tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60684470775812649362024-02-25T06:58:41.364-05:00Brouwer GenealogyA gateway to discovering and tracking the descendants of the original New Netherland Brouwer progenitors, namely Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, Jan (or Johannes) Brouwer of Flatlands and Willem Brouwer of Beverwijck (Albany). As well as some diversions covering other Brewer and Brower families with origins in Colonial AmericaChris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.comBlogger754125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-89372336400666282802023-11-25T07:42:00.001-05:002023-11-25T07:55:50.064-05:00Y-DNA Haplogroups for Willem Adriaense Bennet<p>Contributed by Ron Bennett.</p><p><span>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.<br /> </span></p><p><span>The 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).<br /> </span></p><p><span>This haplotree corroborates the WAB
family tree on this site with the <a href="https://newnetherlandancestry.blogspot.com/2017/03/additions-and-corrections-to-willem.html" target="_blank">corrections published by Morrissey, et.al. in 2017</a>, but does not match the original 1962 tree published by
Ledley and subsequently by Kenneth Bennett.<br />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 <a href="mailto:ronaldglenbennett@gmail.com" target="_blank">contact me directly</a> 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.</span></p><p><span><b>Bennets/Bennetts interested in participating in the Bennett Y-DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA should <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/bennett/dna-results" target="_blank">contact the Project directly via their website</a>, and/or contact <a href="mailto:ronaldglenbennett@gmail.com" target="_blank">Ron Bennett</a> directly.</b></span></p><p><span>BGB 754<b> </b> <br /></span></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-58690484923746193012023-10-14T08:41:00.001-04:002023-10-14T08:50:41.073-04:00An Update to "Joseph Driggs Is Not Josias Drake, Jr."<p> It has been fifteen years since "<a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/joseph-driggs-is-not-josias-drake-jr.html" target="_blank">Joseph Driggs Is Not Josias Drake, Jr.</a>" was posted online. While this update does not change the conclusion of the original post (Joseph Driggs is still NOT Josias Drake, Jr.) it is here to bring to the attention of those interested in the question of Joseph Driggs' ancestry, the research of Richard Davis who has now found the origins of Joseph Driggs who died in East Haddam, Connecticut in 1748. This post will be short and any interest, further inquiry or questions should be directed to <a href="mailto:richnlisad@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Richard Davis</a>.</p><p>First a bit of housekeeping. Links provided on the original June 3, 2012 post, which itself was a copy of a post originally from 2008 (see <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/08/broken-links-ephemeral-nature-of.html" target="_blank">Broken Links, The Ephemeral Nature of the Internet</a>) were in need of repair. The original, "Joseph Driggs Is Not Josias Drake, Jr." is now online as a PDF. Please use the link found in the text of the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/joseph-driggs-is-not-josias-drake-jr.html" target="_blank">June 3, 2012 post</a>.</p><p>The incontestable proof that Joseph Driggs could not possibly be Josias Drake, Jr. was the result of Y-DNA testing of direct descendants of both Joseph Driggs and of Josias Drake's father, <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-family-of-aeltje-brouwer-and-josias.html" target="_blank">Josias Drats/Dratz whose wife was Aeltje Brouwer</a> (a daughter of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon</a>). Josias Drake, Jr., himself, is not known to have left any descendants. This work was initiated by Richard Davis and now some fifteen years later he has contacted me to inform me that he has "finally found the origin of Joseph Driggs (1681-1748) of Middletown, Connecticut." Richard did this by first matching five Y-DNA test results of five Driggs descendants with three Y-DNA matches from Sao Roque, Pico Island in the Azores, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean which today is an autonomous region of Portugal. Through the traditional genealogical work that followed, Richard was able to trace Joseph Driggs paternal ancestry back to the late 1400s to some of the earliest settlers of Pico Island. </p><p>Richard has written a 29 page report (including addendums) describing and explaining his research, which includes both genetic and traditional genealogical research. All and all it's a pretty interesting adventure that includes a visit to Pico Island itself. Richard has also created a couple of charts showing the paternal lineages of those tested.</p><p>I will not be making available online any of Richard's work. Again, those who are interested should reach out to <a href="mailto:richnlisad@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Richard Davis</a> directly. </p><p>BGB 753<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-49625823484531109182023-08-27T14:53:00.003-04:002023-08-27T15:10:15.977-04:00Broken Links, The Ephemeral Nature of the Internet<p> The previous post serves as perfect example of the ephemeral nature of the internet. Here one day, perhaps gone the next. Or perhaps gone next week Or maybe next year. Or perhaps in a few years. One thing is for certain, if you are reading it online today, the day will come when you will not be able to find it. Or, perhaps what you are looking for is just misplaced because the URL was changed. This is what happened with the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-status-of-brouwer-genealogy-in-2018.html" target="_blank">BGD in 2018</a> after it was restored by RootsWeb following a ten month or so state of being offline. Many URLs were changed when the site was reinstated. Here we'll address the problem of Broken Links. The <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">Brouwer Genealogy Database (BGD)</a> and this website, Brouwer Genealogy, are both plagued by broken links.</p><p>What to do about these broken links?</p><p>I could spend my time continuously scouring and checking each of the 751 posts (to date) for broken links, and then repair them. I'm not keen on doing that. That's not going to happen. I'm not going to spend time doing that. However, you the reader, can help to do something about it. </p><p>Fixing or replacing broken links on this website can be made a bit more efficient than having one person (me) check through every individual post. <b>You can help by bringing to my attention any broken links that you might encounter during the course using this website. Please do this by using the Comments section of the post in which you encounter the broken link. If you do not see the "Post a Comment" field, just click on the "No comments" link at the bottom of the post. Leave a comment pointing out the broken link. Blogger will notify me via email of your pending comment. When I see it (I usually check email once a day), I will put through your comment online, find a new replacement link, and reply to your comment to confirm that the link has been fixed. I may also add it to the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/p/replacement-links.html" target="_blank">Replacement Links and More</a> page on this website.</b></p><p>Fixing broken links on the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">BGD</a> is an entirely different matter.<b> </b>The BGD has not been updated since early 2016 and cannot be updated today or at anytime into the future. It is now an Archive, and will remain so, in its present condition until the day that it eventually disappears from the ephemeral internet. A day which will come, we just don't know when. (<a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-current-state-of-brouwer-genealogy.html" target="_blank">Although we have been given a hint</a> that it may well happen). <b>This means that broken links on the BGD cannot be fixed on that site.</b></p><p>Back in 2018 I created a page for this website titled, "<a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/p/replacement-links.html" target="_blank">Replacement Links and More</a>." It is listed in the margin to the right under Pages. It's the second one down from the top. <b>We will use this page to list new links for links that are broken within the BGD.</b> <b>Should you encounter broken links on the BGD, what I would ask you to, using the comments section for THIS POST, is leave a description of the broken link and paste a copy of the URL for the page on which that link appears (unfortunately Comments does not except hyperlinks. I'll copy and paste the URL that you provide to find the page where the problem is found). I'll then reply and acknowledge your comment. I will add a new link to the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/p/replacement-links.html" target="_blank">Replacement Links and More</a> page. You can then find it there. The links are listed alphabetically. Again, I cannot correct the link on the BGD itself. </b>I prefer that you use the Comments section for this rather than contacting me directly through email, simply because doing will so will create a log of broken link replacements right here on the website. Thanks for you help here.</p><p><b>Some exceptions</b>: One, is that I cannot replace links that connect one individual on the BGD to another on the BGD itself. That could only be done by updating the entire site, and as stated, I cannot do that. On the plus side, so long as the site is intact, few, if any of this type of link should be broken. </p><p>A second is the "Brouwer Photos" page and the "Images Off Site" page. Both pages are recent casualties of the ephemeral internet. The photos were housed on Google, on Album Archive, a service which they just recently discontinued. I do have the photos. They are not lost. However, I am not going to place them online again unless they are used within the context of some new post written sometime in the future. Many of them are probably found within the pages of this website anyway.</p><p>Of the documents found under the headings of "Notes, Research, Reports," "Index Extractions, and "William B. Bogardus Collection," most still appear to work, although I did find a few which are broken. I looked, but have been unable to find replacement documents in my files offline. Some may have been links to other websites, in which case, if that site or page is gone, there is nothing I can do about it anyway. Just another example of the ephemeral internet.</p><p><b>I will place a link to this post in the margin at the right under the heading Brouwer-Brower-Brewer links, which is right under Featured Post. In that way it will be easier to find. Thank you for your help with this.</b></p><p>As I said above, here one day, gone the next. Have no doubt, the day will come when the BGD is offline for good. When that day comes, it will not be replaced. The same is true for this website. In fact it has happened once already. This site was started in 2008 on an Apple laptop using Apple's blogging program. This was before they were calling programs, apps. In 2011 Apple simply decided that they were done with maintaining the program and providing the online space in which users could post and so they killed it. Here one day, gone the next. I found blogger, then an independent company, reconstituted some of the 2008-2011 posts, but not all (they're gone) and continued. Blogger was soon bought by Google. Over the years Google has dumbed it down a bit. The tools available here are basic at best. There is no ability to use superscripts or subscripts for example, and there is no ability to use hyperlinks in the Comments. But it'll do. It is easy and it is integrated with one's Google account. But I have no doubt. The day will come, I have a feeling sooner than later, when it will no longer be in Google's financial interest to continue carrying or supporting Blogger. When that day comes, Brouwer Genealogy will be no more. When that happens it will not be reconstituted as another site elsewhere on the ephemeral internet. If the site is at all helpful to you, great, take advantage of it while it's here. Like everything else, it is not forever.<br /></p><p>BGB 752<b> </b><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-68218910823163767362023-08-25T07:38:00.002-04:002023-08-25T07:46:11.737-04:00The Current State of the Brouwer Genealogy Database Website<p> The <b><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">Brouwer Genealogy Database (BGD)</a></b> was first launched in 2008 and was last updated in late 2015/early 2016. This post also covers the current state of the other databases that I had placed online, namely <b>Brewer of New England</b>, <b>Brewer-Lanier Database</b>, <b>Descendants of Alice Freeman Thompson Parke</b>, <b>Drake Genealogy Database</b>, and <b>Drake in Devonshire</b>, the links for which can be found in the right hand column of this website.What is said below with regards to the BGD applies to these five databases as well.<br /></p><p>If you will travel over to the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">BGD</a> you will note the new banner headline altering us to the fact that "Hosted websites will become read only beginning in early 2024." In effect this means that RootsWeb, which has been owned by Ancestry.com for some years now, will no longer provide the authors and publishers of websites hosted by RootsWeb with the ability to update or in any way add to or alter their sites. The websites will remain "static" in their words. This, in actuality, is not new to the BGD. It has been "static" since April 6, 2016. I have not updated the BGD since then, and I have no intention of doing so in the future. Since then I have used this website, Brouwer Genealogy, to add new information and to correct errors in the existing BGD. <b>Please note: RootsWeb has not stated in its notice that they will be removing the websites that they host. What they do state is that they are removing the ability for authors to edit or otherwise amend their websites. </b>Having said that, there is a significant problem left behind after RootsWeb posted their banner alert.<br /></p><p>You will note that the original introduction to the database that appeared on the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">Main Page</a> has been severely truncated. It's in effect, gone. In addition, <b>and this greatly effects the functionality and ease of use of the site</b>, the indexes (<a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/surname_index.htm" target="_blank">Surname Index</a> and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/master_index.htm" target="_blank">Master Index</a>) are empty. Users no longer have the ability to locate any particular or specific individual within the 744 pages that contain the individual profiles. <b>There is nothing that I can do about this</b>. Unless RootsWeb/Ancestry.com corrects this themselves, the Indexes are lost. In an email to their Support staff I have asked if they could address and fix this. While I have received acknowledgement that my inquiry has been received and have been given a "Case number," I have not yet received a reply. As of this writing it is still possible to access some individual profiles through the Charts, Progenitors, Unplaced, and DNA Analysis pages found in the space below the title. All and all, <b>the BGD is very inefficient without the Indexes. However...<br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>There is a Work Around </b><br /></p><p>A work around to this problem is to use an internet search engine like Google or Bing to locate an individual within the BGD's pages. I first tried this with Google using a rather uncommon Brewer name, Elazerus Brewer. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Elazerus+Brewer%2C+Brouwer+Genealogy+Database" target="_blank">I entered Elazerus Brewer, Brouwer Genealogy Database on Google Search. The results were useless</a>. Among them was the Brouwer Genealogy Databases' main page, but that doesn't help me get to Elazerus himself. I then tried <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Elazerus+Brewer%22+and+%22Brouwer+Genealogy+Database%22&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=559058411&ei=x5rkZL6CBJecptQP0NCS6Ak&ved=0ahUKEwj-geDVk_CAAxUXjokEHVCoBJ0Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=%22Elazerus+Brewer%22+and+%22Brouwer+Genealogy+Database%22&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAaAhgDIjIiRWxhemVydXMgQnJld2VyIiBhbmQgIkJyb3V3ZXIgR2VuZWFsb2d5IERhdGFiYXNlIjIHECEYoAEYCjIKECEYoAEYChiLA0j9tAFQ6RVYo60BcAF4AJABAJgB4AGgAfwuqgEGMi40NS4xuAEDyAEA-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&sclient=gws-wiz-serp" target="_blank">"Elazerus Brewer" and "Brouwer Genealogy Database,"</a> <b>both in quotation marks and separated by the word, and</b>. The third suggestion down was Brouwer Genealogy Database - Person Page 101. That takes me to page 101 of the BGD and then I scrolled through the page for Elazerus. As I recall, I think that I had this set up for 100 profiles per page. This more precise search request did bring me to <a href="https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/genealogy/p101.htm" target="_blank">Person Page 101</a>, and scrolling down, or using your browser's "Find in page" tool (I'm using a Fire Fox browser here) this work around does work. Using Bing, I pretty much had the same result. You need to be specific and use perimeters like quotation marks to narrow down your search. Keep in mind, with this test I did use an uncommon given name, Elazerus. Try this with say, John Brewer, Brouwer Genealogy Database,<b> </b>and you will have far more search results to consider.<b> </b>Here I would suggest adding more info to the search, such as a birth or death date, or by searching using the spouse's name (if known).<b> This is all I can suggest with regards to finding an individual on the BGD. Should RootsWeb fix the index problem - great. Should they not - oh well, users will just have to trudge on without it.<br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The Bigger Issue</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">As mentioned, the BGD was first created and uploaded in 2008 and was frequently updated through the end of 2015. This was for me, <b>a lot of work</b>. The technical aspects of what was involved in creating the website and the reason why I created it were summed up back in 2008/09 in <a href="https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/genealogy/Research/aboutbgd.htm" target="_blank">"About the Brouwer Genealogy Database."</a> In 2017 RootsWeb was hacked and all of their hosted websites and forums were taken down. They were offline for, as I recall, ten months or so. <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-status-of-brouwer-genealogy-in-2018.html" target="_blank">See the post of June 9, 2018</a>. Soon thereafter, by <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/databases-are-back-online.html" target="_blank">July 20, 2018</a>, the BGD was restored by RootsWeb, although some stand alone pages that were linked to by this website, Brouwer Genealogy, remained lost. Also lost was my ability to manage the many files needed to create the BGD. That is to say, I lost the ability to replace incorrect information with replacement information or add new information to the pages already online. RootsWeb had taken away their free and easy to use upload tool. This meant that site publishers had to find and use a third party alternative, i.e. some FTP client software. I was not interested in doing this and simply decided that it was a good time to stop working on the BGD. As a result, the website you now find online is the same as it was back in late 2015/early 2016. <b>It is in RootsWeb's words, "static," and has been for the past eight years</b>. This final condition of the BGD includes the errors within the database and does not include all of the additional information that has been discovered and learned over the past seven to eight years since it went "static". Since early 2016 I have been using this website, Brouwer Genealogy, to point out errors, to correct profiles (see the recent <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/04/revising-family-of-jan-brouwer-and.html" target="_blank">post of April 6, 2023 </a>for an example) and to add new names and info. This isn't how I envisioned this turning out way back in 2008 when I created the site. But, it is what it is. Unforeseen events often alter initial plans. <b>It is the way things will remain with the BGD from here on out into the future.<br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;">There are other issues with the "static" BGD that I have but I will not go into them in detail now or here. In short, the flaws in it irritate me to the point that I would just as soon see the entire site taken offline once and for all and for good, and the time and effort required to maintain and update the BGD in the format in which it stands, is time and effort that I would prefer to spend elsewhere. I did, however, receive an email from Richard Brewer, the previous administrator of the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a>, in which he described the BGD, not as "static," but as "an Archive." This is perhaps a better way to think about the condition of the BGD. Think about it as an archive of the work done on numerous Brouwer/Brower/Brewer, etc., and associated families between the years of 2000 and 2016. In that light, I can live with it remaining online in it's present, and final form, errors, omissions, warts and all, for as long as RootsWeb is willing to host it. And for those who are persistent and willing to do a little extra work, the BGD can still be a useful tool. Looking at the BGD as an archive is the thing which stops me from taking RootsWeb's advise to use a FTP client tool to download my files from the RootsWeb server which would in turn remove the site in its entirety from the internet. If I did or do remove the files I would not reconstitute it online using another hosting provider. <b>Having now said that the BGD is to a degree outdated, please keep that in mind when using it. The strength of this website is its numerous sited sources. Use them to check the work for yourself and please don't re-post any images or screenshots of profiles or pages elsewhere online, like in your Ancestry.com Tree, without first validating the content within said image or screenshot. </b>So, to be clear...