DE LA MONTAGNE & VAN KORTRYK LINES continued

INDEX

TWELFTH GENERATION

2220. Dr. Johannes (/Jean Mousnier) De La Montagne

2221. Rachel De Forest

REF: http://www.gendex.com/users/pthree/SPRTS97/d0020/g0000009.html#I28932 http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/o/b/Steven-A-Robbins/GENE2-0012.html

de la Montagne -- The history of this ancient Languedoc family traces its ancestry as a family of French origin before the year 1100.

 

(2220) Johannes Mousnier de La Montagne accompanied (4442) Jesse de Forest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. De la Montagne returned to Leyden on the "Black Eagle" late in 1625, bringing with him the journal and maps of the exploration party with the sad news that (4442) Jesse de Forest had died in Guiana.

In 1628, (2220) Jean de la Montagne left with is young bride, de Forest's daughter (2221) Rachel, on the "Fortuyn" for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northwest of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Isle. Her husband probably returned in 1633 and appears on the register of the University of Leyden for the third time in 1636.

On September 25, 1636, de la Montagne sailed for America for the third time, this time with his wife and three children, on the ship "Rensselaerswyck", owned by the patroon Kiliaen Van Resselaer and by the de Forest family, whose leader was now Rachel's uncle (8885iii) Gerard de Forest. The de Forest group on the ship consisted of Rachel's brothers (4443iv) Henry and (viii) Isaac, as well as the de la Montagne family. (2221v) Maria, was born at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on March 5, 1637. In the New Netherlands, Dr. de la Montagne set up business as a physician and as a chandler. Henry de Forest died soon after arrival, and Dr. Montagne was forced to take charge of the de Forest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. The farm, called "Vrendendahl", included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, and First Councillor (1638-1656). Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the colony from 1656-1664, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the Dutch settlement at Beverwyck.

With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. Montagne had to resign as Vice-Director and dropped out of official records. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and it is believed that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. It is assumed that he returned to New York in 1668, like Stuyvesant.

SRC: Betty Tannahill Johnson betts@lewiston.com REF: http://users.lewiston.com/carmenj/Montanye.htm
 

2222. Anthony De Hooges/ De Hoogas

2223. Eva (/Aefje) Albertse Bradt (/Brad)

REF: http://www.goodnet.com/~gjbivin/genealogy/updegraff/fam00421.htm

"Anthony de HOOGES entered the employ of the the Patroon of Rensselaerswyck as under bookkeeper and assistant to Arent van CURLER. He sailed from Trexel, 30 July 1641, on "den Coninck David," the skipper being commanded to allow him to eat and sleep in the cabin. The translation of this order of the West India Company is as follows:

"The directors of the West Indian Company, Chamber of Amsterdam order and direct Job Arissen, skipper of the ship named "d' Co. David" to transport in said ship under his command and to permit to sleep and eat in the cabin the person of Anthony de Hogus in the service of Mr. renselaer and Johan Verbeck with his wife and daughter and maid servant, and Geertgen nanninx, with son and little daughter, provided he bring with [him] a musket or firelock and sword of [his] own, with his accompanying baggage specified below and marked with the mark of the Company; and for transporting these the skipper shall upon [declaration] signed by said Anthony de Hogus, be paid for board --- stivers a day, according to the amount agreed upon with Mr. renselaer for board of his colonists. Done at Amsterdam, the 10th of July 1641. ss. Fredr: Schulenbr:"

Anthony de Hooges brought letters of introduction to Director General William Kieft and also to Arent Van CURLER, to whom he was sent as an assistant. On his voyage (which was an unusually stormy passage), he kept a journal, which was sent to Killian Van Rensselaer and excerpts from which are printed in OLDE ULSTER HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, v.5, pp.240-245...

-- DeCoursey, Bill,"IT'S ABOUT TIME VOLUME IV" http://www.teachout.org/du/decoursey.html

2224. Bastien/ Sebastian Van Kortryk/ Van Kortrijk

2225. unknown

REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=14264610

NOTE: According to Riker's "History of Harlem" (1904), (1112) Jan Bastien Van Kortryk's parents retired and then moved to Leerdam (Prince's Land, because it was owned by Prince William of Orange) in circa 1615. There is a town caled "Kortryk" in the Netherlands, just 10 miles from Leerdam, founded by a Protestant. It may have been settled by people from Kortryk, Flanders (Around 1600, many polders were being reclaimed from the sea and many Walloons and other refugees were fleeing to Netherlands from Flanders).

"An Early History of the Courtright Family" shows (2224) Bastien's father as "Sebastian y Cortez", of Navarre, Spain. This is totally undocumented. It asserts that this "Cortez" fought for the Duke of Orange and that the town was named for him. The latter is untrue, however: Kortrijk dates from Roman times, when it was called Cortoriacum -- a Latin form of an old Celtic name. From Mar. 1578 to Feb. 1580, Calvinist "iconoclasts" occupied the town and plundered and damaged some churches. These "malcontents" were driven out, and King Philip II forgave the city for the damage. Possibly, our Sebastian was such a "malcontent".

Some light on Kortrigt origins might be shed by the yDNA analysis of a descendant of Jan Bastiaensen Kortrigt at the "Ysearch" website of Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd:

http://www.ysearch.org/lastname_view.asp?uid=&letter=&lastname=courtright&viewuid=MUXXR&p=0

Haplogroup

DYS
393

DYS
390

DYS
19/
394

DYS
391

DYS
385
a

DYS
385
b

DYS
426

DYS
388

DYS
439

DYS
389
-1

DYS
392

DYS
389
-2

DYS
458

DYS
459
a

DYS
459
b

DYS
455

DYS
454

DYS
447

DYS
437

DYS
448

DYS
449

DYS
464
a

DYS
464
b

DYS
464
c

DYS
464
d

DYS
460

H4

YCA
IIa

YCA
IIb

DYS
456

DYS
607

DYS
576

DYS
570

CDY
a

CDY
b

DYS
442

DYS
438

Courtright/ Curtright/ Kortright/ Van Kortryk/ Lowe Modal Haplotype

R1b1

13

22

14

10

11

14

12

12

11

13

13

28

17

9

10

11

11

25

15

19

32

15

15

17

18

11

11

19

23

16

15

17

18

37

39

12

12

The haplogroup is R1b1, which is associated with the original settlers of Western Europe, (ancestors of the modern-day Basque). After Indo-Europeans imparted their speech to these people, the Celtic branch of that language family was strongly associated with the group. Later, these Celts were conquered by the Romans and Germanic tribes, in turn; so that the original inhabitants learned to speak Romance and Germanic languages such as French and Dutch.

The haplotype is closer to the "Alpine" variety than to the "Iberian" type one would expect if the "Cortez" theory were correct. Countries of origin with the greatest percentage of close matches are: Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Italy, Wales and Scotland, in that order.

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