Isaac (du Forrest) de Foreest (1616 - 1674)

Born 7 Jul 1616 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah du Trieux — married 9 Jul 1641 in Nieuw Amsterdam, Nieuw Nederland

Descendants

Died 25 Jul 1674 at age 58 in Madmans Neck, Livingston, New York

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Biography

Isaac de Forest / de Foreest, also known as Isaac Hendrick de Forest, son of Jesse de Forest and Marie du Cloux (both Walloons, who had removed from Wallonie to Zuid-Holland in the northern Netherlands), was baptized on 10 July 1616 in the Vrouwe(n)kerk (Our Lady's Church) ^[1][2] and not as was assumed by many in the Waals-Hervormde Kerk (Walloon Reformed Church) on the Breestraat in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, ^{[3] [1][4]}

Baptism Isaac du Forrest 10 July, 1616 Leiden[5][2][6]

With his brother, Henry, then thirty years of age, Isaac, who was ten years his junior, quitted Amsterdam, 25 September 1636 , in a small vessel called the Renssalaerwyck^[7], which belonged to Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the first patroon. They reached New Amsterdam in safety, April 7 1637 ^[8] and settled upon the broad fertile flat called Muscoota, now the site of Harlem, upper New York City. Henry had a grant of two hundred acres; Isaac, a strip of one hundred acres along the Harlem river and part of the later day Morris Park, now Marcus Garvey Park. Henry, the wealthier and apparently the abler of the two brothers, died 26 July 1637. The interests of his widow Geertruijt Bornstra were safeguarded by Dominee Everardus Bogardus, as her attorney. She than married Andries Hudde. Isaac was still unmarried, and for several years remained at Harlem raising tobacco and selling it at New Amsterdam for transport to Holland. On 9 June 1641, he married Sarah du Trieux of New Amsterdam, spinster, daughter of Phillip du Trieux and Jaqueline Noiret, founders of the Truax family of America. Isaac became a wealthy tobacco dealer and brewer of New Amsterdam, and was appointed in 1658 by Governor Stuyvesant and council a great burgher. When the English fleet took New York in 1664 he was one of the persons of distinction seized and held. Isaac also served as orphan master. Sometimes the orphan masters had to ransom children whom Indians had carried off. Isaac once paid a 60 guilders ransom for a little boy and he paid 94 guilders for a little girl on another occasion.^[9][10] His will is dated June 4, 1672. He died in 1674. His widow died in 1692. ^[11][12]

Marriage and Children

Isaac wed Sarah du Trieux on 9 June 1641 in Nieuw Amsterdam, Nieuw Nederland (New Amsterdam, New Netherland, renamed by the British New York City in 1664).^[13] Isaac and Sarah had fifteen known children, all of whom were baptised at the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam, New Netherland ^[14]:

1. Garrit ¹ De Forest (b.1642) ^[15]
2. Jesse, baptised 9 Nov 1642, died young ^[16]
3. Susanna(h), bapt. 22 Jan 1645, wed to Peter de Reimer^[17]
4. Gerrit ² bapt. 21 May 1646, died young ^[18]
5. Gerrit,³ bapt. 10 Jun 1647, died young ^[19]
6. Marie, bapt. 10 Jan 1649 ^[20]Probably died before 1666.
7. Michiel (Michael), bapt. 10 Jan 1649, died young ^[21]
8. Jan (Johannes), bapt. 27 Mar 1650, a chirurgeon or physician married Susanna Verlet ^[22] Issue: 9. d.1701 NY. Children: Nicolaes (bap. 04 Feb 1674);^[23] Susanna (bap. 04 Jan 1676);^[24] Sara De Forest (bap. 12 Mar 1679)^[25]
9. Philip, bapt. 28 Jul 1652, a cooper married Tryntje Kip ^[26][27]
10. Isaac, bapt. 25 Apr 1655, a baker ^[28] m. Lysbeth van der Spiegel.
11. Hendrick, bapt. 8 Sep 1657, a glazier ^[29]
12. David, bapt. 1 Aug 1660, died young ^[30][31]
13. David, bapt. 19 Dec 1663, died young ^[32][31]
14. Maria, bapt. 7 Jul 1666 ^[33]
15. David, bapt. 7 Sep 1669.^[34]

Isaac consistently used the surname De Foreest for the baptism of his children.