<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://support.rootsweb.com/s/article/Retiring-and-Migrating-Portions-of-RootsWeb" target="_blank">RootsWeb tells us</a> that, "website owners wishing to maintain their sites must migrate to a different hosting provider before 2024." <b>That will not happen with the archival BGD</b>. It will not be migrated to a new hosting platform, nor will it be altered from it's present, that is to say, "static" or "archived" form. I have contacted RootsWeb support and asked whether or not they intended to continue hosting websites, whether or not the websites would be migrated to Ancestry.com (as they did with World Connect Trees), and if so, would the pages have new URLs. My inquiry was acknowledged and I was given a case number, but I have yet to receive a reply. If I do not hear back we'll just have to wait until 2024 to see just how Ancestry.com handles the RootsWeb hosted websites that have not migrated to a different hosting provider. Perhaps when that is completed, or perhaps sooner as per my request, the banner notices on the BGD's site will be removed and the indexes will be restored. If they aren't, as I've said, users will have to get along without them.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">BGB 751<br /></p><p><b> </b><br /></p><p><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-17621148658307389222023-08-22T07:01:00.000-04:002023-08-22T07:01:32.055-04:00Some BREWER Wills, Etc., In Kentucky: Mercer County<p> Mercer County, Kentucky was formed in 1785 out of what was then Lincoln County, Virginia (and is now Lincoln County, Kentucky). Kentucky was admitted to the Union as a state, June 1, 1792. Harrodsburg, the county seat of Mercer County, was first settled in 1774. Below are BREWER wills and other probate records found in the books of Mercer County, Kentucky and available on <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432073?availability=Family%20History%20Library" target="_blank">FamilySearch.org, "Probate Records 1786-1865; General Index, 1786-1946," Kentucky. County Court (Mercer County)</a>.<br /></p><p>1. <b>Daniel Brewer</b>.* 1791. 1:49. Will.</p><p>2. <b>Daniel Brewer</b>. 1799. 2:134. Guardian Account.</p><p>3. <b>David Brewer</b>. 1819. 6:214. Will.</p><p>4. <b>David Brewer. </b>1819-20. 6:230, 232. Inventory.</p><p>5. <b>Dilly Brewer</b>. 1820. 6:333. Dower.</p><p>6. <b>Daniel A. Brewer</b>. 1822. 7:333. Guardian Account.</p><p>7. <b>John Brewer</b>. 1826. 8:324. Inventory.</p><p>8. <b>David Brewer</b>. 1826. 8:395. Settlement.</p><p>9. <b>John Brewer</b>. 1828. 9:113. Settlement.</p><p>10. <b>Abraham Brewer</b>. 1828. 9:137. Will.</p><p>11. <b>David Brewer</b>. 1828. 9:149. Settlement</p><p>12. <b>Abraham Brewer</b>. 1828. 9:151. Inventory.</p><p>13. <b>David Brewer. </b>1833. 10:66. Settlement.</p><p>14. <b>L. D. Brewer</b>. 1851. 14:36. Guard. Settlement.</p><p>15. <b>H. R. Brewer</b>. 1853. 14:204. Guard. Settlement.</p><p>16. <b>Robert Brewer</b>. 1854. 15:36. Guard. Settlement.</p><p>17. <b>Abram A. Brewer</b>. 1858. 15:527. Will.</p><p>18. <b>A. A. Brewer</b>. 1858. 15:527. Inventory.</p><p>19. <b>A. A. Brewer</b>. 1858. 16:43. Exor. Settlement.</p><p>20. <b>L. D. Brewer</b>. 1882. 18:336. Will</p><p>21. <b>Ethelinda Brewer</b>. 1882. 18:339. Renunciation.</p><p>22. <b>Ethelinda Brewer</b>. 1899. 19:102. Will.</p><p>This post has been in the draft file for some months now. My original plan was to include an abstract of the above records. At this time that project would be too time consuming and is not possible within the foreseeable future, so rather than have this much of the post linger in the draft file, perhaps this can serve as a head start for anyone researching the Brewers of Mercer County, Kentucky.</p><p>*Daniel Brouwer/Brewer (1719-1791) is a great-grandson of Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, L. I. (Adam>Pieter>Abraham>Daniel). <br /></p><p>BGB 750 <br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-81635160128098615052023-08-21T09:43:00.002-04:002023-08-21T15:11:22.671-04:00A List of BREWER Deeds in Kentucky: Hardin County<p> Hardin County, Kentucky was formed in 1792 from land partitioned from Nelson County, which itself was created from Jefferson County in 1784. Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the 15th State on June 1, 1792. Prior to that it was known as the Kentucky District and was within the jurisdiction of Virginia. The first permanent European settlement was founded in 1774 by James Harrod at the site of present day Harrodsburg in Mercer County. On 4 March 1843, the southeast portion of Hardin County was set of to form LaRue County. <br /></p><p>The Family History Library has filmed and since digitized the deed books for Hardin County. Digital images can be accessed from a home computer at the FamilySearch.org website: <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/309504?availability=Family%20History%20Library" target="_blank">Hardin County, Kentucky Deeds, 1793-1902; index 1795-1904</a>. A list of deeds involving persons named BREWER.<br /></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Mark Brewer</b> from Benjamin Chastee, G:71 (1819)<br /></li><li><b>Mark Brewer</b> from <b>John Brewer</b>, I:15 (1823)<br /></li><li><b>Isaac Brewer </b>from John Willett, T:385 (1841)<br /></li><li><b>John Brewer </b>to Stephen French, T:41 (1840)<br /></li><li><b>Isaac Brewer</b> from Edward Sutton, T:380 (1841)<br /></li><li><b>Isaac Brewer </b>to Nathaniel Whitehead, V:221 (1841)<br /></li><li><b>Uriah Brewer</b> from Henry F. McBride by Comr., Y:247 (1850)<br /></li><li><b>John Brewer</b> from L & N Rail Road Co., Z:388 (1852)<br /></li><li><b>Uriah Brewer </b>to Felix J. Fowler, 2:431 (1854)<br /></li></ol><p>This post has been in the draft file for some months now. My original intention was to abstract these deeds. Plans have changed, I will not be doing that at this time. Perhaps this list will serve as a bit of a shortcut to anyone who may be interested in the Brewer families of Hardin County, Kentucky.</p><p>BGB 749<br /></p><p><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-37743996563868583392023-04-06T14:56:00.001-04:002023-04-06T15:19:55.800-04:00Revising The Family of Jan Brouwer and Helena Van Cleef<p> The post, <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-family-of-jan-brouwer-and-helena.html" target="_blank">"The Family of Jan Brouwer and Helena Van Cleef," was published October 24, 2012</a>. A <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p166.htm#i84477" target="_blank">profile, with source citations, for Jan Brouwer can be found on the Brouwer Genealogy Database (last updated late 2015)</a>. The family was also covered back in 2007 in "Jan Brouwer of Flatlands and Descendants," <i>New York Genealogical and Biographical Record</i>, 138(2007):254. In each of these instances we see a family consisting of eleven or twelve children. We also see that the mother of these children is recorded variously as <b>Helena</b>, <b>Hilletje</b>, <b>Lena</b>, and <b>Mardelena</b>. We also see some conflicts among the baptism dates of the children, specifically with the children, <b>Pieter</b>, <b>Benjamin</b>, and <b>Marytje</b>, who were baptized 26 Dec. 1737, 19 Feb. 1738 and 3 Oct. 1738 respectively. Ten years later I have had reason to revisit this family and today I see it very differently. Rather than one family of eleven or twelve children<b>, I believe that what we have here are TWO families</b>, a family of Jan Brouwer and Hilletje Van Cleef, and another family of a different Jan Brouwer and his wife Lena/Mardelena (___).</p><p>Both the 2007 "Jan Brouwer of Flatlands and Descendants" article and my <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-family-of-jan-brouwer-and-helena.html" target="_blank">post of October 24, 2012</a> acknowledges the problems with the original family of Jan Brouwer and Helena Van Cleef. With regards to the 2007 article see footnote 45 on page 254 which, in short, explains the "odd spacing of baptisms" in this family, to the personality of the minister, Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen. I should quote the full footnote here:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<i>The odd spacing of baptisms may be due to Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, the autocratic minister of the churches at Three-Mile Run (New Brunswick), Raritan (Somerville), North Branch (Readington) and Six-Mile Run, who, influenced by the Great Awakening, withheld communion and baptisms from various church members for extended periods of time in the 1720s and 1730s and even excommunicated some who would not conform to his evangelical views. Some members occasionally sought the sacraments from other ministers in the area. Thus, although Reformed baptisms usually followed soon after birth, in this part of New Jersey, in this time period, baptismal dates are not necessarily good estimators of birth of birth dates</i>." </p><p style="text-align: left;">Perhaps. Or perhaps not. Do we have record of Rev. Frelinghuysen specifically withholding baptism from some children of Jan Brouwer and Hilletje Van Cleef? If such a record exists, it is not presented in the article. And since it is not, I would then assume that we do not have this evidence and that there is no reason to assume that that is what is happening here. The author(s) of this article (see footnote 2 on page 250), is (are) suggesting that Jan Brouwer and Hilletje Van Cleef went to the Reformed minister at Freehold-Middletown to baptize children that Rev. Frelinghuysen would not baptize at North Branch or Raritan. In other words, Jan Brouwer lived in the area of Raritan in Somerset or Hunterdon Counties when these children were born, whereas other evidence suggests that he lived at Middletown in Monmouth County. Having the children baptized by the Freehold-Middletown minister would have been the parents first option, as is the case with the couples first four baptisms and the sixth (see below).<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In my own <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-family-of-jan-brouwer-and-helena.html" target="_blank">post on October 24, 2012</a>, I recognize this and try to explain away not only the problem of the "odd baptism spacing," but also the problem of the children's mother having a wide variety of recorded given names. <b>Hilletje</b> a Dutch diminutive of Hillegondt, and equivalent in English to Hilda, and <b>Lena</b>, a diminutive of both Helena and Magdalena, are just <b>two very different names</b>. Hilletje Van Cleef was a daughter of Isbrandt Van Cleef and Jannetje Arise Van der Bilt. Her maternal grandmother was <b>Hillitje</b> <b>Remse</b> (a daughter of Rem Jansen and Jannetje Jorise Rapalje). She was likely named for her maternal grandmother. <b>The correct name of Jan Brouwer's wife is Hilletje Van Cleef</b>. Her name is<b> </b>mistakenly recorded or transcribed from the original in one baptism record as Helena. However, the other baptisms in which the mother's name is Lena or, in one instance, Mardelena, is not a recording error. <b>It's the name of a different mother, of a different family</b>. Back in 2012 <b>I incorrectly assessed this family</b>. But, let's just list all of the baptisms here once again:</p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>1724 June 21. A child; parents: Jan Brower, (blank) Van Kleve; no witnesses recorded (Freehold-Middletown 23:12)</li><li>1726 April 11. A child; parents: Jan Brouwer, Helena Van Cleve; witnesses: Isbrant Van Cleve, Janneke, his wife (Freehold-Middletown 23:43)</li><li>1727 Aug. __. Pieter; parents: Jan Brouwer, Hilletie; no witnesses recorded (Freehold-Middletown 23:44)</li><li>1735 Dec. 25. Henrikus; parents: Jan Brouwer, Hilletje Van Kleef; no witnesses recorded (Freehold-Middletown 24:46)</li><li>1737 Dec 26. Peeteres; parents: Yan Brouwer, Leena; no witnesses recorded (Harlingen 17:80)</li><li>1738 Feb. 19. Benjamin; parents: Jan Brouwer, Hilletje Van Kleef; witnesses: Benjamin Van Kleef, Rachel Couwenhove (Freehold-Middletown 24:91)</li><li>1738 Oct. 3. Marytje; parents: Jan Brouwer and Lena; no witnesses recorded (Readington 4:217)</li><li>1741 June 28. Catrina; parents: Brouwer, Jan and wife, Mardelena; no witnesses recorded (Raritan 2:302)</li><li>1743 Jan. 14. Leena; parents: Yan Brouwer, Leenaa; no witnesses recorded (Harlingen 17:82)</li><li>1746 Dec. 10. Elsje; parents: Jan Brouwer and Lena; no witnesses recorded (Readington 4:303)</li><li>1749 Dec. 26. Johannis; parents: Jan Brouwer and Lena; no witnesses recorded (Readington 4:305)</li></ol><p>Sources for the above:</p><p>Freehold-Middletown: "Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 22-38 (1947-1963)</p><p>Harlingen: "Reformed Dutch Church of Harlingen, Baptisms," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 15-20 (1940-45)<br /></p><p>Readington: "Readington Church Baptisms From 1720," Somerset County Historical Quarterly vol.4-8 (1915-19)</p><p>Raritan: "First Reformed Church Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms," Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vols. 2-7 (1913-18)</p><p>Notes on the above baptisms:</p><p>I suspect that either no. 1 or no. 2, where in both cases the child's name was not recorded, belongs to <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p182.htm#i85359" target="_blank">Aris Brower</a> who married Neeltje Cooper by 1756. He would have been named for his maternal great grandfather Aris Janse Van der Bilt. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p182.htm#i85359" target="_blank">He is on the BGD</a> but is not included in the 2007 <i>NYGBR </i>article.</p><p>No. 8, Catrina is not included in the 2007 <i>NYGBR</i> article, but her baptism record is there. The author(s) in 2007 missed it.</p><p>The baptisms span 25 years, from 1724 to 1749. A long period of time. Possible, but not that typical. Magdalena Verdon was mother of 14 children from 1646 to 1672, a span of 26 years, but she was likely married at, or by age 16. [See Harry Macy Jr., "Some New Light on Aeltje Braconie and Maria Badie," <i>New York Genealogical and Biographical Record</i> 142(2011):21-36, which suggests that Magdalena may have been married as early as age 13 or 14]. We do not have baptism records for either Jan or Hilletje, but as Jan's father died between 1702 and 1706, and as Helletje, being named for a maternal grandmother, would probably be an older daughter of her parents, both were born either in the 1690s or early 1700s (I have estimates of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p166.htm#i84477" target="_blank">ca. 1692 for Jan</a> and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p653.htm#i84478" target="_blank">ca. 1703-1708 for Helena Van Cleef</a> on the BGD. The later date for Helena allows her to have a child born in 1749, something I no longer believe is correct). <br /></p><p>There is a glaring gap of <b>eight years</b> between the baptisms of no. 3 and no. 4. That is a long period of time for a couple who are in their mid twenties to early or mid thirties. Two to four additional children may be missing from this family. Perhaps Hilletje had a few miscarriages or stillbirths. Perhaps the couple were separated for one reason or another for this period, although I truly doubt this. Perhaps they were back on Long Island where church records for the Breukelen and Flatbush churches are missing. Maybe there are some unplaced Brouwers out there (and there are quite a few of them) that belong in this family.</p><p>In baptism no. 1 the mother's given name is blank. In no. 2 she is called Helena Van Cleve. In nos. 3, 4, and 6 she is Hilletje (Van Kleef in 3 and 4). In no. 8 she is Mardelena (undoubtedly an error for Magdelena) and in nos. 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11, she is Lena/Leenaa. </p><p>As pointed out, in the October 24, 2012 post, I presented this family with a full eleven or twelve children and argued for explanations that would cover up the inconsistencies outlined above. <b>But now, ten years later, I believe that was incorrect</b>. While it's possible to hold on to this family as being accurately described in the older accounts, both my online posts here and on the BGD, and the 2007 <i>NYGBR</i> article, <b>I'm now inclined to think otherwise</b>. <b>What we actually have here are two distinct families.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Make the following changes to the Brouwer Genealogy Database</b></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Change</b> Helena Van Cleef's primary name to <b>Hilletje Van Cleef</b>. The appearance of her name as Helena in baptism no. 2 is likely an error, perhaps on the part of the transcriber. </li><li><b>Remove</b> the following children: no. 5 Peeterse (Pieter), no. 7 Marytje, no. 8 Catrina, no. 9 Leena, no. 10 Elsje and no. 11 Johannis from this family.</li><li><b>Change</b> the husband of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p661.htm#i85354" target="_blank">Antje Van Dyk</a> from <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p173.htm#i85353" target="_blank">Pieter Brouwer, bp. 26 Dec 1737</a> (no.5) to <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p173.htm#i85469" target="_blank">Pieter Brouwer, bp. Aug. 1727</a> (no.3). The children of Antje (Joannes and Petrus) are now sons of Pieter (bp. 1727). </li><li><b>Change</b> the date of death for <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p173.htm#i85469" target="_blank">Pieter Brouwer, bp. Aug 1727</a>, from "bef Dec. 1737" to "bef 22 September 1759" and move the 1759 administration of estate record and "resided at Shrewsbury" statement from <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p173.htm#i85353" target="_blank">Pieter (1737)</a> to <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p173.htm#i85469" target="_blank">Pieter 1727</a>).</li><li><b>Create the new family of Jan Brouwer and Lena/Mardelena (___) </b>with their children, nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 above.</li></ol><p>Now stand back and take a look at these two newly reconstructed families and tell me if this doesn't make better sense. We now have the family of Jan Brouwer and Helletje Van Cleef with five or six children (depending on whether or not you wish to assign one of the first two baptisms to the supposed son Aris Brower) with children born between 1724 and 1738 (14 years) with an eight year gap from 1727 to 1735 in which perhaps 2 to 4 additional children may have been born. This Jan Brouwer lived at Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey from 1719 (ear mark recorded) through 1727 and from 1735 to at least 1738, but may have been elsewhere between the years 1727 and 1735. </p><p>The new second family is Jan Brouwer and his wife Lena/Mardelena (Magdalena) who lived in the Raritan River Valley area of Somerset and Hunterdon Counties at least between 1737 and 1749 when they had six children baptized at Raritan, Readington and Harlingen. Whether they remained there after 1749 or were there before 1737 is not (yet) known. If the 1737 baptism is that of their first child, a son named Peeteres (Pieter), then perhaps they were married around 1736 and if in their early to mid 20s at their marriage were perhaps born 1710 to 1717 or so. <b>This Jan is not necessarily a descendant of Jan Brouwer of Flatlands, L.I.</b>, whereas the other Jan Brouwer certainly is. <b>This new Jan Brouwer may well be a descendant of Adam Brouwer</b> which leads me to one additional change in something I previously published. Back in 2012, in the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/10/unplaced-john-brewer-revolutionary-war.html" target="_blank">post of October 28, "Unplaced: John Brewer, Revolutionary War Patriot of New Jersey and Pennsylvania,"</a> I suggested that this John Brewer, who was born 4 July 1749 as per a D.A.R. lineage application <b>could</b> be one and the same with Johannis, baptized 26 Dec. 1749 (no. 11 above). I then updated and reversed this idea in the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/02/update-john-brewer-revolutionary-war.html" target="_blank">post of February 25, 2022</a>, when, after the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a> received test results from a descendant of Thomas Brewer of East Buffalo and Annville, Pennsylvania, a very likely son of John Brewer, born 4 July1749, and with those results showing that the participant was a certain descendant of Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, L.I., I wrote that the two (John and Johannis) were <b>not</b> likely the same. Well, sorry to have to do this, but when evidence changes or becomes clearer, we do have to change our opinions<b>. It may well be that John Brewer, b. 4 July 1749 and Johannis Brouwer, bapt. 26 Dec 1749 are one and the same</b>.To be clear, this last statement is not to be taken as fact. The trick now is to find evidence that either demonstrates that the two are one and the same, or proves that they are instead two different men born at about the same time.<br /></p><p>While I would expect that others may disagree with my new assessment of the family of Jan Brouwer and Helena (now Hilletje) Van Cleef, there does exist enough ambiguity and incompleteness with what we have regarded as fact in the past, to state that this new arrangement of two families from one incorrectly reconstructed family, is viable option. As we search for linking the descendants who form the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/unplaced-genetic-descendants-of-adam.html" target="_blank">Sub-Unit E-FTC5921 at the Brewer DNA Project</a>, this is the scenario that I would suggest researchers begin working from. </p><p>BGB 748<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-25500076621563271382023-03-20T10:00:00.003-04:002023-04-06T15:20:23.992-04:00New Publication From David V. Brewer, "Brewer Families of Moore, Chatham, and Randolph Counties, North Carolina"<p> Just released and placed online last night, the full title: "<b>Brewer Families of Moore, Chatham, and Randolph Counties, North Carolina: In Search of the Descendants of George Brewer of Brunswick County, Virginia</b>," is the latest work from David V. Brewer, a co-administrator of the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a> who oversees the Project's Group known as "Lanier-Brewer." David has very generously made his 357 page paper available with the link below. But first, I suggest you read through David's preview and synopsis as originally posted on the Brewer DNA Project's Activity Feed page:</p><p><span class="message-text">"In 2018, I wrote a paper about the Brewers from Moore and Southwest Chatham Counties, North Carolina, mainly because I knew that my ancestors haled from there. I finished too quickly, missing many details, clues, and family connections. I also made the mistake of thinking I needed to publish something on paper, which I've learned makes it even harder to correct mistakes. Since then, picking up more leads and confronting mistakes where I'd been too quick in the curves, helped me appreciate the value of patience in this hobby. So, the link below will take you to a broader, hopefully more carefully researched, yet still hopelessly incomplete effort to sort out and trace the Brewers of the tri-county region (Moore, Chatham, Randolph). Unlike the first version, this version of the paper discusses in detail the Haw River Brewers, including Henry, Oliver, and Nathaniel Brewer, as well as the descendants of Nicholas Brewer and several Brewer families from northern Chatham County, including the families of John, Samuel and Abel Brewer, who were closely associated with the other Brewers in the area. The paper also discusses in detail descendants of the tri-county Brewers who moved to Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina in the early decades of the 1800's. </span></p><p><span class="message-text"> "I'm now even more convinced that most of the sons of George Brewer (1680?