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About Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, Sr.
New Amsterdam - Immigrants
Source 1: Jean de la Montagne
From: The Northup/Banta Family Tree Contact: Karrie Email: karrielynne4@cfl.rr.com
Notes: Who was he, this man from whom we descend?
Johannes Monerius Montanus "Xanto", Dutch university student? Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne, Walloon explorer? Jean de La Montagne, French Huguenot minister of the Gospel? Johannes La Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam? J. LaMontagne, signer of treaties with Indian tribes? Dr. Johannes Mousnier de la Montagne, founder of an American family?
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and he lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain."
He may have been a native of Saintonge in west-central France, as Riker believed, or he may have come from another mountainous area of France. No records have been found in Saintonge to support Riker's belief, and all of our ancestor's associations in Holland were with Walloons, French Huguenots from northern France. There is a village named Santes near Lille, which has been suggested as a more likely place of his origin than Saintes in Saintonge.
He first appears on record in the Netherlands on 19 November 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto". He was twenty-four years old and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft10. He next appears as a signer of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassador at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne accompanied Jesse DeForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him the news of the death of Jesse DeForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse DeForest, and the maps of the exploration party.
He is named as a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse DeForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the University of Leyden. On 28 November 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse DeForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Church in Leyden. He was then thirty-one years old; she about seventeen. There is no baptismal record for Rachel DeForest, but her parents were living at Moncornet in Thierache, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed that Rachel was also born at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost.
On 26 July 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fortuyn for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 1633 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636.
In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de La Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 1655. The fifth tract, Pensées chrestiennes sur nostre devoir envers Dieu, envers nos prochains et envers nous-mesmes includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de La Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology.
On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jean Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637.
In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl , included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians.
Indians had rights to the area next to Vredendahl as late as 1675. This place, a place for the Lenape to over-winter, was known as Rechgawanes .
Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis or Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 December 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 1633. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 January 1638. Agniete and her son, Johannes Provoost, came to the New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy.
appointed Vice-Director
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. However, there is no mention of Dr. La Montagne in Dutch records, although Stuyvesant and his defense occupy many pages of official reports. Dr. La Montagne is, on the other hand, mentioned at least twice in 1665 in Albany. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, continued to live in Albany, and it seems likely that Dr. La Montagne and Agnietje continued to stay close to her only living son.
When Willem de La Montagne took over the care of his sister's orphaned children in 1673, the Wiltwyck Court records refer to Dr. La Montagne as being deceased. It is believed that he died in 1670 since his son Jean/Jan dropped the use of Jr. that year. It is not known where Dr. La Montagne is buried nor either of his wives, although it is probable that Dr. La Montagne and Agnietje were buried in the churchyard of the first Reformed Dutch Church in Albany, a location at the intersection of State and Market Streets, long since buried under landfills and modern construction.
Construction sites in the late 19th century at the location of the burial grounds of the original Beverwyck RDC are known to have turned up human bones. Some remains were later moved to Washington Park but never identified. With new interest in preserving the Dutch heritage at Albany, perhaps our Montagne Surname DNA project will one day be useful in contributing to the identification of the bones of Dr. Johannes de la Montagne.
Marriage 1 Rachel DEFOREST b: 1609 in Moncornet, Picardy, France
Married: 28 NOV 1626 in Walloon Church in Leyden, Holland 1 2 Children
Jolant de la MONTAGNE b: 1627 in Leyden, Holland
Jesse de la MONTAGNE b: 1629 in Leyden, Holland
Jan Monier LA MONTAGNE b: 1632 in Leyden, Holland
Rachel de la MONTAGNE b: 1634 in Leyden, Holland
Maria de la MONTAGNE b: 25 JAN 1637 in off the coast of Madeira, Portuguese island in the Atlantic Ocean
Willem de la MONTAGNE b: 1641 in New Amsterdam, now New York City
Marriage 2 Agnietie Gillis TEN WAERT b: 1611 in Amsterdam, Holland Married: 18 AUG 1647 in New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church Children
Gillis de la MONTAGNE b: 1650 in New Amsterdam, now New York City
Jesse de la MONTAGNE b: 1653 in New Amsterdam, now New York City
=Sources=
- Society of the Descendants of Jean de la Montagne
- Book of Marriages of the Pieterskerk, Leiden, Holland. Original record books in the Leiden Archives, Page: 27 November 1626. Text: Jean Moenijer jongman student inde medicinae, wonend opde Voldersgraft vergeselt met Geraerd de Foree zijn bekende op Mare met Ragel de Foree jonge dochter wonende aldaer vergeselt met Heste de la Grange haer moeije mede aldaer
- Records of the Walloon Church, Leiden, Holland. Original record books in the Leiden Archives. Marriage Book for 28 November 1626. Text: Jean Monnier estudiant en medicine demeurant sur l;e Voldersgracht, et Rachel des Forests demeurant au mesme endroit.
- "Aaron Family Tree (Rev. 131)" by Aaron. Email Address:rtanyon@yahoo.com
Notes: French Huguenot physician. Recieved his degree from the University of Leyden. He was the first educated medical man in New Amsterdam. He wasappointed a member of the Council under Governor Kieft and GovernorStuyvesant in New Amsterdam. He was in command of Fort Orange [Albany,NY] as Vice-Director and surrendered the fort to the English in 1664. Hebelonged to ancient nobility in France. Source pedigree from Eleanor M.Hall THE SEE FAMILY AS I SEE IT Eleanor M. Hall. pp16 "The MontagneFamily had been in America for a long time when the See family arrived.Johannes dela Montangne, Sr, had made the first home outside the fort atNew Harlem, and dutch controlled villages were popping up like mushroomson Staten Island, Long Island, and Manhattan.
