The Jan Bastiansen and Yolanta (De la Mantagne) Kortryk Family

"Jan Bastiaensen lived in a bend of the Linge River near Wolswaert Castle ( pictured at left). Michiel (younger brother) lived in Prince's land near Schoonrewoerd, a village 2 miles north of Leerdam. Both married. Emigrated from Amsterdam 16 April 1663 on the ship De Bonte-Kow (The Brindled Cow), Jan Bergen, Master. From Leerdam with wife and four children, 19, 15, 12 and 6 years old. Also listed are Giel (Michiel) with wife and four children, 8, 9, 5 and 1 years old, and Jan Laurens from Ripjen (no family). Apparently part of the Huguenot emigration to the New World to settle patroonships up the Hudson River near present day Albany, NY. Patroonships were offered by the Dutch West India Company. Those who could settle 50 adult colonists outside the Manhattan (New Amsterdam) area were granted large land holdings called patroonships. Kiliane van Rennesselaerswyck, one of the Company Directors, was granted a tract of almost fifty square miles around present day Albany, NY. This was the destination of many from Schoonrewoerd. Jan may have been the Kortryck who owned a bouwery on Staten Island in 1674." (Written by John Abbot in 1922, a member of the Tioga County Historical Society).

Jan Bastiansen Van Kortryk married Yolanta De la Montagne about 1640 in Leerdam, South Holland. They had the following children born in Beest, Holland:

1645 Cornelis
1647 Hendrick, our ancestor
1651 Jansen
1659 Belittie

JAN BASTIANSEN VAN KORTRYK
BORN: 1618 in Leerdam, South Holland, Netherlands
MARRIED: abt 1640 in Leerdam
DIED: after 1677 in Staten Island, NY

YOLANTA DE LA MONTAGNE
BORN:  after 1618 in Kortriyk, W. Vlaanderen, South Holland, Netherlands
DIED: after 1663 in Cornwall, New York
SOURCES: !"History of Harlem" "The Courtright (Kortright) Family", John Abbot, 1922 Tioga County Historical Society records. Genealogy of Central New York, Vol 3, pp 1134-7; FROM Van KORTRYK TO COURTRIGHT: EARLY SETTLERS OF NEW AMSTERDAM [PROVEN], Griffiths, George R. ( George Raymond ) ;, Tempe, Arizona, USA: Published by Author; 1992;, Page number: p. 1; Source text: birth-name: Jan Bastiaensen  ( GENEALOGY: Records ) Bibliography: p. 41-42 Includes Courtright, Decker, Low, Bastiaensen, Van Kortryk, and other related families. Bastiaen ( or Sebastian ); Citation: FROM Van KORTRYK TO COURTRIGHT: EARLY SETTLERS OF NEW AMSTERDAM [PROVEN], Griffiths, George R. ( George Raymond ) ;, Tempe, Arizona, USA: Published by Author; 1992;, Page number: p. 2 FISCHE: 6, 125, 309 NS31543 NS31793 birth: 1618; Leerdam, Holland (South), Netherlands ( GENEALOGY: Records ) Bibliography: p. 41-42 Includes Courtright, Decker, Low, Bastiaensen, Van Kortryk, and other related families; Source text: Number of Children ( GENEALOGY ) Microfilm of typed manuscript at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in New York City. Includes index. Contains descendents of John Bastiannen Kortregt who came to New York from the Netherlands in 1663. Also include CALN Film: 0, 017, 140: Item # 5 NS26713 NS30433 AKA (Facts Pg( GENEALOGY ) Microfilm of typed manuscript at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in New York City. 

The Family of Hendrick and Femmetje (Van Norden) Westercamp

These 9th grand grandparents were both born in Holland in 1615. Their marriage took place in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands on the 7th of November in 1638. They must have emigrated soon after their marriage because their daughter,  Grietjen, our ancestor, was born in
1641 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland,
New York, the old map of which is pictured above. 

The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey. A successful Dutch settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened New Amsterdam.

Their second daughter, Margaret, was born in October 1642. They had another daughter named Heyltje, and perhaps other children that I don't know about.

On April 2, 1648, Hendrick received permission to seek a living in the colony by day labor or otherwise. Soon he established himself as a baker. On April 1, 1650, in accordance to a resolution, he was granted the "garden between the first and second creeks", formerly occupied by Captain Willem Juriaensz, the baker. 

Hendrick died in 1654. Femmetje died in 1667 in Kingston, Ulster, NY.

HENDRICK JANSE WESTERCAMP
BORN: 1615 in  ,Holland, Netherlands
MARRIED: 7 Nov 1638 in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands
DIED: 1654 in Albany, Albany, New York

FEMMETJE ALBERTSE VAN NORDEN
BORN: 1615 in  ,Holland, Netherlands
DIED: 1667 in Kingston, Ulster, NY
SOURCES: . 747 Descendants of Albert Van Norden, Karen Roby, Posted on Family Tree Maker's Web Site, Roby, Karen, robykamp@bellsouth.net;  U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, In c., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extract ed from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electro nic databases. Originally, the information was deriv;, Page number: Source number: 683.009; Source type: Pedigree chart; : birth-name: Hendrick Janse Westercamp http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=1306495&ti=0&indi v=try http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=1306495&t i=0&indiv=try AFGS 3 PAGE Source number: 683.009; Source type: Pedigree chart;familysearch:source:3244112568; OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, In c.;birth-name: Hendrick Janse Westercamp birth: 1615; death: 30 September 1654; Albany, Albany, New York, United States; Doc. 741 Historical and genealogical research notes on Decker and Schoonmaker families, William Decoursey, Family Tree Maker's Web Site; "Netherlands Marriages,1565-1892";!Roots & Branches by Wardle pg. 104 & 152 says she m. Hendrick JANSE and was the m/o Grietjen Hendricke WESTERCAMP. Her PC is Doc. #312. Misc: Bev & Thomas KELLY of Findlay, OH give her surname as ALBERTS b. 1615 m. Hendrick Jansen WESTERCAMP per AF. Another submitter gives her name as Femmetje Alderse VAN NAARDEN b. 1642 in NY d/o Claes Jansen DeRuyter MABILLE whose ancestry includes royalty and is traced back to 6 A.D. (Doc. #1677). LDS ORD: PNS #228, Line in Record @I2334@ (RIN 2333); Children Margaret WESTERCAMP b: 19 Oct 1642 in New Amsterdam, NY Grietjen Hendricks WESTERCAMP b: Bef 19 Oct 1642 in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, NY 

Tomys and Hendrickje (Otsen) Swartwout and family

 Tomys Swartwout was born in 1607 in Het Rech te Fath, Groningen, Holland. He was a tobacco merchant in the Netherlands by 1629 with his brothers, Wybrandt and Hermanus. They were buying and selling tobacco grown in Virginia and New Netherlands from their establishment in Amsterdam, Holland, just three years after Manhattan Island was purchased by the Dutch West India Company.



Amsterdam is the Netherlands’ capital, known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses with gabled facades, legacies of the city’s 17th-century Golden Age. Its Museum District houses the Van Gogh Museum, works by Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, and modern art at the Stedelijk. Cycling is key to the city’s character, and there are numerous bike paths. (Take note, Dwan Shepard.) I was privileged to see Amsterdam for a few days in 1955 and fell in love with the cleanliness of the city, the Hague, their cuisine, the canals, a cheese farm and villages that I visited, and yes, the bicycling habits of the people. Therefore, I chose to share a photograph of that city rather than any city where Tomys and his family lived in New Amsterdam. In addition, Tomys lived in Amsterdam longer than he lived in New Amsterdam. (I do love Manhattan, too. Afterall, that's where my sweet father was born!!)

Tomys was married twice in Holland before he left for the new world. On the 7th of April in 1630 he married (1) Andrijetjen (daughter of Sijmon and Catryna Grebbers Sijmons) in Niewe Kerk, Amsterdam. She died there on 17 Dec 1630, giving birth to a child, Jan. Tomys remarried there, 7 Jun 1631, to Hendrickje Barents Otsen and had 4 children, all born in Amsterdam:

 1634 Roeloff, our ancestor
1638 Barent
1639 Tryntje 
1645 Jacomijutje

Tomys brought his family to America, having left Holland in May 1652. On 11 Dec 1653 he was one of 19 settlers who attended a convention in the New Amsterdam city hall and protested bad administration of the colony by the West India Company and claimed that tax paying colonists had a right to a voice in government. 

