Talk:Joris Jansen Rapelje

Article states "The Rapalje family were first employed at Fort Orange, in what would eventually become Albany, New York. " However, Catalynte Trico Rapelje, Joris' wife, my 11g grandmother, was deposed when she was about 80 years old, by Thomas Dongan, and stated, ""That she Caine to this Province either in the yeare one thousand six hundred and twenty three or twenty fouer to the best of her remembrance, and that fouer Women Came along with her in the same Shipp, in which ship the Governor Arian Jorissen Came also over, which fouer Women were married at Sea and that they and their husbands stayed about three Weekes at this place and then they with eight seamen more went in a vessell by ordr. of the Dutch Governor. to Dellaware River and there settled." [Burlington Island just off Burlington, NJ] Dr. E.D.Rockstein 96.244.5.119 (talk) 19:21, 2 January 2022 (UTC)