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Sarah Rapelje (9 June 1625 – April 1685) was the first European Christian female, the "first white child" born in New Netherland.
Sarah Rapelje was the daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje (1604–1663) and Catalina Trico (1605–1689), who were Walloon Calvinists who sailed on board the ship Eendracht from the Dutch Republic in 1624. The Rapeljes arrived at a site along the Hudson River where they helped build one of the first Dutch settlements, Fort Orange, where Sarah Rapelje was born on 9 June 1625, along the Waaleboght. Fort Orange would eventually become the fur-trading town of Beverwijck, which itself would later become Albany, New York. In 1626, Manhattan Island near the mouth of the Hudson River was bought by Dutch settlers from local Native Americans, and the Rapelje family were sent to help with the settlement of New Amsterdam on the island's southern tip. Joris Rapelje later bought land on Long Island, across the East River from New Amsterdam, in the village of Breuckelen (the basis of modern Brooklyn) and eventually moved to Wallabout Bay.
Sarah Rapelje married Hans Hansen Bergen in 1639 with whom she had eight children, seven of whom lived into adulthood, until Bergen died in 1653. In 1654 Rapelje married Teunis Gysbertse Bogaert (b. 1625, Heicop, Dutch Republic – d. 1699, Breuckelen, New York) with whom she had seven more children.
Rapelje died in 1685 in Boswijck, a village that became the modern Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. By the time Rapelje died the New Netherland colony had been ceded to the English in 1664, and was rebranded the Province of New York.
Rapelje's chair is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York, a gift of her Brinckerhoff descendants. Brooklyn's Rapelye Street is named after the family. Sarah Rapelje herself was granted a large tract of land in the Wallabout in Brooklyn by Dutch authorities for being the first European Christian female to be born in the New Netherland. The family owned extensive property in the area of present-day Red Hook.
Her descendants include Humphrey Bogart, British television presenter Clare Balding, Al Fagaly, Tom Brokaw, Governor Howard Dean, Royal Baking Powder Company president Joseph C. Hoagland (1841–1899) and Grammy-winning musician Mark O'Connor.
Sarah Rapelje
Sarah Rapelje (9 June 1625 – April 1685) was the first European Christian female, the "first white child" born in New Netherland.
Sarah Rapelje was the daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje (1604–1663) and Catalina Trico (1605–1689), who were Walloon Calvinists who sailed on board the ship Eendracht from the Dutch Republic in 1624. The Rapeljes arrived at a site along the Hudson River where they helped build one of the first Dutch settlements, Fort Orange, where Sarah Rapelje was born on 9 June 1625, along the Waaleboght. Fort Orange would eventually become the fur-trading town of Beverwijck, which itself would later become Albany, New York. In 1626, Manhattan Island near the mouth of the Hudson River was bought by Dutch settlers from local Native Americans, and the Rapelje family were sent to help with the settlement of New Amsterdam on the island's southern tip. Joris Rapelje later bought land on Long Island, across the East River from New Amsterdam, in the village of Breuckelen (the basis of modern Brooklyn) and eventually moved to Wallabout Bay.
Sarah Rapelje married Hans Hansen Bergen in 1639 with whom she had eight children, seven of whom lived into adulthood, until Bergen died in 1653. In 1654 Rapelje married Teunis Gysbertse Bogaert (b. 1625, Heicop, Dutch Republic – d. 1699, Breuckelen, New York) with whom she had seven more children.
Rapelje died in 1685 in Boswijck, a village that became the modern Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. By the time Rapelje died the New Netherland colony had been ceded to the English in 1664, and was rebranded the Province of New York.
Rapelje's chair is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York, a gift of her Brinckerhoff descendants. Brooklyn's Rapelye Street is named after the family. Sarah Rapelje herself was granted a large tract of land in the Wallabout in Brooklyn by Dutch authorities for being the first European Christian female to be born in the New Netherland. The family owned extensive property in the area of present-day Red Hook.
Her descendants include Humphrey Bogart, British television presenter Clare Balding, Al Fagaly, Tom Brokaw, Governor Howard Dean, Royal Baking Powder Company president Joseph C. Hoagland (1841–1899) and Grammy-winning musician Mark O'Connor.
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