique tomes of the old world, one is liable – like a drowning man – to grasp after any friendly straw floating near that might seem to give him succor. So, with the editor of this volume, who has been drifting for years in deep water, generally at the ebb; sometimes at the flow; but now, at the flood of the tide – in quest of the etymology, or the earliest data approximating the name known to-day as that of Truax or Truex.

The first historical mention thus far discovered by the editor, of any name approximating that known as Truax, is that of Dreux, which appears as an individual surname in the latter part of the 12^th century , while the surname du Trieu appears about two hundred years later, and both in the same province of France.

While the fact remains that during the last five centuries, the surname in question, having undergone …

p. 18 is a chart showing “The above genealogical alinement [sic] of the royal line of descent from King Louis VI, of France, is verbatim from ‘Storvis [sic: Stokvis]-Manuel D’Historie [sic: Histoire] de Genealogie,’ etc; vol II, p. 108, now (1907) in the ‘Astor Library,’ N. Y. City.”

[Note: sadly, The Astor Library is no more; however the book mentioned is held by the NYPL; catalog entry http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b19836996~S1]

[That book is online at http://fmg.ac/resources/scanned-sources/category/28-stokvis and an image of the relevant page is below.]

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 ]

House of Truax – Etymology

July 19, 2015August 6, 2025 / jannetjeb / 13 Comments

Hello all!

I recently went to the New York Public Library for personal research and examined the Truax genealogy files. I’m transcribing and posting what I found in the hopes that it might help other researchers – much as Theodore de T. Truax, Howard S. F. Randolph, Allan L. Truax, and others did a century ago.

Please note that my interest – Philippe’s daughter Maria – is not much covered, so I have little of the generations which are in the files. There is so, so much more in the file available to the visitor! Be warned that these files are kept offsite and must be requested in advance.

Without further ado, my first House of Truax transcription: Etymology. (Theories as to the origin of the name.)

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 ]

pp. 11-12

Etymology.

That branch of philology which treats more specially of the derivation, structure or growth of names points to different localities in France for the origin of the name du Trieux (Truax), which the phonetics, or mouthing of successive generations have so corrupted that it would be scarcely recognized by the greater majority of its wearers to-day.

At first glance one would seem to think the name had its birth in the north western part of France in the Trieux valley along the Trieux river which is so beautifully described in the following extract from a work by Mrs. Palliser, entitled “Through Britanny and its Byways.” She writes:

“Pontrieux, a place of considerable commerce; is a beautiful small town nestled deep within a richly wooded and cultivated valley, known as the Trieux valley. Through this valley with its fur-clothed banks, winds the silvery waters of the Trieux river, a favorite fishing stream of considerable size, affording trout, salmon and dace. On the summit of a hill or rock overhanging the banks of, and defending the entrance to the river Trieux, stands a Chateau, the former residence or habitation of a Knight of the sixteenth century (now occupied by peasants), with its ramparts still paced by sentries. The walls of this Chateau are fifteen feet thick on the river front; and, a chapel hewn into the thickness of the wall is lighted by a Gothic window which overlooks the beautiful valley and graceful windings of the river Trieux.”

The following excerpt in support of the above fact, is from a communication written to the Editor in 1902, by M. Louis A. Lurienne, a native of France, commissioned by his government as United States Manager of the French Cable Company to America. He writes:

“There is, as a fact, in the Department of Cotes-du-Nord and the Province of Britanny in the north western part of France on the Saint Brieuc Bay in the English channel, a river named Trieux, 50 to 60 kilometers (30 to 40 miles) long which runs through the town of Guingamp and empties into the manche not far from Paimpol at Lezardrieu in front of the island of Brehat at the point of Sillon-de-Talbert after passing La Roche Derrien.”

“This river Trieux does not flow through the towns of Pontrieux (a bridge), nor Portrieux (a port). The latter being a small sea-port and bathing place about 10 kilometers (15 miles) on the Bay of Saint Brieuc, while Pontrieux is in the interior, between Saint Brieuc and Pontreiux, about six kilometers (three to four miles) from the river Trieux, and near a tributary of the latter, named Leff, which flows through Chatelaudren.”

From the north western part of Franc; M. Lurienne points us for additional data, to the south easterly part of France; thence to the extreme north western part; in either of which places or localities the name may have had birth; continuing, he writes;

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Adding links to the series:

The Ancestor Whisperer

formerly janetbgenealogy

du Trieux

House of Truax – New Amsterdam records

House of Truax – Church records

House of Truax – Church records

Records from the Dutch church at Leyden, Holland

Amsterdam, church records

Family of Philippe du Trieux

Jacomyntie du Trieux

House of Truax – Historical

Historical

House of Truax – Etymology