Antoine (Anthoine) was a young Protestant farmer, who went to Mannheim in the Lower Palatinate (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). There he married and sailed on the 'Gilded Otter' to New Amsterdam on 27 Apr 1660. Upon arrival they immediately moved to Esopus in Ulster County, New Netherland.
Anthony Crispell, a Huguenot (Protestant) from the Flandres francaises (Arrondissement de Lille, Nord), France, fled his native land to the Upper Palatinate in Germany. On January 13, 1660, he married Marie Blanchan, also from French Flanders, in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. The record identifies them as Anthoine Crespel and Marie Blanchon. Marie was the daughter of Mathieu Blanchan, a French Huguenot.[1]
Antoine and Marie Crispell left for the New World on April 27, 1660 in De Vergulde Otter (The Gilded Otter). They landed at New Amsterdam in New Netherland. Many French Huguenots settled in this Protestant-led Dutch colony. First going to Esopus, now part of Kingston, NY, the Crispell family settled in nearby Hurley. On June 7, 1663, when the Indians destroyed the village, his wife and infant daughter (Marie-Magdalene) were captured with Antoine but they were soon released. The next year, the entire province was taken over by the English from Dutch rule.
Marie Magdalene CRISPELL, christened: 12 FEB 1662 in Hurley
Peter CRISPELL christened: 21 DEC 1664
Lysbet (Elisabeth) CRISPELL christened: 3 OCT 1666; d: infant
Lysbet (Elisabeth) CRISPELL christened: 15 OCT 1668
Sara CRISPELL christened: 18 JUN 1671
Jan (Jean/John) CRISPELL christened: 21 JUL 1674 in Ulster, NY
Maria died about 5 years after Jan's birth in Hurley, Ulster, New York. Anthony then re-married to Petronella leMan (or deMond) in about 1680. They had 3 children:
Jannetie CRISPELL, ch: 04 JUN 1682
Jean CRISPELL, ch: 12 OCT 1684
Jannetie CRISPELL, ch: 07 FEB 1686
Antoine Crispell's will was dated 6 November 1707. It was probated on 10 June 1708 in Curacao, D.W.I. [Dutch West Indies]. He is said to have died in New Paltz, New York, where he and his two wives are buried with a memorial plaque.[3][4]
Children
Nine children are recorded in the church records of Kingston, New York.[5]
1662 12 Feb Marimaddeleen, Antoni Crepel, Maria Blanchan. Wit.: Mattys Blanchan, Cateryn Blanchan, Maddeleen Blanchan.[6]
1664 21 Dec Pieter, Anton Crepel, Mari Blanchan. Wit.: Hendrick Aerntsen, Barber Jans.
1666 03 Oct Lysbet, Anton Crepel, Mari Blanchan. Wit.: Jan Cornelisse, Lysbet Blanchan.
1668 15 Oct Lysbet, Antony Crupel, Marie Blancan. Wit.: [no witnesses named].
1671 18 Jun Sara, Anthony Crupel, Maria Blansjan. Wit.: [no witnesses named].
1674 21 Jul Jan, Anthony Chrispel, Maria [surname not given]. Wit.: Mattue Blansjan, junior, Maria B____ .
By 2nd Marriage:
1682 04 Jun Jannetie, Antoni Crespel, Pieternella la Man. Wit.: [No witnesses named].
1684 12 Oct Jean, Antoni Crepel, Pietenel de Mon. Wit.: [No witnesses named].
1686 07 Feb Jannetie, Anthoni Cruepel, Pieternel [surname not given]. Wit.: Roelof Hendrix, Chiltie Gerritz.[7]
Research Notes
His children included Elizabeth, who married Elias Eign (Ean, Un) and Maria Maddaleen who married Mattys Sleght.[8]
Note: "During the 17th Century, long and devastating [religious] wars were fought [between Protestants & Roman-Catholics in Holland, Belgium & France]; many of the inhabitants were forced to flee from their fertile and productive farms. Antoine [Crispell], a young farmer, went to Mannheim in the Lower Palatinate. There he married and sailed on the 'Gilded Otter' to New Amsterdam on 27 Apr 1660. Upon arrival they immediately moved to Esopus in Ulster County, NY. They later settled in Hurley. In 1663, there was an Indian uprising and his wife and an infant daughter were captured; they were soon rescued."[9]
Note: From a brochure published by the Crispell Family Association, P.O. Box 35, Tafton, PA 18464 and found in New Paltz, NY September 2001: "In 1660, 25-year-old Antoine and 20-year old Maria (Blanchan), his wife of 3 months, sailed into New York on the "Gilded Otter." They had married in Mannheim, Germany and came with other Huguenots who had fled France.
"They first settled in Kingston. In 1663, they moved to Hurley, where they started their farm and family.
"By 1678, more of the group that had met in Germany arrived and decided to move south to New Paltz. Twelve of them had traded valuables to the Esopus Indians for nearly 40,000 acres and then received a patent from the English Governor.
