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Jean Johannes Monier de la Montagne, II

Also Known As: "Jean Mousnier", "John de la Montagne", "John Montagne", "Jan de la Montagne", "Mousnier DE LA MONTAGNE", "Jean Mousnier De La Montagne Jr.", "Jan Monier De La Montagne Jr."
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Death: May 13, 1672 (39)
Harlem, New York City, New York County, NY, United States
Place of Burial: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, Sr. and Rachel de Forest
Husband of Maria De La Montagne and Peternella Peternella Pierronne De La Montagne
Father of Abram de la Montagne; Jelante Kortright; Isaac de la Montagne; Petronella de la Montagne; Johannes de la Montagne and 4 others
Brother of Jesse de la Montagne; Miss Rachel Mousnier Van Imbroeck; Maria de la Montagne; Willem Mousnier de la Montagne and Yolanda (Jelante) de la Montagne
Half brother of Gillis de la Montagne and Jesse de la Montagne

Occupation: school teacher
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About Jean Johannes Monier de la Montagne, II

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Descendants of Jean Mousnier de la MONTAGNE (1595-1670)

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Contact: Lois Stewart email loissdjm2@aol.com

Home Page: Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne http://www.delamontagne.org/

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Huguenot physician of New Amsterdam and Vice-Director of New Netherland, Jean Mousnier de la Montagne was also known as Dr. Johannes de LA MONTAGNE. The surname today appears in many different forms, the most common being MONTANYE, MONTANEY, MANTONYA, MONTONYE, MONTONYA, MONTAYNE, MINTONYE, and MONTANA

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Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, Jr., usually known as Jan La Montagne, Jr., was born in Leyden, Holland, in 1632, the third son of Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne and his first wife Rachel DeForest. He was baptized on 24 April 1633 in the Walloon Church of Leyden. In adulthood he became the oldest living son.

As a four-year-old, Jan traveled to New Amsterdam in 1636 with his family on board the Rensselaerswyck. He early joined the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and taught school for a few months in 1652. Then he was made commissioner of accounts for the Dutch West India Company, a position which he held for about a year. Entering into partnership in trade with Vincent Pikes in 1654, he sailed for Holland that summer on board the King Solomon. There were a number of business matters for him to clear up. His mother's uncle, Gerard DeForest, head of the DeForest business ventures, had recently died. Jan also represented the heirs of Rachel DeForest in the division of the estate of his own uncle, Jean DeForest, who had died in Leyden before 1646. He had tobacco to sell on consignment for his uncle Isaac DeForest, with instructions to buy goods in return. He also came to stock up on merchandise for his own business venture and, it seems, to look for a wife.

On 14 March 1655, Jan La Montagne married Peternella Pikes at Slooterdyk, a village about a mile from Amsterdam. The marriage was performed by Pastor Meursius. Peternella, daughter of Jan Pikes and sister of Vincent Pikes, was born about 1634 in Holland. She stayed in Holland until her first child was born, later that same year, but Jan returned to New Amsterdam soon after the wedding.

Jan La Montagne bought his uncle Isaac DeForest's house on Marckveltsteeg in New Amsterdam on 26 September 1655, preparing for the arrival of his wife and baby. Jan was already making his mark as a solid citizen. He was the first enrolled on the list of the Great Burghers of New Amsterdam on 10 April 1657. He was Farmer of the Retail Excise [tax collector] in 1657 and he was made a Fire-Warden on 23 December 1658.

One of the first to take up land at the proposed New Harlem village (an enterprise in which he felt a special interest because of its location near his father's abandoned farm Vredendael), Jan sold his house on the Marckveltsteeg to John Verveelen on 27 June 1659 and moved to New Harlem.

Jan La Montagne lived the rest of his life at New Harlem, one of its most prominent citizens. He was chosen deacon of New Harlem RDC in 1660, schepen (magistrate) on 3 November 1661, schout (deputy sheriff) in 1662, and Town Clerk from 1662 to 1672. In November 1662 Jan La Montagne's term as deacon of the church expired, but he was re-appointed schepen at that time.

