Jacob and Elizabeth Du Trieux

Jacob Du Trieux and Elizabeth (Lysbeth) Post were 6G Grandparents of Chester Carson. Here is the lineage:

Jacob Du Trieux and Elizabeth (Lysbeth) Post
->Philip Truax and Sarah La Rue
-->LaRue Jacob Truax and Rebecca Abigail Stillwell
--->Benjamin B Truax Sr. and Perthenia Pittman
---->Benjamin Truex Jr. and Ezadiah Palmer
----->Stillwell Traux and Rachel Mann
------>John K Carson and Rachel Frances Traux
------->William Bernard Lloyd Carson and Maude Deleilah James
-------->Chester Carson

Jacob Du Trieux was born December 7, 1645 in New Amsterdam, New York.

Nearly ten years later, on July 8, his future wife, Elizabeth Post, was born in the same growning colony.

New Amsterdam was a Dutch colony at the southern tip of present day Manhattan, New York. The settlement began after the explorations of Henry Hudson. Part of the larger region of the New Netherlands, the town radiated out from it's most seaward and safe feature: its fort.

In 1845 the population hovered at around 500. According to Willem Kieft, the leader of the colony at the time, more than 18 languages were spoken by it's inhabitants. It's settlers were primarily Belgian (Walloons), Dutch, French Huguenots, Scandinavians, Germans, and English. The year Jacob was born was also the end of series of battles between the inhabitants and nearby Indians.

Coincidentally in 1855, the year of Elizabeth's birth, Indians around the colony attacked New Amsterdam, Pavonia, and Staten Island in series of conflicts known as the Peach War.

Jacob's family were Walloons, from the northern region of France, present day Belgium. Walloons, decendants of the Celts, spoke French, and associated themselves with the Protestant church during the Reformation. Repression while under Spanish control probably led the family to emmigrate to the New World.

I will have more on the emmigration of the du Trieux family when I discuss Jacob's father, Philip du Trieux. On Wednesday, I'll conclude the write-ups of Jacob and Elizabeth.