Dene Ariens (Raalje) Relyea (bef. 1673 - 1740)

Born before 1673 in Esopus, Province of New York [uncertain]

Husband of Jeanne Élisabeth (LeRoy) Ralje — married 3 Apr 1703 in Kingston, Ulster, New York

Descendants

Died 1740 after age 67 in Kingston, Ulster County, Province of New York

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Biography

Dennis Relje was born about 1673, possibly in France, and died about 1725 in Ulster County, New York. In 1698, he married Jeanne Elizabeth LeRoy, who was born 28 March 1679 at Saint Joseph, Charlesbourg, Quebec, Canada and died after 1723 at Kingston, Ulster County, New York at 43 years of age, a daughter of Simeon Le Roux (LeRoy) and Claudina D'Eschalets Le Roux (LeRoy). Dennis belonged to the French Huguenot Church, in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York in 1693. First Residence - - New Paltz, Ulster County,

Birth

Also found references indicating birth bef. 1680 in France.

Children

1. David Relje was born 1699 and died before 1710.
2. Maria Relje Oosteroom, who was born 21 February 1703 and married Roelof <Jan> Oosteroom.
3. Blandina (Claudina) Relje Oosteroom, who was born March 1706 and married Jan <Jan> Oosteroom.
4. Hester Relje Van Aken, who was born January 1708 and married Cornelius <Pieter> Van Aken.
5. David Relje, who was born December 1710 and married Annatje <Herman> Rynders Relje.
6. Magdalena <Dennis> Relje was born 1713).
7. Simeon Relje was born January 1718 and married Orseltje <Hendrick> Phillips Relje (Rn=15665).
8. Denis Relje was born April 1723 and married Martje <William> Van Vliet Relje.
9. Jannetje Relje Oosteroom was born about 1720?, married Johannes <Jan> Oosteroom. ^[1]

Death

Confliciting references for year of death being either 1725 or 1765.

1725 New Paltz, New York

1740 Kingston, Ulster County, Province of New York

Church Records

Childrens' Baptisms:

1. 1699 Dec 30 David, Daenis Raalje, Joanna La Roy. Wit.: Jan Gascherie, Mary Valoo. ^[2]
2. 1703 Feb 21, Mary, Dennis Raeljee, Jannetje la Roy, Wit.: Jacobus la Maeter, Magdaleen Tyssen. ^[3]
3. 1706, Mar 17, Claudina, Deny Rilje, Jannetie Rilje, Wit. Tys van den Berg, Divertie van den Berg. ^[4]
4. 1718 Jany 21, Deny Relje, Jannetjen LaRoy, Simon, Wit. Evert Van Wagening, Hillegontjen Van Hey........, Poughkeepsie RDC.^[5]
5. 1723 Apr 17, Dennij Reljee, Jannetjen Larooy, Denny, Wit. Barent Van Kleek, Anthonette Parmentier. Poughkeepsie RDC.^[6]

Witness:

• "21 may 1693 huyue frere et marie anne Le Roy sa femme ont fait batizer un fils Son nom Isaac denis Reille parain et hagnette maraine" ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Early New Netherlands Settlers, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/page1/leroux.htm
2. ↑ Roswell Randall Hoes. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York: (formerly Named Wiltwyck, and Often Familiarly Called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from Their Commencement in 1660. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891. https://archive.org/details/cu31924082451307/page/n75/mode/2up ,accessed 20 Aug 2021.
3. ↑ Hoes, pg 68. https://archive.org/details/cu31924082451307/page/n85/mode/2up ,accessed 20 Aug 2021.
4. ↑ Hoes, pg. 75, https://archive.org/details/cu31924082451307/page/n91/mode/2up , accessed 20 Aug 2021.
5. ↑ Family Search Film # 007862549, Image 468 of 1202, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHW-4QFQ-K?i=467&cc=2787817
6. ↑ Family Search Film # 007862549, Image 473 of 1202, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHW-4QZP-4?i=472&cc=2787817
7. ↑ NY Heritage Digital Collections, Historic Huguenot Street, First Church Register of the New Paltz Reformed Church, Page 14, https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/hhs/id/2880/rec/1 , accessed 11 Nov 2021.