Peternella Pikes La Montagne must have died about this time. She left three small sons. With the children to care for, Jan La Montagne must have felt it was urgent to marry again quite quickly. He married Maria Vermilye (Marie Vermeille) on 10 June 1663. Dominie Selyns officiated at the double wedding, for the bride's sister Rachel Vermilye was married at the same time to John Terbosh. Both were daughters of Isaac and Jacomina (Jacobs) Vermilye, a French Huguenot family newly arrived in New Harlem. A little older than her new spouse, Maria Vermilye had been baptized on 2 August 1629 in Leyden, Holland.

In December 1663, Jan La Montagne took on the job of voorleser of New Harlem, a job which included all possible clerical duties: lay-leader of the church, school-master, reader of sacraments, record-keeper, and town clerk. The Dutch West India Company agreed in 1664 to help pay the salary of Jan La Montagne as voorleser at New Harlem, but shortly thereafter control of the colony passed to the English. Jan La Montagne registered clear disapproval of the change of government. He resigned as schout and refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the new British government. Instead he seems to have devoted himself as voorleser to the job of building a new church for New Harlem. He started the building campaign in January 1665 with a feast to honor ex-Director Stuyvesant, who departed for Holland six months later to defend his surrender of the colony. Jan La Montagne spent the next three years building the church, which was finished in January 1668.

Jan La Montagne's last official act as Town Clerk of New Harlem was to record a case of assault on 23 April 1672. Below this entry is written: "Here ends the register....of Jan de La Montagne....[who] died in 1672. Jan La Montagne made his will on 13 May 1672, but only the date of the record remains. He was buried in the little cemetery back of the church he had built.

His widow, Maria (Vermilye) de La Montagne, was left with three stepsons and four young children of her own, with one more expected. On 26 September 1675 she married the widowed Isaac Kip, son of Hendrick and Tryntie Kip. Isaac Kip was a yacht captain, engaged in the river trade between New Amsterdam and Fort Orange, but after his second marriage he lived in New Harlem. His youngest son, Johannes Kip, is on record as living with Maria Vermilye and possibly so did some of the other Kip children. Isaac Kip and Maria Vermilye had no children from their second marriages. Within three years of this marriage, Isaac Kip died. The magistrates of New Harlem were called upon on 25 July 1678 to make inventory of the household goods. Now widowed for the second time, Maria Vermilye continued to live in New Harlm for another eleven years. She was buried on 23 November 1689 in New Harlem, New York City.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION: (Numbered in order of original footnotes):

1. WK NR132 Quitanties on Vol. Jaar den. The Sheriffs of the city of Leiden make known that Joannes Monier de la Montaigne junior, aged about 23 years, for himself as well as for his sister, authorized by Jacob Kip, secretary of the city of New Amsterdam in New Netherlands, as being married to Maria Monier de la Montagne, … both left children of the late Rachel de Forest, raised by Jean Monier de la Montaigne, …acquired by them on the 5th November anno 1654, registered in the Orphan-Poorbook folio 11 v….divide all such goods, writings, papers, and drafts,…until this day in the Orphanage at this place in trusty deposit have been laid and rested.

2. Riker, Harlem, 94.

3. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 29. The record reads: Jan Montagne, widower of Petronella Pyckes, and Maria Farnelie, j.d. from Leyden.

4. Riker, Harlem, 204, 641-642..

5. Riker, Harlem, 281.

6. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 40. The marriage record is of their betrothal on 12 September 1675, noting that Isaac Kip was the widower of Catalyntje Hendricks and that Maria VerVelje was the widow of Joh. De La Montagne. The marriage itself was celebrated in New Harlem on 26 September 1675.

7. Riker, Harlem, 786.

8. Riker, Harlem, 786.

9. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 44.

10. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 96.

11. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:45. The baptismal sponsors were Isaac deforest, Jacob Kip, Esaias Horne, Agnietie Jillis, and Anna Pikes.

12. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 54.

13. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:52. Baptismal sponsors were Nicasius de Sille (Fiscael), Rachel de la Montgne, Elisabeth Pieces.

14. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:77. Baptismal sponsors were Willem de La Montagnie, Gerrit Van Trieht, Jacomina Jacobs.

15. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66.

16. Riker, Harlem, 594. The identity of this second wife has never been determined.

17. Riker, Harlem, 594.

18. Riker, Harlem, 786.

19. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66.

20. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:94. Baptismal sponsors were Isaac Vermelia, Rachel VanderBosch.

21. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 82.

22. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:100. The baptismal record gives the parents as Jean de Lamontagne and Marritie Waldron, instead of Marritie Vermilye. The assumption has been made that this is just a clerical mistake, since Jan Lamontagne (3rd generation) did not marry until 1678 and then he married Annetie Waldron and not Marritie. Baptismal sponsors of the child were Jacob Kip and Lysbeth Lubberts.

23. Riker believed that Petronella married Isaac See, but recent research by Glenna See Hill shows quite conclusively that Isaac See married Petronella Storm. It seems most likely that this child died in infancy.

24. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:109. Baptismal sponsors were Jan Duyckman and Magdalena terNeur (Tourneur). Parents were given as Jean de La Montagne and Maria Vernelje, with no mention made that the father had died prior to the birth of this posthumus child.

25. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 84.

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Jean Mousnier de la Montagne, Jr., usually known as Jan La Montagne, Jr., was born in Leyden, Holland, in 1632, the third son of Dr. Jean Mousnier de la Montagne and his first wife Rachel DeForest. He was baptized on 24 April 1633 in the Walloon Church of Leyden. In adulthood he became the oldest living son.

As a four-year-old, Jan traveled to New Amsterdam in 1636 with his family on board the Rensselaerswyck. He early joined the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and taught school for a few months in 1652. Then he was made commissioner of accounts for the Dutch West India Company, a position which he held for about a year. Entering into partnership in trade with Vincent Pikes in 1654, he sailed for Holland that summer on board the King Solomon. There were a number of business matters for him to clear up. His mother's uncle, Gerard DeForest, head of the DeForest business ventures, had recently died. Jan also represented the heirs of Rachel DeForest in the division of the estate of his own uncle, Jean DeForest, who had died in Leyden before 1646. He had tobacco to sell on consignment for his uncle Isaac DeForest, with instructions to buy goods in return. He also came to stock up on merchandise for his own business venture and, it seems, to look for a wife.

On 14 March 1655, Jan La Montagne married Peternella Pikes at Slooterdyk, a village about a mile from Amsterdam. The marriage was performed by Pastor Meursius. Peternella, daughter of Jan Pikes and sister of Vincent Pikes, was born about 1634 in Holland. She stayed in Holland until her first child was born, later that same year, but Jan returned to New Amsterdam soon after the wedding.

Jan La Montagne bought his uncle Isaac DeForest's house on Marckveltsteeg in New Amsterdam on 26 September 1655, preparing for the arrival of his wife and baby. Jan was already making his mark as a solid citizen. He was the first enrolled on the list of the Great Burghers of New Amsterdam on 10 April 1657. He was Farmer of the Retail Excise [tax collector] in 1657 and he was made a Fire-Warden on 23 December 1658.

One of the first to take up land at the proposed New Harlem village (an enterprise in which he felt a special interest because of its location near his father's abandoned farm Vredendael), Jan sold his house on the Marckveltsteeg to John Verveelen on 27 June 1659 and moved to New Harlem.

Jan La Montagne lived the rest of his life at New Harlem, one of its most prominent citizens. He was chosen deacon of New Harlem RDC in 1660, schepen (magistrate) on 3 November 1661, schout (deputy sheriff) in 1662, and Town Clerk from 1662 to 1672. In November 1662 Jan La Montagne's term as deacon of the church expired, but he was re-appointed schepen at that time.

