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Happy 387th Anniversary Joris and Catalyntje Rapelje!

Meredith Wisner 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Walloon Church, Site of the Wedding of Joris Jansen Rapelje and Catalyntje Trico Walloon Church, Site of the Wedding of Joris Jansen Rapelje and Catalyntje Trico

As the story goes, on January 21, 1624 Joris Jansen Rapelje and his bride-to-be Catalyntje Trico married hastily in the Walloon Church of Amsterdam.  Four days later they would board a ship departing for the New World.  After a brief stay in Fort Orange (now Albany, New York), where Joris found work with the Dutch West India Company, and another move to Fort Amsterdam on the Island of Manhattan, the Rapeljes became the first settlers of this area; a small oyster bed called Rinnegackonck that was later renamed Wallabout bay. 

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