 On the 13th of April 1655,  Tomys was appointed a magistrate of the court of Midwout (Flatbush) on Long Island. He and his family moved to Wiltwick in Esopus in March 1661, where Tomys received property. 

Tradition claims that Tomys had returned to Holland in 1662 and died there that year. However, there are also records that say that he died on 3 Jun 1665 in Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands.

TOMYS SWARTWOUT
BORN: 1 Jun 1607 in Het Rech de Fath, Groningen, Holland
MARRIED: 3 Jun 1631 in Amsterdam, Holland
DIED: 3 Jun 1665 in Amsterdam, Holland

HENDRICKJE BARENTS OTSEN
BORN:  1609 in Holland
DIED: unknown date in Ulster, NY
SOURCES: Swartwout Chronicles A. J. Weise 1899, p. 49 - 56, 89, 581; "The Ambition of Roeloff Swartwout, Schout of Esopus" by Andrew Brink; ; "A History of Ulster Co. under the Dominion of the Dutch" by TAugustus M. Van Buren; Brøderbund Software, Inc. Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction. Release date: December 23, 1993; "Netherlands Marriages, 1565-1892," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FNQQ-Y38 : 10 February 2018), Tomas Swartwout and Aerjaentje Sijmons, 07 Apr 1630; citing Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; FHL microfilm 113,358; Tomys Swartwout Birthdate: 1607 Birthplace: Groningen, The Netherlands Death: Died June 3, 1665 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Immediate Family: Son of Roelef Swartwout and Catryna Swartwood;

The Joris and Catalyntje (Trico) Rapalje Family

To write about this family is a distinct pleasure for me. A couple of weeks ago, I already wrote about their first daughter, Sarah, who was the first white child born in what is now the state of New York. Today I will tell you more about Sarah's parents and siblings. There is a wealth of information about this family on Wikipedia. Rather than repeat what Wikipedia has to tell about the Rapaljes, please treat yourselves to see pictures of the Rapalje property and many facts about their lives at wikipedia.org/wiki/JorisJansenRapalje.

Joris Jansen Rapalje and Catalyntje Trico were born in France but they were married in Amsterdam, Holland in January of 1623 in the Walloon Church. Their surnames are spelled here in the Dutch version. (French spelling: Rapareilliet and Tricault) The list of their children, all born in New York, is as follows:

1625 Sarah, our ancestor, the first white child born in NY 
1627 Maretje 
1629 Janetje
1635 Judith
1637 Jan
1639 Jacob, shot by Indians in Manhattan, age 4
1641 Catalina
1643 Jernonimus
1646 Annetje 
1648 Elizabeth
1650 Daniel, died soon after birth
1652 Daniel

Joris and Catalyntje sailed to America Jan 25, 1624, on board the Eondracht, arriving in the spring of 1624. Joris Jansen Rapalje was a first settler at Fort Orange (now Albany), New York. 

In 1626, Manhattan was selected as the official Company site in New Netherland and all the Albany families were ordered to move there. All the farmers in New Netherland concentrated on Manhattan. Joris acquired a plot of ground at what is now the foot of Pearl Street, his property abutting the East wall of Fort Amsterdam at the present Battery. Shortly after his arrival there, he was followed by his two brothers Antonie Janssen and Willem Janssen. In 1626, the population of lower Manhattan was 270 white inhabitants. Joris remained there 22 years. [What is the population of Manhattan today? Several million!!]

On Jun 16, 1637, Joris bought 167 morgen (335 acres) of land from the Kakapeyno or Pewichaas Indians called Rinnegakonck, on Long Island (now Brooklyn). On Jun 17, 1643, Governor Kieft patented his purchase. His woodlot was on a hill where Fort Greene Park is now located, and his meadowland on the level space upon which City Park is built, between Flushing, Park, Navy, and Edward Streets. A creek ran through a part of the property and emptied into Wallabout Bay, known as Ronnegagonck. Today there is little left of the creek which, in the course of time, has been filled in. For many years the old Wallabout Market stood on this property, and it was at this point (Wallabout Bay) where the British prison ships were moored during the Revolutionary War.

 Joris Janszen Rapalje is on the list of Flagon and Trencher 1607-1783, receiving his license before 1640. In Aug, 1641, he took a prominent part in public affairs, and was one of twelve men who represented Manhattan, Bruekelen, and Pavonia to suggest a means of punishment for Indians accused of a murder.

On Jun 12, 1647, he was listed as a sailor (chief boatswain) in Amsterdam. On Mar 16, 1648, his name was listed among others who were inn keepers and tapsters (owning a tavern) in the books of the burgomaster court, promising to observe the Mar 10, 1648 proclamation of Governor Stuyvesant regulating such houses.

He was a magistrate of Brooklyn in 1655 (appointed Apr 13), 1656, 1657, 1660, and 1662.

On Mar 1, 1660, he, along with his son-in-law Theunis Gysbert Bogaert, petitioned for permission to plant a village on the river opposite the Manhattans, in site of Fort Amsterdam, between the lands of Bogaert and a man named Kip, but the petition was denied. Bogaert at this time owned the lands patented to Hans Hansen Bergen. The location of the proposed village was between Brooklyn and Bushwick. (Gysbert Bogaert was our ancestor, Sarah Rapalje's husband).

On Apr 26, 1660, Joris Jansen Rapalje petitioned to be allowed to leave his house standing on his farm. This application appears to have been denied, because at this period an order had been issued for everyone residing outside villages to move to the fortified villages for safety from the Indians.

In Aug, 1661, Joris was appointed a member of the famous Council of Twelve Men who conferred with Governor Kieft in regard to the consequences of an impending war as a result of the murder of a Dutchman named Claess Swits, by the Indians, in revenge for the death of an Indian some twenty years previously.

On Aug 25, 1662, Joris Jansen Rapalje became a member of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn. He had been elected as a deacon in 1661. He died at an election of church officers Feb 21, 1663. He was buried in the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in Flatbush, Kings County, NY. The cemetery is within the grounds of Erasmus Hall High School.

Catalyntje was also buried at the church cemetery in 1689. She was age 84 at death.

JORIS JANSEN RAPALJE
BORN: 28 Apr 1604 in Valenciennes, Nord, France
MARRIED: 13 Jan 1623 in Amsterdam, Holland
DIED:   21 Feb 1662 in Long Island, NY
Buried: Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery at Flatbush, Kings County (Brooklyn), NY

CATALYNTJE TRICO
BORN: 1605 in Prisches, France
DIED: 11 Sep 1689 in Wallabout, Long Island, NY
BURIED: Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery at Flatbush, Kings County (Brooklyn), NY
SOURCES: Footnote: Brøderbund Software, Inc., Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction (Release date: December 23, 1993), Internal Ref. #1.17.1.27091.17.(birth of Joris); Joris is listed as a Huguenot ancestor represented in the membership of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey; Brøderbund Software, Inc., Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction ;"Genealogies of New Jersey Families" Vol I Families A-Z. Pre-American Notes on Old New Netherland Families (From the Genealogical Magazines of New Jersey) by Joseph R. Klett. Brooklyn Village, Long Island, NY, History, by Peter Ross; NY Lewis Pub. Co. 1902; Bergen, Teunis G., "Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y.", S.W. Green's Son, Printer, Electrotyper and Binder, New York, 1881. Reason attached to person: Pg. 234 says, "Joris Jansen [Rapalie], . . . emigrated in 1623; m. Catalyntje dau. of Joris Trico of Paris; d. about 1665. . . . Issue: Sarah Jorise, Marretje Jorise, Jannetje Jorise, Judith Jorise, Jan Jorise, Jacob Jorise, Catelytje Jorise, Jeronemus Jorise, Annetje Jorise, Elizabeth Jorise, and Daniel Jorise."; Bogart Family, Tunis Gysbert Bogaert and Descendants Citation: Bogart Family, Tunis Gysbert Bogaert and Descendants; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175182404/joris-janszen-rapalje; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris_Jansen_Rapelje; 375th Anniversary of the Eendracht and Nieuw Nederland (The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society);  The History of Brooklyn Navy Yard (Brooklyn Navy Yard );  Joris Jansen Rapelje genealogy at longislandsurnames.com;  Prominent Families of New York, Nicoll & Roy Company, The Historical Company, 1897; Annotated Bibliography on Rapalje Family (Cindy Walcott.Updated November 1998) 

