Michiel Tadesen Van Yderstyne

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originally known as Michiel Tadens in New Amsterdam baptism records (Billard)

Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] (1624-1670) was born in The Netherlands and was reportedly from the port city of Hoorn. "Van Yderstyne" was not used by him, but was used by his children and grandchildren and is used here for family line clarity. Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] was at New Netherlands by 1644 as he made a legal statement in January of 1644 in New Amsterdam about "a fight with knives". He apparently married in about 1648 to Annetje Eduwartse [Idens] (1630-1665) and they had children baptized at the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church in 1650, 1654, 1660, and 1661. The "birth" dates on the Family Group page are actually their baptism dates and the youngest two apparently died young at New Amsterdam. Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] bought a house at New Amsterdam in 1652. In 1656 Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] was banished from New Amsterdam for a time for selling liquor to Indians. He was allowed to live on Long Island during his banishment. During the 1650s Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] had a yacht "De Liefde" making trips to the Delaware and he was engaged in costal trading. In 1661 he sold the yacht. On 24 April 1659 Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] mortgaged his house on Pearl Street in New Amsterdam to pay a debt of 1615 guilders that he owed to a merchant in Amsterdam for merchandise he had received. This was followed by years of litigation on this and other matters. In 1660 Michiel Tadesen [Yderstyne] purchased 21 morgens of land on the East river in Brooklyn and he sold it in 1664. In 1662 Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] had trouble with Paulus Pietersen over a boat in which their wives became involved. Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne]'s wife appeared in court and testified that "Paulus Pietersen's wife bit her finger and she struck her in order to get her finger out of her mouth". In 1662 Michiel Tadesen [Yderstyne] bought a house on Pearl Street in New Amsterdam and in 1663 he got a license to keep a tap house in New Amsterdam. In 1664 he was finded 30 guilders when drunken Indians were found at his house on a Sunday. In October of 1664 Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] took the Oath of Allegience to the English who had taken over the government at New Amsterdam, New Netherland and had renamed it New York, New York. On 13 April 1665 Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] as that guardians be appointed for his 2 minor children and this was probably indicative that his wife Ammetje Eduwartse [Idens] had died. On 08 Jun 1668 Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] married second widow Tryntje Jacobse (widow first of Jacob Walichsen [Van Winkle], widow second of Jacob Stoffelsen) as her third husband at Bergen Dutch Reformed Church and they lived at Ahasimus, NJ. Michiel Tadesen [Van Yderstyne] must have died in about 1670 as widow Tryntje Jacobse married fourth on 15 March 1671 at Bergen Dutch Reformed Church to Casper Steynmets.

Daughter Catharyna Michielse [Van Yderstyne] (born 1650) married Walich Jacobsen Van Winkle (1648-1728) at Bergen Dutch Reformed Church on 15 Mar 1671 [double-wedding with his mother and her step-mother Tryntje Jacobse to her fourth husband Caspar Steynmets] and they lived first at Bergen, NJ and then at Barbadoes Neck, NJ and had 9 children.

Sources: DRC records for the New Amsterdam and the Bergen churches; Rootsweb site information; NYGBRecord v.56 no.3 July 1925 (Tryntje Jacobse and her 4 husbands by H. S. F. Randolph