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From: "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Jacob Pieterszen Marius
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:50:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: <a5.2a0819e0.2a525b16@aol.com>


On 1 Jul 2002 at 21:25, wrote:

> I would like to know more about Jacob Pieterszen Marius. Where
> did the name Marius come from? Was it just a surname that was
> selected after the British takeover?

Perhaps the abstract of Pieter Jacob's will (below) will be of
help? It shows that Marius was a surname used by his family in
the Netherlands, so it had nothing to do with the British
takeover.

As far as I know, he and his wife had no children, and in his
will abstract below you can see that he leaves his estate to
his nieces and nephews and other relatives, but no children of
his own are named.

New York City Wills, 1665-1707

Page 69.--PETER JACOBS MARIUS. "In the name of God, Amen, this
7 day of July, 1701. I, Peter Jacobs Marius, of the city of New
York, merchant, being of sound and perfect memory." "My body,
in hope of a joyfull Resurrection, I commit to the earth to be
buried in such place and in such decent manner as my executors
shall think fit." Whereas I have before the decease of my
beloved wife Maria Peterse, as well as since her decease, sent
over into Holland a considerable part of my estate which doth
there still remain, I will that the same be put into the banks
in the city of Hoorne, for the use of my two sisters, Birgie
Marius and Margarita Marius, and shall remain there during
their lives. Upon the death of my sister Birgie Marius, then
one half is to be divided between the two children of my sister
Margarita Marius, viz., Aechie Jans Bruyn and Jacob Marius
Groen. After the death of my sister Margarita, the remainder is
also to be divided between them. My will is that out of the
property I have here in New York, there shall be paid to the
relations of my wife, Maria Peterse Beeke, so much money as I
have sent over to Holland. Accounting 5 guilders of this
country for 1 guilder Holland money, the same to be divided as
follows: 1/5 to Francis Salisbury, Mary Salisbury, Aliace Van
Dyke, and Elizabeth Van Dyke, the children of Elizabeth
Bradshaw, deceased, equally; 1/5 to the use of Cornelis Peterse
Beeke for life and then to his children; 1/5 to the children of
Cornelia, late wife of Jacobus De Hart, viz., Elizabeth,
Baltus, and Catharine De Hart; 1/5 to the three children of Wm.
Beeke, Altie, Tilleman and Deborah; 1/5 to Anna and Peter,
children of Deborah, late wife of Warner Wessels. Of all the
rest of estate, one half is to go to my loving cousin Jacob
Marius, and one half to my wife's relations. Makes Teunis De
Kay, baker, Johanes Kip, brewer, and Jacob Marius Groen,
silversmith, executors.


Witnesses, P. Le Grand, Jacobus Cornellison, John Tudor.


Codicil, September 16, 1702, makes Major Brant Schuyler another
executor. Witnesses, Robert Shelton, Wilhelminus Van
Niewenhusen, Balthazer De Hart. Proved, December 11, 1702.
Samuel Bayard and Peter Wessels appointed administrators in
trust.

>
> I believe I am probably a descendant of Joris Jacobszen
> (Bouwman) and Tryntie Claes who had a son Jacob baptised in 1652
> in New Amsterdam. The witnesses were Pieter Jacobszen and Metje
> Herperts. Metje Herperts is believed to have been the mother of
> Tryntie Claes. It is tempting to conclude that Pieter Jacobszen
> was the father of Joris Jacobszen; however, I suppose he could

Joris Jacobszen should be the s/o a man named Jacob, not Pieter
at this early date (1652) because it would be too early for the
patronymic of Jacobszen to have frozen as a surname for both
father and son.

Lorine
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