Peternella Pikes La Montagne must have died about this time. She left three small sons. With the children to care for, Jan La Montagne must have felt it was urgent to marry again quite quickly. He married Maria Vermilye (Marie Vermeille) on 10 June 1663. Dominie Selyns officiated at the double wedding, for the bride's sister Rachel Vermilye was married at the same time to John Terbosh. Both were daughters of Isaac and Jacomina (Jacobs) Vermilye, a French Huguenot family newly arrived in New Harlem. A little older than her new spouse, Maria Vermilye had been baptized on 2 August 1629 in Leyden, Holland.

In December 1663, Jan La Montagne took on the job of voorleser of New Harlem, a job which included all possible clerical duties: lay-leader of the church, school-master, reader of sacraments, record-keeper, and town clerk. The Dutch West India Company agreed in 1664 to help pay the salary of Jan La Montagne as voorleser at New Harlem, but shortly thereafter control of the colony passed to the English. Jan La Montagne registered clear disapproval of the change of government. He resigned as schout and refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the new British government. Instead he seems to have devoted himself as voorleser to the job of building a new church for New Harlem. He started the building campaign in January 1665 with a feast to honor ex-Director Stuyvesant, who departed for Holland six months later to defend his surrender of the colony. Jan La Montagne spent the next three years building the church, which was finished in January 1668.

Jan La Montagne's last official act as Town Clerk of New Harlem was to record a case of assault on 23 April 1672. Below this entry is written: "Here ends the register....of Jan de La Montagne....[who] died in 1672. Jan La Montagne made his will on 13 May 1672, but only the date of the record remains. He was buried in the little cemetery back of the church he had built.

His widow, Maria (Vermilye) de La Montagne, was left with three stepsons and four young children of her own, with one more expected. On 26 September 1675 she married the widowed Isaac Kip, son of Hendrick and Tryntie Kip. Isaac Kip was a yacht captain, engaged in the river trade between New Amsterdam and Fort Orange, but after his second marriage he lived in New Harlem. His youngest son, Johannes Kip, is on record as living with Maria Vermilye and possibly so did some of the other Kip children. Isaac Kip and Maria Vermilye had no children from their second marriages. Within three years of this marriage, Isaac Kip died. The magistrates of New Harlem were called upon on 25 July 1678 to make inventory of the household goods. Now widowed for the second time, Maria Vermilye continued to live in New Harlem for another eleven years. She was buried on 23 November 1689 in New Harlem, New York City.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION: (Numbered in order of original footnotes):

1. WK NR132 Quitanties on Vol. Jaar den. The Sheriffs of the city of Leiden make known that Joannes Monier de la Montaigne junior, aged about 23 years, for himself as well as for his sister, authorized by Jacob Kip, secretary of the city of New Amsterdam in New Netherlands, as being married to Maria Monier de la Montagne, … both left children of the late Rachel de Forest, raised by Jean Monier de la Montaigne, …acquired by them on the 5th November anno 1654, registered in the Orphan-Poorbook folio 11 v….divide all such goods, writings, papers, and drafts,…until this day in the Orphanage at this place in trusty deposit have been laid and rested. 2. Riker, Harlem, 94. 3. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 29. The record reads: Jan Montagne, widower of Petronella Pyckes, and Maria Farnelie, j.d. from Leyden. 4. Riker, Harlem, 204, 641-642.. 5. Riker, Harlem, 281. 6. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 40. The marriage record is of their betrothal on 12 September 1675, noting that Isaac Kip was the widower of Catalyntje Hendricks and that Maria VerVelje was the widow of Joh. De La Montagne. The marriage itself was celebrated in New Harlem on 26 September 1675. 7. Riker, Harlem, 786. 8. Riker, Harlem, 786. 9. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 44. 10. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 96. 11. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:45. The baptismal sponsors were Isaac deforest, Jacob Kip, Esaias Horne, Agnietie Jillis, and Anna Pikes. 12. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 54. 13. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:52. Baptismal sponsors were Nicasius de Sille (Fiscael), Rachel de la Montgne, Elisabeth Pieces. 14. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:77. Baptismal sponsors were Willem de La Montagnie, Gerrit Van Trieht, Jacomina Jacobs. 15. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66. 16. Riker, Harlem, 594. The identity of this second wife has never been determined. 17. Riker, Harlem, 594. 18. Riker, Harlem, 786. 19. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66. 20. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:94. Baptismal sponsors were Isaac Vermelia, Rachel VanderBosch. 21. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 82. 22. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:100. The baptismal record gives the parents as Jean de Lamontagne and Marritie Waldron, instead of Marritie Vermilye. The assumption has been made that this is just a clerical mistake, since Jan Lamontagne (3rd generation) did not marry until 1678 and then he married Annetie Waldron and not Marritie. Baptismal sponsors of the child were Jacob Kip and Lysbeth Lubberts. 23. Riker believed that Petronella married Isaac See, but recent research by Glenna See Hill shows quite conclusively that Isaac See married Petronella Storm. It seems most likely that this child died in infancy. 24. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:109. Baptismal sponsors were Jan Duyckman and Magdalena terNeur (Tourneur). Parents were given as Jean de La Montagne and Maria Vernelje, with no mention made that the father had died prior to the birth of this posthumus child. 25. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 84.

