Teunis Nyssen Denyce

Came to America in 1638 from Bunnik, province of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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TEUNIS NYSSEN, the common ancestor of the family, emigrated as early as 1638 from Binninck or Bunnik in the Province of Utrecht, residing first in New Amsterdam. He married Phebea Felix of England, aka FEMMETJE JANS SEALES, daughter of Jan Seales and Phillipa (unknown). They removed to Gowanus where he owned a farm and in 1655 purchased a farm in Flatbush. In Immigrant Ancestors; Leslie Bryan; his birth date is given as 1615 and died before 24 Aug 1663; and marriage to Femmetje 11 Feb 1640; also that Femmetje was buried 13 Dec 1666.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/woertmanfamily.html

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nijssen-6

Children of Teunis and Femmetje All baptised in New Amsterdam:

1. Jannetje Teunisse bp 22 Dec 1641 Brooklyn NY; she was married to Titus Syrach. That she might have been the Jannetje Teunis that married Jans Hansen Bergen was a mistake created by bad record transcriptions and is easily disproven by witnesses as their children's baptisms.
2. Marretje Teunisse bp 3 Apr 1644 Brooklyn NY; died 1690; married 10 Apr 1661 Dirck Jans Wortman born about 1630; died after 1706..[21]
3. Aertje Teunisse bp 18 Feb 1645 Brooklyn NY; married Cornelis Klaessen Van der Linde .
4. Annetje Teunisse bp 18 Feb 1646; married 1663 Hieronemus Rapalje born 27 June 1643 New Netherlands; died after 1690; son of Joris Jansen Rapalje and Catalyntje Trico.[22]
5. Elsje, baptized 10 May 1648;[23] married 6 Dec 1669 Gerret Janse Snedeker bp 25 Mar 1660; son of Jan Snedeker. Left a will which was proved 9 May 1693.
6. Femmetje, baptized 3 April 1650; died aft 1715; married Michael Hansen Bergen bp 8 Oct 1646; died about 1732; son of Hans Hansen Bergen and Sarah Jorise Rapalje.[24]
7. Nijs (Denys) Teunisse bp 12 Apr 1654; died before 1707; married (1) 22 Oct 1682 Elizabeth Polhemus; daughter of Rev. Theodorus Johannes Polhemus and Catherine Van Werven; married (2) 12 Aug 1685 at New Utrecht (2) Helena Cortelyou; died after 1726; daughter of Jacques Cortelyou and widow of Claes or Nicholas Van Brunt. He was a master carpenter and bought land in Flatbush. After his second marriage he moved to the Nyack tract in the vicinity of the Narrows and also owned lands at Yellow Hoeck. He also owned land on Staten Island and resided there part of the time. In 1701, he purchased lands at Millstone NJ.[25]
8. Jan Teunisse bp 12 Apr 1654; married 16 Nov 1679 Cataline Bogaert bp 16 Dec 1657 widow of Hans Hansen Bergen; daughter of Tunis Gysbertse Bogaert and Sarah Jorise Rapalje. Resided at the Wallabout and then moved to Raritan NJ.
9. Cornelis Teunise born before 1668; died about 1727; married (1) 27 Aug 1687 Neeltje Bogaert bp 23 Aug 1665; daughter of Tunis Gysbertse Bogaert and Sarah Rapalje; married (2) Rebecca (unknown). Settled on the Raritan in NJ about 1683 in the vicinity of Somerville NJ.
10. Perhaps Teunis Teunise; married (1) Geertje Hendricks; married (2) Susanna (unknown). Supposedly settled on the Raritan NJ. Known as Teunis Van Middlewout.
11. Perhaps Joris Teunise (also known as James Teunis of the Raritan); married Femmetje (unknown); supposedly settled on the Raritan NJ. Adopted the name Van Middleswart.

Employment/Occupation

1658 - 1661 he was a magistrate of Breuckelen [26] [11]

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TEUNIS (or Cornelius) NYSSEN, the common ancestor of the family, emigrated as early as 1638 from Binninck or Bunnik in the Province of Utrecht, residing first in New Amsterdam. He married Phebea Felix of England, aka FEMMETJE JANS SEALES, daughter of Jan Seales and Phillipa (unknown). They removed to Gowanus where he owned a farm and in 1655 purchased a farm in Flatbush. In Immigrant Ancestors; Leslie Bryan; his birth date is given as 1615 and died before 24 Aug 1663; and marriage to Femmetje 11 Feb 1640; also that Femmetje was buried 13 Dec 1666.

http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p499.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/denysefamily.html