-1744?) of Brunswick County, Virginia moved to the tri-county region in the 1750's and 1760's. Among those sons, Howell (I), Lanier (I), and probably John and their offspring settled in southwest Chatham, northern Moore, and southeast Randolph Counties. Henry, Oliver, and probably Nathaniel settled in the Haw River area of central and northern Chatham County, as did sons of Nicholas Brewer (I). In fact, the only two branches of George's supposed male descendants that didn't move to the tri-county region in that era were William and George Brewer Jr. and their children. Interestingly, DNA evidence has shown that several Brewer Project members who credibly trace their ancestry to those two men, unlike the descendants of Lanier (I), Howell (I), John, Henry, and either Oliver or Nathaniel, aren't positive for haplogroup I-Y82422. The significance of that variance remains unclear. </span></p><p><span class="message-text">"As before, this paper is not a list of family trees or pedigrees. All you need to do is poke at the pedigrees in hundreds of Brewer family trees purporting to date back to the 1700's that are posted on Ancestry.com to see that the vast majority of them simply are not adequately supported by credible data. In my view, the certainty that we all understandably seek isn't possible at this stage of our collective knowledge. There simply are too many record gaps in virtually all the lines under study. Instead, my goal has been to compile and integrate existing research about the obscure period between 1750 and 1850 with some newer information, including the early results of YDNA genetic testing of male line descendants of the Brewer families from this region. At most, this is just a next step in the process of filling gaps in our knowledge. </span></p><p><span class="message-text">"But that doesn't mean we should demand too much certainty before drawing tentative conclusions. For example, the paper addresses two questions that researchers of the extended Brewer families of the tri-county region must confront. How do we know whether Howell Brewer I was the father of Howell Brewer II, and how do we know whether Lanier Brewer I was the father of Lanier Brewer II. The simple answer to both questions is we don’t know. But that’s a bit of a dodge as more layers of genetic evidence have been unpeeled, most of them in the last decade. The fact is that we have three distinct subgroups of closely related Brewer descendants who can trace their ancestry to the tri-county region and, from there, most probably to George Brewer of Brunswick. The first, haplogroup I-Y15300, subclade I-Y182422, Brewer DNA Project subgroup A, probably consists of descendants of John Brewer, the son of George Brewer. In addition, there are two more defined branches of subclade I-Y182422 that probably are more than 250 years old years old. Descendants of Willis Brewer (born in the 1760’s), Royal Brewer (born about 1770-1775), Henry Brewer (born about 1780), Solomon Brewer (born about 1785), Wiley Brewer (born about 1790), Jenkins Brewer (born 1812-1815), and Andrew Brewer (born about 1818) all have tested positive for subclade I-Y29640. The common ancestor of these men almost certainly was born in the early to mid-1700’s, and no later than the 1740’s. As discussed in the paper, we have an even further refinement of this line showing that another sub-branch, SNP FTD55716, probably arose in the mid-1700’s. Lanier Brewer II, likely born in the 1740’s or 1750’s, probably wasn’t positive for that mutation, but I suspect that a sibling of his was. That man, in turn, probably was the grandfather or great grandfather of Willis, Jenkins, and Andrew Brewer. </span></p><p><span class="message-text">"A somewhat similar pattern exists for descendants of haplogroup I-Y15300, I-Y182422, subclade I-Y23708. Descendants of Isaac Brewer (born 1763), Harmon Brewer (born mid-1760’s), and Cornelius Brewer (born early 1780’s), as examples, all are positive for subclade I-Y23708. The first-hand account of Isaac Brewer stated that his father was Howell Brewer (II), who almost certainly was born before 1745. Isaac Brewer stated that he had an Uncle John Brewer, and more than 100 years ago, Street Brewer passed on the family history that Harmon Brewer’s father was John Brewer. If that information is correct, and there’s no reason apart from sheer fussiness to ignore it -- especially in light of YDNA evidence that descendants of Harmon and Howell II are both positive for subclade I-Y23708 – then the grandfather of Isaac and Harmon Brewer also probably would have been positive for subclade I-Y23708. That man would have been born no later than the early 1720’s and, based on what we know about the earliest Brewer migrants to the tri-county area, there are three reasonable possibilities: Howell I, Lanier I, and John Brewer. </span></p><p><span class="message-text">"Again, the paper argues that descendants of George Brewer's son John probably fall into Haplogroup I-Y15300, I-Y182422, Brewer Project Subgroup A. If that's right, this leaves Howell I and Lanier I. Because subclade I-Y23708 probably arose in their generation, and membership in that subclade and subclade I-Y29640 is mutually exclusive, those two subclades most likely are separate YDNA branches representing those two sons of George Brewer. True, we can’t yet say to a reasonable probability whether subclade I-Y29640 arose in the first or second generation after George Brewer. But that doesn’t undermine the essential point that these two subclades probably are distinct earmarks for descendants of Howell I and Lanier I. </span></p><p><span class="message-text">"As discussed in the paper, there are generations of old stories in the families of Solomon (born about 1785), Wiley (born about 1790), and George Brewer (born about 1775) that the father of those men was named Lanier Brewer. Those stories, shared among geographically separated family clusters whose descendants all are positive for subclade I-Y29640, ultimately tip the scales for me. If we conducted a civil trial where the proponent’s burden of proof is by a preponderance of the evidence, most jurors would give the answer common sense suggests is correct: Descendants of Howell Brewer I are positive for subclade I-Y23708, and descendants of Lanier Brewer I are positive for subclade I-Y29640, with one of his sons (not Lanier II) probably having been the source of the further downstream mutation of SNP FTD55716. The same evidence wouldn’t satisfy the criminal law standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But my instinct tells me that, in time, more evidence will. And, if not, there will be many opportunities to reconsider. </span></p><p><span class="message-text">"With that peek under the hood, here's the link to the current version of the paper:
</span></p><div> </div><div><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lEbtWzDCXFSUx4ChUhsuNl25XqDwLvTD/view" target="_blank">Brewer Families of Moore, Chatham and Randolph Counties, North Carolina: In Search of the Descendants of George Brewer of Brunswick County, Virginia</a></b></div><div><b> </b></div><div><span class="message-text">I look forward to your comments, questions and corrections."</span><b><br /></b></div><div> </div><div>Thank you David. <br /></div><div> </div><div>David can be contacted through the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project website</a>. And a little note of my own: The paper is a relatively large file, should it not completely load on your computer, close it, then try again. It should then load.<br /></div><div><b> </b></div><div>BGB 74<b>7 </b> <br /></div>
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</div>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-46805973432139130562023-03-14T09:53:00.000-04:002023-03-14T09:53:03.266-04:00Henry Brewer and Mary Wickoff, New Jersey Marriage License <p> The <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-jersey-marriage-records-1665-1800.html" target="_blank">January 13, 2023 post, "New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800: BREWER and BROWER,"</a> includes an entry for <b>Brewer, John, Hunterdon, and Mary Wickoff</b>, taken from<b>"Index to Marriage Bonds and Marriage Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton," </b>found in <b>Nelson, William. <i>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Volume XXII. Marriage Records, 1665-1800</i>. Archives of the State of New Jersey. First Series. Paterson, N.J.: Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1900:32</b>. I followed this up with a note that the <a href="https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/dos_archivesdbportal/ColonialMarriages.aspx" target="_blank">New Jersey State Archives Searchable Database for Colonial Marriage Bonds</a>, shows the couple as <b>Henry Brewer, of Hunterdon (County) and Mary Wickoff</b>. So, which one is it? Was it a John Brewer, or was it a Henry Brewer who had a license to Mary Wickoff dated April 5, 1783?</p><p>For a small fee a copy, either physical or digital, can be ordered from the New Jersey State Archives. I did just this. Turn around time was fairly quick. And the original license shows that it was a <b>Henry Brewer</b> who married Mary Wickoff with a license dated April 5, 1783. I received via email a digital copy which was delivered as a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/127QK66BLcqbTt4xRmRBidqjZhmppYhGG/view" target="_blank">PDF, which you dear reader, can now view here</a>. The bond of five hundred pounds for the license was put up by "Henry Brewer of Hunterdon County and Jacob Johnston of the same place yeomen." The marriage license itself does not state the residence of the bride, Mary Wickoff.</p><p>A quick search at FamilySearch.org's database titled, "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985," using the name, <b>Henry Brewer</b>, gives us a bit more info into the couple. The <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKN-TQN" target="_blank">search results</a> tell us that Henry was <b>born</b> in Hunterdon County and that his father was named <b>Daniel Brewer</b>. Mary Wickoff's place of birth is not recorded, but the record names her father as <b>William Wickoff</b>. </p><p>William F. Wyckoff, in "Notes On The Wyckoff Family," published in the <i>Somerset County Historical Quarterly</i> volumes 2 and 3 (1913-1914) at 3:202, tells us that the above mentioned William Wickoff, whose wife was named Mollie or Mary (see 3:42), had children Nicholas (the eldest), Phebe (m. Sickles) and Mary (m. Brewer). It is also stated that William Wickoff "moved to Central New York and died there in 1812 at Fayette, Seneca County." The previous entry for William Wickoff (at 3:42) had omitted these three children, but had included a son Edward, baptized 12 April 1772 at the North Branch Reformed Church in Readington, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. This baptism can be found in Readington (North Branch) Baptisms in <i>SCHQ</i> 5:305, where the parents are recorded as Williem Wickoff and Mollie, but no witnesses/sponsors are given.</p><p>If we assume that both Henry Brewer and Mary Wickoff were young adults when married, it is probable that they were both born in the early 1760s, or perhaps the late 1750s. William F. Wyckoff presumably did not find baptism records for Mary or the other two children included in his followup piece. I have not looked for such baptisms myself. Perhaps he learned the names of these children from some probate record, but if so, he does not mention it specifically. His "notes" do not provide source citations. I have not had the opportunity to check the Seneca County, New York probate records.</p><p>There is a <b>Daniel Brouwer</b>, variously recorded as <b>Brouer</b> and <b>Brower</b>, who along with his wife Maria/Marya had six children baptized in the Raritan River valley Reformed Churches, one in 1755, then a gap of nine years, followed by five more 1764 through 1770, which includes two, Daniel and Maria (perhaps twins, but not specifically stated as such) on 24 June 1764 at Readington (<i>SCHQ</i> 5:146). The previous <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/02/more-corrections-to-brouwer-genealogy.html" target="_blank">post of February 25, 2023</a>, mentions this baptism. I have not found a record for the baptism of a son named Henry, however as just mentioned, there is a nine year gap where other children may have been born, but who were either not baptized, or for whom baptism records have not been found, at least not among the Reformed Dutch Church records. This Daniel Brouwer is not found on the BGD, and perhaps we'll look into him a bit more in a future post.</p><p><b>An important take away from all of this</b> is off course the fact that transcribed records, even highly regarded and frequently cited ones such as William Nelson's "Index to Marriage Bonds and Marriage Records..." <b>can have errors</b>. In this case the error clearly is on the part of the transcriber/compiler. The original record, once sought out, reveals that is was a Henry Brewer, and not a John Brewer, who married Mary Wickoff with a bond dated April 5, 1783.</p><p>BGB 746<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-15634137313993317222023-02-25T09:20:00.008-05:002023-02-25T12:29:04.662-05:00More Corrections to the Brouwer Genealogy Database (BGD)<p> Four of the corrections that follow were discovered while conducting research focused on the Brouwer families found in the records of Hunterdon, Somerset and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey. The fifth from some further research into the family of Johannes Brouwer and Perkins Lambert.<br /></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p156.htm#i150237" target="_blank"><b>Daniel, </b>baptized 24 June 1764</a> at the North Branch Reformed Dutch Church in Readington, New Jersey, son of Daniel Brouer and Marya (___). The BGD places <b>Daniel</b> in the family of Daniel Brouwer (bp. 5 Jul 1719, d. 15 Jan 1791) and Marietje Koning (bp. 22 March 1724, d. ___). <b>This placement is incorrect.</b> <b>Daniel</b> (bp. 24 June 1764) belongs in a different family not found on the BGD. The family of Daniel Brouer/Brower/Brouwer and his wife Maria/Marya (____) will be covered in a future post pending further research. [A correct citation for the baptism is: "Readington Church Baptisms From 1720," <i>Somerset County Historical Quarterly</i> vol.4-8 (1915-19) 5:146. Daniel and Maria; parents: Daniel Brouer and Maria; no witnesses recorded]. In addition, <b>Daniel</b> did not die before February 1768. He may well have lived into adulthood. Eight of Daniel Brouwer and Maria Koning's (remaining) ten children, including their own son Daniel (bp. 28 Feb. 1768) were baptized at Schraalenburgh. This one baptism at Readington is an outlier and belongs in a different family. <b>To be clear: There are TWO distinct families headed by couples named Daniel Brouwer/Brouer and Maria (in one case, Marietje Koning and in the other Maria/Marya (___) found in New Jersey during the same period of time. The family of Daniel Brouwer and Marietje Koning originates in Bergen County, New Jersey (ten children with eight baptized at Schraalenburg between 1744 and 1768), then removed to the Conewago settlement in York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania during the mid 1770s, and then on to Harrodsburg, Mercer Co., Kentucky where Daniel Brouwer died in early 1791. The family of Daniel Brouer and Maria/Marya (___) had six children baptized in more than one of the Reformed Churches of the Raritan River valley area in Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey between 1755 and 1770. This family IS NOT found on the BGD and will be covered in a future post.</b><br /></li><li><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p164.htm#i84493" target="_blank"><b>Hendrick Brouwer</b></a>, had daughter Sara baptized 25 October 1727 at Harlingen, Somerset Co., New Jersey, the mother being Rachel Bon. The profile here places this <b>Hendrick</b> as a <b><i>possible son</i></b> of Pieter Brouwer and Annetje Jans. <b>Scratch that</b>. The reasoning supplied on the BGD was that a Hendrick Brewer witnessed the will of Johannes Luyster (3 Aug. 1766). Johannes Luyster lived at Middletown in Monmouth County, New Jersey and the Hendrick Brewer who witnessed that will is more likely one who we <b>do know</b> was living at Middletown at this time (he being this <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p164.htm#i85067" target="_blank">Hendrick Brewer</a>). This one record of the baptism of a daughter (Sara) is the only confirmed record for <b>Hendrick Brouwer</b> that we have in the Raritan River valley region of central New Jersey. <b>We do not know Hendrick Brouwer's ancestry, and we have no evidence to make a reliable suggestion. It is best to leave his ancestry open to all possibilities until additional records and evidence can be found</b>. We hope to have more regarding Hendrick Brouwer and Rachel Bon, as well as the multiple Hendrick Brouwers of Hunterdon, Somerset and Middlesex Counties in a future post. <b>For now, remove <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p164.htm#i84493" target="_blank">Hendrick Brouwer</a> from the family of Pieter Brouwer and Annetje Jans. We have NO evidence that this couple had a son named Hendrick.</b><br /></li><li><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p159.htm#i85351" target="_blank"><b>Annatje Brouwer</b></a> and her <i>supposed </i>sister <b><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p93.htm#i109183" target="_blank">Catherine Brewer</a> </b>are placed respectively as <i><b>probable</b></i> and <i><b>possible</b></i> daughters of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p172.htm#i21419" target="_blank">Pieter Brouwer and Annatje Jans</a>, the same couple in no. 2 above. <b>Remove both Annatie and Catherine from the family of Pieter Brouwer and Annetje Jans.</b> The 2007 article, "Jan Brouwer of Flatlands and Descendants," <i>New York Genealogical and Biographical Record</i> Vol.138 (2007) places <b>Annatje</b>, but not <b>Catherine</b>, as a daughter of Pieter Brouwer and Antje Jans. My own rationalization for this (back in 2007) was that <b>Annatje</b> was a daughter was based on the baptism record of Joannes, son of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p173.htm#i85353" target="_blank">Pieter Brouwer and Antje Van Dyk</a> at Freehold-Middltown (Monmouth Co.) dated 21 March 1756, with one witness: Antje Brouwer.<b> Annatje</b> who was known as the wife of Abraham Lane/Laen was placed as this witness and then assumed to be a daughter of Pieter Brouwer and Annetje Jans, only because there was no other Annatje known. <b>At closer inspection</b>, it is more likely that the witness for this baptism was the child's paternal grandmother, <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/pieter-brouwer-and-antje-van-dyk.html" target="_blank">Antje (Van Dyk) Brouwer</a> who was living at the time and had not yet remarried James Johnson (marriage license dated 24 March 1761). This leaves <b>Annatje</b>, the wife of Abraham Lane/Laen, with no identifiable parents (as of this writing, although I do have a much better alternative in mind). <b>Catherine</b> is known from only one record - in May 1734 at the Harlingen Reformed Church she was witness for the baptism of Lucretia, daughter of Abraham Lane and Hanatie Brouer, the witnesses being recorded as Pieter Janse and Katryntye Brouer. At this writing we have no other record for <b>Catherine/Katryntye</b>. With such limited info we cannot determine her correct relationship to <b>Annatje</b> with complete certainty. She could be a sister (I think very likely), but she might not be. She could be her mother (less likely but as of this writing cannot be ruled out).<b> More work to be done here, however, without additional records it is prudent to remove Annatje and Catherine from the family of Pieter Brouwer and Annetje Jans. </b>[Please also note that<b> there are errors with regards to <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p453.htm#i85350" target="_blank">Abraham Lane</a> and in particular, his father <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p453.htm#i136698" target="_blank">Adriaen Lane</a> as they appear on the BGD</b>. Researching the very large and complicated Lanen Van Pelt families in detail is beyond the scope of my own research. For a better understanding please see <a href="https://newnetherlandancestry.blogspot.com/2021/05/notes-on-descendants-of-gysbert-son-of.html" target="_blank">Mike Morrissey, "Notes on Descendants of Gysbert, Son of Matthias Lanen Van Pelt"</a>]. Also see no. 4...