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Occupation: Teacher-1652 3 Occupation: Commissioner Of Accounts 3 Occupation: On The List Of Great Burghers Of New Amsterdam-10 April 1657 3 Occupation: Farmer Of Retail Excise-1657 3 Occupation: Fire Warden-23 Dec 1658 3 Occupation: Deacon Of New Harlem Church-1660 3 Occupation: Magistrate-3 Nov 1661 3 Occupation: Deputy Sheriff-1662 3 Occupation: Town Clerk-1662 To 1672 3 Occupation: Voorleser Of New Harlem (Lay-Leader Of The Church, School-Master, Reader Of Sacrements, Record-Keeper, Town Clerk-Dec 1663) 3


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Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7791417&pid=471 Jean's father 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." But many of those signers never took that particular planned journey, and ended up in New Netherland instead. Jean was born and he was baptized at April 24, 1633 at Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands . His name was Jean Mousnier , no mentioning of the last name de la Montagne at the baptism, his father was named Jean Mousnier and mother Rachel de Foree.

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Source: Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements ..., Volume 3 By Tunis Garret Bergen (1915)

"Jan or John de La Montanye, third sone of De. Johannes Mounies and Rachael )de Forest) La Montagne, was born at Leyden, Holland, in 1632, and died at Harlem, New York, in 1672. He came to Harlem soon after his father and entered business with Vincent Pikes. He first appears as Jean Monier de La Montagne, later as Jan La Montagne, and subsequently as de La Montanye. He returned to Holand and married there about 1654. He returned to New york in 1655 and soon after settled in Harlem and took up Montayne Point; was secretary and teacher at Harlem until his death in 1672. He early joined the church at New Amsterdam where in 1652 he taught school a few months under an appointment from the directors of Holland; then was made commissary of accounts. Soon after his return from Holland he bought a residence on Marchvelt-steeg from his uncle, de Forest, September 26, 1655, preparatory to the coming of his wife, who soon arrived with her infant. (Johannes, born in Amsterdam, and there baptized at t the Walloon church, October 21, 1655.) On the institution of the burgher right Montanye's name the first enrolled on the list of Great Burghers, April 10, 1657. This year he was a farmer on the retail excise, and was made a forewarned, December 23, 1658. One of the first, if not the first, auto take up land at the proposed New Harlem, in which enterprise he felt a special interest, owing to the proximity of his father's land, Vrendendal, he sold his home on at the Marchvelt-steeg to Johannes Vervielen, June 27, 1659, and removed thither, being chosen deacon in 1660. He was living there next winter, when he bought a horse, with saddle and bridle 'for 300 guilders, in good strung current wampum'. His next appointment was that of steps of the new village, where all his interests centered, after the sale February 14, 1662, of another house and lot, adjoining the one owned by his father in Beaver street. In May, 1670, Montanye dropped the Jr. from his name, indicating his father's decease. He married (first) in Holland, Peternella Pikes in 1654 ; (second0 June 14, 1663, Maria Vermilye." NOTE: Peternella Pikes died 1662.