TEUNIS (CORNELIUS) NYSSEN came to America in 1638 from Bissnick (Bunnik) in~ the, 'province -of, Utrecht. and lived at New Amsterdam, New York, dying on Manhattan Island. Teunis Nyssen owned (and lived on) land he owned at Midout (Midwood, Brooklyn) and conveyed a lot in New Amsterdam he had been granted to Cosyn Gerritsen, 5 December 1643. Nyssen married FEMMETJE SEALS (or Pheabia Faelix, widow of Hendricks the Boor, dau of Englishman Jan (John) Seals) and had children: Jannetje Teunis chr 22 Dec. 1641, Brooklyn, N.Y., and married Jans Han - sen Bergen; Marretje Teunis Denyse chr 3 April 1644, Brooklyn, N.Y..,,and married Dericks Jans Woertman3H ; Aertje Teunis chr 18 Feb. 1645, Brooklyn, N.Y., and married Hieronemus Rapalie; Elsie Teunis chr 10 May 1648 and married in 1669 to Gerrett Snediker; Femmetje Teunis chr 3 April 1650 and married Michael Hansen Bergen; Denys (Dionys) Teunis chr 16 April 1654 and married 1682 to Elizabeth, Polhemis; Jan Teunis, twin to Denys, chr 12 April 1654 and died a child; Cornelius Teunis chr 1656; Jan Teunis born 1660 and married 16 Nov. 1679 to Catahne Bogoert moving later to Raritan, N.J.; Teunis, Teunis born 1658 moved to Rariton, N.J., and took name of Teunis Van Middlewort; Joris (George) Teunis born 1662.

Teunis Nyssen emigrated from Bunnick, Province of Utrecht, Holland, about 1638. He settled at New Amsterdam and there married Femmetje Jans, widow of Hendrick the Boor and daughter of Jan Seales of New Amsterdam." (Reminiscences of New Utrecht, p. 124).

He was married to Femmetje "Phoebe" Janse* SEALS on 11 Feb 1640 in New Amsterdam (now New York, New York, USA). "Data establishes that Teunis Nyssen's family was intimately intertwined with the Polhemus family which migrated from the Dutch colony at Itamarca, Brazil, to Flatbush, New York (also known as Midwood, hence the surname Middlewout taken by some offspring) in 1654. All of the sources that I know of (and there are several) that relate to Denyse Teunisen De Nyse and his brother Jan Teunis Van Middleswart, all give April 12, 1654 as the date of Denyse and Jan's baptism, not the date of their birth. It is therefore quite possible that Teunis Nyssen, who came to New Amsterdam in 1638, and removed to then Brooklyn (Flatbush), later removed to the Dutch Colony at Itamarca, Brazil, but returned to New York in 1654 along with Rev Polhemus and his family.

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DE NYSE (or NYSSEN), Teunis (Nyssen), the common ancestor of the family, emigrated as early as 1638 from Binninck or Bunnik in the province of Utrecht, residing at first in New Amsterdam on a farm on Manhattan Island He married Phebea Felix of England, known as Femmetje Jans, widow of Hendrick the Boor (de Boer) and daughter of Jan Seales of New Amsterdam. He moved to Gowanus (Brooklyn), where he owned and resided on a farm. In 1655 he bought another farm in Flatlands. In 1658 and 1661 he was a magistrate of Brooklyn, and in 1660 a member of the Reformed Dutch Church.

Issue:-- Jannetje Teunise, bp.Dec. 22, 1641, m. Jan Hansen Bergen; Marretje Teunise, bp. Apl. 3, 1644, m. Derick Janse Woertman; Aertje Tunise; Annetje Teunise, bp. Feb. 18, 1646, m. Hieronemus Rapalie; Elsje Teunise, bp. May 10, 1648, m. Dec. 1669 Gerret Snediker; Femmetje Teunise, bp. Apl. 3, 1650, m. Michael Hansen Bergen; Denys or Dionys Teunise, bp. Apl. 16, 1654; Jan Teunise, bp. Apl. 12, 1654--all bp. in N. A.; Cornelis Teunise; (sup.) Teunis Teunise; (sup.) James Teunis of the Raritan; and (sup.) Joris Teunise.

His descendants used the last names of: Tunis, Tunison, Denyse, Nyssen, Van Midwout, Van Middleswart, and Van Middlesworth (Midwout being another term for what is now Flatbush in Brooklyn)

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GEDCOM Note

Teunis Denyse ( 1661) came to America from Binneck in Utrecht, Holland, 1638, and settled in New Amsterdam, from whence he removed to Flatbush, L. I., in 1655. His marriage is the third one recorded in the records of the Collegiate Dutch Church of New York City, February 11, 1640. The family is of French origin, and is sup posed to have come from Champagne and have lived but a short time in Holland. In the early Dutch records of New York the name is sometimes spelled Nyssen.

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GEDCOM Note

Teunis Denyse ( 1661) came to America from Binneck in Utrecht, Holland, 1638, and settled in New Amsterdam, from whence he removed to Flatbush, L. I., in 1655. His marriage is the third one recorded in the records of the Collegiate Dutch Church of New York City, February 11, 1640. The family is of French origin, and is sup posed to have come from Champagne and have lived but a short time in Holland. In the early Dutch records of New York the name is sometimes spelled Nyssen.

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https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/holicky-family-tree/P2479.php
He was born in the year 1615 in Binnick, Utreck, Netherlands.Sources 3, 7, 9
(Arrival) Bet. 1620–1664 in New Netherland.Source 8
(Arrival) in the year 1638 in New York, New York.Source 10
(Arrival) Bet. 1620–1664 in New Netherland.Source 11
(Arrival) Bet. 1620–1664 in New Netherland.Source 11
He died August 1663 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, he was 48 years old.Source 1
A child of Nys Denyse and Helena VanBrunt