Ariaantje Coeymans was born in Albany in 1672. Her father was Barent Pieterse Coeymans, a wealthy merchant, landowner and founder of Coeymans, New York. In 1723, at the age of 51, she married 28-year-old David Verplanck of Albany. This painting was probably commissioned as a wedding portrait.
David Verplanck was born April 14, 1695, and married (first), July 16, 1723, Ariaantje, daughter of Barent Pieterse Coeymans, born at Coeymans, October 19, 1672; (second) a Miss Brouwer; (third), Catrina Boom, November 10, 1752. David Verplanck's father was Isaac Verplanck, who was baptized June 26, 1641, and married Abigail Uytenbogart. Isaac Verplanck's father was Abraham Isaacse Verplanck, of New Amsterdam, who emigrated to that place from Holland at a time when there were only fifteen houses on Manhattan Island, and was commander of the Dutch forces there under Governor Kieft in the first war with the Indians. In the house of the Verplancks at Fishkill, New York, where some of the family settled in 1682, the Society of the Cincinnati was formed. When he died he left 8,500 acres of the Coeymans Patent to each of his four children: Johannes, Ariaantje, Harriet and Isaac Davidse.
Ariaantje Coeymans, wife of David Verplanck, was the daughter of Barent Pieterse Coeymans, who purchased the enormous tract bearing his name. He was the son of Pieter Coeymans, also a miller, the progenitor of his family in America, who came from Utrecht in 1636, and he married the daughter of Andries De Vos. Barent, first owner of the mill at Coeymans, had litigation with the Patroon Van Rensselaer, because he had dealings before the Patroon with the native Indians for the tract of land measuring ten or twelve miles along the Hudson river. It was decided in Coeymans' favor in 1714, and he obtained a patent from Queen Anne confirming the entire tract to him. Upon a commanding site, near the Hudson river, was erected the old stone mansion, the oldest building in the place, and still an object of great interest, once called the "Coeymans' Castle."
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Ariaantje Coeymans house, c. 1716. Two-and-a-half story stone mansion at the north end of the Village of Coeymans, on the Hudson River south of Albany. It has two rooms on each floor separated by central hallways in which the original staircase survives unaltered. Originally, the facade (east side) had cross windows on the first floor, and mullioned windows (bolkozijn) on the second floor, as is shown in a lost early drawing of the house. The north wall had windows flanking a jambless fireplace on the first floor, and the south wall had windows on the second floor on either side of a fireplace. The original disposition of windows on the back (west) wall cannot be determined.
4A. One of the north wall windows- that on the east side of the first floor fireplace has survived intact except for the leaded glazing in its top openings. The interior of the frame, and the insides of the shutters retains the original paint. The frame is now a yellowish color and may originally have been white (?). The shutters, of batten construction are painted to look like they are panelled, with red margins and dark blue, almost black centers (Prussian blue?) surrounded by a margin of white corresponding with the moldings on the battens. While the frame has rabbets for casements, there is no indication that such were ever fitted. Considering the 'mansion' status of this house, the absence of casements is something of a surprise!
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