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Record for Hendrickje Ant Swartwout
Family name history
If we are all descendents of the same Tomys Swartwout, how did we end up with so many variations of the spelling of the name? There are a number of factors that could have affected the spelling that your branch happens to be currently using.
A footnote in Chapter 1 of the Swartwout Chronicles provides the following: Zwarte, also written swarte, a Dutch adjective, meaning black, and agreeing with the neuter substantive woude, also written wout, of the same language, signifying a wood or forest. There is also a Dutch noun, hout, expressing wood or timber as material. The Dutch words woud and hout are closely allied in meaning to the German terms wold or wald, and holt or holz.
It was the early census takers that really split the family up. They used their phonetic capabilities to write down the name as the head of the family said it. Dutch accents would have their impact on what was heard. And once they wrote it down for one family, they would use the same spelling with any of the related families they ran across. Of course, the census taker on the other side of the village or county may have written it differently, splitting the family on the spelling.
The first several generations of the family spoke Dutch and their records are recorded in that language. Some of the earliest written records we have in English are found in the 1790 census. In many of the following generations the number of individuals that may have been illiterate would have been higher, and many still would not have been comfortable speaking English. What the census taker wrote down could have been the first time they saw the name in print. It would have been this spelling that people would have used when applying for their Veterans' and Widows Benefits from the Revolutionary War or copied down in the family Bible.
The spelling Swartwout when heard in the Low Dutch Tongue, sounded like Swartwoudt and anyone not familiar with the Low Dutch Tongue, could easily hear it as Swartwood. In the early days of America, many people spelled words as they sounded. So the name Swartwout was often translated and written down as Swartwood. Given the close meanings and the very similar sounds, it's pretty easy to see how a census taker could have readily chosen any one of the four options. A breathy h or w would be easily missed, or the writer may have been attempting to Anglicize the name by changing the word to its English equivalent of wood.
Zwartewoude or Zwartewold, the present tract of land bearing that name, is described as lying in the canton of Holwerd, arrondissement of Leeuwarden, district of Ferwerderadeel, quarter of Oostergoo, in the province of Friesland, bordering northwest on the highway from Hijum to Hallum, northeast on the Hallum canal, southeast on the Hallum meadows, and southwest on the Hallum lake, and having an area of five English acres and certain fractions of an acre.
Some families changed the name for convenience. I have heard a story of one man that was tired of his mail getting mixed up with the Swarthout down the street, so he dropped the H to make it easier for the mailman! And I have now communicated with an individual who changed her name from Swartwout to the literal translation of Blackwood!
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Record for Roeloff Thomase Swartwout
From Records
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Occupation: Sheriff Of Ulster
Father: Thomas (Tomys) SWARTHOUT (ca1607-)
Mother: Hendrickjen Barentse OTSEN (1610-)
Misc. Notes: Came to America with parents in March 1652
Was appointed first Sheriff of Wiltwyck (Kingston)
Will dated 30 March 1714
pg 178: Listed on the passenger list of De Bonte Koe (The Spotted Cow), Captain Pieter Lucasz, April 15, 1160: Roeloff Swartwout, farmer. [On his return to New Netherland, where he had previously resided.]114
In Indian fight June 7, 1663; member of General Leisler's Council of War with France.
Roeloff Swartout, son of Tomys and Hendrickjen Otsen Swartwout, was born in Amsterdam , Holland and baptized there 6/1/1634. He came to America with his parents in March 1652. In 1656, Roeloff paid a visit to Beverswijch, by which name the present city of Albany was legally known until 1664. On account of the crescent form of the bank of the river at this point this hamlet was called the Fuyck or Beversfuych, and it was Fuyck by the Dutch for many years after it had passed into the hands of the British. Here it is related, he met Eva Albertse Bratt, widow of Antoine de Hooges and mother of several children and on finding himself enamored with the attractive widow, he married her. His father, Tomys, attended the wedding on August 13, 1657.
Having decided to become a resident of Esopus, near Kingston, Roeloff made a voyage to Holland to buy Agricultural instruments. He sold and mortgaged about all he owned to raise the necessary money. He returned from Holland on De Bonte Koe (The Spotted Cow), Captain Pieter Lucasz. With him he brought in his employ, Cornelius Jacobez Van Leenwen; Arent Mertensz and Ariaen Huijbertsz from Guilderland. While in Holland, he made efforts to obtain a local Court of Justice and pastor for Esopus. While in Amsterdam he asked the lords of the West India Company to appoint him sheriff (Schout) of the settlement. He received the appointment and when he returned to America, the Director General was very angry over the appointment because he had not been consulted and wrote to Holland objecting. He received a letter back from the lords of the West India Company giving him a severe reprimand for his criticism of the appointment. This appointment completed the organization of the first Court of Justice in the County of Ulster.
Elsewhere in Swartwout Chronicles, we are told that Roeloff was an "enterprising and respectable young man." He must also have had some temper for in 1663 he was suspended from office for writing "an insulting letter" but he must also have had strength to ackowledge a fault for he apologized to his superiors.
Roeloff Swartwout, Warnaer Hoornbeeck and Eva Alberts witnessed/sponsored the 27 Apr 1679 baptism of Claertie de Hoges, daughter of Johannes de Hoges and Margriet Post in Kingston, Ulster Co, NY.
From 1689-90 he held the position of Justice of the peace and Collector of Grand Excise of Ulster County.
His second objective in visiting Holland had been to obtain a settled pastor for Esopus, and it was apparently accomplished for we are told "On March 4, 1661, Thomas Chambers, Cornelius Barentsen Slecht, Gertruy Andries, Roeloff Swartwout, Alaerdt Heymensen Rose and Juriaen Westvael agreed in writing to give Blom (the Dutch pastor) as salary for the first year, to commence 9/5/1660, the sum of 700 guilders in corn, at beaver valuation in case his farm should fail, we promise further to put the farm in good order according to contract as soon as the land has been allotted and raise that sum at the latest for the coming farming season.
Having rented a bouwerij (farm), embracing 43 morgens (or about 86 acres) belonging to Jacob Janse Stoi's widow, whose husband had been killed by the Indians at Esopus in October, 1659, Roeloff Swartwout occupied it shortly after his return from Holland.
The first Lord's Supper was held 12/28/1660 at which both Roeloff and wife, Eva, were among the 17 participating.
The town of Hurley, Ulster Co., which was to be the home of Roeloff Swartwout for the remainder of his life is described in "History of Ulster Co., NY" as lying on the west of the territory and as being bounded on the north by Woodstock, on the east by Kingston, on the south by Rosendale and marbletown and on the west by Marbletown and Olive. The settlement of the town dates back to about 1662 when several patents were granted upon the territory of Nicuro Corp. Fifty years later, we find the name of Barnardus Swartwout among the members of the corporation. In 1674, we find a complaint was filed against Roeloff Swartwout by a magistrate, Louis DuBois, charging him with settling in the Flat Land contrary to Governor's orders.
