Jean Letelier was one of the "fourteen Frenchmen" by whom Bushwick was settled, in 1660, and one of its first schepens, March 25, 1661. He always signed his name simply "Letelier," the usual mode among the French gentry. In 1662 he gave three guilders toward the ransom of Teunis Cray's son Jacob, in captivity with the Turks. Removing to New Utrecht, he there died September 4, 1671. In his will (to which Abraham du Toict is a witness) he speaks of his children, but does not name them. His widow married Jacob Gerrits De Haes, by whom she had issue Jacob, born 1678; John born 1680, etc. Letelier was usually called by the Duch Tilje (Tilya), and whece perhaps the family of Tillou or Tilyou, whose ancestor, Pierre (see N.Y. Gen. an Biog. Rec., 1876, p. 144), if the son of Jean, took the name of his godfather Cresson.
Jean Letelier was one of the "fourteen Frenchmen" by whom Bushwick was settled, in 1660, and one of its first schepens, March 25, 1661. He always signed his name simply "Letelier," the usual mode among the French gentry. In 1662 he gave three guilders toward the ransom of Teunis Cray's son Jacob, in captivity with the Turks. Removing to New Utrecht, he there died September 4, 1671. In his will (to which Abraham du Toict is a witness) he speaks of his children, but does not name them. His widow married Jacob Gerrits De Haes, by whom she had issue Jacob, born 1678; John born 1680, etc. Letelier was usually called by the Duch Tilje (Tilya), and whece perhaps the family of Tillou or Tilyou, whose ancestor, Pierre (see N.Y. Gen. an Biog. Rec., 1876, p. 144), if the son of Jean, took the name of his godfather Cresson.
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