|
Barbara Groesbeck Marselis
Barbara Groesbeck was born about 1660. She was the daughter of New Netherland pioneers Claes Jacobse and Elizabeth Stevens Groesbeck.
By
1682, she had become the wife of Albany shoemaker
and businessman Gysbert Marselis. Over the next two
decades, eight of her children were baptized in the
Albany Dutch church where she was a member and occasional
baptism sponsor.
These
Marselises lived on Pearl Street from where Gysbert's
holdings grew and evolved into regional prominence.
Barbara's
father's will filed in 1707 identified her as Gysbert
Marselis's wife. However, whether she survived Marselis's
death in 1740 is not known.
~ ~ ~
Sources: The life of Barbara Groesbeck Marselis is CAP biography
number 3262 This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources. Traditional
sources fix her birth in 1657. We believe Barrington
S. Havens has produced the most authoritative compilation
on the family.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
|
