Sarah Rapelje
Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Sarah Rapelje (9 June 1625 – April 1685) was the first European Christian female, the "first white child" born in New Netherland.[1]
Biography
Sarah Rapelje was the daughter of
Manhattan Island near the mouth of the Hudson River was bought by Dutch settlers from local Native Americans, and the Rapelje family were sent to help with the settlement of New Amsterdam on the island's southern tip. Joris Rapelje later bought land on Long Island, across the East River from New Amsterdam, in the village of Breuckelen (the basis of modern Brooklyn) and eventually moved to Wallabout Bay. [4]
Sarah Rapelje married
Bushwick between 1664 and 1665, and was a representative of Breuckelen in the Hempstead Convention of 1665.[citation needed
]
Rapelje died in 1685 in Boswijck, a village that became the modern
Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. By the time Rapelje died the New Netherland colony had been ceded to the English in 1664, and was rebranded the Province of New York
.
Legacy
Rapelje's chair is in the permanent collection of the
Wallabout in Brooklyn by Dutch authorities for being the first European Christian female to be born in the New Netherland. The family owned extensive property in the area of present-day Red Hook.[8]
Her descendants include Humphrey Bogart, British television presenter Clare Balding,[9] Al Fagaly, Tom Brokaw, Governor Howard Dean,[10] Royal Baking Powder Company president Joseph C. Hoagland (1841-1899) and Grammy-winning musician Mark O'Connor.
References
- ^ 14 Generations: New Yorkers Archived 2007-11-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Bogart Family: the descendants of Tunis Gysbertse Bogaert, by John Bogaert
- ^ Bergen, Teunis G. (1876). The Bergen family: or, The descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen. University of Wisconsin - Madison. Albany, J. Munsell. pp. 22–23.
- ^ Island at the center of the world, by Russell Shorto
- ^ "Sarah Rapalje". www.newnetherlandinstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World. The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (Doubleday, 2004.)
- ISBN 0-8147-9946-9
- ^ Winter Scene in Brooklyn, Museum of the City of New York
- Who Do You Think You Are?. Series 14. Episode 3. 2017-07-20. BBC Television. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ Small, Lisa. "Calling Rapaljes, Rapeljes, Raplees and all descendants! - BKM TECH". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
External links
- Sarah Rapalje (1625–1685), The New Netherland Institute
- The Hidden History of the Rapeljes, Urban Environmentalist NYC, gowanuslounge.com
- The History of Brooklyn Navy Yard
- The Rapelje Family, The Baltimore Sun
- The Rapelje Property, on the Brooklyn & Jamaica Rail Road, New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- The Rapelje Estate, Foot of 35th Street, North River, New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Rapelje Avenue, Queens, New York, New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Rapelyea House, New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Rapelyea Estate, New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Related Reading
- Bergen, Teunis G, (1866) The Bergen Family: or The Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, One of the Early Settlers of New York and Brooklyn (New York City: Bergen & Tripp)
- Fosdick, Lucian John (1906) The French Blood in America (Boston, Mass.: R. G. Badger)
- Ross, Peter (1902) A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2 (Lewis publishing Company - Long Island, N.Y.)
- Stiles, Henry Reed (1867) A History of the City of Brooklyn, Volume 1 (Published by subscription in Brooklyn, NY)