Antonius and Anna Maria Schardt and daughter

The daughter of this couple, Elizabeth Schardt, married into the Barnhisel family that you have been reading about in our family history for the past year or so.  The information about  17th century folks is quite scanty, as happens when a family historian like me reaches back this far in time. As I mentioned to you recently, I will be closing this particular Mackey Family History blog as soon as I finish writing about a few of our 9th Great Grandparents. Not only are records scarce for the people who lived in the 1600s and further back in time, but to find what records are available, it's necessary to know the language of the country of any ancestor's residence.  In the case of the Barnhisels, The Hysell/Hisel Group hired a German professional genealogist (Andrea Fink) who lives near Bad Kreuznach, to find the church records that I cite in this story. [Many of the Barnhisel descendants shortened their name to Hysell or Hisel, thus the name of the Barnhisel family association of the United States is called "The Hysell/Hisel Group".] I was a member of this helpful group c. 1990-2015.

Antonius and Anna Maria were married around 1615 in probably Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany (pictured above, as it looks today. Bad signifies that it is a spa town...bad=bath, I think) and had at least one child, our ancestor, Elizabeth Schardt, who was born in 1617 in  Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany. Elizabeth and her future husband and family were members of the Lutheran Church in Kreuznach. 
  
ANTONIUS SCHARDT
BORN: 1585 in   ,Rheinland, Germany
MARRIED:  c. 1615 in Kreuznach, Rheinland Germany
DIED: aft 1629 in Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany

ANNA MARIA (unknown surname)
BORN: 1587 in   ,Rheinland, Germany
DIED: unknown death information
SOURCES: Hisel/Hysell Genealogy Group; Pg. 48 of researcher, Charlene Bernheisel's copies of Connie Boyer's compilation: Hans Bernard Hausele, Elizabeth Schardt's husband, is mentioned in "Beed- und Zinssbuchern" and information about his widow in 1675 and 1689 in Kreuznach; Update of Connie Boyer, "Bernheisel/ Barnhisel Families" to include the research of German genealogist, Andrea Fink re Lutheran Church records of the Barnheisels of Kreuznach, Germany.

GIJSBERT and AERTJEN (BASTIAENS) BOGAERT and family

Now we begin to learn about our ninth great grandparents, born in the late 1500s in European countries. (This will be the last generation that I will write about, for our Mackey Family History.) 





Gijsbert was born in 1593 in Schoonerswoerd, Utrecht, South Holland, Netherlands. He married Aertjen Bastiaens about 1622 in Heikoop, Vianen, South Holland. Their children are as follows (all born in South Holland):

1625 Theunis, our ancestor
1627 Aalkien, their only daughter
1629 Neeltchen
1631 Abraham
1633 Joris
1635 Adrian
1641 Johannes

Aertjen died in 1646. Then Gijsbert, and probably his children, emigrated to New York state soon after her death. Gijsbert lived to be age 91. He died in Catskill, Greene County, New York.

GIJSBERT THEUNISZN BOGAERT
BORN: 1593 in Schoonerwoerd, Utrecht, S. Holland, Netherlands
MARRIED: abt 1622 in Heikoop, Vianen, South Holland, Netherlands
DIED: 1684 in Catskill, Greene, NY

AERTJEN BASTIAENS
BORN: 1597 in Heikoop, Vianen, S. Holland, Netherlands
DIED: 10 Dec 1646 in Heikoop, Vianen, S. Holland, Netherlands
SOURCES: Legacy NFS Source: Aertjien Bastiaens - Citation: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA; Researcher, M. Watefall for the death date of Aertjen.

JOHN and PHILLIP (SOLE) SALES and DAUGHTERS

First cousins, John  and Phillip Sales were married on the 11th day of August in 1625 at the St. Lawrence's Parish of Little Waddingfield, Suffolk, England. Their two daughters were born and baptized at this same location:

Our ancestor, Phoebe, was baptized 1 May 1626 
Sarah, was born in 1628

In 1630, this small family boarded a ship in Laversham, Suffolk County, probably the Talbot, of the Winthrop Fleet bound for Boston, Massachusetts. Sadly, John's wife, Phillip and little daughter, Sarah died on the journey. Only John and Phoebe landed at Boston. In 1631, John's name is on the list of members of the First Church in Boston. But soon after, John was accused of stealing some produce and became indentured to a Mr. Coggeshall, and so was Phoebe, for several years. 

Needless to say, John and Phoebe were not happy in Boston. So, they moved to New Amsterdam and enjoyed their time there among the Dutch people. In 1638, John's occupation was as a planter at Manhattan Isle.

John married a widowed woman, Maria Robberts around 1640, when he was about 45 years old.  The land that he had acquired was commonly known as "old Jan's land", marked 37 on the farm map. "Jan" is how the Dutch spelled his first name.

"To Tonis Nyssen [his son-in-law, Phoebe's husband], the half of all the means he leaves behind" is how John worded the main part of his will that he wrote on the 17th of April in 1645. He evidently had been wounded somehow and was sickly at the time that he wrote his will. His widow married a new husband in August 1645 so John died sometime between his will date and her new marriage date.

JOHN SALES
BORN: abt 1598 in Norfolk, England
MARRIED: 11 Aug 1625 in St. Lawrence's Parish, Little Waddingfield, Suffolk, England
DIED: aft 17 Apr 1645 in Brooklyn, New Amsterdam, NY

PHILLIP SOLE
BAPTIZED: 28 Feb 1602 at All Saint's Church, Bury St. Edmonds, Sudbury, Suffolk, England
DIED: 1630 at sea (North Atlantic Ocean)
SOURCES: FamilySearch.org Church Records 1630-1865 Colonial Society of Boston, Massachusetts; Church Records of Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam and New York; Theunis G. Bergen, "Early Settlers of Kings County", pgs 94 and 95.

THEUNIS BOGAERT and SARAH RAPALJE and Family

Today I am excited to tell you the story about our eighth great grandma, Sarah Rapalje, because she was the first white child born in what is now the state of New York!

In 1624, a ship with 30 Protestant Walloons (French-speaking people from what is today southern Belgium) landed in New Netherland. These folks were hired by the West India Company to trap furs, especially of the beaver and otter. The parents of Sarah Rapalje, Catalyntje Trico and Joris Rapalje, were included in this adventure. Eighteen of the men, with their wives, Joris included,  were sent to the location near present-day Albany. Under the direction of the Dutch, these men built a new Fort Oranje (the Dutch spelling of the fort) about five miles south of the confluence of the Mohawk River and the North River. Before this newer Fort Oranje was built, the former fort had served as a trading post from about 1617. That Fort Oranje was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland.  Both forts were named in honor of the Dutch House of Oranje-Nassau.

After Joris and Catalyntje settled into their new environment and built their log cabin, they had their first child, our great grandmother, Sarah, who was the first child of European settlers in New York State, on the ninth of June in 1625! 

Sarah's first husband was Hans Hansen Bergen who died in 1653.
Sarah's  second husband, Theunis Bogaert was born in Holland in 1625. He emigrated from there in 1652. He and Sarah were married in 1654. They had the following children. All but two were born in New York. The two who were born in New Jersey are marked below:
1655 Aertje
1657 Catalyntje, our ancestor
1660 Neeltje
1661 Aeltje
1665 Annetje
1666 Grietje in N J
1667 Adriaen N J
1668 Gysbert
1670 Aertje
unk. Cornelis

Theunis was a magistrate of Brooklyn in 1667 and again in 1673. In 1665, he was a Representative of Brooklyn in the Hempstead Convention. Here are a few words from Wikipedia about that convention:
The Hempstead Convention was a ten-day assembly where 34 delegates met starting on February 28, 1665, "to settle good and known laws" according to a letter by newly appointed Governor Richard Nicolls, the first English colonial governor of the Province of New York. Towns were invited to send two delegates who were "the most sober, able and discrete persons" chosen by taxpayers at their respective Town meetings.

