Originally Created by: P Fazzini and Added: 20 Sep 2010

Catharina Staats (58935131) Suggested edit (10/6/2020): FYI --- This is the summary found in Geni. i have also worked through Ancestrey.com and have similar results. I'd urge you to remove the accuracy disclaimer Though I have suggested separately that "Tryntie" be added as a nickname.
Catharina (Tryntie) Wessels was born in Europe about 1623. She was the daughter of Beverwyck baker Jochem Wessels and his wife Geertruy Hieronimus.
By 1642, she had become the wife of New Netherland pioneer Abraham Staats. In that year, she was nineteen years old. The marriage produced at least seven children who established the Staats name in New Netherland and New York.
Her family was prominent in Beverwyck/Albany but also owned a family farm across the Hudson and south of the city.
Abraham Staats probably died after naming Tryntie as his heir in a will filed in April 1683. Although she was not included in either of the two Staats households listed on the city census of 1697, perhaps Tryntie was living on the family farm across the Hudson on Staats Island! Her Albany property in the first ward was assessed substantially in 1702.
Tryntie Wessels Staats died in 1703 and was buried from the Albany Dutch church where she was a longtime member.
Contributor: Robert Van Natta (48403503)

Additional information not added orginally -
Suggested edit 1/27/2021: In a mini bio researched by "Friends of Albany History" of Catharina's daughter, Elizabeth Staats Wendell Schuyler, (who is linked to this memorial), it indicates Catharina's maiden name is TenBroeck. I am not a descendant of these families but I am a descendant of someone who lived in Beverwyck, which is where these families lived (Beverwyck is present day Albany). The Ten Broek family was one of the families but I have to say, Wesselsen is not a familiar name from that area. Staats, Schuyler or Cuyle, Ten Broeck, all names from there...I am wondering who is correct? Whoever gave this woman the maiden name of Wesselsen or the Albany Historical Society? I have seen several mini bios written with incorrect information in them but I have also seen many FAG memorials with incorrect info, as well. As I said, I am not connected to this family nor have I done any research on them. Contributor: Melissa Stickles

Originally Created by: P Fazzini and Added: 20 Sep 2010

Catharina Staats (58935131) Suggested edit (10/6/2020): FYI --- This is the summary found in Geni. i have also worked through Ancestrey.com and have similar results. I'd urge you to remove the accuracy disclaimer Though I have suggested separately that "Tryntie" be added as a nickname.
Catharina (Tryntie) Wessels was born in Europe about 1623. She was the daughter of Beverwyck baker Jochem Wessels and his wife Geertruy Hieronimus.
By 1642, she had become the wife of New Netherland pioneer Abraham Staats. In that year, she was nineteen years old. The marriage produced at least seven children who established the Staats name in New Netherland and New York.
Her family was prominent in Beverwyck/Albany but also owned a family farm across the Hudson and south of the city.
Abraham Staats probably died after naming Tryntie as his heir in a will filed in April 1683. Although she was not included in either of the two Staats households listed on the city census of 1697, perhaps Tryntie was living on the family farm across the Hudson on Staats Island! Her Albany property in the first ward was assessed substantially in 1702.
Tryntie Wessels Staats died in 1703 and was buried from the Albany Dutch church where she was a longtime member.
Contributor: Robert Van Natta (48403503)

Additional information not added orginally -
Suggested edit 1/27/2021: In a mini bio researched by "Friends of Albany History" of Catharina's daughter, Elizabeth Staats Wendell Schuyler, (who is linked to this memorial), it indicates Catharina's maiden name is TenBroeck. I am not a descendant of these families but I am a descendant of someone who lived in Beverwyck, which is where these families lived (Beverwyck is present day Albany). The Ten Broek family was one of the families but I have to say, Wesselsen is not a familiar name from that area. Staats, Schuyler or Cuyle, Ten Broeck, all names from there...I am wondering who is correct? Whoever gave this woman the maiden name of Wesselsen or the Albany Historical Society? I have seen several mini bios written with incorrect information in them but I have also seen many FAG memorials with incorrect info, as well. As I said, I am not connected to this family nor have I done any research on them. Contributor: Melissa Stickles