• NJGS. "R: Relje, Dennis" njgsbc.org. Accessed 17 Oct 2016. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/

• Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry.com

• Early New Netherlands Settlers, website by Robert Gordon Clarke, http://http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/page1/relje.htm

• Family Data Collection - Births, Edmund West, comp. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

• Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

• Genealogy of Simeon LeRoy dit Audy Family, Olive Tree genealogy, web, http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/surnames/leroy.shtml

• Huguenot Genealogy of the Reille aka Relyea aka Relje Family, Olive Tree genealogy, web, http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/hug/surnames/relyea.shtml

• Millennium File, Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.

• Olive Tree Genealogy http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/hug/surnames/relyea.shtml

• Town of MARLBOROUGH, (Author unknown - Date circa late 1930's), https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nycmarlb/history.html , accessed 04 Oct 2021.

• Woolsey, C. M.. History of the Town of Marlborough, Ulster County, New York: From Its Earliest Discovery. United States: J.B. Lyon Company, printers, 1908. https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Town_of_Marlborough_Ulste/meG-ccuMMAwC?hl=en&gbpv=0 , accessed 04 Oct 2021.

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 13 September 2010.

Research notes

Needs paraphrasing

Exerpt from Huguenot Genealogy of the Reille aka Relyea aka Relje Family

Denis aka Dene Areyas Reille aka Relyea aka Relje was born in 1674 or 1680. He resided first in 1690 in Marlboro in Ulster County. He was French Huguenot, later Dutch reformed Church as sponsor in 1693 in New Platz, Ulster County, New York. He resided at Old Man's Kil in 1697. He was on the tax roles in 1724/25 to Marlboro in Ulster County, New York. He died abt 1725 or 1765 in Marlboro, Ulster, New York...

...Denis first appears in May 1693 in records of French Huguenot Church of New Paltz, New York at baptism of Isaac Frere, son of Hugo Frere and Marie Anne LeRoy. He is documented in the Relyea Family by Mary Knight Crane in New York GBR, Jan 1924, pp 62ff. and in the "Dutcher Family Records He settled on the grant of land given to Captain John Evans, patent dated 1695 in Ulster County, New York. He was the first settler of the Town of Marlboro and lived on the stream called Old Man's Kil in 1697. At one time he was supposed to have occupied the stone house on the Hudson just south of Juffrow's Hook, now called Blue Point. He paid taxes in Marlboro and Plattskill in 1714-15, 1718. He was a miller and lived to be very old and was called Old Denis. From him are descended the numerous families of Relyea's who have scattered all over the country.

...and it is quite certain that Dennis Ralje (Relyea), or as he was afterwards called "Old Dennis" was settled on a stream that is now called "Old Man's Kill" at the present village of Marlborough soon after Evans got his Patent (granted c1690). He was the first settler of the town of whom we have knowledge; and the stream or kill there was called after him. There is no record that any white man set foot in what is no the Town of Marlborough previous to 1684. It was originally a part of the "Paltz Patent" granted by the Colonial Governor in 1678. [ History of the town of Marlborough, Ulster Co., New York; C.M.Woolsey; Albany 1908, p.20 ]

The first settler was Dennis Relje, sometimes called "Old Denis" and "The Old Man". His name appears in the precinct of Highland tax rolls as "Denis Relje" in the years 1714, 1715, and 1718. In the tax roll of 1724 adn 1725 it appears as "Old Denis". The Kill or Creek at Marlborough Landing is named after him. [ History of the town of Marlborough, Ulster Co., New York; C.M.Woolsey; Albany 1908, p.81 ]

Denis Relje (Relyea) was located on the Evan's Patent by Capt. John Evans in 1694 or 1695. [ History of the town of Marlborough, Ulster Co., New York; C.M.Woolsey; Albany 1908, p.261 ]

The first mention we find of any Relyea is when the name of Dennis Relji appears as godfather at the baptism of a child of Hugo Freer and his wife Mary LeRoy in 1693. Dennis' wife's name was Joanna (Jannetje) LeRoy. She and Hugo Freer's wife were sisters. Dennis Relji long occupied the house on the Hudson just south of Juffrow's Hook, as the point was caled where the south bounds of the patent struck the river. He and his wife had several children baptized in the Kingston church - David in 1703, Claudina in 1706, and Hester in 1708. [From The History of New Paltz by Ralph LeFevre; 1903: The Relyea Family: pp502, 503 ]"