Memoir of Philippe Maton Wiltsee and his Descendants Page 10 NAMES OF THE WALLOONS AND FRENCH WHO WISHED TO EMIGRATE TO VIRGINIA. (This is the onlylist containing names of Walloons and other families in the book.)Monsiuer de la Montague, apothecary and surgeon; marrying man. Monsieurde la Montague, medical student; marrying man. HONORABLE JEAN DE LAMONTAGNE, a French Huguenot, who was graduated in medicine at theUniversity of Leyden in 1615, and in 1637 emigrated to New Netherlands(New York), where he became prominent in public affairs. He was highlyesteemed by both Governor William Kieft and Governor Peter Stuyvesant,and served in the council of the former from 1638 until 1646, and in thatof the latter from 1647 until 1656. In 1641 he was appointed by GovernorKieft to command a military force sent against the English at Fort GoodHope. In 1643 he was appointed general to command a force against theIndians on Staten Island, and the following year he headed a militaryexpedition against the Indians on Long Island, where one hundred andtwenty savages were killed. In 1645 he accompanied Governor Kieft on hisfirst voyage to Fort Orange, to secure the friendship of the Mohawks, onwhich occasion he conducted an analysis of the war paint of the natives,and discovered gold there in, to the great comfort of Governor Kieft. In1647 he was retained in the council by Governor Stuyvesant; in 1648 hewas despatched to the Delaware River to secure the Dutch acquisitionsthere, which was successfully done. In 1653 he was in the enjoyment of anincome of nearly four hundred dollars a month from his public offices. On28 September, 1656, he was commissioned by Governor StuyvesantVice-Director-General of Fort Orange (Albany), and performed his firstofficial act in this capacity on 12 October, same year. He served withdistinction in the directorship until 1664, when he surrendered FortOrange to the English, and swore allegiance to the new dynasty. Hisestate ("bouwery") in New York was east of Eighth Avenue, and extendedfrom Ninety-third Street north to Harlem River, containing about twohundred acres, which was called "Vredendael" (peaceful vale). He ismentioned in official documents ("Documentary History of the Colony ofNew York," i. 341) as "a very learned man." He married, for first wife,at the Walloon Church at Leyden, 12 December, 1626, Rachel de Forrest,daughter of Isaac de Forrest by his wife Marie Cloux. His eldest son,JEAN (or JAN) DE LAMONTAGNE, JUNR, was a prominent citizen of Harlem, NewYork, and deacon of the Dutch Church there. He married (1), 14 March,1655, Peternella, daughter of Jan Pikes, of Amsterdam, Holland, and hadby her: VINCENT MONTAGNE, who married Ariantje Faub, and by her had:THOMAS MONTAGNE, who married, 25 November, 1718, Rebecca Bryant, and byher had sixteen children, the fifteenth child being BENJAMIN MONTAGNE,who was baptizedin the New York Dutch Church, 16 January, 1745, andmarried Cornelia Cooper, by whom he had five children, the eldest beingREVEREND THOMAS B. MONTANYE, first above mentioned. Dr. Johannes Mouniesde la Montanye was born in Saintonge, France, 1595. He married Rachel DeForest, at Leyden, December 12, 1626. He came to Harlem in 1637, took upMontanye Flats, was secretary of the Harlem Colony, and later was incommand at Fort Orange (now Albany), as vice-director, until 1664, whenpossession was taken by the British. He died in Holland, in 1670, havinggone there with Governor Stuyvesant, after the British occupation of NewYork. (II) Jan (or John), son of Dr. Johannes Mounies de la Montanye,came to Harlem soon after his father, and entered business with VincentPikes. He returned to Holland and married Peternella Pikes there, about1654. Returned to New York in 1655, and soon after settled in Harlem andtook up Montanye Point; was secretary and teacher at Harlem until hisdeath, in 1672. His first wife died and he married (second) MariaVermilye, June 10, 1661.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycortla/montanye.htm
Jean Mousnier de laMontagne who married Rachel DeForest 12/12/1626 in Walloon Church in Leyden Holland. They had 3 children whom I assume theysailed with: Jean Mousnier, Jolant, and Jesse Mousnier. Another child,Maria, was born 1/26/1636/37 off the coast of Madiera on the voyage tothe new world! They came on the ship Rensselaerswyck. The log of thatvoyage has survived and a translation is printed in the Van RensselaerBowier Manuscripts, translated and edited by A. J. F. van Laer, 1908.They left Amsterdam on Sept. 25, 1636; and then left the Texel on Oct 8,1636. They arrived at Manhattan on March 4, 1637. A summary of theirtravails and why they took so long is here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/rens1637.htm
You won't find them listed in the conventional passenger list for this voyage. I think that is because that list has been derived on the basisof when people showed up at Rensselaerswyck. Jean and Rachel got off atManhattan. However, they are mentioned in the log. Here is the account ofMarie's birth from p.369: "1637 January" Sun. 25 In the morning about anhour after sunrise we were between poerte sante [Porto Santo] and madeere[Madeira]. About two o'clock in the afternoon we got a steady breeze fromthe WSW and ran south and in the evening the SW point of madeere lay 12leagues NNW from us. Our latitude by dead reckoning was then 31 deg. 40min. From there we sailed WSW with rough weather and lower sails. Thewind about north with high seas. This night about three o'clock a child[Marie] was born; the father is montanij Johannes La Montagne and themother raegel [Rachel]. The day gone." - So she was born at 3 AM. But Iam not sure whether it was 3 AM the morning of the 25 or 3 AM the morningof the 26. I've seen both days cited. I think I would have to read a lotof the log to get a feel for when each day's events were recorded andwhen a day was considered to have started and ended. Help welcome.Another book you might want to get ahold of is: A Walloon Family inAmerica; Lockwood de Forest and His Forbears 1500-1848, by Mrs. Robert W.de Forest, 1914. Among other items on the De Forests, it has the log ofJesse's voyage to Guiana. He left the Texel on 16 July, 1623. I have notchecked this, but the above book says that Jolant died young. And shows adau. Rachel b. 1634 who would have been on the Rensselaerswyck with them.Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com
Jean, the first member of the family in America, was the son of the Maisonde la Montagne which became distinguished in the fields oftheology, medicine, and literature during the sixteenth century. Hisbirthplace in Saintes province of Saintonge, France (now the Departmentof Charente Imperieure), a province in the western part of France in thevicinity of the Bay of Biscay. The original name in France was Mousnier(some spelled it Monier) meaning miller and the "de la Montagne" simplysignified the part of France from which the family came. La Montagne is amountainous region of Burgundy. The spelling of Montagne gradually becameMontanye. Some retained Monier for a time. Many held onto the de laMontanye. Jean was a Huguenot, exiled in Holland and attended theUniversity of Leyden, first registering as a student on 19 November 1619in the Latin style as Johannes Monerius Montanus (entering at age 24, heapparently had attended another school) and graduated in medicine. Whilea student at the University, at one time he boarded at the house of MarieDe Forest, a widow. The De Forest family (De la Forest) were also FrenchHuguenots driven into exile in Holland. The De Forests, Jesse -- Marie'shusband -- and Gerard, stood prominent among the French refugees. Jessehad married Marie du Cloux in France and was licensed "to dye serges andcamlets in colors. "Jean married Rachael De Forest at the Walloon Churchin Leyden. Rachael was the only daughter of Jesse and Marie. Rachael'stwo brothers, Isaac and Henry, and a cousin Crispin, emigrated to NewAmsterdam (New York) and with their descendants played a very prominentrole in the new colony as did the Montanyes. Jean and Rachael emigratedto New Amsterdam, arriving early spring of 1637, having left Holland infall of 1636. En route, Marie Montanye was born being named for hermaternal grandmother. Dr. Montagne, reputed to be skillful in hisprofession, was a welcome addition to the colonists. Governor Kieftimmediately called him to a seat on the Council which he held until 1656.In the intervening years, Dr. Montagne held many offices among them beingVice-Director of Fort Orange, Member of the Convention of 1653,Commissioner of Fortifications, and Secretary of the Colony under PeterStuyvesant who was his close personal friend. When the Dutch colonypassed into the hands of the English in 1664, Dr. Montagne promptly sworeallegiance to the new government. After this date he is lost sight of butit is thought that he accompanied his friend, Peter Stuyvesant, toHolland to defend his surrendering the colony to the English. There isreason to conclude that Dr. Montagne died abroad in 1670. NOTE: The aboveinformation is from Harlem, City of New York, Its Origin and Early Annalsby James Riker, Published in 1881 by the author.