Nicolls opened the Convention by reading the Duke's Patent and his own commission. He then announced laws similar to those in New England, with one critical difference. They were less severe "in matters of conscience and of Religion." Blasphemy and witchcraft, for instance, were not included among the eleven capital crimes. 

After Sarah died in 1685, Theunis took a second wife, Grietje Jans. He died in 1699 in New Amsterdam.

THEUNIS GYSBERTSE BOGAERT
BORN:   1625 in Schoondrewoerd, Utrecht, Holland
MARRIED: 19 Aug 1654 in New Amsterdam, Montgomery, NY
DIED:     1699 in New Amsterdam, Montgomry, NY, age 74
SARAH JORISE RAPALJE
BORN: 9 Jun 1625 in Fort Orange, Kings, New York
DIED: 1685 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY
SOURCES: Theunis' birth at Family Search.org, Ancestral File, a family group record (AFN: 8VPP-TF); Sarah's birth at Broderband Family Archives # 17, Ed.1, Birth Records: US/Europe, AA1, Birth Extractions, Date of Import: 5 Aug 2007; CD#101, US/Europe, Births on CD #2; Legacy NFS Sources: Family genealogies; Death citation: Internet, ancestry.com; Register of the early settlers of Kings County.

Related Reading from Wikipedia: Sarah Rapelje was the daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje (1604-1663) and Catalina Trico (1605-1689), who were Walloon Calvinists who sailed on board the ship Eendracht from the Dutch Republic in 1624. The Rapeljes arrived at a site along the Hudson River where they helped build one of the first Dutch settlements, Fort Orange, where Sarah Rapelje was born on July 9, 1625. Fort Orange would eventually become the fur-trading town of Beverwijck, which itself would later become Albany, New York. In 1626, Manhattan Island near the mouth of the Hudson River was bought by Dutch settlers from local Native Americans, and the Rapelje family were sent to help with the settlement of New Amsterdam on the island's southern tip. Joris Rapelje later bought land on Long Island, across the East River from New Amsterdam, in the village of Breuckelen (the basis of modern Brooklyn) and eventually moved to Wallabout Bay.
Sarah Rapelje married Hans Hansen Bergen in 1639 with whom she had eight children, seven of whom lived into adulthood, until Bergen died in 1653. In 1654 Rapelje married Teunis Gysbertse Bogaert (b. 1625, Heicop, Dutch Republic - d. 1699, Breuckelen, New York) with whom she had seven more children. Through their youngest child and only son, Guysbert, she is the 7th-great grandmother of actor Humphrey Bogart. On April 24, 1660, New Netherland Governor Peter Stuyvesant named Bogaert a magistrate of New Amersfoort and Midwood. In 1663, Bogaert was appointed a magistrate in Breuckelen, succeeding his father-in-law Joris Jansen Rapelje, serving in that capacity until 1673. Bogaert also served as a magistrate of Bushwick between 1664 and 1665, and was a representative of Breuckelen in the Hempstead Convention of 1665.
Rapelje died in 1685 in Boswijck, a village that became the modern Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. By the time Rapelje died the New Netherland colony had been ceded to the English in 1664, and was rebranded the Province of New York.
Rapelje's chair is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York, a gift of her Brinckerhoff descendants. Brooklyn's Rapelye Street is named for the family. Sarah Rapelje herself was granted a large tract of land in the Wallabout in Brooklyn by Dutch authorities for being the first European Christian female to be born in the New Netherland. The family owned extensive property in the area of present-day Red Hook.

Her descendants include Joseph C. Hoagland (1841-1899, president of the Royal Baking Powder Company, and the British television presenter Clare Balding (born 1971).

Hans Bernhard and Elisabeth (Schardt) Hausele and Family

Today I am finally at the end of the line of the Barnhisel/Bernhiesel/ Hausele family. I was told by the Hysell/Hisel Group that Hans Bernhard joined the Butcher's Guild in Kreuznach, Germany. Evidently, a rule of a journeyman was that he never reveal where he learned his trade. Thus, we descendants are deprived of where Hans was born and his parents' names and place of residence. His wife, Elisabeth Schardt's line is extended, however, and I'll be able to tell you about her parents and family in a future blog.

Hans and his family lived on the shady side of a main street in Kreuznach in order to keep his meats in the shade. Kreuznach is well known for its picturesque medieval bridge dating from around 1300 which has four bridge houses. (See Wikipedia's Bad Kreuznach bridge houses).

 Hans and Elizabeth's children have the combined names of Bernhard and Hausele in their surname, Bernthausel:
1638 Joseph
1642 Hanss Peter
1645 Margretha
1648 Appolonia
Jan 1651 Johann Martin, our ancestor
1651 Drusiana
1651 Johann Hartmann
1652 Elisabetha
1658 Johann Balthasar

HANS BERNARD HAUSELE
BORN: aft 1610
MARRIED: 1638 in Kreuznach, Rhineland, Germany
DIED: 2 Jan 1670 in Kreuznach, Rhineland, Germany
ELISABETH SCHARDT
BORN: in Germany
DIED: aft 1675 in Kreuznach, Rhineland, Germany
Sources: Researcher and member of the Hysell/Hisel Group,  Connie Boyer's update on recent GERMAN material; From the Lutheran Parish Records and Bad Kreuznach town archives  giving details of Hans Bernhard Hausele's vital records and occupation, found by a professional genealogist, Frau Dr. Fink, in the Bad Kreuznach area of Rhineland, Germany, hired by the Hysell/Hisel Group; Connie Boyer, compiler of the B/B Family Lines, organized the recent material from Germany to fit the format she has used in her book. Hans Bernhard died:
January 2, 1670. In the letter from Pfarrer Lermen of Kirchenkreis an Nahe
Und Glan printed in the Spring, 1996 newsletter, we are told that Johann
Bernhard came to Kreuznach in 1638 and also a Sophia Schmeid came to Kreuznach
in 1638 and they married. Now Frau Dr. Fink suggests he married
Elisabetha Lang, a master butcher's daughter. This could be wife #2.
Johann died January 2, 1670 in his sleep (reference the same letter in
Spring 1996 from Lermen)  J.B. must have come to Kreuznach as a wandering
journeyman with the butcher's guild;  Research Notebook on Pg. 38, by researcher, Charlene Berneisel's copies-Hans Bernard Hausel died between 1673-75. Pg. 48 Charlene's copies, Connie Boyer's compilation: Hans Bernard is mentioned in "Beed- und Zinssbuchern" and Elisabeth is a widow in 1675 and 1689 in Kreuznach.

MATHIAS AND MARGARET (SHATSWELL) CORWIN AND FAMILY

The Shatswells and Corwins emigrated together from Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, England in 1633. They landed at Ipswich, Massachusetts. In December 1634,  Mathias and six others received 4 acres of meadow and marsh. Later, Mathias bought fifty acres of land in Salem, Massachusetts where he and his immediate family lived until 1640. Their next home was in Southold, Suffolk, New York on Long Island. The following children were born to this couple:

1632 Martha
1633 John
1634 Theophilus, our ancestor

While I was preparing this blog about the Corwins, I found the following surprising accounts from Barbara Fricke, researcher, Copyright 1998.  Source: http://ntgen.tripod.com/bw/corw_origins.html and researcher, Gary Boyd Roberts about our possible links to royalty via the Corwin/Shatswell marriage. I'll let you readers make of it what you will....
"Duncan II, King of Scotland descent to Matthias Corwin married Margaret Shatswell with references to allied families of Lucy, Lowther, Croft, Huddleston, Pennington, Whale
Citation: The royal descents of 600 immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States : who were themselves notable or left descendants notable in American history, by Gary Boyd Roberts, Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Pub. Co., 2008 URL: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1462474?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Source text: pp. 517-518 Duncan II, King of Scotland descent to Matthias Corwin married Margaret Shatswell with references to allied families of Lucy, Lowther, Croft, Huddleston, Pennington, Whale
Reason attached to person: Reference to Matthias Corwin married Margaret Shatswell." 
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"Royal Ancestry Bible - Ancestral lineage of Malcom II, King of Scotland and descent to Corwin and allied families of Pennington, Lowther, Strickland, Huddleston, Whale, DeLucy,FitzWilliam
Citation: The Royal Ancestry Bible (3-Volume set), by Michel L. Call, published in 2005, is a 3,400 pedigree chart compilation (plus index and appendix) containing royal ancestors of 300 colonial American families who are themselves ancestors of 70 million Americans. LDS catalog: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1261938?availability=Family%20History%20Library Volume 1 https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE7616356 Volume 2 https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE8697050 Volume 3 https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE9507188