Isaac served as baptism sponsor in New Amsterdam as shown in the church records: 1647 Jan 27; Evert Janszen Van den Enden; Elsje; Willem Kieft-gouvneur, Isaac de Foreest, Tryntie Roelofs.

Will

New York will of Isaac De Forrest^[35] "In the name of God, Amen. Know all men who shall see this present Publick Instrument, that in the year 1672, the 4th day of June, being Tuesday, in the morning about 9 o'clock, in the presence of me, Wm. Bogardus, Notary Public, and the under-written witnesses, appeared Mr. Isaac De Forrest, brewer of this city, and Sarah Tenix, his lawful wife, the testator being sick, but the testatrix sound of body." They make their children Susannah De Forrest, wife of Peter De Reimer, Johanes, Philip, Isaac, Hendrick, Maria and David, "and the children which in the future by God's blessing may come," sole heirs to all the estate. The survivor having the use of all during life. They make their cousin Jacob Kip, and their trusty and known friend Simon Jansen Romeyn, tutors and overseers of the children."

Witnesses, Isaac Kipp, Arent Isaacs.^[36]

Benj'am Fletcher, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, To all, etc. Whereas Isaac De Forerest and Sarah his wife are both deceased, Letters of Administration are granted to his eldest son Johanes De Forest, and Henry De Forrest, his brother. December 19, 1692.

Death

Isaac de Foreest died on 25 Jul 1674 at Madmans Neck, Livingston, L.I., NY ^[4]and was buried at the Old Graveyard, Dutch Ref Church, New Amsterdam, NY^cite

Name

Isaac Hendrick De Forest ^{[37][4][38][39][40][41]}

Descendant

Listed as an ancestor of John W. De Forest in the "American Ancestry" reference volumes by Thomas Patrick Hughes, 1838-1911, published by Joel Munsell's Sons of Albany, New York.^[42]

Historical Geopolitical Note

Several generations of De Forest forefathers were born in Avesnes, Henegouwen (Hainaut), Netherlands (now Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France). Since 1659 Avesnes belongs to France; but before 1659 Avesnes – and the whole historical County of Henegouwen (Hainaut in French), which, since then has been divided between the Netherlands (Holland, and since 1830 also Belgium) and France – had always belonged to the Netherlands, (till 1482: Burgundian Netherlands; 1482-1556: Habsburg Netherlands; 1556-1659: Spanish Netherlands) within the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (called Das Deutsche Reich for short). This County of Henegouwen (Hainaut) was originally mostly Dutch speaking, but in the sixteenth century, and especailly since the French annexation in the seventeenth century of the Southern part of the County Henegouwen / Hainaut (commonly called French Flanders, though the post-revolutionary French administrative unit is Nord-Pas-de-Calais), the Dutch language has largely given way to the French, though even today the place names still betray their Dutch origin (e.g., French Dunquerque, derived from Dutch Duinkerk). The inhabitants of French Flanders in northernmost France, and of the French-speaking Belgian province of Wallonia, are known as Walloons. One can thus consider Jesse de Forest, and his forefathers, to be Walloon. However, many generations of Jesse's descendants - both those who stayed in Holland, and those who emigrated to New Netherland and settled in what later became upstate New York (my line) - intermarried almost exclusively with persons of High and Low Dutch ethnic origin, and were baptised with Dutch names in the Dutch Reformed Church, becoming a thoroughly Dutched family. Those who settled in Connecticut, on the other hand, married into English families of Congregationalist or Anglican religion; so that nowadays, only the surname itself De Forest and its Dutched variants De Foreest, De Freest, De Friest can still be said to be of Walloon origin, albeit very remote. ^[43]

