Ancestor list for Margaret Comfort

1.   Margaret Comfort, born 11 December 1833, baptized 18 May 1834 in Clinton Presbyterian Church, died 2 January 1916, and buried in St. Anns Cemetery.^[1] She married 23 October 1856, John Kennedy (IV), of St. Anns, Gainsborough Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C., farmer, born 29 February 1832, died 11 October 1897, and buried at St. Anns, son of John Kennedy (III), of St. Anns, by his wife Barbara Dean.^[2]

2.   Francis Comfort, of Beamsville, Clinton Tp., Lincoln Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), born 28 August 1800 at Montgomery, Orange Co., N.Y., baptized 1 January 1801 in the Goodwill Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, died (testate) on 18 or 19 June 1880 near Beamsville, and buried in the Clinton Presbyterian churchyard. Brought by his parents to Upper Canada as a child, Francis Comfort was an elder of the Clinton Presbyterian Church in 1819. In 1836 he purchased from his brother John, for £200, a farm on lot 19 in the 7^th concession of Clinton Tp., and built a house on it after one his father had built was lost to fire. During the Mackenzie Rebellion of 1838, he served with the 4^th Lincoln Regiment. He is listed in the 1842, 1852, and 1871 censuses of Clinton Tp. Some time in the 1840s he lost a hand in a threshing-machine accident, and thereafter turned to clerical work, becoming an assessor, tax collector, and census enumerator. The census returns of 1852 for Clinton Tp. testify to his chirographic skill. In a letter written to his son Andrew in 1849 he mentions a visit to his “uncle Daniel Comfort” near Newburgh, N.Y., which the Bottings acknowledge as “one of the main pieces of evidence that he was the grandson of John [Comfort], Sr.” The Bottings note that “all his children were well educated; all the sons had advanced education, one or two attending Western Reserve and one Johns Hopkins; three of the daughters were teachers.” Francis Comfort and his wife had ten children.^[3] He married 20 February 1822,

3.   Jemima Wilcox, born 27 December 1801 in Grimsby Tp., Lincoln Co., died 5 November 1876 near Beamsville, and buried in the Clinton Presbyterian churchyard.^[4]

4.   John Comfort, Jr., of Digby Tp., Annapolis (now Digby) Co., Nova Scotia, of Montgomery Tp., Orange Co., N.Y., and finally of Clinton Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C., born say 1759, probably in Montgomery Tp., died Jan. 1830 in Lincoln Co., U.C.^[5] He served in the Revolution in the Ulster Co. Militia, 4^th Regiment, with his brothers Benjamin and Samuel, but he was doubtless a Loyalist sympathiser, as he and his wife accompanied her father to Digby, Nova Scotia, at the end of the Revolutionary War, and he is listed in a Muster Roll taken at Digby in May 1784.^[6] They returned to the United States by 1790, when he appears in the census of Montgomery Tp., Orange Co., New York, as John Comfort, Jr., and he and his wife Catherine sold land in Montgomery in 1798. His father’s 1794 will bequeaths “unto my son John and to his heirs and assigns forever all that estate on which he now liveth, with … appurtenances, known and distinguished by lot no. 11.” Finally, leaving behind their two eldest daughters, who were by then married, he and his wife returned to Canada about 1802, going to Clinton Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C., where they founded a large family. He married by New York licence dated 13 July 1782,^[7]

5.   Catharine Harris, born 5 October 1767, baptized 4 November 1767 in the Hopewell Dutch Church, Fishkill Tp., Dutchess Co., N.Y., died 10 August 1846 in Lincoln Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario).

6.   Daniel Wilcox, of St. Anns, Gainsborough Tp., Lincoln Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), born 1770-71, presumably in New Jersey, died 6 March 1857, aged (according to his tombstone) 86 years, and buried in the St. Anns Cemetery.^[8] Daniel Wilcox petitioned on 30 August 1797 for lands in right of his wife, the daughter of a Loyalist, and she was conditionally granted 200 acres “if her father appears on the U.E. List in October next,” but nothing further is heard of the case until Mary McIntyre received land by an order-in-council dated three years later on 18 November 1800.^[9] Daniel Wilcox was a private in the 4th Regiment of the Lincoln Co. Militia in July and October of 1814. In 1818 he and his (first?) wife were living on lot 9 of the Grimsby Gore, and were members of the Clinton Presbyterian Church. They had thirteen children.
    Daniel Wilcox may possibly have been the man of this name, aged 80 years and born in the United States, who was enumerated in Windham Tp., Norfolk Co., U.C., in the 1852 census. If so, his wife was then a Susannah, aged 59 years, and born in Lower Canada (i.e. Quebec).^[10] He married 18 June 1795,

7.   Mary (“Polly”) McIntyre, born 29 September 1775, somewhere in the U.S.A., living June 1816.^[11]

8.   John Comfort (Sr.), of Hanover Precinct (now Montgomery Tp.), Ulster (now Orange) Co., N.Y., farmer, born say 1725, probably at Newtown (now Elmhurst), Queens Co., L.I., died (testate) shortly before 30 October 1795. John Comfort was one of the early settlers of Hanover Precinct, arriving there by 1750 (if indeed he had not already been brought there as a child by his parents). Baptisms are recorded for seven of his children in the Montgomery Dutch Church, but there is a gap between 1756 and 1765, where the birth of his son John (our own ancestor) would presumably have fallen. He was taxed in Montgomery Tp. from 1768 to 1778, and it is said that his land holdings were in the 3^rd Allotment of the 8000-acre tract. John and his brother William (who married Anna Maul’s sister Elisabeth) served in the Revolution in the 4^th Regiment of Ulster Co. Militia. The Bottings say that he “probably was, in September 1778, a member of Capt. William Simrall’s Associated Company of Exempts in Col. Hasbrouck’s Regiment, in Hanover Precinct, Ulster Co.” He made a will dated 3 November 1794 and proved 30 October 1795, mentioning wife “Hannah” and his children. He left his farm, lot no. 8, with its implements — a “plough and tackling” and “my waggon and sleigh” — to his youngest son Daniel, distributing six other lots among his remaining sons, some of whom were already living on them.^[12] He married in 1750-51,

9.   Anna Maul, baptized 17 April 1734 in the Montgomery Dutch Church, living 3 November 1794.^[13]

10.   Francis Harris, of Rumbout Precinct, Dutchess Co., N.Y., and of Sandy Cove, Digby Tp., Annapolis (now Digby) Co., Nova Scotia, baptized 9 May 1740 in the Poughkeepsie Dutch Church, died in Nova Scotia in 1816, between 1 April (when he made his will) and 27 December (when a warrant of appraisement for his estate was issued).^[14] Francis Harris paid taxes in Rumbout Precinct in 1763 and 1765-73.^[15] He was living at Hopewell (now called Hopewell Junction) in 1765-77, when he had children baptized there. He is referred to in a 1771 mortage as “Francis Harris, yeoman, of Rombout.” His first wife Catharina died before 17 July 1774, when he was married for the second time (in the Dutch Church of Hopewell) to Engeltje (“Evangeline”) Vandewater, the record calling him “widower of Cathrina Lent.” He was living at New Hackensack, Wappinger Tp., Dutchess Co., in 1777, when his daughter Hannah was baptized there.
    R.B. Jones was correct in suggesting that Francis Harris was “probably the Loyalist of that name whose estate was confiscated in Dutchess County and who went to Digby, Nova Scotia, after the peace.” That our subject was indeed this man is verified by the detailed agreement of Canadian records with the New York sources cited by Jones as to Harris’s four eldest children, and is further corroborated by the presence of his brother Peter there. His name appears in the muster roll of Loyalists taken at Digby on 29 May 1784, which gives his place of settlement as Digby.^[16] Francis Harris was granted 300 acres in Digby Tp. as a Loyalist in 1784, but he subsequently escheated his land to the Crown after failing to fulfil his settlement duties, and later events make it clear that he took up residence elsewhere.^[17] Presumably the reason he allowed this forfeiture to occur is that in the meantime, in 1787, he had received a grant for 100 more acres at Sandy Cove, Digby Tp. There are several scattered references to him there in the local history, which seem to state that he lived “on Valley Shore, east of the Mills,” and that his house was used as a school. Following the building of old Trinity Parish Church, Digby in 1787, Francis Harris was one of the “proprietors” of the parish taxed to pay the sexton’s salary in 1789.^[18]
    In his will, dated 1 April 1816 and proved 27 December following, Francis Harris names his sons Peter, Stephen, and Francis, his daughters Hannah, Sarah, and Catharine, and “Angulsha” (i.e. Engeltje), daughter of his son Peter. A letter written by his daughter Hannah (Harris) Saunders to her sister Catharine (Harris) Comfort in December 1817 (formerly in the possession of the latter’s descendant Cecelia Botting), refers to Francis Harris’ death in the previous year and to his second wife Evangeline’s death six years earlier.
    He married (1) 1 January 1763 in the Rumbout Presbyterian Church, Dutchess Co., N.Y.,^[19]

11.   Catharina Lent, born say 1743 in New York State, living 1767 but died well before 17 July 1774 (the date of her husband’s remarriage).^[20]

12.   Benjamin Wilcox, who came from New Jersey to Grimsby Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C., in 1787, born 21 August 1737 at Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, died 1816 at the home of his son Richard near Simcoe, Woodhouse Tp., Norfolk Co., U.C., and buried in the old Windham Methodist Cemetery, Woodhouse Tp. Benjamin Wilcox left New Jersey in 1787 with his wife and children and other Loyalist families, and arrived in the Niagara district of Upper Canada later that year. They afterward settled in the Grimsby area of Lincoln Co., where in August of 1795 he held lots 19 in concessions 1 and 2, and part of lot 18 in concession 1.^[21] In a petition for land dated 21 July 1796, he states that he “came into this Province in 1788 with a wife & six children, and … has only received a certificate for 200 acres of land.”^[22] The lot in concession 1 he sold (apparently before 1799) to Andrew Hunter, but an 1811 map shows him still occupying land in concessions 1, 2 and 3. The Wilcoxes were among the first settlers of Grimsby. “Their first years,” state the Bottings, “were a time of severe hardship during which they, among others, were lent government aid; in 1789, he was one of the signers of a petition concerned with the repayment of that loan.” They also note that in 1798 he signed a receipt for a musket and ammunition issued to defend the territory; and that he served as Overseer of Roads in 1792, and as Town Warden in 1793, 1794, 1795, and 1796. In 1812, he (then an aged widower) accompanied his son Richard in his move to near Simcoe, Woodhouse Tp., Norfolk Co. where he died four years later.^[23]
    He married before 1759,

13.   Elsie Lanning, born 1739, died 6 June 1805 at Grimsby, and buried in St. Anns Cemetery, Gainsborough Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C. In her father’s 1774 will, she is called “Else wife of Benjamin Weelcox.”^[24]

14.   Daniel McIntyre (Sr.), U.E.L., of Grimsby Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C., born ca. 1736 in Scotland, died January 1825 in Grimsby Tp.^[25] Daniel McIntyre was a soldier in the 78^th Regiment of Foot, brought to America from Scotland in 1757 to fight in the French and Indian Wars of 1757-1763. This regiment, better known as Fraser’s Highlanders, was mustered by Simon Fraser (1726-1782), Master of Lovat, who raised the troops mainly from his own lands in Inverness. This regiment was at the siege of Louisburg, Cape Breton, in 1758, and in the expedition to Quebec under General Wolfe. Following the peace Daniel McIntyre seems to have spent some time in New Jersey, where his eldest child James (born 13 February 1767 according to the family record), was born, according to a tradition preserved in Reid’s Loyalists of Ontario. Fortunately Daniel entered Canada during the brief period covered by the so-called “Old U.E.L. List” of refugees from the American colonies, in which he is recorded as “Daniel McIntyre, Sen., [of] Grimsby, soldier [in the] old French War.”^[26] He petitioned on 3 August 1795 for a land grant, stating that he had “served His Majesty in the French War in the 78^th Regt. of Foot, and was persecuted vigorously during the American War, and had his property confiscated,” and praying “for such lands as Your Excellency may think proper to grant him, and family lands for his wife and five children.”^[27] He was accordingly granted 600 acres in Grimsby Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C., where he was one of the first settlers. On 2 January 1797 he successfully petitioned for an additional 200 acres on the grounds that one of his lots was “very swampy.”^[28] In 1811 he held lots O, P, and Q of Grimsby Gore. His name appears on voters’ lists of 1812 and 1816. “Daniel Makentire” is in the membership records of the Clinton Presbyterian Church in 1818,^[29] but we have been unable to confirm the statements of the Bottings and of Powell that a second wife Anna ____ is mentioned with him therein. In 1820 he signed a list of persons promising to donate money for the building of a church-house. He married before 1767, probably in America,

15.   Mary ____, born ca. 1730, died 12 September 1802.

16.   Benjamin Comfort, of Newtown (now Elmhurst), Queens Co., L.I., and Hanover Precinct (now Montgomery Tp.), Ulster (now Orange) Co., N.Y., tailor, born say 1695-1700, presumably at Newtown, living 1736 and probably 1770.^[30] As “Benjamin Comforth” he was requested to serve as a witness to the division of a salt meadow in the will of Edward Hunt of Newtown, dated January 1715/6,^[31] at which date it may be safely assumed he was at least 14 years of age. In 1737 he sold off his land in Newtown, and took his family up the Hudson to what would later become Montgomery Tp., where there was a settlement of Palatines including the Maul family, into which two of his sons would later marry. Radasch, in his manuscript history of the Comfort family, states that “the Comforts settled in the western part of the town [of Montgomery] in an area that was later to be known as Comfort’s Hills.”
    Benjamin Comfort married secondly, before 1731,^[32] Susannah ____, who died 1770 and as “Susanna, wife of Benjamin Comfort,” was buried at Goodwill Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, where her stone could be seen in 1939 but not in 1954. As Radasch notes, the fact that she is called his “wife” and not his “widow” suggests that he was then still alive.
    He married (1) 7 March 1724 in Newtown Presbyterian Church,^[33]

17.   Elizabeth Haywood, died before 1731 (by which date her husband was certainly remarried). The only hint which has ever been adduced regarding Elizabeth Haywood’s possible family connections is the observation that on 6 September 1732 her husband Benjamin Comfort purchased five acres of salt meadow from an Edward Haywood.^[34] The latter was possibly identical with the man better known as Edward Howard, as his name is given in every reference to him in the records of Newtown Presbyterian Church.^[35] As their marriages occurred less than five months apart, he and Elizabeth Haywood may be considered exact contemporaries. Edward Howard was a son of William and Abigail Howard, whose family is treated in Riker’s Newtown, pp. 398-401, without mention of a daughter Elizabeth. However, this account does not assign this couple enough children to account for the seven members of William Howard’s household in the Newtown census of 1698.^[36]

18.   Christoffel Maul, of Kingston, Ulster Co., and Hanover Precinct (now Montgomery Tp.), Ulster (now Orange) Co., N.Y., baptized 1 January 1688 in the Reformed Church, Driedorf, Hessen-Nassau, Preussen, living 1751.^[37] The family of Christoffel Maul’s father-in-law, Philipp Sergius, appears next to that of Christoffel’s father, Johannes Maul, in a list of persons intending to leave from Holland for England in 1709, although the Sergius family ultimately returned to Holland. The first record of Christoffel Maul in America is on the Hunter list of 4 August 1710. He is not found with his step-mother and sisters in the “List of the Palatines remaining at New York City” of 1710, and he had possibly already removed by then to Kingston, where his first four children were baptized in 1712-1720, where he was naturalized in September 1715 and taxed in 1718/19 and 1720/21, and where he and his wife served as baptismal sponsors in 1720 and 1722. He was serving in Capt. Whittaker’s Company of Jacob Rutsen’s Ulster County Regiment in 1715. He removed to Hanover Precinct, Ulster Co., by 1727, when his daughter Elisabetha was baptized. As “Stuffel Moll” he appears in a 1738 muster roll of the Wallkill Company of the Ulster County Militia. He and his wife were alive in 1751, when they served as sponsors in the Montgomery Dutch Church. He married probably in 1709-10,

19.   Anna Juliana Sergius, baptized 24 March 1689 in the Reformed Church, Nordhofen (now in Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany), living 1751.

