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The De Riemer Family The De Riemer Family A. D. 1640 (?)-1903 By Rev. W. E. De Riemer Edition of one ltundred copies Reprint from NEW y ORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPmCAL R.ECOIU> with additions New York Printed hy Tobias A. Wright 1905 PREFACE Any contribution to the early history of New York City­ first known as New Amsterdam-awakens peculiar interest. The pioneer men and women who laid the foundations or endured the hardships of life in the formative period of the Metropolis of the Empire State deserve to be held in grateful remembrance. These pioneers were not titled people. But few of them possessed wealth. They were quite unconscious of doing anything to be recorded in history. No professional chronicler was at hand to take note of their brave deeds. They are known to us today chiefly through the public records of the State and of the Church,-when they were born, and married and died, and what property they ac­ quired, and to whom it was transmitted,-to obtain even these facts is no slight labor. The writer has attempted to do more than this with reference to the families of which he treats. Every available incident in the individual lives of the Colonial period is introduced in the printed page, so that the work becomes a series of biographical studies. There are two distinct periods in the Colonial history of New York-the Dutch period of 50 years, extending from 1614 to 1664, the date of Stuyvesant's surrender to the English fleet-and the English period of 160 years, from 1664 to 1778, when the Revolutionary War began. Among the pioneers who figured conspiciously in both these periods were some whose lives have not hitherto been made prominent. Their names are Cresson, de la Plaine, Anthony, Steenwyck, Brouwer, de Foreest, Wessels, Gouver­ neur, le Chevalier, Roome, Courten, Drisius, Selyns, Roose- 6 Preface velt, and De Riemer. These were all affiliated by marriage with the De Riemer family, most of them previous to 1700 A. D. This volume is necessarily a compilation, and is therefore not infallible. It is prepared especially for the descendants of the above named families whose worthy ancestors played so important a part in those early Colonial days, yet it can­ not fail to interest any others who desire information upon that-history. No serious attempt has been made to trace these family histories previous to their advent in the New World, though it is evident from the names that a majority of them origin­ ated in France, and are of Huguenot descent. Especial care has been taken to give in the foot notes the authorities consulted, chief of whom is Judge David T. Val­ entine, author of a history of New York City, and compiler of the Manuals of the City of New York. REV. w. E. DE RIEMER. "YOUNG MAN, WHOSE SON ART THOU?" (King Saul to David.) "THE MAN WHO DOES NOT RESPECT HIS ANCESTORS, IS UNLIKELY TO DO DEEDS FOR WHICH POSTERITY WILL RESPECT HIM. ,, (Said at a Banquet of the Society of Colonial Wars.) "FORTUNES ARE AMASSED AND DISSIPATED, DYNASTIES RISE AND PASS AWAY, BUT ONE'S NAME IS YET SAFELY TRANSMITTED FROM FATHER TO SON, AN INHERITANCE OF TO-DAY FROM A REMOTE AND OTHERWISE UNKNOWN ANCESTRY." (Bowditch., at a Banquet of Soc. of Col. Wars, New York City.) The De Riemer Family. A. D. 1640 (? J-1903. The progenitors of the De Riemer family in New Amsterdam were Isaac De Riemer and Lysbet Grevenraet (sometimes spelled Greveraad, and Greefraadt, and Graeveradt), sister of Isaac Grevenraet, and daughter of Metje G. The name De Riemer ( variously spelled de Rymer, D'Ryomer, and De Reamer, De Remer, and Deromer) indicates a French origin and Huguenot stock, but this couple were from Holland. Genealogists concede, what a thorough investigation of Dutch records will doubtless prove, that the family ancestors were refugees from France who lla.d, some generations previously, on account of anti-Romish convictions, fled from France and re­ mained in Holland until they had become adherents of the Reformed religion and users of the Dutch language. G. W. Schuyler (in G1 olonial New York, Vol. II, p. 426), says that Nicholas Gouverneur and his wife Machtelt De Riemer were of French extraction, but emigrated to New Amsterdam through Holland. ISAAC DE RIEMER, .I 1. ISAAC 1 DE RIEMER, merchant, m. Lysbet Grevenraet ( date and placenotfound); shem. (2) Elbert Elbertsen, d. 1655; m. (3) Feb. 14, 1659, Dominie Samuel Drisius, d. Dec. 25, 1687. Her will was made July 4, 1684; proved Jan. 5, 1688. Isaac and Lys­ bet De Riemer's children were: 2 i. Margharetta2 De Riemer, m. (1) in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, June 5, 1658, Hon. Cornelis Steenwyck, by whom she had seven children: m. (2) Oct. 20, 1686, Dominie Henricus Selyns, Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, d. 1712, will proven Feb. 4, 1712. 