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Who was he, this man from whom we descend?
Johannes Monerius Montanus "Xanto", Dutch university student?
Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne, Walloon explorer?
Jean de La Montagne, French Huguenot minister of the Gospel?
Johannes La Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam?
J. LaMontagne, signer of treaties with Indian tribes?
Dr. Johannes Mousnier de la Montagne, founder of an American family?
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and he lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain."
He may have been a native of Saintonge in west-central France, as Riker believed, or he may have come from another mountainous area of France. No records have been found in Saintonge to support Riker's belief, and all of our ancestor's associations in Holland were with Walloons, French Huguenots from northern France. There is a village named Santes near Lille, which has been suggested as a more likely place of his origin than Saintes in Saintonge.
He first appears on record in the Netherlands on 19 November 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto". He was twenty-four years old and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft10. He next appears as a signer of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassador at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne accompanied Jesse DeForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him the news of the death of Jesse DeForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse DeForest, and the maps of the exploration party.
He is named as a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse DeForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the University of Leyden. On 28 November 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse DeForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Church in Leyden. He was then thirty-one years old; she about seventeen. There is no baptismal record for Rachel DeForest, but her parents were living at Moncornet in Thierarche, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed that Rachel was also born at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost.
On 26 July 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fortuyn for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 1633 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636.
In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de La Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 1655. The fifth tract, " Pensées chrestiennes sur nostre devoir envers Dieu, envers nos prochains et envers nous-mesmes," includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de La Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology.
On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jean Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637.
In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians.
Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis or Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 December 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 1633. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 January 1638. Agniete and her son, Johannes Provoost, came to the New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy.
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. However, there is no mention of Dr. La Montagne in Dutch records, although Stuyvesant and his defense occupy many pages of official reports. Dr. La Montagne is, on the other hand, mentioned at least twice in 1665 in Albany. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, continued to live in Albany, and it seems likely that Dr. La Montagne and Agnietje continued to stay close to her only living son.
When Willem de La Montagne took over the care of his sister's orphaned children in 1673, the Wiltwyck Court records refer to Dr. La Montagne as being deceased. It is believed that he died in 1670 since his son Jean/Jan dropped the use of Jr. that year. It is not known where Dr. La Montagne is buried nor either of his wives, although it is probable that Dr. La Montagne and Agnietje were buried in the churchyard of the first Reformed Dutch Church in Albany, a location at the intersection of State and Market Streets, long since buried under landfills and modern construction.
Construction sites in the late 19th century at the location of the burial grounds of the original Beverwyck RDC are known to have turned up human bones. Some remains were later moved to Washington Park but never identified. With new interest in preserving the Dutch heritage at Albany, perhaps our Montagne Surname DNA project will one day be useful in contributing to the identification of the bones of Dr. Johannes de la Montagne.
Marriage 1 Rachel DEFOREST b: 1609 in Moncornet, Picardy, France
* Married: 28 NOV 1626 in Walloon Church in Leyden, Holland 1 2
Children
1. Has No Children Jolant de LA MONTAGNE b: 1627 in Leyden, Holland
2. Has No Children Jesse de LA MONTAGNE b: 1629 in Leyden, Holland
3. Has Children Jan Monier LA MONTAGNE b: 1632 in Leyden, Holland
4. Has Children Rachel de LA MONTAGNE b: 1634 in Leyden, Holland
5. Has Children Maria de LA MONTAGNE b: 25 JAN 1637 in off the coast of Madeira, Portuguese island in the Atlantic Ocean
6. Has Children Willem de LA MONTAGNE b: 1641 in New Amsterdam, now New York City
Marriage 2 Agnietie Gillis TEN WAERT b: 1611 in Amsterdam, Holland
* Married: 18 AUG 1647 in New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church
Children
1. Has No Children Gillis de LA MONTAGNE b: 1650 in New Amsterdam, now New York City
2. Has No Children Jesse de LA MONTAGNE b: 1653 in New Amsterdam, now New York City
Dr Johannes De La Montagne was a Hugenot physician and came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1637.
Fled to Holland and attended the University of Leyden 1619. Married Rachel Monjour deForest on 27 November 1626 in Leyden. Emigrated to New Amsterdam 1637.
Enroute to America in January 1637 when his daughter Maria was born at sea.. Dr. de la Montagne was born in 1592, a Huguenot of great learning, and served in the governor's council and as vice-director of Fort Orange (Albany)(p.1132)
Described as "the Huguenot Physician and a learned and vigilant member of the Council and right hand man of the Director" in an article published in the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" of Sunday, April 19, 1885.