See the following links for futher information:

Jesse de Forest

Avesnes sur Helpe

Southern Netherlands

New Netherland

Hainaut county

Hainaut province

French Flanders

Wallonia

Note on High & Low Dutch / German

The term High Dutch (also High German) was used to mean the speakers of High German dialects, living in present-day Eastern and Southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Low Dutch (also Low German) refers to the speakers of Low German dialects, living in Northern Germany, the Netherlands (Holland) and Flanders. Modern-day Dutch is a Low-German language. Hence, a High and Low Dutch Reformed Church was one in which there were two congregations worshipping in the same church building, the one speaking High Dutch (modern-day standard High German, Hochdeutsch), the other speaking Low Dutch (modern-day Dutch). ^[44]

New Harlem

1658: The village of New Harlem was laid out, on the northern end of Manhattan Island.

1661: Out of 32 adult male inhabitants of adult age, nearly half were Walloons and Frenchmen.

Early Pioneers

Some early Walloon pioneers in Harlem were:

• Isaac de Forest (son of Jesse de Forest)
• Wife Sara du Trieux^[45]
• Jean Gervoe from Beaumont
• David du Four from Mons
• Jean de Pre from Comines, near Lille
• Simon de Ruine from Valenciennes...^[46]

1645: Isaac de Forest was patentee of a lot in the Manhattans, 5 Sept. 1645.^[47]

1667: Beer was the common beverage in the Dutch Colony. "At vendues, or in making contracts or settlements, its presence was deemed indispensable to the proper transaction of the business. The magistrates when occupying the bench always had beer brought in, running up a score with the tapster at the public charge. Nor did the ordination of elders and deacons, or funeral solemnities, form an exception. At such times wine and other liquors, with pipes and tobacco, were also freely distributed. Families commonly laid in their beer by the quarter and half vat, or barrel. --- Much of the beer consumed here (in New Harlem) was brewed by Johannes Vermyle, while the breweries of Daniel Verveelen, Isaac De Forest, and Jacob Kip, at New York, were also patronized."^[48][49]

Sources

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/DeForest/default.aspx ^{[1] [2]}

• Source: S-205080296 Repository: #R-843443445 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Baptism Isaac Source: Leiden Archief : Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken. Dopen Waalse Kerk [on-line] Baptism Isaac du Forrest
   • Index record

   Baptism Index record for Isaac du Forrest
   Datering	July 10, 1616	Date
   Doopplaats	Leiden	Place
   Kind	Isaac du Forrest	Child
   Vader	Jesse du Forrest	Father
   Getuige	Jan Vekers	Witness
   Getuige	Isaac de Syde	Witness
   Getuige	Heleine Chanvine	Witness
   Getuige	Marie de Syde	Witness
   Archief	nr : 1004 Dopen Waalse Kerk	Archive
   Inventarisnummer	270	Inventory number