20.   Joseph Harris, of Poughkeepsie, baptized 12 June 1709 in the First Church of New London, Connecticut, living 1746.^[38] According to Gale Ion Harris, “He left New London in 1729 and resided in several towns in the westerly part of Connecticut — Waterbury, Guilford, Ridgefield, Reading — before moving … across the line into Dutchess Co., N.Y.,” and is last attested in Connecticut records on 19 October 1736, when, being then described as “of Reading in y^e County of Fairfield,” he sold for £90 his 5-acre “homested … together with y^e house thereon standing” in Ridgefield.^[39] Joseph Harris, “son of Mr. Peter Harris, deceased, formerly of New London, now of Waterbury,” sold his father’s share of land in Waterbury when he came of age in 1730; in a deed dated 1 February 1731, he is called “resident now of Guilford, New Haven County,” Connecticut.^[40] G.I. Harris gives further details of Connecticut land transactions for this man. Joseph Harris is first of record in New York in 1737, when is listed as a tax-payer in the Middle Ward of Nine Partners Precinct, Dutchess Co.^[41] He had several children baptized at Poughkeepsie in 1739-45. The account-book of his wife’s mother’s half-brother, Francis Filkin, who was the landlord of their farm at Crum Elbow, records sales to him in 1744 of a total of 14 dozen pigeons, suggesting that he was planning to breed them. The same record mentions under date of 1 April 1746 that Joseph Harris had absconded, owing a year’s rent and abandonning his wife and children. He was apparently never heard from again.^[42] He married before 1739,

21.   Catharina Hegeman, born say 1711, living 1746.^[43]

22.   Isaac Lent, of Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y., born say 1705, probably in Westchester Co., N.Y., died shortly before June 1771.^[44] “Isaac Lent and Sara Luister, his wife” witnessed four baptisms in the Hopewell Dutch Church between 1761 and 1765. Isaac Lent is attested in all the extant Rumbout Precinct tax lists between 1745 and 1770. He witnessed the will of his brother-in-law, Jacob Brinckerhoff, of Fishkill, made in May 1758,^[45] and was appointed executor of the will of his wife’s double second cousin once removed, Joris Adriance, of Rumbout Precinct, made in November of the same year.^[46] His property is mentioned incidentally in a 1771 deed, which shows that it bordered on, or was at most one lot away from, lands of “____ Harris” (no first name given), who was possibly his son-in-law Francis Harris. Isaac Lent was dead in June 1771, when a mortgage which he had co-signed for Francis Harris states, “Francis Harris with Isaac Lent (lately deceased) gave a bond on March 16, 1768, to Charles LeRoux for £600; and Harris and LeRoux have agreed that LeRoux will allow to Harris and the heirs of Isaac Lent, deceased, extension of payment date.” The fact that Isaac Lent co-signed for such a large amount supports our contention that Francis Harris was his son-in-law.^[47] He married before 1733,

23.   Sara Luyster, born 3 January 1714, probably at Newtown, died 27 December 1767.^[48] She is called “my daughter Sarah, wife of Isaac Lent” in her father’s will of 1752.^[49]

24.   William Wilcox, of Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, blacksmith, born there 22 November 1711, died intestate and v.m. shortly before 15 September 1743 (when inventory was made of his estate), before reaching his 32^nd birthday.^[50]
    The record of his marriage in 1733 refers to him and his wife as “William Willcox, son of Daniel deceased, and Dorothy Allen, of Dartmouth, daughter of Benjamin Allen of Dartmouth.” According to the inventory of his estate taken on 15 September 1743, he left personal estate worth £260 5s. 6d., but no real estate. His widow made application on 18 October following to administer the estate, and produced an account dated 11 December of the same year, mentioning that the estate was insolvent, and stating that she had “six small children.”^[51] Oddly, there is no record of the death of either William or his wife Dorothy in the Dartmouth town records. Their son William was a direct ancestor of Jennie Jerome, mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.^[52]
    He married 8 February 1732/3 at Darmouth (Dartmouth VR),

25.   Dorothy Allen, born 1 January 1707 at Dartmouth, said to have died (testate) in 1782, between 19 September and 30 November of that year, but we have not seen the alleged will.^[53] Her father, in his will dated 25 November 1751 and proved 29 July 1755, leaves to “my daughter Dorothy Wilcox” the house and land “I bought of Ebenezur Allen during her widowhood, and after her marriage or death the land to be improved for her son Amos who by blindness is incapable of supporting himself, and after his death to be divided between her other children.“^[54]

26.   Isaac Lanning, of Hardwick Tp., Sussex Co., N.J., died (testate) June 1781 in Hardwick Tp. He is named as co-executor in the 1757 will of his wife’s father. His own will, dated Jan. 1774 and proved 8 June 1781, names his wife Sarah and their four children, including “Else wife of Benjamin Weelcox.”^[55] He married before 1742,

27.   Sarah Hunt, born say 1713, living Jan. 1774.

32.   Robert Comfort, of Newtown (now Elmhurst), Queens Co., L.I., born say 1672, presumably in England, apparently died 1715-22 (during which time his presumed son Robert Comfort ceases to be referred to as “Jr.” in Newtown records).^[56] “Robart Cumfort” is listed in the August 1698 census of Newtown, which states that there were six members (including himself) in his family.^[57] As he does not appear in earlier records, particularly the rate-list of 1683,^[58] it seems clear that he was then a relative newcomer to the Island. He is rather notably absent from the public records, and we have found no mention of the name of his wife.

33.   N.N.

36.   Johannes Maul, of Hohenroth, near Driedorf, Hessen-Nassau, Preussen, and later of New York City, died at New York between 4 October 1710 and 24 June 1711. Johannes Maul’s first wife (our ancestress) died scarcely six years after their marriage, and he married secondly in 1693, Elsbeth Drisch. He petitioned to emigrate in 1709, and he, his second wife, and seven children are listed next to the family of his son Christoffel’s father-in-law Philip Sergius among the 6^th party of Palatines preparing to leave Holland in 1709. They arrived at New York shortly before 4 July 1710. He was still alive on 4 October following, but survived the voyage less than a year. His second wife is found as a widow in New York City in a list of 24 June 1711.^[59] He married (1) 9 February 1687 at Hohenroth,

37.   Anna Juliana Theiss, died at Hohenroth shortly before 21 April 1693, when she was buried, daughter of Nicolaus Theiss, of Hohenroth, whose wife’s name appears to be unknown.^[60]

38.   Philipp Sergius, of Nordhofen (now in Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany), living 1682-1710. Philipp Sergius was at Nordhofen at the time of his marriage in 1682 and at the baptism of his daughter Anna Juliana in 1689. “Philip Sargusch” with his wife and five children were among the 6^th party of Palatines preparing to depart from Holland in 1709, the entry for their family on the Rotterdam Lists being next to that of Johannes Maul (father of Philipp Sergius’ son-in-law Christoffel Maul). The Sergius family left for England but for some unknown reason was returned to Holland on board the ship John in 1710, at which time it numbered only six persons, the missing member evidently being the daughter Anna Juliana (our ancestress), who Jones surmises had married Christoffel Maul some time during the voyage.^[61] He married 14 November 1682 at Nordhofen,

39.   Maria Elisabeth Andreas, living 1682-1710, daughter of Johann Wilhelm Andreas, Oberschultheiss (head census-taker and tax-collector) of Selters in Nordhofen (now in Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany), whose wife in 1664 was Juliana, widow of ____ Schier.^[62]

40.   Peter Harris, of New London, Connecticut, born there 8 December 1660, died there 2 January 1718/9 “with ye dropsie,” aged 58 years. He joined the First Church of New London on January 1693/4. His will, date 1 January 1718/9, named his wife Elizabeth, five sons, and five daughters.^[63] He married 7 July 1686 at New London,

41.   Elizabeth Mainwaring (or Manwaring), born about 1663, died v.p. 17 August 1720 at New London, aged 57 years. She joined the First Church of New London on 15 October 1693. The 1723 will of her long-lived father, Oliver Mainwaring (or Manwaring) (III), who survived her, mentions “the heirs of Elizabeth Harris.”^[64]

42.   Frans Hegeman, of Flatbush, L.I., and Poughkeepsie, born say 1688 at Oostwoudt (i.e. New Lots, near Flatbush), living 1749.^[65] Frans Hegeman and his wife were married in 1709, and went by 1725 to Dutchess County with three of her Filkin half-brothers, the founders of Filkintown, Washington Precinct (a lost town which lay between Millbrook and Mabbetsville), whose father had been one of the original patentees of the Nine Partners tract. There in Dutchess County Frans Hegeman purchased from Filkin’s widow 300 acres of land in the second water lot on the Hudson, at the place which came to be known as Hegeman’s Landing. The historian Helen Reynolds places the Landing “near the present [1940] property of the Novitiate of St. Andrew,” and infers that Frans Hegeman “probably lived on a farm east of the post road.”^[66] Annatje’s half-brother Justice Francis Filkin, who operated a general store at Poughkeepsie, and occasionally mentions customers paying off their accounts “through” Frans Hegeman in the 1740s, took a keen personal interest in transactions involving his family’s lands, and copied or made memoranda of a number of documents relating thereto into his account book.^[67]
    Frans Hegeman appears frequently in the public records, being listed as a tax-payer in the Middle Ward of Nine Partners Precinct in 1725 through 1738.^[68] He was appointed Collector for Poughkeepsie in 1728^[69] and Assessor for Crum Elbow Precinct in 1738, 1739, 1740, and 1741. He also appears in the 1740 list of freeholders.^[70] He is doubtless the “Justice Hegeman” who was appointed one of the Overseers of Highways in 1743,^[71] and the “Mr. Hegeman, justice of the peace in Filkentown” who on 1 March 1744 made a visitation of the community of Moravian Brethren at Shekomeko to enquire into the truth of rumors which had been circulating as to its nature, although the results of his investigation do not appear to have been reported.^[72]
    According to the Hegeman manuscript by Driggs, in 1749 Frans Hegeman “joins with a score of other proprietors to deed a disputed plot in Lower Nine Partners.” Frans Hegeman was capable of writing his name, and (in adulthood at least) generally signed as “Fransis [sic] Hagaman.”^[73] His wife, as “Antje Ruord,” appears with him as a baptismal sponsor in the Poughkeepsie Dutch Church on 27 June 1738, and she was still alive on 13 February 1743, when they served in the same capacity and in the same place for Frans, son of their son Hendrick.
    He married 29 October 1709 in the Flatbush Dutch Church,^[74]

43.   Antjen Leuwaert or Ruwaert or Rouard, born January 1687, probably at Flatbush, living 13 February 1743.^[75] See the account of her father for a discussion of her surname.

44.   Abraham Lent, of Tarrytown, Westchester Co., and of Newtown, L.I., born 10 March 1674, apparently at Newtown, baptized 12 May 1675 in the New York Dutch Church, died 5 February 1746.^[76] Abraham Lent, who was taken by his parents to Westchester Co. as a child, became a deacon in the Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (now Tarrytown), retiring in 1723; possibly his wife is the Catrina Lent who joined the church on 31 October 1724.^[77] Left in the 1728 will of his maternal uncle, Jacobus Hercks Krankheyt, “all that messuage, tenement, and Plantation, on which I now dwell, in Newtown, at … a place called … by the name of ye Poor Bowery, with all lands and meadows, salt and fresh, to the same belonging,”^[78] Abraham returned to Long Island to take possession of the estate (in 1729, according to the Lent genealogy).^[79] In his own will, dated 18 August 1742 and proved 17 March 1746, he calls himself “Abraham Lent, of Newtown, in Queen’s County, yeoman,” mentions his wife Anna Catharina, and his children, including his son Isaac (our ancestor).^[80] His estate was inherited by his youngest son, Jacobus, and was still in the possession of the family in 1923. Abraham Lent and his wife, through their daughter Maria Lent, wife of John Rapalje, of Newtown, were direct ancestors of the eminent historian of Newtown, James Riker. He married 24 December 1698 in the New York Dutch Church,^[81]

45.   Anna Catharina Meyer,^[82] baptized 12 March 1677 in the New York Dutch Church,^[83] died 21 July 1762.^[84] As “Catrina Lent, of Newtown …, widow,” she made a will, dated 16 April 16 1750 and proved 24 August 1763, which mentions their children, including their son Isaac (our ancestor).^[85]

46.   Pieter Cornelisz Luyster, of Newtown, planter, born 10 March 1687, at Flatbush (according to his marriage record), died 17 December 1759 at Newtown.^[86] Pieter Luyster, as we learn from Riker, was “a respected citizen and an elder of the Dutch Church” at Newtown, and “inherited a part of the paternal estate” there, which was still owned by a descendant in 1852. In 1715 he was a member of Capt. Timothy Bagley’s Regiment of Horse in Queens Co., as discovered by Honeyman. His will, dated 1 November 1752 and proved 19 June 1773, refers to his “plantation” at Newtown, and mentions among other children his daughter Sarah, wife of Isaac Lent.^[87] He married 30 April 1713 in the Flatbush Dutch Church,^[88]

47.   Sara Rapalje, born 1 July 1687 at Brooklyn, baptized 3 July following in the Brooklyn Dutch Church, by the minister of the Flatbush Dutch Church,^[89] died 23 Jan. (?) 1773, aged over 85 years.

48.   Daniel Wilcox (III), of Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Mass., born ca. 1680, died (intestate and v.m.) 2 February 1720/1.^[90] The eminent genealogist George Andrews Moriarty (who was himself a direct descendant of Daniel Wilcox and his wife) states that Daniel “resided on his father’s land on the east side of the East Branch of the Accoxet River, where he sold lands in 1713 and 1714…, and in the latter year he and his wife Sarah mortaged their homestead farm to the Province.” Administration of his estate was granted to his widow Sarah on 7 May 1722; she submitted an inventory taken 2 March 1721/2 previous, and presented a final accounting on 10 October 1723.^[91] He married (as her first husband) before 1705,

49.   Sarah ____, died 1755, having married secondly in 1728, Philip Marion, of Dartmouth.

50.   Benjamin Allen, of Dartmouth, born 27 March 1682, died between 25 November 1751 (when he made his will) and 29 July 1755 (when it was proved). There is a good account of this man in John Kermott Allen’s 1924 typescript Allen genealogy, which states that the “homestead land and buildings” in Dartmouth which he bequeathed to his son Benjamin were “where the Orphans’ Home now is.”^[92] Conklin Mann refers to Benjamin Russell as “a rich Quaker.”^[93] The published Dartmouth vital records mentions that their marriage record contains his wife’s signature, but does not state whether it has his. Apart from the records of the births of five children to them at Dartmouth between 1705 and 1720, little else seems to be known about this couple. Benjamin Allen, in his will, mentions his wife Deborah, leaves to his son Francis lands on the west side of Achushnet River between the lands of Caleb and John Russell, to his son Benjamin the homestead aforesaid, to his daughter Dorothy Wilcox (no. 25 above) the previously-mentioned house and land “bought of Ebenezur Allen, during her widowhood, and after her marriage or death the land to be improved for her son Amos who by blindness is incapable of supporting himself, and after his death to be divided between her other children,” mentions his daughter Rebecca Lawton or Layton, and to his daughter Abigail, “who intermarried with Joseph Macomber, and as they cannot live together” settles property on her “that he may not bereave her [there]of.”^[94] He married 24 August 1704 at Dartmouth (Dartmouth VR),

51.   Deborah Russell, born 1 January 1681 at Dartmouth, died between 30 August 1755 (when she made her will) and 4 May 1756 (when it was proved). She is called “Deborah Allen” in her father’s will, dated 9 June 1725. She herself, as “Deborah Allen, of Dartmouth, widow of Benjamin Allen, of Dartmouth, being far advanced in years and under some decay with respect to my bodily health,” made a will dated 30 August 1755 in which she mentions “daughter Dorothy Wilcox” and “grandchildren William Wilcox, Benjamin Wilcox, Thomas Wilcox, and Hannah Wilcox,” who are recorded as four of the children of Dorothy (Russell) Wilcox in the Darmouth VR. The inventory of her estate, dated 26 March 1756, revealed £102 15s. 8d. in personal estate and no real estate.^[95]

52.   Richard Lanning, of Hopewell Tp., Burlington (now Mercer) Co., N.J., and Amwell Tp., Hunterdon Co., N.J., living 29 April 1742. He removed by 1702 from Newtown, Long Island, to Hopewell Tp., N.J., where his elder brother Robert, previously of the adjacent township of Maidenhead, had received land in March 1699. Cook describes his farm as lying “on the northwest side of the Roger Park road from the Falls of Delaware (Trenton village) to Hopewell,” with his brother as his neighbor to the southwest. He was evidently alive on 29 April 1742, when his son Richard is referred to as “junior.” Cook notes that a Neshea Lanning, possibly Richard’s wife, was admitted to membership in the Trenton Presbyterian Church on 12 September 1734, and plausibly interprets the name as a corruption of the Dutch “Annatje.”^[96]

53.   (perhaps) Anna ____.

54.   Edward Hunt, Jr., of Maidenhead (now Lawrence) Tp., Hunterdon Co., N.J., born 4 February 1683/4 at Newtown, Long Island, died between 28 October 1757 (when he made his will) and 29 December 1759 (when it was proved).^[97] It may fairly be presumed that he, like other members of the Hunt family, was a member of the Newtown Presbyterian Church, built on land donated by his grandfather; but the sporadic remains of its early records throw no light on him or his family. The name of his wife, who is not mentioned in his will and therefore likely predeceased him, is not known. He went to live on land in New Jersey owned by his father, and in the latter’s will of 1716 was left “the land he now dwelleth on, in the County of Hunterdon, and £4, and a small iron kettle for his birth-right.” His own will names his son-in-law Isaac Lanning (our ancestor) as one of the executors, provides for the educations of several grandchildren, and leaves £10 “to the old, or first Presbyterian congregation of Hopewell and Maidenhead … for the support of the gospel ministry.”^[98]

55.   N.N.

72.   Paulus Maul, of Driedorf, Hessen-Nassau, Preussen,, buried 2 April 1686.^[99]

73.   Anna Engen, buried 18 September 1689.

76.   The Rev. Wernerus Sergius, pastor of Rückeroth, in Neuwied (now in Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany), who died by 1678.^[100] As Werner Sergius he is recorded about 1656 in the Reformed churchbook of Bad Schwalbach as a teacher (Lehrer) at Rhens, in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate.^[101] The name of Werner Sargus appears in a list of the pastors of Rückeroth; he was installed there in 1658, and died by 1678, when he was succeeded by Arnold Schnabelius.^[102] He married on “Whit Tuesday” [i.e. 27 May] 1656 at Langenschwalbach (now Bad Schwalbach), Hessen,

77.   Anna Catharina Vieger.

80.   Gabriel Harris, of New London, Connecticut, baptized 8 March 1628/9 at Honiton, near Exeter, Devonshire, died 16 March 1683/4 at New London. He briefly ran a tavern where cider was sold. On 6 May 1656, “Gabriel Harris, eldest son of Mary Harris” deposed concerning the accuracy of an inventory of the goods “left by his father, Walter Harris, and his mother, Mary Harris, both dec’d.”^[103] He was confirmed as an ensign in the New London Train Band on 11 May 1665, and was presented for freeman of Connecticut Colony in October of 1669. He and his wife joined the First Church of Christ by 14 May 1671, and had eight of their children baptized there.^[104] The inventory taken 17 April 1685, of his estate, valued at £814 6s., lists among other possessions a house, orchard, cider-mill, and smith’s shop, and an “Indian maid-servant [presumably a slave], valued at £15.” The papers name his children including son Peter (our ancestor), aged 23.^[105] He married 3 March 1653/4 at Guilford, Connecticut,

81.   Elizabeth Abbott, of Guilford at the time of her marriage, died 17 August 1702 at New London. An administration of her estate made 4 September 1702 names her children, including her son Peter Harris (our ancestor). It used to be held that she was probably a daughter of Robert Abbott (d. September 1658) of Watertown, Massachusetts, and his wife Mary (who married secondly in 1659, John Robbins), whose eldest son was named Peter, a name given to one of Elizabeth Abbott’s sons.^[106] However, in 2002, Gale Ion Harris pointed out that “a compelling argument against it [i.e. the theory] is that in 1659 John Robbins of Banford, who had married Robert Abbott’s widow Mary, bound himself to pay to the Abbott children ‘portions appointed by the court’ from their father’s estate. The children named in that record, or who later gave receipts for their portions, do not include a daughter Elizabeth.”^[107]

82.   Oliver Mainwaring (or Manwaring) (III), baptized 16 March 1633/4 at Dawlish, Devon, died 3 November 1723, aged 89 years, at New London, Connecticut. His 1723 will mentions, among others, “the heirs of Elizabeth Harris,” who had predeceased him.^[108] He married by 1662 (in which year Richard Rayment deeded land to his “son-in-law Oliver Manwaring”),^[109]

83.   Hannah Rayment (or Raymond), baptized 12 February 1643 at Salem, Massachusetts, died 18 December 1717 at New London, Connecticut.^[110]