<br /></li><li><b> </b>Corrections to the family of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p453.htm#i85350" target="_blank"><b>Abraham Lane</b></a> and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p159.htm#i85351" target="_blank"><b>Annatje Brouwer</b></a>. Remove the daughter <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p454.htm#i110176" target="_blank"><b>Petronelly</b></a>. As Mike Morrissey points out in the <a href="https://newnetherlandancestry.blogspot.com/2021/05/notes-on-descendants-of-gysbert-son-of.html" target="_blank">above referenced piece</a>, no record of baptism (as claimed by Honeyman in SCHQ 2:217) exists. <b>He likely confused</b> her with Peternlte, daughter of Abraham Lot and Yante, who was baptized at Harlingen, March (not May) 30, 1748 ["Reformed Dutch Church of Harlingen, Baptisms," <i>Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey</i>, 17:86]. Remove <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p454.htm#i110176" target="_blank"><b>Petronelly</b></a> from this family. The placement of son <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p453.htm#i105307" target="_blank"><b>Jan</b></a>, not mentioned in his father's will, also can be questioned. The baptism record at Raritan, 6 Dec. 1730, lists his parents as Abraham Layn and <b>Ariaentie</b> (not Annatje). <b>This baptism would conflict</b> with that of his sister Jannetje who was baptized at Harlingen 15 April 1730, only eight months earlier. Yes, there are issues with estimating actual birth dates from the baptism dates at Raritan and the associated Reformed churches, but neither <b>Petronelly</b> nor <b>Jan</b> are mentioned in their claimed father's will. Mike Morrissey (<a href="https://newnetherlandancestry.blogspot.com/2021/05/notes-on-descendants-of-gysbert-son-of.html" target="_blank">again see the above reference</a>) suggests that <b>Jan</b> is a son of Abraham Bodyn/Bodine and his wife Ariaentje Jans Van Nuys. I would suspect that he has good reasons for this statement. So, either the father's surname in the published record is incorrect, OR, the mother's given name is incorrect. For now I'll follow Mike's lead and s<b>uggest removing <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p453.htm#i105307" target="_blank">Jan</a> from the family of Abraham Lane and Annatje Brouwer</b>. The baptism record is found at "First Reformed Church Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms," <i>Somerset County Historical Quarterly</i>, 2:215. </li><li><b><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p175.htm#i94298" target="_blank">Thomas Brouwer</a></b>. The BGD shows <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p168.htm#i85673" target="_blank">Johannes Brouwer (bp. 1747)</a> and his wife Perkins Lambert with a son Thomas, born "say 1778." I don't recall my original source for this information, and you will notice that there is no citations involved with this profile. <b>There is, however, a caveat stating that, "<i>this placement is questioned</i>."</b> The Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia does record a baptism for a "son of John and Pirkins Brouwer, of New York" [<i>Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Records, 1753-1914</i>; (Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Historical Society, 1982), FHL 973460 (DGS 7903469):48]. <b>It is important to recognize that in this record the son's name is not recorded</b>. Unless, or until evidence is found showing that Johannes and Perkins (Lambert) Brouwer had a son named Thomas, this profile should be changed from <b>Thomas</b>, to <b>A son (name unknown)</b>. Please also not that the claimed death date of 1823 for <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p168.htm#i85673" target="_blank">Johannes Brouwer</a> <b>has not been verified.</b><br /></li></ol><p>In addition to the above there is a substantial correction to the family of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p166.htm#i84477" target="_blank">Jan Brouwer</a> and Helena (which is not her correct given name) Van Cleef which will require a post onto itself to explain. Look for a future post on this important correction.</p><p>BGB 745<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-35417087491906257452023-02-10T12:19:00.000-05:002023-02-10T12:19:04.517-05:00Some BREWER Wills In Kentucky: LaRue County<p> We're looking into some potential connections between some BREWER families, primarily descended from <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, Long Island</a>, who settled in Kentucky during the late 1700s and/or early 1800s. Below are some abstracts/transcriptions by myself with links to digital images of the will books at <a href="http://FamilySearch.org" target="_blank">FamilySearch.org</a> (you will need to log in to FamilySearch to view them. There is no fee). This post includes four will found in the LaRue County Will Books. LaRue County was formed March 4, 1843, set off from the southeast portion of Hardin County.<br /></p><p>1- <b>Samuel Brewer, Larue County</b>. <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P36-9ML9?i=42&cc=1875188&cat=255715" target="_blank">Larue Co. Wills 1:54-55</a>. Dated 18 October 1852. Samuel Brewer "now in a bad state of health but of sound mind." To Charity Howell and Samuel Howell daughter and son of Elizabeth Howell my sister dec., my part of the land on the Swel Woods & Otter Creek, Larue County, Ky that was willed to me by Peter Brewer dec., equally. Also said Charity is to have one heifer that was given to her for her services and attention on her grand mother when sick & in her last moments & dying. Also the above Samuel is to have my cloth suit & hat. I give and bequeath unto Phebe Brewer the daughter of Isaac Brewer, dec. my brother my (?) cow & bequeth unto Mary Jane Brewer the (?) heifer. I also appoint John Baird as my executor if consistent with the laws of our land to divide the above property to the different legatees without administration. Also the said Baird is requested to sell all the rest of my goods and chattels to the highest bidder & discharge all my legal debts and expenses then the balance if any I give to my brother Benjamin Brewer. Signs with his mark. Witnesses: John Baird, William ? Baird. Proved 30 Nov 1852. [This is <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p143.htm#i122764" target="_blank">Samuel Brewer, b. ca. 1796 in Kentucky, d. 8 November 1852</a>, a son of Peter Brewer and Margaret Hobach].</p><p>2- <b>William F. Brewer, Larue County</b>. <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP36-99XC?i=76&cc=1875188&cat=255715" target="_blank">Larue Co. Wills 1:103-4</a>. Dated 18 May 1861. William F. Brewer of the County of Larue, State of Kentucky being of sound and disposing mind & memory but weak & infirm knowing once that it is appointed once to all men to die and being desirous of disposing of what little estate I have been blessed with to my satisfaction I do make, ordain & establish this as my last will & testament... All just debts and liabilities to be paid by my executor. To my wife Mary Brewer one feather bed and furniture to be well furnished with all her fine quilts six in number & one square table forever. My property, all both real & personal, land, stocks, kitchen and house hold furniture be sold in a twelve month credit by my executor, and after paying all liabilities loan out all the money that may be left of my estate and the interest of the same be paid to my wife Mary for her support during her life. (Instructions for the executor to also pay out principal should the interest be insufficient to support his wife). Appoints friend, Jisse P. Bryant sole executor. Signed William F. Brewer. Witnesses: Saml. P. Lasley, James M. Hausbury. Proved 26 August 1861. [William F. Brewer is not found on the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">Brouwer Genealogy Database.</a> I do find a Wm. Brewer with (inferred) wife Mary on the 1850 U.S. census in Hamiltons, Larue Co., KY, both age 26, born in Kentucky. In 1860, W. F. Brewer, age 37, born in Kentucky with (inferred) wife Mary, age 41, Kentucky are enumerated in Larue County (no township or city stated). On this same census sheet are a Michl Brewer (age 31, KY) and an Isaac Brewer (age 20, KY) both married with one child each. A Peter Brewer (age 34, KY) is in the household of Michl (I assume Michael) Brewer. There is a Kentucky marriage record for William Brewer and Mary Hatfield, both age 21, dated 12 November 1846 in Hardin County (Larue/LaRue County was set off from Hardin County, 4 March 1843). <i>Additional research on this Brewer family, due to length and complexity, will have to be reserved for a future post of its own</i>].<br /></p><p>3- <b>Michael Brewer, Larue County.</b> <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P36-9MZ1?i=132&cc=1875188&cat=255715" target="_blank">Larue Co. Wills 1:212</a>. Dated 30 June 1869. Michael Brewer of Larue County, Kentucky being feable in body but sound in mind and memory. After my death my body be decently buried and my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. To my son William, a certain tract of land lying in Larue County on the waters of the southfork of Nolin (River) and bounded as follows...127 1/2 acres (see original). To Milley Brewer the wife of my son Peter M. Brewer, two dollars. To grandson John W. Brewer and Washington R. Brewer and Thomas B. Brewer, 157 1/2 acres, more or less, to be divided equally among my three grandsons, the land lying on the west of my son William above mentioned. Appoints friend Baylor Henderson sole executor. Signs with his mark X. Witnesses: Saml. S. Kirkpatrick, Eliza F. Alfney. Proved 24 August 1874. [<a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p135.htm#i122761" target="_blank">Michael Brewer is found on the BGD website</a>. This will adds to his profile and narrows down the time range for his date of death to between 4 August 1870 when he appears on the U.S. census at Buffalo, Larue County, and 24 August 1874 when his will was proved. He is a son of Peter Brewer and Margaret Hobach and a brother of Samuel Brewer, above].<br /></p><p>4- <b>Valentine Brewer, Larue County.</b> <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P36-1YW?i=41&wc=37RP-SPD%3A173385101%2C173398601&cc=1875188" target="_blank">Larue Co. Wills 2:73</a>. Dated 3 November 1883. Valentine Brewer of Larue County, "am well and in my right reason." To my wife Rachel Brewer my land during her natural life - to have the entire control of. "She must rent it each year for the third of what can be raised on the farm. Whoever rents the farm must bind themselves to keep the farm in good repair." To son William A. Brewer the "refusal of renting the above named farm." "I want my land sold at my wife's death." Son William to have two thirds of the money that the farm brings. Daughter Lucinda J. Howell to have one third of the money the farm brings. If William dies before Lucinda, Lucinda is to have William's two thirds share. Wife Rachel to have all of "my property out of doors to dispose of at her will and that she have all the household and kitchen furniture her life time and at her death it is my will that my daughter Lucinda Howell have it all." Signs with his mark X. "And I also want W. M. Baird to be my administrator." Witnesses: Philip R. Scott, W. M. Baird. Proved 27 July 1885. [<a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p148.htm#i82518" target="_blank">Valentine Brewer can be found on the BGD website</a>. This will adds to the notes found there and provides a date range for his time of death which would be sometime between 3 November 1883 and 27 July 1885. He is a son of Peter Brewer and Margaret Hobach and a brother of Samuel Brewer and Michael Brewer above].</p><p>BGB 744<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-50867468643848722642023-02-02T12:32:00.002-05:002023-02-02T12:46:41.262-05:00Some BREWER Wills in Kentucky: Hardin County<p> We're looking into some potential connections
between some BREWER families, primarily descended from <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, Long Island</a>, who settled in Kentucky during the late 1700s
and/or early 1800s, and some unplaced BREWER ancestors who we suspect may be descendants of Adam Brouwer (see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/unplaced-genetic-descendants-of-adam.html" target="_blank">post of January 18, 2023</a>). Below are some abstracts/transcriptions by myself
with links to digital images of the will books at <a href="http://FamilySearch.org" target="_blank">FamilySearch.org</a> (you
will need to log in to FamilySearch to view them. There is no fee). We start with a look at Hardin County which was formed in 1792 from land partitioned from Nelson County. In 1843, LaRue County was created from a portion of southeastern Hardin County.</p><p>1- <b>William Brewer </b>(<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP3Y-9N76?i=15&wc=37RT-2NT%3A173389201%2C174004601&cc=1875188" target="_blank">Hardin Co. Wills E:18-19</a>). Dated 12 February 1838. William Brewer of the County of Hardin and State of Kentucky, being sick and weak in body but of sound mind and disposing memory. Debts and funeral expenses to be paid. To my wife Eliner Brewer, all the balance of my estate both real and personal for her use in the case of my children during her natural life or widowhood, but in case she does marry there I bequeath unto her a third part of all estate and the balance or two thirds to be for my six children Nancy Ann, Urias, Elizabeth, Henry, Mary Jane, Martha Ann to be divided equally between them all. But in case my wife should die and not marry then the estate to be divided all equally with the six above named children as they come of age. Signs with his mark X. Witnesses: Joseph Ryan, John Stader. Proved 21 Jan 1839. [Note with regard to the list of children - <b>the commas are mine</b>, there was no punctuation in the original. William twice stated that he had six children and this seemed to be the most logical way to differentiate those with compound names (i.e. Nancy Ann, Mary Jane, Martha Ann). [William Brewer is <b>not found</b> on the Brouwer Genealogy Database website (BGD). Some quick research finds that he is a son of Mark and Catharine Brewer, originally from Maryland, and then of Hardin County, Kentucky (see 3-John Brewer below). They are not related to the BREWER descendants of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer</a> who are found also found in Hardin County].<br /></p><p>2- <b>Peter Brewer</b> (<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP3Y-9NSJ?i=30&wc=37RT-2NT%3A173389201%2C174004601&cc=1875188" target="_blank">Hardin Co. Wills E:48-49</a>). Dated 2 November 1840. Peter Brewer of Hardin County and State of Kentucky am sick but in my right reason. Unto my sons Samuel Brewer and Valentine Brewer my lands in the Levelwoods to be equally divided at their mother's death, Samuel the north and Valentine the south part of said survey By their giving their mother one third of what they raise to maintain her decently and in order also if either of the above brothers should become dissatisfied and wish to sell. Also I give and bequeath unto my wife Margaret Brewer all my personal property horses cattle farming utensils and house lot and kitchen furniture with hoggs and bee hives during her natural life then the surplus of the above personal estate is to be equally divided between the rest of my children Michael Brewer, Elizabeth Howell, Isaac Brewer, Benjamin Brewer and John Brewer. Signs with his mark X. Witnesses: John Baird Senr., Nancy Hobach, John Baird Jr. Proved 19 April 1841 and recorded 29 May 1841. [<a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p138.htm#i82520" target="_blank">Peter Brewer can be found on the Brouwer Genealogy Database website (BGD)</a>. Also see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/unplaced-genetic-descendants-of-adam.html" target="_blank">post of January 18, 2023</a>. Direct male descendants of his sons Isaac and Valentine have participated in the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a>. They are descendants of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, L. I.</a>].<br /></p><p>3- <b>John Brewer</b> (<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GP3Y-9FJC?i=131&wc=37RT-2NT%3A173389201%2C174004601&cc=1875188" target="_blank">Hardin Co. Wills E:232-4</a>). Dated 20 July 1852. John Brewer of Hardin County, Kentucky, being sick and weak but of sound mind and disposing memory. All debts and funeral expenses to be paid. The land that was part of the Mary Wise farm to be sold for that purpose (to pay debts) but if either of my heirs should wish to keep that place and furnish money to to its worth to pay the debts off they can have the privilege to do so. To wife Matilda Brewer all my house farm for her support and the support of my younger children viz. Rose Malvinia, James Elias, and Luinda C. Brewer during the time they continue with her. If they marry or leave her then my wife Matilda Brewer to have the houses and one third of the land of said farm. To my three daughters Mary Jane Ryan, Kitty Ann Hoskins, and Rose Malvina Brewer each a house (<i>sic</i>) worth fifty dollars or fifty dollars in cash in place of a horse Malvina also a cow a bed bedstead and furniture. Son James Elias a horse saddle and bridle worth seventy five dollars or its equivalent in cash. To daughter Luinda C. Brewer a horse saddle and bridle worth seventy five dollars and a cow a bed bedstead and furniture or its equivalent in cash to be put to interest until she marries or becomes at age. To Francis X. Brewer a lot in Pittstown for services rendered which may be his choice of two lots. I divine the other lot at Pitts Point and three acres and a quarter of land lying between John Hannes and Wielen Greenville to be sold at public sale. Further I have been of the opinion that my farm on Salt river Bullitt County was worth twelve hundred dollars if any one or more of my sons John Q. and Francis X. Brewer do wish to take it at twelve hundred dollars they are privilege to do so otherwise to be sold at public sale. A note payable to Luke Howlett perhaps ninety two dollars that I am in security for with James Ryan . If James fails to pay it then the executor discounts that much out of what I give to my daughter Mary Jane. I devise a public sale of all my personal estate consisting of household and kitchen furniture, farming utensils, stock, wagons, buggy, etc. I appoint my wife Matilda Brewer and my son John Q. Brewer executrix and executor. Signed John Brewer. Witnesses: Joseph Ryan, Dennis Pursell. "One thing more as it comes to my mind I want enough money of the estate applied to the schooling of James Elias and Luinda C. Brewer as will give them good schooling." Codicil (not dated) gives the balance after debts and expenses and wife Matilda Brewer's right to my children an equal part (named) Elizabeth Warren, Mary Jane Ryan, Kitty Ann Hoskins, John Q. Brewer, Francis X. Brewer, Rose Malvena, James Elias and Luinda C. Brewer, each to have an equal part of the residue. Proved 16 Aug 1852. Recorded 7 October 1852. [<a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p120.htm#i122763" target="_blank">John Brewer can be found on the BGD</a>. <b>Please note that the reference here to a tree on Ancestry.com is no longer active. The "Unplaced Brouwer, Brower, Brewer, Bruer tree has been deleted from Ancestry.com.</b> John Brewer was born around 1789 in Maryland and is a son of Mark and Catharine (___) Brewer. This family is not related to the Brewer families of Hardin County who are descendants of Adam Brouwer (see 1-William Brewer above)]. </p><p>And that is the extent of the BREWERs who I find in the Hardin County, Kentucky will books into the mid-1800s. We'll be looking next at LaRue County, Kentucky which was set off from Hardin County in 1843. </p><p>BGB 743<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-14002632460572751072023-01-26T08:05:00.001-05:002023-01-26T08:07:06.683-05:00Bergen, New Jersey Church Records: BROUWER<p> The following entries are extracted from the records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bergen, New Jersey as published in the <i>Year Book of the Holland Society of New York</i> in three successive Year Books: Baptisms in 1913, Marriages in 1914, Burials and Members in 1915. These are often referred to as "Bergen Books" Volumes 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Digital images of the Year Books can be found online at the <a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>. Use their website search tool.<br /></p><p>What was the Village of Bergen in the late 1600s and 1700s is today within Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey on the west side of the Hudson River and the Upper New York Bay across from the lower portion of Manhattan Island. The Introduction found in the 1913 Yearbook tells us that the first "municipality" was created here in 1661 with an inferior court subject to the general court in New Amsterdam. In 1662 a voorleser (reader) and schoolmaster, Englebert Steenhuysen, was engaged. There is also a subscription list from 1662 (see pp. 13-15 of the 1913 Yearbook). A church in full communion begins in 1664 with records found in the handwriting of Dom. Henricus Selyins, then the minister of the church at Breuckelen, Long Island (and after 1682 of the New York Reformed Dutch Church). The existing baptism record starts with the year 1666. They end in 1788. There is a break from 1669 to 1673 where baptisms were entered in the books of the New York Church, and in years after this you will find some baptisms recorded in the Bergen records also recorded in the New York records. The published records here also include some footnotes adding information such as "first child, first son," that was included in the original record book. The introduction tells us, however, that some of this ancillary information, such as "born on Thursday at midnight," has not been included. In addition, note is made of two instances where children were born "out of wedlock" wherein the surname of the child is not given, and that these entries where omitted "because of no genealogical value" (I think that most genealogists today would dispute that). Marriages in the 1914 Yearbook begin in the year 1665 and end with 1757. In most years there are just a handful and in the earliest years just one or two per year. The 1915 Yearbook has burials that begin with 1666 and end with 1788. Since this is a relatively small congregation it is easier to identify those in this burial register than it is to do so with the much larger New York Church register, ex.: "buried a child of John Brower" (ok, now which John Brower and which child?). The 1915 Yearbook also has the membership rolls which start with 1664 and are pretty much annual through 1690 but then become more intermittent as the years progress and end with 1769. This is followed by lists of elders, deacons and churchmasters for 1785, 86 and 88. There is an index included in each of the three Yearbooks. I have extracted those named BROUWER or an obvious equivalent of that name.