Source text: Malcom II, King of Scotland Descent to Corwin and allied families Record includes Malcom II, King of Scotland ancestral lineage to House of Alpin. Matthias Corwin married Margaret Shatswell RAB volume 1 chart 379; volume 2 charts 1146, 1147, 1148, 1149; volume 1 chart 193#6 (Thomas of Workington), 194; *volume 2 chart 1682 #2 and #3: *Maldred, Lord of Alderdale*1682#2 continue on charts 1711 #4 Duncan, Lord of Atholl; and Volume 2 chart 1711 #6 Malcom II, King of Scotland continue on charts 1830#1, 1922#1, 1922#1, 2008#1, 2066#1, 2080#1; volume 1 293#1 House of Alpin Allied families of Pennington, Lowther, Strickland, Huddleston, Whale, DeLucy, FitzWilliam RAB volume 2 charts #1146-1151; and RAB volume 1 charts #198,199 (De Lucy , etc." [Malcomb was Duncan's father.]
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Meanwhile, back to Long Island, Mathias was an early settler in Southold and was a prominent land holder and responsible citizen there as a selectman in December 1656, at age 59. He died two years later and was buried at the First Presbyterian's Old Burying Ground in Southold.


MATTHIAS CORWIN
BORN: abt. 1592 in Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, England
MARRIED: 1627 in Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, England
DIED: 31 Aug 1658 in Southold, Suffolk, New York

MARGARET SHATSWELL
BORN: abt 1597/8 in Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, England
DIED: abt.1658 in Southold, Suffolk, New York
BURIED: First Prebyterian's Old Burying Ground in Southold, Suffolk, NY
SOURCES: Matthias' will from FamilySearch.org. (Southold Records, Lib. B, p. 11, on new Book, Lib. B, p. 127.); Corwin Genealogy, Edward Tanjore Corwin, Millstone, New Jersey, 1872, pp 161-2

Fredrick and Engeltie (Hendricks) Mouritz and family

Our eighth great grandparents, Fredrick Mouritz and Engeltie Hendricks and their children lived in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York in the 1660s along with many other Dutch people, some French Huguenots, and a few English folks. The Dutch were from well-to-do families seeking adventure and action in the new world. The Huguenots, exiled from France, were welcomed by the Dutch who were living by the large stream of Esopus.

To the Dutch, America owes its civil and religious liberty and its wise and tolerant system of laws, recording of deeds, mortgages and wills. From the earliest settlement to the present, the records of Ulster have been scrupulously and accurately kept, running  back in succession for over 250 years. 

Here is the translated will of Fredrick Pietersen Mouritz, [written in the Dutch language], dated 30 May 1709:
[First, there is a long religious preamble]
"My wife, Engeltie shall possess and remain in possession of my whole estate during her life, on condition that if she should happen to marry, it shall go to my heirs named below. My eldest son, Pieter, 30 schepels of winter wheat, his right of primogenitur. To my seven children, Jannetje, Pieter, Engel, Hendrick, Geertruid, Elysabeth, and Oeyke, my entire estate, to be equally divided among them with the exception of the wheat to Pieter. Wife appointed executrix. Signed by the testator. Hendrick Bogart (his mark), Jans Middagh, Joris Middagh, Wm. Nottingham. The will was proven May 30, 1709 when Mr. H. Bogart, Capt. Joris Middagh, and Wm. Nottingham appeared before the Court."

Here, also, are the known dates of baptism of the Mauritz children that I added to Fredrick's list:
Pieter 16 Oct 1667
Jannetje 18 Jun 1671, our ancestor
Engel, [a male]
Hendrick
Geertruid 28 Jul 1684
Elysabeth05 Dec 1686
Oeyke, [a female]

SOURCES: Gustave Anjou, "Ulster County, New York Probate Records" Volume I

JORIS DAVIDSON and JANNETJE LOPER and SONS

These eighth great grandparents were married in Antwerp, Netherlands on the seventh day of October in 1674. I know about two of their children:

Isaac, our ancestor, who was born in England,  and his brother, Jacobus.

Antwerp is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) North Brabant province of the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and East Flanders. Its capital is Antwerp which comprises the Port of Antwerp. As in all Flemish provinces, the official and standard language of the Antwerp province is Dutch.

JORIS CHIRSTOFFELO DAVIDSON
BORN: 1651
MARRIED: 7 Oct 1674 in Antwerp, Netherlands
DIED: unknown

JANNETJE LOPER
BORN: bef 30 Oct 1650, date of her christening, in Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
DIED: unknown


Sources:International Genealogical Index v5.0I, www.familysearch.org. regarding the christening and marriage of Jannetje Loper. Wikipedia, regarding the location of Antwerp.

THE PHOEBE FALLIX SALES and VAN TEUNIS NYSSEN DENYCE FAMILY

Phoebe Sales was christened on 1 May 1626 in the  Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England church where her parents John & Phillip [ Phillip is correct] Sales had married in August 1625. John & Phillip had only two children, Phoebe and Sarah, when they set sail on board ship Talbot in the Winthrop Fleet bound for New England [Massachusetts] in early spring 1630. Thank you to Robert Shepard, who found this photo of the Winthrop Fleet below:

When the ship docked at Charlestown, Mass. in summer of 1630, only John & daughter Phoebe disembarked. Wife Phillip and daughter Sarah had perished on board and were buried at sea. John Sales and Phoebe Sales remained in Mass. until 1637 when they removed to New Amsterdam [New York City].

 In New Amsterdam, John & Phoebe affiliated with and lived among the Dutch. Phoebe married three times and they were all Dutchmen. Living among the Dutch, Phoebe became known as Femmetje, the Dutch equivalent for the name Phoebe,  and her father John, as Jan. The Dutch of New Amsterdam did not use surnames until 1664. Children took as a "patronymic" the given name of their father with "s", "se", szen" added. So, Phoebe Sales, born in England, in New Amsterdam was known as Femmetje Jans [meaning Femmetje, daughter of Jans].  Father, John Sales, in New Amsterdam was known as Jan Sales. People who could write, spelled and wrote what was heard, not what was meant to be heard.

Phoebe's first husband was called Hendrick, the boor...more about Hendrick below. "Phoebe's second husband, Teunis Nyssen, emigrated c. 1638, from Bininck, in the Sticht of Uythuyzen; a village near Arnhem in the province of Gilderland, in the Netherlands (containing 212 houses and 900 inhabitants). He died prior to August, 1663.  According to the records of the New York Dutch church, he married on the  11th of February in 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 John Seals, an Englishman from Devonshire, written as Jan Celes on the Dutch Colonial Records. Jan was a planter on Manhattan Island. Jan Seals married Maria Robberts or Robertson. Femmetje was his only child of whom we have any account." [Quoted from the Dutch Church records]

 In 1646 Theunis was selected to be the first "schout" or "Crime-righter" of  Flatbush, NY. Church records note Theunis was a deacon of Brooklyn church 2/21/1663. Femmetje Jansen, widow of Theunis Nyssen, petitioned for removal of an attachment on her property.   Note also that this widow remarried to Jan Cornelisen Buys on 8/24/1663, her third husband.

From the book, !Genealogy of Quick Family in America by Arthur Craig Quick. pp58. US/CAN 929.273-Q4q. !DTH:Prior to Aug 1663. !  "Teunis Nyssen Denyse and Phabea Seals (Celes) had nine children, some of which took the name Denyse. Two of his sons, Cornelis and Jan, settled on the Raritan River near Somerville, Somerset County, N.J., and whose descendents [sic] retain the name of Tunison instead of that of Denyse. Another son, Droujse Teunis, headed the Denyse family of N.J."