84.   Hendrick Hegeman, baptized 13 April 1649 in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, of Flatbush, Kings Co., L.I., living 27 June 1704 but said by Bergen to have died ca. 1710.^[111] Hendrick Hegeman’s marriage record says that his wife was “living at Flushing”; he was at that time (1685) a resident of New Lots, Flatbush,^[112] and his name is included with that of his brother Joseph in the earliest town patent, dated in November of the same year.^[113] The 1687 Association test of Flatbush gives the number of his years of residence as 36, which is in close agreement with those given for his two eldest brothers Joseph and Jacobus, and accords with the known fact that they were not “natives,” but had been born abroad.^[114] According to Bergen, Hendrick Hegeman joined the Dutch Church of Flatbush in 1677. Of the surviving rate lists for Flatbush, he first appears in that of 1683, which shows him with 60 acres of land and 2 horses, on a farm probably near that of his mother, since his is listed only two entries away from hers.^[115] According to Bergen, Hendrick bought land at Jamaica, L.I. in 1691, and was one of the purchasers of the Harlington tract in Somerset Co., N.J., in 1686. The record of a sale by him of “lands in Midwout [i.e. Flatbush]” on 14 April 1694 calls him “of New Sjemeken” (a badly garbled spelling of New Jamaica),^[116] but it is possible Hendrick Hegeman actually went to New Jersey at least briefly, as he is absent from Long Island records of the late 1690s, particularly the 1698 census, which lists all six of his brothers. Hendrick and Adriaentje were alive on 27 June 1704, when they served as baptismal sponsors in the Jamaica Dutch Church for a child of her sister, Elisabeth (Bloetgoet) Ryder. He married 26 April 1685 at Flatlands,“with certificate from Flushing,” by the minister of the Flatbush Dutch Church,^[117]

85.   Adriaentje Bloetgoet, born at New York (according to her marriage record), baptized 1 January 1660 in the New York Dutch Church,^[118] living 27 June 1704.^[119]

86.   Hendrick Willemsen Leuwaert or Ruwaert, of Flatbush, Kings Co., Long Island, born say 1655-60, perhaps at Liverpool, Lancashire, England (although he was presumably of Dutch origin), died in New Netherland in 1687, between 6 Jan. (see below) and 1 May (by which time he had been buried).^[120] No name like Leuwaert or Ruwaert is found in early Long Island records, and Hendrick Ruwaert, called “from Liverpool, England” in his marriage record of 1687, was probably a fairly recent immigrant.
    Several existing transcriptions of the Flatbush marriage register give somewhat divergent readings of the entry relating to Hendrick and his wife. The most recent and authoritative reads (in translation), “Henderick Ruttgert, young man from Lifverpoel in Engelandt, and Catarina Vonck, young dame from Lan[g] Eijlandt in Suijt Hamton.” An old transcription gives the reading of the groom’s name as “Ruwaert,” but this version of the record seems to contain many alterations made in the nineteenth century.^[121] As for the place names, Becker long ago observed that “Southampton” can be the only meaningful reading of the briide’s birthplace. It will be noticed that Catharina was scarcely 16 years of age at the time of this first marriage.
     Entries in the recently-published Midwood Deacon’s Accounts add considerably to what was known of Henrick, supplying much more precise limits for the date of his death. Under date of 6 January 1686/7 they record an “advance to Hendrick Willem Leuwaert [of] 20 guilders,” and under date of 1 May 1687, a payment of 8 guilders —received from Catryna Vonck, widow of Hendrick Willem Leuwaert, for [use of] the [burial] shroud.”^[122] Hendrick Ruwaert is not mentioned again in the records of the Flatbush Dutch Church. He is not known to have had any issue other that his daughter Antjen (our ancestress), who is named in the Filkin family bible, and almost certainly there were no others who could have reached maturity.
    He married (as her first husband) 22 March 1686 in the Flatbush Dutch Church,^[123]

87.   Catharina Vonck, born 9 March 1669/70 at Southampton, Suffolk Co., L.I., died apparently in 1757-58 (since she was said to have been “in the 88^[th] year of her age”), having married secondly, some time in 1687-95, Col. Henry Filkin, of Flatbush, by whom she had further issue.^[124]

88.   Ryck Abrahamse van Lent, one of the owners of Ryck’s Patent, Westchester Co., N.Y., born say 1637 in New Amsterdam, died probably shortly before 28 March 1723 (when his will was proved).^[125] This man and his wife were married before 25 March 1673, when they baptized their daughter Lysbeth in the New York Dutch Church.^[126] Previously, in 1669, Ryck’s sister Marritje had married Catharina’s brother Sybout.
    In 1685 Ryck and his brother Jacob, along with his brothers-in-law Sybout and Jan Hercks (which two adopted the surname Kranckheyt), and Teunis and Samuel de Kay (cousins of Sybout and Jan on their mother’s side), “all of the Citty of New Yorke,” purchased from Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Dongan a patent, dated 23 December 1685, for land in the upper part of Westchester County, just north of Cortlandt Manor. It would become commonly called “Ryck’s Patent.” It extended from Verplank’s Point on the Hudson River and the common boundary with Stephen Van Courtland’s land, northward a few miles to Magregere Brook, now within the town of Peekskill, and after his death was mainly inherited by his son Herck.^[127] Although he was his father’s eldest son, for some reason Ryck Abrahamse received only 30 shillings in the 1689 will of his father, the majority of the estate going to his brother Abraham.
    Ryck and his wife were probably still living in New York on January 1696, when Catryntje served as a baptismal sponsor in the Dutch Church.^[128] But as “Ryck Abrahamse and Tryntje his wife” they are numbered 10 & 11 in the list of the original members of the Tarrytown Dutch Church, their names following immediately after those of her brother and his sister “Sybowt Kranckheyt and Marytie his wife.” They served there as baptismal sponsors on 21 April 1697, and Ryck served as an elder for the usual two-year term from 1698 to 1700.^[129]
    His will, dated (perhaps several years before his death) on 30 March 1720, in which he refers to himself as “Ryck Abrahamsen Lent, Manor of Cortlandt,” states “whereas I am entitled to a certain Island in the Sound called Judich’s Island and a piece of land opposite on Nassaw Island, which is wrongfully detained from me, I leave it to my eldest son Abraham Lent.” To another son Harick Lent he devizes land in Cortlandt Manor and in Orange Co.^[130]
    Cole, in his edition of the Sleepy Hollow records, infers that the “Hendrick Abramzen & Catharina his wife” who baptized a daughter Cornelia at Sleepy Hollow on 21 April 1697 were “no doubt … the same as” the present couple;^[131] but this is unacceptable on chronological grounds, as Tryntje must by then have been well into her fifties, and is not known to have conceived in nearly a decade, her youngest child Wyntje having been baptized in New York in May 1687.^[132] Furthermore, no such child is listed by Riker, a direct descendant, who is well informed on the American generations of this family.^[133]
    He married before 25 March 1673, his sister-in-law,

89.   Tryntje Hercks, born say 1640, presumably in New York City (although no baptismal record has been found there), died between 21 April 1697 and 18 November 1728.^[134] She was alive 21 April 1697, when her daughter Cornelia was baptized, but is referred to as “my sister Tryntie, deceased,” in the will of her brother, Jacobus Hercks Kranckheyt, of Newtown, dated 18 November 1728.^[135] From the fact that from April 1699 onward her husband served several times as a baptismal sponsor without her,^[136] she was quite likely already dead by then; and there is even stronger reason for supposing her dead by 1720, as she is not mentioned in her husband’s will.

90.   Adolf Meyer, of (New) Harlem, N.Y., farmer, was born say 1646 at Uelsen (or Ülsen), a parish in Bentheim, Westphalen (now in Germany), made his will 13 February 1710, and is said to have died in February 1711.^[137] Adolf Meyer arrived in New Netherland in 1661, according to Riker. We know of no evidence for the claim that “Adolf had two brothers, Andrew and John Meyer who also immigrated to America.”^[138] His marriage record calls him “from Ulsen in Westphalen,” and his wife from Amsterdam. At the time of their union, according to Riker, they received land from her father, with more following in 1683. They baptized nine children in the New York Dutch Church between 1671 and 1698. “Marritie ver Veelen, wife of Adolf Meyer,” became a communicant in 7 December 1673, and her husband on 1 March 1674, with subsequent notes attached to each of their names stating that they were given letters of recommendation to New Harlem.^[139]
    At (New) Harlem Adolf Meyer was a member of the Second Militia Company in 1663, and is recorded as a corporal in 1673 and 1677. He also filled many civic offices, serving as a schepen in 1674-76, as one of the three Overseers in 1674, 1676, 1677, 1682, and 1702, as a corporal of the first Night Watch in 1675-76, as an inspector of chimneys from 1684, as a constable in 1684, 1687, and 1689,^[140] as an assistant alderman in 1693-94, and as a church elder. He helped to build the town-house in 1680, and to cut the stone for the church in 1696. He was one of the grantees of Dongan’s 1686 patent for Harlem. He became an extensive land-owner, purchasing the Slot patent from his father-in-law in 1689. In 1691 he was one of four men chosen to lay out the undivided land belonging to the town. His will, dated 13 February 1710 but not proven until 2 September 1748, names his wife Maria and their nine children, leaving “to my grandsons that are named after me, each a pair of gold buttons, and to my granddaughters that are named after my wife, each a gold ring.”^[141] Riker states that Adolf Meyer died in February 1711, and is followed in this by Frost, but the basis of this statement has not been discovered.
    He married 29 April 1671 in the New York Dutch Church,^[142]

91.   Maria ver Veelen, born at Amsterdam, North Holland, baptized there 2 February 1656 in the Noorder Kerk with sponsors Jacob Jansz de Lange [husband of the father’s sister Maria ver Veelen] and Maria Demmer [wife of the father’s brother Isaack ver Veelen], living 13 February 1710 (when she is mentioned in her husband’s will), but said by Riker, in his Revised History of Harlem, to have died 1748 (the year her husband’s will was belately proved), aged 92 years. At the time of her marriage she was only a few months past her fifteenth birthday. Riker avers of Maria ver Veelen that “after a married life of forty years and thirty-seven of widowhood, and having survived all the Dongan patentees, except possibly Barent Waldron, death overtook her at the advanced age of 92 years.”^[143]

92.   (Capt.) Cornelis Pieters Luyster, of Newtown, apparently born ca. 1662, said to have died 1721 at the age of 59 years.^[144] The supposed first wife Aeltje Willems assigned to this man by Bergen is wholly chimerical, as proven by the fact that in the record of his only real marriage in 1686 he is designated “j.m.”; and the identification of him as the Cornelis Pietersz who joined the Flatbush Dutch church with his “wife” in December 1677 is therefore fallacious.^[145] Cornelis Luyster joined the Flatlands Dutch Church in October 1681,^[146] but by the time of the association test of 1683 he was living at Flatbush.^[147] In 1693 Cornelis and his wife sold land which she had inherited from her maternal grandmother to her stepfather, Jan Aersen.^[148] “Cornelius Luyster” served as a juror at a session of the Kings County Circuit Court on 6 August 1695.^[149] In 1696 he exchanged various properties with his brother Matthys, selling land at Flatbush, and purchasing land at Flatbush and at Newtown.^[150]
    Cornelis Luyster became a prominent citizen at Newtown, serving as a magistrate, and holding the commission of captain in the militia. As “Cornelias Leister” he is listed in the 1698 census of Newtown with a household consisting of 8 family members and no slaves.^[151] He was one of three men appointed in 1712 to examine the division of lands in New Harlem and ensure that it was “just and equal.”^[152] Riker states that Cornelis Luyster “devised his estate to his sons,” but no trace of a will has been discovered.
    He married 2 May 1686 in the Brooklyn Dutch Church,^[153]

93.   Sara Catharina Nevius, baptized 16 February 1665 in the New York Dutch Church, said to have died 1722.^[154] Sara joined the Dutch Church of Brooklyn on 15 June 1683.^[155]

94.   (Lieut.) Daniel Jorisse Rapalje, of the Wallabout in Brooklyn, presumably a carpenter, born 29 December 1650 at New Amsterdam, baptized January 1651 in the New York Dutch Church, died (testate) 26 December 1725.^[156] The name of “Daniel Jorisse” (records of this period often omitting the surname) appears on a list of “catechumens” of the Brooklyn Dutch Church on 26 November 1662,^[157] and he is attested as an adult from 1675 onward. A 1677 list of church members records them as “Daniel Jorisz Rapailie and wife Sara Abrahams Klock, from the Wale-Section.”^[158] Daniel succeeded to his father’s place as a deacon in the Flatbush Dutch Church on 15 December 1679, and served for two years; and after a lengthy gap in the minutes he is mentioned as a departing elder in March 1706.^[159] According to Riker “he was a man of high respectability, and an elder in the Brooklyn [Dutch] Church.” His will, dated 29 September 1722, and proved 10 May 1728, mentions “my Great Nether Dutch Bible” and “carpenter tools.”^[160] He married 13 June 1674 in the New York Dutch Church,^[161]

95.   Sara Abrahams Clock, baptized 10 December 1651 in the New York Dutch Church, died 28 February 1731, aged over 79 years.^[162] Sara Clock and her sister Catharina joined the New York Dutch Church on 30 May 1672.^[163] She is called “my sister Sarah, widow of Daniel Rapalye,” in the 1728 will of Marten Clock, of New York.^[164]

96.   Daniel Wilcox (Jr.), of Dartmouth and perhaps also of Portsmouth, born ca. 1656-57, spoken of as alive in his father’s will of 1702, although he had long been absent from Dartmouth and there does not seem to be any evidence for the date of his death.^[165] Daniel Wilcox and his wife were probably married before 1680, as the birth of their eldest son Daniel cannot convincingly be placed any later than that year. The evidence for their parentage is clear, as her father’s will of 1691 refers to a daughter “Hannah, wife of Daniel Wilcox,” and his father’s will of 1702 leaves “to my eldest sonne Daniel Willcock and so successively to his eldest sonne Daniel Willcock” 200 acres of land “in the Township of Dartmouth … in the place where my sonne Daniel Willcock formerly lived on the East side of the River called Norachucke River.”
    Fiske raised the perplexing question of how Hannah could have borne three children to Enoch Briggs before their marriage, which is recorded in the Portsmouth Vital Records under date of 2 March 1699[/70]. Apparently Daniel Wilcox abandoned her and she began living with Briggs, and it was several years before they were able to infer that Daniel was deceased. (The common-law principle that the death of a spouse could be presumed after an absence of seven years was ratified by a statute to that effect in 1604.^[166]) But as Fiske notes, no actual record of his death has ever been found, despite the fact that Hannah is called “widow of Daniel Wilcox” in the record of her second marriage.
    The eminent genealogist George Andrews Moriarty was descended from Daniel Wilcox, Jr., and his wife in two different lines.
    He married (as her first husband) probably before 1680,

97.   Hannah Cooke (or Cook), born say 1661, probably at Portsmouth, died there 22 October 1736, having married secondly in 1700, Enoch Briggs.^[167] “Hannah Briggs, widow,” made her will 14 June 1734 “for the preventing [of] future trouble in my family.” Leaving only modest bequests of personal estate, it mentions among others “my granddaughter Hannah Wilcock, daughter to my son Daniel late decd.” The inventory, taken 8 November 1736, totalled only £501 12s. 6d. and included such household items as a pair of speckled callico curtains, earthenware on a mantle-tree shelf, and a dozen pattipans, along with a black mare and some turkeys.

100.   Increase Allen, of Dartmouth, born 8 December 1648,^[168] probably at Sandwich, Massachusetts (although he is not mentioned in the town’s vital records which begin in that year), died (testate) 7 March 1723/4 at Dartmouth (Dartmouth VR).^[169] According to Conklin Mann, Increase Allen received land in Dartmouth from his father in 1675.^[170] The 1924 typescript Allen genealogy states, “Increase Allen, as shown by deeds record in Plymouth January 10, 1679, bought for 30 pounds various parcels of land in Dartmouth from Thomas Baxter of Yarmouth, being one of the original proprietors of the town of Dartmouth, Mass. He lived in Dartmouth in the Barnes Joy region…. His son Increase, Jr., seems to have lived at the old homestead. Crane laid out to Increase Allen land at the Horse Neck. On Clark’s Neck, on Scanticut Neck and on the west side of Cuishnet River, Increase had land, showing his holdings to have been widely scattered.” Increase Allen certainly purchased land at Dartmouth from Ann, daughter of Hugh Mosher, in 1706.^[171] In 1699 Increase Allen contributed £3 12s. toward the building of the Apponegansett Meeting House in Dartmouth,^[172] and he was a member of the Dartmouth Monthly Meeting of Friends in 1708.^[173] He was one of the four men who inventoried the estate of William Wood, Sr., of Dartmouth, in 1696,^[174] and he served as an overseer of the will of his brother, Joseph Allen, in 1704.^[175] In his own will, dated 31 August 1722 and proved 19 May 1724, he describes himself as “Increase Allen, of Dartmouth … yeoman,” leaving “to Rachel Allen, my dearly beloved wife,” all his property for her lifetime (or for her widowhood?). He mentions sons Benjamin Allen (no. 50 above), Jedediah Allen, Increase Allen, as well as his daughters (but the published abstracts available to us do not agree as to the details). He appoints as appraisers Benjamin Wilbore, William Wood, and Nathaniel Soule. His estate was inventoried by his widow on 6 July 1724, and a final account delivered on 17 September 1728.^[176] He married before 1682,

101.   Rachel ____,^[177] born ca. 1657-58 if (as is almost certain) she was the Rachel Allen who died 10 April 1731, aged 73 years, at Dartmouth.^[178] The vital records of Sandwich do not contain the birth of a Rachel at anywhere near the right time period to account for this woman.