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Bergen Members (YBHS 1915, Bergen Book v.3)</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">1- [70] 5 April 1712, nos. 918-919 Adriaantje Pieters, wife of Olrig Brouwer</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Bergen Burials (YBHS 1915, Bergen Book v.3)</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">1- [30] 12 February 1700, no. 163 Newly born infant of Uldrick Brouwer</p><p style="text-align: left;">2- [34] 19 May 1710, no. 215 Esther de Vouw, wi. of Uldrick Brouwer. Bur. May 21st. 134th with pall</p><p style="text-align: left;">3- [34] 11 January 1712, no. 225 Bur. ch. of Uldrick Brouwer and Adriaantje Pieters</p><p style="text-align: left;">4- [50] 4 May 1776, no. 483 Lea Slot, wi. of Jacob Brouwer, (d. May 3)<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">5- [51] 8 November 1778, no. 515 Lea, da. of Jacobus Brouwer, (d. November 7)</p><p style="text-align: left;">6- [52] 9 November 1779, no. 534 Jacobus Brouer, (d. November 7)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Bergen Marriages (YBHS 1914, Bergen Book v.2)</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">1- [76] 28 March 1730, no. 210 Jacob Brouwer, Y.M., born at Bergen, and Lea Slot, Y.D., born at Ackinsack, both living at Bergen</p><p style="text-align: left;">2- [76] 8 October 1738, no. 221 Uldrick Brouwer, Y.M., born and living at Bergen, and Marya Vander Vorst, Y.D., born at New York, living at Bergen</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Bergen Baptisms (YBHS 1913, Bergen Book v.1)</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Parents; Child; Witnesses; Text Footnote; [<i>my notes in italics</i>]<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">1- [48] No. 346. Ulrick Brouwer, Hester Devou; son, bo. Jan 7, 1700; First child and first son</p><p style="text-align: left;">2- [49] No. 357. Uldrick Brouwer, Hester de Vouw; Abraham bo. Mar 9, bp. Mar 30, 1701; Tyme Jansen Valentyn, Susanna de Vous; Second child and second son. Baptized by Do. Bertollof</p><p style="text-align: left;">3- [50] No. 373. Uldrick Brouwer, Hester de Vouw; Isaack bo. between Jan 29 & 30, bp. Apr 5 1703; Thomas Fredrickse, Y.M., Jannetje Steynmets, Y.W.; Third child and third son</p><p style="text-align: left;">4- [53] No. 404. Uldrick Brouwer, Hester Du vouw; Jacob bo. Sept 11, bp. Oct 8, 1705; Jacob Swan, Annetje Jacobs, wife of William Day; Fourth child and fourth son </p><p style="text-align: left;">5- [63] No. 517. Jacob Brouwer, Lea Slot; Johannis bo. Feb 6, bp. Apr 14, 1731; Johannis Pietersen and his wife; First child. Baptized. in New York by Do. Dubois</p><p style="text-align: left;">6- [66] No. 548. Jacob Brouwer, Lea Slot; Coobis bo. Sept. 30, 1735 [<i>My notes: Coobis, or Cobus, is a diminutive for Jacobus. Only his date of birth was recorded. No date of a baptism. No witnesses recorded. William J. Hoffman in his manuscript notes wrote down a baptism date of October 13, 1735 at Bergen, but a record of this has not been found in either the Bergen or New York church records</i>].</p><p style="text-align: left;">7- [69] No. 577. Uldrik Brouwer, Marya Van de Vorst; Johannes bp. June 18, 1739; Jacob Brouwer, Leja Slot, his wife; First son</p><p style="text-align: left;">8- [71] No. 605. Uldrick Brouwer, Maria van de Vorst; Abraham bo. July 26, bp. Aug 29, 1743; Abraham Brouwer, Eliesabet Ackerman, his wife</p><p style="text-align: left;">9- [72] No. 618. Uldrik Brouwer, Maria Vos; Thomas bo. Feb 3, bp. Apr 21 1746; Thomas Vos, Catharina Buis, his wife</p><p style="text-align: left;">10- [79] No. 683. Pieter de Groot, Hester Brouwer; Leya bo. June, bp. July 15, 1759; Jacob Brouwer, Leya Slot, his wife; First child<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">11- [81] No. 713. Johannis Brouer, Catrina Walderon; Jacop bo. Apr 13, bp. Apr 18, 1762; Jacop Brouer, Eva Slot</p><p style="text-align: left;">12- [83] No. 727. Johannis Brouer, Catrientie Walderon; Josep bo. Sept. 16, bp. Sept. 18, 1763; Josep Walderon, Antie Diederix, his wife; Second son</p><p style="text-align: left;">13- [85] No. 748. Johannis Brouer, Catrientye Walderon; Leeya bo. Dec. 25, (<i>1765</i>) bp. Jan 19, 1766; Pieter de Groot, Hester Brouer, his wife</p><p style="text-align: left;">14- [90] No. 808. Jakobes Brouwer, Jannetye van Saen; Yannetye bo. Dec 30 (<i>1770</i>), bp. Jan. 20, 1771; Ysack van Saen, Jannetye Ackerman</p><p style="text-align: left;">15- [91] No. 821. Hendrick van Winkel, Jannetye Brouwer; Catrina bo. Jan 26, bp. Mar. 1, 1772; <i>no witnesses recorded</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">16- [101] No. 944. Jacop Brouer, Jannetye van Saan; Jacobes bo. Aug. 7, bp. Sept. 31(<i>sic</i>), 1783; <i>no witnesses recorded</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">17- [105] No. 983. Benyamen Eth (or Etli), Pekkee Brouyer; Keetye bo. Mar 1, bp. June 4, 1786; <i>no witnesses recorded</i>; [<i>You will not find these names on the BGD. This is the first that I have seen of this record. I am unsure if Brouyer is meant for Brouwer, or some other name</i>]</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Final note:</b> All of those, <b>with the exception of numbers 15 and 17 in the baptisms</b>, are known to be descendants of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-prelude.html" target="_blank">(9) Uldrick Brouwer</a> (son of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/07/family-of-pieter-brouwer-and-petronella.html" target="_blank">Pieter Brouwer</a>, grandson of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, L.I.</a>) and his two wives, Hester De Vouw and Adriaentje Pieterse. Jannetje Brouwer, the wife of Hendrick van Winkle (no. 15) is a daughter of Jacob Brouwer and Maria de Lanoy, and a great-great granddaughter of Adam Brouwer through his son, <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/jacob-brouwer-and-annatje-bogardus.html" target="_blank">Jacob Brouwer</a>. The last entry (no.17) is a curious one, I had not seen it before and I'm not certain that the name here, <i>Brouyer</i> was meant to be <i>Brouwer</i> (with the <i>y</i> a mis-transcription of a <i>w</i>). I am not familiar with this couple. I do not have a confident guess as to what the name <i>Pekkee</i> might refer to. Could it be <i>Peggy</i>, a diminutive for <i>Margaret</i>?<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">BGB 742<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b> </b><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b> </b><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-43815911415534513162023-01-18T09:52:00.006-05:002023-01-18T10:11:51.154-05:00Unplaced Genetic Descendants of Adam Brouwer Who are Positive for the SNP E-FTC5921<p> The <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a>, initiated back in the early 2000s when FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) first came online has since grown to 434 members (or participants) dispersed among 23 different groups of genetically related participants. That is to say, those participants within any one group are related to one another in genetically, through comparison of Y-DNA test results, within a genealogically meaningful period of roughly the past 400 years. In other words, the Brewer DNA Project includes 23 genetically different families named BREWER, or some variation of the name such as BROWER, BROUWER, BRUER, etc. The 23 groups can be seen on the Project's public results or <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/BrewerDNA?iframe=ycolorized" target="_blank">"Y-DNA Colorized Chart"</a> page. With the advent of FTDNA's Big-Y tests, back in the early 2010s, and with increased participation, the Brewer DNA Project has been able to sub-divide a few of the larger groups, which are seen as "Sub-Units" on the public chart page. This post is focused on one such Sub-Unit within the Adam Brouwer, Gowanus, L.I. group.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Brewer DNA Project: Adam Brouwer Group: Sub-Unit A: E-FTC5921. Multiple lines from the most recent common ancestor, a son or grandson of Adam Brouwer</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">As the title suggests, the participants assigned to this sub-unit have all taken the advanced Big-Y test (either at the initial 500 STR marker level or at the more recent and improved 700 STR marker level), and all are positive for the SNP E-FTC5921. The remaining attribute that all here have in common is that of the current 16 participants, all of whom are certainly genetic descendants of Adam Brouwer, <b>none have been able to complete their direct paternal (Brewer/Brower/Brouwer) line back to <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer</a></b>. The 16 participants found in this sub-unit are descendants of a number of different Earliest Known Ancestors (EKAs). The pages of this blog, over the years, has included information, profiles, etc., on all of the EKAs. The purpose now, with this post, is to consolidate the known EKAs into one place, with brief descriptions, and in a follow up post we'll suggest possible directions to take for concentrating efforts of traditional genealogical research, with the ultimate goal of identifying the connection to Adam Brouwer. As noted in the title, the common ancestor for the 16 participants is one of the known sons of Adam Brouwer (i.e. they all are descendants of the same son) or one grandson (i.e. a grandson of Adam Brouwer who is a son of the thus far unidentified son from which all 16 are descendants). To be clear, it is possible, that the participants in this sub-unit are descended from more than one son of the unidentified son, meaning, they may be descendants of different grandsons of Adam Brouwer. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>In Short - the sixteen participants who are all positive for the SNP(haplogroup) E-FTC5921 share as their common paternal ancestor one of the seven sons of Adam Brouwer. The sixteen may be descendants of just one individual grandson of Adam Brouwer, OR they may be descendants of multiple grandsons of Adam Brouwer.</b> <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>E-FTC5921</b> is the parent SNP (haplogroup) for this Sub-Unit. All of the participants in the group are positive for E-FTC5921. As of this writing six of the sixteen members seen on the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/BrewerDNA?iframe=ycolorized" target="_blank">public results page</a> show E-FTC5921 as their haplogroup. The other ten are identified by haplogroups that are sub-branches (sub-clades, sub-haplogroups) of E-FTC5921. There are seven EKAs for the sixteen participants. They are:<br /></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Benjamin Brewer</b>, born 24 April 1755, died 6 May 1834 in Washington Co., Indiana. He married Catharine Mellinger, 18 May 1781 in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. He is found on a tax roll at Tyrone Twp., then in Westmoreland County in 1783. In 1785, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania is formed and Tyrone Twp. is found in this new county. Benjamin, along with his wife Catharine, are last recorded in Tyrone Twp. on 9 Feb 1797 when they executed a deed for land in Tyrone Twp. to Joseph Alexander. In 1800, Benjamin Brewer is recorded on a tax roll in Jefferson Co., Kentucky (est. 1780). A War of 1812 Militia Roll places Benjamin Brewer in Harrison Co., Indiana (est. 1808 when Indiana was a territory). We find Benjamin Brewer on both the 1820 and 1830 U.S. census records in Washington Co., Indiana (est. 1814 out of Harrison and Clark Counties). In 1832 Benjamin applied for a pension for his service during the Revolutionary War stating that he served in the militia out of Fayette County in a company under Capt. Huston. Both Benjamin and Catharine (d.1839) are buried in Cooley-Brewer Cemetery inn Washington Twp., Washington Co., Indiana. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p91.htm#i108778" target="_blank">Benjamin Brewer can be found on the Brouwer Genealogy Database (BGD)</a>. <b>Please keep in mind that the BGD was last updated seven years ago in late 2015, and information found there today may be outdated</b>. The BGD shows Benjamin Brewer with a <i>possible </i>father, Benjamin(?) Brewer. <b>This is a suggestion, it is not fact</b>. As of this writing Benjamin Brewer's father is not known. <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/some-unplaced-brewers-of-western.html" target="_blank">Also see the post of November 16, 2013, "Some Unplaced Brewers of Western Pennsylvania and Kentucky.</a>" Again, some statements found here are now outdated. Two participants identified by E-FTC5921 are confirmed descendants of Benjamin Brewer and Catharine Mellinger. Both are descendants of their son Benjamin Brewer (1792-1861) and his wife Rebecca Blair. One participant is a descendant of their son Peter Brewer (1814-1869, m. Mira M. Lutz) and the other is a descendant of son Benjamin B. Brewer (1831-1878, m.1 Nancy A. Westfall).</li><li><b>Peter Brewer</b>, age 70-80 on the 1830 U.S. census and age 80-90 on the 1840 U.S. census so born during the decade of 1750-1760, died between 2 November 1840 and 19 April 1841, dates when he wrote his will and when it was proved (Hardin Co., Kentucky Wills E:48-9). He married Margaret Hobach. Peter Brewer is on the tax roll of 1783 in Huntington Twp., Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. He is on tax rolls there in 1785, 1786 and 1787 as well. I do not find him on the 1790 U.S. census in Westmoreland Co., nor is he found on the 1800 U.S. census. He is found on the 1810 U.S. census at Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., Kentucky. In 1820 he is at Little York, Hardin Co., Kentucky. On the above referenced 1830 and 1840 censuses he is at Hardin Co., Kentucky (specific town or location not indicated). <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p138.htm#i82520" target="_blank">A profile for Peter Brewer is on the BGD</a>. Also see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/some-unplaced-brewers-of-western.html" target="_blank">post of November 16, 2013</a>. The <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-suggested-ancestry-for-peter-brewer.html" target="_blank">July 5, 2018 post, "A Suggested Ancestry for Peter Brewer of Hardin Co., Kentucky,"</a> might also be of interest, <b>but it must be emphasized - this is a speculative suggestion that is not proved by acceptable genealogical research standards, nor by genetic genealogy. </b>Four descendants of Peter Brewer have tested positive for E-FTC5921. All are descendants of Peter's son Valentine Brewer (b.ca.1808-will proved 27 July 1885). The four are first cousins and have a common identifying SNP E-BY6245. This SNP would have first formed sometime between the generation of Valentine Brewer and the participant's common grandfather (early 1900s). </li><li><b>Henry Brewer</b>, age 80-90 in 1840 so born in the decade of the 1750s. Since the last BGD update in late 2015 <b>we have consolidated two men named Henry Brewer into one</b>. The two are found on the BGD <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p113.htm#i108623" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p113.htm#i195875" target="_blank">here</a>. <b>This paragraph is then in effect a correction to the BGD</b>. The decision to consolidate the two Henry Brewers into one is based on BigY test results of four participants, one, a descendant of the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p113.htm#i108623" target="_blank">first linked Henry Brewe</a>r and three descended from <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p113.htm#i195875" target="_blank">the second</a>. Together, the four share a unique SNP, E-FT40569, a sub-branch of E-FTC5921. There is uncertainty regarding the wives of Henry Brewer. He had at least two, and possibly three. The baptism of Henry's son, also named Henry, 10 October 1788 at the German Church in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, names Henry's wife as Anna Maria ____. Henry's sons Benjamin Brewer (1796-1883, of LaPorte Co., Indiana) and John Wesley Brewer (1806-1890, of LaPorte Co., IN and Burt Co., Nebraska) both are said to be sons of Henry's wife Jane ____, who was previously identified as Jane Hurdley or Hundley, but this identification has since been questioned. All three of the just mentioned sons are represented by advanced Y-DNA testing. A wife named Honour ___, has also been attributed to Henry, but evidence of her existence has yet to be found. Son Benjamin was born in 1796 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. In 1810 Henry is in Donegal, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania (U.S. census). In 1820 he is at Charlestown, Clark Co., Indiana. In 1840 he is found at Clay, Owen Co., Indiana where he is said to have died (date not found). Note that there is an eight year gap between sons Henry and Benjamin and then a ten year gap between sons Benjamin and John Wesley (with an eighteen year gap between Henry and John Wesley). There may well have been other, yet identified, children of Henry Brewer. <br /></li><li><b>Henry Brewer</b>, born May 1765, died 20 February 1829 in Adams Co., Ohio. Henry married Sarah Hawke, 14 February 1786 in Berkeley Co., Virginia which is today in the State of West Virginia (admitted as a state 20 June 1863). Henry Brewer filed an application for a pension on his service during the Revolutionary War, stating that he served out of Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia. In 1810 Henry is found on the U.S. census in Berkeley Co., Virginia (census records for 1790 and 1800 in Virginia are lost). As <b>Henry Brower</b> he is found on the 1820 U.S. census at Jefferson, Adams Co., Ohio. His record of marriage in 1786 records his name as <b>Henry Bruer</b>. A D.A.R. membership application of a descendant calls him <b>Hendrick Brower</b>. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p113.htm#i126620" target="_blank">Henry Brewer is on the BGD</a>. Also see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/05/unplaced-henry-brewer-of-berkeley-co.html" target="_blank">post of May 9, 2013, "Henry Brewer of Berkeley Co., Virginia and Adams Co., Ohio."</a> One direct male descendant has participated and is identified by E-FTC5921. He is a descendant of Henry's son Charles Brewer (ca.1802-liv.1860, m. Hannah Cook).</li><li><b>Mathew Brower/Brewer</b>, probably born between 1755 and 1760, date of death unknown but found on the 1820 U.S. census at Richhill, Greene Co., Pennsylvania, age over 45. His wife was an Emery, as stated in an 1898 memoir of his grandson James A. Brewer. Her given name has been suggested as Elizabeth, or as Mary Magdalena. In 1793 a Mathias Brewer is found on a tax roll in Lebanon, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. As Mathew Brewer he is on the 1800 U.S. census at Bethel and Belfast, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania. In 1810 he is at Morris, Greene Co., Pennsylvania. And as stated, in 1820 he is at Richhill, Greene Co., Pennsylvania. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p215.htm#i146884" target="_blank">Mathew Brower is found on the BGD</a>. The note regarding an application dated 17 July 1815 for land in Buffalo, Union Co., Pennsylvania <b>does not apply to this Mathew Brower</b>. It belongs to a younger man of the same name (mentioned below under Thomas Brewer). Also see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/mathew-brower-of-greene-county.html" target="_blank">post of September 11, 2013, "Mathew Brower of Greene County, Pennsylvania.</a>" Three descendants of Mathew Brower have been identified with the SNP E-FTC5921. One is a descendant of Mathew's son Conrad Brewer (1798-1854, m. Rachel Anderson). The other two are brothers who are descendants of Mathew's son John B. Brewer (b.ca.1794 in New Jersey). The two brothers are further identified by the SNP E-BY114218. This sub-branch was therefore formed sometime between the generation of Mathew Brower's son John B. Brewer and their father's generation.</li><li><b>Thomas Brewer</b>, is found on the 1820 U.S. census at Annville, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania, his age given as between 26 and 44 years, so born between 1776 and 1794. In the household are two males under age 10, one female under age 10, and one female age 16-25, no doubt his wife, one young daughter and two young sons. Thomas was living on 18 April 1828 (a deed executed between heirs of his father-in-law John Stroh) but was deceased by 1830 when his wife Mary Brewer was enumerated as the head of a household on the U.S. census at Annville. She was also there in 1840. She was Anna Maria Stroh, born 6 October 1795, baptized 8 February 1796 at Hill Evangelical Lutheran Church, North Annville, daughter of John Stroh and Anna Maria Muese. Her birth in 1795 may suggest that Thomas was closer in age to 26 years than to 44 years when enumerated on the 1820 U.S. census. One descendant has participated. He is a descendant of Thomas' son Israel Brewer, born at Annville on 8 Dec 1826 (and so NOT counted on that 1820 census), died 4 April 1897 at Carthage, Jasper Co., Missouri. The descendant is identified by the SNP E-FTC5921 (the parent SNP for this group). Thomas is not included on the BGD. In 1810, a Thomas Brewer (probably this one) is found on the U.S. census at East Buffalo, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, a male age 16-25, with no other household members. He is enumerated next to a Mathias Brewer (or Brower) and the older (than Thomas and Mathias) John Brewer, who was born 4 July 1749 in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. See the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/10/unplaced-john-brewer-revolutionary-war.html" target="_blank">post of October 28, 2012, "Unplaced: John Brewer, Revolutionary War Patriot of New Jersey and Pennsylvania,"</a> <b>with the caveat that the suggestion that John Brewer was a descendant of Jan Brouwer of Flatlands, L.I. is now unlikely</b>, as stated in the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/02/update-john-brewer-revolutionary-war.html" target="_blank">post of February 25, 2022, "Update: John Brewer, Revolutionary War Patriot of New Jersey and Pennsylvania."