Reider-Underwood Genealogy

I've seen the name spelled a number of ways. Here is one: Airientje Cuvulje.
Also see: "National Gen Soc Qtrly" XXXV/3, Sept. 1947 p-65/69 carries article 'Ariaentje Cuvillje (Adrienne Cuvellier) Matriarch of New Amsterdam' by HF Seversmith citing family problems and tree.

Adrienne's name appears as Adriana, Ariaantje; surname: cuville, cuvalje, civilje, and cuvel. In French, Cuvellier means a maker of small tubs or casks; and Kupyer in Dutch has the same meaning. Sometimes this was used as her last name.

She remarried Jan Jansen Damen (see spouses field). From Edwin R. Hayes (Des Moines, IA), Margaret Ferel Hayes (see Vigne's note field): "Before her remarriage she had entered into a settlement with Vigne's children and promised to pay 200 guilder s to each of her two married daughters from Vigne's estate, and over 300 guilders for the keep and schooling of the other 2 underage children.

Bennett; National Gen. Soc. Qtrly notes that she amused herself by kicking (playing ball) with the heads of native American men killed in an attack by Kieft (leader at the time) on them in 1643! Kieft led a massacre of some indians in 1643, one o f the sons-in-law returned with 30 prisoners and the heads of several dead indians.

Henri and Barbara van der Zee; A Sweet and Alien Land: The Story of Dutch New York (NY:Viking Press, 1978), p. 129 adds:

The soldiers were "flushed with victory" and ran through the streets parading two indians and the heads of more on sticks. "When one of the heads fell on the ground, VanTienhoven's French mother-in-law, Adrienne Culville, the wife of Jan Damen, wa s so exulted that she gave it a kick. Not everyone enjoyed the sight, or approved of the massacre, and some of the other women violently 'upbraided' Adrienne, whose husband and son-in-law, they felt, were responsible for the war."