What follows was copied from O'Callahan's "Documentary History of New York": "Captain Milborn - Friends and Brothers - After cordial salutation, yours of 5 April is shown to me. I have got as much maize as I could find which I send up to your Honor with Theunis Pieterson's Yacht. I am busy getting as much money from the Kinn's revenue as will satisfy the people from whom I had the corn. The number will appearby the list in the letter. touching the election of two delegates from our country, it shall be done on the 15th inst. I was put off until your Honor's arrival here. I feared a contest about it, I admit. It ought to be a free election for all classes, but I would be loath to allow those to vote or to be voted for who have refused to this day to take their oath, lest so much leaven might taint that which is sweet of our hed men, from Pieter d'laney. There is yet no further news from sea. I expect quick progress and good success against the French, our enemies both by water and by land. I shall expect to see your Honor's arrival here in the yacht coming soon. Finally I commend your Honor to God's protection and remain, your Honor's servant to command... signed Roeloff Swartwout.
The life of Roeloff and wife seems to have been an ideal one for those times. They were evidently prosperous, public spirited, and religious, while living through all the vicissitudes of life in the new world. About the year 1689, Eva died. Two years later, Roeloff married, in the city of New York, Francijntje Andries, widow of Abraham Lubbertszen. Surviving his second wife, he died in Hurley in May 1715.
From "The Early History of Kingston and Ulster Co., NY" published by the Ulster County Historical Society, Marbletown, Kingston, NY, 1975: "Circumstances surrounding appointment of roeloff Swartwout as the first schout (sheriff) of Wiltwyck (Kingston) are of interest. On 15 apr 1660, the directors in Holland informed Stuyvesant that "One Roeloff Swartwout, who now comes over with some other men and farmers, to settle at the Esopus and engage in agriculture, has petitioned us here for the office of sheriff at the place, and although it is premature in our opinion, we have granted the aforesaid request to encourage the man and promote justice." Swartwout was the son of Tomas [sic] Swartwout of Fort Orange (Albany). Roleoff had left Fort Orange, made a trip to the Netherlands and was now about to return to Niew Netherlands and settle at Esopus. It is presumed that Swartwout may have secured the office through influence of his wife's connections. She was the widow of Anthony de Hooges who had served as secretary of the colony of Rensselaerwyck.
What follows is from the "New York Historical Manuscripts-Dutch Kingston Papers," Vols. I and II (1661-1667): On January 3, 1671/2, Roeloff Swardwoudt informs the honorable court that he, Warnaer Hoorenbeecz, Johannes de Hoogens and Daniel Pruine, while returning from marbletown, between Hurley and Marbletown, found a fire on a wood path and near it 4 savages busy cooking something and judging from their language they were southern savages which they themselves acknowledged. They asked Swardwoudt and the whole company whence they came and Johannes De Hoogens answered, "froz Waeewaersink" and the aforesaid savages said they also intended to go to Waewaersink and after much talk they said to the savages, "Go with us to the Dutch houses," whereupon the savages said, "We shall follow you." And for the purpose of making the savages follow them, they took one of their rifles. And they, seeing that the savages did not follow them, returned right away to the spot and found the savages gone. They could see by the burning of the fire that the savages had departed shortly after them and maintain that the savages are planning mischief and therefore informed the honorable court. Captain Chambers proposes the necessity of keeping watch. The honorable court orders a watch of 4 men until further orders because the messenger remains away beyond the time. Capt. Chambers proposes the necessity of having the village closed as per the decree.121
SWARTWOUT, Roeloff, a resident and freeholder of Beverwyck, until 1660, when he was appointed first sheriff of wiltwyck, at the Esopus; 1663, suspended from office on account of an insolent letter, on making an apology restored; 1689-90 appointed justice and collector of the grand excise of Ulster county. He married Eva Albertse, daughter of Albert Andriese Bratt, and widow of Antony de Hooges, of Beverwyck.116, pg 170Marriage13 Aug 1657, Beverswyck (Albany), New Netherlands
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History
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About two years later, on August 13, 1657, de Hooges's widow Eva entered into a marriage contract with a man named Roelofs Swartwout, who had arrived in New Netherlands in 1652 and had come to Fort Orange/Rensselaerswyck a few years later. Well-educated and ambitious, Swartwout had dabbled in various projects there before marrying the widow of de Hooges, a woman who was at least several years older than himself. This marriage brought him social standing and connections, but also the debts that de Hooges had left behind with his premature death. For his own part, Swartwout was all too willing to take on more debt, which often left him heavily mortgaged, chronically overextended, and even in hardship - especially with the large family he and Eva produced.
A year or two after their marriage, the couple relocated to "the Esopus," as the Dutch community along Esopus Creek south of Fort Orange/Rensselaerswyck was called.61 This area was a new frontier for the Dutch, who had only recently established a town on the abutment overlooking the newly opened farmlands extending to the west. This town, first called Wiltwyck (Wild Woods), was later renamed Kingston. The rich and easily cultivated land in the vicinity of Wiltwyck appealed to the Dutch, including Stuyvesant, as a potential source of provisions for the town at the mouth of the Hudson. Swartwout and his new wife seem to have maintained homes in both Beverwyck and the Esopus for awhile. The former was presumably the de Hooges house that would have become Eva's by inheritance, although just before her marriage Eva may have been living nearby at the corner of Beaver Street and Broadway.62
The house in Beverwyck was chiefly used for business purposes or rented out and was later sold off with other property Anthony had owned when Swartwout needed money. In any case, the younger de Hooges children, including Johannes (about 3 to 7 years of age when his mother married Swartwout), lived primarily at the Esopus after about 1659 and then raised their own families there. Eva and her second husband are listed among the celebrants at the first communion at the new church at Wiltwyck on December 26, 1660. Swartwout bought a village lot in Wiltwyck in 1662, then a lot outside the palisade that the town erected for protection on its nicely elevated but isolated site.63
Swartwout had become the local schout (similar to sheriff in the English system) through interesting circumstances. He went to Amsterdam in 1660 and personally persuaded the West India Company to appoint him, but Peter Stuyvesant objected on the grounds that Swartwout was immature and inexperienced. Swartwout used his influence, though, and the Company overruled Stuyvesant in 1661. (A schout, similar to the English sheriff, maintained order, prosecuted certain crimes, and with several elected representatives helped to set policy.) His career as schout had its ups and downs, as he lost his office for a time and struggled economically, but later he regained some of his authority. Fortunately, no one in the Swartwout family was killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the second Indian raids on the settlements along Esopus Creek and at Nieuw Dorp (later called Hurley) on June 7, 1663. This time, Swartwout played a role in organizing the defense. 64
Six years later, in 1669, Swartwout and his family moved a few miles west to Nieuw Dorp, where they lived in the village itself and owned two lots outside of it. The Swartwout's continued to work their fertile farmland (eventually about 40 acres) on the north side of Esopus Creek, probably producing hops, rice, and grains like the other Dutch farmers in the area.65 In addition, Swartwout himself maintained his involvement in local politics. By now Johannes de Hooges might well have been living on his own, but he was not married until 1675 - to a woman, Margaret {Post} de Hooges - who was born in Nieuw Dorp. 66
Swartwout played a small role in a big event in New York's early history, and Johannes de Hooges may have had a cameo role in the same event. Roelofs Swartwout was an enthusiastic adherent of Jacob Leisler, a militia captain who led what is sometimes termed a "rebellion" during the late 1680s. Civil government in New York unraveled in 1688 in the wake of the Glorious Revolution in England, when William and Mary became the new monarchs and colonial administration was far from people's minds. With a vacuum in the colony's leadership, Leisler stepped forward to maintain order or usurp the crown's power, depending on one's perspective. Leisler primarily attracted support from those who were not members of the commercial, political, and social establishment, and he was also strongly anti-Catholic.
