Pedigree of:
Catalyntie Trico
1605-1689

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SAUVAGIE
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TRICAULT
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Michele
SAUVAGIE
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TRICAULT
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Catalyntie
TRICO
1605-1689

Notes and Links

Catalyntie Trico*; b. 1605 in Pry or Prisch, Dept. of Nord, France; d. Sep. 11, 1689, in Wallabout, Brooklyn NY. See The Ancestors of Maria Vanderveer

Brief Biography:

Catalyntie Trico* (1605-1689) was said to have been from Pry (or Pris, or Prische, depending on the source), Dept. of Nord, France, but spelled "Pris" on her marriage papers at the Walloon Church in Amsterdam. However, it is possible that her father was from Pry, while her mother may have been born in Paris, where her parents may have meet and lived for a while. She is the only known child of Jeronomus Tricault*, b. 1579, in Pry, and Michele Sauvagie*, b. c1585 in Paris. Jeronomus was a Huguenot weaver and inventor of a new fabric that came to be known as Tricot. Catalyntie in her old age, was known as the "old widow from Valenciennes". She may have first met her husband to be, Joris Jansen Rapareillet*, in Valenciennes (which is near Pry), since the Rapareillet family was known to live there at the time. Before Catalytie was married, the Tricault family may have moved to La Rochelle, France, where a large number of Huguenots had gathered as a result of the oppressions of Cardinal Richelieu. Joris was, on occasion, said to be from La Rochelle. There is no record of Catalyntie being in La Rochelle, but she ultimately joined Joris Jansen Rapareillet in Amsterdam, where they married and they came together to New Amsterdam on the shipNiew Nederlandt in 1624. Old references seem to indicate that there was a passenger named Joris Rapalje on the ship Unity in 1623. Thus, it is speculated that Joris could have made an earlier trip to America and returned to marry Catalyntie and bring her back with him.

A record of their marriage to each other has been found. They were married in the Walloon Church at Amsterdam, Netherlands, Jan. 21, 1623/24. However, prior to this knowledge, there has been speculation about whether they were really married. It seems that she was always known in all official records by her maiden name, Trico, which is a "Dutchification" of Tricault, her original French surname. Joris' surname, Rapalje, was also a Dutchification of the French name, Rapareillet. The word "rapalje" in modern Dutch means "scumie", and perhaps Catalyntie preferred not to use it. In the Bergen family history, published in 1876, it is asserted that they both came to the "Mannatans" on the Unity, commanded by Arien Jorsie, and were part of 18 families which remained on-board to go to Fort Orangie (now Albany), where they lived until 1626. From this reference, this author concludes that their first daughter, Sarah, born June 9, 1625, was born in Fort Orangie. However, this is contradicted by Sarah's own deposition to support a petition for land in Brooklyn many years later before a Judge Benson, where she stated that she was born in a house (which the Judge described in great detail in his writings) on the Waaleboght cove in Brooklyn. However, she would have been too young to actually remember anything of Ft. Orangie if she moved to Brooklyn at the age of two. She would have had to learn about Ft. Orangie from her mother. However, Catalyntie's own testimony before Gov. Thomas Dongan in her old age recites the story of the Unity taking them on to Fort Orangie.

Catalyntie lived in what is now Albany until 1626, when she and her husband moved to what is now lower Manhattan after Gov. Peter Minuit in May, 1626, purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians. After a few years of farming, Joris and Catalyntie opened a small tavern or "tap house" on the north side of what is now Pearl Street, abutting on the Fort, where she grew vegetables and served them to guests. Later she and her husband moved to a farm in Brooklyn in about 1655.

Catalyntie continued to raise her large extended family and grow vegetables on her farm in Brooklyn until long after her husband died. In 1680 a group of Labidist visitors noted that she was living alone, growing flowers and vegetables and had 145 descendants, soon to be 150 alive at that time.

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