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Our Family Origin
The genealogical record of the major number of families
with spellings such as Mabie, Maybee, Mabee, Mabey, Maby, Maybe and Maybie
originate with our early progenitor Seigneur Pierre Mabille, a Huguenot
with a heritage centered in the village of Nevi, as early as 1518, close
by the city of Angers, in the Province of Anjou in France.
In the year 1572 as a result of the religious war
in France, our ancestor took refuge in Holland, settling in the town of
Naarden with his family. Time and history has given us the name of his
grandson, Pierre Gaspard Mabille, a young active adventurer who in 1621
signed the Leydon Petition, a document asking for a ship to take them to
the new English colonies, this was unproductive, but in 1623 the Dutch
made a ship available sailing to their new colony which today is New York
City.
As refugees, conditions required that in arriving
on Holland a different identity was necessary and the name of Van Naarden
was selected, later in New York's History by Vallentine, we find a number
of items where Pieter Casparszen Van Naerden are mentioned, he being the
now mature grandson who was the result of a first marriage gives us the
Jan Mabie family descendants of Rotterdam Jct. in upper New York and by
a second marriage we find the equally large family associated with 22 Marketfield
St. at the corner of Broad Street in lower Manhattan. On Jan 12, 1657 for
the sum of 25 guilders he was accepted as a small burger, a few days earlier
Peter Stuyvesant had been recorded as a great burger for the payment of
50 guilders and were therefore citizens of the town.
In the 1660 period, our family re-established their
French origin and took the anglicized form Mabie from the original Mabille
name, the other forms came into use later for many reasons, however it
should be noted that the Huguenot Monument at the water front in New Rochelle,
New York still stands bearing the family name of Mabille.
As our family grew and spread, a major incident came
with the war of 1775 between the colonies and their motherland England,
this resulted in a division in many homes, with brothers taking opposite
sides, with the signing of the peace agreement at the end of the conflict
in 1783 those on the colony side went to their homes while those now known
as Loyalists went to a new way of life, settling on Land Grants in New
Brunswick and Ontario, Canada.
It continues to be our endeavor to consolidate into
one combined record all the descendants of our original heritage and its
success depends on still further research as more complete lineage charts
develop.
In most every family of the various spellings, it
will be of interest to note that the above shown family shield is their
birthright, the colors of the three castles and the chevron are gold, on
a blue background.
This is a very brief resume which may be of assistance in an explanation
of our family tradition to the younger generation.
Sincerely,
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