70 Teunis Nyssen DENYCE. Born in 1615 in Binnick, Utreck, Netherlands. [One source has him born in "Bininck/Bennekem, Gilderland, Netherlands" in about 1620.] Teunis Nyssen died in August 1661 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York. Religion: Dutch Reformed Church. Alias/AKA: Nyssen Denyce TEUNIS, Teunis Denyse NYSEN/NYSSEN.
From The Bergen Family by Teunis G. Bergen, Albany, N.Y., 1876, beginning in the footnote on page 98:20
Teunis Nyssen emigrated as early as 1638, from Bininck or Bennekom, in the Sticht of Uythuyzen, a village near Arnhem, containing 212 houses and 900 Inhabitants, in the province of Gilderland, in the Netherlands, and died prior to August, 1663. According to the records of the New York Dutch church, he married Feb. 11th, 1640, Phabea Faelix, of Jarleston, England, who is known on other records as the widow of Hendrick the boor, who may have used the surname of Faelix. Phabea or Femmetje was the daughter of
[footnote cont'd. on page 99]:
John Seals, an Englishman from Devonshire, written Jan Celes on the Dutch Colonial Records, who-came to New Amsterdam from New England as early as 1638, at which date he was a planter on Manhattan Island. Seals married Maria Robberts or Robertson, Femmetje being his only child of whom we have any account.
From Cortelyou Genealogy, by John Van Zandt Cortelyou, p.83:21
Helena [Cortelyou] married, second, April 12, 1685, Denyse Teunissen, variously spelled as "Dionys Teunessen," etc., and also erroneously referred to in records as "Denyse Teunissen Denise." The reason for the latter is that his descendants adopted "Denyse" or "Denise" as their surname.
The marriage record of Denyse and Helena is as follows (Flatbush Church Records, State Library, Albany): "Dionys Teunisz, widower of Elizabeth Polhemus, residing at Midwoud (Flatbush), and Helena Cordeljau, widow of Klaas Rutgersz, residing at New Utrecht. Betrothed March 29, 1685. Married at New Utrecht, April 12, 1685.
This was the second marriage for Denyse as well as for Helena. He had married, October 22, 1682, Elizabeth Polhemus, daughter of Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, of Flatbush, and Catharine (Van Werven) Polhemus.
Denyse Teunissen was baptized in New Amsterdam on April 16, 1654. He was the eighth and last child of Teunis Nyssen and Femmetje Jans. Teunis Nyssen emigrated from Bunnick, Province of Utrecht, Holland, about 1638. He settled at New Amsterdam and there married Femmetje Jans, widow of Hendrick the Boor and daughter of Jan Seales of New Amsterdam. (Reminiscences of New Utrecht, p. 124).
On Oct. 11, 1685, "Helena Corteljou, w. of Nyss Theunissen" was received upon confession into membership of the Flatbush Reformed Church, by Domine Selyns. (Flatbush Church Records, State Library, Albany).
Denyse Teunissen was a master carpenter. He bought land in Flatbush in 1687 and was a resident there when he took the oath of allegiance. His name appears on the Flatbush patent of 1685.
After his marriage to Helena, Denyse Teunissen removed to property which she owned in the Najack tract at the Narrows.
Denyse is said to have owned land also at Yellow Hook and on Staten Island. According to an unconfirmed statement, Denyse may have resided on Staten Island for a time and while there held the office of Justice of the Peace.
According to the census of Kings County, N. Y., about 1698, "Denys Teunisse" had five children and was the owner of five slaves. (MS. Hist. of N. U., p. 885).
On 11 Feb 1640 Teunis Nyssen married Femmetje Jans SEALS, in New Amsterdam, New York.
They had the following children:
71 Femmetje Jans SEALS. 
Born in 1619 in Charleston, Devon, England. Femmetje Jans died on 13 Dec 1666 in Flatbush, Kings, New York. Buried on 13 Dec 1666 in Flatbush, of Midwood, Kings, New York. Alias/AKA: Founetje Jans or Phoebe FALLIX SEALS, Femmetie Jans P Fallix SEALS, Fennetje Jans SEALES, Phabea SEALS, Phebea/Femmetje Jans FELIX.
From The Bergen Family by Teunis G. Bergen, Albany, N.Y., 1876, beginning in the footnote on page 98:20
According to the records of the New York Dutch church, [Teunis Nyssen] married Feb. 11th, 1640, Phabea Faelix, of Jarleston, England, who is known on other records as the widow of Hendrick the boor, who may have used the surname of Faelix. Phabea or Femmetje was the daughter of
[footnote cont'd. on page 99]:
John Seals, an Englishman from Devonshire, written Jan Celes on the Dutch Colonial Records, who-came to New Amsterdam from New England as early as 1638, at which date he was a planter on Manhattan Island. Seals married Maria Robberts or Robertson, Femmetje being his only child of whom we have any account.