Balthazar DeWolf and Alice Peck
Husband Balthazar DeWolf
Born: 1620/1621 or 1623 - poss Sagan, Silesia, Germany or England Christened: Died: 1696 - Lyme, New London, Connecticut Buried:Marriage: Abt 1645 - Guilford, Connecticut
Wife Alice Peck
Born: 1625 - London, England Christened: Died: 1687 - Lyme, Connecticut Buried:
Father: Deacon William Peck (1601-1694) Mother: Elizabeth (1608-1683)
Children
1 M Edward Nathan DeWolf
Born: 1646 - Guilford, Connecticut Christened: Died: 24 Mar 1712 - Lyme, New London, Connecticut Buried:Spouse: Alice (Rebecca) Tinker (1650- ) Marr: 1664-1670 - Lyme, ConnecticutSpouse: Rebeckah Masuer (Measure) ( - )
2 M Simon Dewolf
Born: Abt 1648 - Weatherfield, Hartford, Connecticut Christened: Died: 5 Sep 1695 - Lyme, New London, Connecticut Buried:Spouse: Sarah Lay ( - ) Marr: Abt 1689 - Connecticut
3 M Stephen DeWolf
Born: Abt 1650 - Weatherfield, Hartford, Connecticut Christened: Died: 17 Oct 1702 - Lyme, New London, Connecticut Buried:Spouse: Sarah Terry ( - ) Marr: Abt 1689 - ConnecticutSpouse: Hannah Jones ( - ) Marr: 1701 - Connecticut
4 F Hannah DeWolf
Born: 1652 - Middleton, Middlesex, Connecticut Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: William Stone ( - ) Marr: 20 Feb 1673-20 Feb 1674 - Guilford, Connecticut
5 F Mary Marah DeWolf
Born: 10 Jan 1655-10 Jan 1656 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Christened: Died: 27 Oct 1724 - Lyme, New Haven, Connecticut Buried:Spouse: Mathew Griswold ( - ) Marr: 30 May 1705 - prob Lyme, New Haven, ConnecticutSpouse: Thomas Lee ( - ) Marr: 13 Jun 1676 - Lyme, Middlesex, Connecticut
6 F Daughter DeWolf
Born: 1658 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Christened: Died: 1661 - prob Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Buried:
7 F Daughter DeWolf
Born: 5 Sep 1661 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Christened: Died: After 5 Sep 1661 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Buried:
8 F Susannah DeWolf
Born: 22 Dec 1664 - East Saybrook, Lyme, Connecticut Christened: Died: After 1735 - New Haven, Connecticut Buried:Spouse: Henry Champion ( - ) Marr: 1 Apr 1684 - prob Lyme, ConnecticutSpouse: John Huntley ( - ) Marr: 1709 - prob Lyme, Connecticut
9 F Alice DeWolf
Born: 1666 - East Saybrook, Lyme, Connecticut Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Daniel Comstock ( - )
10 M Joseph DeWolf
Born: Apr 1668 - Lyme, New London, Connecticut Christened: Died: 4 Oct 1719 - Lyme, New London, Connecticut Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
His birth place not known; a young member of a Silesian royal house disappeared tat that time and thought to be maybe him. Would have been member of an aristocratic family prominent in Germany, Holland, east. He wrote English with a good hand and gave all his children English names. His name is Dutch, not unheard of in Germany.
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Have from one source b 1623 in England.
Balthasar DeWolf lst recorded in Hartford, CT 3/5/1656. He is mentioned in Wethersfield,CT in 1664, and in Lyme,CT records in 1668, was living in 1695.
His origins are uncertain, many have been suspected. He is thought to possibly be of an ancient and quite widespread European aristocratic family. Specific theories include Livonia, England, France, and Germany. He wrote with an English style and hand and gave all of his children English names, though that wasn't unusual in emigrants to New England of non-English stock. His name is Dutch or possibly German. During the Protestant Reformation, many people from HOlland ended up in both Germany and England, and people from France scattered in every direction, often through Belgium and Holland to Germany. People from England were likely to end up in HOlland and eventually Germany, until the emigration to New England was well underway; only people with real resources could get to New England. Perry argues that Balthasar is the reputed son of a Litvonian aristocrat who went to America; I've not found said son's name cited anywhere. Odd detail to leave out.