3 ii. Pieter De Riemer, b. 1643, probably in Holland; m. in the New York Reformed Dutch Church, Jan. 10, 1665, Susanna, eldest dau. of Isaac de Foreest and Sarah du Trieux; d. in New York City, 1702; will dated Jan. 29, 1697; proven Oct. 5, 1702. iii. * Machtelt De Riemer, b. Jan. 18, 1644, probably in Hol- * The descendants of Machtelt and Huybert are not included in the following pages. 8 The De Riemer Family land; m. (1) Nicholas Gouverneur of Huguenot ancestry, by whom she had two sons: Abraham and Isaac; m. (2) Oct. 14, 1685, in the Reformed Dutch Church in New York City, Jasper Nissepadt, baker; d. in New York City, Sept. 27, 1706. Three daughters were born to Nissepadt. iv. Huybert De Riemer, (dates of birth, marriage and death not found); m. Catherine (Smith?)," dau. of a prominent family in New York, by whom he left two children: Isaac and Elisabeth; opposite his name in the Church record are found these words, " Gestorven Meuis," implying that he died in France on the river Meuse. "Was a naval surgeon." Isaac and Lysbet were doubtless married in Holland. Four children were brought with them to New Amsterdam, unless we except the fourth. The children's names were: Margaretta, Pieter, Machtelt and Huybert. Pieter's birth is known to have occurred in 1643. In his testimony before a Riot Commission in 1790, he declared himself to be about 47 years of age (Hist. Col., N. Y., Vol. III, pp. 740-1), and it is supposed that the family arrived in this country about the time of his birth. Valentine tells us that Isaac was a prosperous young mer­ chant of the city, but his residence in the city of Manhattan seems to have been brief, and no reference is found to his death. Lysbet (Grevenraet) his widow married a second time, Elbert Elbertsen, a glazier by trade. Elbertsen died suddenly, as appears from the following record: Nov. 9, 1655, "The Burgo­ masters, in their quality of orphanmasters, report the death of Elbert Elbertsz on board the Bonte Ko~ in North River. Rynier Rycken is appointed his Attorney, and Secretary Kip to inven­ tory his estate." (Original Records of Burgomasters and Orphan­ masters.) Lysbet was married the third time on Feb. 14, 1659 (Mar. Record, Reformed Dutch Church, New York), to Rev. Samuel Drisius, assistant pastor of the New York Dutch Church. Rev. Mr. Drisius died in 1672, but his wife survived him until Dec. 25, 1687. In the Manual ofNew York City for 1855, p. 484, occurs this history: "Lysbet Greveraet married first Mr. De Riemer, a young merchant of this city, and after his death she became the wife of Dominie Samuel Drisius, who, in 1652 was appointed to assist in his clerical duties in N. Amsterdam that worthy old servant, the Rev. Megapolensis. She brought to him a consider­ able property, consisting of real estate, and the mercantile effects of her late husband. It is one of the peculiar features of those early times that the ladies of some of the most affluent and dis­ tinguished citizens, whose callings were of a professional char­ acter, conducted mercantile pursuits in their own names. This was true of 'Mother Drisius,' as she was familiarly called, who kept a thread-and-needle store in the best business part of the town, on the present Pearl St., between Whitehall and Broad." She is also mentioned as having lived on Langs Strat in her later The De Riemer Family 9 years, and as selling property in 1682 as follows: To John Pound, 1 lot 23 x 60 ft. for $25; to Wm. Churcher, 1 lot for 350 guilders, or $30. In the Baptismal register of the New York Dutch Church her name as godmother occurs early and often. As the wife of Dominie Drisius she doubtless exerted a wide influence and filled a large place in the social and religious life of those early Dutch colonists. Valentine again speaks praisingly of her as the mother-in-law of Hon. Cornelius Steenwyck (Val. Manual, 1853, p. 381). "She was a worthy woman, and as Steenwyck himself was in early life in this country without relatives, his own respectable character was no doubt due, in some measure, to the counsels of his mother­ in-law. The widow De Riemer afterward married Dominie Samuel Drisius, one of the early preachers of the Dutch Church. She survived the Dominie who died in 1672. She had no child­ ren by him. She d. Dec. 25, 1687, at an advanced age." (Val. Manual, 1858, p. 538, and Pearson's First Settlers of Albany.) In Dominie Selyns' Memo of the members of the church in 1686, Lysbet is mentioned as living on Langs Strat (along the Strand.) (Wilson's Memo.
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