1. People: Quite a few, including Albert van Bentum and Pieter Aerts van Cuyck. Date: November 15, 1667. Reference: U72a2 act 125. Subject: Statement (procuratie). Difficult document to read, but Theunis van Cuyck’s father features together withAlbert van Bentum, of whom we only know that he was a governor of the West Indies Company and a mayor of Utrecht (in the 1680s), but not where he fits in our tree, if at all. It appears to be a legal statement authorising Peter Arisz van Cuyck andJan van den Oever to hand over 10.5 morgen meadow to the widow and heirs of one Bitter van der Marssche, to be affected in front of the court in Nederlangbroek.
2. People: Pieter Aertss van Cuyck, Johan François van Schagen. Date: May 10, 1672.Reference: U72a5. Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur). Pieter van Cuyck leases 25 morgen meadow and crop land from Johan François van Schagen, member of the States of Holland, for six years and the sum of Fl 225, called Blommenweerd and located inCoten. The usual conditions follow, although not in the usual wording. Pieter signed with a cross. However, the document is a strange one. Take a look at the date: May 10, 1672. The French had declared war on April 7 of that year, and sooninvaded the country, crossing the border near Emmerich. The country had had plenty of notice, but bickering between the regents, and between the regents and prince William of Orange had paralysed the government, and the country was ill prepared.Panic ruled. In Utrecht the regents were packing their bags, leaving for Amsterdam or The Hague. The city’s women saw this and protested that the regents were fleeing while their men folk had been sent to the front to die. Riots followed and thecity’s government collapsed. Mob rule followed. William of Orange paid a visit on his retreat from the river IJssel’s defences, which had proven useless, because the French had crossed the Rhine near Elten. Utrecht’s citizens expected him to makea stand, but he retreated to Holland. By the end of May Utrecht had begun its own peace negotations with the French, but by the time the negotiator returned to the city with the terms, it had already surrendered. The French occupied the city andwould not leave for another year. The land Pieter leased was located in Cothen, a town most likely occupied by the French by May 10, or soon afterwards: it lies to the east of Utrecht. Most farmers had already fled, taking with them as muchcattle and wares as they could. The French army lived off the land, and it was merciless. Whole villages were pillaged and burned to the ground. Those that stayed behind were massacred. The occupied towns were taxed to the hilt to pay for theFrench war effort. In this context it is really strange to read a lease contract for land in (probably) occupied territory and signed in a city struck down by panic. There is not a single hint of extraordinary times in the document, unless therent of Fl 225 for 20 hectares of land was low and Pieter van Cuyck had made a good deal. Business as usual, even at the worst of times!
3. People: Willem van Zuylen, Pieter Aertss van Cuyck. Date: April 18, 1691. Reference: U118a1 act 228.Subject: Lease (huur en verhuur) This document is written in a very bad hand, so I focused on the relevant information. Pieter extends a lease for 4 viertel land from Willem van Zuijlen acting on behalf of his father’s estate, for six years andthe sum of Fl 70. Pieter signs with a cross. I do not have an idea what a viertel is. It is close to the modern Dutch viertal, which means foursome, i.e. four plots of land, but I may be wrong.
4. People: Matthijs van Oostrum, Elisabet Reup, Anthoni van Oostrum, Dirkje van Cuyck, Pieter Aertss van Cuyck, Geertje Dirks Bon. Date: August 18, 1699. Reference: U93a37 act 18. Subject: Prenuptial (huwelijkse voorwaarden). A difficult hand to read, but the document is a prenuptial agreement between Matthijs van Oostrum and Dirkje van Cuyck, sister of Theunis van Cuyck. It identifies the parents of both spouses.
5. People: Pieter Aertss van Cucyk, Geertje Dirx Bon. Date:August 18, 1699. Reference: U93a37 act 17. Subject: Appointmentof guardians (voogdbenoeming). Difficult document to read; bad hand. However, Pieter van Cuyck and Geertje Bon appoint each other as gaurdians (momber and voogd) should the other die first. The agreement is not part of a prenuptial or postnuptial,so may well have been signed after the two had married. Both were familiar with death: they had both lost a spouse already. A document signed on the same day, prenuptial agreement, indicates that the two already had grown up children. Both Pieterand geertje sign with a cross.
6. People: Peter Aerts van Cuyck, Johanna Peters van Cuyck, Cornelis Aertsz Ruijs. Date: May 6, 1707. Reference: U111a6 act 67. Subject: Prenuptial agreement (huwelijkse voorwaarden). Prenuptial agreement betweenTheunis’ sister Johanna and Cornelis Aertsz Ruijs Cornelis brings in Fl 1,000, to be paid from the Fl 1,270 debt he owes his father for the acquistion of cattle and goods. Johanna brings in Fl 400.
7. People: Pieter Aertss van Cuyck, PetertjeBeunt, Jacob Peterse van Cuyck. Date: April 12, 1709. Reference: U113a3 act 257. Subject: Agreement (akkoord). This document identifes Pieter Aertss’ first wife: Petertje Beunt. Their son Jacob Peterse van Cuyck owned his father Fl 325. However,Jacob’s share in Petertje’s estate did not add up to that. Father and son agree that Fl 100 is to be deducted from the monies owed him from the estate, and the remaining Fl 225 remains a debt owed to his father. There is no mention of interest.
| Datum | Inhoud | Bron |
|---|---|---|
| 18-08-1699 | Voogdbenoeming langstlevende | https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/collectie/609C5BC61C204642E0534701000A17FD |
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