After about two years with Leisler in command, a new governor arrived and restored royal authority. Leisler and a lieutenant were executed for treason, and Leisler's supporters came under suspicion. Because Swartwout had been elected to the General Assembly as a Leisler supporter, he too was arrested and sentenced to death, but his sentence was not carried out and he was pardoned in 1699. Johannes de Hooges was commissioned a captain by Leisler on December 26, 1689, and it is logical to think that he too was a Leisler supporter - all the more in view of Johannes's close relationship and business partnerships with his rather ambitious stepfather. There is no record of Johannes's being accused or arrested, however.67
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U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Eva Albertsen Bradt
Name: Eva Albertsen Bradt
Gender: Female
Birth Year: 1630
Spouse Name: Anthony De Hooges
Spouse Birth Place: Ho
Spouse Birth Year: 1620
Marriage Year: 1643
Marriage State: NY
Number Pages: 1
Source Citation: Source number: 226.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JST.
Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.
Description: This database contains marriage record information for approximately 1,400,000 individuals from across all 50 United States and 32 different countries around the world between 1560 and 1900. These records, which include information on over 500 years of marriages, were extracted from family group sheets, electronic databases, biographies, wills, and other sources
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U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Eva Albertsen Bradt
Name: Eva Albertsen Bradt
Gender: Female
Spouse Name: Anthony De De Hooges
Spouse Birth Place: Ho
Spouse Birth Year: 1620
Marriage Year: 1647
Marriage State: NY
Number Pages: 1
Source Citation: Source number: 671.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: HAM.
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Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.
Description: This database contains marriage record information for approximately 1,400,000 individuals from across all 50 United States and 32 different countries around the world between 1560 and 1900. These records, which include information on over 500 years of marriages, were extracted from family group sheets, electronic databases, biographies, wills, and other sources
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U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Roeloff Swartwout
Name: Roeloff Swartwout
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Ho
Birth Year: 1634
Spouse Name: Eva Bradt De Hooges
Marriage Year: 1657
Marriage State: NY
Number Pages: 1
Source Citation: Source number: 35.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: BRO.
Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.
Description: This database contains marriage record information for approximately 1,400,000 individuals from across all 50 United States and 32 different countries around the world between 1560 and 1900. These records, which include information on over 500 years of marriages, were extracted from family group sheets, electronic databases, biographies, wills, and other sources.
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Roeloff Swartwout
Name: Roeloff Swartwout
Year: 1657
Place: New York, New York
Source Publication Code: 1736
Primary Immigrant: Swartwout, Roeloff
Annotation: The Yearbook has details of the Society, and on pp. 42-66 is a section entitled "Ancestors and Descendants." This lists original settlers in New York and their progeny. Each original settler arrived between 1624 and 1664. The list changes slightly from ye
Source Bibliography: THE DUTCH SETTLERS SOCIETY OF ALBANY. Yearbook, vol. 45, 1974-1977. Albany, New York: the society, [1977], pp. 42-66.
Page: 55
Source Citation: Place: New York, New York; Year: 1657; Page Number: 55.
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Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
Description: Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,838,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Roeloff Swartwout
Name: Roeloff Swartwout
Year: 1660
Place: New Netherland
Source Publication Code: 714
Primary Immigrant: Swartwout, Roeloff
Annotation: Contains passenger listings mentioned in Lancour, A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825 (1963), nos. 72-76, 78B, 79, 81-83, 83 note, 85, 87A, 88, 89, 98(1), 100, 102(1A), 104-106, 107A, 110-111, 111 corr., 112-114. Includes index to ship names, place names, and about 10,000 personal names, with variant surname spellings. Tepper, in nos. 9120, 9135, 9143, 9144, and 9151, has similar lists.
Source Bibliography: BOYER, CARL, 3RD, editor Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825). Newhall, CA: the editor, 1978. 333p. 4th pr. 1986. Reprint. Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD, 1992.
Page: 123
Source Citation: Place: New Netherland; Year: 1660; Page Number: 123.
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Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
Description: Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,838,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.
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Record for THOMAS (Tomys) Swartwout - The Swartwout Chronicles, by Arthur James Weise - Ship info, DE BONTE KOE (THE SPOTTED COW) Sailed 16 April 1660 from Amsterdam, arriving New Amsterdam - Roeloff Swartwout info, Excerpt from It's About Time, Vol. IV, by Bill DeCoursey, New Brighton, Minnesota, 2000.
The Swartwout Chronicles
by Arthur James Weise
PREFACE
"When the author of these chronicles began searching for information relating to the ancestors of the Swartwout Family, none of its members had any knowledge of the place or places of residence in the Netherlands of the one who settled in New Netherlands in the sixth decade of the seventeenth century. Accepting certain heresays as true, some of his American offspring believed that they were respectively the descendants of two or more brothers who had come in that century from Holland with their households to occupy and cultivate tracts of bush-land bordering the river explored in 1609 by Henry Hudson. An ensnaring fiction later induced others to receive the coat-of-arms of the Edinburgh Blackwoods as that of the Swartwout Family.
The descent of the members of the different American branches of the family, now writing the cognomen Swartwout, Swarthout, Swartwout. and Swartwood, is distinctly traceable to Tomys Swartwout, who, in 1655, was appointed a schepen (magistrate) of the court of Midwout (Flatbush) on Long Island. .