</a> This latter post also introduces Thomas Brewer. It is conceivable that both Thomas Brewer and Mathias Brewer, found in 1810 in East Buffalo, PA, are sons of the older John Brewer and his wife Hannah Timpson. <br /></li><li><b>Daniel Brewer</b>, age 60-70 in 1830, so born 1760-1770, perhaps closer to 1760 as his wife is age 70-80 in 1830, U.S. census at Mahoning, Indiana Co., Pennsylvania. His wife is said to be Margaret Bennett. His will dated 31 January 1842, proved 14 March 1842, Belmont Co., Ohio (Belmont Co., OH Wills G:321) names eleven children but not his wife. In 1800 he is found on the U.S. census at Washington, Northumberland Co., Indiana along with Paul Brewer (age 45+), Henry Brewer (age 26-44) and a second Daniel Brewer (age 45+). In 1810, 1820 and 1830 the U.S. census places him in Mahoning, Indiana Co., Pennsylvania. In 1840 he may be the older male in the household of his son Daniel Brewer (1790-1854) at Union, Belmont Co., Ohio. Daniel Brewer is NOT found on the BGD, nor is he mentioned within the pages of this website. <b>Daniel is a newly discovered descendant of Adam Brouwer</b>. There are two direct male descendants in the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a>, one of whom just recently took the BigY-700 test, his results showing a positive for E-FTC5921. This participant is descended from Daniel Brewer's son Daniel (1790-1854, Belmont Co., OH, m. Mary Brady). The other participant (standard STR marker test) is a descendant of the elder Daniel's son Peter Brewer (1792-1852, m. Letitia Work) lived at East Mahoning, Indiana Co., Pennsylvania. The 1880 U.S. census record for the elder Daniel Brewer's daughter, Margaret (Brewer) Hendricks (1812-1895), at Washington, Harrison Co., Iowa, records that her (Margaret's) parents were both born in New Jersey. It must be taken into account that Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1792 was a much larger county than it was in 1850. It encompassed much of the northern half of the interior of Pennsylvania in 1792. In 1795 Lycoming County was created out of Northumberland, taking much of interior Pennsylvania. In 1806 Indiana County was created out of both Lycoming Co. and out of Westmoreland Co.<br /> </li></ol><p>Before moving on we also want to mention one <b>Benjamin Bruer</b> (as his name is spelled in the one record that we have found for him) whose estate was administered in the extinct county called Yohogania, then within the jurisdiction of the Virginia Colony. Administration on his estate was granted there on 25 May 1778 to <b>Mary Bruer</b>. Joseph Beeler, Sr., Christopher Hays, John Mellander and John Morecroft were ordered to make an inventory of Benjamin's estate. The inventory was returned by the appraisers on 26 October 1778, and this is the last we here of it. In the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-suggested-ancestry-for-peter-brewer.html" target="_blank">post of July 5, 2018</a> and before that the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/late-18th-century-wills-recorded-in-new.html" target="_blank">post of June 29, 2018</a> (under Peter Brower) I suggested that Benjamin and Mary (___) Bruer could be parents of, in particular, no. 2 above, Peter Brewer, and also of of 1. Benjamin Brewer and 3. Henry Brewer, and that this Benjamin Bruer may be one and the same with the Benjamin, bapt. 11 February 1728, at the New York Reformed Dutch Church, son of Pieter Brouwer and Elizabeth Quackenbosch. <b>It has to be emphasized here that this is a possibility and NOT fact. </b>It is a potential lead for a situation in which to date we have no other leads. <b>No evidence has yet been found that would in prove this notion as fact</b>. For one, we have no idea how old Benjamin was when he died in 1778. For all we know he may have been a young man. Perhaps he was a brother to one<b> </b>or more of our EKAs above. Perhaps he was a first cousin to some. Perhaps even a second cousin. Perhaps there was no relationship between Benjamin Bruer and the others. I doubt this last possibility, but without more evidence, it cannot be ruled out. <br /></p><p>Moving on. Based on Y-DNA test results of the direct male descendants of the above seven EKAs, it has been concluded that all share one of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-prelude.html" target="_blank">(1) Adam Brouwer's seven sons</a> as a common ancestor. Which one of those seven sons is not certain, however, we can with help from Y-DNA test results conclude that this common son of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer.html" target="_blank">(1) Adam</a> cannot be <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-7-abraham.html" target="_blank">(7) Abraham Brouwer</a>, and that it is very likely not <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-8.html" target="_blank">(8) Nicholas Brouwer</a>. <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-4-willem.html" target="_blank">(4) Willem Brouwer</a> is also very unlikely as it may well be that he does not have any direct male descendants living today. <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-3-matthys.html" target="_blank">(3) Matthys Brouwer</a> also has to be considered as unlikely (no confirmed tested descendants are in the DNA Project). <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-2-pieter.html" target="_blank">(2) Pieter Brouwer</a> and <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-5-jacob.html" target="_blank">(5) Jacob Brouwer</a> are possible candidates, however, to date none of the tested descendants of either (2) Pieter or (5) Jacob are positive for E-FTC5921. To this we add, that not all of either (2) Pieter's or (5) Jacob's sons (Adam Brouwer's grandsons) have direct descendants who have taken a BigY DNA test. The search here would benefit from advanced BigY testing of more descendants of both (2) Pieter and (5) Jacob. <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-6-adam.html" target="_blank">(6) Adam Brouwer</a>, despite the fact that we to date have no confirmed descendants in the Brewer DNA Project, also remains a possibility, and based on the fact that his one known son (26) Hendrick Brouwer had sons baptized at Raritan in Somerset Co., New Jersey and at Three-Mile Run in Middlesex Co., New Jersey leads me to believe that both (6) Adam Brouwer and (26) Hendrick Brouwer should be strongly considered as ancestors to the seven listed above. But again, and as with (3) Matthys Brouwer, no confirmed descendants of (6) Adam Brouwer are in the DNA Project. The western counties of New Jersey (Hunterdon, Somerset and Middlesex included) were after all, during the second half of the 1700s, a stepping off place for migration into the interior and western regions of Pennsylvania.<br /></p><p>Future posts will focus on the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-prelude.html" target="_blank">24 grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer</a>. In the meantime it might be helpful to get an idea of just where in time and in which generation or generations the above seven EKAs might connect with the sons and/or grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer. With the exception of 6. Thomas Brewer, the EKAs above were apparently born between the years 1750 and 1770. Assuming that their fathers were at least 20 years old when any one of the EKAs were born and maybe no more than 50, we might assume that the fathers of these six EKAs were born between 1700 and 1750. We know that (1) Adam Brouwer's sons were born between the years 1646 and 1672, and this largely rules them out. What I'm saying here is that none of our EKAs are themselves grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer. The 24 grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer were born between the years 1673 and 1707. It is conceivable that one or more of the younger grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer could be a father to one or more of the EKAs. The sons of the grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer (i.e. Adam's great grandsons) were born between about 1700 and about 1740 or so.<b> </b>The next generation, sons of the great-grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer, in other words his great-great grandsons first appear in the early 1720s and a large number of them were born prior to 1750. These last two mentioned generations, the great grandsons and great-great grandsons, or generations 4 and 5 in a standard compiled genealogy of (1) Adam Brouwer's descendants, are the most likely places where the father's of the EKAs above will be found. <br /></p><p>BGB 741<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-71617431047828687712023-01-13T12:19:00.005-05:002023-03-14T10:00:22.069-04:00New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800: BREWER and BROWER<p> This list of BREWER and BROWER marriages in New Jersey is comprised of extracts from <b>Nelson, William. <i>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Volume XXII. Marriage Records, 1665-1800</i>. Archives of the State of New Jersey. First Series. Paterson, N.J.: Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1900</b>, and from the segment of this volume titled, <b>"Index to Marriage Bonds and Marriage Records in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton."</b> They are arranged here by County and then by date. The page number where found in the aforementioned volume is in brackets [ ]. This is followed by the first name of the Brewer/Brower progenitor ancestor in parenthesis i.e. <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer</a> (Adam), <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/jan-brouwer-and-jannatje-jans-of.html" target="_blank">Jan Brouwer</a> (Jan), or Not Known (NK). Links will take you to their profile on the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">Brouwer Genealogy Database (BGD)</a>. If they are not on the BGD, then there is no link.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Bergen County</b><br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p157.htm#i21163" target="_blank">Brewer, Abraham</a>, Bergen and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p700.htm#i21173" target="_blank">Catey Funk</a>, Bergen...1763 April 2 [32] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p169.htm#i21153" target="_blank">Brower, Leah</a>, Hackensack and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p602.htm#i21154" target="_blank">James Stagg</a>, Hackensack...1765 Oct 11 [56] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p170.htm#i93932" target="_blank">Brower, Mary</a>, Bergen and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p385.htm#i84930" target="_blank">John Heten</a>, Bergen...1785 Sept. 23 [56] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p177.htm#i86966" target="_blank">Brewer, Abraham D.</a>, Bergen and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p300.htm#i86967" target="_blank">Elizabeth Devoe</a>...1788 Feb, 15 [32] (NK)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p174.htm#i86969" target="_blank">Brewer, Theodorus</a>, Bergen and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p66.htm#i86968" target="_blank">Mary Berry</a>...1790 Sept. 28 [32] (Adam)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Burlington County</b><br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p101.htm#i120351" target="_blank">Brewer, Elias</a>, Burlington and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p722.htm#i124930" target="_blank">Rebecca Wickers</a>...1786 Sept. 25 [32] (NK)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Hunterdon County</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p175.htm#i86964" target="_blank">Brewer, William</a>, Reading Town and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p685.htm#i86965" target="_blank">Margaret Van Sickle</a>, Rd'ng T'n...1748 Sept. 30 [32](NK)</p><p>Brewer, John, Hunterdon and Mary Wickoff...1783 April 5 [32] (NK-See below)<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Middlesex County</b> <br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p167.htm#i120367" target="_blank">Brower, Tannica</a>, Middlesex and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p640.htm#i120368" target="_blank">Cornelius Tunisen</a>, New Jersey...1749 April 29 [56] (NK)<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Monmouth County</b><br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p87.htm#i20634" target="_blank">Brewer, Adam</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p503.htm#i83262" target="_blank">Catherine Mitchell</a>, Monmouth...1742 Jan. 12 [32] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p150.htm#i152477" target="_blank">Brewer, William</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p391.htm#i120360" target="_blank">Lydia Herbert</a>...1742 May 19 [32] (Adam)</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p131.htm#i20826" target="_blank">Brewer, Mary</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p448.htm#i20827" target="_blank">Edmund Lafetra</a>, Monmouth...1744 Oct 20 [54] (Adam)</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p140.htm#i20823" target="_blank">Brewer, Rachel</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p466.htm#i20824" target="_blank">James Lippincott</a>, Monmouth...1750 June 22 [54](Adam)</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p150.htm#i30947" target="_blank">Brower, William</a>, Shrewsbury and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p31.htm#i30948" target="_blank">Sarah Allen</a>, Shrewsbury...1751 Mar. 25 [34] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p190.htm#i85366" target="_blank">Brewer, Lias</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p524.htm#i85367" target="_blank">Elizabeth Palmer</a>, Monmouth...1753 Jan 27 [32] (Jan)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p101.htm#i30952" target="_blank">Brewer, Elazerus</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p509.htm#i30953" target="_blank">Frances Morris</a>, Monmouth...1755 June 25 [32] (Adam)</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p99.htm#i20829" target="_blank">Brewer, Deborah</a>, Shrewsbury and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p529.htm#i20830" target="_blank">Jeremiah Pearce</a>, Shrewsbury...1755 Nov. 25 [54] (Adam)</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p129.htm#i20825" target="_blank">Brewer, Margaret</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p487.htm#i30949" target="_blank">Philip Marks</a>, Monmouth...1760 May 3 [54] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p661.htm#i85354" target="_blank">Brewer, Anney</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p429.htm#i184232" target="_blank">James Johnson</a>, Monmouth...1761 Mar. 24 [54] (Explanation below)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p164.htm#i85067" target="_blank">Brewer, Hendrick</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p416.htm#i85374" target="_blank">Abigail Hunt</a>, Monmouth...1763 Nov. 12 [32] (Jan)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p108.htm#i30950" target="_blank">Brewer, George</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p253.htm#i30951" target="_blank">Lidy Clark</a>, Monmouth...1764 Jan. 25 [32] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p166.htm#i94026" target="_blank">Brewer, John</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p415.htm#i120354" target="_blank">Ann Hulse</a>, Monmouth...1764 Mar. 1 [32] (Jan)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p87.htm#i20634" target="_blank">Brewer, Adam</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p282.htm#i20638" target="_blank">Mary Curtise</a>, Monmouth...1764 Aug. 28 [32] (Adam)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p131.htm#i120363" target="_blank">Brewer, Mary</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p68.htm#i120364" target="_blank">Thomas Blackwell</a>, Hunterdon...1764 Dec 4 [54] (NK)<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p160.htm#i85376" target="_blank">Brewer, Benjamin</a>, Monmouth and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p454.htm#i85377" target="_blank">Mary Lane</a>, Monmouth...1767 Jan. 16 [32] (Jan)<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Somerset County</b><br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p172.htm#i83267" target="_blank">Brewer, Peter</a>, Somerset and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p496.htm#i118523" target="_blank">Margaret Melow</a>, Somerset...1780 Mar. 23 [32] (Adam)</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p138.htm#i120366" target="_blank">Brewer, Patience</a>, Somerset and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p612.htm#i120365" target="_blank">Joseph Stillwell</a>, Somerset...<i>blank</i> [54] (NK)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p661.htm#i85354" target="_blank">Anney Brewer</a>, married James Johnson with NJ license dated 24 March 1761, both of Monmouth County, was the widow of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p173.htm#i85353" target="_blank">Pieter Brouwer/Peter Brewer</a> (Jan) whose estate was administered 22 September 1759 (he was of Shrewsbury). She was born Antje Van Dyk (I have not researched her ancestry). See the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/pieter-brouwer-and-antje-van-dyk.html" target="_blank">post of September 17, 2013</a>. </p><p>The above marriages can also be found online at the <a href="https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/dos_archivesdbportal/ColonialMarriages.aspx" target="_blank"><b>New Jersey State Archives (NJSA) Searchable Database and Records Request Forms - Colonial Marriage Bonds, 1655-1799</b></a>. Individual records can be ordered from the New Jersey State Archives (follow the instructions). The fee as of this post is $5 per record. The entry above for <b>John Brewer and Mary Wickoff, Hunterdon County</b>, comes up in this searchable database as <b>Henry Brewer and Mary Wickoff</b>. This might be one to order.<br /></p><p>BGB 740<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-58872953846190349762023-01-10T14:38:00.004-05:002023-01-10T15:11:08.997-05:00Additions and Corrections to the BGD: Records from the Reformed Dutch Churches of Pompton Plains, N.J. and Montville, N.J.<p> The following additions and corrections are from the records of the Reformed Dutch Church at Pompton Plains, New Jersey. The source I am using here is <i>Reformed Dutch Church Records of Pompton Plains, pages 1-210: records of Montville, pages 211-258: typescript</i>, which is <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11547/" target="_blank">found on Ancestry.com</a> (paid subscription is required for access at Ancestry.com). This material is an unauthored typescript, and unfortunately the "Original data" description tells us nothing more. An entry for the same can be <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/11475847" target="_blank">found on WorldCat</a>, but it also does not tell us much more. Google Books has an entry for the <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Reformed_Dutch_Church_Records_of_Pompton.html?id=YxuEHwAACAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank"><i>Reformed Dutch Church Records of Pompton Plains</i></a> with the same publication date (1923) and cites the First Dutch Reformed Church of Pompton Plains as the Contributor. WeRelate has a description for a volume with a slightly different title, <span class="wr-infobox-title"><a href="https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Source:Reformed_Dutch_Church._Records_of_the_Dutch_Reformed_Church,_Pompton_Plains,_N.J.,_and_of_the_Reformed_Dutch_Church,_Montville,_N.J.,_1737-1873" target="_blank"><i>Records of the Dutch Reformed Church, Pompton Plains, N.J., and of the Reformed Dutch Church, Montville, N.J., 1737-1873</i></a>,</span> and a publish date of 1966. A search at the Internet Archive produced No Results. FamilySearch.org has six titles in their catalog under, <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=189293&query=%2Bplace%3A%22United%20States%2C%20New%20Jersey%2C%20Morris%2C%20Pompton%20Plains%22&subjectsOpen=566579-50" target="_blank">United States, New Jersey, Morris, Pompton Plains - Church Records</a>. Of these, <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/226221?availability=Family%20History%20Library" target="_blank">"Marriage Records, 1735-1746, 1793-1809; Baptismal Records, 1735-1871,"</a> is digitized but is not accessible from a home computer. The other five entries are either not digitized or if digitized, are also locked from access from a home computer. The Ancestry.com source is searchable, while the sources at FamilySearch.org are not.</p><p>The <a href="https://firstreformedchurch.com/about-us/our-history/" target="_blank">First Reformed Church of Pompton Plains website</a> tells us that the church was formed in 1736.<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p165.htm#i102065" target="_blank"><b>Isaac Brouwer</b></a> - The entry on the BGD for his birth reads: "born on 12 January 1744 (based on age at death, g.s.). No record of
baptism is found in Hackensack or Schraalenburgh. Paramus baptisms for
