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- Rapalje (Rapareilliet, Raparlié, Rapalyea, Raplee, etc.)
For documentation of Joris (Georges) Rapalje's origin and marriage see:
George E. McCracken, “Joris Janzsen Rapalje of Valenciennes and Catelyntje Jeronimus Trico of Pry,” The American Genealogist 48(1972):118-20; <—HAVE
George O. Zabriskie's article in de Halve Maen, cited above;
and Hugh T. Law, How to Trace Your Ancestors to Europe (1987), pp. 83-87.
As both McCracken and Zabriskie acknowledge, it was Law who actually discovered the key marriage and baptismal records, in 1964. All of these authors emphasize that earlier accounts of the Rapalje ancestry are unreliable. It should also be noted that the form “de Rapalje” which appears in a few New York records is not found in any European documents of the family.
Recently much new information has come to light on Catalina (Trico) Rapalje's family connections:
see Dorothy Koenig and Pim Nieuwenhuis, “Catalina Trico from Namur (1605-1689) and Her Nephew, Arnoldus de la Grange,” New Netherland Connections [NNC] 1(1996):3:55-63, and
“Further Information About Catalina Trico,” NNC 1:4:89-93. The latter article reveals the name of Catalina's mother, Michele Sauvagie (p. 92) and also supports Law's argument that Catalina's birthplace of “Pry,” once misread as Paris, was Prisches, Hainaut (now in France), near Valenciennes.
On the early descendants of this couple see
George E. McCracken, “Catelyntje Trico Rapalje,” The American Genealogist 35(1959):193-200.
Some lines are traced further in James Riker's Annals of Newtown (1852) and other works but there is no overall, generally-available published genealogy of the family.
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George and Catalina sailed with a group of French and Walloon Protestants of Leyden from Amsterdam, Holland aboard the ship Unity in March of 1624. The Unity and the New Netherland carried from fifty to sixty families, the first colonists of the present States of New York and New Jersey. The New Netherland took its settlers to Fort Nassau on the Delaware River, in what is now the State of New Jersey. The disposition of those on the Unity was described by Catalina, on October 17, 1688:
Catelyn Trico aged about 83 years born in Paris[wrong - it was Pres/Prijs, Hainault, Southern or Spanish Netherlands] doth Testify and Declare that in ye year 1623 she came into this Country wth a Ship called ye Unity whereof was Cammander Arien Jorise belonging to ye West India Company being ye first Ship yt came here for ye sd Company; as soon as they came to Mannatans now called N: York they sent Two families & six men to harford River & Two families & 8 men to Delaware River and 8 men they left att N: Yorke to take Possession and ye Rest of ye Passengers went wth ye Ship up as farr as Albany which they then Called fort Orangie ... there were about 18 families aboard who settled themselves att Albany & made a small fort ... ye sd Deponent lived in Albany three years all which time ye sd Indians were all as quiet as Lambs & came & Traded with all ye freedom Imaginable, in ye year 1626 ye Deponent came from Albany & settled at N: Yorke where she lived afterwards for many years and then came to Long Island where she now lives.1 [1. O’Callaghan, E. B. The Documentary History of the State of New York. Volume III. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1850. Pages 50-51.]
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