The object of Major William Merrill Swartwout in having these chronicles published in the attractive form in which they appear -- there being only one hundred copies of them printed -- is assuredly noteworthy. Believing that a memorial history of the Swartwout Family in Holland and America would more advantageously perpetuate a knowledge of the public services of its members than any monument, he considerately leaves with the readers of this work the determination of the judiciousness of his choice of the means to accomplish that purpose. .
In a sojourn of three months in the Netherlands, the author found many rare and valuable records in different depositories of church registers, municipal documents and state papers concerning important information relating to the ancestors of the family. A visit to the site of "het Zwartewoude"( the Black Wood), originally diversifying the northern part of the Low Countries known first as Frisia, and later called Friesland, afforded him and enjoyable view of the extent of the land once the manor from which the family derived its topographic name. There and in the vicinage of the Black Wood, the emblematic bearing of the Swartwout escutchein were early seen on escutcheon and standards conspicuous in the battles in which the valorous Frisians repeatedly discomfited the forces of foreign invaders, for, since the time of the Latin historian Tacitus, that ancient stalwart race of Germans has had renouwn for its love of independence. .
The political eminence of the Frisians in the Middle Ages is remarkably substantiated by the fact of their adjudicating differences arising between the inhabitants of one part of the country and those of another by the agency of arbitration commissioners. The constitution of the arbitration commission , of which, in 1338, Otto Swartewold of Drenthe was a member,is historically described as having been honored with the singing of "great number of triumphal songs" by assemblages of gratified people. The ennobling character of the state-craft adopting this laudable method of settling sectional disagreements was signally heightened by the moral excellence and superior intelligence of the commissioners. The scroll of parchment on which the awards of the commission were engrossed, on June 30th, that year, in Latin, is preserved in the Imperial Archives of the province of Groningen, and of which a photo-engraved copy is displayed on the two pages of the first chapter of the Swartwout Chronicles. .
"The protective manner in which officers were selected to administer the affairs of the city of Groningen was manifestly conductive to the maintenance of good government. A body of well-born and upright men, called as early as 1324 the Wisdom of the City (deWijsheid der Stadt), and a century later the Sworn Commons (de Gezworene Meente), possessed the exclusive right to determine the eligibility of citizens to be municipal officers. In 1580,John Swartwolt was a member of the college of local sages, as he was afterward,and also as was Herman Swartwolt. .
"In the long war with Spain, the Frisians heroically perpetuated their native invincibility on the many fields of battle. In 1580, when the enemy besieged Steenwijk, the daring achievement of Arent Swartwolt in extinguishing the flames enveloping the palisades protecting a gateway of the walled town, which the foe had surreptitiously set on fire on a dark night and then guardedly covered with the guns of a concealed body of a sharp-shooter, is still admiringly recounted by Dutch historians. .
"Tomis Swartwout and his brothers Wybrandt and Herman were the first of the Frisian Swartwolts to write the surname conformable to modern Dutch orthography. They were evidently the first Hollanders to engage in the wholesale business of buying and selling in the Netherlands tobacco cultivated by colonists in Virginia and New Netherland. The fact of their dealing, in 1629, in Amsterdam, in tobacco grown and cured on the island of Manhattan, or three years after the purchase of the island by the Dutch West-India Company from the Indian proprietors, is well established. .
It is no less important to mention here that Tomys Swartwout was one of the nineteen courageous representatives of the settlers of New Netherlands, who, in convention, in the city-hall, in New Amsterdam, on December 11,1653, dared to remonstrate against a continuance of the mal administration of the affairs of the province by the arrogant directorate of the West-India Company, and to claim for the taxed colonists a right of voice in the government of it. The aggressive action of this first landdag of the oppresses inhabitants of New Netherland, although contemptuously ignored and regarded by the despotic guild of avaricious merchants as meriting severe punishment, so that other colonists might be deterred from "deliberating on affairs of state", had, nevertheless, in the fullness of time, a glorious consummation in the declaration of independence of the thirteen united American colonies.As a strenuous upholder of the rights of the colonists, Roeloff Swartwout was as fearless as his father in the utterance of his political convictions. When the choice of delegates to the provincial convention, held in New York City, in 1690, was about to be made, he boldly advised that "it ought to be a free election for all classes. By birth and education the equal of most, if not all, of those who pompously deemed themselves favorites of royalty and politically isolated from the common people, he was not troubled by any apprehensions of losing prestige and preferment in becoming a partisan of Jabob Leister, whose military experience, wealth, and excellence of character commended him to the Committee of Safety which deputed him to exercise and use the power and authority of a commander-in-chief of the province until such time as order should come from their most sacred majesties, William and Mary, king and queen of England. The iniquitous and precipitate execution of Leisler and his son-in-law, brought about by a few ambitious and revengeful men, was an event strikingly horrifying and pitiful. .
"The participation of Lieutenant Abraham Swartwout in the siege of Havana and in the storming of Morro Castle and other Cuban strongholds, by the English, in the summer of 1762, gives prominence to the fact that the valor of the members of the Swartwout Family in America, in the colonial period,was not only notable in engagements with the French and their allies at places near the homes of the vigilant frontier settlers, but also along the distant borders of Canada and the more remote islands of the West Indies. .
The patriotism of the family was also brilliantly exhibited in the war of the Revolution by the services of twenty-nine of its members; two having the rank of brigadier-general, three that of captain, three of lieutenant, and four of ensign, two of whom were institution-members of the Society of Cincinnati. .
The appellation Swartwout designated, in September, 1776, a temporary fort, constructed at that time near Spuiten Duivil Kill, for the defense of the city of New York. .
In the voluntary contribution, at Fort Schuyler, on August 3, 1777, by Abraham Swartwout, who, as a lieutenant of volunteer, had served, in 1762, in the successful campaign of the English forces on Cuba, of his valuable blue cloth cloak to form the field of the first United States flag that was made conformable to the style of the national standard established, on June 14, 1777, by the American Congress, as an historical fact inseparable from the genesis of the star-constellated banner of the Land of the Brave. The testimony of an order of the Pennsylvania Navy-Board, written on May 29, 1777, to pay Elizabeth Ross fourteen pounds twelve shillings and two pence for making ships' colors, etc. in no way substantiates the claim that she fabricated a United States flag prior to the Declaration of Independence, nor does it verify in any manner the assertion that the American Congress issued an order on the treasury to pay her a similar sum for making a flag or flags of the design set forth in the resolution of June 14, 1777. .
The bold statesmanship of General Jacobus Swartwout, on of the original law-makers of the state of New York, who for eighteen successive years served six as an assemblyman and twelve as a senator, added no little luster to his prompt and early service in the war of the Revolution. .
