A TIMELINE OF SOME OF THE MALE IMMIGRANTS OF THE MACKEY FAMILY

1624 JORIS RAPALJE FROM PARIS, FRANCE TO FORT ORANGE, ALBANY ON THE SHIP, UNITY 

1630 JOHN SEALS FROM SUFFOLK, ENGLAND TO NEW ENGLAND

1636 ALBERT BRADT FROM FREDRICKSTAD, NORWAY TO NEW AMSTERDAM

1639 TEUNIS NYSSEN FROM BUNNICK, GILDERLAND, HOLLAND TO NEW AMSTERDAM 

1655 ROELOFF SWARTWOUT FROM OURDE-KERK, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND TO NEW AMSTERDAM

1664 BROERSEN DECKER FROM HUSOM, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK TO NEW NETHERLANDS ON THE SHIP, BLUE COCK

1675 BOURGON BROUCARD FROM MANHEIM, PALATINE, GERMANY TO BUSHWICK, NY

1682 PAULUS KUSTER FROM CREFIELD, GERMANY TO GERMANTOWN, PA, SHIP CONCORD

1682 ABRAHAM OP-DEN-GRAEF FROM CREFIELD, GERMANY TO GERMANTOWN, PA, SHIP CONCORD

1724 J. VALENTIN BERNTHAUSEL FROM BAD KREUZNACH, GERMANY TO PHILADELPHIA, PA, SHIP SAMUEL

1739 J. JACOB WILTENSENN FROM ALZEY, PALZ, GERMANY TO PHILADELPHIA, PA, SHIP JAMAICA GALLEY

C. 1740 WILLIAM MACKEY FROM INVERNESS, SCOTLAND TO PHILADELPHIA, PA

1853 JOSEPH MAUS FROM PORT HAVEN, GERMANY TO CASTLE GARDENS IN NEW YORK, SHIP NEW YORK

1853 AZARIA S. PHILLIPS FROM SOUTHERN WALES TO PENNSYLVANIA

Our Wilderson Line of Descent

Gottleib Wiltensinn was born about 1670 in Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany

Johannes J. Wiltensinn was born in 1690 near Alsey, Pfalz, Germany

John Jacob Wildasin was born in 1747 in Hanover, Lancaster, PA

Charles Wilderson was born in 1770 in Mannheim, York, PA

Henry Wilderson was born in 1811 in Mannheim, York, PA

Mary Ann Wilderson was born in 1849 in Newton, Trumbull, OH, our great grandmother who lived with her daughter, Cora Phillips,  in the Ellet district of Akron, Ohio before WWII.

The Wilderson Cemetery of Newton, Trumbull, Ohio, in the photograph above, holds the graves of Charles and Henry Wilderson and some of their family members and nearby neighbors. Mary Ann was buried in the cemetery of Niles, Ohio in Trumbull County, Ohio.

The Kuster/Custard Line of Descendants

Kuster, Reinhart 1592-1616 of Kaldenkirken, Germany

Kuster, Johannes 1576-1650 of Kaldenkirken, Germany

Kuester, Johannes 1606-1679 of Kaldenkirken Germany

Kuster, Paulus 1644-1708 of Krefeld, Germany, the emigrant to Germantown, PA

Kuster, Arnold 1667-1739 born in Kaldenkirken but lived in Pennsylvania most of his life

Custard, Conrad 1695-1772 of Germantown, moved to Brocks Gap, VA

Custard, William 1729-1806 of Philadelphia County and Pike County, PA

Custard, Jane 1752-1850 born in Sussex, NJ; lived most of her life in Harrison County, OH

Jane Custard married George Davis Brokaw, from another long line of ancestors in our family tree, as I showed you in a recent blog. The Kusters and Brokaws are our grandmother, Alma Spitzer's ancestors. 

OUR BROKAW LINE

We have seven generations of Brokaw/Broucard/Brouquart ancestor surnames, as follows:

Louis Brouquart, of Belgium, born 1620
Bourgeon Broucard, of Normandy, France, born 1645
John Broucard, of Flatbush, NY, born 1678
Abraham Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1728
George Davis Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1755
Abram Brokaw, of Somerset, NJ, born 1778
Mary Brokaw, of Harrison, OH, born 1815

Mary Brokaw, our great, great grandmother married John Morrison. Their daughter, Sarah Emeline Morrison married David C. Spitzer whose daughter, Alma Spitzer Mackey is our grandmother. 

OUR BARNHISEL LINE OF ANCESTORS

When I began my family research c. 1985, I knew only one great grandparent, Mary Ann Wilderson. I soon learned that her mother's maiden name was Rachel Barnhisel, the last name on our Barnhisel descendancy list below. I had the mistaken idea that Barnhisel was a very unusual name and that it would be a difficult name to find records for. When I visited my local Family History Center to begin my study of the Barnhisel surname, one of the volunteers heard me speak the name, Barnhisel, and said that John Milton Bernhisel was an important figure in the Mormon Church history. John was a good friend of the founder of the church, Joseph Smith, and was elected to be the church's representative in the United States Congress c. 1850s. You can imagine my surprise and pride in my "cousin" Bernhisel! From that point on, I found out that unusual names are the easiest kinds of names to find for the simple reason that there are fewer to find. Compare these kinds of names to having names like Smith, Jones, or Johnson to search for, for instance.

