This quick post should be of interest to descendants of Uldrick Brouwer and his second wife, Adriantje Pieterse, a daughter of Pieter Hessel and Lysbeth Gerritse. I will refer you to Mike Morrissey's website, "New Netherland Ancestry," and his post of April 21, 2010, "The Parents and Family of Pieter Hessels of Bergen, N. J." for the full account.
The parents of Pieter Hessels have previously been unknown. Following up on a clue found in the will of Guert Coerten (of which an abstract can be found in Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume XXI, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703. First Series. [Paterson, NJ: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1899]:41) where the testator mentions "the son of his sister Pieter Hesselse," Mike has located marriage and baptism records at the Reformed Church of Putten (in Gelderland), Netherlands, to identify Pieter's parents and his siblings.
Adriantje Pieterse was Uldrick Brouwer's second wife, his first having been Hester de Voe. Uldrick, probably born about 1673 at Schenectady, was the eldest son of Pieter Brouwer and Petronella Kleyn, and most probably the first grandchild of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon of Gowanus, L. I. Descendants of Adriantje Pieterse now can take this line of their ancestry back another generation.
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