"The arena of party politics in the state of New York, at the beginning of the current century, presented scenes and characters peculiar to that time. The eager gatherings of the different leaders' forces, their violent onsets at the polls and the loudness of their voicings of victory were as remarkable as the characteristics of the spirited men who outlined the plans of the successive campaigns, named the candidates, and marshaled the electors. The illustrious prestige of the federalists and the vivid vigor of the republican-democrats gave more than ordinary distinction to the two agonizing parties. Hamilton's early discovery of the growing popularity of Aaron Burr made him the more ambitious to lessen it, which consequently stimulated the zeal of the young democrats to increase it. The factional alliance of the Livingstons, the Clintons, and the Schuylers not infrequently changed the preponderance of the public favor from the candidates of the one party to those of the other. The strong individuality of John Swartwout made him a distinguished favorite of his party, and in as much as his frankness and integrity invalidated many of the unjust animadversions of his opponents, he was thrice elected to a seat in the state legislature. The duel which he so resolutely fought with De Witt Clinton was evidently to him the only honorable means by which he could disprove the intemperate and unfounded expressions of his reckless and self-opinioned traducer. .
The clandestine and perilous methods adopted by General James Wilkinson to conceal his disloyal machinations and treasonable acts from the knowledge of the national government and the people of the United States during the time he was engaged in the attempt to place Spain in possession of the territory of Louisiana, and to persuade the people of Kentucky to seceded from the Union and acknowledge the supremacy of that foreign country's power, and thereby obtain for himself compensatory riches and titular distinction, exemplify an art of traitorous diplomacy truly astounding. Wilkinson's faithlessness to Aaron Burr, whom he knavishly used and artfully vilified in order to keep the public ignorant of the fact that he himself was the concocter of the plots which made his enthusiastic and incautious servitor a conspirator and filibuster, reveals in the liveliest colors Wilkinson's nefarious selfishness and personal turpitude. The temporary perplexity of General Wilkinson in determining the character of his treatment of Samuel Swartwout, to whom Burr had entrusted the delivery of the famous cipher-letter to Wilkinson, was undoubtedly due to Wilkinson's belief that the young man would not belie Burr's description: a man of inviolable honor and perfect discretion; formed to execute rather than project; capable of relating facts with fidelity, and incapable of relating them otherwise." This truthful characterization evidently made Wilkinson unwilling to place full faith in the frankness and candor of the disinterested bearer of the cipher letter. When acquitted of the charge of treason brought against him by Wilkinson, Samuel Swartwout, in publicly proclaiming him guilty of treason, forgery, and perjury, did not use words inapplicable to the numerous and more clearly established offenses of the execrable impostor. .
"The outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain, in 1812, again quickened the martial spirit and valorous proclivities inherited by the members of the Swartwout Family. Midshipman Augustus Swartwout, although seriously wounded, persistently superintended the firing of a gun on the flagship Lawrence until it was dismounted, in the ever-memorable naval battle on Lake Erie, in which Captain Oliver H. Perry, with a squadron of small wooden vessels, grandly obtained the distinctive renown of having commanded the first United States fleet that encountered in a regular line of battle one of an enemy, which, having been worsted in a long and desperate action, he captured entire, without losing a single vessel of his own. .
The dash and gallantry of Brigadier-General Robert Swartwout in the battle of Chrysler's Field was the admiration of all the brave men who participated in it. As captain of the independent military organization, titled the Iron Grays, Samuel Swartwout was regarded by the citizens of New York as being the inspirer of the esprit de corps which gave it the noted distinction which it so long enjoyed as being the price of the city. Composed of young men of marked social standing and education, the corps became famous for its skilled use of arms and precise and rapid evolutions, and its parades on the Battery and field maneuvers always attracted large throngs of people to witness them. Fitz-Greene Halleck, the poet, was a member of the company. The patriotism of: "Swartwout's gallant corps, the Iron Grays," inspired him to write several metrical compositions in laudation of the note-worthy loyalty of its members in volunteering their services for defense of the city during the war. .
"The attempt of the three energetic brothers, John, Samuel, and Robert Swartwout, to reclaim for cultivation the tide-swept marshes of New Jersey, immediately west of the Hudson River, and opposite the city of New York, by ways and means similar to those seen in Holland, obtained for their extraordinary enterprise deserved commendation. The relinquishment left there large areas of dry ground and the bold outlines of the hundred and twenty miles of wide ditching to demarcate the extent of the planned work and demonstrate the obvious utility of the vast undertaking. .
The criminal complicity and conspiracy of two dishonest employees of Samuel Swartwout, while he was the collector of customs at the port of New York during the administration of Andrew Jackson as president of the United States, in having him adjudged a defaulter, and causing him to be dispossessed of his extensive and valuable property, are so clearly and conclusively established by the facts and testimony presented in the thirteenth chapter of this work that every reader of it will certainly wonder why a publication of this incontrovertible evidence was not made earlier. The reprehensible action of the national government in summarily taking and selling the estate of the traduced ex-collector on the assumption that the allegations of the perjured and perfidious cashier and his despicable confederate were true, not only abruptly deprived Samuel Swartwout of his property and irremediably impoverished the guiltless man, but unhappily influenced people to believe that the charges brought against him were indisputably authoritative and unequivocally substantiated. The culpability if the national government in not accounting to Samuel Swartwout for the valuable property which it unjustly took and sold is as remarkable as its deafness to the persistent appeals which the conscientious ex-collector personally and by representatives made to obtain a settlement of his accounts with it. .
"The inherent patriotism and loyalty of the Swartwout family and many of its male representatives to volunteer their services for the preservation of the Union at the beginning and during the progress of the Civil War. On different battle-fields not a few heroically terminated their lives, others died in hospitals and prisons of wounds and disease, and some still bear honorary marks of commended valor. The fierce engagement of the Portsmouth, commanded by Captain Samuel Smith Swartwout, with the water batteries on the banks of the Mississippi River, to render practicable the attempt of Admiral Farragut to pass Forts Jackson and St. Philip with his fleet of wooden vessels, and reach and capture New Orleans, was introductorily particularized in the official report of the successful feat which made lastingly famous the bold venture of the distinguished naval officer who accomplished his object with the loss of but one vessel. .
The fortitude of Adjutant William Merrill Swartwout, after being deprived of his left arm and having the pectoral muscles on that side of his body seriously lacerated by two-hundred-pound projectile, at Dutch Gap, on the James River, was considered to have enabled him to ward off the fatal consequences commonly resulting from such frightful wounds. His observation of the bravery of his comrades-in-arms and their exemplary endurance of many physical afflictions in the field led him to erect, on the Soldier's and Sailor's Plat, in Oakwood Cemetery, at Troy, N.Y., a conspicuous flag-staff on which he has had displayed, constantly since 1894, a United States flag to keep alive recollections of the courage and services of the deceased veterans whose remains are there entombed. .