Dr. Johannes Mousnier de la Montagne (1595-1670)
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Illustrious Huguenot doctor, scholar, explorer, and statesman
...Dr. Montagne, whose name has been variously misspelled, a descendant of French Huguenots who--like many other Nieuw Netherlands settlers--had fled persecution to settle in Holland. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne from the time of his arrival in Nieuw Netherland signed himself simply La Montagne, though he was often called Johannes La Montagne or Montanye, and the name was frequently pronounced according to the latter spelling... http://maddiesancestorsearch.blogspot.com/2012_02_12_archive.html
Mousnier de la Montagne was a Huguenot.
He was a Walloon signer of the 1621 Round Robin petition, promising "to go into Virginia and there to live in the same condition as others of His Majesty's subjects, but in a town of incorporation by themselves"
From the 16th to the 18th century the name Huguenot was describing a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. They are sometimes known as the French Calvinists.
Walloons" are a French-speaking people who live in Belgium, principally in Wallonia.
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Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and he lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic1 origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain."
He may have been a native of Saintonge in west-central France, as Riker2 believed, or he may have come from another mountainous area of France. No records have been found in Saintonge3 to support Riker's belief, and all of our ancestor's associations in Holland were with Walloons4, French Huguenots from northern France5. There is a village named Santes near Lille, which has been suggested6 as a more likely place of his origin than Saintes in Saintonge.
He first appears on record7 in the Netherlands on 19 November 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto"8. He was twenty-four years old9 and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft10. He next appears as a signer11 of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassador at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne12 accompanied Jesse DeForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him the news of the death of Jesse DeForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse DeForest13, and the maps of the exploration party.
He is named as a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse DeForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the University of Leyden14. On 12 December 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse DeForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Church in Leyden15. He was then thirty-one years old; she about seventeen. There is no baptismal record for Rachel DeForest, but her parents were living at Moncornet in Thierache, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed16 that Rachel was also born at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost.
On 26 July 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fortuyn for the island of Tobago17, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 163318 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636.
In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de La Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 165519. The fifth tract, Pensées chrestiennes sur nostre devoir envers Dieu, envers nos prochains et envers nous-mesmes includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de La Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology.
On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jan Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck20, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637.
In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation21 in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians.
Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record22 showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis or Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 December 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 163323. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 January 1638. Agniete and her son, Johannes Provoost, came to the New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy.
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed24 that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. Whether he died abroad in Holland, as Riker claimed25, or whether he stayed in the now-British colony of New York as a private citizen is not known. The few records available show him in Albany with his second wife and her son Johannes Provoost in 1665 and 1666. It seems most likely that he stayed in Albany until his death in 1670 and that he was buried in the churchyard of the original Albany Reformed Dutch Church.
When Willem de La Montagne took over the care of his sister's orphaned children in 1673, the Wiltwyck Court records refer to Dr. La Montagne as being deceased. It is believed that he died in 1670 since his son Jean/Jan dropped the use of Jr. that year. It is not known when his second wife died, although she almost certainly was buried at Albany, too. There is no extant grave marker for Dr. La Montagne, nor for either of his wives.
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne - French Huguenot.
Added by sglover on 5 Jan 2007 ..
Our progenitor, our ancestor, the man from whom we descend?
- Johannes Monerius Montanus "Xanto", Dutch university student?
- Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne, Walloon explorer? - Jean de La Montagne, French Huguenot minister of the Gospel? - Johannes La Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam? - J. LaMontagne, signer of treaties with Indian tribes?
Dr. Johannes Mousnier de la Montagne, founder of an American family? Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and he lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain."
He may have been a native of Saintonge in west-central France, as Riker believed, or he may have come from another mountainous area of France. No records have been found in Saintonge to support Riker's belief, and all of our ancestor's associations in Holland were with Walloons, French Huguenots from northern France. There is a village named Santes near Lille, which has been suggested6 as a more likely place of his origin than Saintes in Saintonge.
He first appears on record in the Netherlands on 19 November 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto". He was twenty-four years old and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft. He next appears as a signer of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassador at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne accompanied Jesse DeForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him the news of the death of Jesse DeForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse DeForest, and the maps of the exploration party.
He is named as a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse DeForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the University of Leyden. On 28 November 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse DeForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Church in Leyden. He was then thirty-one years old; she about seventeen. There is no baptismal record for Rachel DeForest, but her parents were living at Moncornet in Thierache, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed that Rachel was also born at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost.
On 26 July 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fortuyn for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 1633 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636.
In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de La Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 1655. The fifth tract, Pensées chrestiennes sur nostre devoir envers Dieu, envers nos prochains et envers nous-mesmes includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de La Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology.
On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jan Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637.
In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians.
Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis or Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 December 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 1633. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 January 1638. Agniete and her son, Johannes Provoost, came to the New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy.
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. Whether he died abroad in Holland, as Riker claimed, or whether he stayed in the now-British colony of New York as a private citizen is not known. The few records available show him in Albany with his second wife and her son Johannes Provoost in 1665 and 1666. It seems most likely that he stayed in Albany until his death in 1670 and that he was buried in the churchyard of the original Albany Reformed Dutch Church.
When Willem de La Montagne took over the care of his sister's orphaned children in 1673, the Wiltwyck Court records refer to Dr. La Montagne as being deceased. It is believed that he died in 1670 since his son Jean/Jan dropped the use of Jr. that year. It is not known when his second wife died, although she almost certainly was buried at Albany, too. There is no extant grave marker for Dr. La Montagne, nor for either of his wives..
Who was he, this man from whom we descend?.
Johannes Monerius Montanus "Xanto", Dutch university student?.
Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne, Walloon explorer?.
Jean de la Montagne, French Huguenot minister of the Gospel?.
Johannes La Montagne, physician of New Amesterdam?.
J. LaMontagne, signer of treaties with Indian tribes?.
Dr. Johannes Mousnier de la Montagne, founder of an American family?.
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain.".