102.   Jonathan Russell, of Dartmouth, born say 1650, died there (testate) 5 December 1727.^[179] Jonathan Russell acquired a second connection to the family of his wife, Hasadiah Smith, when his brother, John Russell, Jr., married her younger half-sister, Mehitabel Smith, in 1685. Jonathan took an oath of fidelity at Dartmouth in 1684.^[180] In 1684 he, his father, and two brothers are named among “the proprietors or claimers of the undivided lands lying within the township,” and they were among those given a quitclaim deed to Dartmouth by Major William Bradford on 13 November 1694.^[181] On 2 August 1707 as “Jonathan Russell Sr.” he witnessed a document for his wife’s step-mother.^[182] His own will, dated 9 June 1725 and proved 20 February 1727/8, mentions his daughter Deborah Allen (our ancestress). Inventory of his estate was completed 13 December 1727, and a final accounting submitted 20 May 1728.^[183] He married 5 February 1678 at Dartmouth,^[184]

103.   Hasadiah Smith, born 1 January 1649/50 at Plymouth, died 15 December 1723 at Dartmouth. Hasadiah is mentioned as “my grandchild Assadiah Smith” in the will of her maternal grandfather, Arthur Howland, dated 3 July 1674, in which she is left the sum of £5.^[185] She is also mentioned as “Hassadiah wife of Jonathan Russell” in her father’s will of 1691.^[186]

104.   John Lanning, of Newtown (now Elmhurst), Queens Co., L.I., born say 1640-45, presumably in the British Isles, died between 7 March 1681/2 and the end of 1683.^[187] On 6 December 1681 “John Lennen” of Newtown sued Thomas Etherington for debt. On 7 February 1681/82 the court ordered that Etherington pay £3 and costs, and the demand was reiterated on 7 March following. He married before 1668,

105.   Elizabeth ____, living 16 April 1688, when, as “Elizabeth Laning of Newtowne in Queenes County” she made a will leaving “unto my two sonns Robert Laning & Richard Laning … my now dwelling house & land tenn ackers more or less lying … in ye boundes of Newtowne.”^[188] No indication has been found of how long she survived the making of this will. At an unspecified date in 1683 the Newtown town council “voted that the widow Lanning shall have eight acres of land,” and allowed her to trade it with eight acres of Jeremiah Reeder’s. The last record of her which has been found is a deed, dated 16 April 1688 and signed with a mark, in which as “Elizabeth Laning” she conveys “unto my two sons Robert Laning and Richard Laning, after my decease, my now dwelling-house and land, ten acres more or less, lying in the bounds of Newtown … as the free land of inheritance, to them and their heirs forever.” Both these sons subsequently removed to Maidenhead Tp., N.J., and as Cook notes, no one named Lanning appears in the 1698 census of Newtown.^[189]

108.   Edward Hunt, of Newtown, born say 1655, died 1716, between 15 Jan. (when he made his will) and 24 February (when his estate was inventoried).^[190] Edward Hunt would seem to have attained his majority by the date of his father’s will (1 January 1676/7), since it is only his younger brothers who are called minors therein. His name appears in the Newtown rate list of 1683, which shows his household consisting of 2 persons and his holdings as 30 acres, with livestock.^[191] He sold land to his brother John in 1685.^[192] He is one of the citizens of Newtown named in a grant of Thomas Dongan, Governor of New York, dated 25 November 1686, which confirmed an earlier grant to his father and others of their lands “to be holden of his most sacred Majesty … in free and common scotage, according to the tenure of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in his Majesty’s kingdom of England; yielding … yearly … unto our sovereign … on the 25^th day of March … the chief, or quit-rent of £3 4s.”^[193] Edward Hunt’s household is recorded in the 1698 census of Newtown as consisting of 10 members, and no slaves.^[194] According to Wyman, “Mr. Hunt superintended the building of a house for the minister [of the Newtown Presbyterian Church], which the town voted (Aug. 28, 1700) to erect; and advanced money from his private funds to aid.”^[195] He was appointed a Surveyor of Highways on 23 March 1701/2.^[196] In August 1702 he was fined 13s. 4d. for failing to appear for jury duty at “a Supreme Court of Judicature held at Jamaica.”^[197] In 1703 mention is made of Johannes Williamson possessing “a two shillinge purchas right in undevided land in Newtowne which ritt did formorly belonge to Edward Hunt,” which must refer to the present man or his son of the same name.^[198]
    Sarah (Betts) Hunt died before 26 November 1713, and Edward Hunt married secondly Elizabeth Hazard, who died (testate) 11 October 1747 at Newtown,^[199] daughter of Jonathan Hazard, of Newtown, by his wife Hannah Laurison.^[200]
    The generally reliable M.J. Hunt states, without citing a sources, that Edward Hunt received 200 acres of land from the New Jersey Society “above the Falls of Delaware,” near the present city of Trenton. This would explain his ability to leave land there to his sons Edward and Richard in his will, in which he calls himself “Edward Hunt, of Newtown, in Queens County, gentleman,” mentioning his second wife, Elizabeth, and, amongst bequests to his children leaves “to my son Edward, the land he now dwelleth on, in the County of Hunterdon, and £4, and a small iron kettle for his birth-right.” The modesty of the last bequest seems somewhat incongruous in that the will, besides disposing of considerable land, left inheritances totalling £84, and mentions several slaves.^[201]
    He married (1) by 1683,

109.   Sarah Betts, died before 26 November 1713 (the date of probate of her father’s will, in which she is called “my daughter Sarah Hunt, deceased”).^[202]

160.   Walter Harris, of Honiton, Devonshire, and of New London, Connecticut, born say 1595, died 6 November 1654 at New London, “being sicke & weake in body.” He and his wife baptized seven children at Honiton, Devon, between the years 1621 and 1636. “Walter Harris, his wife, six children & three servants” came to America aboard the Speedwell, sailing from Weymouth, Dorset, on 22 April 1637.^[203] Walter Harris and his family initially settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, then removed to Dorchester about 1648, then finally removed again to New London, Connecticut, in 1653, where he acquired a house and home-lot, out of which he gave six acres to his son Gabriel. The joint inventory of his and his wife’s estates, which were valued at just over £79, shows them to have been rather prosperous; as pointed out by the nineteenth-century historian Caulkins, “they had a better supply of pewter than is found in many early inventories, and such articles of convenience as a gridiron, chopping-knife, brewing tub, [and] smoothing-iron.”^[204] He married by 1621,

161.   Mary Fry, born say 1600, died 2 January 1655[/6] a New London, Connecticut. She was probably from Axminster, Devon, or very close by; for among other reasons, a Thomasine Fry is named as a godchild in the 1614 will of William Wyatt, of Westwater in the parish of Axminster, and (as will be shown below) Mary had a sister of this name.^[205] Her identity is proven by the will (made in 1643?) of William Fry, of Weymouth, which mentions his own “two daughters, Elizabeth & Mary,” and bequeaths “to Thomas Harris, Thomas Rawlens & John Meggs, his three sisters youngest children, each of them a kid.” In her own will, dated 1 January 1655/6 and attested by mark rather than by signature, she named several collateral relatives, including “my sister Migges,” “my sister Hannah Rawlin,” “my cosen [probably nephew] Calib Rawlyns,” “my two cosens Mary and Elizabeth Fry [clearly the daughters of her brother William],” and “my two kinswomen Elizabeth Hubbard and Mary Steevens.”^[206]
    We thus know from Mary’s will that at least three of her siblings came to New England, settling first at Weymouth, Massachusetts.^[207] They were, however, clearly unrelated to the George Fry(e) of Weymouth who died 1676.^[208]
    The 1901 Meigs genealogy states that Mary’s sister, Thomasine Fry(e), was a daughter of William Fry(e), of Weymouth, Dorset.^[209] The author appears to have been imposed upon by one of his informants, who passed on to him a garbled version of an account of the family of William Frye, of Lyme Regis (not Weymouth), Dorset, which had been published about six years earlier by H.F. Waters in NEHGR 49 (1895): 495. The children of the William Frye treated by Waters are referred to in the 1620 will of their maternal grandfather as “my daughter Sarah Fry … her three children, Tristram, William and Mary.” This cannot be a reference to the Fry siblings of New England unless Waters’ reading of the name “Tristram” is cast aside, and it is assumed, against all probability, that Hannah/Anna Fry had not yet been born. Thus, it would appear that our subjects were forcibly attached to a family of higher social status who happened to live in the same general vicinity as the Meigs family of Thomasine Fry’s husband. The subsequent connection of the Fry family with Weymouth, Massachusetts, may have contributed to acceptance of the very dubious proposition that they were from Weymouth, Dorset.

164.   Oliver Mainwaring (II), Gent., of Exeter and Dawlish, Devon, was born about 1587 (in a deposition of 1666 he is stated to have been “aged 79 and upwards”), and was heir to his father’s older brother Christopher Mainwaring, who died intestate and s.p. in 1634. He died (apparently intestate) 14 March 1672, and was buried at Dawlish.^[210] He married 1618 (an entry in the LDS Ancestral file says 21 June) at Heavitree, near Exeter,

165.   Prudence Esse (or Aishe), baptized 23 December 1599 at Sowton, Devon, died shortly before 1 October 1643, when she was buried at Dawlish, Devon.

166.   Richard Rayment (or Raymond), of Salem, Massachusetts and Norwalk and Saybrook, Connecticut, mariner and trader, died some time in 1692 at Saybrook, said to have been aged “about 90” (although ages at death in colonial records are often exaggerated).^[211] He came to America probably in 1631, and was made a freeman of Salem on 14 May 1634. He his wife Judith were members of the First Church of Salem before December 1636, and baptized seven children there between 1639 and 1653. In 1636 the town granted him a half-acre of land at Winter Harbor (now Winter Island in Salem harbor) “for fishing trade and to build upon.” In 1646 he received a further grant of 60 acres of land at Jeffries Creek (now Manchester). In 1660 he sold his quarter-share in a ketch called the Hopewell of Salem, “of the burthen of thirty tons, now … riding at anchor in the harbor of Boston.” He subsequently removed to Norwalk, Connecticut, where he purchased a house with 41 acres of land on 20 October 1662, and where, in the words of the 1886 Raymond genealogy, “he engaged in a coast-wise trade with the Dutch and English settlers on Manhattan Island.” He consequently appears a few times in New York records: in 1660 he was adjudged late on a payment of 1400 florins for a yacht called the Swarten Arent (Black Eagle) which he had purchased there; he was sued for debt in January of 1662, and lost a counter-suit.^[212]
    In 1664 he removed finally to Saybrook, a document drawn there styling him “formerly of Salem, late of Norwalk.” At Saybrook, in 1667, he was made a freeman of the Province of Connecticut. In 1668 he deeded land to his “son-in-law Oliver Manwaring.” “He had a bequest,” says Sumner, “of two thousand acres near Hartford, Conn., from Joshua Uncas, son of the famous Indian chief, in 1675.” He made a will in 1676, but did not die until many years later.^[213]
    He married by about 1635,

167.   Judith ____, living 13 October 1662, when, acting as “attorney” to her husband, she sold a house and land to their son-in-law “Oliver Mannering.”^[214]

168.   Adriaen Hegeman, born ca. 1624 at Elburg, Gelderland, d. between 27 September 1671 and 28 May 1672 in New Netherland, presumably at Midwout (now Flatbush), Kings Co., Long Island. At the time of his marriage in 1649 he was a silk-worker (syreder), of Egelantier Straet, Amsterdam, and his wife was of the Oudezijds Achterburgwall. They were still in Amsterdam on 15 January 1651, when their second son Joseph was baptized in the North Church, but were in New Netherland before 9 March 1653, when their third son, Jacob, was baptized in the New York Dutch Church. The only known document mentioning him between these dates, drawn 21 February 1652 at Elburg, states that “Dionys Hegeman, acting for himself and for his brother Adriaen Hegeman by notarial proxy given at Amsterdam, provide[s] a guaranty for the estate of the late Gualtherus Hegeman, in his life minister of Doornspijk [in the municipality of Elburg], in favor of his creditors”; this document, unfortunately, is not explicit regarding Adriaen’s place of residence at the time. But considering the unlikelihood of a transatlantic voyage with a pregnant wife in the winter of 1652-1653, we can infer that in all probability the passage was made no later than 1652.
    Following their emigration Adriaen Hegeman settled with his family at Midwout (now Flatbush), on the west end of Long Island, where he was appointed sheriff (schout) of four of the “five Dutch towns” (Flatlands, Brooklyn, Flatbush, and New Utrecht) in Kings County. He and his wife were the ancestors of most of the Hegemans of New York and New Jersey.^[215]
    He married 7 March 1649 at Sloten, by banns proclaimed 29 Jan. preceeding at Amsterdam,^[216]

169.   Catharina Margetts,^[217] baptized 4 February 1625 in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, died 1690, before 16 April, and buried from the Dutch Church of Midwout. The record of her betrothal in 1649 notes that she was “accompanied by her father Joseph Margits.” Futhermore, a notarial document, dated 28 February 1664, states, in part: “The Worshipful Adriaen Heegeman, Schout of the Villages of Amesfort [Flatlands], Breukelen, Midewout [Flatbush] and Uytrecht on Long Island in this Province … declared that as husband and guardian of Cathariana [sic] Margits he constitutes and empowers … as his attorney the worthy Sieur Joseph Margits, his father-in-law, living at Amsterdam, Holland, to demand and receive … from the Lords Directors of the Hon^ble East India Company, Department of Amsterdam, such moneys, as are due to his said wife from the estate of her deceased brother Joseph Margits, who died in East India….^[218] The inheritance forthcoming to Catharina Margetts is also mentioned in other documents of the same year.^[219] The widow “Catharina Hegemans,” with recommendation from Midwout, was received as a member of the New York congregation on 29 February 1688, but retured to Midwout on 29 September of the same year.^[220]

170.   (Capt.) Frans Janszen Bloetgoet, of Flushing, Queens Co., L.I., born in the Netherlands, possibly around 1625,^[221] died between 29 December 1676 and 1 January 1677.^[222] His marriage record refers to both him and his wife as single and of Gouda, he living on the Corten Tiendewech, and she on the Zevestraet. They were bethrothed at Gouda, but married at Reeuwyck, a small village nearby. Frans Bloetgoet is said to have brought his family to New Netherland in 1658 or 1659, shortly after the birth at Amsterdam in that year of his eldest child, Geertje. He was certainly in New Netherland on 1 January 1660, when he baptized his daughter Adriaentje in New York City. He served as a baptismal sponsor in the New York Dutch Church on 1 August of the same year. His full name, “Frans Janzen Bloetgoet,” appears in the 1662 baptismal record of his daughter Ibel. As “Francis Bloetgoet” he was sworn in as one of the three Schepens of Flushing on 4 September 1673.^[223] As “Frances Bloodgood” he appears in the 1675 evaluation of Flushing.^[224]
    In 1672 war broke out between Holland and England. In 1673 New York (which prior to the English conquest had been known as New Amsterdam) was briefly recaptured from the English and renamed New Orange. Flushing and the other English towns on Long Island were ordered to submit to the Dutch. Flushing acceeded without a struggle, and in 1674 Francis Bloetgoet, who as Riker notes was commissioned chief officer of the Dutch militia of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown, received the following warrant: “The Governor-General hath this day granted a commission to Francis Bloodgood to be chief officer of the inhabitants of the Dutch Nation dwelling in the Towns of Flushing, Heemstede, Rustdorp and Middelburgh, and their dependencies, whereby said Francis Bloodgood is ordered to make known to the said inhabitants that they, on the first notice of the enemy’s approach or the arrival of more than one ship at a time, shall repair, with their arms, immediately to this city….”^[225] The English, however, recaptured Flushing a few years later. He is said to have been “wounded in a skirmish with the Indians at White Stone.”^[226] In his very brief and simple will, dated 29 December 1676 but never formally proved, he describes himself as “Francis Bloodgood, being sorely wounded and very weak,” appoints his wife Elizabeth, and directs that she “dispose of my estate to my children according to their duties and deserts.”^[227] Administration was granted to the widow on 1 January 1676/7.^[228] Descent from Frans Janszen Bloetgoet has been used to qualify for membership in the Society of Colonial Wars.^[229]
    He married (as her first husband) 8 February 1654 at Reeuwijk (now Reeuwijkdorp), near Gouda, in South Holland,^[230]

171.   Lysbeth Jans, living 31 August 1692. She married (2) on 14 December 1679 in the Flatbush Dutch Church, Wouter Gysbertszen or Gysbrechtszen, of Brooklyn and Flushing, who was from Hilversum in North Holland,^[231] and by whom she appears to have had no further issue. There, as “Wouter Gysbed” he made his will, dated 31 August 1692 and proved 18 May 1694, leaving his entire estate to her, one of the witnesses thereto being her son-in-law John Marston.^[232]

174.   Cornelis Vonck, of Southampton, Suffolk Co., L.I., born say 1635, presumably in the Netherlands, died between January 1680/1 (when his son Hendrick was born) and March 1682 (when an inventory was made of his estate).^[233] Cornelis Vonck was at Southampton by 1657, when he appears in a list of landholders entered in the town records, his location being given as “up the hill.”^[234] He is mentioned in other such lists of 1661 [Town Records, 1:155] and 1666 [Ibid., 5:28].^[235] He purchased from Benjamin Davis a “dwelling house and 8 acres of land in January 1668 [2:54], which Howell, the town historian of Southampton, describes as the “present [1887] residence of Thomas Warren.”^[236] He sold “all his lotment in both divisions of ox pasture [for] £50” in January 1676 [2:322], received land at Sagaponack in a division of property made before June 1677 [2:69], sold 5 acres there in August 1677 [2:69], sold “2 acres in Little Plain” on 12 March 1679 [2:80] and 1½ acres on 17 March following [5:185]. On 3 November 1680 he sold “my £50 allotment at a place called Long Pond and is [lot] no. 3, and fell to me in division … being thirteen and two-third[s] acres.” [5:189-90] The deed of 17 March 1679 identifies him as “Cornelius Vonck, of Southampton, cordwainer.” His property was described in June 1679 as lying “on the west side of the range of ponds that goes from East Hampton path towards Scuttle Hole” [2:77]. The estate of Cornelis Vonck, of Suffolk Co., was evaluated at 164 pounds, 8 shillings in an inventory taken some time between January and March of 1681/2.^[237] Cornelis Vonck and his wife, through their daughter Ida Vonck, wife of Auke Reyniersen van Hegele, of Flatbush, Bushwick, and New Jersey, were direct ancestors of the eminent historian of Newtown, James Riker. He married (as her first husband) 26 December 1667 at Southampton, Suffolk Co., L.I., by a Justice of the Peace,^[238]

175.   Magdalena Hendrickse, born say 1645, still alive on 22 April 1716.^[239] The “widow Madeline Vonck,” who had possibly by then already removed with her children to Flatbush, Kings Co., Long Island (where she had three of her children baptized together on 27 November 1681) sold her husband’s homestead on 7 June 1682 to Edward White, who resold it to William Mason a week later.^[240] She married (2) (as his second wife) in 1689,^[241] apparently without further issue, Minne Johannes, of Haverstro, Orange Co., formerly of Flatbush, died by 1693, who by his first wife, Rensje Feddans, was ancestor of the New Netherland family of Minnelay or Minnerly.^[242] She married (3) in 1693,^[243] doubtless without further issue, Agias van Dyck, of Brooklyn, living 1697.