"Of the one hundred and more engravings illustrating these chronicles, the reduced facsimiles of the original Dutch text and embellishments of the nuptial poem and wedding songs composed in honor of the marriage of Tomys Swartwout and Hendrickjen Barentse Otsen, on June 3, 1631, will, without doubt, be highly prized by the members of the Swartwout Family as ancestral souvenirs. The author's versified translations of the Dutch epithalamium and songs are as literal as the meaning of the text could be harmoniously construed in English. .
"The publication of this work must indissolubly link hereafter the name of Major William Merrill Swartwout with his munificence in making it a memorial of inestimable historical value to the members of the family, and a book uniquely elaborate in binding and delightfully satisfying in typography. .
"Besides the author's gratification in finding in different provincial and municipal archives in the Netherlands the information concerning the ancestors of the Swartwout Family set forth in this volume, his remembrances of the interest taken in his researches by the courteous and scholarly archivists who there graciously and officially furthered them, urges him to acknowledge here his great indebtedness to Mr. J. A. Feith, the imperial archivist of the province of Groningen, and to Mr. W. R. Veder, the archivist of the city of Amsterdam, for many favors of their time and knowledge, and to express his obligations for the kind services of Mr. S. Muller Fzn., the imperial Custodian of the archives of the province of Utrecht, and those of Mr. I. van Sloterdij, and Mr. C. M. Dozy, severally archivists of the municipal records of Leeuwarden and Leyden. .
Arthur James Weise Troy, N.Y., August 15, 1899 .
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DE BONTE KOE (THE SPOTTED COW)
Sailed 16 April 1660 from Amsterdam, arriving New Amsterdam.
- Captain Pieter Lucasz.
• Jan Soubanick, from Byle in Drenthe [NWI]
•Albert Jansz from Drenthe [NWI]
•Pieter Jacobsz, from East Friesland [NWI]
•Cornelis Bartels, from Drenthe [NWI]
•Steeven Koorts from Drenthe, wife and 7 children; 22, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 yrs old [NWI]
•Jan Kiers, farmer, and wife from Drenthe [NWI]
•Focke Jansz, farmer from Drenthe, wife and 7 children: 19, 17, 13, 11, 9, 3 yrs old, and nursing child [NWI]
•Claes Arentsz from Drenthe, wife and 3 children: 6, 4, 3/4 yrs old and a boy aged 14 [NWI]
•Gerrit Egbertsz, farmer's servant from Meppelt [NWI]
•Beertien Dircx, maiden from Drenthe [NWI]
•Egbertie Dircx, maiden from Drenthe [NWI]
•Pieter Jansz, shoemaker from Drenthe, wife and 4 children: 15, 13, 9, 1/2 yr old [NWI]
•Coert Cartensz, famer's servant from Drenthe [NWI]
•Roeloff Swartwout, farmer (on his return to New Netherland where he previously resided) [NWI]
•Cornelis Jacobsz Van Leeuwen in the employ of Swartwout [NWI]
•Arent Mertensz from Gelderland in the employ of Swartwout [NWI]
•Ariaen Huijbertsz from Gelderland in the employ of Swartwout [NWI]
•Albert Heymans, farmer, from Gelderland, wife and 8 children: 17, 15, 14, 9, 8, 7, 4, 2 yrs old [NWI]
•Peter Timkam, tailor from Nimwegan, in the service of Director Stuyvesant [NWI]
•Jan Jansz Mol [NWI]
•Annetie Harmens, maiden, resides with paulus Leendertsz Van de Grift [NWI]
•Beletie Foppe, resides with Jacob Leendertsz Van de Grift [NWI]
•Elias Gijseling from Zeeland [NWI]
.List Of Soldiers [NWI]•Claes Petersen, Adelborst from Detmarsum
•Claes Hayen from Bremen
•Jan Petersen from Detmarsen
•Gerrit Manneel van Haen
•Conraet Croos from Switzerland
•Hendrick Eyck from Srahuys
•Christian Bartels Ruysh from Amsterdam
•Hendrich Steveterinck from Osnasnigge
•Peter Martens from Laens
•John Hamelton of Hamelton [ENN: owes David Craffort for his transprotation]
•Johan Verpronck from Bonn above Ceulen; a Smith and Baker [ENN: Johan Spronck from Bonn above Ceulen]
•Jan Wilekheresen from Bergen in Norway
•Peter Petersen from Amsterdam, 1with his Wife and 3 children
•Brant Kemenes from Dockum [ENN: Brant Hemmes from Dockum]
•Dirck Jansen from Rylevelt
•Harman Jansen Engsinck from Oldenseel [ENN: Assigns wages per yer to Beertie Jansen, his mother]
•Johannes Levelin from Bulhausen
•Michiel Brouwnal from (Berg) Mont-eassel
•Jurriaen Fransen [name crossed out]
•Jans Hansen Graer [name crossed out]
.Footnote 1: It is a commonly held misconception that Pieter Pietersen from Amsterdan was the ancestor of the Ostrander family. Recent research by Chris Brooks, published in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, clearly show the true origins of the Ostrander family. Read about Chris' findings on my Pier pages.
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Ship's list - To New Netherland from Holland - 1660
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Excerpt from It's About Time, Vol. IV,
by Bill DeCoursey, New Brighton, Minnesota, 2000..
On 13 August 1657 at Fort Orange, in the marriage agreement between Roelof SWARTWOUT and Eva Albertsen BRADT, widow of Anthonie de HOOGES, the bride serves for each of her children with her former husband, Marichen, Anneken, Catrina, Johanis and Eleanora de HOOGES, one hundred guilden each. Roelof SWARTWOUT and his bride moved to Esopus in Ulster County, New York, where he was the first sheriff.
Marinus Schoonmaker, HISTORY OF KINGSTON, NEW YORK (1888), p.489;
John O. Evjen, SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK (1916), pp.30-33. .