He may have been a native of Saintonge in west-central France, as Riker believed, or he may have come from another mountainous area of France. No records have been found in Saintonge to support Riker's belief, and all of our ancestor's associations in Holland were with Walloons, French Huguenots from northern France. There is a village named Santes near Lille, which has been suggested as a more likely place of his origin than Saintes in Saintonge..
He first appears on record in the Netherlands on 19 Nov 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto." He was 24 years old and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft 10. He next appears as a signer of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassado at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Viriginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne accompanied Jesse deForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of the party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him news of the death of Jesse deForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse deForest, and maps of the exploration party..
He is named a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse deForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the Unviersity of Leyden. On 28 Nov 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse deForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Churchin Leyden. He was then 31 years old, she about 17. There is no baptismal record for Rachel deForest, but her parents were living in Moncornet in Thierache, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed that Rachel was also baptized at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost..
On 26 Jul 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fotuyn for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 1633 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636..
In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de la Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 1655. The fifth tract, Pensees chrestiennes su nostre devoir envers Dieu, enves nos pochains et envers nous-mesmes includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de la Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology..
On 25 Sep 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (age 7), Jean Jr. (age 4), and Rachel (age 2), on the ship Rensselaeswyck, owned jointly by the patroon Killiaen van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard deForest. The deForest group on the ship consisted of the de la Montagne family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac deForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel deForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5Mar 1637..
In the New Netherland, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes La Montagne. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry deForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr, La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the deFroest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafte near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-2656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians..
Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later, Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 Aug 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis o Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 Dec 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 1633. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 Jan 1638. Agniete and her son Johannes Provoost came to New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy..
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements alsong the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English takeover of the colony in 1664,Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West India Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. However, there is no mention of Dr. La Montagne in Dutch records, although Stuyvesant and his defense occupy many pages of official repots. Dr. La Montagne is, on the other hand, mentioned at least twice in 1665 in Albany. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, continued to live in Albany, and it seems likely that Dr. La Montagne and Agniete continued to stay close to her only living son..
When Willem de la Montagne took over the care of his sister's orphaned children in 1673, the Wiltwyck Court records refer to Dr. La Montagne as being deceased. It is believed that he died in 1670 since his son Jan dropped the use of Jr. that year. It is not known where Dr. La Montagne is buried nor eithe of his wives, although it is probable that Dr. La Montagne and Agniete were buried in the churchyard of the first Reformed Dutch Church in Albany, a location at the intersection of State and Market Streets, long since buried under landfille and modern construction..
Construction sites in the late 19th century at the location of the burial grounds of the original Beverwyck RDC are known to have turned up human bones. Some remains were later moved to Washington Park but never identified. With new interesst in preserving the Dutch heritage at Albany, perhaps our Mantagne surname DNA project will one day be useful in contributing to the identification of the bones of Dr. Johannes de la Montagne..
Johannes Monerius Montanus "Xanto", Dutch university student? Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne, Walloon explorer? Jean de La Montagne, French Huguenot minister of the Gospel? Johannes La Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam? J. LaMontagne, signer of treaties with Indian tribes? Dr. Johannes Mousnier de la Montagne, founder of an American family?
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and he lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain."
He may have been a native of Saintonge in west-central France, as Riker believed, or he may have come from another mountainous area of France. No records have been found in Saintonge to support Riker's belief, and all of our ancestor's associations in Holland were with Walloons, French Huguenots from northern France. There is a village named Santes near Lille, which has been suggested as a more likely place of his origin than Saintes in Saintonge.
He first appears on record in the Netherlands on 19 November 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto". He was twenty-four years old and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft10. He next appears as a signer of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassador at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne accompanied Jesse DeForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him the news of the death of Jesse DeForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse DeForest, and the maps of the exploration party.
He is named as a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse DeForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the University of Leyden. On 12 December 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse DeForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Church in Leyden. He was then thirty-one years old; she about seventeen. There is no baptismal record for Rachel DeForest, but her parents were living at Moncornet in Thierarche, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed that Rachel was also born at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost.
On 26 July 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fortuyn for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 1633 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636.
In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de La Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 1655. The fifth tract, " Pensées chrestiennes sur nostre devoir envers Dieu, envers nos prochains et envers nous-mesmes," includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de La Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology.
On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jean Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637.
In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians.
Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis or Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 December 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 1633. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 January 1638. Agniete and her son, Johannes Provoost, came to the New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy.
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. However, there is no mention of Dr. La Montagne in Dutch records, although Stuyvesant and his defense occupy many pages of official reports. Dr. La Montagne is, on the other hand, mentioned at least twice in 1665 in Albany. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, continued to live in Albany, and it seems likely that Dr. La Montagne and Agnietje continued to stay close to her only living son.
When Willem de La Montagne took over the care of his sister's orphaned children in 1673, the Wiltwyck Court records refer to Dr. La Montagne as being deceased. It is believed that he died in 1670 since his son Jean/Jan dropped the use of Jr. that year. It is not known where Dr. La Montagne is buried nor either of his wives, although it is probable that Dr. La Montagne and Agnietje were buried in the churchyard of the first Reformed Dutch Church in Albany, a location at the intersection of State and Market Streets, long since buried under landfills and modern construction.
Construction sites in the late 19th century at the location of the burial grounds of the original Beverwyck RDC are known to have turned up human bones. Some remains were later moved to Washington Park but never identified. With new interest in preserving the Dutch heritage at Albany, perhaps our Montagne Surname DNA project will one day be useful in contributing to the identification of the bones of Dr. Johannes de la Montagne.
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Husband of Rachel DeForest, Parents of Jean Mousnier De La Montanye. The Founder of our Family in America. Last known residence Albany, Kingston, New York. On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jan Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck20, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637.
In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation21 in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians.
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed24 that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. Whether he died abroad in Holland, as Riker claimed25, or whether he stayed in the now-British colony of New York as a private citizen is not known. The few records available show him in Albany with his second wife and her son Johannes Provoost in 1665 and 1666. It seems most likely that he stayed in Albany until his death in 1670 and that he was buried in the churchyard of the original Albany Reformed Dutch Church.
