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Helena Van Salee (de Vries)

Also Known As: "Lena de Vries"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: New York, New York
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Daughter of Jan de Vries, (II) and Ariaentje de Vries
Wife of Abraham Frans Van Salee
Mother of Frans Van Salee; Ariaentje Van Salee; Maria Van Salee; Abram Van Salee; Locreesi (Lucretia?) Van Salee and 3 others
Sister of Maria de Vries; John De Vries III; Dirck de Vries and Jacobus de Vries

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About Helena Van Salee

baptism

1684 Apr 30; Jan de Vries, Adriaentie Dircx; Helena; Salomon Pieterszen, Marritie Anthony

{note that the witnesses are free blacks}

marriage

http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com/dutch_reformed_church_marriage_re...
" 1148 Abram Frans Van Salee [Sale or Salee], born at Betfort Helena De Vries [j.d.] born on Long [York] Island February 1, 1708 [betrothed December 27, Married February 1, 1708]"

The following is the compilation assembled by Pat Wardell the.wardells@gte.net
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children of Abram Frans Van Sale & Lena De Vries:

• Frans Van Sale, bp. 11 Jan 1709 Tappan Ref Ch (wit: Frans Van Salee, Adriaentye Dircks); probably moved to the City of
Burlington, Burlington Co., NJ, where with Abraham Vansally (prob. his brother) he bought land 23 Jan 1743/44. He is listed in 1773 Burlington Co. rateables next to brother-in-law Giles Hooper. In his will dated 20 Nov 1781, probated 21 Sep 1786, "Francis Vansally of the City of Burlington" mentioned Eleanor Vansally, dau. of brother John Vansally; John, Jacob, Ann, and Eleanor Hooper, children of brother-in-law Giles Hooper.

• Ariaentie Franse [Van Salee], bp. 26 June 1711 Tappan Ref Ch (wit: Jan De Vries, Isabel Franse)

• Abram Franse [Van Salee], bp. 22 June 1714 Tappan Ref Ch (wit: Frans Abramse, Isebel Barber his wife); prob. the Abraham Vansally who bought land in Burlington Co., NJ in 1744 (with brother Frans).

• Locreesi [Van Sale] (Lucretia), b. 14 Feb 1717; bp. 15 Jan 1717 Tappan Ref Ch [dates are prob. reversed] (wit: Johannis De Vries, Areiaentie Dirckie)

• Elisabet Van Zalee (twin), b. 26 Feb 1718; bp. 26 Apr 1722 Tappan Ref Ch (wit: Anna Maria Van Zalee, Elizabeth Fransse); poss. m. Gyls Hoeper (Giles Hooper).

• Anna Maria Van Zalee (twin), b. 26 Feb 1718; bp. 26 Apr 1722 Tappan Ref Ch (wit: Anna Maria Van Zalee, Elisabeth Fransse)

• Jan Van Salee (John), b. 21 March 1725, bp. Schraalenburgh Ref Ch (recorded Tappan Ref Ch; no bp. date in record) (wit: Jacobus De Vries, Maria De Vries); m. -?-

---Sources:

Cole, David, ''History of Rockland County'', New York, 1884 (reprinted 1986), appendix includes early Baptisms of the Tappan Ref Ch, the Clarkstown Ref Ch, and the Tappan Irregular congregation; Hoff, Henry B., "Frans Abramse Van Salee and his Descendants: a Colonial Black Family in New York and New Jersey" in New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Apr 1990, p. 69;

The Lands of Cornelius Haring....” researched by Douglas Bissett, 1993; “Betrothals and Marriages of the Dutch Reformed Church of Tappan, Rockland County, NY” in The New York Genealogical and Biographics Record, serialized, beginning in issue Vol. LXXXIV, No. 3 (July 1953); Kelly, Arthur C. M., Baptism Record of the Tappan Reformed Church, Tappan, Rockland County, NY, 1694-1899, Kinship, 1998

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Helena Van Salee's Timeline

1684
April 30, 1684
New York, New York
April 30, 1684
Dutch Ref. Church
1709
January 11, 1709
1711
June 26, 1711
Tappan, Rockland County, New York
1712
1712
1714
1714
1717
1717
1718
1718
1718