"In the name of the Lord Amen, be it known by the contents of this present instrument, that in the year 1657, on the 13th day of the month of August, appeared before me Johannes La MONTAGNE, in the service of the General Privileged West India Company, deputy at Fort Orange and village of Beverwyck, Roeloff SWARTWOUT, in the presence of his father, tomas SWARTWOUT, on the..., and Eva ALBERTSEN (BRATT), widow of the late Antony de HOOGES, in the presence of Albert ANDRIESSEN (BRATT), her father of the other side, who in the following manner have covenanted this marriage contract, to wit, that for the honor of God the said Roeloff SWARTWOUT and Eva ALBERTSEN after the manner of the Reformed religion respectively held by them shall marry; secondly, that the said married people shall contribute and bring together all their estates, personal and real, of whatsoever nature they may be, to be used by them in common, according to the custom of Holland, except that the bride, Eva ALBERTSE, in presence of the orphanmasters, recently chosen, to wit, Honorable Jan VERBEECK and Evert WENDELS, reserves for her a hundred guilders, to wit, for Maricken, Anneken, Catrina, Johannes, and Eleanora de HOOGES, for which sum of one hundred guilders for each child respectively (she) mortgages her house and lot, lying here in the village of Beverwyck; it was also covenanted, by these presents, by the mutual consent of the aforewritten married people, that Barent ALBERTSE (BRATT) and Teunis SLINGERLAND, brother and brother-in-law of the said Eva ALBERTSE, and uncle of said children, should be guardians of said children, to which the aforesaid orphanmasters have consented; which above written contract the respective parties promise to hold good, etc. --- "Done in Fort Orange, ut supra in the presence of Pieter JACOBSEN and Johannes PROVOST, witnesses, for that purpose called.
"Roeloff SWARTWOUT, (x) Eva ALBERTSE, Thomas SWARTWOUT,
"Albert ANDRIESSEN, Jan VERBEECK, Evert WENDEL, "Teunis CORNELISSEN
"Witnesses: Johanes PROVOOST, (+) Pieter JACOBSEN
"Acknowledged before me, La MONTAGNE, Deputy at Fort Orange." .
From Volume III, Pg. 30, Tuesday, 26 Aug: 1659:.
Roelof Swartwout, pltf. v/s Lysbet Tysen, deft. Pltf. says that the deft. has an obligation against Anthony de Hooges, his predecessor, saying the same is paid which being shewn in Court, looked over and examined, was found to have been paid according to receipt signed by the deft. .
Source: Fernow, Berthold (ed.), Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini, Vol. III, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976. .
From the Kingston (Wiltwyck/Esopus) Tax List
(to defray the cost of building the Dominie's house),
12 November 1661:"Roeloff Swartwout, tenant on the bouwery of Jacob Janse Stol's widow, containing 43 morgens...90 florins"
Source: O'Callahan, E. B. (comp.), Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674, 1868, pg. 414. .
1691, 22 Nov;
Roelof Swartwout (wid. of Eva Albers); Francyntje Andries (wid. of Ab. Lubbers) .
Source: Bergen DRC Marriages - Holland Society Yearbook 1914. .
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Roelof and Eva Swartout First Lord's Supper Memorial Plaque
Roelof and Eva Swartout First Lord's Supper Memorial Plaque 26 December 1660 , Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, New York BRaynis added this on 9 Jun 2011 mfmssm74 originally submitted this to Dutch Cousins Family Tree on 20 Jun 2010 Photo Roelof and Eva were members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston, NY. They were present at the… |
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History
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Johannes was the son of ANTHONY DE HOOGES, one of the leading officials of New Netherland, and EVA ALBERTSE23 {BRADT} DE HOOGES.24 Anthony was born in Noord, a section of Amsterdam, on December 14, 1620. He died in Fort Orange/Rensselaerswyck on or about October 11, 1655. We do not have an exact date of birth for Eva, but as she was baptized in the Lutheran Church in Amsterdam25 on January 9, 1633, it is likely that she was born very late in 1632 or early in the new year. She died, probably in Hurley, New York, as early as 1689 but no later than the first part of 1691 because her second husband, Roelofs Swartwout, married again in late 1691. Eva was probably buried in Hurley.
Anthony and Eva were married, quite probably in Rensselaerswyck, sometime in October of 1647, because there is a record of payment dated October 29, 1647, for services performed at their wedding.26 (The West India Company paid the expenses of the wedding.) It is worth observing that Eva seems to have been just 14 or 15 years of age when she was wed to a man twice her age. Following Anthony's premature death, Eva mortgaged the couple's house and lot in order to create a trust fund for the five children she and Antony had produced. Johannes de Hooges received his share of the proceeds shortly before his marriage to Margaret {Post} de Hooges in 1675.
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Johannes de Hooges's mother Eva was the daughter of ALBERT ANDRIESSEN BRADT27 and his first wife, ANNETIE BARENTSE {VAN ROTMERS} BRADT. Both Albert and Annetie were born about 1607. Annetie died in 1661 - probably fairly early in the year, since the official records in February of that year contain a reference to her funeral pall. She evidently died in Fort Orange or Rensselaerswyck, but we have no information about where she is buried. Annetie's estate was settled on June 6, 1662. Albert died on June 7, 1686. Presumably he is buried in the Lutheran burying ground in Albany.28
This couple recorded their marriage intentions at the Oudekerk (Old Church) in Amsterdam29 on March 27, 1632, and were married there on April 11, 1632 (which was Easter in that year). The Oudekerk was a Reformed church, and it is not clear why the couple - both Lutherans - were married there. It may be that the Lutheran minister was unavailable. Perhaps the couple did not wish to go through a separate civil ceremony at city hall, which would have been the case had they married outside the official, Reformed, faith. Or it may simply be that the Lutheran church, then being constructed, was unsuitable for marriages at this time. We do know that the Bradts later had two children baptized in that Lutheran church and that Albert remained a practicing Lutheran himself (though his children did not), so evidently it was a logistical problem of some sort that caused them to be married in the Oudekerk.30
The Van Rotmers31 family apparently originated on the North Sea coast at the mouth of the Elbe River, just east of Cuxhaven in what is now the German state of Niedersachsen. They are associated with two towns that are called Altenbruch and Otterndorf in German and Oudebroek and Aterendorp in Dutch; we do not know in which of them Annetie was born. From her patronymic, we can tell that her father was named BARENT VAN ROTMERS. Her mother's name was GEESJE32 Barens, who is thought to have been born about 1591.
Annetie's father Barent seems to have died before 1632, as he is never mentioned in the surviving records. At that time her mother, Geesje, was living on Schaepensteegje (Sheep Alley), which is near Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam.33 During the fall of 1640, Geesje Van Rotmers immigrated to New Netherland aboard a ship called den Wagterhondt (The Waterhound). At some point - Bradt family researchers think before she immigrated - she married a gunner at Fort Orange named Pieter Jacobsz van Rynsburch.34 She is thought to have died before April of 1658 and definitely was deceased by 1663.
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Eva Albertse Bratt
Name: Eva Albertse Bratt
Year: 1637
Place: New York, New York
Source Publication Code: 1736
Primary Immigrant: Bratt, Eva Albertse
Annotation: The Yearbook has details of the Society, and on pp. 42-66 is a section entitled "Ancestors and Descendants." This lists original settlers in New York and their progeny. Each original settler arrived between 1624 and 1664. The list changes slightly from ye
Source Bibliography: THE DUTCH SETTLERS SOCIETY OF ALBANY. Yearbook, vol. 45, 1974-1977. Albany, New York: the society, [1977], pp. 42-66.