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AKA: Johannes De La Montagne - Doc. HIS000019 BIRTH: Date: 1595 - Doc. HIS000019 Place: Saintes,,Santonge,France - Doc. HIS000019 CHILDREN: Of Johannes De La MOntagne and Rachel DeForest Jolant, Jesse, Johannes Jr., Rachel, Maria and Willem Doc. HIS000019 Of Johannes De La Montagne and Agneitie Gillis (Ten Waert) Cossen Gillis and Jesse - Doc. HIS000019 DEATH: Date: 1670 - Doc. HIS000019 Place: Probably at Fort Orange,,Albany,NY - Doc. HIS000019 MARRIAGE: (1) Johannes De La Montagne and Rachel DeForest - Doc. HIS000019 Date: December 12, 1626 - Doc. HIS000019 Place: At the Walloon Church in Leyden,,,Holland - Doc. HIS000019 (2) Johannes De La Montange and Agneitie Gillis (Ten Waert) Cossen Doc. HIS000019 Date: 1647 - Doc. HIS000019 Place: Harlem,,,NY - Doc. HIS000019 OCCUPATION: Doctor RELIGION: Walloon RESIDENCE: Settled in New Amsterday in 1637
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Johannes Monerius Montanus "Xanto", Dutch university student?
Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne, Walloon explorer? Jean de La Montagne, French Huguenot minister of the Gospel? Johannes La Montagne, physician of New Amsterdam? J. LaMontagne, signer of treaties with Indian tribes? Dr. Johannes Mousnier de la Montagne, founder of an American family? Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and he lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic1 origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain."
He may have been a native of Saintonge in west-central France, as Riker2 believed, or he may have come from another mountainous area of France. No records have been found in Saintonge3 to support Riker's belief, and all of our ancestor's associations in Holland were with Walloons4, French Huguenots from northern France5. There is a village named Santes near Lille, which has been suggested6 as a more likely place of his origin than Saintes in Saintonge.
He first appears on record7 in the Netherlands on 19 November 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto"8. He was twenty-four years old9 and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft10. He next appears as a signer11 of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassador at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne12 accompanied Jesse DeForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him the news of the death of Jesse DeForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse DeForest13, and the maps of the exploration party.
He is named as a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse DeForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the University of Leyden14. On 12 December 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse DeForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Church in Leyden15. He was then thirty-one years old; she about seventeen. There is no baptismal record for Rachel DeForest, but her parents were living at Moncornet in Thierache, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed16 that Rachel was also born at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost.
On 26 July 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fortuyn for the island of Tobago17, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 163318 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636.
In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de La Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 165519. The fifth tract, Pensées chrestiennes sur nostre devoir envers Dieu, envers nos prochains et envers nous-mesmes includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de La Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology.
On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jan Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck20, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637.
In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation21 in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians.
Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record22 showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis or Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 December 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 163323. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 January 1638. Agniete and her son, Johannes Provoost, came to the New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy.
Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed24 that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. Whether he died abroad in Holland, as Riker claimed25, or whether he stayed in the now-British colony of New York as a private citizen is not known. The few records available show him in Albany with his second wife and her son Johannes Provoost in 1665 and 1666. It seems most likely that he stayed in Albany until his death in 1670 and that he was buried in the churchyard of the original Albany Reformed Dutch Church..
When Willem de La Montagne took over the care of his sister's orphaned children in 1673, the Wiltwyck Court records refer to Dr. La Montagne as being deceased. It is believed that he died in 1670 since his son Jean/Jan dropped the use of Jr. that year. It is not known when his second wife died, although she almost certainly was buried at Albany, too. There is no extant grave marker for Dr. La Montagne, nor for either of his wives..
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NOTE: Nothing definite is known about the family of Dr. de la Montagne, except for the relative believed to be an older brother, also in Leyden, Holland in 1621. The first official record we have is Jean Mousnier de la Montagne’s enrollment at the University of Leyden in 1619, in which he described himself (in Latin) as a Xanto. That has been taken to mean that he was a native of Saintes, in Saintonge, in the area of La Rochelle. Research in the provincial and Huguenot Church records in Saintonge and La Rochelle for both surnames, Mousnier and de la Montagne, has not found any trace of either surname. Moreover, most of the Huguenot refugees from La Rochelle went into exile in England rather than in Holland. Since all of his associations in Leyden were with Walloons, Huguenots from northern France, it has been suggested that he, too, came from northern France, possibly from a small village called Santes, outside Lille. Unfortunately, there are no records earlier than 1619 at Santes. Research is ongoing for the ancestors of Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne.
