At the time she was known as Ida (Claessen) Alberts, the wife of Jan Albertsen. Through History, we would today call her maiden name "DeWitt", although this practice of using a standard family surname, an English tradition, was not to be declared a law yet for another few years after the British took over the Dutch Colony in 1664. She was a daughter of Nicholas Claessen (DeWitt) b.1594 of Germany, and his wife Tjaatje VanLeuven b.1596 of the Netherlands. She was also a sister of Tjerck Claessen (DeWitt), whose daughter was captured. Ida was well advanced in pregnancy when she was killed in the Esopus Indian Raid on the Wyltwyck Stockade, along with her husband and their very young daughter. He was buried here with the other victims of the raid, this being the only graveyard in use within the stockade. Apparently no carved stone was used to mark his grave, but more likely a simple wooden marker.
That their daughter was not taken prisoner by the Indians, but rather killed instead, means she was probably too young to walk on her own, or to survive, perhaps only 1 or 2 years old.
That their daughter was not taken prisoner by the Indians, but rather killed instead, means she was probably too young to walk on her own, or to survive, perhaps only 1 or 2 years old.
At the time she was known as Ida (Claessen) Alberts, the wife of Jan Albertsen. Through History, we would today call her maiden name "DeWitt", although this practice of using a standard family surname, an English tradition, was not to be declared a law yet for another few years after the British took over the Dutch Colony in 1664. She was a daughter of Nicholas Claessen (DeWitt) b.1594 of Germany, and his wife Tjaatje VanLeuven b.1596 of the Netherlands. She was also a sister of Tjerck Claessen (DeWitt), whose daughter was captured. Ida was well advanced in pregnancy when she was killed in the Esopus Indian Raid on the Wyltwyck Stockade, along with her husband and their very young daughter. He was buried here with the other victims of the raid, this being the only graveyard in use within the stockade. Apparently no carved stone was used to mark his grave, but more likely a simple wooden marker.
That their daughter was not taken prisoner by the Indians, but rather killed instead, means she was probably too young to walk on her own, or to survive, perhaps only 1 or 2 years old.
That their daughter was not taken prisoner by the Indians, but rather killed instead, means she was probably too young to walk on her own, or to survive, perhaps only 1 or 2 years old.
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