Page: 43
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New York City Marriages, 1600s-1800s about Roeloff Swartwout
Name: Roeloff Swartwout
Marriage Date: 1660
Marriage Place: New York City, New York, New York
Self Comments: farmer
Other Comments: On microfilm at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly), 1884, selected extracts
Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Publication Place: New York, NY
Page: 40
Source Information: Genealogical Research Library, comp.. New York City Marriages, 1600s-1800s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: For specific source information see the publication information listed with each entry. Many of the source documents are available in the Genealogical Research Library collection. Many of the records may also be found on microfilm at the Family History Li.
Description: This database is an index to approximately 410,000 individuals who were married in or near New York City in the United States between 1622 and 1899. Information that may be found in this database for each individual includes their name, spouse's name, marriage date, location, and source information.
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3- Jacob Kip, born New Amsterdam, Aug. 25, 1666, died Kingston on Feb. 28, 1733. About 1695, he married Rachel Swartwout, daughter of Roelof and Eva (Bradt) Swartwout, born April 10, 1669, died about 1765. Eva Bradt was the daughter of Andries Bradt and his wife, the widow of Anthony deHooges. Their son:
4- Maria Kip, baptised Kingston, Feb. 18, 1709, married Jan Van Benthuysen, son of Barent and Jannetie (Van Wagenen) Van Benthuysen, batptised Kingston, Feb. 6, 1704.
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8- Adam DINGMAN (1645->1721), from Holland;
settled at Greenbush, near Albany, 1693;
m 1676 Aeltie Jacobse (Flodder) Gardiner (d ca 1720;
Jacob Janse Flodder, at Rensselaerwyck, 1638,
m 2d, Barentje Stratsmans);
7- Jacob [Dingman?] (1677-1745), of Kinderhook, NY;
m 1698 Eva Swartwout (d >1745; Roeloff, from Holland, 1657, schout of Esopus, 1660, m 1657, Eva Albertsen Bratt;
Thomas, m 1630, Adrientje Symonds);
6- Andrew (1711-1801), pioneer Dingmans Choice, PA;
m 1740, Cornelia Kermer (b 1720; Dirk [b 1697],
m Eva, dau. of Hendrick Schoonover,
m Cornelia Swartwout;
Isaac, m Kyntje Keyser;
Abraham, from Germany, m 1656, Melje Davis);
5- Andrew (1753-1839), Dingmans Choice; Am. Rev.;
m 1774, Jenneke Westbrook;
4- Daniel Westbrook (1775-1862), mem. PA Legislature, 1808-14; judge 28 yrs;
m 1795, Mary Westbrook;
3- Andrew (1803-89), m 1825, Caroline E. Sayre;
2- Mary (2 below)
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First Families of America, cropped for DINGMAN
8- Adam DINGMAN (1645->1721), from Holland; settled at Greenbush, near Albany, 1693; m 1676 Aeltie Jacobse (Flodder) Gardiner (d ca 1720; Jacob Janse Flodder, at Rensselaerwyck, 1638, m 2d, Barentje Stratsmans); 7- Jacob [Dongman?] (1677-1745), of Kinderhook, NY; m 1698 Eva Swartwout (d >1745; Roeloff, from Holland, 1657, schout… |
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Jacob Kip marries Rachel Swartwout, son Maria Kip marries Jan van Benthuysen- Van Benthuysen genealogy
Jacob Kip marries Rachel Swartwout, son Maria Kip marries Jan van Benthuysen- Van Benthuysen genealogy: KIP- 3- Jacob Kip, born New Amsterdam, Aug. 25, 1666, died Kingston on Feb. 28, 1733. About 1695, he married Rachel Swartwout, daughter of Roelof and Eva (Bradt) Swartwout, born April 10, 1669, died about 1765. Eva Bradt was the daughter… |
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Eefjen Eva Swartwout
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Cornelia Rachel Swartwout
- [S559] Imprints on the sands of time : left by certain Kelly's, Lampman's, Craig's, Ferguson's, Ancestry.com. Imprints on the sands of time : left by certain Kelly's, Lampman's, Craig's, Ferguson's [database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Kelly, Henry Russel,. Imprints on the sands of time : left by certain.
- [S298] private communication: pvella, (Name: Patty Vella; Location: 1505 Methyl ST, Pittsburgh, PA 15216; Date: 14 May 2001;), Dingman Mattison, MayBell consolidated to (731) From Patty Vella, 14.May 2001, from MayBell Dingman Mattison to be read at a family reunion (1) fact ..... (28) .....
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From Patty Vella, 14.May 2001, from MayBell Dingman Mattison to be read at a family reunion- year unknown (MayBell died in 1947)-
Turn your thoughts to 1840, when our other grandfather and grandmother and family (Isaac and Amy Ellsworth Brock), came to Hebron. Can you young people visualize the trip? A yoke of oxen, and six weeks on the road from Grafton, NY to Hebron, Potter Co, PA-- a day's trip, or a little more, with your automobile. Imagine them reaching here and choosing a spot, cutting down trees, and clearing a space large enough, at first, to build a log cabin. Then the real struggle began, to keep the wolf from the door in more than one sense of the word. I've listened to my mother tell how, as a child, she had sat on the door-step and listened to the howling of the wolves close by. The future can never bring anything to us that we should be more proud of than our brave old ancestors, "heroes and heroines."
Mother dear (Mary Angeline Brock Dingman) was only six monhs old when she made that trip. But I fancy she was as happy as any of the weary travelers. Often it was hard to find a place to stop overnight. Grandma said once, they stopped at an inn, but everything was so mysterious and queer, they were afraid to stay after resting the stock. (I think they brought a cow and a calf.) Then they started on the road again. How worn and weary they must have been before they reached Potter Co! ___________________
- [S565] SAR Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Volume: 117; SAR Membership Number: 23310.
Record for Bernadus Swartwout U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 about Bernadus Swartwout Name: Bernadus Swartwout SAR Membership: 23310 Father: Roeloff Swartwout Mother: Eva Albertse Bradt Spouse: Rachel Schapmoors (Rachel? jcw20141102) Children: Abraham Swartwout Source Citation: Volume: 117; SAR Membership Number: 23310.
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 about Bernadus Swartwout
Name: Bernadus Swartwout
SAR Membership: 23310
Father: Roeloff Swartwout
Mother: Eva Albertse Bradt
Spouse: Rachel Schapmoors
Children: Abraham Swartwout
Source Citation: Volume: 117; SAR Membership Number: 23310.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.
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