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About Grietjen Pieters op den Graeff
GEDCOM Note
Category:Krefeld,_Nordrhein-Westfalen
Biography
William I. Hull, William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania: (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970), p.210.
Isack Hermans Op den Graeff was born in Krefeld in 1616 to Herman Op den Graeff and Greitijen Pletjes. Hemarried Greitijen Peters and was converted along with his family to Quakerism. He died in 1679 leaving his widow, three sons, Derick, Herman, and Abrahamand one daughter, Margrit.
The family, including the widow set sail for Philadelphia on the "Concord" and arrived in October 1683. The widow died soon after arrival, but the children went on to help establish Germantown, Pennsylvania.
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pieters-764
Margaret Greitjen Pieters, daughter of Peter Cuypers Doors and Lysgen Grietes, has roots in the region now known as Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Greitjen was born around 1620 to a Mennonite family in the Lower Rhine area of the Holy Roman Empire. The Low German her community spoke had as much in common with Dutch as High German. She married Isaak Herman Op den Graeff and they had three sons and two daughters. Their sons were all weavers.
By the late 1670s, the Op den Graeffs were part of a thriving Mennonite community in Krefeld, not far from the Dutch border. Like many others in the community, they were drawn to the ideas promoted by missionaries for the Society of Friends and converted to Quakerism. They found themselves no longer as happily tolerated in Krefeld as they had been previously.
Greitjen was widowed in 1679 and her sons and various other families in the community were drawn towards the opportunity of a new life in a new province with complete religious freedom. This was being offered by another Quaker, William Penn. The father-in-law of one of her sons purchased land directly from Penn, and the three Op den Graeff brothers all agreed to invest and emigrate as settlers of the new land.
In the summer of 1683, Greitjen joined her daughter, her three sons and their wives, and ten other Mennonite/Quaker families from Krefeld on a journey initially to England. There they had arranged (through their contact Franz Pastorius) passage on a ship contracted by James Claypoole, another Quaker who had purchased land from Penn.
Despite arriving a little later than planned, they were able to embark the schooner "Concord" at Gravesend. [1][2][3][4] After a 75-day journey, the ship arrived in Philadelphia in October, 1683.
The op den Graeff family was one of the original 13 families which settled Germantown, Pennsylvania on the land purchased from Penn, just to the north of Philadelphia, and played an important role in the settlement's management and governance.[5], [6]
Sadly, Greitjen passed away in November 1683 barely a month after arriving. Three years later, with the settlement thriving and growing, her children were joined by their sister Maria and her family in Germantown.
Children
- Adolphus /Op den Graeff/ b. aft. 1636, d. bef. 1654
- Herman Isaacs /Op den Graeff/ b. 1642, married 1st, Liesbet Isacks van Bebber and 2nd, Debora van Bebber, d. 1701
- Dirck Isaacks /Op de Graeff/ b. bef. 1642, married Noleken Vijten on Mar 20, 1681, d. before May 24, 1697. No children
- Maria op den Graeff - b. ca. 1643, married Johannes Yelles Peter Cassel, III, d. November 08, 1728
- Abraham Isaacs /Op den Graeff/+ b. ca. 1646, married Catharine (Trijnte) Jansen on Jul 23, 1679, d. Mar 27, 1731
A daughter also seen, Margaret (Op den Graeff) Schumacher (abt. 1675 - 1748), seems to better fit the next generation.
Note: This wiki profile had the date of birth listed as 28 Feb 1616 and the date of death listed as 17 Jan 1679 when it was adopted by Donna Storz. There were no sources for the exact dates provided.