Well, the quoted statement above says that Phoebe and Teunis had nine children. However, my researched list includes four more children than 9,  to total 13!! I believe that I should tell you about ALL of them. They were probably all born in New Amsterdam, Kings County, NY:

1641 Jannetje

1642 Geertje

1642 Hillegonda

1642 Merritje

1646 Annetje

1648 Elsje

1650 Femmetje

1654 Dionys, male

1654 Jan, our ancestor

1655 Joris, male

1656 Aertje, female

1660 Cornelis, male

1662 Joris

VAN TEUNIS NYSSEN DENYSE

BORN: 1615 in Bunnick, Ultrecht, Gilderland, Netherlands

MARRIED: 11 Feb 1640 in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, NY

DIED: before 14 Aug 1663 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY

PHOEBE FALLIX SALES

BORN: 1619 in Charleston, Devonshire, England

DIED: 13 Dec 1666 in Flatbush, Kings, NY

SOURCES: Dutch Reformed Church of Kings County, NY church records; Researcher, Arthur Craig Quick's "Genealogy of the Quick Family" pg, 58, with some data about Jan Denyse and family. "The History of Flatbush, Kings, NY" Flatbush Standard Union, published 1928.

THE FAMILY OF ABRAHAM LAFEVRE

Abraham LaFevre was born in Etaples, Picardy, France in 1625. Étaples takes its name from having been a medieval staple port (stapal in Old Dutch), from which word the Old French word Estaples derives. 

Abraham's spouse, Antoinette Jeerian, was born in France in 1628. From this marriage, I know of two of their children, both born in Etaples.

1650 Catherine, our ancestor
1651 Magdalein

This family emigrated  to America on the ship called "The Gilded Otter".

SOURCE:  Mrs. Elsie Foster, "Our Brokaw/Bragaw Heritage"

LOUIS BROUQUART

Today's blog begins our study of our eighth great grandparents.

 Louis Brouquart's birth took place around 1620 in an area called Moqueron, Burgundy, Belgium. Below is a short description of Belgium during that time period:

"Belgium's modern shape can be partly traced back at least as far as the "Seventeen Provinces" within the Burgundian Netherlands. These lands straddled the ancient boundary of the Scheldt that had divided medieval France and Germany, but they were brought together under the House of Valois-Burgundy, and unified into one autonomous territory by their heir Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in his Pragmatic Sanction of 1549. The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) later led to the split between a northern Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands from which Belgium and Luxembourg developed. This southern territory continued to be ruled by the Hapsburg descendants of the Burgundian house, at first as the "Spanish Netherlands"." (quoted from Wikipedia). Below is the flag of Burgundian Netherlands, which continued to be used by the Hapsburg Netherlands, throughout those wars and shifting borders. [A special thank you to Robert L. Shepard for finding the flag for this blog.]

Louis' spouse was Elizabeth Hurel.
They had two sons that I know
of, perhaps more children:

Rogier, birthdate and place unknown
Bourgeon, our ancestor, born on 04 Mar 1645 in Bungary, La Rochell, Normandy, France

Louis died sometime before 1657 in Moqueron,  , Burgundy

LOUIS BROUQUART
BORN: abt 1620 in Moqueron, Burgundy, Belgium
DIED: bef 1657 in Moqueron,   , Burgundy
SOURCE: Mrs. Elsie Foster, "Our Brokaw/Bragaw Heritage"

OTTONIS LOY'S FAMILY

Ottonis Loy was born in Germany in 1676 and married Anna Maria Wolfin who was born in 1687. I know of two of their children: 

George Christopher who was born in 1695 and
Matthias b. 22 Feb 1706 in Wurtemburg, Germany, our ancestor.

Ottonis died in Katholisch, Liewen, Germany but the date of  death is unknown.


SOURCES: Gerald E. Collin's Book ": "Michael Loy 1740-1823"; Strassburger & Linke "Pennsylvania German Pioneers"; Stephen Collin's Book: page X, "Mathias and Anna Maria".

THEOPHILUS CORWIN/CURWIN and FAMILY

Theophilus Corwin or Curwin was born in 1634 in Sibberloft, Northamptonshire, England.  According to researcher, Edward Janjore Corwin, Theophilus and his wife, Mary,  had seven children. I know the names of six of their children as follows:

John
Mehitable
Bethia
Theophilus 1678
Daniel         1680
Mary           before 1692, our ancestor, in Long Island, Suffolk, NY

Theophilus died at the young age of 58 in Southold, Suffolk, NY and is buried at the Old Burying Ground of the First Presbyterian Church in Southold. (I don't have any information about his wife, Mary...just her first name.)

THEOPHILUS CORWIN
BORN: 1634 in Sibberloft, Northamptonshire, England
MARRIED: unk
DIED: 1692 in Southold, Suffolk, NY
SOURCES: From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996; !BIR-MAR-DEATH: Corwin Genealogy by Edward Tanjore Corwin - copyright 1977 Polyanthos New Orleans - Library of Congress Number 77-090110 Note: - Theophilus CORWIN (1) page 213 married Mrs Mary CORWIN - having seven children - (Documentary History of New York Volume One, pages 450 thru 455) - Child of Mary Margaret Morton and Matthias CORWIN(1) pages 160 thru 163 Note: Bap&Conf&Init&Endow 21 Nov 1998 LANGE Note: ORD: Family Group Record; Submitted by Gold W. Woodruff; Gen.& Fam. History of Western New York, Vol 1, p 201-204; Church Archives (2 Mar 1943) Book No 261 - CORW-COSF; Book No 84 CORU-COTS; Family Group Sheets in possession of Ruby Henderson, 562 Driggs Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 

The Jacobus Decker Family

Here we have another family who lived in Ulster County, New York in the mid 1600s and also attended the Dutch Reformed Church. Jacobus Janse Decker was born in Kingston, Ulster, NY on the 22nd of May in 1671.  Actually, Ulster County, NY wasn't officially formed until  November 1, 1683. Its charter included the towns of Kingston, Hurley, Marbletown, Foxhall, New Paltz, and all villages, neighborhoods, and Christian habitations on the west side of the Hudson River. The Catskill Mountains occupy the north-west part of Ulster County and the Shawangunk Mountains extend north-east from the south-west corner of the county. 

Jacobus' wife, Annetje Kortright, was born in 1678 in Rochester, Ulster, NY. The Town of Rochester is an interior town located near the center of Ulster County (Mid-Hudson region of New York). The northwest part of the town is in the Catskill Park. 

 Jacobus and Annetje had ten children.  The first eight were born in Ulster County. Lea and Zolomon were born in Orange County, NY:

1696 Grietjen, our ancestor
1698 Hendrick
1701 Catherina
1705 Geertje
1706 Jacobus
1708 Johannes
1711 Sarah
1712 Benjamin
1717 Lea
1722 Zolomon

Annetje probably died giving birth to Zolomon in 1722 in Orange County, NY.  Jacobus lived to be 90 years old! His death occurred in Minisink, Orange, NY in 1761.

JACOBUS JANSE DECKER
BORN: 22 May 1671 in Kingston, Ulster, NY
MARRIED: 02 Sep 1695 in Rochester, Ulster, NY
DIED:     1761 in Minisink, Orange, NY

Annetje Kortright
BORN:    1678 in Rochester, Ulster, NY
DIED:      1722 in             Ulster, NY 
SOURCES:  Baptismal and marriage registers of the old Dutch church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York Entry 107. Jacob Decker, j.m., and Annetje Hendricks, j.d., both resid. in Mombackes [Mombaccus], Banns published, but dates not given. 2 Sept 1695; Jacob Jan, "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962 FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2HY-HPB : 11 February 2018), Jacob Jan, 22 May 1671; citing REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH,NEW YORK,NEW YORK reference ; FHL microfilm 17,503; Jacob Janse Dekker, "Find A Grave Index" FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-STFJ : 15 December 2015), Jacob Janse Dekker, 1761; Burial, , , ,, ; citing record ID 144705464, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

ANTONI TOMYS SWARTWOUT and family

Antoni Tomys Swartwout's birthdate is circa 1661 in Kingston, Ulster, New York. He was baptized by Domine Hermannus Blom on the  8th of Jan 1662 at the Old Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston. Witnesses at Antoni's baptism were: Toomes Swarwout, Aart Martensen Doorn, Tryntje Tysen, and Jacoomyntje Slecht.