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Baptism Scan Isaac du Forrest Source: Image of baptism register: Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Province, Church Records, 1076-1916, images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-31119-43614-66?cc=2037907&wc=SMM2-ZNB:1292925401,345829002,345839001 : accessed 14 September 2015), Waals Hervormde > Leiden > Dopen 1599-1655 > image 68 of 551; Rijksarchiefdienst Nederlands
3. ↑ Note: According to Waalse kerk, the church later known as De Waalse Kerk was not used by the Walloon community in Leiden until 1638, i.e., after the baptism of Isaac de Forest in 1616. Thus, it is more likely that Isaac was baptised next-door in the Vrouwekerk, and not in the Waalse Kerk as is commonly claimed. For a time both churches were used by the Walloon community. Thanks to Jan Terink for pointing the above facts out. According the scan information from the Leiden Archive he indeed was baptized in the Vrouwenkerk
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} S-926516926
5. ↑ Baptisms were all recorded in French
6. ↑ Own edit for use inside txt
7. ↑ The Rennsselaerswyck sailed from Texel, West Friesland, Netherlands, October 8, 1636 (log says 25 september) and arrived at New Amsterdam (New York) March 4, 1637.Log says that's date of arrival at Manhattan) Skipper Jan Tiepkesz Schellinger.Source: Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Rensselaerswyck Texel, West Friesland to New Amsterdam (New York) sailed 8 October 1636 arrived 4 March 1637 and Log of the Ship Rensselaerswyck on its Voyage from Amsterdam to New Netherland, September 25, 1636 - April 7, 1637 Arrived 4 March at Manhattan and 21 March it says : Saturday, March 21 I brought most of the merchandise on land into a house and left the mate, Hendrick de Forest, in charge, with orders to sell it. With the consent of the director, we got ready to sail up the river with the ship.
8. ↑ Becky Pyle., 541 Bloomfield Ave. Urbana, OH, 43078. Surname of Immigrant: De Forest, Given name(s) of Immigrant: Isaac, Origin of Immigrant: Netherlands, Name of Ship: Renselaerwyck, Arrival Date: 1637. Date: Mon Dec 23 07:39:32 1996
9. ↑ Paul Lee  : According to Berthold Fernow, Minutes of the Orphan Masters of New Amsterdam (New York: Francis P. Harper, 1902)
10. ↑ Source: The minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam, 1655 to 1663 by New York (N.Y.). Orphanmasters; Fernow, Berthold, 1837-1908; Van der Veen, Walewyn The minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam, 1655 to 1663
11. ↑ Cuyler Reynolds, ed. Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911 [excerpts on-line] DeForest
12. ↑ This biography is taken from Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, 1911, ed. Cuyler Reynolds.
13. ↑ m. Sara du Trieux 09 Jun 1641, New Amsterdam, NY: NADC Marriage Records pp 10: 1641 09 Jun; Isaacq de Foreest, jm van Leyden; Sara du Treux, jd van N. Nederlt
14. ↑ De Foreest Baptisms at the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam [on-line] www.geocites.com/diggum.geo/defrees1.htm
15. ↑ Smith-Hunter.ged Note: child does not in NADC Baptismal records. Possible still birth.
16. ↑ pp. 14; Isacq de Foreest; Jessen; Jochem Pieterszen, Philip du Trieux, Madam de la Montagne, Sara Roelofs
17. ↑ Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Trieux; Susanna; Mr. Jan de Minuiet, Jean de la Montagne, Susanna de Trieux
18. ↑ De Forest; 1646 21 May, (Page 20); Isaac de Foreest; Gerrit; Gerrit de Foreest, Gerrit Janszen Van Haerlem, Harmen Bartiaenszen, Sytje Roelefs. Infant death.
19. ↑ pp. 22; Isaac de Foreest; Gerrit; Gerrit de Foreest, Gerrt. Janszen Kinkhamer, Harmen Bastiaenszen, syntje Roelofs.
