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From: "Howard Swain" <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Oventje Quick
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:29:10 -0800
References: <3E45DD1F.4E21FC5B@boydhouse.com>


Hi Michelle,

From: "Michelle Boyd" <>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:46 PM

> I found the following record:
> Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini, edited by
> Bethold Fernow, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976,
> Vol. IV, Page 166, 28 Nov 1662:
> Tomas Teunissen, pltf. v/s Symon Clazen, deft.
> Pltf. appearing with his sister, produces according to the order of last
> Court day declaration, that deft. bade him go away. Deft. on the
> declaration being read, says he never mentioned such reasons. Oventje,
> the pltfs. Sister,
<snip>
> Did Tomas Teunissen (called Quick in the previous court record) really
> have a sister named Oventje or is this an alternate
> spelling/mistranscription of Weyntje? (Thomas' father Theunis Thomassen
> is believed to have had a daughter named Weyntje.)

If you look in that same book on p.162, you will see the start of this
action where both Tomas Teunisen Quick and "Weintje" Teunis are
shown as plaintiffs against Symon Clazen.

Also, in the index Weyntje Teunis is listed many times, but the one
you found is the only listing for "Oventje."

So, I think it is a mistranscription. There could have been a large loop
at the start of the W that was mistaken for the O; then the second part of
the W was read as the v.

She appears to have been mistranscribed again in her16 Nov 1642 marr.
intentions as "Marritje".

I didn't check all the baptisms records for her, but on 4 of them she is
shown as Wyntie or Weyntie.

Looking at the Cronkhite page in Riker's Directory, I remember now.
We've discussed Weyntie the wonder woman before.
Apparently married at 14, she has 15 children while she goes from
age 16 to 53.

Regards,
Howard





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