 Antoni married Jannetje Jacobse Coobes on the 8th day of May in 1693 at Hurley, Ulster, NY. Anthony and Jannetje lived at Bergen at the time of their marriage. They had the following known children in Ulster County:

Roeloff
Jacobus
Bernardus in 1697, our ancestor
Samuel
Jacobus
Antoni, Jr.

Antoni, Sr. died in 1700 in Hurley, Ulster, NY. Jannetje died the same year at Orange, Ulster, NY.

ANTONI TOMYS SWARTWOUT
BORN: c. 1661 in Kingston, Ulster, NY
MARRIED: 8 May 1693 in Hurley, Ulster, NY
DIED:  1700 in Hurley, Ulster, NY

JANNETJE JACOBSE COOBES
BORN: 1660 in the Netherlands
DIED: 1700 in Orange, Ulster, NY
SOURCES:  THE UPDATED SWARTWOUT CHRONICLES, Hoeldke, Kathy A.
The birth-name: Jannetje Jacobse Coobes Updated from "The Swartwout chronicles, 1338-1899, and the Ketelhuyn chronicles, 1451-1899" by Arthur James Weise web site for Ontario, Canada and  Oxford County, Canada; Source text: Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Antoni Swartwout (Swarthout) Individual or family possessions: male Individual or family possessions: birth: 11 May 1664; Orange, New York, United States Individual or family possessions: death: 1700; Ulster, New York, United States Source text: Anthony Tomys Swartwout Birthdate: circa 1661 Birthplace: Kingston, Ulster, New York, America Death: Died 1700 in Hurley, Ulster, New York, America Immediate Family: Son of Roeloff Albertse Swartwout and Aefje (Eva); Baptismal and marriage registers of the old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, NY; Baptismal  register  book, "Baptismal and mariage registers: 8 Jan 1662 Antoni Swartwout, Parents: Roeloff and Eva Swartwout, Old Dutch church; From notes in their marriage record of the Bergen Church Book of 1683-1802 Vol XXII, Marriage Records 1665-1800; They received a certificate to Esopus.

ISAAC and JANNETJE MAURITZ DAVIDS and FAMILY

Isaac Davids was born in England and emigrated to America before his marriage to Jannetje Mauritz, which took place around 1692 in Marbletown, Ulster, NY. Isaac was a farmer in this community. [The Marbletown area was settled around 1638.] 

 Isaac and Jannetje resided in Marbletown and had the following children there:

George born in 1704, our ancestor 
Marietje
Engel
Jannetje
Frederick
Samuel
Christoffel
Isaak

Isaac, Sr. and Jannetje were both buried in Marbletown. Their death dates are unknown.

ISAAC DAVIDS
BORN:        ,England
MARRIED: abt 1692 in Marbletown, Ulster, NY
DIED: unk in Marbletown, Ulster, NY

JANNETJE MAURITZ
BORN: 18 Jun 1671 in Kingston, Ulster, NY
DIED: unk in Marbletown, Ulster, NY7

SOURCES: Jannetje's baptismal church record; Isaac and Jannetje's marriage church record; Find a Grave burial records.

CATHERINE Le FEBRE

Our seventh great grandmother, Catherine Le Febre, was born in Etaples, Picardy, France  about 1649. She married Bourgeon Broucard when she was barely 16  in Mannheim, Germany. Here is the list of their children:

1667 Jannetje in Mannhiem, Germany
1670 Maria in Mannhiem
1672 Catherine in Brooklyn, NY
1676 Isaac in Brooklyn
1678  John  in Brooklyn, our ancestor
1678 Jacob in Brooklyn
1682 Peter in Brooklyn
1684 Abraham in Bushwick
1686 Cathrina, baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church in New York, NY
unk    June, unknown place

Catherine died after 1712 in Raritan, Somerset, New Jersey.

CATHERINE LEFEBRE
BORN: abt 1649 in Etaples, Picardy, France
MARRIED:  Dec 1666 in Mannheim, Germany
DIED: after 1712 in Raritan, Somerset, New Jersey
SOURCES: Research notes:Researcher, Laura Cies, Global Tree Clubs
Catharine and Bourgan Broucard were married in Mannheim, Germany on 18 Dec 1666[BrøThderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of Import: 5 Aug 2007, Internal Ref. #1.17.1.19426.34] Individual: LeFebre, Catherine Birth date: Abt. 1648 Birth place: FRANCE CD# 100; Baptismal records from Dutch Reformed Church in NY, NY.

JAN DENYSE AND CATALYNTJE BOGAERT AND FAMILY

This family spent most of their lives in Kings County, New York. Jan was born in New Amsterdam of that county and his wife was born in Brooklyn of Kings County, New York. They were married on the 6th of November in 1679 in Brooklyn. The three children that I know about were all born in Kings County, as follows:

1680 Femmetje
1682 Teunis
1685 Sarah, our ancestor

In the early 1700s, the family moved to Somerset County, New Jersey. Sometime before 1707, Jan died in Somerset. Catalyntje's death information is unknown.

JAN TEUNISZN DE NYSSEN DENYSE 
BORN: 12 Apr 1654 in New Amsterdam, Kings, New York
MARRIED: 06 Nov 1679 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York
DIED: bef 1707 in  ,Somerset, New Jersey

CATALYNTJE TUNISON BOGAERT
BORN: 16 Dec 1657 in Wallabout, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
DIED: unkonwn
SOURCES: [Brøderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of Import: 24 Dec 2005, Internal Ref.1.17.1.3400.3Individual:Bogaert/Teunisen, Catalyntje Birth date and Birth place: CD# 100

BOURGEON BROUCARD

Bourgeon Broucard, from an honored and noted French family and a French Huguenot, fled from France around the year 1663, at about age 20, to Germany, to avoid religious  persecution. There he was affiliated with the Protestant branch of the Walloon Church. The Walloons were remnants of the Belgae, or rather descendants of the ancient Gauls, who remained in Southeast Belgium and near parts of Holland and Germany. They were essentially Dutch in religion, customs and culture, and it appears that Bourgeon readily accepted the Dutch way of life. While in Manheim Bourgeon Broucard married, 1st, to Marie DuMay and had one child. Then he married, 2nd, to Catherine LeFebre (LeFevre) and three more children were born at Manheim.

 About 1672 the family removed to Amsterdam, Holland, and there one more child was born. During the year of 1675 he and his family emigrated to what is now Brooklyn, New York on the ship, "The Gilded Otter".  The Broucard family remained for more than twenty-five years in the New York area...moved in 1684 to Cripplebush in Bushwick, Long Island, where he bought a farm. Four years later, he sold-out, then in 1692 purchased another farm in Dutch Kills (now a part of Long Island City). 

The Brokaws were constantly under the influence of the Dutch culture and maintained their habits for many years until the whole swept under the leavening influence of the "American Melting Pot," and people dropped their racial characteristics. In about 1702, all of the family, except one son, Isaac, moved to Somerset County, New Jersey. . The parents and the rest of the family found homes on the Raritan and Millstone Rivers, in New Jersey. The New Jersey branch spelled the name as "Brokaw," and since then others have converted to other ways of spelling, as Bercaw; Brocaw; Berkaw. More than twenty different ways of spelling were found in old records of New Jersey. 

It is certain that Bourgeon Broucard never was a soldier. We can assume that Bourgeon was a militant man, from his connection with the French Huguenots, the Walloons in Manheim, Amsterdam, and America, and, later, with the Dutch Church. And, from further fact that most of the immediate descendants in and around New York, Somerset County, New Jersey and on into Pennsylvania, adhered to the Dutch Church for several generations. And, for these same facts, we can assume that he was a man of character and influence. Bourgeon Broucard, with a few others, established the first French Protestant Church in New York, for instance.

The second generation of Brokaws was composed of eleven children, of whom four were born in Manheim, Germany, one in Amsterdam, Holland, and six in America. When the move was made to New Jersey, most of the family went with him: Jacob, Jan (John), Peter, Abraham and Catherine. A large tract of land was purchased, by him and his son-in-law, John Coverson, and the second large colony of the family was started. Many of their descendants still live in and around Somerville, New Jersey, but some of them have gone to other localities. The descendants of Bourgeon Broucard are legion and from the original places of settlement, here in America, they have spread to all over the country. Ever Westward they moved and carried the frontier with them, or followed closely behind. They carried the banners of Faith, Truth and Industry wherever they went. In every war, from the first, in 1776, to the latest wars, there have been many soldiers defending their country and it's honor. Few have attained wealth or fame, as the world defines it, but the vast majority were men who farmed, "The backbone of the Nation," were tradesmen, business men, teachers, and numerous ministers of the gospel. Our heritage indeed is great and for this we are truly thankful. 