178.   Herck Syboutszen, of the “Poor Bowery,” Newtown (now Elmhurst), Queens Co., L.I., a ship’s carpenter, was born at Langedijk, North Holland, was baptized there 2 January 1620 in the Reformed church, and was still living in 1681.^[244] His birthplace has been variously misstated in the secondary literature.^[245] The correct Langedijk is the place about 4½ miles northeast of Alkmaar, and about 24 miles north of Amsterdam, where, as will be seen below, Herck Syboutsen had business dealings. Of his life before coming to New Netherland we know nothing except his place of birth, the name of his father (his mother not being named in the baptismal record), and the likelihood, based on his and his father’s names, that they were ethnicly Frisian. While a Pieter, son of Sijbet Pieter Harcks, was baptized at Langedijk on 5 August 1618,^[246] and it is tempting to identify him with the “Pieter Syboutsen” who served as a baptismal sponsor for Herck’s seventh child,^[247] this latter man is not well documented and may really have been a Pieter Sybrantsen. Riker’s Harlem says of another early New Netherlander, Sibout Claeszen, that “Sibout was no doubt cousin-german to Harck Siboutsen,” apparently forgetting that the mere fact of Sibout’s father having been a Claes Siboutszen was no reason why he should be the brother of Herck’s father, whose patronymic was then unknown.^[248] And indeed, now that we have a baptismal record for Herck Syboutszen, we know that this speculation was not only unwarranted but false.
    Additional information on Herck Syboutsen’s background is furnished by a power-of-attorney which he executed on 17 July 1647: “Harck Sybesen from Langedyck, ship carpenter … appoints and empowers … Claes Jansen Calff to ask, demand, and collect in his … name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West Indian Company [i.e. the Dutch West India Company] chamber at Amsterdam, the sum of 153 guilders, 14 stivers, 8 pennies, due him … and earned in New Netherland….”^[249] His occupation is also mentioned in the New Netherland Council minutes under date of 23 March 1649, where it was noted that “The ship De Liefde lays helpless and … needs to be sent to the West Indies for salt which is urgently needed here; and … several ships’ carpenters such as Lambert Moll, Jan Claesz van Bellecum, and Harck Syboltsz will not work on said ship belonging to the gentlemen directors of the United West India Company, for less than four guilders per day above the cost of materials, which is an unheard of wage. Thus the gentlemen directors and the council … command the aforementioned ships’ carpenters, with the first as their spokesman, to … fix the ship, and in accordance with the work done they will be paid for their labor as two honest and impartial persons shall find suitable.”^[250]
    In his marriage record, Herck Syboutsen is called a “young man from Langendyck,” and his wife, Wyntje Teunis a “young dame from Naerden,” which phrases mean that they were previously unmarried. The next known reference to Herck Syboutsen after his marriage is when he sold his house and lot “on the Island of Manhattan, near Fort Amsterdam,” in November 1643: “Harck Sybesen … acknowledged that he had sold to Barent Dircksen his house and lot, with all that is fastened by earth and nail … for the sum of 175 guilders, and a half barrel of beer as a treat….”^[251] However, he still had possession of land “on the Heeregraft on Manhattan Island” next to that of Abraham Rycker (whose son Ryck married Herck’s daughter Catryntje) on 2 January 1651/2.^[252] The Heeren Gracht (“High Street”) is now Broadway, New York City.
    It was probably in the early 1650s that Herck Syboutsen and his family relocated at the “Poor Bowery,” near Newtown, L.I., where he obtained land grants dated 2 July 1654 and 18 April 1664, for 21 morgens and 8 morgens respectively (a morgan containing about 2 acres).^[253] He appears in Newtown tax lists as “Herick Seberson” in 1666 and as “Herick Sebrson” in 1667.^[254] In the 1675 valuation he is listed as “Harrick Sibartson,” with 30 acres of “upland and meadow,” 2 horses, 2 oxen, 4 cows, and 1 swine.^[255] In the 1678 tax-list he is called “Harrick Sibertsen,” and his family contained two persons, with 22 acres of land, 6 cows, 6 horses, 10 sheep, and 2 swine; his son Sybout is no longer listed.^[256] Herck Syboutsen was not a particularly prominent citizen of Newtown, rarely if ever appearing in the town records. He was succeeded on his farm by his son Jacobus, who, dying without issue, left the property to his nephew, Abraham Lent, and the property remained in the possession of the Lent family until about 1797.^[257]
    Four of Herck Syboutsen’s sons, Sybout, Teunis, Jan, and Jacobus, who all adopted the surname Kranckheyt, left Long Island with their brother-in-law, Ryck Abrahamse, and their cousin Teunis de Key, where they became the original settlers of Ryck’s Patent, near Cortlandt Manor. Eardeley questions why they should have chosen such a strange name, which means “ill health.”^[258] We wonder if it may have been a corruption of the (very rare) Dutch surname Kranckquy.
    He married 16 November 1642 in the New York Dutch Church,

179.   Wyntje Teunisse Quick, baptized 23 July 1628 at Naarden, in North Holland, Netherlands,^[259] living 1690. Four years into her marriage, Wyntje Teunisse was the victim of an attempted rape, which resulted in a trial summarized in the New Netherland Council Minutes of 13 December 1646, in which Adam Roelantsen was charged with “having tried to violate the wife of Harck Syboltsz in her house” and “admitted in court having touched the naked breasts of Weyntjen Teunes.”^[260] Four days later, the court accepted “that Adam Roelantssen by force tried to have intercourse with her at her house and also immodestly attacked her, of which the marks are said to be still visible on her body,” and he was condemned to be flogged and banished. But “in consideration of the fact that the aforesaid delinquent is burdened with four small motherless children, and that the cold winter is approaching,” his banishment was staid,^[261] and so late as the following summer, an order was published commanding “every one to leave him free and unmolested in the performance of his duties.”^[262] When we learn from other sources that Roelantsen was the school-master, we are tempted to suspect as much pragmatism as mercy lay behind the court’s tolerance of his continued presence in the colony. An historian of education, who acknowledges the attempted rape, writes incredulously of him that “This singular vagabond seems to have had some peculiar charm for the staid burghers of New Amsterdam, for, in spite of his misdeeds, I find it stated on excellent authority that in 1647, he was appointed Provost, and in 1653, was a member of the Burgher-Corps of New Amsterdam.”^[263] Another historian, attempting to explain why Roelantsen was never forced out of the colony, writes, “Perhaps the confusion at the end of Kieft’s administration, the quarrel of Kieft with D^e Bogardus, and the change in the administration to Stuyvesant (May 11, 1647) so occupied public attention that Roselantsen was forgotten. Or possibly — to use a new name for an old thing — Roelantsen had a ‘pull’ of some sort with the new director general, for within a few weeks after Stuyvesant’s arrival we find the director and council (June 14) solemnly appointing this justly condemned malefactor to assist as provost in the administration of justice.”^[264] It is said (although without citation of documentary evidence) that after the English conquest, Roelantsen left for Virginia, and settled “near the Ohio River, not far from where Wheeling is.”^[265]

182.   Joannes Verveelen, one of the five original patentees of New Harlem, was baptized 23 February 1616 in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam,^[266] was certainly still alive on 13 March 1693, and died probably in 1699-1701, at an advanced age. From his latter career we may infer with Riker that Johannes ver Veelen was a man of some education. In the 1636 record of his betrothal at Geertruidenberg in North Brabant, he is referred to as a “from Amsterdam, soldier under Capt. Balfort.” Johannes ver Veelen apparently came to New Netherland in early 1657, allegedly preceded by his son Daniel, and “bringing his wife and daughters, and widowed mother, Anna Elkhout [sic], aged about sixty-six years.”^[267] According to Riker, he was enrolled as a burgher on 24 April 1657.^[268] The names of “Hans Ver Veelen and Anna, his wife” appear in the old, pre-1660 list of communicants of the New York Dutch Church, and as “Johannes Verveelen and Anna Tjersvelt, his wife” they reappear in a later list under date of 12 October 1664.^[269] He was serving as constable of Fordham manor in 1670, and was elected Secretary thereof in 1673.^[270] Much further matter regarding him will be found in the Revised History of Harlem, especially pp. 597-8, 678-80, in the 1900 Nevius genealogy,^[271] and scattered throughout Stokes’ Iconography of Manhattan Island, previously cited. He married 14 September 1636, in the Dutch Reformed Church of Geertruidenberg, near Tilburg in North Brabant,^[272]

183.   Anna Chatvelt [i.e. Chatfield], baptized 14 August 1612 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Nijmegen, Gelderland, who was still alive 12 October 1664. The few mentions of her in contemporary records give a somewhat inconsistent sense of her surname. It appears as “Chatvelt” in the record of her betrothal, which describes her as a resident of Geertruidenberg in North Brabant, but unfortunately fails to name her parents. It is given as “Schatvelt” and “Saertvelt” in the baptismal records of her daughters Anna (1638) and Maria (1656). She is called “Anneke Jaartvelt, Joannes Vervelen’s wife,” when in 1662 she successfully deposed in court that pursuant to an agreement signed 2 April 1660, she was owed over 419 guilders and 700 pieces of firewood by Anthony Baguyn, of New Netherland.^[273] Finally, she is listed as “Anna Tjersvelt” in a register of communicants of the New York Dutch Church, under date of 12 October 1664.^[274] Although the evidence is indirect, we are able to identify her as a member of the Chatvelt family of Geertruidenberg, founded by an Englishman named Thomas Chatfield.^[275]

184.   Pieter Cornelisz Luyster, owner of the “Poor Bowery,” Newtown (now Elmhurst), Queens Co., Long Island, carpenter, born say 1625, presumably in the Netherlands, died (intestate) shortly before 12 December 1695.^[276] Pieter Cornelisz, the founder of the Luyster family, must have come to New Netherland about 1656, as the 1687 association test of Flatlands gives his time of residence in New Netherland as 31 years.^[277] He was probably not literate, as he signs a 1660 document with a swastika-like mark, which Rosalie Fellows Bailey says “symbolizes his trade.”^[278] He lived first at Amersfoort (Flatlands), where he was elected a magistrate (schepen) in 1660, 1661, 1662, and 1664,^[279] and he is attested in the valuations of 1676 and 1683,^[280] and in a 1677 list of the members of the Dutch church.^[281] By 1668, he purchased from the Dutch Church of New York City, for 900 florins, the “Poor Bowery,” a work-farm for the poor, and also acquired the so-called Poor Bowery Island (previously known as Burger Jorissen’s Island), which thenceforward was known as Luyster’s Island.^[282] The land constituting the Poor Bowery is now covered by LaGuardia Airport.^[283] He sold a house in Flatlands and purchased another there on 29 October 1687,^[284] but he finally disposed of his property there in 1690,^[285] and removed to Newtown. Riker says that “being a carpenter by trade, he erected a grist-mill at Fish’s Point.” He is probably the Peter Cornelis mentioned in the Newtown town records, but as the name is not is very distinctive we cannot be certain, so it would be of little value to cite them here.
    After the death of Aeltje Thyssen, Peter married secondly, as her second husband, Jannetje Snediker, widow of Reynier Wizzelpenning and daughter of Jan Snediker, the ante-nuptial agreement being dated 1 January 1670.^[286] Pieter died intestate, and letters of administration on his estate were granted to his son, Cornelius Luyster, 12 December 1695.^[287] His widow subsequently released all claim to his property to his children.^[288] Her own will, mentions, as Bailey notes, “an unusual variety of gold jewelry and silver objects.”
    He married (1) before 1652, in Europe,

185.   Aeltje Thyssen, living 19 December 1658, when “Aettie the wife of Pieter Cornelissen” was among those summoned to New Amsterdam to answer charges of refusing to pay excise on wine and beer.^[289] But she died well before 1 January 1670, the date of the ante-nuptial agreement for her widower’s second marriage.

186.   Joannes Nevius, Jr., 3^rd Secretary of New Amsterdam (New York City), who came to America by March 1652, baptized 14 March 1627 in the Dutch Church, Zoelen, Gelderland, with sponsors “the wife of Bertramus Bernardinus in the place of Sara Neeff, the minister’s mother, residing at f~fort [i.e. Frankfort], the Sheriff Cornelis Maassen, in place of D[omine] Paulus Leonardus, minister at Campen [husband of Catharina Becx, the mother’s sister], and Ds. Abraham Ramakerus, minister of the Gospel at Echtelt,“^[290] died May or June 1672.^[291] Johannes went to New Amsterdam by 1652.^[292] The record of his marriage gives his and his wife’s birth places, respectively, as “Solen in de Betuwe” and “Batavia in Oostindien.” The names of “Johannis Nevius & Adriaentie Bleycks, syn huysvr[ouw]” are on in the old (pre-1660) list of members of the New York Dutch Church; a note beside her name indicates that she “removed to the Ferry.” He married (as her first husband) shortly after 18 November 1653 (the date of the intentions) in the New York Dutch Church,

187.   Adriaentje Bleyck, born at Batavia, Java (now Jakarta, Indonesia), probably in 1637, died 1672-90.^[293] She married (2) Jan Aertsen, of Brooklyn Ferry.^[294]

190.   Abraham Martenszen Clock, of New Amsterdam (New York City), carpenter and miller, born ca. 1621 (he was aged 25 on 6 December 1646),^[295] presumably in the Netherlands, died between 13 June 1665 and 17 July 1666.^[296] Abraham Clock was in New Netherland by 21 February 1641/2, when he was engaged to build a farmhouse; he signed the contract “Abram Clock.”^[297] By 1644 he went to Rensselaerswyck, where he worked as a carpenter for the next few years.^[298] But on 14 December 1650 he witnessed a document made “on the island of Manhattans.”^[299] On 11 August 1655 he was granted two lots on Pearl Street, where it met Smee Straet (now Hanover Square).^[300] In May 1660 he was was one of two men engaged to assess the value of work done in the construction of the Dutch Church of Midwout (i.e. Flatbush).^[301] “Abraham Clocq” was still alive 13 June 1665, when he was requested by the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens to investigate a legal dispute.^[302] He was dead by 17 July 1666, when Cornelis van Ruyven wrote to Peter Stuyvesant in the Netherlands: “Since you left, there have died here, to my knowledge, Abraham Klock and Hans Kierstede [the colony’s physician].”^[303]
    The names of “Abraham Clock & Tryntie Pothoft [sic; at least as published], syn huysvr[ouwe],” are in the old (pre-1660) list of members of the New York Dutch Church; a note beside her name states that she died in October 1685.^[304] As their first child was baptized in December 1651, they must have been married by Spring of that year, and as Abraham is attested fairly continuously in New Netherland for many years previous, the marriage presumably took place there. But there is no proof of his wife’s presence in New Netherland before June of that year, when a letter addressed to “Tryntie Alberts” was found in a chest belonging to the deceased Jacob Rooy on the ship Het Hof van Cleeff on his way from Amsterdam to Manhattan.^[305]
    He married by 1651, probably in New Netherland,

191.   Tryntje Alberts Pothoft [recte Potthoff?], died October 1685. She, in a manner not unusual for Dutch widows of the period, assumed her husband’s surname after his death. As “Trentje Clock” she was confirmed in her husband’s property in 1667,^[306] as “Tryntie Clocq” she was excused in 1672 for not repairing the street adjacent to this property, “since her portion of the wall [is] so large.”^[307] As “Trinkey Clock” she was assessed 6s. 3d. in the 1676 tax list of New York City,^[308] and as “Tryntie Klock” she served as baptismal sponsor for her daughter Catharina’s eldest child in 1680.

192.   Daniel Wilcox (I), of Dartmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, baptized 4 March 1632[/3] at Croft, Lincolnshire,^[309] died (testate) 2 July 1702, possibly at Tiverton, R.I. He was originally of Portsmouth. His parentage is proved by a deed from Daniel Wilcox of Portsmouth, dated 13, 2 mo. [April] 1660, conveying to John Briggs, of the same place, land on the east side of Portsmouth that had belonged to “my father Edward Wilcox.”^[310] Furthermore, in a deed from Daniel Wilcox to Edward Lay, both of Portsmouth, dated 1 August 1661, the grantor exempted a lot of land in that town where the grave of “my deceased wife” was situated.”^[311]
    Daniel Wilcox was in Dartmouth in 1664. On 3 June 1668 Daniel Wilcox and John Cooke “were given the privilege of running a ferry at Pocasset. This was the ferry at the northern end of the island, sometimes called Howland’s Ferry, about where the Stone Bridge to Tiverton was later built.”^[312] He was in Tiverton in 1692. In his will, dated 9 June 1702 and proved 25 August following, he appoints as executors his [second] wife Elizabeth and sons John and Edward. He leaves to his “eldest son” Daniel 260 acres of land in Dartmouth, and names as beneficiaries his sons Stephen, John, Thomas, “Samuel, deceased,” and daughters Susannah, Mary wife of John Earle, Lydia, and Sarah wife of Edward Briggs.^[313]

193.   (his first wife, name unknown)

216.   Ralph Hunt, of Newtown, “planter,” born say 1625, presumably in England, died (testate) February 1676/7.^[314] The name of his wife, who is not mentioned in his will and perhaps predeceased him, remains unknown, despite claims to the contrary.^[315]
    Many unsubstantiated theories regarding Ralph Hunt’s origin have been published, which we have no inclination to review in detail; but a few have so permeated the literature that something must be said against them. Hotten noted that a Ralph Hunt, aged 22 years, was transported to Virginia in 1635.^[316] Bergen quoted this statement, without suggesting that he was identical with Ralph Hunt of Long Island.^[317] But later writers such as Consuelo Furman have made the unwarranted (and unlikely) inference that the two men were identical. A recent embellishment of the notion that Ralph Hunt of Newtown was the one born “ca. 1613” who came to America in 1635 further claims that he was a Thomas and Joan (____) Hunt.^[318] These dates do not accord well with the fact that Ralph Hunt of Newtown had children who were still minors at the making of his will, and thus born after 1655.
    Another prevalent theory concerning Ralph Hunt seeks to connect him with a Thomas Hunt, who was at Newtown in 1661/2, and was doubtless the man of this name who was later of Hunt’s Point, West Farms, Westchester Co., N.Y., and died in 1694.^[319] While some authors (such as Wyman) have attempted to claim him as a brother of Ralph, this man was in America some 13 years before Ralph’s first reliably-attested appearance there, as pointed out by Mitchell J. Hunt, in whose work several other reasons for doubting such a connection are adduced.^[320]
    According to this last author, the first mention of Ralph Hunt is “his arrival on Long Island near Manhattan Island … in 1652 ‘among a party of Englishmen’,” a statement we have been unable to verify. Hunt was however certainly among the 55 persons who in 1656 purchased Indian lands at Middleburg, later known briefly as Hastings, and then as Newtown.^[321] He served as a schepen under the Dutch in 1656 and 1657, was a magistrate in 1661-63, and after the English conquest was an overseer in 1663-67, 1670-72, and 1674-75.^[322]
    In 1663, when the English towns on Long Island were contemplating a union with the English colony of Connecticut, Ralph Hunt was elected with Richard Betts and others to represent Middleburg in the clandestine negotiations, and a letter written by John Laurenson of Newtown to the Dutch governor reported him as a conspirator.^[323] In 1664, after the success of the English conquest of the island, the same men were confirmed in the major civic offices, Ralph Hunt being one of the five “townsmen,” and he was admitted a freeman of Connecticut later that year.^[324] On 21 April 1665 he was commissioned lieutenant — i.e. second in command — in the Newtown militia.^[325] On 26 February 1667 he subscribed to the building of a “sessions-house.”^[326] On 2 April 1667 he was appointed Town Constable.^[327] In 1668 Ralph Hunt was appointed one of three permanent surveyors, “and their fees were established at two pence an acre"; in 1667 he was one of seven chosen to obtain a new patent for Newtown.^[328]
    During the mid-1660s the Newtown Town Council was much concerned with defining the boundaries of the town and ensuring that the population did not become too scattered and vulnerable. Riker thought that its concern was partly stimulated “by an alarming fire that occurred about this time on the premises of Ralph Hunt, the constable, by which his dwelling, barn, out-houses, and all his effects were consumed, together with a quantity of corn that had been collected of the inhabitants as public rates.”
    The first Presbyterian Church of Newtown, according to Riker, was built in 1671 upon land “appropriated for the purpose, by Ralph Hunt … and this church remained for about forty years.”^[329]
    Our Ralph Hunt is likely the man of this name whom Bergen found in the town records of Gravesend, L.I., for 1674, making a mark to documents.^[330] The 1675 rate list of Newtown credits him with 30 acres of land, 3 horses, 4 oxen, 13 cattle, 16 sheep, and 2 swine, quite a substantial estate.^[331] His will, dated 1 January 1676/7 and proved 26 February following, made his eldest son Edward sole executor, and “Captain Betts” (i.e. Richard Betts; see no. 218 below) one of the overseers of his minor children.^[332]

