Maria (de Peijster) Provoost (1659 - 1701)

Born 5 Sep 1659 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland

Ancestors

Wife of Paulus Schrick — married 11 May 1686 in New York, New York, New York

Wife of John Spratt — married 26 Aug 1687 in New York, New York, New York

Wife of David Provoost — married 28 Jan 1699 in New York, New York, New York

Descendants

Died 3 May 1701 at age 41 in New York, New York, New York

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Biography

Sources

• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volumes 9-10, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1878 Digitized on Google Books. Pages 124-5.
  • "Paulus SCHRICK, son of Paulus and Maria (Varleth) Schrick, bap Sept 2, 1663 (the same date as his sister Susanna Maria). He was born at Hartford Conn and joined the Dutch Church in New York March 5, 1681. He was a merchant and engaged in the Virginia trade. He married May 11, 1686, MARIA DE PEYSTER, dau of Jan (or Johannes) and Cornelia Lubberts de Peyster. She was born Sept 5 (bap Sept 7), 1659, and became a communicant of the Dutch Church June 10, 1682. This lady, whom we regard by reason of her birth and alliances as one of the most remarkable women born in New Amsterdam, was thrice married and it is hazarding little of historical accuracy to say that a complete account of her family connections by birth and marriage would include a fuller history of the civil and military affairs of colonial times than the same account of any other person born during the Dutch possession of Manhattan Island. Paulus SCHRICK, her first husband, died Oct 11, 1685, just five months from the day of his marriage, an event which Dominie Selyns doubtless deemed sufficiently noteworthy from the high social position of the young couple to place in the church records. Their dwelling during their brief married life was on the east side of the Heeren Gracht (Broad Street). They had no issue.
  • She married second, Aug 26, 1687, Join SPRATT of Wigton, in Galloway Scotland, and had three daughters and one son baptized in the Church in New York.
  • She married third, January 28, 1698/9, DAVID PROVOOST, Jr., Mayor of New York in 1699, by whom she had no issue."
• Purple, Edwin R., Biographical and Genealogical Sketch of David Provoost, of New Amsterdam, and Some of His Descendants, NYGBR (NYGBS, 1875) Vol. 6, Page 11.