Johannes (Vermilye) Vermilje (1632 - abt. 1696)

Born 1632 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Aeltje (Waldron) Vermilje — married 27 Aug 1670 in New York City, New York

Descendants

Died about Mar 1696 at about age 64 in Harlem, New York [uncertain]

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Biography

Johannes Ver Milje aka Johannes Vermelje

Johannes Vermelje (Immigrant), born 1631/2 at Leyden, Holland, son of Isaac and Jacomina (Jacobs) Vermeille, married August 27, 1670 at New York City, New York Aeltie Waldron who was born in August in 1651 in Amsterdam, Holland, died at Yonkers, New York in 1734. He was one of the original Patentees of Manhattan Island.

Name

Johannes Vermilje^[1]

Johannes Ver Milje^[2]

Johannes /Vermilye/^[3]

Birth

Born 1632, baptised 4 November, in Leyden, Holland ^[3]

Death

Johannes passed away in 1696.

Marriage

Johannes Ver Milje, as Johannes Vermelje, married Aeltie Waldron on August 27, 1670, at New York, New York. Marriage was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^{[4] [5]}

Children

Of the following children of Aeltje Waldron and Johannes Vermilje, six were named in son Abraham's will of May 3, 1730 (Isaac, Jeremiah, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Hannah) and seven were named in wife Aeltie's will of 23 May 1730 (Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Johanas, Rebecca, Rachel, and Hanah).

1. Jeremiah, dates unknown.
2. Rebecca Vermilje was bp. on Dec 17, 1671. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[6]. She was wife of Peter Bussing married 7 June 1700.
3. Abraham Vermelje (1) was bp. on Dec 19, 1677. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[7]; d. bef 1680.
4. Abraham Vermelje (2) was bp. on Jan 24, 1680. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[8] d. between 3 May 1730 (will) and 23 Apr 1734 (will proved).
5. Isaac Ver Milje was bp. on Apr 1, 1682. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[9] d. by 5 Mar 1767 (will proved)
6. Maria Ver Milje was bp. on Apr 13, 1684. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[10] m. Peter Kierse. d. by May 1730.
7. Jacob Ver Milje was bp. on Nov 24, 1686. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[11] d. by 1698.
8. Sarah Vermilje was bp. on Oct 4, 1673. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[12]. She m. Teunis Dalsen|Dolson, or Theunis Dalce, on Sep 28, 1696. Her marriage was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[13] She died before 23 May 1730, the date of her mother's will.
9. Rachel Vermilje was bp. on Nov 10, 1675. Baptism was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[14]
10. Johannes b. circa 1689. Johannes Vermilje NYRDC Marriage Record: 1713 29 Oct; Johannes Vermilje; Sarah Odel. m. 2nd Marytje (DeBruyn or Brown) Bussing about 1735. d. before 23 Apr 1782 (will proved).
11. Johanna (Hannah), b. circa 1693, at Yonkers No baptism record found at NYRDC, m. Johannes Odel on Oct 29, 1713. Marriage was recorded at the Reformed Dutch Church of Manhattan, NY^[15]

Occupations

Farmer, court messenger, constable, captain of the fort, emissary to New Haven

Death

Johannes Vermelje died 1696 in Harlem, New York, his widow sold out his lands at Harlem in 1715 to her nephew, John Delamater, and died at Yonkers in 1734. Aaltje Waldron claimed to be widow on Jul 16,1699. ^[16][3]

Notes

Johannes Vermelje died 1696 at Fordham, lived at Harlem until old; wrote his name Vermelje: brewer, Court Messenger, Magistrate; member Leislers Council and sentenced to death, but finally pardoned after 15 months in jail and an English court heard the evidence (they were really patriots); then apparently moved to Fordham, Westchester County, as his last 2 children Johannes and Johanan (John and Hannah) are not recorded as being baptized in the Dutch Church at New York, as all the others were; in fact the only record of them seems to be the 1698 census of Fordham which lists "widow Vermillion" with five children including those two.

The others apparently married or working away from home; In 1690 was a witness on Louis Morris's will; married August 27, 1670 Aeltje Waldron; daughter of Resolved Waldron. Riker says he became rich in farms at Yonkers, but he never lived in Yonkers nor owned a farm. Johannes Vermilye's worth was recognized by an appointment to command a military company in 1663. Later he served two terms as Magistrate.

