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Catharina
Tryntie Wessels
Catharina (Tryntie) Wessels was born in Europe about 1623. She was the daughter of Beverwyck baker Jochem Wessels and his wife Geertruy Hieronimus.
By
1642, she had become the wife of New Netherland pioneer
Abraham Staats. In that year, she was nineteen years
old. The marriage produced at least seven children
who established the Staats name in New Netherland
and New York.
Her
family was prominent in Beverwyck/Albany but also
owned a family farm across the Hudson and south of
the city.
Abraham
Staats probably died after naming Tryntie as his
heir in a will filed in April 1683. Although she
was not included in either of the two Staats households
listed on the city census of 1697, perhaps Tryntie
was living on the family farm across the Hudson on
Staats Island! Her Albany property in the first ward
was assessed substantially in 1702.
Tryntie
Wessels Staats died in 1703 and was buried from the
Albany Dutch church where she was a longtime member.
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Sources: The life of Catharina/ Tryntie Wessels Staats is
CAP biography number 6863. This profile is derived
chiefly from family and community-based resources.Interesting
online exposition!
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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