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was a Protestant from France. He was born about 1595 and he lived most of his life in exile from France. That much is certain. No one knows where he was born nor where he was living before 1619. No one knows who his parents were nor what the double-barreled name denotes. Does it imply an aristocratic origin? It may literally have meant "the miller from the mountain." He first appears on record in the Netherlands on 19 November 1619 when he registered as a student of medicine at the University of Leyden, signing his name in Latin as Johannes Monerius Montanus, a native of "Xanto". He was twenty-four years old and was boarding with the family of Robert Botack, a shoemaker on the Voldersgraft. He next appears as a signer of the round-robin petition of the Huguenot heads of family in Leyden, addressed in July 1621 to the British Ambassador at the Hague, asking for permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was not granted to the Huguenots for that colony and so Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne accompanied Jesse DeForest to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in 1623, one of a party of eleven Huguenot men on board the Pigeon looking for a site to establish a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leyden on the Black Eagle late in 1625, bringing with him the news of the death of Jesse DeForest, the so-called Journal of Jesse DeForest, and the maps of the exploration party. He is named as a boarder in the home of the widow of Jesse DeForest in 1626 and again that same year as a medical student at the University of Leyden. On 28 November 1626, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse DeForest and his wife Marie Du Cloux, in the Walloon Church in Leyden. He was then thirty-one years old; she about seventeen. There is no baptismal record for Rachel DeForest, but her parents were living at Moncornet in Thierache, in the French province of Picardy, between 1607 and 1615. They returned to Sedan to baptize Elizabeth in 1607 and David in 1608, but there is a break in the records of the Huguenot Church of Sedan between 1609 and 1617. For that reason, it is assumed that Rachel was also born at Moncornet and baptized at Sedan, probably in 1609, but the record has since been lost. On 26 July 1629, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne left with his young bride on the Fortuyn for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. His wife returned to Leyden in 1631, supposedly enfeebled by the climate of this Caribbean Island. Her husband probably returned in 1633 and appears on the register of University of Leyden a third time in 1636. In Haag's Dictionnaire des familles protestantes de France, there is an entry for Jean de La Montagne, minister of the Gospel, who translated into French from English six religious tracts, published in France between 1633 and 1655. The fifth tract, Pensées chrestiennes sur nostre devoir envers Dieu, envers nos prochains et envers nous-mesmes includes some information about the translator. In the introduction, he states that he was born in 1590 but he doesn't say where. However, the first of these tracts was published in Sedan, which suggests that Jean de La Montagne might have originated from that area. Is this "our" Jean Mousnier de la Montagne? Perhaps. We know that our Dr. Johannes was gifted in languages, writing letters and reports in Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and evidently speaking some Indian languages. As a Protestant, he was interested in church doctrine, and as a university student, he would have studied theology. On 25 September 1636, Dr. J. de la Montagne sailed for America a third time, this time with his wife and three children, Jesse (aged 7), Jan Jr. (aged 4), and Rachel (aged 2), on the ship Rensselaerswyck, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by his wife's uncle, Gerard DeForest. The DeForest group on the ship consisted of the DE LA MONTAGNE family, as well as Rachel's brothers Henry and Isaac DeForest. Another child, Marie, was born to Rachel DeForest at sea, before the ship reached New Amsterdam on 5 March 1637. In the New Netherlands, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was generally referred to as Jan or Johannes LA MONTAGNE. His excellent education and high natural abilities enabled him to take an important place in the community in New Amsterdam. On Manhattan Island, he immediately set up business as a physician and a chandler. Henry DeForest died soon after arrival in the New World, and Dr. La Montagne was forced to take charge of the establishment of the DeForest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. Eventually La Montagne assumed the proprietorship of the property, living on it with his family and producing a profitable crop of tobacco. The farm, called Vredendahl, included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park. He was driven off the land by the Indians and lived thereafter near the fort at New Amsterdam. He was the official surgeon of New Amsterdam, First Councillor for both Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant (1638-1656), commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), and a member of several peace commissions with the Indians. Another child, Willem, was born in 1641 but in 1643 Rachel died. Four years later Johannes de la Montagne wedded Agniete Gillis Ten Waert on 18 August 1647 at New Amsterdam. The marriage record showed that both of them had been previously widowed. Agniete, daughter of Gillis or Jellis Jochems Ten Waert and his wife Beicken Schuts, was baptized in Amsterdam on 1 December 1611. She had married Elias Provoost at Amsterdam on 17 May 1633. Elias died in July 1636 and Agniete then married Arendt Corssens Stam in Amsterdam on 26 January 1638. Agniete and her son, Johannes Provoost, came to the New Netherlands with her second husband. After Arendt Corssens Stam drowned at sea, Agniete married for a third time. Agniete had children by all three husbands, but only Johannes Provoost, born in Amsterdam in 1636, lived past infancy. Johannes de la Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the entire colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and the settlement of Beverwyck. At Albany, Dr. La Montagne was the chief administrator for a large area, including all the Dutch and Huguenot settlements along the Hudson Valley, from 1656 to 1664. His stepson, Johannes Provoost, acted as his clerk at Fort Orange. With the English take-over of the colony in 1664, Dr. La Montagne drops out of official records. As an official of the Dutch West Indies Company, he had to relinquish his position as Vice-Director. He did sign a loyalty oath to the new British government and Riker believed that he accompanied Peter Stuyvesant back to Holland in 1665 to defend the surrender of the colony. Whether he died abroad in Holland, as Riker claimed or whether he stayed in the now-British colony of New York as a private citizen is not known. The few records available show him in Albany with his second wife and her son Johannes Provoost in 1665 and 1666. It seems most likely that he stayed in Albany until his death in 1670 and that he was buried in the churchyard of the original Albany Reformed Dutch Church.
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!1. FAMILY DATA: Revised History of Haerlem, by James Riker; NY, 1904; pp. 79-90; 784-791. He was age 24 yrs. on 19 Nov 1619 when he registered as a student at the University at Leiden - Marriage, p. 85-56. 2. MARRIAGE: Coll. of The NYG&BS; Vol. IX; Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam & NYC; Marriages; 1639-1801; p. 14. Angenietje was a widow of Arent Corssen who died at sea. 3. FAMILY DATA: The Kip Family in America; Frederic Ellsworth Kip; p. 47.
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Dr. Johannes La Montagne was Manhattan’s first physician and owner of “Central Park”.
Did you know that Manhattan’s “Central Park” was originally a prosperous
Dr. Johannes La Montagne was Manhattan’s first physician and owner of “Central Park”. This remarkable French Huguenot Refugee was a world traveler, surgeon and spoke a dozen languages. His mysterious lineage is unknown but he is believed to have fled French aristocracy when he refused to convert to Catholicism. He ends up in the colonies and inherits his father-in-laws mid-town, tobacco plantation (now known as Central Park).
Shockingly, before La Montagne, if one needed actual surgery, one went to the barber. According to one old history, “it might be remarked that at that time barbers were commonly looked upon as surgeons. Any skilled barber was likely to be applied to for surgical procedures.”
About Johannes La Montagne Jean Mousnier de la Montagne (Johannes La Montagne) was born in France in 1596. His family was Protestant and moved to Holland where, in 1619, La Montagne enrolled as a medical student at the University of Leiden. Two years later, he signed a petition of the Leiden Huguenot families addressed to the British Ambassador at the Hague seeking permission to establish a Huguenot colony in Virginia. Permission was refused and Montagne then joined the 1623 expedition to the Amazon River and the coast of Guiana in search of a site for a Huguenot colony. He returned to Leiden in 1625 and resumed his medical studies, but a few years later, on 26 July 1629, sailed for the island of Tobago, a Dutch possession in the Windward Islands, northeast of Guiana. Returning to Holland, he completed his medical studies in 1636. On 25 September 1636, Dr. Johannes de la Montagne sailed for New Netherland with his wife and three children on the ship the Rensselaerswyck, owned jointly by the patroon Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and by Gerard DeForest, a relative of La Montagne's wife. La Montagne's excellent education and natural abilities (he spoke Latin, French, Dutch, and English, and later, several of the Indian languages) made him a leader in the community of New Amsterdam, where he immediately set up business as a physician. His wife's relative, Henry DeForest, died soon after arriving in New Amsterdam, and Dr. La Montagne took charge of the DeForest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. La Montagne served on the New Netherland Council and was First Councillor to both Director Kieft and Director-General Stuyvesant. He was also Commander of the troops on Manhattan Island (1640-1656), a member of the 1653 popular convention to demand governmental reform in New Amsterdam, and a commissioner of fortifications of the city in 1654. He played an important role in several commissions set up to negotiate peace with the Indians. Johannes La Montagne was appointed Vice-Director of the colony in 1656, with special responsibility for Fort Orange (Albany) and Beverwyck. When New Netherland passed to the English, Dr. La Montagne signed an oath of loyalty to the Crown. Johannes de la Montagne is believed to have died in 1670 at Claverack in Ulster County, New York.
