Abraham Willemszen Tietsoort

1628 - 1649  (~ 21 years)

• Name	Abraham Willemszen Tietsoort
  Baptism	4 Jun 1628	Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Anecdote	Abraham Willemszen was baptized on June 4, 1628. His father's name was Willem Scheerberch (we believe one of many mis-spellings of 's Heerenberg ) and his mother's name was Tietje Agges. For roughly seven years (until 1647), he had been a seaman and bosshieter [gunner)]on the West Indies Company armed ship Swol, patrolling the coasts of Spanish America. Aechtje Jans had been in Curacao (the Swol's southern home port) with her father, Jan Albertszen, who had been contracted from Emden, East Frisia (17 miles south of Norden), as a master blacksmith, since 1642. When his contract with the West Indies Company was up, they left Curacao for Holland on the captured prize ship Tamerende, sailing first to New Amsterdam. Either in Curacao, or aboard the Tamerende, Aechtje met Abraham Willemszen, the 18 year old seaman and gunner then part of the ship's skeleton crew. The Tamerende left Curacao in March 1647 and arrived at New Amsterdam in April. Aechtje married Abraham in New Amsterdam the same month. Then on August 16, 1647 Jan Albertszen continued his journey alone to Holland, without his daughter; only to meet disaster when his transport the Princess Amelia sank September 27,1647 at the Bristol Channel. Aechtje and Abraham had a son, Willem, in August 1648. On November 12, 1649 Aechtje's husband Abraham was killed in a duel. Aechtje, who was pregnant with her second child at the time, was left without family, except for her uncle, Lambert Albertszen in Naarden. The next thing we know, Pieter Casparszen (from Naarden) is with Aechtje when she baptized her second child in April 1650.
  Occupation	1643  [2]
  	Abraham Willemsz. van Amsterdam in 1643 sailed out as able seaman on the Company ship Swoll. In 1647 he asked director general and council in New Netherland for permission to leave the service of the WIC, since he had in the meantime married Aechtje Jans van Norden. He worked for a short period in New Amsterdam as a carpenter
  Reference Number	4965
  Death	13 Nov 1649	New Amsterdam, now New York, New Netherland   [3]
  	On 12 November 1649 he was seriously injured in a duel, and died the next day
  Burial	Trinity Church Cemetery, New Amsterdam, now New York, New Netherland
  Person ID	I4938	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Aechtje Jans van Norden,   b. 17 Aug 1629, Norden, Din Hooren, East Friesland, Germany d. Between 21 Aug 1697 and 1 Feb 1698, New York City, New York (Age 68 years)
  Marriage Banns	27 Apr 1647	Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, now New York, New Netherland   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Willem Abramszen Tietsoort,   c. 2 Aug 1648, Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, now New York, New Netherland d. 1722 (Age ~ 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Abraham Abramzen Tietsoort,   c. 10 Apr 1650, Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, now New York, New Netherland d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S128] Information printed in the Maybee Society Communicator, #85, August 2010. Article researched by Steve Mabie and Stephen Titsworth. [S66] Steve Mabie, MS 257 - Steve Mabie; Number: 257, New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America by Jaap Jacobs, page 59. [S66] Steve Mabie, MS 257 - Steve Mabie; Number: 257, New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America by Jaap Jacobs, page 59. From a footnote on page 59, it appears that the sources for the information on the duel and Abraham's death are found in Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Notarial Archives, inv. no. 1298, fol. 205 (5 September 1650), inv. no. 2030, pp. 123 - 124 (11 September 1650). [S25] Olive Tree - Records of the Dutch Reform Church - Marriages; Url: http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/rdcmarr1639.shtml, 27 April. Abraham Willemszen, j. m. van Amsterd, en Aechtje Jans, j. d. van Norden.