Pieter Casparszen van Naerden [36929] ¹⁰⁰²³

   Another name for Pieter was Mabie.

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Anecdote. ⁹⁷⁷⁶ All we really know about the parentage of Pieter
Casparszen van Naerden is that his father was named Caspar, and
that he was born in a place that was either called or sounded
like Naerden. There are no records of Pieter Casparszen ever
using any surname. In fact, the first use of the Mabie surname
in any form by proven members of his family occurred in New
York in 1687. A search of the records for the Dutch Reformed
Church in Naarden, Noord Holland, has proved fruitless. It has
long been speculated that Pieter was of French extraction (a
Huguenot), with the name Mabie having been derived from the
French name Mabille. This story originated in an unpublished
work by E. C. Marshall in the 1890s. In his paper, Marshall
merely speculated that this was a possibility, and never made a
claim of any factual support. However, almost every succeeding
published genealogy has claimed this as a fact. While it is
possibly true, it is wholly without any substantiation. The one
location in Europe that did have people with the Mabie surname
prior to 1650, as demonstrated in various records, was
Scotland. The Mabie surname appears to have surfaced in
Scotland shortly after the Norman invasion. So, perhaps the
name is originally from France after all. However, there may
have been a few detours en route to New Amsterdam
The name of Pieter Casparszen van Naerden appears in a
few records that have survived the years. He is listed in a
1660 census of New Amsterdam. In 1657, he was listed as a
"Small Burgher", a status which conveyed certain rights to the
individual. In 1653, he was named as one "of the most
influential citizens and inhabitants of this city" in the
council minutes. Also, in 1653, he was a corporal in the
Burgher Corps of New Amsterdam. In 1652, he was sued by a Jacob
Stoffelsen, although the details of the suit have not survived.
In 1656, he was a witness to a secret land transaction in which
the West India Company purchased land from the Native Americans
on the west bank of the "South River" (now the Delaware). This
land had already been settled by the Swedes, and this
transaction was used to justify an attack on their settlements.
From the baptismal records of the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch
Church, we know that Pieter was in New Amsterdam by February
1647, and that he was still alive in December 1662. A census of
New Amsterdam conducted in June 1665 lists Aechtje Jans, the
widow of Pieter Casparszen van Naerden, so we know he was
deceased by that time.
The first time that Pieter Casparszen van Naerden´name
appears in any New Amsterdam records is in 1647. On February
17th of that year, he was a witness at the baptism of Hendrick,
a son of Abraham Ryck. In passing, it is also known that a
Pierre Gaspar signed the so-called Leyden Petition in 1621, a
copy of which can be found on line at:
http://www.primenet.com/~langford/places/va621001.htm#Wal
loons[:UND] In this documet certain Walloons and French
petitioned, in 1621, the "Lord Ambassador of the Most Serene
King of Great Britain" to allow them to settle in Virginia. The
answer was to approve such a settlement in Virginia, providing
that the settlers would take an oath of allegiance to the
English king. However, if this is the same person as Pieter
Casparszen van Naerden, then the questions arise as to why he
apparently waited approximately 25 years to go, and why he did
not go to an English colony as planned. Once again, there is no
substantive evidence that Pieter Casparszen van Naerden and
this Pierre Gaspar are the same person.

• Memo, 17 Feb 1646/47, Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, , now New York, New Netherland. ⁹⁷⁷⁶ was a witness to the baptism of Hendrick, son of Abraham Ryke.

• Baptism, 10 Apr 1650, Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, , now New York, New Netherland. ⁵⁴³ Pieter Casparszen - van Naerden were witnesses to the baptism
of Abraham Abramzen Tietsoort 10 Apr 1650 Reformed Dutch
Church, New Amsterdam, now New York, New Netherland

• Memo, 1653, New Amsterdam, , now New York, New Netherland. ⁹⁷⁷⁶ was named as one "of the most influential citizens and
inhabitants of this city" in the council minutes.

• Occupation: Excise commissioner, May 1654. ⁵⁹³⁰

• Memo, 1657, New Amsterdam, , now New York, New Netherland. ⁹⁷⁷⁶ was included in the List of Burghers

Pieter married Aechtje Jans van Norden [4916] [MRIN: 551603973], daughter of Unknown and Unknown, between 1650 and 1651 in New Amsterdam, , now New York, New Netherland. (Aechtje Jans van Norden [4916] was born on 17 Aug 1629 in Norden, Din Hooren, East Friesland, Germany and died between 21 Aug 1697 and 1 Feb 1697/98 in New York, New York County, New York, USA ⁶⁰².)