Frans Martinse Cregier

Francis Cregier "dyed lately intestate at New Castle Delaware Bay" Letters of administration granted to his father Martin Cregier, and brother-in-law Laurence De Silles July 10 1666, by Gov. R. Nicoll

marriage in New Amsterdam

1660 29 Feb; Frans Kregier, van Borcken; Walburg de Silla, van Mastricht

death

Letters of administration were granted July 10, 1666, by Gov. Richard Nicoll, on the estate of Francis Cregier. ~• see: https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelatin23newjuoft/documentsrela...

source:

Rodney's Diary and Other Delaware Records (Google eBook) Daniel Rodney Allen, Lane & Scott, 1911 - Delaware - 148 pages

Son of Martin Cregier and Lysbeth. John Reynolds Totten, "Anneke Jans (1607-8?-1663) and Her Two Husbands", New York Genealogical & Biographical Record Vol. 56, pages 202-243 (1925): p.216.
Letter from Barbara Barth (Southfield, Massachusetts) to William B. Bogardus, 26 March 1995; William B. Bogardus Collection (Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio). Box 2, File 33A, 140-B.

Frans Kregier was born circa 1639 at Borcken, North Brabant, The Netherlands.
Ibid.

He married Walburga de Sille, daughter of Hon. Nicasius de Sille and Cornelia Meulmans, at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, on 29 February 1660.
Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.25. Frans Kregier, Van Borcken, en Wallburg de Silla Van Mastricht.

He came to New Amsterdam with his parents in about 1642. He was a merchant and trader for his father and moved in about 1658 to the South River (New Amstel, Delaware) when Vice-Director Jacob Alrichs, in a letter dated 17 Aug 1658, complained about the poor quality of the beaver skins brought to him by Captain Cregier's son Frans.
Letter from Barbara Barth (Southfield, Massachusetts) to William B. Bogardus, 26 March 1995; William B. Bogardus Collection (Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio). Box 2, File 33A, 140-B.

Administration of Frans Kregier's estate was granted on 10 July 1666, estate of Francis Cregier who died intestate at New Castle in Delaware Bay. Administration granted to his father Martin Cregier and brother-in-law Laurence De Silles.
New York (County) Surrogate's Court Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Volume I. 1665-1707), Collections of the New York Historical Society (New York: Printed for the Society, 1892), page 3. Francis Creiger. Abstracting Lib. 1-2, p. 7.

Child by: Walburga de Sille b. 30 Nov 1639:
Elizabeth Krieger b. 5 Jul 1662, d. 15 Apr 1740

Frans Kregier died between 5 July 1662 and 1666 at South River, Delaware.
Letter from Barbara Barth (Southfield, Massachusetts) to William B. Bogardus, 26 March 1995; William B. Bogardus Collection (Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, Wilmington, Ohio). Box 2, File 33A, 140-B, "died 1666, South River, Delaware."

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
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