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Johannes was just six years old when his parents booked passage on The Rensseaerswyck and sailed for New Netherland. In 1654 he entered into a partnership with Vincent Pikes and left for Holland aboard the "King Solomon" that summer with a consignment of tobacco from his uncle Isaac de Forest. He married the following March at Slooterdyk, a village about a mile from Amsterdam and returned to New Amsterdam not long after the wedding. His wife remained in Amsterdam, awaiting the birth of their first child and then joined him in New Amsterdam -- see The Ancestors & Descendants of James Montaney.

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BAPTISM: Jan was baptised in the Walloon Church in Leyden, Holland. HISTORY: As a four-year-old, Jan traveled to New Amsterdam in 1636 with his family on board the Rensselaerswyck. He early joined the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and taught school for a few months in 1652. Then he was made commissioner of accounts for the Dutch West India Company, a position which he held for about a year. Entering into partnership in trade with Vincent Pikes in 1654, he sailed for Holland that summer on board the King Solomon. There were a number of business matters for him to clear up. His mother's uncle, Gerard DeForest, head of the DeForest business ventures, had recently died. Jan also represented the heirs of Rachel DeForest in the division of the estate of his own uncle, Jean DeForest, who had died in Leyden before 1646. He had tobacco to sell on consignment for his uncle Isaac DeForest, with instructions to buy goods in return. He also came to stock up on merchandise for his own business venture and, it seems, to look for a wife. On 14 March 1655, Jan La Montagne married Peternella Pikes at Slooterdyk, a village about a mile from Amsterdam. The marriage was performed by Pastor Meursius. Peternella, daughter of Jan Pikes and sister of Vincent Pikes, was born about 1634 in Holland. She stayed in Holland until her first child was born, later that same year, but Jan returned to New Amsterdam soon after the wedding.

Jan La Montagne bought his uncle Isaac DeForest's house on Marckveltsteeg in New Amsterdam on 26 September 1655, preparing for the arrival of his wife and baby. Jan was already making his mark as a solid citizen. He was the first enrolled on the list of the Great Burghers of New Amsterdam on 10 April 1657. He was Farmer of the Retail Excise [tax collector] in 1657 and he was made a Fire-Warden on 23 December 1658.

One of the first to take up land at the proposed New Harlem village (an enterprise in which he felt a special interest because of its location near his father's abandoned farm Vredendael), Jan sold his house on the Marckveltsteeg to John Verveelen on 27 June 1659 and moved to New Harlem.

Jan La Montagne lived the rest of his life at New Harlem, one of its most prominent citizens. He was chosen deacon of New Harlem RDC in 1660, schepen (magistrate) on 3 November 1661, schout (deputy sheriff) in 1662, and Town Clerk from 1662 to 1672. In November 1662 Jan La Montagne's term as deacon of the church expired, but he was re-appointed schepen at that time.

Peternella Pikes La Montagne must have died about this time. She left three small sons. With the children to care for, Jan La Montagne must have felt it was urgent to marry again quite quickly. He married Maria Vermilye (Marie Vermeille) on 10 June 1663. Dominie Selyns officiated at the double wedding, for the bride's sister Rachel Vermilye was married at the same time to John Terbosh. Both were daughters of Isaac and Jacomina (Jacobs) Vermilye, a French Huguenot family newly arrived in New Harlem. A little older than her new spouse, Maria Vermilye had been baptized on 2 August 1629 in Leyden, Holland.