References
- (1) Family Tree
- (2) Family Motto, op Herman op den Graeff and his wife Greitgen (Greitje) Pletjes: God is fruitful, devout and good to all sides. By Unknown - Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017390
- (3) Translated from the German and appearing in Wild Rhododendrons, http://wildrohodes.blogspot.com
- (4) Letter, Dorothea Schweiger (file); Krefeld Imm V 4 #1 pg 10; Op Den Graeff, v 1 LKS film 1036920 #3; Pennsylvania Folk Life V3 #8, paragraphs 4-7
- (5) "The Friend, Volume 48", The Friend., 1875. Harvard University. p. 67
- (6) "Ship Passengers Mentioned in Merion MM Minutes; Chester County, PA.", Yvonne Prough. U.S. Genealogical Web Archives. Accessed 29 sept 2011
- (7) "1683 Concord", Pro Genealogists. Accessed 29 sept 2011
- (8) Family Motto, op Herman op den Graeff and his wife Greitgen (Greitje) Pletjes: God is fruitful, devout and good to all sides. By Unknown - Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017390
- (9) William Penn’s 1681 Pamphlet, The Original 13, Settlers of Germantown Pennsylvania, ancestry.com
- (10) The Concord, 1683, Concord artwork by German American Artist Richard Schlect, 1982, Courtesy Postmaster General’s Collection, USPS, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/object-spotlight/germany-us...
- (11) The Original 13, Settlers of Germantown, Pennsylvania. rootsweb, ancestry.com; The Original 13, Settlers of Germantown, Pennsylvania
- (12) The Founding of Germantown, Pastorius and the Founding of Germantown, http://www.wman.net/pastorius-and-the-founding-of-germantown * (13) “Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania” John W. Jordan. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1978. ISBN 0-8063-0811-7, 9780806308111. p. 486
- (14) Op den Graeff family, History, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_den_Graeff_family
- (15) Letter, Dorothea Schweiger (file); Krefeld Imm V 4 #1 pg 10; Op Den Graeff, v 1 LKS film 1036920 #3; Pennsylvania Folk Life V3 #8, paragraphs 4-7., http://genealogy.com
- (16) Op_den_Graeff_Krefeld_Stained-Glass_Windows_V, with swan and coat of arms, By unknown author - Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld Nancy Dellinger: The Legend of the Lohengrin Swan http://www.creativealternatives.net/geneal/opdengraff/, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47165579 sources for stained glass pictures shown in 'photos'
- (1) Op_den_Graeff_Krefeld_Stained-Glass_Windows _VII, marriage By Unknown - Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld Nancy Dellinger: The Legend of the Lohengrin Swan http://www.creativealternatives.net/geneal/opdengraff/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017340
- (2) Herman op den Graeff’s coat of arms at the stained window of Krefeld, Op_den_Graeff_Krefeld_Stained-Glass_Windows_I, with the coat of arms from Hermann op den Graeff, showing “Lohengrin Swan” of the Arms of Cleves, By Unknown - Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld Nancy Dellinger: The Legend of the Lohengrin Swan
- http://www.creativealternatives.net/geneal/opdengraff/, Public Domain,
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017340
- https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Historical_and_biographical_sketch...
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Graeff
- https://www.revolvy.com/page/John-William%2C-Duke-of-Jülich%252DCleves%252DBerg
- https://archive.org/stream/settlementofgerm01penn#page/149/mode/1up...
- Herman Op den Graeff In Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500 - 1900 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000007283508432?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000086206852839&position=0
- Bender, Harold S. "Graeff, op den (Opdegraf, Updegrave, Updegrove) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 15 October 2012. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/graeff_op_den_opdegraf_u....
- Op Den Graeff Ancestry- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villandra/OldGeocities/Web...
- Our Family Ancestors - Thomas Maxwell Potts (1895)-https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-62766-83/our-family-ance
- The settlement of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and the beginning of German emigration to Germantown-https://archive.org/stream/settlementofgerm01penn#page/144/mode/1up
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Grietjen Pieters op den Graeff's Timeline
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1620
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Lower Rhineland, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
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1642
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Krefeld, Kurpfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
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1642
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Krefeld, Herzogtum Berg, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
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1643
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Kreikesheim, Kurpfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
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1649
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Krefeld, Herzogtum Kleve, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
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1650
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Monsheim, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
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November 19, 1683
Age 63
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Province of Pennsylvania, Colonial America
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