20. ↑ pp.25; Isaac de Foreest; Marie and Michiel-twins; Hendrick Van Dyck-fiscael, Adriaen Janszen Van Lipendam, Agnietie Montague, Geertie Abrahams.
21. ↑ pp. 25; Isaac de Foreest; Marie and Michiel-twins; Hendrick Van Dyck-fiscael, Adriaen Janszen Van Lipendam, Agnietie Montague, Geertie Abrahams
22. ↑ pp. 27; Isaac de Forest; Jan; Hendrick Van Dyck, Adriaen Van Elpendam, Susanna Everts, Agnietie de La Montagne
23. ↑ Johannes de Foreest, Susanna Verlet; Nicolaes; Nicolaes Bayard, Sara de Foreest
24. ↑ Johannes de Foreest, Susanna Verlet; Susanna; Philip de Foreest, Judith Verlet
25. ↑ Johannes de Foreest, Susanna Verlet; Sara; Pieter de Riemer, Susanna de Foreest
26. ↑ pp. 32; Isaac de Foreest; Philip; Jan de La Montagne, Jan Peeck, Susanna du Trieux
27. ↑ dr, Sara de Forest (bap. 02 Jan 1678) New Amsterdam: Philip de Foreest, Tryntie Kip; Sara; Hendrick Kip, Sara de Foreest
28. ↑ pp. 39; Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Tryeux; Isaac; Jan Peeck, Gysbert Van Imbroeck, Marritje Van Imbroeck, Tryntie de Haes. p. Isaac De Forest and Sarah Du Trieux.
29. ↑ pp. 46; Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Trieux; Hendrick; Willem Beeckman, Maria Kip, Petronella de la Montagne
30. ↑ pp. 67; Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Trieux; David; Jacob Kip and his wife, Van Joh. Ver Veelen
31. ↑ ^{31.0 31.1} d.Young
32. ↑ pp. 71; New Amsterdam Isaac de Foreest, Sara du Trieux; David; Jeronymus Ebbing, Femmetie Kip
33. ↑ pp. 83; NY;Isaac de Foreest, Sara de Trieux; Maria; Jacob Kip, Rachel de Trieux
34. ↑ pp.95; Isaac de Foreest, Sara Dutrieux; David; Johannes Van Brug, Susanna de Foreest
35. ↑ Written in Dutch form.
36. ↑ "Abstracts of Wills," Vol. I., published by The New York Historical Society.
37. ↑ Ancestral File: 9NKD-GH. User: 4C191CF9526EC64B931D03E9C70EBE72EC8B
38. ↑ De Forest-5. 13 Sep 2010. 124-DeCoursey.ged.
39. ↑ Ancestry Family Trees
40. ↑ FamilyTreeMaker.genealogy.com: Descendants of Phillippe Du Trieux. Association of Philippe Du Trieux Descendants, lineage charts. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Association of Philippe du Trieux Descendants, 1991). Call Number: 929.273 T733t, Family History Library FAM HIST Book, Publication: [Cincinnati, Ohio] : Association of Philippe du Trieux Descendants, 1991; 243 leaves in various foliations, 1st Ed.
41. ↑ S106. S169. S30. Ancestral File. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1987. Family History Library. 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150.
42. ↑ American Ancestry : giving name and descent, in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, A. D. 1776 - Hughes & Munsell - Published 1892 - Volume 3.pdf page 185
43. ↑ Research of Albertus
44. ↑ Research of Albertus
45. ↑ Dau. of Philippe du Trieux, a worsted dyer from Roubaix, Belgium
46. ↑ Henry G. Bayer, The Belgians First Settlers in New York (1925), p.178-179.
47. ↑ E. B. O'Callaghan, Hsstory of New Netherland, v.II, p.583.
48. ↑ James Riker, Revised History of Harlem, 1904, p.242
49. ↑ Stone Street

See also:

• Kevin De Freest, The DeFreest Family Genealogy, The DeFreest Family Home Page [on-line]
• Jaap Jacobs, Een zegenrijk gewest: Nieuw-Nederland in de zeventiende eeuw, 1999, Uitgeverij Prometheus/Bert Bakker, Amsterdam, Nederland.
• Hawley, Elias. The Hawley Record (E. H. Hutchinson & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1890) Page 455

Acknowledgements

• Paul Lee
• Abby Brown De Forrest-9. wikitree.ged on 1 Aug 2011.
• Tom Quick adopted De Forest-67 on 22 Dec 2013 and merged De Forest-67 into De Forest-5 on 25 Feb 2014.
• Albertus (BdFM) created WikiTree profile De_Foreest-11 on 19 Feb 2015, and merged it into De_Forest-168 on 28 Sep 2015. Click to [Changes page] for details of edits.