BOURGEON BROUCARD

BORN: 4 Mar 1645 in Bungary, La Rochelle, Normandy, France

MARRIED: 1)1 Dec 1663 in Mannheim, Baden, Germany to Marie Dumay

        2) 2 Dec 1666 in Mannheim, Baden, Germany to Catherine LeFevre

DIED:                       1720 in Raritan, Somerset, New Jersey

SOURCES:The Brokaw Family Committee and the introduction to the book 'Our Brokaw - Bragaw Heritage" organized and compiled by Mrs. Elsie Foster, published in the 1960s; 

[tikka.FBC.FBK.FTW] 1663-1664 Emigrated to Germany from France 1672-1675 Emigrated to Holland 1675 Emigrated to the U. S. in the ship "Gilded Otter." 3429.FTW

JONATHAN MACKEY

Today we begin our study of our 7th great grandparents who were born around the mid 1650s. Jonathan Mackey was born in the County Down in Ireland c. 1615. County Down is the most northern county of Ireland, making it the closest county to Scotland  where the Mackey clan had formerly migrated from Strathnaver County, Scotland. Many Scotch clansmen were forced to leave Scotland to live in northern Ireland in the early 1600s.  I assume that Jonathan's parents were  probably part of that movement.

Jonathan evidently married but his wife's name is unknown. We do know that Jonathan and his wife had at least one child, our ancestor, John Mackey, who lived in County Down, Ireland.  In a previously written blog about John Mackey, I told the story of John's  witnessing an important battle there when he was a young boy.

JONATHAN MACKEY
BORN: c. 1615 in , County Down, Ireland
MARRIED: unknown
DIED: unknown
SOURCE: Wayne D. Mackey, editor and publisher of "The Mackey and Allied Families of Franklin County, and Horse Valley" A Family History. Wayne D. Mackey, Jr. of 920 Cypress St., Chambersburg, PA. Contributors: Edna Rife Mackey, wife of Amos Mackey, Jr.; John E. Leberknight, son of Ethel Mackey; Robert Mackey, son of Wilbur Mackey, Gretchen Mackey, dau. of John Franklin Mackey, Jr. 2006

ANNA MARIA FUERBACH

When Anna arrived at Philadelphia on 17 August 1733, she was 38 years old. Therefore, her estimated year of birth is about 1695 and she was born in Bellersheim, Landkreis, Hessen, Germany.

Anna and her husband, Johannes Krumpf or Kemp, had the following children, all born in Germany:
27 Feb 1711 Catherina Anna Maria in Wurtemburg, our ancestor
abt 1712       Maria Elizabeth
abt 1714       Christian
abt 1717       Gilbert
abt 1723       Frederick
abt 1725       Hans Peter
abt 1727       Anna Catherine

Anna's death date is unknown at this time.

ANNA MARIA FUERBACH
BORN: abt. 1695 in Bellersheim, Landkreis, Hessen, Germany
BURIED: at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick County, Maryland
SOURCES:Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898; Rootsweb World Connect entries about the Krumpf family by researcher Donna Fearnbaugh. 

JOHANNES CONRAD KRUMPF or KEMP

Johann and his wife and five children from Germany, arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Samuel", which had sailed from England, on 17 Aug 1733. Johann is listed as age 48, which indicates that he was born c. 1685. (I later learned that he was born in Gallens Canton, Switzerland.) 

At Rootsweb World Connect, researcher Donna Fearnbaugh entered more information about Johann as follows:
In Germany, the family's residence was in the German Kraichgau area between Sinsheim and Bad Winpfen at the time of their emigration. Earlier, from about 1720, they lived in Untergimpern on the Branch of the Neckar River. Johannes served as the local judge, or magistrate, of Untergimpern in 1720. His occupation was listed as a farmer.

In August 1733, the family was living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1739, they moved to Kempstown, Frederick, MD (named after the founder, Johannes Krumpf or Kemp, our own seventh great grandfather.) In 1743 the Kemp residence was in Rocky Springs, Frederick, Maryland, a farm. It was on the 17th of May 1743 that Johannes received his naturalization papers from Annapolis, MD. Also, in 1743, Johann received communion at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Frederick, MD. In 1758, Johann became a member of that church.

Johann died in Frederick County, MD in 1764 and is buried alongside his wife at that county's Mount Olivet Cemetery.

JOHANN CONRAD KRUMPF/KEMP
BORN:  1685 in Gallens Canton, Switzerland
MARRIED: 01 Mar 1714 in Bellersheim, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt
DIED:     1764 in  ,Frederick County, MD
BURIED: Mount Olivet Cemetery in  ,Frederick, MD
SOURCES: Find a Grave memorial  ID124056464; GermanyMarriages, 1558-1929 "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N8MT-TPQ : 11 February 2018), Johann Conrad Kempf and Anna Maria Feurbach, 01 Mar 1714; citing Bellersheim, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt; FHL microfilm 1,336,650; RootsWeb WordConnect entry by researcher, Donna Fearnbaugh.

JOHANN NICOLE CHATEAU AND FAMILY

This seventh great grandfather was born  before 1689 in Lettweiler, Pfalz, Germany. His spouse was Marie Annne Post. They had the following children:

unknown date  Anna Euginie
unknown date  Philip
abt 1693           Heinrich
bef 1709           Anna Magdalena
abt 1709           Maria Elizabeth
abt 1710           Anna Barbara
       1715          Jean Nicol, our ancestor

Johann and Marie both died in Lettwiler, Pfalz, Germany, dates unknown.

JOHANN NICOLE CHATEAU 
BORN: bef 1689 in Lettweiler, Pfalz, Germany
DIED: unknown date in Lettweiler, Pfalz, Germany
SOURCES: Information from FamilySearch.org records

JOHANN MARTIN BERNTHEUSEL

Johann was sometimes called Hans and sometimes Martin. He was a butcher in Kreuznach, Germany, where he was born in 1665. He married his first wife, Catherine Koebig, on the 16th October 1682. She apparently died before 1705. His second wife, Susanna Leichtweiss, married him in 1705. 

The Hisel/Hysell Association hired a genealogist in Kreuznach, in the 1990s, to find records for us Barnhisel descendants here in the United States. Some of the records that researcher, Andrea Fink, found there are not entirely clear. For instance, Martin is mentioned in 1687 in a castle soldiers list; in 1689 he is listed in bed and rent books; in 1689 and 1711 he was "inaugurated for taxing meat"; in Jan 1710 he is unable to pay his debts. In Mar 1710 he is allowed to buy cereals at hospital because of his poverty. Some goods of his father-in-law were tranferred to him in 1688. His mother gave him some property in 1688 at Kreuznach. In summary, it seems that his business as a butcher was in trouble until  his older relatives stepped in to help him out.

Martin had thirteen children to support and they were all born in Kreuznach, Germany as follows:
Date unknown Johann Konrad  
Date unknown Johann Georg    
1679 Johann Friedrich
1680 Johann Martin   
1685 Joseph
1687 Johann Jacob   
1688 Balthasar  
1693 Johanne Amalia 
1699 Johann Valentin, our ancestor
1702 Katharine M.   
1702 Johann Peter   
1704 Johann Otto      
1709 Johann Heinrich

Martin and Susanna both died before 1726 in Kreuznach.

JOHANN MARTIN BERNTHEUSEL
BORN: Jan 1665 in Kreuznach, Germany
MARRIED: 1st) 16 Oct 1682; 2nd) 1705 in Kreuznach, Germany
DIED: Bef 1726 in Kreuznach, Germany

SOURCES:Carol Constance (Younker) Boyer, "Barnhiser/Bernheisel Family Lines" Denver, CO; Lutheran (parish records of Kreuznach, Germany); Hisel/Hysell Genealogy Group's genealogist in Kreuznach, Germany, records found by Dr. Andrea Fink; Published information: birth-name: Johann Martin Bernthausel; Published information: male Published information: birth: about 1665; Germany