"Even though Antoine was one of the 12 patentees, he and Maria chose to stay in Hurley with their five children. She might have been ill at the time, because she died soon after.
"In 1680 Antoine remarried. He and Petronella (DuMond) had three children. Two of them died young, but the first generation of Crispells in America was complete.
"In New Paltz...
"Antoine was active with the other 11 patentees in New Paltz, and was one of the twelve men who governed their new land.
"Historians have referred to "The Twelve Men" as "The Duzine." It's reported to be the first example of democratic government in America.
"The French Church, built on Huguenot Street in 1972, is a replica of the original built in 1717. It was built by the Crispell Family Association ... as a tribute to Antoine and his descendants, to memorialize his presence on Huguenot Street.
"In the Village of Hurley...
"On Hurley Street you'll find several old stone houses, some dating back to the 1600s.
"One is a house reportedly built by Johannes Crispell in 1724... now the rectory for the adjoining Dutch Church....
"The Burial Grounds circa 1715...
"At the end of a right of way, next to the Polly Crispell cottage, you'll find the burial grounds. Many of the gravestones bear the Crispell name....
"In Kingston...
Antoine died in 1707 and was buried where the Old Dutch Church now stands, on Wall Street.
"On the north end of the cemetery, which borders Main Street, on the north side of the church, you'll find a memorial tombstone erected in 1989 by the Crispell Family. Inside the church, you'll find another memorial which includes the names of Antoine and his wife Maria."
Sources
↑ Baden: Landeskirchliches Archiv Karlsruhe > Mannheim Franz.-ref. Gemeinde > Trauungen 1652 - 1819 [franz.] [Abschrift aus dem Jahre 1706 u. 1733] [Register in eigenem Band], page 8; 1st entry (in French language); citation courtesy of Dieter Lewerenz per a research request put on G2G, image available on Archion (subscription required) and
FamilySearch (free).
↑ "The Van Benthuysen Genealogy," by A. S. Van Benthuysen and Edith McIntosh Hall (1953) pg. 458
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #8039380 Antoine Crispell. Photographs of grave marked (20th Century) at the Huguenot Cemetery, New Paltz, Ulster Co., NY, USA.
DuBois Family News: "The Memory of the Just Is Blessed": The Ancestry and Extended Family of Chrétien du Bois, bailli, lieutenant, greffier, etreceveur de la Comté de Coupigny, notaire, homme de loi, laboureur et marchand; Resident of Wicres, then of Herlies," June 2011 newsletter, Pages: 5–7; 3–6; 4–7.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Ancestral File Number: G83T-PD & 8MH2-DG
Birth and death year (1635-1707) on findagrave.com. Find A Grave: Memorial #8039380 Antoine Crispell. Photographs of grave marker (20th Century) at Huguenot cemetery, New Paltz, NY.
Acknowledgments
This person was created through the import of MacEntee_Richard_2010-11-01.ged on 02 November 2010.
For ease of access, here is the January 31, 1660 Mannheim marriage record, where he is Anthoine Crespel, young man, native of St. Guin in the Pays Bas, and she is Marie Blanchon, native of Armentier in the Pays Bas.
Crispell-2 and Crispell-1 appear to represent the same person because: Same name (variant spelling), daughter Elizabeth married Elias Ean, which would align with the named daughter Lysbet/Elisabeth christened 1668 in the PPP profile.
I doubt we'd find a birth record, since I see no very specific information about his baptism. Will the NNS project and Huguenot project people find it acceptable then to use the spelling from the marriage record for the LNAB, once someone with an Archion subscription (Dieter, or someone else) can provide the spelling?
Evans, in "The Crispell Family of Ulster County, New York." (The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 21 (1890), page 83) gave his birth name as Antoine Crépel, apparently born in Pas de Calais. Evans identified "Crispell" as a newer (i.e., Americanized) version of the family name.
Did the other managers of the profile have an evidentiary basis for calling him "Crispell," or would there be support for changing his LNAB to Crépel?
In he past I read on line that the different last names of Petronella are just variant forms of the same surnames different spelling and shortened forms of the Dutch or French dialect? for of the moon.
Crupel-3 and Crispell-1 appear to represent the same person because: This recently created duplicate is the oldest paternal ancestor in this chain in need of a merge into the NNS PPP. No tree conflicts. Aka Crupel. Thanks!
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I doubt we'd find a birth record, since I see no very specific information about his baptism. Will the NNS project and Huguenot project people find it acceptable then to use the spelling from the marriage record for the LNAB, once someone with an Archion subscription (Dieter, or someone else) can provide the spelling?
Did the other managers of the profile have an evidentiary basis for calling him "Crispell," or would there be support for changing his LNAB to Crépel?
ADDED: I see that the Huguenot Society of America calls him "Anthony Crispel." See http://www.huguenotsocietyofamerica.org/history/ancestors/
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