Prepared by Steve Mabie
Last Revised: 02/14/2009
COPYRIGHT ©2009 Stephen W. Mabie. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The "standard" genealogy for the Mabie family has Marritien (Maria) Pieterse married to Jan Pieterszen Bant or Bandt (sometimes miswritten as Brandt) in 1671 at the New York Reformed Dutch Church. The following marriage record from the New Amsterdam/New York DRC is cited as proof:
4/8/1671
Marriage: (01) Jan Pieterszen, j. m., en Marritje Pieters (1), j. d. Van N. Jorck.
However, it has now been proved that the Marritje Pieters in this record is Maria, daughter of Pietro Caesar Albertis (Albertus) and Judith Jans. This Maria was baptized in the New York Reformed Dutch Church on 6/27/1649. Pietro Caesar Albertis was an immigrant from Venice, the first Italian known to have lived in New Netherland.
No definitive trace has been found thus far of a marriage or children for Marritien Mabie; however, her name does appear unambiguously as a witness in two Schenectady baptisms in 1704 and 1705. On 10/7/1704, Maria Meby was a witness at the baptism of a child of her niece Anna Mol (daughter of Engeltje Mabie) and on 8/25/1705, Maria Meby was a witness at the baptism of a child of another niece, Eva Meby (daughter of Jan Pieterse Mabie).
Last Revised: 02/14/2009
COPYRIGHT ©2009 Stephen W. Mabie. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.