1 DEAT 2 SOUR S603 2 SOUR S633 3 NOTE "Ancestors of the Neil and Hazel McMartin Family", The DuboisLineage, website:http//intermid.com/DoutBerg/genealog.y/books/mcmartin/10dubnew .htm.bef June 30, 1702; alive in 1686, when husband drew u p will 2 SOUR S583 2 SOUR S614 2 SOUR S622 2 SOUR S592 2 QUAY 0 2 DATE JUN 1702 2 PLAC Hurley, Ulster County, New York 2 CHAN 3 DATE 24 JUL 1999 [Note: Many Slecht researchers, and researchers of the Newkirk family and others, have been searching for the connection of Chieltje Cornelisdochter Slecht with the other Slechts. This researcher believes that the search for actual records will be futile as the Dutch churches did not record baptisms, marriages, etc. until after she was married. This government financed and thorough study of the family was done by professional researchers who did not come across records linking Chieltje with other Slechts. However, there is circumstantial evidence that she was the daughter of Cornelis B. Slecht. The Slecht name is very rare, for obvious reasons, as it means “bad”, “evil” , was peculiar to the family in the Woerden area who earned the nickname, later adopted, by confrontations with authorities and notorious naughtiness. Chieltje was from Woerden. From the Dutch naming tradition, her middle name, Cornelisdochter, and surname Slecht indicate that her father’s name was Cornelis Slecht. She is an appropriate age to be his daughter. There was not likely to be another man in the Woerden area of age to be her father with the name Cornelis Slecht. She married Gerret Cornilessen Van Nieuwkirk, as his second wife, in Holland. According to the April 25, 1659 passenger list, “Gerrit Corn. Van Niew-Kerk and Wife and boy and suckling child” emigrated from Holland on the sailing ship “Moesman” shortly after the Slecht family, likely due to encouragement by the Slechts. The boy was Gerrit’s brother Matteus, about 12 years old. Chieltje and her husband settled at first in Flatbush (now Brooklyn; Newkirk Street now runs by their former land), then on March 10, 1664/5, they sold their 18 morgen farm to Arent Evertse and moved to Kingston, Ulster County, New York, where the Slechts lived, likely moving there because Chieltje’s family lived there, likely staying with the Slechts. Their daughter Gerretje was baptised there on March 12, 1669, and shortly afterward they purchased a farmstead in the Hurley Patent, near Kingston. On April 5, 1670, Gerret is listed in the militia as from Hurley. This researcher recently attached Chieltje as daughter of Cornelis and Tryntje Slecht, for the reason that he feels that there is enough circumstantial evidence to justify placing Chieltje as their daughter, with a disclaimer noting that this link is not yet proven by actual records.]
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1 BIRT 2 DATE 1538 2 PLAC Snelle, Woerden, Netherlands 2 CHAN 3 DATE 21 JUL 1999 1 DEAT 2 DATE 27 DEC 1603 2 PLAC Snelle district, Woerden, Netherlands 2 CHAN 3 DATE 21 JUL 1999
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