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Catharina
Winne Douw
Catharina
(Lyntie) Winne was born in January 1705. She was
the daughter of Albany businessman Frans Winne and
his wife Elsie Gansevoort Winne.
At
age twenty-five, she married Abraham Douw in 1730.
He was a Hudson River sailor and the client then
associate of her brother, Captain Pieter Winne. The
couple had four children born between 1731 and 1740.
Lyntie
Douw died in November 1749 and was buried from the
Albany Dutch church. She was two months shy of her
forty-fifth birthday. Although her husband later
remarried, her four chilren had been well provided
for in the will of Pieter Winne.
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Notes: The life of Catharina Winne Douw is CAP biography
number 2826. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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