General Notes

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> CWVG-87
REFN: 177
Notes for Christina Praa: Christina was the youngest daughter of Capt. Peter Praa. The father of Capt Praa, [also Peter Praa] , a Huguenot from Dieppe, France, resided in Holland some time, and in 1659 came in ship "Moesman" to this country with his family, consisting of a wife and several children. He settled in Bushwick, Kings County, and there died in 1668. Peter Praa Jr. was born at Leyden, Holland, in 1659; he married 3-15-1684, Maria [bap. 6-4-1651], widow of Joost Adrienszen Molenear, daughter of Jacob Hay and Christina Cappoens. Peter Praa Jr., prior to his death in 1740, was owner of nearly all of the present [1895] 17th Ward of Brooklyn. He also owned a large tract in Queens Cty., the site of Long Island City, then known as Dominie's Hook. He also had large tracts in New Jersey and considerable in the city of New York. Christina was a widow in 1760, and on 4-20-1769, married Rev. John Arondius. She died in Dec. 1795 after a two day illness, at the age of 102 yrs. Praa burial site is near India and Oakland Sts. in Brooklyn.  During her first marriage and probably until the death of her second husband, Christina lived in the Bushwick farm house on the bowery and meadow of hergrand-mother, Christina Cappoens, where she was born and grew up, but later was generally known as the Peter Praa house.  As the widow of Rev. John Arondius, Christina executed an instument March 7,1793 conveying her real property at Bushwick, and her personal property, to her two surviving children, Jonathan Provost and Catharine [Provost] La Rue. The real property comprised the land, meadow, house, barn and all other buildings where "Peter Praa and his wife used to live upon", provided if either were to sell it would to be to each other so as to keep it in the family.[Recorded April 4,1796;Liber 7 p.4 of Conveyances, Kings Co. N.Y.]

Notes for Christina Praa: Christina was the youngest daughter of Capt. Peter Praa. The father of Capt Praa, [also Peter Praa] , a Huguenot from Dieppe, France, resided in Holland some time, and in 1659 came in ship "Moesman" to this country with his family, consisting of a wife and several children. He settled in Bushwick, Kings County, and there died in 1668. Peter Praa Jr. was born at Leyden, Holland, in 1659; he married 3-15-1684, Maria [bap. 6-4-1651], widow of Joost Adrienszen Molenear, daughter of Jacob Hay and Christina Cappoens. Peter Praa Jr., prior to his death in 1740, was owner of nearly all of the present [1895] 17th Ward of Brooklyn. He also owned a large tract in Queens Cty., the site of Long Island City, then known as Dominie's Hook. He also had large tracts in New Jersey and considerable in the city of New York. Christina was a widow in 1760, and on 4-20-1769, married Rev. John Arondius. She died in Dec. 1795 after a two day illness, at the age of 102 yrs. Praa burial site is near India and Oakland Sts. in Brooklyn.  During her first marriage and probably until the death of her second husband, Christina lived in the Bushwick farm house on the bowery and meadow of hergrand-mother, Christina Cappoens, where she was born and grew up, but later was generally known as the Peter Praa house.  As the widow of Rev. John Arondius, Christina executed an instument March 7,1793 conveying her real property at Bushwick, and her personal property, to her two surviving children, Jonathan Provost and Catharine [Provost] La Rue. The real property comprised the land, meadow, house, barn and all other buildings where "Peter Praa and his wife used to live upon", provided if either were to sell it would to be to each other so as to keep it in the family.[Recorded April 4,1796;Liber 7 p.4 of Conveyances, Kings Co. N.Y.]