The image of Henry Gritten's painting, "Sunset At Gowanus Bay," has occupied a prominent space on this blog's pages since inception. I have no plans or desire to change this. It's simply a beautiful image. The image I used is of relatively low resolution and was taken from the White Mountain Art & Artists website, which has since moved to this new online location.
A much higher resolution image is available elsewhere. Ron Bennett, in a just recently received email has directed me to an online image of "Sunset At Gowanus Bay," at the website of the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Art in Hobart, Tasmania. And with this link provided by Ron, you can find a much higher resolution image that is downloadable.
And just to stretch this post out a little further, Ron tells me that he is a descendant of Willem Adriaense Bennet who Adam Brouwer descendants will recognize as the second husband of Maria Badie, who in turn is the mother of Adam Brouwer's wife Magdalena Verdon by her first husband Jacob Verdon. There is a Bennett surname project at FamilyTreeDNA. Group 02 of this surname project is comprised of descendants of Willem Adriaense Bennet (see the project's public Y-DNA colorized chart page). Tested members of this group are identified by the ancient haplogroup E-M35 which, coincidentally, is the same ancient haplogroup in which descendants of Adam Brouwer are found. I say, "coincidentally," only to emphasize that despite sharing a common haplogroup (E-M35) Adam Brouwer and Willem Adriaense Bennet were not closely related. E-M35, as calculated by Y-Full, was formed 34,700 years before the present (ybp). The Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor (TMRCA) is 23,900 ybp. Looking at the Bennett project chart I linked to, we can see that two members have taken the advanced BigY tests and have been identified by two different SNPs, E-FTA645 and E-BY164190. Neither of the two SNPs are found on YFull's current YTree (v10.04.00), but hopefully in time as more Bennet descendants take advanced Y-DNA tests like the BigY-700, and submit their results to YFull, we will see an appearance on the larger Y-Full Y-DNA tree. We then may get a better idea of just how far back in time Adam Brouwer and Willem Adriaense Bennet shared a common paternal ancestor.
Thanks to Ron for directing us to a better image of "Sunset At Gowanus Bay."
Update August 22, 2022: My mistake on not finding haplogroup E-FTA645 on the YFull YTree. I was using their SNP search tool incorrectly. Ron has pointed out that it is equivalent to E-FTA557 which is a sub-branch of E-Y32590 and you can see that branch here. The earliest haplogroup that is shared between both the descendants of Adam Brouwer and those of Willem Adriaense Bennet is E-M78. As of YTree v10.04.00, YFull calculates that E-M78 was formed 19,100 ybp and that the time to most recent common ancestor was 13,200 ybp.
Using the Phylogeographer's "Theoretical Computed Paths" tool, we find E-M78 placed in the Mediterranean Sea, just south of the Aegean Sea, on the island of Crete. Theoretical Computed Path for E-M78.
Update November 21, 2024: As per the comment below dated November 20, 2024, from Ron Bennett, the link to the Bennett Projects Y-DNA Results page has been updated in the above text. Here are the current links to pages at FTDNA's Bennett Project website:
FTDNA Bennett Project About Page
Bennett Project Y-DNA Results Overview page (colorized chart)
Bennett Project Group Time Tree (public view)
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This is a follow-up to the earlier posts on the Y-DNA haplogroups for Willem Adriaense Bennet (WAB), which were generic. Since that time, eight descendants of WAB have upgraded to an extensive, full chromosome Y-DNA paternity test called BigY-700. Data processing alone for this test takes over 8 weeks, but the result is a sufficiently detailed list of individual mutations, which occur every 50 to 100 years on average, such that the software is able to create a biological family tree (called a TimeTree), showing the birth years of each common ancestor between branches.
ReplyDeleteThe unique haplogroup (branch name) for WAB is E-FTB90013 (est. birth 1626, historical ~1605), which includes him, his two sons, and their descendants. His older son, Adrian Willemsen's haplogroup is E-FTB92022 (est. birth 1651, historical 1637). His great-grandson, Isaac Adrianson's haplogroup is E-FTD68674 (est. birth 1708, historical 1717).
This haplotree corroborates the WAB family tree on this site with the corrections published by Morrissey, et.al. in 2017, but does not match the original 1962 tree published by Ledley and subsequently by Kenneth Bennett.
The Y-DNA tree is skeletal due to the small number of descendants. Luckily we have four descendants from each of WAB's two sons, but only three of the eight grandsons documented here are represented. Additional male descendants are needed to fully corroborate the historical records family tree. Please contact FTDNA directly to order this test or contact me at ronaldglenbennett@gmail.com with questions. The test is a bit expensive, but the beauty is that nothing more is required of the participants except their DNA. The analysis will automatically connect you to all other Bennetts and other surnames (including Brouwer) who have ever taken this test.
Ron, Thanks for the update. A note to readers: hyperlinks for websites and email addresses, unfortunately, do not work in the comment section (a flaw with blogger which is beyond any publisher's control). You will have to copy and paste the links provided.
DeleteA link titled, Mike Morrissey's Bennet Corrections, has been added to the Brouwer-Brower-Brewer Links section found in the column of links to the right.
DeleteChris, will you be able to publish my request for additional BigY participants? Would that be better published elsewhere? Also, would you consider adding a link to the Bennett Y-DNA Project in your list of Y-DNA links? It seems apropos since the updated 2017 version of the early Bennet family tree is published here. I was pleased to see that the BigY TimeTree confirms one major correction in the 2017 update, which is the placement of the family of Johannes Bennet 1704-1775 and his wife Agnes 1710-1792. Three of our eight BigY members are descended from that family; all with ancestors from Monmouth County, New Jersey.
DeleteDone. Please see the post of November 25, 2023, "Y-DNA Haplogroups for Willem Adriaense Bennet" - https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/11/y-dna-haplogroups-for-willem-adriaense.html
DeleteChris, the link above to the Bennett Project Group 02 colorised chart is no longer valid. The BigY support and features on that site are improving rapidly. A new public link to visualise the yDNA connections is the Group Time Tree here: https://discover.familytreedna.com/groups/bennett/tree?subgroups=25513. This tree also illustrates that WAB's paternal ancestors were English, not Danish or Dutch. His nearest living non-Bennett cousins all descend from English ancestors with English surnames including Bowie and Diprose (shown on the tree) and Howard, Fowler, and Ritchie (not shown). WAB's most recent common ancestors in England were born ca. 1400, after the time when surnames became established, raising the possibility that WAB's ancestral surname may have been Bowie.
ReplyDeleteRon, the web pages mentioned have been updated. Thanks for the alert.
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