Maria Praa

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth
Marriage			To
Death

Ancestry chart segment

  Generation 9                Generation 10          Generation 11      Generation 12
 
                                             
                                              
                          +-- Wyant Van Zandt
                          |   (1683-1787)
                          |                                       +---- Pierre Praet
  Peter Praa Van Zandt  --+                                       | (????-1663)
  (1708-1812)             |                      +-- Peter Praa --+
                          |                      |   (????-????)      |
                          +-- Maria Praa --------+                +---- Maria Phillipe
                              (1688-1709)        |
                                                 +-- Maria Hay
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Children

( children with Wyant Van Zandt)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Peter Praa Van Zandt	M

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
3	Will of Peter Praa, from The New York Historical Society Collections, an 1892-1902 volume featureing abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogates Office, City of New York, from 1665 to 1800. Peter Praa Van Zandt and Johanes Van Zandt are named as a grandson in the will of Capt. Peter Praa, dated 6 Aug 1739. Also named are his wife Maria, a daughter Elizabeth Meseroll (& a John Meseroll), daughter Annetie, wife of Daniel Bodee, a daughter Christiana Provoose. William S. Pelletreau, member of the Society prepared the abstracts, and says of Peter Praa: "Captain Peter Praa, the testator in above will, was the son of Peter Praa (or Praah), a French Huguenot, who fled to Leyden and from thence to New Amsterdam in 1659, and died there March 6, 1663. Captain Peter Praa was born in Leyden in 1655, and became a prominent citizen in Newtown, L. I. He married, March 15, 1684, Maria Hay, daughter of Jacob Hay and Christina Coffoens. (She was at that time the widow of Joost Adriansen Molenaer, by whom she had a daughter, Sara.) Their daughter Christina married David Provoost, 1712, and had a son, Peter Praa Provoost, and other children. The houses and lots in New York, left to his grand-sons, are probably the southwest corner of Pearl and Pine streets.--W. S. P. See: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Dutch-Colonies/1998-12/0913039570
4	Genealogical Record of the Saint Nicholas Society of New York, Organized Feb 28, 1835, Incorporated Apr 17, 1841, Containing the lines of Descent of Members of the Society...to July 1905. Pg 163 (pg 165 on NY State Historical Literature website): (member) Charles Warren Torrey born Sept 16, 1836. Elected Feb 27, 1882. Sarah Emeline Van Zandt 1810-1863 - Joseph Torrey 1799-1872 Peter Van Zandt 1764-1845 - Sarah Janeway 1771-1841 Peter Praa Van Zandt 1708-1812 - Sarah Marschalk (no dates) Wyant Van Zandt 1683-1757 - Maria Praa 1688-1709 Johannes Van Zandt __-1724 - Margaret Wyants Vanderpoel (no dates) Jan Van Zandt __-1729 - Jannetje ____ __-1728 This appears to be the direct maternal line of ancestry submitted by member Charles Warren Torrey. See: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nys;cc=nys;q1=peter%20praa%20van%20zandt;rgn=full%20text;idno=nys059;didno=nys059;view=image;seq=169 See: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nys;cc=nys;q1=peter%20praa%20van%20zandt;rgn=full%20text;idno=nys059;didno=nys059;view=image;seq=169

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Web Sites - Documentation Not Given

Ref. Num.	Description	Extract
W1	Descendants of Pierre/Peter Praa at http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/praafamily.html Or home page:http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/ "Pierre/Peter Praa born about 1620; emigrated to America in 1659. He was a Huguenot living near Dieppe, France, and later in Vissingen and Leiden, Holland. Records of the Walloon Church of Leiden, membership list dated 12 March 1659: "Pierre Praet et sa Femme (sont) parti avec temoignage de l'Englise Wallonne de Leiden". Translation: Peter Praet and his wife departed with letters from the Walloon church at Leiden. Pierre Prat joined the Walloon church at Leiden in Dec 1645 with letters from Vlissingen (Flushing), Netherlands. Pierre Praa died 6 Mar 1663 at Cripplebush Brooklyn. His first wife, Marie Phillipe, died after Feb. 1651/52 in Holland. His second marriage was to Catherine Lothie, daughter of Abraham Lothie. Catherine married 2nd Joost Casperse Springsteen on 10 June 1663 at Brooklyn.
W2	New York Public Library, Rare Books & manuscripts Division, Accession sheet #85M 76, Location Balcony 16. Wynant Van Zandt, Jr. Papers 1787-1828; bulk dates 1804-1807. Date of receipt 1919, Clara Van Zandt (grandaughter of Wynant Van Zandt Jr.) Wynant Van Zandt, Jr. was a New York merchant and Alderman. He was born Aug. 11, 1767 to Wynant Van Zandt (Dutch descent) and Jane Colgan. Van Zandt besides being a merchant and Alderman in Public Office, founded the Zion Episcopal Church at Little Neck, (now Douglaston). He married Maria Allaire Underhill in 1788, who had five sons. Van Zandt died in 1831 and was buried in the church vault of the Zion Episcopal Church. Papers mainly from business associates... and term of public office. ( It is unclear whether this is a son of Wyant Van Zandt; the first name spelling variant and different mother's name suggests a different family. His birth date of 1767 suggests a later generation.) See http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/vanzandt.pdf See next source; same founder of Zion Episcopal Church at Little Neck, her spelled "Wyant" Van Zandt.
W3	The Douglaston-Little Neck Historical Society, Neighborhood Highlights, with photos of the Zion Episcopal Church, and portrait of Wyant Van Zandt, Jr. In 1813 he acquired 120 acres on shore of Little Neck Bay. His wife Maria was the mother of 7 sons & 4 daughters. initially they drove to Cow Neck, Manhasset, where Wyant Van Zandt was a communicant, to attend services conducted by the rEverend Eli Wheeler, brother of Maria. Funding for the building of the Zion Episcopal Church was pledged by Robert Van Zandt, Edward Van Zandt, & Washington Van Zandt, among others. wyant Van Zandt died in 1831, age 64. Son Henry Van Zandt continued to live on part of the land, but remainder was purchased in 1835 by a wealthy Scot named George Douglas, for whom Point Douglas is named. See: http://www.dlnhs.org/douglastonhill/dhzionchurch.cfm

Conjecture

• In the category of things to be saved until they prove either relevant or irrelevant, is this engagement notice on the social page of the 22 May 1904 New York Times. The bride claims descent from one "Vice Governor Van Zandt who served under Peter Stuyvesant". See col. 5, just above the illustration:
  http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D06E3D91E3BE631A25751C2A9639C946597D6CF&oref=slogin
• In Washington Irving's Complete Knickerbocker History of New York, Part 2, 1899 edition, is this line:
  

Oloffe Van Kortlandt...chose as lieutenants or co-adjutors Abraham Harden Broeck, Jacobus Van Zandt, and Wiant Ten Broeck. See:
http://www.fullbooks.com/Knickerbocker-s-History-of-New-York-Complete2.html