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About Sijtie Cornelius
Not the daughter of Cornelis Maessen van Buren & Catalyntje Martense van Buren
Matthys Barents emigrated to the New Amsterdam colony aboard the ship St. Jan Baptiste in May, 1661. Accompanying him were his second wife Scytie Cornelise and children Barent, Belitje and Anthony. He and his family were some of the first European colonists on Staten Island, New Amsterdam (renamed New York when the British assumed,authority). Staten Island was deeded from the Native Americans to the,Governor of New York in 1670.
“The Swaim Family of Indiana and Oklahoma.” by Jack S. Swaim. http://www.jswaim.com/family/Swaim_Genealogy.pdf page 169
in 1659 Mathijs Barentsz married Sijtie (85) Cornelius (86).. Sijtie was born in 1636 likely in Leerdam and would have been about 23 years old when she married. We do know the identity of her parents. I have examined baptism records for Grote Kerk, Leerdam but I have had no luck. There is a claim that Sijtie’s father was Cornelis Maessen van Buren, g-g-g- grandfather of President Martin van Buren. However this can not be correct as Cornelis Maessen immigrated to New York in 1631 five years before Sijtie was born.
Sijtie’s name has sometimes been spelled Scytie by researchers but in Dutch records I never see that spelling. It is generally spelled ‘Sijtie’ or in some cases ‘Sytie’. Thys and Sijtie had a son named Anthony that was born in 1659. Anthony was their last child born in the Netherlands prior to their immigration to America.
Family
Thys Barentsen married 2nd Abt 1658 Leerdam, Utrecht, Zuid Holland, Netherlands to Sijtie Cornelise (b ca 1635 - d aft 1704), daughter of unknown parents. They had 5 known children, the oldest born at Leerdam, the rest at “Oulde Dorp” on Staten Island. (The Dutch surrendered the New Netherland Colony to England in 1664.). They were:
- Anthony Tysen, b. Sept 16, 1659 Leerdam, Holland, Utrecht Section; d. Abt. 1719, Staten Island, NY. Married Neeltje {aka Eleanor} Jansz DuChene in 1680. They had 10 known children. Anthony calls himself Anthony Sweem in his will dated June 16, 1719.
- Cornelius Tysen, b. Abt. July 1661. / Aug. 10, 1661 Staten Island, New Netherland Colony, and died in 1762 in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Cornelius Sweem married (unknown).
- Elizabeth Tysen, b. Abt. 1663/ 1665; d. Abt. 1691, Staten Island, New Netherland Colony. There is no known baptism record for Elisabeth. Elisabeth married John De Puy (b 1657, d 1732).
- Willem or Wilem Tysen Sweem, born 1673 or 1676 Staten Island, Province of New York. 1st marriage to Jannete (unknown) 2nd marriage to Mary Lazelere (Lageler).
- Johannes Tysen, b. Abt. 1674 / 1675, Staten Island, Province of New York. Married Jannetje La Forge. We believe Johannes Sweem died in Windsor Township, New Jersey and Jannetje LaForge died in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Notes
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~smithhouse/genealogy/smithgen/smithf...
Scytie or Sibilia or Scijtie [Sytie]=Cynthia. SWAIN-TYSEN FAMILY pg 3. Scytie last name had been alluded to that her name was Sytie Cornelis. With the discovery of the baptismal record of the son Cornelius on 10 Aug 1661, her name is shown as "Scytie Cornelis", establishing her father was a Cornelius and that this was the source of the name "Cornelius" within the family.
STATEN ISLAND Wills and Administrations pg 7. Letters of administration of TYSE BARNSE of Staten Island, granted to PAULUS RICHARDS, February, 1682. His widow SCYTIE having refused. [Note: See the Swaim-Tysen Family, Mullane, Joseph F. 1984:20; C.M.H.] Libert 1-2:456; WNYHS I:123
Legacy
- House of Barnt Tysen
- Richmond Avenue,
- south of
- New Springville
- PLATE 39
"The ancestor of the Tysen and Swaim families was Thys Barentsen, who emigrated from Leerdam with his wife and three children on the St. John the Baptist in 1661. He was one of those who formed the first permanent settlement on Staten Island, at Old Dorp in 1661, and was a schepen here in 1673. He was recorded as 60 years of age in 1681 and probably died in that year, leaving a widow Scytie; letters of administration were granted on his estate Feb. 1, 1682." [1]
References
- “The Swaim Family of Indiana and Oklahoma.” by Jack S. Swaim. Compiled by Jack Stuart Swaim, January 7, 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021. http://www.jswaim.com/family/Swaim_Genealogy.pdf page 160 on.
- My FamilyTree DNA project - Swaim link
- Thys Barentsen was first established as the original progenitor of the Swaim family in America (to my knowledge) by Rosalie Fellow Bailey in her book Pre-revolutionary Dutch Houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York published in 1936. This book contained an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Mullane, Joseph F, Lloyd B. Swaim, and Marjorie D. Johnson. The Swaim-Tysen Family of Staten Island, New York, New Jersey, and Southern States. Place of publication not identified: J.F. Mullane, Volume l, 1984. Vol. II, copyright 1987. GoogleBooks
- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~celiadon/wc19/wc19_093.htm
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123537813/scytie-swaim
- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~celiadon/ps20/ps20_221.htm
- https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital...
- https://www.olddutchchurchnyc.org/dutch-life “Before the English 1664. In 1664 Governor Stuyvesant described the dwellings of "twelve or fourteen families of Dutch and French from the Palatinate" as "slightly constructed of straw and clapboards", with a "small slight, wooden blockhouse, about 18 or 20 feet square in the center of their homes." In 1664 the colors in the Dutch gown were almost uniformly gay -- in keen contrast to the sad colored garments of New England. For example, green cloth petticoat, red and blue waist coat, a pair of yellow and red sleeves, a purple apron.
- 76. “Early New York Families, 1600s-1900s,” 157, Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division.
- http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyrichmo/background.shtml
- https://www.silive.com/eastshore/2014/08/things_to_know_about_histo... New Dorp's name was coined after Oude Dorp (Dutch for "Old Town"), the first location of European settlement on Staten Island in the mid-1600s, was vacated.
- “13 strange things you probably didn’t know about Staten Island”. TimeOutNY. Friday July 23 2021 link
- ”Exploring New York City One Subway Stop at a Time - Old Town – Staten Island”. link
Born in Leerdam, Holland. Married 1658/1659 to Thys Swaim. Buried Staten Island, NY
Children:
Anthony born Sept 16, 1659 Leerdam, Holland
Cornelise born Aug. 10, 1661 Staten Island, NY
Elizabeth born 1663 Staten Island, NY
Willem born 1673 or 1676 Staten Island, NY
Johannes born 1675 Staten Island, NY
Anthony married Elenor Nelltje
Elizabeth married John DePuy
Willem married Mary Lazelere
Johannes married Jane LaForge
Source:
The Swaim-Tysen Family of Staten Island, New York, New Jersey, and Southern States compiled by Joseph F. Mullane, Lloyd B. Swaim, and Marjorie Decker Johnson. Vol. I copyright 1984. Vol. II copyright 1987.
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Sijtie Cornelius's Timeline
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1636
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Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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September 16, 1659
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Leerdam, Vijfheerenlanden, ZH, Netherlands
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August 10, 1661
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Oulde Dorp, Staaten Island, Nieuw-Nederland, Colonial America
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1665
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Old Dourpe, Staten Island, Province of New York, Colonial America
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1675
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Staten Island, New York, USA
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1676
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Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, Colonial America
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1704
Age 68
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Staten Island, Province of New York, Colonial America
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