There is a view forming that I'm just beginning to learn the details that Balthazar was born in Germany to Joseph DeWolf, b est 1557-1604, d est 1598-1681 or 14, son of Joseph Henry DeWolf. This is theory of Esther clark McDermott at GenForum, she cites Carol McGinnis, Dolphs and DeWolph (1990's), Family Tree Maker, and a researcher named Sallyann Joiner who doesn't answer mail! A Baron DeWolf was chosen 1517 tcommissioner of the House of Saxe to settle boundaries of various principalities of the Imperial Diet, an ability Balthasar and two of his sons including Edward apparently inherited. Joseph DeWolf became Admiral in the Dutch Service and then Governer of the Dutch East Indies. (Supporting this claim would be evidence he had a son named Balthasar b abt 1620, who cannot be otherwise accounted for.) The way Esther has it worded, it sounds as if he went to England and served in Parliament? and had a son Sir Drmmond DeWolf member of Parliament, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleipotenentiary to Turkey, and High Commissioner to Egypt (seems like this had to have happened several generations later?) Joseph Henry DeWolf was son of Maximilian DeWolf. b est 1557-1600 d est 1598- (dates from FTM) married est 1581-1638. He son of Frederick DeWolf. Maximilian Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, had lands conferred upon him by Emperor Charles the fifth and took up residence in Belgium in 1535. His oldest son was Baron Charles de Wolf. Frederick DeWolf was the son of Emile DeLoup. b est 1409-1486 d est 1445-1561. He was the son of Louis De Saint Etienne. Grandson of Louis de Saint Etienne had the title of Baron conferred upon him in 1427 by the Duke of Saxony, changed his name from French to German "DeWolf". His chldren were Frederick and Francis. World Family Tree, Louis de Saint Etienne saved the life of Charles V of France while hunting from an attacking she-wolf, and he was knighted Sir Louis de Loup (Wolf) WFT CD #6 has this pedigree. Etienne is French for Stephen, and an old city in south-central part of France. Perry has the first part of this, not the part about the sonof the governor of the Dutch East Indies.
Wherever they came from, The DeWolfs kept a love of adventure and of the sea, and were inveterately independent and stubborn. "The first mention of [Balthasar's] name is found in the Hartford court records in 1656. He was in Wethersfield, CT (Esther thinks visiting) and was arrested for smoking on the street. The court fined him...and as tradition has it...he paid his fine, lit his pipe, and went out!" He owned a good deal of land in Lyme and Saybrook, and an entire island. He served in the militia. Researchers point out that whoever he was, he was in a position to marry his children to the wealthiest and most prominent of his neighbors. Owned Calves Island in Conn R at Old Lyme (Esther) Lived in Wethersfield CT in 1664, moved to Lyme 1668, member of town train band 1678 withe sons Edward, Simon, and Stephen Elected town committeeman. Balthasar married Alice ___. Possibly Peck, dau Wm.
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General Notes (Wife)
I find no evidence she is a child of William and Elizabeth Peck.
She actually almost certainly is NOT a child of William and Elizabeth Peck. They had four well documented children, and she is not one of them. She also isn't a daughter of William's son Joseph, who wasn't even old enough to be her father when she would have been born. William did have a possibly brother Henry, and I don't know what became of him. She also was not a child of Paul Peck of Hartford.
The source of the idea that Alice teh wife of Balthazar DeWolf was the daughter of William Peck, isCarol MacGinnis' Dolphs and DeWolfs (book).
From a DeWolf mailing list post:
"Carol McGinnis book is the only source for this that anyone knows about, and her statement that Alice Peck was the wife of Balthazar is not well substantiated with evidence. She states on p.7: "He married the daughter of William Peck (1), a London merchant who was one of the original proprietors of New haven." The footnote (1) states: "She is identified by her ownership of land in Saybrook, the close relationship between Joseph Peck and the DeWolfs, and the fact that only the Pecks believed a woman should own property in her own right. Few men who could give her a dower in Saybrook were old enough to be her father, and she was not found in the lines of the Bulls, Clarks, Birchards, Marvins, Lords, or Wallers." A plausible explanation, but not definitive evidence.
"The Rev. Calbraith Perry lists Balthazar's wife as Alice but gives no maiden name. "
I also found a reference to Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. I don't know if he cites a primary document for such a marriage.
If this Alice was the mother of Balthazar's children, then he married her a good number of years before he appears in recorded history in Connecticut. He was at Hartford in 1666, at Wethersfeld in 1664, and at Lyme in 1668; as far as anyone knows, he neverlived in New Haven where William lived.
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