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Guleyn Vigne

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Christina Vigne (Vinge)

Source: Michael K. Miller  miller5235@comcast.net

"The mother of the first white male child born in New Netherlands, if we are to believe the testimony of the Journal of the Labadist missionaries Danker and Sluyter, was Ariaentje Cuvilje, otherwise Adrienne Cuvellier, a native of Valenciennes in France. Sometime before 1614 she had become the wife of Willem Vinje (Guillaume or Gulian Vigne), an early trader between the cities of the European continent and the Indians of the Americas; and their son Jean was born in the future New Netherlands in 1614. Ariaentje was in any event one of the earliest settlers of Nieuw Amsterdam, and was in that settlement before even the Rapaljes and the De la Granges." (Herbert F. Seversmith; Ariaentje Cuvilje (Adrienne Cuvellier), Matriarch of New Amsterdam; National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume XXXV, Number 3, September 1947; page 65)

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