the years 1744 to 1748 are missing." Well, <b>a date of birth and baptism is found at Pompton Plains: Isack, Bp. Dec. 18 & bo. Nov. 20 (1745); parents: Isack Brower, Rachel; witnesses: Coenraad Frederick, Margaret Frederick.</b> [32]. Also <b>Isaak Brower & Rachel Brower </b>were witnesses for the baptism of Isaack, bp. 1 April 1746; parents: Henry Kanckelyn and Catharina [33]. <i>We do not have record of a daughter Catharina for Isaac & Rachel (Demarest) Brouwer, and neither of the two had a known sister named Catharina, so what family relationship, if any, exists is not apparent. Kanckelyn is probably a phonetic spelling attempt at Concklin.</i></p><p><b>Gerrit Brower (not certain at this writing of which Gerrit Brouwer/Brower found on the BGD) - </b>Pompton Plains baptisms: Elisabeth, baptized 25 August 1776; parents: Jacob Smit (or Smeets), Feytje; witnesses: <b>Gerrit Brouwer</b>, Elizabeth Meets [60]<i>.<br /></i></p><p><b><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p166.htm#i85551" target="_blank">Jane Brower</a> - </b>Her date of birth is given as "say 1781." <b>She was born 7 July 1781, baptized 2 September 1781 at Pompton Plains; parents: Theophilus Brower, Maria Bogert; witnesses: Pieter Kip, Jane Brower</b>. [71] The witness, Jane Brower, is a sister of Theophilus Brower. She married Pieter Kip on 10 March 1775, Lutheran Church, New York City. <i>The Theophilus Brower family was a New York City Brower family. This baptism takes place during the occupation of NYC by the British during the years of the American Revolutionary War. No doubt they, like many others, took refuge in northern New Jersey. </i><br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p390.htm#i116120" target="_blank"><b>Hessel Hennion & Catharina Brouwer</b></a> - Add daughter <b>Maria, born 22 September 1795; parents: Hessel Hennion, Trintje Brouwer; no witnesses recorded; the baptism date is not recorded. </b>Pompton Plains Baptisms[106].</p><p><b><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p171.htm#i116122" target="_blank">Marietje Brouwer</a> - Maria Brower and John V. Houten</b> were witnesses for the baptism of Elisabeth, born 8 June 1795; parents: John Fraland, Caty Witty. Pompton Plains Baptisms [106]</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p204.htm#i160302" target="_blank"><b>Jeremiah C. Brower</b></a> - I find this curious record in the Montville Reformed Dutch Church records. Child: Sarah Ellen, Cornelius J.; Parents: <i>blank</i>; witnesses: <b>Jeremiah C. Brower</b>, Mary Wilkinson. No date. The previous record has a baptism date of 4 Feb 1856, and the record that follows has a baptism date of 31 May 1856, so I assume it's from sometime between these two dates. [243, see the image that follows, the entry is fifth up from the bottom].</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSp4XcfFFJlIGZ3Acf1S1NYGpKj8bffgzW4rB55LCpOPBdWvEGP1mv8GRp9I2X7ymtG-93TvjvP06c8an2M0AiubbUsAn0NSd6VVqoydBMuA-ZxApf-siwfzF3fR2FznISGPAp6vG8vrRkQmgRas3o7eL602caEt2h61N2KEB8uk5LUI13yPrsQvID/s4958/Montville%20NJ%20Baptisms%20p243.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4958" data-original-width="3656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSp4XcfFFJlIGZ3Acf1S1NYGpKj8bffgzW4rB55LCpOPBdWvEGP1mv8GRp9I2X7ymtG-93TvjvP06c8an2M0AiubbUsAn0NSd6VVqoydBMuA-ZxApf-siwfzF3fR2FznISGPAp6vG8vrRkQmgRas3o7eL602caEt2h61N2KEB8uk5LUI13yPrsQvID/s320/Montville%20NJ%20Baptisms%20p243.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><p>I have not been able to place this Jeremiah C. Brower. He married Mary Wilkinson in Passaic County, New Jersey, 28 October 1850, so he cannot be <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p167.htm#i86678" target="_blank">Jeremiah C. Brouwer</a>, who was married to Elizabeth (Schenck?) and is found with her on the 1850, 1860 and 1870 U.S. census returns in LeGrange, Dutchess Co., New York. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p167.htm#i86678" target="_blank">Jeremiah C. Brouwer</a> had a second marriage- in Tower, Maria Bockee Carpenter. <i>Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Hackensack, Dutchess County, New York</i>. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 2000 (org.1932): 115, "<b>Jeremiah C. Brower of LaGrange, N.Y. and Mrs. Nelly Westervelt of Poughkeepsie, N.Y</b>." However, both the 1880 U.S. census and Jeremiah C. Brower's will (23 April 1898) records his wife as Mary E. (<i>perhaps she was a Mary Eleanor? Nelly is a diminutive for Eleanor</i>).<i> </i>The two marriages tell us that this second mentioned Jeremiah C. Brower cannot be the Jeremiah C. Brower who married Mary Wilkinson. We have two men named Jeremiah C. Brower, both of whom lived during the second half of the 1800s. There is a bit more work to do on both of these fellows named Jeremiah C. Brower. They are both post-1850 families and therefore researching them further should not be difficult considering the resources now available online. Presently, my time is focused on the colonial period and pursuing the two Jeremiah C. Browers is not possible right now. Should anyone have any insight on either, please pass it on using the Comments feature with this post.</p><p>BGB 739<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-474543054915419812023-01-07T10:08:00.002-05:002023-01-07T10:13:22.349-05:00Q: Who is Jacob BREUER, Born at Bergen, Married (1711) Lea Beeckmans, Born at New York ?<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A: He is Jacob PREYER, a son of Andries Preyer and Joanna Steynmets</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the previous <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/additions-and-corrections-to-bgd-losier.html" target="_blank">post (January 2, 2023)</a> I made mention of the problem of identifying transcription errors in the published transcribed church and vital records of original record books that are otherwise not available to the public at large for inspection, of which we now rely upon as "primary" source material for compiling genealogies. So here is an example.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Jacob Breuer in question is found <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p84.htm#i20437" target="_blank">here on the BGD</a>. He was married to Lea Beeckmans at the Lutheran Church of New York City on 6 May 1711 [</span></span>"Some Early Records of the Lutheran Church, New York", <i>Year Book of the Holland Society of New York</i> (1903):5. <i>Jacob Breuer born at Bergen, New Jersey and Lea Beekmans born at New York. Also at 11, "At the same time and place" (meaning from the previous record in the register, the house of Samuel Beeckman, our Voorleser</i>)]. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We also show the baptism of one son, Jacob, 27 May 1720, which I would note here is nine years after his parents marriage. This would lead one to suspect that there must be other children who were born to this couple, and we'll get to that soon. There are also notes from William J. Hoffman, found in "Brouwer Beginnings," <i>TAG</i> 23(1946):198fn. Hoffman's explanation as to who this Jacob Breuer might be: </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>"There was also at Bergen one Jacob Breur (Brewer) apparently not related to the family under consideration (Adam Brouwer Berckhoven). He was probably of German extraction, for he married as j.m. born in Bergen, Nova Caesaria (another name for New Jersey) in the German Lutheran Church at New York, May 6-May 26, 1711, Lea Beekmans. He was a member of the Lutheran Church at New York in 1719. A child, Jacobus was bapt. at home 27 May 1720, sp. Samuel Beekman, Sr., Magdalena, his wife. Jacob Brewer of Bergen signed on Jan 14, 1714 the new charter."</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">Hoffman clearly did not have an interest in pursuing this further, but had he done so, he would have rather quickly come to the conclusion that Jacob was NOT a Breuer, and that the <b>transcription of the Lutheran Church marriage record, published in the 1903 Year Book of the Holland Society, was an error, <i>B</i>-r-e-<i>u-</i>e-r a mistaken transcription for <i>P</i>-r-e-<i>y</i>-e-r</b>. To his credit, Hoffman did not try to force a fit for Jacob Breuer into one of the known Brouwer families. He simply reported the existence of this marriage record, offered a plausible although incorrect explanation, and then moved on. <b> </b></p><p style="text-align: left;">Consider the following run of chronologically listed records involving Jacob Preyer and Lea Beeckman.</p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>6 May 1711. Marriage of Jacob <b>Breuer</b> and Lea Beeckmans [Luth. Ch. <i>YBHS </i>1903:5 and 11].</li><li>16 March 1712. Baptism of Johanna; parents: Jacob <b>Preyer</b>, Lea Beekman; sposnors: Casparus Preyer, Celitje Preyer [Evans, Thomas Grier (Ed.). <i>Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York</i>. Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 2. (New York):359. Hereafter RDC NY Bapt.].</li><li>5 March 1714. Baptism of Johannes; parents: Jacob <b>Preyer</b>, Lea Beekman; sposnors: Pieter Post, Catharina Beekman [RDC NY Bapt.:374].</li><li>15 December 1717. Baptism of Samuel; parents: Jacob <b>Pryer</b>, Lea Beekman; sposnors: Denys Woertman, Ytje Beekman [RDC NY Bapt.:401].</li><li>4 January 1718. Baptism of Maria; parents: Denys Woertman, Margrietje Beekman; sponsors: Jacob <b>Pryer</b>, Maria Walton [RDC NY Bapt.:401].</li><li>25 October 1719. Lutheran Church, NYC Communions: Jacob <b>Breuer</b> [Stryker-Rodda, Kenn. "First Communions in the Lutheran Church of New York City, 1704 to 1769," <i>New York Genealogical and Biographical Record</i> Vol. 104 (1973)].</li><li>27 May 1720. Baptism, At N. Y. At the house of Jacob <b>Breueer</b>, Jacobus, child of Jacob <b>Breuer</b> and wife Lea. Witnesses: Samuel Beeckman, Sr., and wife Magdalena [<i>YBHS</i> 1903:77]</li><li>17 February 1723. Baptism of Andries; parents: Jacob <b>Preyer</b>, Lea Beekman; witnesses: Ary Van Wolgum, Celia Preyer ["Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y., Baptisms," <i>New York Genealogical and Biographical Record</i> Vol.36, 37 (1905, 1906) at 37:29].</li><li>27 July 1725. Baptism of Andries; parents: Ary Van Woglum, Celia Preyer; witnesses: Jacob <b>Preyer</b>, Margrietje Ten Eyk [RDC Port Richmond, RECORD 37:33].</li><li>12 December 1725. Baptism of Andries; parents: Johannes Preyer, Maria Rall; sponsors: Jacob <b>Preyer</b>, Lea Beekman [RDC Port Richmond, RECORD 37:33].</li><li>31 July 1726. Baptism of Johanna; parents: Jacob <b>Preyer</b>, Lea Beekman; witnesses: Symon Symonsz, Maria Woersman, RDC Port Richmond, RECORD 37:122].</li><li>24 April 1732. Will of Jacob <b>Pryor</b> of Richmond County, house carpenter, being very sick. My wife Leah shall have power to sell my negro man and as much goods as necessary to pay debts. I leave to my son Johannes, 5 shillings for his heirship, as heir in law, when he is of age. My wife has power to sell my lot of land which I now live on, also my tenement or dwelling house. After payment of debts, I leave 2/3 of remainder to be divided among my six children, Johannes, Samuel, Jacob, Andre, Peter and Johana, when they are of age. I make my wife executor. Witnesses: Richard Cole, Tunis Bogart, Simon Bogart. [New York (County) Surrogate's Court. <i>Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Vol. III 1730-1744)</i>. Collections of the New York Historical Society. New York: Printed for the Society, 1894):109. Abstracting Lib. 12:19. Digital image of the complete will is online at <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99P-Y9QX-Q?i=43&cc=1920234&cat=273761" target="_blank">FamilySearch.org, New York Probate Records, Record of Wills, 1665-1916 (New York County), Wills, Vol. 12 1732-1736</a>].</li><li>4 April 1733. Inventory of Estate of Jacob <b>Prier</b> of Richmond County, taken by Symon & Tunis Bogert. Executor: Leah Prier. [Jones, Jas. <i>Abstracts of Inventories, 1730-1752, Filed in the Surrogates Office, N. Y. City</i>. Manuscript, 1898:11].</li><li>5 February 1735. Indenture of Laghlon Fallen and Leah his wife of the County of Richmond in the Provence of New York, yeoman, executrix and executor of the last will and testament of Jacob <b>Pryer</b> late of the above said County of Richmond, deceased, and Johannes Pryer of the same place, eldest son and heir at law to the said Jacob Pryer deceased (of the one part) to William Johnson of the same place, yeoman (of the other part). For one hundred and eighty six pounds, a parcel of land in Richmond County against Smokeing(?) Point...eighty acres of land and eight acres of salt meadow. [Richmond County, N.Y. Deeds, D:36. Digital image online at <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WC-NZGQ?i=39&wc=M7HP-WPD%3A358137601%2C358168901&cc=2078654" target="_blank">FamilySearch.org, New York Land Records, Richmond Deeds 1732-1769 vol. D</a>].</li></ol><p>Of the above 14 entries three record Jacob's surname as <b>Breuer</b>. All three are the records from the New York Lutheran Church (marriage, communion and one baptism) so perhaps the error lies with the original records and not so much with the transcriptions which were done by different persons and at different times. Perhaps the originals are in very poor condition or perhaps the minister or scribe who wrote out the original entries simply wrote <i>P</i>s that looked a lot like <i>B</i>s. Either way, it is clear from the intermixing of these three records with the remaining eleven, that Jacob's correct surname was <b>Preyer</b> with variations of Pryer, Prier, Pryor. <b>Other than these three records, there are no others involving a Jacob Breuer and a Lea Beeckman. Conclusion: there was no person named Jacob Breuer married to a woman named Leah Beeckman</b>.<b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Finding a Family for Jacob Preyer<br /></b></p><p>The Lutheran Church marriage record does state that Jacob was born at Bergen. This Bergen being the one in New Jersey and not the city Bergen in Norway. As he was married in 1711, and assuming that he was likely married while in his early twenties, as would have been typical for the time, we can approximate Jacob's birth as about 1690. The only family named Preyer who is found at Bergen at this time is that of Andries Preyer and Joanna Steynmets who were married by the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bergen (now Jersey City, New Jersey) on 13 May 1688 ["Marriages in the Village of Bergen in New Jersey Beginning 1665," <i>Yearbook of the Holland Society Bergen Book</i>, 2nd Vol. (1914):65, no. 85. May 13. Andries Preyer, y.m., from Crevelt in County Meurs, and Johanna Steynmetz, y.d., from Bergen, both living at Ahasymus. Were married after three proclamations of bans]. This record of marriage tells us that Andries Preyer was this family's immigrant ancestor from Europe to America. He was from "Crevelt in County Meurs." The County of Moers was (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Moers" target="_blank">according to a Wikipedia entry</a>) "a historical princely territory on the left bank of the Lower Rhine that included the towns of Moers and Krefeld." It appears to me that Krefeld (or Crefeld) would be the Crevelt mentioned in the marriage record. Present day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krefeld" target="_blank">Krefeld</a> is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Joanna Steynmets was baptized at Bergen, 29 December 1667, a daughter of Casper Steynmets and Jannetje Gerritse ["Baptisms in the Village of Bergen in New Jersey Beginning 1666," <i>Yearbook of the Holland Society of New York </i>Bergen Book 1st Volume (1913):21]. This couple had three children born or baptized at Bergen: Seelitje (Celitje), 24 February 1694 [YBHS(1913):40]; Johannes, 18 May 1696 [YBHS(1913):42]; and Jenneke (Tenneke), 24 February 1699 [YBHS(1913):46]. Neither birth nor baptism records are found for their other two sons, the aforementioned Jacob Preyer, and Casparus Preyer who married in 1714, Sarah Andries. Both were certainly born between the year of their parent's marriage, 1688, and 1694. Andries Preyer was buried by the Church at Bergen, 16 November 1698 ["Burials in Bergen," <i>Year Book of the Holland Society of New York</i> Bergen Book, 3rd Volume (1915):30].</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Lea Beeckman</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">We do not have a record of birth or baptism for Lea Beeckman. Married in 1711, it may be safe to assume that she was born around 1691. The baptism records of her children provide clues for her parents. We are also fortunate in that although there were two or three, apparently unrelated families named Beeckman/Beekman in the New York City area during the later half of the 1600s and early 1700s, and scores of individuals with that surname, there appears to be only one, Lea (Leah) Beeckman/Beekman. She is no doubt a daughter of Samuel Beekman, who was the voorleser (reader) for the New York Lutheran Church, and was buried by that church 14 February 1729. He was a son of Jochem Beekman and Margriet Hendricks. For the origins of this Beekman family I suggest that one start with Macy, Harry. "Origins of Some New Netherland Families," <i>New York Genealogical and Biographical Record</i> Vol.123 (1992):20 BEEKMAN. My hunch is that there is room to expand this work, however, I still suggest that any ambitious researcher out there start with this article. Samuel Beekman's wife, and Lea's mother, was Magdalen Fonteyn, a daughter of Carel Fonteyn and Catharina de Balie. She was baptized 2 October 1659 at the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church [RDC NY Bapt.:54]. Although baptism records for children of Samuel and Magdalena are not found, my reconstruction of this family using other records finds six children, all of whom reached adulthood and left descendants, viz.: Charles Beekman (m. Ytje Van Zandt), Margarita Beekman (m. Denys Woertman), Catharina Beekman (m.1 Pieter Harlandt, m.2 Pieter Post), Lea Beekman (m.1 Jacob Preyer, m.2 Laughlon Fallon), Rachel Beekman (m.1 Johann Schmidt, m.2 John Woodside), Samuel Beekman (m. Mary Cordes). [I am not going to provide source citations here, again, any careful researcher wishing to do so should be able to reconstruct this family using the sources mentioned elsewhere in this post].<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Lea Beeckman and Jacob Preyer, a house carpenter, lived first in New York City (meaning on Manhattan Island, and then likely around 1720-1723 relocated to Staten Island. Their children are all found above. There were seven. I have not followed them further. However, we can assume that the first child named Johanna (1712) died early as a second Johanna was baptized in 1726. The remaining five were sons. Samuel (1717) married by New Jersey license, 3 March 1749, Annatje Van Gelder [Nelson, William. <i>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Volume XXII. Marriage Records, 1665-1800</i>. Archives of the State of New Jersey. First Series. Paterson, N.J.: Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1900:306. Samuel Pryer, Staten Island, and Anne Van Gilder, Staten Island]. She was baptized 25 April 1709 [RDC NY Bapt.:338, Annatje; parents: Hendrikus Van Gelder, Femmetje Wynants; witnesses: Jacob Swaan, Helena Van Gelder, j.d.] and so age 40 when first married. I don't believe the couple had any children. I believe that it was Jacob and Lea's son, Jacob (1720) who was the Jacob Prier who married Rachel Reckhow by New Jersey license, 16 January 1746 [NJ Marriage Records, 1665-1800:305. Jacob Prier, Staten Island and Rachel Reckhow, Staten Island]. I did notice records which may well belong to the other sons, Johannes (1714), Andries (1723) and Pieter (1732), but again, I did not spend time reconstructing this generation. I don't doubt that there are descendants living today. The above six children were named in Jacob's will dated 5 February 1735.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">BGB 738<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-62232472551201955992023-01-02T07:07:00.008-05:002023-01-03T07:04:07.684-05:00Additions and Corrections to the BGD: Losier, Bruyn and Brouwer<p> There are three family profiles found on the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm" target="_blank">Brouwer Genealogy Database</a> that could benefit from some additional information that was not initially included during the years when the BGD was actively updated. This post addresses the families of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p167.htm#i61153" target="_blank">Johannes Brouwer and Antje Lozier</a>, the family of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p470.htm#i84157" target="_blank">Benjamin Losier and Dina De Groot</a>, and the family of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p470.htm#i157795" target="_blank">Trientje Losier and Jakobus Bruyn</a>. </p><p>The family of <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p470.htm#i84157" target="_blank">Benjamin Losier</a>, whose name is variously found in records as Losier, Lozier, Luzier, Lizier, Lezier, Lazier and more, is missing a full list of his children and their baptism records. "Benjamin Lezier, y.m. born and living at Hakkensak and Dina De Groot, widow of Petrus Brouwer, born and living at Schraalenburgh," were married at the Schraalenburgh Dutch Reformed Church in Bergen County, New Jersey, 8 February 1734. Benjamin was not yet 26 years old when married. His wife, Dina De Groot, a widow, was three years his senior, and in her 29th year. They had four children baptized at Schraalenburgh:</p><p>1- Trynntijn, bapt. 15 December 1734; parents: Benjamin Lesier, Dina De Groot; witnesses: Niclaes Lesier, Antje, his wife. (She married Jakobus Bruyn).</p><p>2- Petrus, bapt. 26 December 1737; parents: Benjamin Lesier, Dina De Groot; witnesses: Pieter Demarest, Osseltjin, his wife.</p><p>3- Antjin, bapt. 29 March 1741; parents: Benjamin Luzier, Dina De Groot; witnesses: Joannes Akkerman and wife. (She married Johannes Brouwer).</p><p>4- Niclaes, born 24 February 1745, bapt. 17 March 1745; parents: Benjamin Lizier, Dina De Groot; witnesses: Pieter Westervelt, Belitje Brouwer.</p><p>Source for the above baptisms and the Lezier-De Groot marriage: First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.). <i>Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey</i>. New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891.<br /></p><p><b>The above baptism records update the estimated dates of birth for both <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p470.htm#i157795" target="_blank">Trientje</a> (Trynntijn) and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p472.htm#i61154" target="_blank">Antje</a> (Antijn) that are found on the BGD</b>. <br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p287.htm#i21147" target="_blank">Dina de Groot</a> had previously been married to <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p172.htm#i20445" target="_blank">Peter Brouwer</a>, son of (10)* Abraham Brouwer and Lea Demarest, and had three Brouwer daughters (Maria, Beeltje and Lea) baptized between 1724 and 1730. They of course are half-siblings of the four children she had by her second husband, Benjamin Losier. Benjamin's will, written 31 July 1772 and proved 24 March 1785, mentions his wife Dinah, but only two of their children, Trientje and Antje (called Anita in the transcription of the will, perhaps an error on the transcriber's part) and appoints his two sons-in-law, "John Brower and Jacobus Brown," as executors.</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p470.htm#i157795" target="_blank">Trientje Losier</a>: The BGD shows her birth as "say 1742." This convention of using "say" when an actual record of a birth or baptism date is not found has come into style, so to speak, over the past couple of decades among those who publish in the leading genealogical journals. Personally, I don't care for it, it sounds a bit too flippant, and I regret having used it in the past. I prefer to use, "perhaps born about ___" and to augment that with a life event (like a marriage) to at least somewhat legitimize the estimate. At any rate, <b>change Trientje's date of birth from "say 1742" to baptized 15 December 1734</b>, as per the above mentioned record. Obviously, I was off by a good deal with my initial estimation, and the reason for that being that I did not have a full picture of the family of Trientje Losier and Jakobus Bruyn at the time the BGD was last updated, which was late 2015. And so within this paragraph a lesson on the pitfalls of an incomplete family genealogy.