217.   N.N.

218.   (Capt.) Richard Betts, J.P., of Ipswich, Mass., and Newtown, L.I., member of the Provincial Assembly (1665), High Sheriff of Yorkshire, L.I. (1678-81), Judge of the High Court of Appeals at Newtown, L.I., came by March of 1646/7 to Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts, and later went to Newtown, L.I. He was likely born around 1625, was living when he made his will on 26 November 1713, and is said to have died 18 November 1713.^[333] No convincing evidence concerning the origin of Richard Betts has ever been adduced, and there does not appear to be any documentary evidence for the frequent statement that he was at Cambridge, Massachusetts, before coming to Ipswich.^[334] Somewhat oddly for one in his evident social position, Richard Betts would seem to have been unable to sign his name, for he made an ‘x’ on a bond dated 21 September 1652.^[335]
    Richard Betts was at Ipswich before 30 March 1647, when he served as a witness.^[336] He was rated at Ipswich on 19 December 1648 for 4 shillings, a typical amount.^[337] He and his wife were still at Ipwich on 14 September 1652, when they sold land there.^[338]
    Richard Betts was at Middleburgh (afterwards renamed Newtown) by 1656, and was one of the 55 Englishmen who purchased land from the Indians at a shilling per acre, his portion, which was a typical size, being £1 10s. and thus representing 22 acres; Riker says he was the last survivor of all the purchasers.^[339] He was subsequently a grantee in the original patent of Newtown of 1666[/7],^[340] which was confirmed on 25 November 1686.^[341] Bergen says that Richard Betts had “in 1675 claimed a tract in New Lots by virtue of an Indian deed of 1663, which claim was disputed. He finally, probably under this claim, obtained a plantation on the boundary-line between Kings and Queens counties, on the main road from Brooklyn to Jamaica, afterwards owned by John I. Snediker and the dwelling-house converted into a tavern or hotel, famous in its day for the entertainment of sleighing parties and travellers.” It is apparently this house which Frost says was still standing in 1852.^[342] A fuller explanation of this matter is given in Strong’s History of the Town of Flatbush (1842):

So much of the land thus acquired as the inhabitants of Flatbush had occasion for, they took up, enclosed, and improved. The rest was left in common, until by the increase of their population it should be needed. They remained thus in quiet possession of all their lands until the year 1675, when Captain Richard Betts laid claim to a certain parcel or tract, lying in the New Lots, for which he said he had obtained a deed from the Indians, of prior date to the one just recited, given in the year 1663. We are not able to locate precisely the premises thus called in question. The matter was tried at the court of Sessions, held in Gravesend, for that year, when the deed of Mr. Betts was allowed, and a verdict given in his favor. But an appeal was taken by the inhabitants of the town, to the General Court of Assizes, which was holden in the same year, 1675, in the city of New-York. Hereupon a full and fair hearing of the case, the verdict rendered at the court of Sessions was set aside, and the court ordered, as follows:— “That the land shall lye in common to fflatbush, and the townes adjacent, as it heretofore hath been, and that the towns who have the beneffit of the comonage shall pay their equall proportion of the purchase money to the Indyans and costs of this suite.” ^[343]

Bergen’s suggestion that Richard Betts may have received his land on the Brooklyn-Jamaica road in compensation for the loss of his court-case in 1675 seems plausible enough, but we have not found evidence for it.
    Of Richard Betts the town historian, James Riker, wrote: “None in the township had been so eminent as he, for commanding incluence and valuable public service.” His varied career in public life spanned nearly thirty years. In 1656, the very year of the original English settlement, he was elected a magistrate under the Dutch admininistration, and to which office he was re-elected in 1657, 1663, and 1664.^[344] In 1663 he was made Captain of the Queens County troops.^[345] He served in the Provincial Assembly held at Hempstead, in 1665, following the conquest of New Netherland by the English in the summer of 1664, and he was also involved in the extinguishing the the remaining Indian land-claims.^[346] Since after the conquest New York adopted the laws of Connecticut, a number of men, including Richard Betts, applied to be made, and were admitted as, freemen of the latter colony.^[347] Betts was one of the three Overseers of Newtown for 1673-74.^[348] In May 1674 he was appointed magistrate for Jamaica, Long Island.^[349] In 1674, also, he was appointed to a commission “to hear and determine the differences between the towns of Piscattaway and Woodbridge.”^[350] On 30 October 1678 he received a commission as “High Sheriff of Yorkshire on Long Island” (and Staten Island, and part of what is now Westchester county), which he retained until 1681.^[351] He was a Justice of the Peace on 17 June 1682, when he performed a marriage.^[352] In consequence of his services to the colonial administration, Richard Betts has frequently been used as a qualifying ancestor for membership in the society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims.^[353]
    “Richard Betts senior” is credited with a household of four family-members (including himself) and one “negro” in the Newtown census of 1698.^[354] His will, proved 26 November 1713, reads in the published abstract:^[355]

I, Richard Betts, of Newtown, in Queens County, on Nassau Island, yeoman, being in good health. I leave to my wife Johanah, all my homestead and buildings and lot of land belonging to the same, lying between the lands of John Scudder and Richard Betts, son of Thomas Betts, deceased; Also my tract of land between the way that leads to the narrow passage and the land of Samuel Albertus, and the meadow adjoining to the same; Also all my movable estate, and liberty to get what hay she may have occasion for during her life. After the decease of my wife I leave to my son, Richard Betts, my Camlet cloak, for his birthright, and all my right and interest in lands in Plunder neck; Also my house and home lot and buildings; Also ½ of the lands and meadows that lyeth below the road, that leads from the English Kill to the Dutch Kills, bounded by Samuel Albertus and John Allen, with all the appurtenances; Also ½ the meadow land above the homestead, situate between the lands of John Scudder and Richard Betts, sons of Thomas Betts, deceased. I leave to my grand son, Richard Betts, son of Thomas Betts, my tract of land lying between the way that leads to the narrow passage and the land of Samuel Albertus, up to Newtown spring; Also ½ the meadow and upland, that lyeth between the road that leads from the English Kills to the Dutch Kills, bounded by Samuel Albertus and John Allen. All movable estate after my wife’s death to my daughters, Johanah Sander [recte Scuder; see Riker’s Newtown, p. 95 n.], Mary Swazy, and Martha Ketcham, and the children of my daughter, Elizabeth Sackett, deceased, and the children of my daughter, Sarah Hunt, deceased. I appoint my sons in law, Joseph Sackett and Phillip Ketcham, executors. Witnesses: John Donan, Hannah Field, John Gould.

    Riker, in one of his more credulous moments, states that Richard Betts was aged 100 years at his death,^[356] but as Savage trenchantly comments, “to render which great number of years doubtful, the stupidity of tradition adds, that he dug his own grave.” Despite the repetition ad nauseum in later writings of the claim that Richard Betts was a centennarian at his death, it is prima facie unlikely as it would make him 17 years older than his wife. He married doubtless by 1651 and certainly by 14 September 1652, presumably in Massachusetts,

219.   Joanna Chamberlayne,^[357] baptized in October 1630 in the parish church of Strood, Kent, living 1713. Hints as to her ancestry were discussed in 1935 by Josephine C. Frost.^[358] The problem was later raised more explicitly in a 1975 paper by Lewis D. Cook, who pointed out that Ipswich court records under date of 27 1mo. (March) 1649 state that “Richard Betts, who married Joana Chamberlin, [is] allowed as administrator of the estate of Samuell Chamberlin, brother to said Joana, who was heir to the estate.” This coincides with an entry for 30 1mo. (March) 1647, reading, “Mrs. Chamberline dying intestate … her estate … ordered to be divided, two parts to the son and one part to the daughter.”^[359] Jane Fletcher Fiske, in an important paper, subsequently developed these clues to determine Joanna’s parentage. It developed that she was brought to Massachusetts by her widowed mother, Elizabeth (Stoughton) (Scudder) Chamberlayne, along with her brother Samuel and the children of her mother’s first marriage.^[360]

328.   Oliver Mainwaring (I), Gent., of Exeter, Devon, and of Windleshaw, co. Lancaster, born say 1545-50, living 1587 but died by 1634 (for it was his son, Oliver, rather than he, who was served heir to his older brother Christopher in that year). Buck and Faris suggest that he was probably identical with “one Olyver Manwayringe, servant to the right wo[rshipful] Sr George Peckham, Knight, [who] being authorized for that purpose came in and declared the pretence and orger of a voyage pretended to the western parte of America” in 1583. He and his wife were probably parents of Mary Mainwaring, wife of Benjamin Gill of Maryland.^[361] He married by 1587,^[362]

329.   Margaret Torbock, born not long after 14 May 1558,^[363] mentioned in the 1575 will of her maternal grandmother, Jane (Legh) Gerard; living 1586.^[364]

330.   Henry Esshe (or Eshe or Esse or Aishe), Gent., of Clyst Formison (alias Sowton), Devon, in 1620, buried 8 June 1640 at Sowton.^[365] He supplied the pedigree for his family in the 1620 Visitation, which has the surname spelled “Esshe” in the body of the document, but is signed “Henrie Aysshe.”^[366] His heir was his son Richard, aged 21 in 1620. He married before 1599,

331.   Loveday Moyle, buried 2 January 1628/9 at Sowton. She is named posthumously as “my sister Lowdye Ash” in the will of her brother, Richard Moyle, of St. Austell, Cornwall, dated 1 November 1653 and proved 1 July 1654.^[367]

336.   The Rev. Hendrick (or Henricus) Hegeman, of Elburg, born ca. 1595, d. 1637 at Vorchten. He was serving as minister of St. Johan’s Church, Elburg, in 1604, and minister of the Reformed church at Vorchten, a village in the municipality of Heerde, Gelderland, between 1624 and 1637. Meanwhile, for part of this time he attended Franeker University, where he is recorded as a student on 26 May 1617; we do not know for certain whether he graduated. His second wife, whom he married (as her first husband) by 1633, was Maritgen Berents van Marle; a document of 21 February 1652 names “Egbert Berents of Zwolle” as “tutor of the minor children of the late Hendrick Hegeman, procreated by Marricken Barents, his wife.”^[368] He married (1) before 1624,

337.   N.N., probably died by 1633.

338.   Joseph Margetts, of Utrecht and Amsterdam, diamond-cutter, born ca. 1593, presumably in England, died aged 82 years, shortly before 27 May 1675, when he was buried in the yard of the Noorderkerk (North Church), Amsterdam.^[369]
    Joseph Margetts was evidently living in Utrecht in 1614-22, when his first five children were born; the records of the English Reformed Church there do not survive before 1632, which probably explains our failure to find baptismal records for them. He took his family to Amsterdam in 1621 or in the first half of 1622, and the first mention we find of him there is in the consistory minutes of the English Reformed Church on the Begijnhof.^[370] His name appears in a list, dated 17 August 1622, of “persons who brought witnesses of their good conversation and desired to be received members of the church” as “Joseph Margates, factour, dwelling by the Lily Sluse; [with] testimony fro[m] the church of Utrecht.”^[371] From this first appearance in 1622 his name occurs in all the membership lists until 1674, in which it was afterward stricken out and the word “obyt” written beside it; in these lists his surname is written Margett, Marget, or Margets with about equal frequency.^[372]
    Although ostensibly offering only an English-language version of Calvinist services, this congregation in fact maintained an unusually strict rule and generally recruited its pastors from among the exiled English Puritan ministers who were always in plentiful supply. One consequence of its punctiliousness was the keeping of a register of infractions of regulations and of absences from communion; these records make for wearisome reading but a fairly extensive sampling of them failed to locate further references to Joseph Margetts.^[373] Nor was mention found here or elsewhere in the records of his wives or children, who were apparently never members; none of his four children born at Amsterdam were even baptized there. Although the church on the Begijnhof had a burial ground, Joseph Margetts did not buy a plot there, perhaps because the protocols may not have allowed his family to be buried with him.^[374]
    In seventeenth-century Netherlands, widowed parents were required to register with the Orphans’ Chamber, to protect their children’s inheritances from misappropriation by any future step-parent. Joseph Margits, then living “behind” the Westerkerk (West Church), did so on 2 May 1635, listing his children as Joris (21), Lysbeth (19), Maria (17), Machtelt (15), Lambertgen (13), Catrijntgen (10), Anna (7) and Joseph (5). Their inheritance of 500 guilders (a considerable sum) was to be administered by a maternal uncle.^[375]
    Joseph Margetts is called “Joseph Mergis, from London, widower of Annetje Waerdenburgh” in the intention of his second marriage in 1635. He married (2) by Amsterdam marriage intention dated 31 March 1635,^[376] Geertruijt Jacobs van Drielenburch,^[377] “from Dort” (i.e. Dordrecht), living 1 January 1651, widow of Hendrik Vermarten. Eleven years later he was sufficiently established in Amsterdam to be listed in the Poorter Boeck (Register of Citizens), where, under date of 8 June 1646, he is described as a diamond-cutter from London.^[378] (Citizenship was normally required before a person could engage in trade or hold membership in a guild.) The marriage records of his daughters Elisabeth (1647) and Catharina (1649) give their places of residence as the Oudezijds Achterburgwal (to use the modern spelling), which was the second earthen wall on the old (i.e. east) side of the city. On 1 January 1651 “Joseph Margits” and “Gertruit Margits” served as baptismal sponsors for his grandson Joseph Hegeman, baptized in the Norder Kerk.^[379] At the time of his death at an advanced age in 1675 Joseph Margetts was of the Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal, “near the Nisel.”
    He married (1) before 1614,

339.   Anna van Weerdenburch,^[380] who died in 1630-35.

350.   Hendrick ____, whose first name is inferred from the patronymic of his daughter Magdalena (no. 175). He married (as her first husbnd), almost certainly no later than 1648,

351.   Catharina Cronenberg, born before 1631, died between 27 November 1681 (when she served as a witness at a baptism) and 25 March 1695 (the date of her second husband’s will).^[381] She married secondly, Jan Teunissen Dam.

356.   Sijb Sijbes,^[382] of Langedijk, North Holland, Netherlands, alive on 2 January 1620 when his son Herck was baptized in the Reformed Church. The record of this child’s baptism makes no mention of the father’s occupation, or of the mother’s name; and the baptismal register, which has been very capably indexed, contains no other children of the same father, nor does it contain a baptism for the father himself (possibly because it only begins in 1603). As Herck later used the patronymic Syboutsen, a fuller version of his father’s name would apparently be Sijbout Sijboutsen. Sijb Sijbes has not been found under any possible spelling in the Langedijk marriage register, which however suffers from a most unfortunately timed gap from 1617 to 1626, nor has he been found in that of nearby Oudkarspel, which begins in 1603.

357.   N.N.

358.   Theunis Thomasz Quick, of New Amsterdam (New York City) by 1640, carpenter, was born say 1605, and was still alive in 1668. We give only a brief account of him, as he has already been thoroughly treated in print.^[383] He and his wife were the ancestors of the Quick family of New York and New Jersey, but as with many other Dutch families, the children did not all adopt an hereditary surname. Their probable son Aert, and all of their daughters, used their patronymic of Teuniszen or Teunisse. At the time of their marriage he and his wife were both of Naarden, in North Holland, Netherlands. He married 9 March 1625 at Naarden,^[384]

359.   Belitgen Jacobus van Vleckesteyn, living 1673. The name of “Belitje Jacobs, h[uysvrouw] v[an] Theunis de metselaer,” is in the old (pre-1660) list of members of the New York Dutch Church.^[385] Her surname of Vleckesteyn is not used in her marriage record, but appears in some of the references to her in records of New Amsterdam.

364.   Daniel ver Veelen, of Amsterdam, was baptized 26 February 1595 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Cologne, and died shortly before 9 September 1624, when he was buried in the Choir of the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam,^[386] although there does not appear to be any surviving monument to him there. Daniel ver Veelen was brought by his parents to Amsterdam some time in 1611-13. Riker states that he “became a shopkeeper,”^[387] but his marriage intention (with a few illegible passages indicated here by ellipses) reads, in translation: “Appeared as before Daniel Vervelen, from Cologne, aged 21 years, [for] 3 years residing on the Singel, next to the Golden Spoon, assisted by Hans Vervelen and Catharina Janssens his father and mother…, and Anna Eelhoút, from Cologne, aged 24 years, [for] 3 months residing on the Oude Zyds Afte[r]burghwal, having no parents.” Their periods of residence are, in a style not uncommon at this time, written partly in French, and the Oudezijds Achterburghwal — the outer city wall on the old (i.e. east) side — appears under an old spelling. Both parties write a fluent, practised hand, Anna’s being distinctly more sophisticated than that of most of the women who sign the register during this period.
    The last record we have found mentioning Daniel in life is on 26 March 1621, when “Anna Elhaut wife of Daniel ver Velen,” served by proxy as a baptismal sponsor for Gerard, son of Gerard van de Cruyse and his wife Elisabeth Elhout, Anna’s sister. At his burial in 1624 Daniel ver Veelen’s address is given as the Keysersgraft.
    He married (as her first husband) shortly after 30 May 1615 (the date of the intention, declared at Amsterdam),^[388]

365.   Anna Eelhout,^[389] baptized 11 November 1590 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Cologne, living 1663. More than seven years would pass after the death of her first husband before “Anna Eelhaút widow of Daniel Vervellen” was betrothed, on 19 September 1631 in the Dutch Church of Amsterdam, to her second husband, Abraham Boots. Presumably she is the “Anna Boots” who served as baptismal sponsor for Anna, daughter of Jacob Janss de Lange and Maria Verveelen on 1 April 1642. She came, probably in 1657, to New Harlem with her son Johannes, and as her second husband is not found in New Netherland records it is likely that Anna had by then been widowed a second time. The statement by Riker that at the time of her arrival she was “aged about sixty-six years” agrees with the date of her baptism, but may have been based on knowledge thereof. She was still alive on 21 April 1663, when as “Anna Eelhout” she served in the New York Dutch Church as a baptismal sponsor for Anna Maria, daughter of her grandson Daniel Verveelen.^[390] Her surname is given as “Eelhaut” in her marriage intention and as “Eelhout” in the baptismal records of five of her children.