In December 1663, Jan La Montagne took on the job of voorleser of New Harlem, a job which included all possible clerical duties: lay-leader of the church, school-master, reader of sacraments, record-keeper, and town clerk. The Dutch West India Company agreed in 1664 to help pay the salary of Jan La Montagne as voorleser at New Harlem, but shortly thereafter control of the colony passed to the English. Jan La Montagne registered clear disapproval of the change of government. He resigned as schout and refused to sign the oath of allegiance to the new British government. Instead he seems to have devoted himself as voorleser to the job of building a new church for New Harlem. He started the building campaign in January 1665 with a feast to honor ex-Director Stuyvesant, who departed for Holland six months later to defend his surrender of the colony. Jan La Montagne spent the next three years building the church, which was finished in January 1668.

Jan La Montagne's last official act as Town Clerk of New Harlem was to record a case of assault on 23 April 1672. Below this entry is written: "Here ends the register....of Jan de La Montagne....[who] died in 1672. Jan La Montagne made his will on 13 May 1672, but only the date of the record remains. He was buried in the little cemetery back of the church he had built.

His widow, Maria (Vermilye) de La Montagne, was left with three stepsons and four young children of her own, with one more expected. On 26 September 1675 she married the widowed Isaac Kip, son of Hendrick and Tryntie Kip. Isaac Kip was a yacht captain, engaged in the river trade between New Amsterdam and Fort Orange, but after his second marriage he lived in New Harlem. His youngest son, Johannes Kip, is on record as living with Maria Vermilye and possibly so did some of the other Kip children. Isaac Kip and Maria Vermilye had no children from their second marriages. Within three years of this marriage, Isaac Kip died. The magistrates of New Harlem were called upon on 25 July 1678 to make inventory of the household goods. Now widowed for the second time, Maria Vermilye continued to live in New Harlm for another eleven years. She was buried on 23 November 1689 in New Harlem, New York City.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION: (Numbered in order of original footnotes):

1. WK NR132 Quitanties on Vol. Jaar den. The Sheriffs of the city of Leiden make known that Joannes Monier de la Montaigne junior, aged about 23 years, for himself as well as for his sister, authorized by Jacob Kip, secretary of the city of New Amsterdam in New Netherlands, as being married to Maria Monier de la Montagne, … both left children of the late Rachel de Forest, raised by Jean Monier de la Montaigne, …acquired by them on the 5th November anno 1654, registered in the Orphan-Poorbook folio 11 v….divide all such goods, writings, papers, and drafts,…until this day in the Orphanage at this place in trusty deposit have been laid and rested. 2. Riker, Harlem, 94. 3. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 29. The record reads: Jan Montagne, widower of Petronella Pyckes, and Maria Farnelie, j.d. from Leyden. 4. Riker, Harlem, 204, 641-642.. 5. Riker, Harlem, 281. 6. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 40. The marriage record is of their betrothal on 12 September 1675, noting that Isaac Kip was the widower of Catalyntje Hendricks and that Maria VerVelje was the widow of Joh. De La Montagne. The marriage itself was celebrated in New Harlem on 26 September 1675. 7. Riker, Harlem, 786. 8. Riker, Harlem, 786. 9. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 44. 10. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 96. 11. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:45. The baptismal sponsors were Isaac deforest, Jacob Kip, Esaias Horne, Agnietie Jillis, and Anna Pikes. 12. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 54. 13. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:52. Baptismal sponsors were Nicasius de Sille (Fiscael), Rachel de la Montgne, Elisabeth Pieces. 14. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:77. Baptismal sponsors were Willem de La Montagnie, Gerrit Van Trieht, Jacomina Jacobs. 15. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66. 16. Riker, Harlem, 594. The identity of this second wife has never been determined. 17. Riker, Harlem, 594. 18. Riker, Harlem, 786. 19. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 66. 20. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:94. Baptismal sponsors were Isaac Vermelia, Rachel VanderBosch. 21. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 82. 22. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:100. The baptismal record gives the parents as Jean de Lamontagne and Marritie Waldron, instead of Marritie Vermilye. The assumption has been made that this is just a clerical mistake, since Jan Lamontagne (3rd generation) did not marry until 1678 and then he married Annetie Waldron and not Marritie. Baptismal sponsors of the child were Jacob Kip and Lysbeth Lubberts. 23. Riker believed that Petronella married Isaac See, but recent research by Glenna See Hill shows quite conclusively that Isaac See married Petronella Storm. It seems most likely that this child died in infancy. 24. Records of the NYRDC; Baptisms, 1:109. Baptismal sponsors were Jan Duyckman and Magdalena terNeur (Tourneur). Parents were given as Jean de La Montagne and Maria Vernelje, with no mention made that the father had died prior to the birth of this posthumus child. 25. Purple, NYRDC Marriages, 84.

