Christina Vigne Volkertszen

After being "evicted" from Christina's stepfather's house, they moved to Green Point (now Bushwick on Long Island) until the Indian Wars of 1643-1644 forced them to move back into Manhattan. They built adjoining houses with Christina's sister, brother-in-law and family on Smits Vly (now Pearl Street from Wall Street north).

Dirck married Christine VIGNE in 1630/31, daughter of Guillaume VIGNE and Adrienne CUVELIER The Vignes were among the first 30 French Walloon families the Dutch West India Company imported to establish the New Netherlands colony in 1624. [By the way, Peter MINUIT was not Dutch...he was a French Walloon like the Vignes.] Dirck and Christine lived on her parents' farm, at the south end of Broadway, until 1638. Christine's father died in 1632, and Dirck and his mother-in-law were named executors of the will.

Mother in law troubles

Dirck and Christina initially lived in her mother's household, but they did not get along well with Jan Jansen DAMEN. Dirck could not move out fast enough for Jan Jansen DAMEN. Barely two months later the conflict rose to the boiling point:

NYHM: July 21, 1638: "Jan Damen, plaintiff, vs. Abraham Isaacksen Planc and Dirck Holgersen, Noorman, defendants. The plaintiff requests to be master of his house and that the defendants be ordered to acknowledge him as such and to stay away from the plaintiff’s house. The defendants are ordered to keep away from the plaintiff’s house and to leave him master in his own house."

Sources

1. The first American Fulkerson, in old New Amsterdam Last Updated July 2005

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Dutch spelling for her French name

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!1. Reformed Dutch Church Records, Bushw

!1. Reformed Dutch Church Records, Bushwyck, Long Island, NY The family lived at Noormanskill, Long Island, New Netherlands (NY) !2. Also found in Ancestral File under AFN: GMHB-QH and JF7M - 5M

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Life Sketch

Christina Vigne was the daughter of Guillaume Vigne and Adrienne Cuvelier of Valenciennes, a city of northern France. The name Vigne means "vine" in French, and is most often associated with vineyards and wine production. A cuvelier was a barrel-maker. The names paired together paint a colorful picture of French vineyards and wooden wine barrels.

The records of the Walloon church in Leiden tell us the Vignes were members there from 1618 to 1623.

Christina was the owner of tract of land between Wall St. and Maiden Lane. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the buildings that now sits on her land.

The Vignes were one of 30 Walloon families selected by the Dutch West India Company to establish a permanent settlement in New Netherlands [New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut]. The original Company plan was to send only five or six men to set up a fur trading post on Manhattan Island. The addition of the Walloon families may have been a late change to the plans. Perhaps the families volunteered when they heard of the colonization plans. After all, the Walloons were a displaced people who had become refugees in crowded little Holland. There was no land available to them - the Dutch had run out of land and had just started to reclaim land from the sea.

The Vignes are believed to have sailed from Holland in April of 1624 on the "Nieuw Nederlandt" [or possibly on the "Eendracht," which means "Unity"]. The Vignes had three daughters, Christina, Maria and Rachel, when they sailed to America. Most of the 30 families must have had children, as the total number of new colonists was about 120. Upon reaching the Hudson River in mid-May, they found a French ship that was trying to claim the territory for the king of France. With the help of a smaller Dutch ship that arrived from the West Indies, they politely aimed their cannons and escorted the French ship out to sea.

For more stories about her and her husband, and descendants , please see http://www.fulkerson.org

"Dirck Volckertsen of New Amsterdam 1600-1677" by Griffith July 1991 Christine, sometimes called Christina, was born about 1610-1613. This would have made her somewhere between ten and fourteen years old when she arrived in America.

Little has been written about her, other than that she married Dirck in 1630 or 1631, and bore eight children. Dirck and Christine lived in her parents' household until 1638. She was a sponsor in baptisms at the Dutch Reformed Church in 1643 and 1650. The rest of her story must be inferred from what we know about her husband and children. Her last child, Jennekin, was born in 1653. There was no further record of her after 1663, although she may have lived into the 1670's

THE NEW LORD OF THE MANOR Adrienne (Ariantje) married Jan Jansen Damen on May 7, 1638. Damen, sometimes referred to as "Old Jan," was employed as the church warden and also had a sizable tract of land west of the Vigne's. This union combined their previously-held properties, giving Adrienne and Jan ownership of a very large bouwerie. It extended from Pine Street north to Maiden Lane, and from the East River to the Hudson River. The following is the translation of the prenuptial agreement by Adrienne and Jan, concerning her children by her deceased husband, Guillaume Vigne: "Dirck Volgersen Noorman and Ariaentje Cevelyn, (Adrienne Cuvelier) his wife's mother, came before us in order to enter into an agreement with her children whom she has borne by her lawful husband Willem Vienje, settling on Maria Vienje and Christina Vienje, both married persons, on each the sum of two hundred guilders ... and on Resel Vienje and Jan Vienje, both minor children, also as their portion of their father's estate, on each the sum of three hundred guilders; with this provision that she and her future lawful husband, Jan Jansen Damen, shall be bound to bring up the above named two children until they attain their majority, and be bound to clothe and rear the aforesaid children, to keep them at school and to give them a good trade, as parents ought to do." This agreement was dated "the last of April 1632," but was not recorded until 7 May 1638. [New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Volume 1, ed. and trans. by Arnold J. F. Van Laer. Baltimore, 1974, The editor, Van Laer, was of the opinion that the year 1632, given as the date of the document, is probably wrong and should be 1635 or later. The document was certified by William Wyman, blacksmith, and Jan Thomaisen Groen, and witnessed by Jacob Albertsen Planck who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1634 on the "Eendracht."] Upon moving into the Vigne household, Damen found he had married into an extended family. Christine and Dirck were living there with their two young daughters. Maria's husband Jan Roos died in 1632, and she had married to Abraham Ver Planck in 1634. By mid-1638 they had 3 or 4 children. Altogether the household consisted of six adults and 7 or 8 children, and possibly a few slaves. On June 21, 1638, Damen sued to have Abraham Ver Planck and Dirck Volckertszen "quit his house and leave him the master thereof." Dirck countered with a charge of assault and had witnesses testify that Jan tried to "throw his step-daughter Christine, Dirck's wife, out of doors." In the following year, the third Vigne daughter married and left the household. She was only 16 when she married Cornelis Van Tienhoven, the 28-year-old Secretary to the Director.

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1. "Sebring Collections", by Walter Wil

1. "Sebring Collections", by Walter Wilson Sebring, 1975. 2. Abstracts of Wills Vol 1 1665-1707, NY Historical Society Collections1892.

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!A History of the Fulkerson Family from

!A History of the Fulkerson Family from 1630 to the Present by Laila Fulkerson Thompson, page 8-9