Notes: 1637-1643: In the New Netherlands, Dr. de la Montagne set up business as a physician and as a chandler. His Father-in-law, Henry de Forest died soon after arrival, and Dr. Montagne was forced to take charge of the de Forest tobacco plantation in mid-Manhattan. The farm, called "Vrendendahl", included much of the upper half of what is now Central Park.
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!MAR: Register of Persons Married Here o
!MAR: Register of Persons Married Here or Outside the City of New York (Johannes de La montagne, Widower Van Rachel Defour, en Agnietie Jilles, Widow Van Arendt Corszens Stam.);
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! DR JOHANNES DE LA MONTAGNE BY E
! DR JOHANNES DE LA MONTAGNE BY ELEANOR M HALL (ECERPTS) Today I learned that my 8th great grandfather came from Picardy. Dr Johannes De La Montagne escaped from Picardy at the beginning of the cruel 30 year war of the 16th and 17th Century. We first find histor of him at Leyden, Hollard where he was registered as a Student of Medicine the 10th of Nov 1619. He found lodging with Robert Botack on Valdersgraft Street in Leyden. In Latin Style Johannes wrote his hame "Johannes Monerius Montanus" in his native French he called himself "Jean Mousnier De La Montagne" meaning John or Jean Mousnier of the Mountain. Surnames were new in the latter part of the 16th century and the spelling of them was not well established. The various spellings carried over to the 17th century in America, the most common spelling Montagne altho one branch used Montanye. Johannes upon entering the Univ at Leyden designated him self as a refugee from Saintonge and gave his age as 24. It was common pract- ice to attach oneself to a univ and he renewed and severed himself three times in 17 years. The Walloons were a hardy, long-lived race, tall, stout and muscular, in this respect quite unlike the French. They fled into the neighboring lands in their dire physical need for themselves. As one of these Dr Johannes came to Leyden. He became a leading political force. For years the Huguenot refugees came and all were destined to find the "New World", the Spanish were again threatening their homes so they began planning escape into the New World. It was a grand plan of Holland to contest Spain in her command of the Atlantic Ocean. The plan was in high favor with the Walloons. Jesse DeForest gave up his job as a master dyer in the vats at Leyden. and enlisted. On 4 Jan 1624 his brother Gerrard DeForest and was appointed in his stead. It is quite possible that Dr. Johannes joined this expedition to Brazil because at this time he quit the Univ at the time that Physicians were neede d for the fleet. He returned to the Univ on the 7th of July 1626. It seems that Jesse Deforest had fallen at the seige of St Salvador. The widow DeForest now living on valdersgraft, took in roomers Dr Johannes married their daughter Rachel on the 12 of December 1626. They took up residence near St Peters Church in Leyden, where the christening of their first child took place the following year, he was soon buried also from that church. Jesse Montagne their 2nd child was also born in 1629 at Leyden. A 3rd child Johannes Jr was born at Leyden, we will hear move about him because he is our ancestor. A 4th child a daughter Rachel was born 1934. She was followed by Maria, born 1636 on the voyage enroute to America. William their 4 son and youngest child was born in 1641 at New Harlem. The little family landed at the Battery, called "Capsee", furnished himself with a dugout and paddled up the East River and landed at a place called Monta- gne's point, approximately the intersection of 132nd St and 7th Ave, New York. He was soon left a widower. He soon wooed a widow of Arent DeForest, whom was lost at sea. Her name was Angennietie a daug of Gillis Ten Waert. They had to have a proceeding which took place 18 July 1647. Two months later they were given permission to marry. Two sons were born to them Gillis in 1650 and Jesse in 1653, but it appears both died in infancy. The feeling exists that there is much more to be put into a history of Dr. Johannes, if we could get at all the records. He figured in much political act ivity on both sides of the ocean. He was head-man on the totem-pole at Ft Orange, New York and there was much correspondance between his office and that of Governor Peter Stuyvesant. This gives us a bit of a peek into the life of our Picard Refugee ancestor who was living more than 300 years ago. It is a better picture than we usually get.
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Johannes was born in Saintes, the capit
Johannes was born in Saintes, the capital of the ancient French Province of Saintonge, on the Bay of Biscay, not far from La Rochelle. By 1619 he was living in The Netherlands, where on November the 19th he registered as a student of medicine at Leyden's University. He became interested in emigrating to the New World and in 1621 was one of the 56 men who signed Jesse de Forest's Walloon Petition. He was described as a young married medical student, but his wife was crossed out, so she may have died about this time. Another signer of the petition was a Mousneir de la Montagne, an apothecary and surgeon, who was probably Johannes' brother or maybe his father. Johannes accompanied Jesse de Forest on his trip to Guiana and buried him there in 1624. Johannes was probably the person who kept a journal of the expedition, which can be found in "A Walloon Family in America". Seven months after Jesse's death, the "Flying Dragon
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Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, Sr.'s Timeline
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1595
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Saintes, Poitou-Charentes, France
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| 1622 |
1622
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Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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| 1629 |
May 6, 1629
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Leyden, Zuid, Holland, Netherlands
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| 1633 |
April 24, 1633
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Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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| 1634 |
1634
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Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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| 1637 |
January 25, 1637
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Off the coast of Madeira, Portugal
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| 1641 |
April 22, 1641
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New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
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