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Name change ===
per record of the Descendants of Jean Mousnier de la Montagne from 1595-1670 his name was Jean (John)

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Peternella/Pikes 1654 ===
Peternella/Pikes 1654

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Still Living. ===
Still Living.

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AKA: Johannes La Montagne, Jr. - Doc. HI ===
AKA: Johannes La Montagne, Jr. - Doc. HIS000019 Jan Monier De La Montagne - Doc. HIS000019 Jan Montagne - Doc. IGI000151 Johannes De La Montagne - Doc. IGI000158 Johannes Monier De La Montagne - Doc. IGI000158 Jan Montanye - Doc. IGI000160 Jean Mounier "John" de la Montagne BIRTH: Date: 1632 - Doc. HIS000019, Doc. IGI000159 Place: Leyden,,,Holland - Doc. HIS000019 Leiden,,Zuid Holland,Netherlands CHILDREN: Of Jan Monier De La Montagne and Peternella Pikes John, Vincent and Nicasius - Doc. HIS000019 - Of Jan Monier De La Montagne and Maria Vermilye Abram, Jelante, Isaac, Peternella and Johanna - Doc. HIS0000109 CHRISTENING: Date: 1632 - Doc. IGI000160 Place: Leiden,,Zuid Holland,Netherlands - Doc. IGI000160 DEATH: Date: After May 13, 1672 (Date of will) - Doc. HIS000019 MARRIAGE: (1) Johannes La Montagne, Jr., and Peternella Pikes - Doc. HIS000019 Date: March 14, 1655 - Doc. HIS000019 Place: Slooterdky,,,Netherlands (Near Amsterdam) - Doc. HIS000019 - Johannes Monier De La Montagne and Peternella Pikes Doc. IGI000158 Date: March 14, 1655 - Doc. IGI000158 Place: Amsterdam,Slooterdys,Noord Holland,Netherlands Doc. IGI000158 (2) Jan Monier De La Montagne and Maria Vermilye - Doc. HIS000019 Jan Montagne and Maria Farnelie - Doc. IGI000151 Date: May 11, 1663 - Doc. IGI000151 June 10, 1663 - Doc. HIS000019, Doc. IGI000151 Place: New Harlem,,,NY - Doc. HIS000019 ,,New York,NY - Doc. IGI000151 New York,,New York,NY - Doc. IGI000151

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1638 ===
1638

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He was baptised in the Walloon Church of ===
He was baptised in the Walloon Church of Leyden. In adulthood he became the oldest living son. As a four year old he traveled to New Amsterdam in 1636 with his family on the board the Rensselaerswyck.

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!LDS Family History Library Tahlequah Ok ===
!LDS Family History Library Tahlequah Oklahoma

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2 Maria/VerVelje or Vermilye * 10 June 1 ===
2 Maria/VerVelje or Vermilye * 10 June 1663

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!Source of info Family Records & History ===
!Source of info Family Records & History of Harlem & N.Y.City Dutch Cr. Rec.

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1632 ===
1632

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From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 ===
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

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!Source information Film 1904030 ===
!Source information Film 1904030

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Jean Johannes Monier de la Montagne, II's Timeline

1630
21, 1630
1633
April 24, 1633
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
April 24, 1633
Walloon Church, 60 Breestraat, Leiden, Leiden, ZH, 2311 CS, Netherlands
October 21, 1633
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
1655
October 21, 1655
Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands
1657
April 22, 1657
New Amsterdam, New Netherlands (now New York City)
1659
April 9, 1659
New York, NY
1664
March 16, 1664
New Harlem, New York