THE PHOEBE FALLIX SALES and VAN TEUNIS NYSSEN DENYCE FAMILY

Phoebe Sales was christened on 1 May 1626 in the  Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England church where her parents John & Phillip [ Phillip is correct] Sales had married in August 1625. John & Phillip had only two children, Phoebe and Sarah, when they set sail on board ship Talbot in the Winthrop Fleet bound for New England [Massachusetts] in early spring 1630. Thank you to Robert Shepard, who found this photo of the Winthrop Fleet below:

When the ship docked at Charlestown, Mass. in summer of 1630, only John & daughter Phoebe disembarked. Wife Phillip and daughter Sarah had perished on board and were buried at sea. John Sales and Phoebe Sales remained in Mass. until 1637 when they removed to New Amsterdam [New York City].

 In New Amsterdam, John & Phoebe affiliated with and lived among the Dutch. Phoebe married three times and they were all Dutchmen. Living among the Dutch, Phoebe became known as Femmetje, the Dutch equivalent for the name Phoebe,  and her father John, as Jan. The Dutch of New Amsterdam did not use surnames until 1664. Children took as a "patronymic" the given name of their father with "s", "se", szen" added. So, Phoebe Sales, born in England, in New Amsterdam was known as Femmetje Jans [meaning Femmetje, daughter of Jans].  Father, John Sales, in New Amsterdam was known as Jan Sales. People who could write, spelled and wrote what was heard, not what was meant to be heard.

Phoebe's first husband was called Hendrick, the boor...more about Hendrick below. "Phoebe's second husband, Teunis Nyssen, emigrated c. 1638, from Bininck, in the Sticht of Uythuyzen; a village near Arnhem in the province of Gilderland, in the Netherlands (containing 212 houses and 900 inhabitants). He died prior to August, 1663.  According to the records of the New York Dutch church, he married on the  11th of February in 1640, Phabea Faelix, of Jarleston, England, who is known on other records as the widow of Hendrick the boor, who may have used the surname of Faelix. Phabea or Femmetje was the daughter of John Seals, an Englishman from Devonshire, written as Jan Celes on the Dutch Colonial Records. Jan was a planter on Manhattan Island. Jan Seals married Maria Robberts or Robertson. Femmetje was his only child of whom we have any account." [Quoted from the Dutch Church records]

 In 1646 Theunis was selected to be the first "schout" or "Crime-righter" of  Flatbush, NY. Church records note Theunis was a deacon of Brooklyn church 2/21/1663. Femmetje Jansen, widow of Theunis Nyssen, petitioned for removal of an attachment on her property.   Note also that this widow remarried to Jan Cornelisen Buys on 8/24/1663, her third husband.

From the book, !Genealogy of Quick Family in America by Arthur Craig Quick. pp58. US/CAN 929.273-Q4q. !DTH:Prior to Aug 1663. !  "Teunis Nyssen Denyse and Phabea Seals (Celes) had nine children, some of which took the name Denyse. Two of his sons, Cornelis and Jan, settled on the Raritan River near Somerville, Somerset County, N.J., and whose descendents [sic] retain the name of Tunison instead of that of Denyse. Another son, Droujse Teunis, headed the Denyse family of N.J."

Well, the quoted statement above says that Phoebe and Teunis had nine children. However, my researched list includes four more children than 9,  to total 13!! I believe that I should tell you about ALL of them. They were probably all born in New Amsterdam, Kings County, NY:

1641 Jannetje

1642 Geertje

1642 Hillegonda

1642 Merritje

1646 Annetje

1648 Elsje

1650 Femmetje

1654 Dionys, male

1654 Jan, our ancestor

1655 Joris, male

1656 Aertje, female

1660 Cornelis, male

1662 Joris

VAN TEUNIS NYSSEN DENYSE

BORN: 1615 in Bunnick, Ultrecht, Gilderland, Netherlands

MARRIED: 11 Feb 1640 in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, NY

DIED: before 14 Aug 1663 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY

PHOEBE FALLIX SALES

BORN: 1619 in Charleston, Devonshire, England

DIED: 13 Dec 1666 in Flatbush, Kings, NY

SOURCES: Dutch Reformed Church of Kings County, NY church records; Researcher, Arthur Craig Quick's "Genealogy of the Quick Family" pg, 58, with some data about Jan Denyse and family. "The History of Flatbush, Kings, NY" Flatbush Standard Union, published 1928.