366.   Lt. Thomas Chatfield (known in the Netherlands as Chatvelt),^[391] of Geetruidenberg, was certainly born in Sussex, probably about 1568, and was still alive in June 1636. According to the classic Chatfield article by Elizabeth French, “He is named as of age and received a portion in goods by the will of his father in 1594, and he also received £50 by the will of his uncle, George Chatfield, in 1599/1600.” The 1633-34 visitation of Sussex describes him as being “in the Low Countryes,” mentions his wife only as “a Dutch woman,” and lists his children.^[392] A great advance in our knowledge of Thomas Chatfield was made by H. Wijnaendts in 1933, with his discovery of this man’s (first) will, made — somewhat prematurely, as it would transpire — on 19 August 1606 at Delft in South Holland, before the notary Dassigny. In it, the testator is described as “Thomas Chatfild [sic], born at Chichester, ensign [vaendrich] in the company of Capt. Jacob Astely.” This was clearly before any of his children were born, as he names as heir his nephew “Laurens Chatfild, sergeant under Capt. Prijs [presumably Price], in the garrison at Briele,” i.e. Brielle in South Holland. He also mentions his “brother, Robert Chatfild, presently at sea on the ship named De Hoope, absent from Amsterdam, on which he has been in service as a lieutenant.”^[393]
    Thomas Chatfield and his first wife were at Bergen-op-Zoom in Noord-Brabant, in the extreme south of the United Netherlands near the Spanish territories, at the baptisms of their children Henry and Josina in the Dutch Reformed Church in 1620 and 1623. In the baptismal record of the first child of Thomas Chatfield and Paulina van Oudenhoven, the father is described as “Thomas Chatfield, lieutenant under Mielis,” the commanding officer alluded to being the child’s godfather, Henry “Mielis” (i.e. Meoles). Further light is thrown on Thomas Chatfield’s whereabouts during these years by the notarial records of Bergen-op-Zoom. On 31 December 1620 “Thomas Chadfild, lieutenant under Meoles” was a petitioner (requirant) before the court.^[394] On 13 October 1622 “Thomas Chatfield, lieutenant under Meels” served as witness at a military trial.^[395] On 23 June 1623, “Thomas Chatfieldt, lieutenant under Meoles, in the garrison at Zuidfort” was a party in a lawsuit,^[396] and on 14 December 1623 “Thomas Chatfield, lieutenant under Meoles” was, with (his wife) “Paulina van Aldenhoven,” a party in a separate lawsuit.^[397] On 30 May 1634 at Geertruidenberg he made a new will, in which he is described as “Jr. [Jonckheer] Thomas Chadtfilt, lieutenant in a company of foot-soldiers under Capt. Henrick Mioliss,” and his [second] wife is named as Idia Blanckaerts. He stipulates that his wife shall be repaid a debt for £1400 owed by the testator’s brother, “Jr. Joris [i.e. George] Schadtfilt, residing in Sussex” (Zuytschex).^[398] The reference to a brother George agrees with the Visitation pedigree. Finally, on 8 June 1636, “Jr. Thomas Schatfielt, lieutenant in an company of English footsoldiers under Capt. Miolis at the garrison of Geertruidenberg,” deposed in a notarial document that he empowers his brother “Jemis [i.e. James] Schadtfield,” citizen of London, to collect a purse of money the next time he comes to the garrison at “Baersweeck” (presumably Berwick).^[399]
    He married (1) 14 April 1609 (betrothed 22 March 1609) in the Dutch Reformed Church of Den Haag, South Holland,

367.   Paulina van Oudenhoven, born say 1586-1591, who was still alive on 14 Dec. 1623 (see above), but who died before 1 January 1633 (when her husband was betrothed to his second wife). She was a daughter of Gillis van Oudenhoven, of Den Haag, by his wife Anna van der Elst.^[400]

372.   Ds. Johannes Neeffius, Jr.,^[401] pastor of Zoelen (in the seventeenth century known also as Soelen), in Gelderland, said by a son-in-law to have been born at Frankfort-am-Main,^[402] baptized 13 November 1594 in the German Reformed Church, Cologne, as a son of Hans Neeff and Sara Lenert, with sponsors Matthes [sic] Neef from Solingen, Herman von Manheim, and Maria Lenerts,^[403] died about 1636,^[404] evidently at Venlo, in Zuid-Limburg, possibly of the plague which infected that place from November 1635 through April 1636.^[405] In adulthood, this man consistently latinized his surname as “Neeffius,” and he appears as such not only in entries in the Zoelen churchbook dating from the time of his ministry, but in a letter from him to the Dutch Reformed Church of Utrecht, dated 1 July 1624 and signed “Joh. Neeffius.”^[406] In contrast, his son Johannes used the form Nevius, while the other son Matthias, despite being a minister himself, reverted to the original form of the name, Neeff. Since as a Reformed Domine he must have held an academic degree, there can be little doubt that our subject is identical with the “Joannes de Neef, Amsterdamensis” recorded somewhat inconsistently in the registers of the University of Leyden as of age 14 years in 1608 and of 13 years in 1609, a suggestion first made so long ago as 1859 by a Dutch historian,^[407] and also suggested as “probable” by Honeyman and assented to by De Mott, who obtained a verification of the readings of the ages in the original records.
    Our subject’s own testimonials as to his taking up the ministry at Zoelen, and his retirement from that post, have been quoted by Honeyman, who gives further details of his career.^[408] On 13 June 1619 he was invested by Johannes Serojen as minister of Zoelen, where he served for over fourteen years,^[409] and where all five of his known children were baptized. On 1 January 1634 he was transferred to Venlo, in Limburg.^[410] We have not yet explored the possibility of whether he and his wife could have had further children born after leaving Zoelen, but it will be noted that he died within two years of his move to Venlo. Johannes Neeffius and his wife were parents of the distinguished poetess, Sara Nevius (1632-1706).^[411] He was betrothed 25 July 1625 at Zoelen, and married 7 August following at Kampen, in Overijssel,^[412] to:

373.   Maria Becx, baptized 1 April 1595 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Cologne, the sponsors including an Anna Becks,^[413] living 29 May 1651 (when she served as a baptismal sponsor for her granddaughter, Anna Maria Vege; see below). The clear clues as to her identity supplied in Honeyman’s 1900 Nevius genealogy (pp. 44, 45) resulted in the discovery of her baptismal record and its publication in the IGI more than a quarter-century ago; and the widespread perpetuation of the false claim that she was a daughter of another Pieter Becx, of Cologne, and his wife Gerdraudt Diepenbroecks, is inexcusable. In 1637, about a year after the death of her husband, Venlo was invaded by the Spaniards. The widowed Maria Becx returned to Amsterdam, where she placed her daughter Sara in a French School.^[414]

384.   Edward Wilcox, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, son of Daniel Wilcox of South Elkington, Lincolnshire (which Daniel’s wife was possibly named Isabel), was baptized 12 February 1603[/4] at South Elkington, and was still alive in May 1638.^[415] His first wife, Mary ____, “who died evidently following childbirth and was buried at Croft, Lincolnshire, 27 June 1630.”^[416] His name occurs in a list of the inhabitants of Portsmouth made on 20 May 1638, which gives the date of his admittance as 2 April 1638.^[417] As Fiske notes, he was evidently dead by 13, 2 mo. [April] 1660, when his son Daniel Wilcox sold land which had belonged “to my father Edward Wilcox” (see below). Given the chronology, it seems likely he was the “Eduwaert Wilcock” who before September 1645 had purchased land on the East River in New Netherland, as recited in a deed of 1652.^[418] He married (2) 12 May 1631 at Orby, Lincolnshire,

385.   Susan/Susanna Thomson, probably the one of this name baptized 6 September 1607 at Orby, daughter of Amos Thompson (sic), presumably by his wife “Carynthaphuch” Jackson (whose exotic name is obviously a misspelling of that of Keren-Happuch, mentioned in Job xlii:14).^[419]

656.   George Mainwaring, of Exeter, Devon, his parents’ third son.^[420] He married before 29 March 1548,

657.   Julian Spurway. She is named as “my daughter Julyan Manweringe wiffe of George Manweringe” in the 1548 will of her father. This will also names two sons, and it is clear from the Spurway pedigree in the 1620 Visitation of Devon that the son Thomas, at least, survived and left issue, so that the statement in the Mainwaring pedigree in the same Visitation that she was her father’s heiress is impossible.^[421]

658.   William Torbock, Esq., lord of the manor of Tarbock (succ. 1554), in the parish of Huyton, co. Lancaster, born about 1526 (aged 28 on his father’s death in 1554), living 14 May 1558 (when he made his will), and died s.p.m.s. soon after. He had two sons who died during their parents’ lifetimes, and two daughters, his heiresses except in the entailed manor of Tarbock, which passed to his younger brother, Edward.^[422] He married by 1556,^[423]

659.   Katherine Gerard, whose memorial notes that she “o.s.p.m.” (i.e. died without male issue).^[424] She would appear to have predeceased her mother, whose 1575 will makes bequests to Katherine’s daughters.

660.   Richard Esshe (or Ashe), of Sowton, Devon, born ca. 1531 (aged 24 years at the proving of his father’s will in 1555), buried 12 September 1591 at Sowton.

661.   Prudence Rudgeley, buried 25 August 1591 at Clyst Formison (alias Sowton), Devon, daughter of John Rudgeley, of London.

662.   Richard Moyle (the younger), of Trevissick, in the parish of St. Austell, Cornwall, buried 17 August 1589 at St. Austell.^[425]

663.   Mary Kendall, buried 5 December 1573 at St. Austell.^[426]

672.   Jacob Lambertsz. Hegeman, of Elburg, born say 1565, still alive 24 September 1625. He is mentioned as nephew of the famous colonel Wolter Hegeman in the eighteenth-century manuscript genealogy of the Feith family. A document dated 11 April 1595 at Elburg states that “Jacob Hegeman and Arntgen Feiths, his wife, have sold 1½ acres of land to Bettgen Hegemans, his sister. They also sell a house situated in De Scherpingsland for the amount of 50 half-crowns.”^[427] He married 20 September 1590 at Elburg (according to the manuscript Feith genealogy, although the original register for this period does not survive),^[428]

673.   Arntgen (or Aertgen) Feith, born say 1565, died shortly before 28 February 1651, when she is referred to as “the deceased Aertien Hegemans” in the settlement of her estate. The old manuscript Feith genealogy calls her Arntjen, and it seems likely that she was named Arntgen, after her paternal grandfather.

718.   Jacob (van) Vleckesteyn, of Naarden, in North Holland, Netherlands, born say 1570-75, named as “Jacques Vleckesteyn” in the Naarden schepen registers, under dates of 13 June 1608 and 18 May 1612.^[429] As well as his daughter Belitje who appears as no. 359 above, he had at least one other daughter, who as “Geertgen Jacobus Vleckesteyn, unmarried woman, from Naarden,” married 14 November 1616 at Naarden, Willem Willemss, unmarried man, from Scotland, who was perhaps a soldier in the Scots Brigade.^[430] Given that he had a daughter of marriageable age in 1616, he himself cannot have been born much later than 1580, and was probably born somewhat earlier.

719.   N.N.

728.   Hans ver Veelen,^[431] of Cologne and Amsterdam, born say 1568 at Antwerp (now in Belgium), was still alive on 6 November 1629, when as Hans Vervelen he purchased property on the Reguliershof in Amsterdam from Jan Hoeck.^[432] At Cologne he was consistently referred to as “the elder” to distinguish him from another, somewhat younger, man of the same name to whom he does not appear to have been related closely, if at all.^[433] He was probably not a member of the Dutch congregation of Cologne before 1592, as there is no mention of him in the meticulous consistory minutes of the Dutch Church.^[434] His first known appearance there is on 4 April 1593, the date of his betrothal, the record of which reads in part (our translation): “1593. On the 4^th of April were betrothed by Hermannus Faukelius: Hans Vervelen, young man, son of Carle [i.e. Carel], of Antwerp, and Lynken Janssens, young dame, daughter of Jan Janssens, of Antwerp. The bridegroom, being without father and mother, was assisted by Hans Coris and his wife Lynken de Witte. The bride with her mother Lynken Olivier and Peter Dablyn…. The proclamations being completed, they will be affirmed in the marital state by the minister of Elverfelt.”^[435] The marriage was to be performed by the pastor of Elverfelt (modern Elbertfelt, since incorporated into Wuppertal), in the Duchy of Berg. The record is somewhat ambiguous as to whether the Olivier surname belonged to the bride’s father or mother, but the question is settled when the wife of Hans ver Veelen is given the surname Oliviers in the baptismal records of several of her children (1595, 1599, 1611).^[436]
    Hans ver Veelen took his family to Amsterdam some time between the baptism of his daughter Anna in January of 1611 and that of his son Hans in April of 1613. An arrival date of about 1612 is suggested by the statement in his son Daniel’s 1615 marriage intention that the latter had been living on the Singel for three years. He was alive on 26 March 1621, when “Hans Vervelen” and “Anna Elhaut wife of Daniel ver Velen” served, both by proxy, as sponsors for the baptism at Cologne of Gerard, son of Anna’s sister Elisabeth Eelhout and the latter’s husband Gerard van de Cruyse. However, he is possibly the “Hans Verellen” (sic) who was buried 24 Dec.1648 from the Waalse Kerk.^[437]
    He was betrothed after 4 April 1593 in the Dutch Church, Cologne, ^[438] and married 25 April following at Elberfeld (since incorporated into Wuppertal), in the Duchy of Berg,^[439]

729.   Catharina Jans Oliviers, from Antwerp, living 1631 and probably 1638, daughter of Jan Jansen Olivier, of Antwerp, by his wife Catharina ____. She was still alive on 1 April 1631, when as “Catharina Vervelen” she witnessed the betrothal of her daughter Anna. As “Catrÿna Jans dr.” she witnessed the baptism of the latter’s daughter Catalyn on 2 December 1632, and as “Catrina ver Velen,” that of another daughter, Catharina, on 6 July 1638.

730.   Guiljaume Eelhout, of Cologne, was born say 1560, and was still alive in June 1611. As “Guiljaeme Elaut” he was received into the Dutch Reformed Congregation of Cologne on 7 July 1587, with a letter of recommendation from the ministers of Ghent (in East Flanders), and sponsored by David van de Piedt, whose wife would subsequently be a sponsor for Guiljaume’s first child born in Cologne.^[440] He was later also vouched for by Anthoine Balbien,^[441] the other sponsor of the same child.
    A careful examination of the register of the Dutch Church of Cologne has revealed no record of his marriage, and he and his wife may have been married before their arrival in that city. Guiljaume’s surname is given as “Elaut” in the baptismal record of one of his children (1588), and as “Elout” in two others (1590, 1597). “Guilame Elout” was elected an elder of the Dutch congregation on 14 May 1590, and fulfilled the usual one-year period, which ended 4 June 1591.^[442] As “Guiljam Eloút” he served as a baptismal sponsor in the Dutch Church for a child of Anthoine le Cat on 24 November 1593, and as “Guillam Eloút” at the baptism of four adults on 22 November 1599.^[443] The name of “Guilliam Elaút” — who was perhaps serving in the role of clerk — is appended to two entries in the baptismal register of the Dutch Church in May and June of 1611, but there are signs that the register has been recopied, and while these “signatures” indicate that he could write his name, they are not to be regarded as original.^[444] None of these records make any mention of his occupation.
    Eelhout and his wife likely died or left Cologne not too long after 1611, as they did not serve as baptismal sponsors for any of the known children of their daughter Elisabeth, wife of Gerard van de Cruys. One wonders whether they may not have accompanied their daughter Anna when she removed about 1611 to Amsterdam, but no confirmation of this possibility has as yet come to light. The marriage intention of this daughter, dated 30 May 1615, refers to her as “geen ouders heeben” (having no parents), so ostensibly they were then deceased.
    He married certainly before 1588, and almost certainly before 1580,

731.   Johanna van Steene, born say 1565, living alive in 1604 (when she served as a witness at the marriage of her daghter Johanna), of unknown parentage, whose surname is known only from the baptismal record of her daughter Anna (1590). A “Jeanne Steen” served as a baptismal sponsor in the French Reformed Church of Cologne on 6 Nov 1604,^[445] but whether this was the same woman, we cannot say.

744.   Johannes Neeff, of Cologne and Frankfurt, merchant, born say 1565-70, alive in 1612 (when he had a child baptized) but dead by 1624 (when his daughter Margaretha is referred to in her marriage record as his “surviving daughter.”^[446] The widely-repeated claim that he died 9 September 1602 at Frankfurt-am-Main is based on a misreading of the record of his acquisition of the burgher-right of Frankfurt (see below). Johannes Neeff was in Cologne by 1 April 1586, when the consistory minutes of the Cologne German Reformed Church record that inquiry is to be made whether Hans Neff, “who brings recommendation from Antwerp, is of good character and presents no threat to the congregation” (welcher zeugnuss von Antwerpen aufgelegt, dass er sein bekantnuss gethan hab, sich verhalte, damit er der gemein nit gefehrlich sei).^[447] Johann Neef, Handelsmann von Köln, obtained the burgher-right of Frankfurt 9 September 1602,^[448] which suggests that he had been resident in the town for at least a year prior to that date; and he became a cloth merchant in the Töngesgasse.^[449] Johannes and his wife were at Frankenthal, in the Pfalz, for the baptism of their son Abraham in 1603, but their four youngest children were baptized at Frankfurt between 1604 and 1612. This underscores the unlikelihood of the statement — even though it is a contemporary one — that Johannes Neeff was of Amsterdam in 1608 and 1609.^[450] The indexes to all Amsterdam baptisms for 1564-1610 show no children for this couple, and the index to all Amsterdam burials for 1553-1650 shows no persons of these names.
    When “Hans Neeff and Sara Lenert” had a son Johannes baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church of Cologne in 1594, one of the sponsors at this event was “Matthes [sic] Neeff, from Solingen.” It is interesting that at Solingen (in the Duchy of Berg), a place not far from Cologne, we find a “Johan Neff” listed in the minutes of the estate court under date of 15 May 1577,^[451] but unfortunately other documents from so early a period are not available to us and this clue has not been pursued.^[452]
    Johannes Neeff married by 1594,

745.   Sara Lenaerts, born say 1570, living 14 March 1627, when as “Sara Neeff, the minister’s mother” she served by proxy as a sponsor at the baptism of the eldest child of her son Johannes (the minister) at Zoelen.^[453]

746.   Pieter Becx, of Cologne (now in Nordrhein-Westfalen), merchant, born say 1565-70, living 1596. Pieter’s daughter Maria’s marriage record of 1625 calls him “S[ieur] Pieter Bex, burgher and merchant” (borger & coopman) of Cologne.^[454] He should not be confused with two contemporary men of the same name in Cologne, whom we plan to treat in a forthcoming article. Despite the absence of any mention of them in the consistory minutes, the membership of Pieter Becx and his wife in the Dutch Reformed Church of Cologne may be presumed from the baptisms of their children there three children there during the years 1593-1596.^[455] Established somewhat precariously in the midst of a Catholic archbishopric, this congregation consisted largely of refugees, many of whom came from Antwerp after its fall to the Spanish in 1585. It was heavily persecuted at the onset of the Thirty Years’ War in 1618, and although Pieter Becx and his wife remained until at least 1625, they may have eventually joined the stream of emigrants to Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and other places. But our subject is probably not the “Pieter Becx, merchant at Frankfort” who served as a baptismal sponsor 21 October 1632 at Zoelen for his grand-daughter Sara Nevius, for this sponsor was more likely a younger man of the same name. He married certainly by 1593 and probably by 1591,^[456]

747.   Catharina Becx, born a Becx as her surname is so given in the baptismal records of her two younger children, while surrounding entries in the same register list the mothers’ surnames differently from the fathers’. She was doubtless the “Catharina wife of Pieter Becks” who served as a baptismal sponsor for a child of “Carle” (i.e. Carel) Groenendael in the Dutch Reformed Church, Cologne, on 28 (?) December 1593.

