Annetje Koninck
Born in 1672 - Der Groede, Netherlands
Died UNKNOWN
Spouses:
Married 23 May 1697, Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, to Louis Boulier (1670-1766)
Children:
M Jan Belyea 1698-1756
Annetje, the mother of Jan and the wife of Louis, was born in the Netherlands where the year she was born has its own name. It is known as Rampjaar which translates to Disaster Year.
In May 1672, following the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War and its peripheral conflict the Third Anglo-Dutch War, France, supported by Münster and Cologne, invaded and nearly overran the Dutch Republic. At the same time, it faced the threat of an English naval blockade in support of the French endeavor, though that attempt was abandoned following the Battle of Solebay. A Dutch saying coined that year describes the Dutch people as redeloos ("irrational"), its government as radeloos ("distraught"), and the country as reddeloos ("beyond salvation").[1] The cities of the coastal provinces of Holland, Zealand and Frisia underwent a political transition: the city governments were taken over by Orangists...
Annetje's husband, Louis, was a French Huguenot so he must have reveled in Annetje's Orange Republic on his way to New Amsterdam (New York)! One had to wonder if they met when he passed through the Netherlands. The only documentation found was their marriage in the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow on May 23, 1697. That would be the same church immortalized by Washington Irving in his Ledgen of Sleepy Hollow . That places them both in The Americas at that point.
