Pieter Trioen

Peter was a deacon in the Dutch Church in London in 1580, and lived in a house called "Worm on the Hoop", in the parish of St. Christopher-le-Stocks. He was made a Baronet in 1600, and purchased fine estates in Northamptonshire. He was quite wealthy and contributed and later bequeathed large sums of money to Dutch churches in Norwick, Colchester, and Sandwich. William Camden, Clarencieux, granted him in London on July 1, 1610, a coat-of-arms inscribed "azure une fesse embattellee entre six estailes de or" with a crest reading "Caput ursi nativo colore septem stellulis aurieis aspersum," translated as "a blue belt with six six-curved point stars of gold," and the crest "a bear's head in black, dotted with six six-pointed stars of gold." The family motto reads: "In Cruce mea spes," meaning "In the Cross is Hope." The same crest and motto, with slight variations, we find connected to the three branches of the family.

Peter died Mar. 29, 1611, and by an inquest taken on Dec. 6, 1611, it was found that his son and heir was Moses, aged 30 years and upwards. He had made a will dated Jan. 20, 1609, describing himself as "Peter Trioen borne at Wulverghem in Flanders in the parts beyonde the seas, now dwelling in the parishe of Saint Christofer nere the Stocks in London, and free denison of England."