1312.   William Mainwaring, probably of Wichmalbank (or Wych Malbank), in the parish of Nantwich, co. Chester. The statement made by a grandson in the 1620 Visitation of Devon, that he was “William Manwaring of Namptwich, 3[^rd] son of Randle [recte Ralph]” is in pretty good agreement with a statement made by a great-grandson, in the 1613 Visitation of Cheshire (1909), 159, that he was “William Manwaring of Wichmalbanke, sixt[h] son of Randall [sic] Manwaring of Carincham,” and they concur in making his wife a Titley or Tytley.^[457]

1313.   Margaret Tytley, said in the 1613 Visitation of Cheshire to have been daughter of Humphrey Tytley, of Titley, in the hundred of Nantwich, Cheshire, armiger.^[458] Unfortunately, little is known about this family, and no connected pedigree can be given.^[459]

1314.   Thomas Spurway, Mayor of Exeter, Devon (1540-41), M.P. for Exeter (1542), and Receiver-General to the Marquess of Exeter, born 1481-83 (aged 56 in 1538 or 1539), died 1548, between 29 March (when he made his will) and 8 May (when it was proved). The History of Parliament states, “He was born at Tiverton, of a gentle family with a tradition of service to the Courtenay earls of Devon, and this he followed until 1539 when the Marquess of Exeter was arrested for treason. His ‘great credit’ with the marquess did not harm him, for he was put in charge of the forfeited estates; he was also given the administration of some of the lands of two queens [i.e. Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr]. It was after his marriage to the daughter of a former mayor of Exeter that Spurway was made a freeman, and on his father-in-law’s death he went to live in Lewis’s house in St. Martin’s parish. For a number of years he reconciled the demands of a civic career with his position as the marquess’s representative, but he was no longer filling the second when he was elected to Parliament…. He may have had a hand in the election for Exeter to the next Parliament of his colleague in Catherine Parr’s service, John Grenville.” In his will, he mentions his “daughter Julyan Manweringe wiffe of George Manweringe.” The arms of a grandson are given in the 1620 Visitation of Devon as argent, on a bend sable, a mullet between two garbs of the field, quartering argent, a lion rampant between three cross crosslets fitchée vert [for Spring].^[460] He married (1) ____ Lewis (sometimes called Joan although we do not know on what grounds), daughter of Geoffrey Lewis, Mayor of Exeter, of St. Martin’s parish in that city. He married (2) Amy Gale, of Crediton, who subsequently married secondly, Walter Staplehill, M.P., by whom she had further issue.^[461] It is not clear which of these wives was the mother of his daughter Julian.

1315.   (one of the wives of Thomas Spurway)

1316.   Thomas Torbock, Esq., lord of the manor of Tarbock (succ. 1505), in the parish of Huyton, co. Lancaster, born about 1497 (aged 8 years at his father’s death in 1505), died 20 September 1554.^[462] According to Faris, he had two sons and three daughters. He married by 1526,

1317.   Elizabeth Moore.

1318.   Thomas Gerard (Jr.), Knt., of Kingsley, in the parish of Frodsham, co. Chester, and of Byrn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, co. Lancaster, Sheriff of Lancashire (1548, 1553), M.P. for Lancashire, born 1511-12 (aged 12 years in 1524), knighted in 1544 during the invasion of Scotland, living 1550.^[463] According to Faris, Thomas Gerard and his wife had one son and one daughter. He married before 1526, when both parties were children, but divorced November 1550 (4 Edw. VI), his second cousin (through the Savage family),

1319.   Jane Legh, born not before 1514.^[464] The 1575 will of “Dame Jane Gerard, of Bromley,” widow, mentions her “son’s [i.e. son-in-law’s] children” Margaret and Frances Tarbock, and brothers Sr Peter Legh, Knight, and George Legh.^[465]

1320.   Nicholas Ashe (or Esshe), of Clistformison, Devon, died 4 April 1552.^[466] A “Nicholas Asshe,” with no relationship mentioned, witnessed the will, proved 24 October 1550, of Richard Pollard, of Horwood, who according to the account of the Pollards in the 1564 visitation of Devon was brother to Nicholas’s wife.^[467] He and his wife, through their son James, were ancestors of H.M. Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother.^[468]

1321.   Joanna Pollard, named in the 1552 inquisition post mortem of her husband, whom she survived. Paget states that she died 16 June 1587.

1324.   Richard Moyle (the elder), possibly of Trevissick, in the parish of St. Austell, Cornwall.^[469]

1325.   Anne Watts, daughter of William Harry Watts.

1326.   Lawrence Kendall, lord of the manor of Withiel, near Bodmin, Cornwall, living 1555 but died by 1580, when he is called defunctus in a release of property by his son Nicholas.^[470] He married contracted by about 1540,^[471]

1327.   Katherine Mundy. About 1540, in expectation of her marriage, her uncle, Thomas Mundy alias Wandsworth, Prior of Bodmin, arranged for her and her future husband to be granted the manor of Withiel, with the advowson of the church, for ninety-nine years. This was obtained through a promise to the brethren of a large sum of money, which they never received. The prior, in his 1549 will, was so shameless as to bequeath “all suche debts as my preste and farmer owe me to Lawrence Kendall my nevewe and to Kathrin his wife.”^[472]

1344.   Lambert Jacobs Hegeman, of Elburg, born say 1545, died before 5 October 1611. He was owner of a house and land at Elburg, and of a farm called Witborncamp at Elspeet, in the municipality of Nunspeet, in Gelderland. The eighteenth-century manuscript genealogy of the Feith family implies that he was a brother of the famous colonel Wolter Hegeman, a hero of the Dutch resistance.^[473]

1345.   N.N.

1346.   Hendrick Arntsz. Feith, probably still alive in 1570. The old manuscript Feith genealogy states that “he was generally known as Henrick van Holthe,” having been named for his maternal grandfather. If true, this may explain the paucity of contemporary references to a Hendrick Feith.^[474]

1347.   Erwertjen van Hoeckelom. The old manuscript Feith genealogy calls her “Erwertjen van Hoeclum or Heukel,” but does not name her parents.

1456.   Carel ver Veelen, of Antwerp in Flanders (now Belgium), born say 1535-40, apparently died by 1593. He is named as the father of Hans ver Veelen (no. 728) in the latter’s marriage record of 1593, but he (along with his wife) was evidently then deceased as the record refers to the bridegroom as being “without father and mother.”^[475] The entry for his marriage reads, in full: “Carel Verueelen [&] Syken Hermans, co[m]p. ix Nove[m]br[i]s [md]lxiii [i.e. 1563],” but the last number is clearly a mistake as the entry is surrounded by entries written “[md]lxii” and so must really belong to 1562.^[476] Further mention of him in the records of Cologne (where indeed he may never have lived) has not been found. The manuscript index to baptisms in the parish of Sint Jacob, Antwerp, 1566-1601 (Antwerpen PR 42) lists no entries for the surname Verveelen or similar spellings. He married 9 November 1562 in the Sint Jacobskerk, Antwerp,

1457.   Lucia (“Syken”) Hermans. As pointed out in the Gens Nostra piece, Syken was a nickname for Lucia, and the present woman had a granddaughter named Lucia ver Veelen.

1458.   Jan Jansen Olivier, of Antwerp, probably died by 4 April 1593.

1459.   Catharina ____, living 4 April 1593, when she accompanied her daughter Catharina (no. 729) at the latter’s wedding.

1490.   Lenaert Lenaerts, of Cologne, spice merchant, is said to have been born 3 June 1542 at Rutten (near Tongeren in Luik, now in Limburg), and died 4 April 1597, during a trip to Frankfurt-am-Main, and buried there in the Peterskirchhof, under a memorial that still stands.^[477] He is said to have been a son of a Johannes Leonards, of Rutten. He is commemorated by a monument in the Peterskirchhof, Frankfurt-am-Main, although he surely died before his family ever lived in that city. Although his name is given as “Leon. Leonhardi” in the Latin inscription on his tombstone, and a document mentioning his son calls him “Leonardus de Leonardis,” it is clear from the majority of contemporary references to him that he did not Latinize his name, as indeed was customary only for pastors, professors, or physicians. His arms are depicted in an heraldic painting at Fraeylemaborg and recorded for three grandsons (sons of his son Ds. Paulus de Leonardis) in the armorial registers of the Gelderland-Overijssel students’ associations of various universities in the early seventeenth century. He is possibly the man designated merely as “Leonart” (with various spellings) who is mentioned regularly in the consistory minutes of the Cologne German Reformed Church from 2 January 1576 onward. He is surely the Leonart Leonarts (etc.) who appears regularly from 21 December 1577 through 30 August 1593 (when he retired as an elder), with sporadic reappearances through to the end of the surviving minutes in Jan. 1596. Lenaert Lenaerts and his brother Carel Lenaerts accompanied his son Hans at the latter’s betrothal on 6 November 1593 at Amsterdam. Lenert Lenerts was a sponsor on 1 April 1595 at the Cologne German Reformed Church for a child of [his daughter] Anna Lenaerts and Jan Fassijn. Lennert Lennertz was a sponsor on 20 May 1595 at the same church for a child of [his daughter] Maria Lenaerts and Wilhelm Engels. He married certainly by 1570, and probably by 1566,

1491.   Margaretha van Sassenbroeck, said to have been born 3 June 1545 (though this does not agree with her stated age at death, and she is assigned the same birthday as her husband), died 29 April 1618 at Cologne “in the 74th year of her age” (i.e. aged 73 years), and buried on 1 May following in the Geusenfriedhof (in Dutch literature known as the Geuzenkerkhof) at Lindenthal, the burying-ground of the Dutch Protestants outside the city of Cologne. She is said to have been the only child of Jan van Sassenbroeck, of Liège/Luik, by his wife Anna Berchmans. She is called “Margar. Sassenbroics, Leodiensis [from Luik]” on her memorial in the Peterskirchhof, Frankfurt, on which her date of death is either not given or appears on an eroded area of the stone. If she ever actually lived at Frankfurt, it would probably have been because of the presence of her married daughter Sara there. “Margeritte, widow of the deceased [vefue de feu] Leonard Leonardsen,” was a sponsor on 11 December 1604 at the Cologne French Reformed Church with [her son-in-law] Jehan Fassing. “Margret witwe van L. Lenaerts,” was a sponsor on 15 March 1607 at the Cologne German Reformed Church. “Witwe L. Lenaerts” was a sponsor on 16 February 1609 at the same church.

2624.   Ralph Mainwaring, the purchaser of Kermingham, co. Chester, his parents’ third son, died probably in 1473-74 (13 Edw. IV).^[478]

2625.   Margaret Savage, widow of John Maxfield.^[479]

2632.   William Torbock, lord of the manor of Tarbock, in the parish of Huyton, co. Lancaster, knighted by George, Lord Strange, in Scotland, during the expedition of 1497, born about 1464 (aged “about 25 years” at the death of his elder brother, Henry, in 1489), died 5 May 1505.^[480] According to Faris, he had three sons and one daughter. He married (arranged Jan. 1490),^[481]

2633.   Margery Stanley.

2634.   William Moore, of “Bank Hall” (or “Bank House”), at Kirkdale, in the parish of Walton, co. Lancaster, an adult by 1492, died 30 July 1541, seised of the manors of Kirkdale, Bootle, and Eccleshill, etc., held by a 24^th part of a knight’s fee, his heir being his son John.^[482]

2635.   Alice Ireland, died 1536.^[483]

2636.   Thomas Gerard, Knt., of Byrn in Winwick and of Ashton, co. Lancaster, of Bromley, co. Stafford, and of Hooton, co. Chester, born about 1488 (aged 6 years at the death of his father in 1494), slain 7 November 1523 fighting the Scots at Berwick-upon-Tweed, dying testate (will dated 13 September 1522) and apparently v.p. The Victoria History of Lancashire describes him as a “turbulent and lawless man,” and details various quarrels and assaults in which he was involved.^[484] Faris notes that he was heir to his grandfather and an uncle, and that his will (which we have not seen) refers to his wife, four [unnamed] younger sons, and four daughters.^[485] His son William was the great-grandfather of Thomas Gerard (1608-1673), an immigrant to Maryland.^[486]

2637.   Margaret (or Margery) Trafford, died 10 May 1540. She married (1) 1492, Nicholas Longford, of Longford, co. Derby. She married (3) John Port (or Porte), Knt., of Etwall, co. Derby, Justice of the King’s Bench.^[487]

2638.   Peter Legh (VI), of Lyme in Handley, Co. Chester, and Haydock, in the parish of Winwick, co. Lancaster, was born about 1479 (aged 48 at his father’s death in 1527), and died 4 December 1541 at Bradley. He married (1) as a child, before 1488/9 (the date of a post-nuptial settlement), Jane, died 5 May 1510, daughter of Sir Thomas Gerard, of Bryn, co. Lancaster.^[488] There is no doubt that his daughter Jane, our ancestress, was a daughter of the second wife, Margaret de Tyldesley. He married (2) about 1 January 1514 (the date of the dispensation),

2639.   Margaret de Tyldesley, rather dubiously said to have been a daughter of Nicholas de Tyldesley, of Tyldesley, in the parish of Leigh, co. Lancaster.^[489]

2640.   John Ashe (or Ayshe), of Clistformison, Devon, born about 1468-69 (he was aged “aged 26 and more” at the death of his father in 1495).^[490]

2641.   Thomasine Maynard.^[491]

2642.   Anthony Pollard, of Waye and Horwood, Devon, born ca. 1481 (aged “23 and more” at his father’s 1504 inquisition post mortem).^[492] According to the 1564 Visitation of Devon, he and his wife had one son and six daughters.

2643.   Petronell Chudleigh, daughter of James Chudleigh, Esq., of Ashton, Devon.^[493]

2648.   John Moyle, of Cornwall, possibly of St. Austell.^[494]

2649.   Agnes Vivian, daughter of John Vivian of Chipons, Cornwall.

2652.   Walter Kendall, of Pelynt, Cornwall, died 14 July 1547, i.p.m. 1 Edw. VI. He was J.P. for Cornwall during the reign of Henry VIII.^[495]

2653.   Jane Rous, daughter of John Rous, of Medbury.

2654.   John Mundy (the younger). His brother (or half-brother?), Thomas Mundy, the corrupt Prior of Bodmin, brought him into Cornwall and, in anticipation of the dissolution of the priory, made him a long lease for ninety-nine years of the manor of Rialton, which thereafter, for a century or so, became the family seat of the Mundys. They held it until the Civil War, when it was seized by the Commonwealth, and the family afterward sunk from the ranks of the gentry.^[496]

2655.   Joane ____ (?).^[497]

2688.   Jacob Hegeman, of Harderwijk, Gelderland, of unknown parentage, born ca. 1520, died before 28 December 1571. He was a member of the St. Jorisgilde (St. George’s guild) of Harderwijk in 1553, deacon and alderman of the Holy Sacrament guild in 1555, a trustee of the orphanage in 1555, alderman (schepen) in 1561 and magistrate (burgemeester) in 1564.^[498] He married allegedly 22 April 1544 at Harderwijk (but the surviving church registers only begin in 1591),

2689.   Else (or Elsgen) Cornelisse, said to have died 1593 at Harderwijk. “Elsgen, widow of Jacob Hegeman,” is mentioned in documents dated 28 July 1578 and 27 September 1578. A document of 1 April 1589 states that “Else, widow of Jacob Hegeman, gives a hundred half-crowns to Jan, illegitimate son of the late Wolter Hegeman, her son. She owns a house in the Bruggestraat….”

2692.   Arent Johansz. Feith, of Elburg, born say 1520, died in 1561-66. On 6 February 1546 he brought a suit against his uncle, Berend Dibboltsen Feith, over the distribution of the inheritance of his uncle Albert Feith, as recorded in the of Elburg gerigtsboek. He was alderman (schepen) of Elburg in 1556, and magistrate (burgemeester) in 1558-1561. He was dead by 1566, when the minutes of the Lepers’ House at Elburg record that the heirs of “Arent Ffeijdt” were continuing to pay his annual contribution.^[499]

2693.   Aertgen van Holte (or Holthe). Although she has been persistently referred to as Arendje in secondary sources, the only contemporary reference to her which has been cited calls her Aertgen. She was a sister of Gerrit van Holthe, magistrate (burgemeester) of Elburg, who was ancestor of the van Holthe family admitted to the ridderschap of Drenthe in 1814.^[500]

2694.   Gerrit van Hoeckelom, sheriff (schout) of Doornspijk, in the municipality of Elburg, Gelderland, in the first half of the sixteenth century, living 1545, when he brought a lawsuit against Wichman van Wijnbergen, but died before 1553, when he is mentioned as deceased in the will of his brother Goossen van Hoeckelom, pastor of Elburg. “Gerryt Hoeckell,” judge in Oldebroek (a village three miles east of Elburg), is mentioned under date of on 20 December 1530 as having communicated with the father of the sister convent at Elburg (“Gerryt Hoeckell, richter in den Oldenbroicke, bericht den pater van het zusterconvent te Elburch…”) (Elburg Regestenboek, entry no. 894), although we are not sure whether this was the same man.

2695.   Margariet (“Grietje”) Vonck, living 1553, when she is mentioned in the will of her brother-in-law, Goossen van Hoeckelom.