Vermelje’s house occupied a spot nearly central of the block between First and Second Avenues and 122nd and 123rd Streets. He was born in 1632 at Leyden. Coming to New Amsterdam in ripe man hood and uniting in his character the sterling traits of the French and Dutch, he was made Court Messenger in 1665, and Constable in 1667, being for this year also farmer of the excise; previous to which he had set up a brewery. August 27, 1670, then holding the position of Magistrate, he married Aeltje, daughter of Resolved Waldron; when he probably built upon land procured some years before, but which is first taxed in 1671.

Vermilye took a leading part both in civil and church affairs. In the Political Crisis of 1689, he was chosen one of the committee of Safety, which on June eight of that year appointed Captain Jacob Leisler to be "Captain of the Fort" and on August sixteenth, signed his commission as "Commander in Chief" of the province. Taking a seat in Leiser's Council Dec. 11th, ensuing, he was sent soon after upon a embassy to New Haven He continued a member of the Council till a sudden end was put to Leisler's rule by the coming of Col. Slaughter, March 20,1691, by whose orders Liesler and his council (Vermilye included) were "committed to the guards" on a charge of high treason. The execution of Leisler and Milbourne, but two months later, seemed to Vermilye and his fellow prisoners similar fate. But after a painful suspense of seventeen months they were liberated by Governor Fletcher, on his arrival, and were pardoned by the King Feb. 20, 1693.

Vermilye surviving this trying ordeal but a short period, as he was deceased in March 1696, his widow sold out his lands at Harlem in 1715 to her nephew, John Delamater, and died at Yonkers in 1734.

The Vermelje and Waldron Families were members of the Harlem Reformed Dutch Church (also known as the Harlem Collegiate Reformed Church). Both Johannes and Resolved (Aeltie’s father) served as Elders. In 1686, they were among the financial contributors and contract signers for construction of a stone church; referred to as the second church, a replacement for the first church, a plain rough, 2-storied, timbered structure built between 1665-1667. The corner-stones were set with considerable ceremony on March 29, 1668; the first stone being laid by Resolved Waldron and the second by Johannes Vermelje. The first service was held on September 30, 1686. During the Revolutionary War, the church was destroyed; the only surviving relic is its steeple bell, forged in Holland in 1734.

Sources

1. ↑ Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, New York
2. ↑ Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, New York
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Record for Isaac Vermilye
4. ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record: 1670 27 Aug; Johannes Vernelje; Aeltje Waldron
5. ↑ http://longislandgenealogy.com/Marriage/MARR.HTM
6. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1671 Dec 17; Johannes Vermelje, Aeltie Waldron; Rebecca; Isaac Ver Melje, Engeltie Stoutenburg
7. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1677 Dec 19; Johannes Vermelje, Aeltie Waldron; Abraham; Jan Nagel, Maria Kip
8. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1680 Jan 24; Johannes Vermelje, Aeltie Waldron; Abraham; Barent Waldron, Ruthie Waldron
9. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1682 Apr 01; Johannes Ver Melje, Aeltie Waldron; Isaac; Jean de Lamaistre, Cornelia Waldron
10. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1684 Apr 13; Johannes Ver Melje, Aeltie Waldron; Maria; Salomon Waldron, ?????? Montagne
11. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1686 Nov 24; Johannes Ver Melje, Aeltje Waldron; Jacob; Pieter Van Oblinys, Cathryn Lievens
12. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1673 Oct 04; Johannes Vermelje, Aeltie Waldron; Sara; Willem Waldron, Rachel Vermelje,
13. ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record: 1696 28 Sep; Theunis Dalce, jm van N. Yorck; Sara Vermelje, jd als boven, beyde woonende op N. Haerlem. getrouwt tot Haerlem;
14. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1675 Nov 10; Johannes Vermelje, Aeltie Resolveert [Waldron]; Rachel; Resolveert Waldron, Aeltie Resoveert wife of Charles Vincent,
15. ↑ NYRDC Marriage Record: 1713 29 Oct; Johannes Odel; Johanna Vermilje
16. ↑ NYRDC Baptism Record: 1699 Jul 16; Theunis Dalsen, Sara Farmielje [Vermelje]; Aaltje; Jan Kierse, Aaltje Waldron wid Johannes Vermelje

• Samuel S. Purple's 'Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York, Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801.' The beginning records show the date the Banns were registered, NOT the date of marriage. Starting on 9/20/1673 marriage dates are given.
• The Vermilyea family
• Todd, Sandra Vermilyea. 2022. The Vermilyea Family, Descendants of Johannes Vermelje, New York, 1662-2022. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~vermilyeareunion/vermilyea_book.html

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