At the top of our Barnhisel list below, is the man who begins this surname. Hans Bernhard Hausele who was a butcher in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. According to Hans, he was not allowed to reveal his birthplace, former residence, or family background. These were the rules of the Butcher's Guild of which he was a member. It seems that eventually two of his names became combined, leaving out the "hard" part=Bernhausele. As I have mentioned many times, the spelling of surnames changed often, due to lack of education and various other reasons. So our list of Barnhisels reflects some of those changes.

Hausele, Hans Bernhard born aft. 1610, lived in Kreuznach, Germany d. 1670 Germ.
Bernthausel, Johann Martin 1651-1726 in Kreuznach, Rheinland, Germany
Bernthausel, Johann Valentin 1699 in Kreuznach; emigrated to PA; d. 1764 in Albany, PA
Bernthausel, Johann Martin 1729 in Klein-Neidesham, Germ; d. 1802 in Tyrone, PA
Barnhisel, Henry Adam 1776 in Albany, Berks, PA; d. 1824 in Girard, Trumbull, OH
Barnhisel, Martin 1799 in Tyrone, PA; d. 1875 in Wethersfield, Trumbull, OH
Barnhisel, Rachel 1823 in Wethersfield, Trumbull, OH; d. 1908 in Newton, OH

THE MACKEY LINE OF DESCENT

Our Mackey ancestry has been traced back to the birth of Jonathan Mackey who was born in the County Down of Ireland in 1615. Here is his list of descendants and their places of birth:

I. Johnathan Mackey  b.1615 County Down, Ireland
II. John Mackey unknown birth information
III. William Mackey  b. 1712   Inverness, Scotland
IV. Robert Mackey       b. 1750                     Maryland
V. William Mackey     b. 1803   Welsh Run, Franklin, PA
VI. James Mackey       b. 1830   Welsh Run, Franklin, PA
VII. Thomas Mackey   b. 1852   Galion, Crawford, OH
VIII. Guy Mackey        b. 1875   Galion, Crawford, OH
IX. Robert Mackey  b. 1908   New York City, NY, NY
X. Phillip Mackey        b. 1943   Akron, Summit, OH
XI. Gabriel Mackey b. 1988   Westerville, Franklin, OH

Most Irish and Scottish genealogists are in agreement that the 

words Mackay, Mackie, Mackey, etc. are Anglicization's of 

MacAoidh or son of Aoidh. The proper pronunciation sounds like 

eye or "McEye". When I began researching our ancestors in Galion,

Ohio the census takers had written our surname as McKey and

other variable ways of spelling the name. The prefix "Mac" means

 "son of ".

We also know that many Scotland people were sent to Ireland in the 1600s, our people among them. These people were called Scots-Irish by their neighbors in America, because of where they emigrated from in the 1700s. The "Scots-Irish" would have preferred to be called Scots or Scotch. They remained true to their Scottish upbringing even though they lived in Ireland for about a century. I am proud of my Scotch heritage!

The John and Judith (Dillingham) Shatswell Family

These ninth great grandparents from England are my last Mackey Family ancestors that I will tell you about, as I explained in an earlier post last month.  I will keep this blog page available for me to post stories about other collateral relatives and some other kinds of  genealogical material that I'll want to share with you occasionally.

John and Judith were both born in Ipswich, Essex, England and were married c. 1597 there. Here is the list of their children: 

1597 John
1600 Elizabeth
1601 Sybil
1602 Richard
1605 Mary
1608 Theophilus
1609 Curwin
1612 William
1613 Margaret, our ancestor
1614 Judith


Neptune Marina Quay, Ipswich

During the 14th to 17th centuries Ipswich was a kontor for the Hanseatic League, the port being used for imports and exports to the Baltic. In the time of Queen Mary the Ipswich Martyrs were burnt at the stake on the Cornhill for their Protestant beliefs. A monument commemorating this event now stands in Christchurch Park. From 1611 to 1634 Ipswich was a major center for emigration to New England.

JOHN SHATSWELL
BORN: abt 1574 in Ipswich, Essex, England
DIED: Unknown

JUDITH DILLINGHAM
BORN: 1578 in Ipswich, Essex, England
DIED: abt 1617 in Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire, England
SOURCES: In an article by David A. Macdonald titled "A new look at the Corwin and Shatswell Families" in the Register (NEHGR) 150:180 (Ap r 1996). Discusses a Chancery court proceeding in 1627 against the administrator of the estate of widow Judith Shatswell of Sibbertoft, Northhamptonshire, England, who had died more than a decade earlier. There is reference to "two of ye uncles and neere kinsemen". So it looks like we can say that Mary (Shatswell) (Webster) Emery was from Sibbertoft, and her mother was named Judith; DEATH:The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New England Historic Genealogical Society; GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 3, Pedigree Resource File CD 3, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 5, Pedigree Resource File CD 5, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:The New England Historical and Genealogic al Register, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New England Historic Genealogical Society;Ancestry Family Tree; Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Records Supplement, 1644 - 1691; Ref: LDS Archive Family Group Sheet

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.