Metje Andries Grevenraet - Was Metje a Quaker?

Started by Private User on Thursday, April 4, 2019
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4/4/2019 at 7:10 AM

Wikipedia (April 2019) reads the following about her husband van Salée:
"Grietse died in 1669. The widower Van Salee married Metje Grevenraet, an ethnic Dutch woman.[19] He passed his final years at his home on Bridge Street, dying in 1676. Metje was a Quaker who helped Van Salee tolerate the church."

I find the claim to be unsubstantiated and unlikely, unless Metje was pat of a Ling Island Quaker community. There wasn't a Quaker community on Manhattan nor, do I believe, would such have been tolerated under Stuyvesant or any prior Director Generals of the DWIC.

I am looking for more references here...

In any respects the "helped Van Salee tolerate the church" doesn't make sense. Quakers did not have churches...

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