<br /></p><p><b>Trientje married <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p235.htm#i102012" target="_blank">Jakobus Bruyn</a> with a New Jersey license dated 5 October 1754</b> (Nelson, William. <i>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Volume XXII. Marriage Records, 1665-1800</i>. Archives of the State of New Jersey. First Series:34). The transcription here calls them Jacobus Brown, New York and Catharine Leasear, New York, meaning that both were living in New York at the time. The marriage was also recorded by the Reformed Dutch Church at Second River (Belleville), Essex Co., New Jersey. This image taken off of Ancestry.com which cites "Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; <i>Second River, New Jersey and New Town, Long Island, Book 58,</i>" as the source. The entry is second from the bottom.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQZLEgMtEdOFPB_PBUgUIoN5nX4RNR3L3yNRxJ5Pami8cB9gEt86Q5cVW1EhMTuckpCxxSqeH93AJRppW8xA904ZL_plWcI4sI5BGxqKI-r-29TgyKnvCsNeNyVSqNBopO9PJSrlXEf9aOGUmrPFoN-TgDWlBMj0ultKWV26Jcdvq-AK_Xky77Bjs/s4996/Catharine%20Leasear%20Jacobus%20Brown%20marriage%20Second%20River%20RDC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4996" data-original-width="3112" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQZLEgMtEdOFPB_PBUgUIoN5nX4RNR3L3yNRxJ5Pami8cB9gEt86Q5cVW1EhMTuckpCxxSqeH93AJRppW8xA904ZL_plWcI4sI5BGxqKI-r-29TgyKnvCsNeNyVSqNBopO9PJSrlXEf9aOGUmrPFoN-TgDWlBMj0ultKWV26Jcdvq-AK_Xky77Bjs/s320/Catharine%20Leasear%20Jacobus%20Brown%20marriage%20Second%20River%20RDC.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><br /><i></i><p></p><p> The BGD shows this couple with three children. <b>This is incomplete, they had ten children, all baptized at the New York Reformed Dutch Church between 1755 and 1776. </b>But first, we'll back up a bit and look at Jakobus Bruyn himself.<br /></p><p><b>Jacobus, child of Anthony Bruyn and Ariaentie Joraleman, was baptized 6 September 1730 at the Dutch Reformed Church at Second River (Belleville), New Jersey </b>["Baptismal Register of Second River (Belleville) Dutch Reformed Church, 1727-1794," The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vol. 3 (1927):44]. The record gives his date of birth as 25 August 1730. The witnesses were Jacob Joraleman and Pietertie Cuyper. They were the child's maternal grandparents. Jakobus was the younger of two children of Anthony Bruyn and Ariaentie Joralemon. Anthony appears to have died around 1732. Ariaentie married Gerrit Wouterse by 1735. Jakobus' older sister, Margrietje, was born 17 December 1728 and baptized 22 December 1728 at Second River ["Baptismal Register of Second River (Belleville) Dutch Reformed Church, 1727-1794," The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vol. 3 (1927):42]. The witnesses were Hendrik Bruin and Margrietje Lacomby, the child's paternal grandparents. Both Jacobus and Margrietje are mentioned in the will of their grandfather, Hendrick Brown, Sr., of Second River, blacksmith, dated 24 January 1745/46 and proved 14 March 1757. Jakobus is called "Jacobus Brown," and Margrietje is called, "Margaret King" [Honeyman, A. Van Doren. <i>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series Vol. 32; Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc. Vol. 3 1751-1760</i>:43, abstracting Lib. F:453]. A genealogy of the early generations of the Bruyn (Brown) Family of Second River was published in 1964 - Kent, George F.. "Bruyn (Brown) Family of Second River (Belleville), N. J.," <i>The American Genealogist </i>Vol. 40 (1964):116-26, 172-77. This account tells us that Margrietje married Arien Kening (Koning, King), 4 June 1744 [Kent, <i>TAG</i> 40:119]. It doesn't tell us where, I haven't investigated it further myself, but I don't doubt it and I would suggest to anywhere to cares to follow Margrietje further to start with the Second River Church records. Reconstructing the first two generations of this Bruyn family is difficult. They were early in Bergen and/or Essex Counties, New Jersey and records of the Second River Church do not begin until 1727. The earlier, Bergen Church records are somewhat incomplete, and while there is a bit of conjecture in George F. Kent's account, he does a pretty good job and it does make sense when looked at in it's entirety. There is one error of note though (that I find, see below for an additional error). Kent tells us that Jacobus married, second, "Sally Smith, widow" 10 March 1781 at Acquackanonk and that they had a daughter, Tryrntje baptized there 18 July 1790 (born 29 March 1790). The Acquackanonk Church records include the marriage of "Jacobus Bruyn, wid., and Selly Smith, wid. of Mr. Immory." While the second marriage for Jacobus is probably correct, the placement of the child, Tryntje here, doesn't appear to be correct. The Acquackanonk record names her parents as Jacob Bruyn and Engeltje Van Es. [Kelly, Arthur C.M.. <i>Vital Records of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church at Acquackanonk (Passaic, New Jersey) 1727-1816</i>. Rhinebeck, New York: Kinship, 1992: 228, no. 505 (for the marriage); 85, no. 1842 (for the baptism)]. One further note - Jakobus Bruyn's father, Anthony Bruyn's maternal grandparents were Anthony Lacomba and Steyntje (Christina) Jans and Kent refers us to <i>TAG</i> 35:246, where we find an inquiry from none other that the eminent genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus requesting "further details" on the family of Anthony Lacomba. I'd suggest to anyone wishing to pursue this further, to start with D. L. Jacobus' inquiry. <br /></p><p>Back to the children of Trientje Losier and Jakubus Bruyn. Records of their baptisms are found in the Reformed Dutch Church of New York (City). I'm using the following source for that information: Wright, Tobias Alexander (ed.). <i>Baptisms from 1731 to 1800 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York. Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 3</i>. New York: Printed for the Society, 1902. The number in brackets preceding the baptism record refers to the page number in this volume on which said record is found. Ten children (followed by a brief note):</p><p>1- [203] 11 June 1755, Anthonie; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntie Losier; sponsors: Benjamin Losier, Dina de Groot, z.h.v. (Kent, at <i>TAG</i> 40:172, tells us that he married Elizabeth Francisco at Acquackanonk, 24 November 1781, and served in the Revolutionary War from Essex County, NJ, 28 May 1777. He lists the baptism records of seven children, saying the first was at New York, the last six at Acquackanonk, but I find all at Acquakanonk and none in New York).</p><p>2- [218] 8 April 1757, Benjamin; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntie Lesier; sponsors: Petrus Lesier, Antje Lesier, j.d. (not followed further by Kent).</p><p>3- [240] 20 January 1760, Petrus; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntje Lesier; sponsors: Johannis Brouwer, Ariaantje Jeronimo, Wed. v. Gerrit Wouterse. (Not followed further by Kent. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p235.htm#i101443" target="_blank">Petrus is on the BGD</a>. The sponsor, Ariaantje Jeronimo is the child's paternal grandmother, Ariaentje Joraleman).</p><p>4- [253] 7 October 1761, Hendrik; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntie Lesier; sponsors: Lukas Lesier, Annetje Vellok, z.h. (He died young, a second Hendrik is baptized in 1771).</p><p>5- [271] 5 February 1764, Jakobus; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntie Lesier; sponsors Nicholas Lesier, Fytje Klokkenaar, z.h.v. (He died young. A son James is baptized in 1765. Jacob and James being equivalent names. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p235.htm#i102020" target="_blank">Jakobus is on the BGD</a>).</p><p>6- [287] 22 December 1765, James; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntie Lesier; sponsors: Harmanus Taalman, Beletje Brouwer, z.h.v. (Kent does not follow him further. The sponsor Beletje Brouwer is a daughter of Dina de Groot and her first husband, Peter Brouwer, and half sister of the child's mother. <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p235.htm#i102272" target="_blank">James is on the BGD</a>. I have not followed him further).</p><p>7- [311] 4 Jun 1769, 311, Tryntje; parents: Jakobus Bruin, Tryntje Losier; no sponsors recorded. (She died young. A daughter Catharine was baptized in 1776. The surname, transcribed here as BRUIN, is an example of a <i>y</i> simply being replaced by an <i>i</i>. This is something that you will frequently encounter in colonial period records written by a person whose first language was Dutch. <i>Y</i> and <i>I</i> were used interchangeably. The name would not have been pronounced bru-in, as in a bear or the hockey team in Boston. Substitute an <i>i</i> for a <i>y</i> but pronounce the name as if you are reading a <i>y, </i>which essentially is silent, <a href="https://www.howtopronounce.com/bruyn" target="_blank">BRUN</a>).<br /></p><p>8- [323] 22 July 1771, Hendrik; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntie Lesier; sponsors: John Van Weert, Catharina Taers, z.h.v. (the second Hendrik, he also died young. Any familial relationship between the sponsors and the parents is not immediately apparent. The couples did sponsor children for each other on several occasions. Perhaps they were close friends).</p><p>9- [337] 26 September 1773, Hendrik; parents: Jakobus Bruyn, Tryntie Lezier; sponsors: Jan Van Weert, Catharina Toers, z.h.v. (the third Hendrik. Not followed further by Kent).</p><p>10- [350] 7 January 1776, Catharine; parents: Jacobus Brown, Catharine Lasier; sponsors: Harmanus Taulman, Catharine Blauvelt. (Second Catharine/Tryntje, the names being English and Dutch equivalents of each other. The sponsor, Harmanus Taulman is the same Harmanus Taalman who sponsored James in 1765. Catahrine/Katrina Blauvelt being his second of three wives. The family name here is recorded as BROWN, an English equivalent of the Dutch, BRUYN. Kent suggests that she died young, but that is because he mistakenly gave Jakobus a third daughter Tryntje, by his second wife, which upon examination was in error. I have not followed this Catharine/Tryntje, further, she may not have died young).</p><p>Jakobus Bruyn is recorded as a member of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York in 1756 ["Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York - Church Members List," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 61(1930):170]. </p><p>Both Jakobus and Trientje were sponsors for the baptism of Maria, daughter of Johannes Brouwer and Antje Lesier, 16 October 1763 [Baptisms, NY RDC, 269]. Here Jakobus is recorded as Jakobus BROUWER. Perhaps this was an error when first recorded back in 1763, i.e. as found on the original, or, more likely it was an error made during the transcription of the original record. There are errors in the transcribed records that we all use as the "primary" source when working on these colonial period families. They only become apparent when we can find and consider all, or at least sufficient multiple records regarding any one individual. Another example of this will presented in a soon to be published post on this website. So stay tuned.</p><p>7 December 1766, Jakob Bruyn and Catharina Lesier, z.h.v. [zyn huis vrouw (literal translation: his house wife)], were sponsors for Maria, daughter of Jan Van Weert and Catharina Toers [Baptisms, NY RDC 294. Thus reciprocating the role of sponsors preformed by Jan and Catharina in two baptisms seen above]. </p><p>30 November 1771, Administration on the estate of Hendrick Brown of Essex County, died intestate, was granted to Jacobus Brown, "nephew to the said deceased" [Honeyman, A. Van Doren. <i>Documents Relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, First Series Vol. 34; Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc.</i>, 5:68, Abstracting Lib. K:412. This Hendrick Brown, a brother of Jakobus Bruyn's father, Anthony, was likely the eldest son of Hendrick Bruyn and Margrietje Lacombe. He apparently never married. Kent, <i>TAG</i> 40:119 which incorrectly states that he married a Martha Mead/Meet; Royse <i>TAG</i> 41:148, which corrects this error, and alerts us to the potential pitfalls of relying solely on the published abstracts of probate records]. <br /></p><p>13 July 1772, In a mortgage deed, John Brown of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, conveys to Jacobus Brown of New York, carpenter, for one hundred and twenty five pounds, a parcel of land that Hendrick Brown, deceased, formerly bought of John Gardiner as appears by a deed of conveyance from said John Gardiner to Hendrick Hendricksen Van Rane, dated 12 November 1692. [Kent, <i>TAG</i> 40:116, Abstracting Essex County Mortgages A:383 (and further condensed by me, so please consult the original). Kent uses this conveyance for the starting point of discovering the origin of the Bruyn family at Second River, concluding that the progenitor of the Bruyn Family was Hendrick Hendricksen van Reine].</p><p>31 July 1772, Benjamin Lazier, of New York City, carman, executed his will naming his sons-in-law, Jacobus Brown and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p167.htm#i61153" target="_blank">John Brower</a>, executors. [see above and <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p470.htm#i84157" target="_blank">the BGD</a>]. </p><p>10 March 1781, the marriage of Jacobus Bruyn, wid. and Selly Smith, wid. of Mr. Immory, mentioned above. [Is "Immory a rendering of Emory or Emery???].<br /></p><p>15 September 1782, Jacobus Bruyn and Sara Smith were witnesses, at Acquackanonk, to the baptism of Catharina, child of Anthony Bruyn and Elisabeth Francisco. [Kelly, Acquackanonk VRs 66, no. 1437. Sally is a diminutive for Sara. This records helps confirm that it was in fact "our" Jacobus Bruyn, who married as his second wife, "Sally Smith, widow" as suggested by Kent].</p><p>The just mentioned baptism is the last record that I have found for Jakabus Bruyn. I searched, but could not find a will or probate record in either the New York or New Jersey published abstracts. Kent does not mention an estate settlement nor does he offer a date of death or burial. The New York probate abstracts end in 1801, and the New Jersey abstracts in 1817. Jakobus would have been only age 52 in 1782, and would have turned 71 in 1801, so it is conceivable that he lived past both dates. I have not checked U.S. census records for New York in 1790 or 1800, and that might be a place for those interested to start. Census records in New Jersey for the years 1790, 1800 and 1810 are lost. It should also be considered that at the start of the Revolutionary War, when the British occupied New York City (late August 1776 until 1783) many families did leave the city, and many went to Bergen and Essex Counties in New Jersey, where the Bruyn family had its roots. Probate records for New York and New Jersey past the years 1801 and 1817 can be found online at FamilySearch.org, so again, interested individuals should search there. </p><p>Before we move on I would just add that those interested in the Bruyn Family of Second River, beyond Jakobus Bruyn's line, in addition to Kent's article in <i>TAG </i>40 (1964), also see Mrs. Dayton Royse, "Bruyn (Brown) Family of New Jersey," <i>TAG</i> 41 (1965): 148-52, which makes an important correction to Kent's article and expands the family a bit further. I mentioned this above, but I repeat it here. This is an important article illuminating a not to uncommon problem with abstracted records.<br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p472.htm#i61154" target="_blank">Antje Lozier</a>. <b>Change Antje's approximate date of birth from "circa 1740" to baptized 29 March 1741 at the Dutch Reformed Church, Schaalenburgh, Bergen Co., New Jersey, as mentioned above. </b>In the case of Antje, we have a record of her death, November 1815, giving her age as 75 years, which allowed us a more accurate approximation of her birth date as compared to her sister, Trientje. Her actual baptism record improves upon that.</p><p><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p167.htm#i61153" target="_blank">Johannes Brouwer</a>. Currently we have nothing to add or correct on Antje Lozier's husband, Johannes Brouwer. However, in the interest is searching for potential male heirs that may have descendants who might participate in the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about/background" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project's</a> quest for a more complete understanding of Adam Brouwer's heirs, I'll just review Johannes' will. A <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899P-Y9CZ-7?i=255&cc=1920234&cat=273761" target="_blank">digital image of the will from NY County Wills 52:422-23 is online at FamilySearch</a>. The will is dated 10 November 1812. It was proved 4 October 1815. He is called, John Brower of the City of New York, Gentleman. He had died in September of 1815, so the will was probated soon after his death. He mentions his wife, Ann (the English equivalent of the Dutch, Antje) Brower, who is to receive all real estate and all interest on bonds and mortgages, except $2000 "herein after disposed of." He then leaves a legacy of $120 annually to "Mary Anderson, whom I have brought up, and who now lives with me." Of the seven children for whom we have records of baptism (1760-1779) he only mentions two. The two are "my beloved daughter Mary (the wife of Benjamin Romaine of the said City, Gentleman) and Dinah (the wife of Peter Walker of said City, Taylor)." We know that the first child, Maria, baptized 17 September 1760, died young, as a second Maria (who married Benjamin Romaine) was baptized 16 October 1763. The four remaining children, two sons, Benjamin (bapt. 9 May 1762) and Samuel (bapt. 23 August 1779) and two daughters, Belitje (bapt. 15 February 1767) and Tryntje (bapt. 8 May 1774) are not mentioned, nor are any heirs of any of them mentioned in John's will. Now, it's possible that one, or more, of these children did reach adulthood and were living at the time John Brower wrote his will, and John Brower had given their "share(s)" of his estate at some earlier date, perhaps in the form of some conveyance of real estate. To see if this might be the case we'd have to check and search through New York City conveyances for some deed that may have been recorded there. You should also search for deeds that may exist in which the living heirs of John Brower sell inherited real estate (something that I have not yet done myself). Otherwise, it's more likely that all four unmentioned children died prior to their father's will of 1812, and did not leave heirs. John was a member of the Reformed Church in New York City at Greenwich in 1806, as was Mary Anderson, and we also should check for other members named Brower, or for burials of children of <i>a</i> John Brower that may have been recorded in the New York Reformed Church's record books, for further confirmation one way or the other. Lacking that research, I'd say that John Brower's line "daughtered out" and that the sons Benjamin and Samuel died without male heirs who may have left descendants living today.</p><p><br /></p><p> *See the post of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-prelude.html" target="_blank">September 24, 2022, "The Grandsons of Adam Brouwer: Prelude,"</a> for an explanation of the number (10). </p><p>BGB 737<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-92064142267716456802022-12-09T08:04:00.003-05:002022-12-09T10:59:21.921-05:00The Grandsons of Adam Brouwer: (8) Nicholas Brouwer, Son of (1) Adam Brouwer<p> (8) Nicholas Brouwer, youngest son, and child, of (1) <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon</a> was baptized 16 April 1672 at the New York Reformed Dutch Church. The sole sponsor/witness was Ariaentie Scherps, an individual of whom I have no further information. Magdalena Verdon is recorded with her patronymic as, Magdalena Jacobs. Nicholas does not appear on the September 1687 Oath of Allegiance roll in Kings County, as he would have only been age 15. He is named in his father's will of 22 January 1692. On 14 May 1693, Nicolaes Brouwer and Rachel Brouwer (his sister) were recorded as witnesses at the baptism of Willemtje, daughter of (3) Mathijs Brouwer and Merritje Pieters.</p><p>(8) Nicholas married Jannetje Caljer with banns recorded 15 September 1692 by the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at Flatbush. The banns record Nicholas as "Niclaes Berckhoven, j.m. op Breukelen," and his wife to be as, "Jannetie Callier, j.d. op Boswijke." Jannetje was a sister of Cornelia Caljer who, seven months earlier, had married Nicholas' brother, Abraham Brouwer. The two couples would own and operate, and expand the mill property at Gowanus, Long Island over the course of the next 20 years or so. [See the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-7-abraham.html" target="_blank">previous post in this series</a>, as well as the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/documenting-brouwer-mill-at-gowanus.html" target="_blank">post of November 23, 2015</a>].</p><p>As Nicholaes Brouwer, he is found on the 1698 census of Kings County at Boswick (Bushwick) with a household of 1 man, 1 woman, 1 child, and 1 apprentice. He is recorded between William West (<i>English</i>) and Gabriel Sprong. His brother Abraham Brouwer is also recorded at Boswick on this census. In a deed dated 12 August 1698 (the same year as the census) Magdalena, widow of Adam Brouwer, conveyed to Abraham and Nicholas, her right in the mill property at Gowanus. An Assessment List of "Brooklands Improvable lands & meadows within ffence taken up by the assessors of said towne and peter Cortilleau surveyor December 20, 1706," includes Nicholas Brower, "mill sett down ffor" 30 acres. He is followed by Abraham Brower with 66 acres, Marya Brower with 26 acres, and Annitie Brower with 26 acres [<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9WT-4G35?i=416&cc=2078654&cat=278590" target="_blank">Kings Co. Deeds 3:91</a>]. Nicholas and Jannetje appear to have lived on the Gowanus property at least into 1712. In a deed dated 20 June 1712, Nicholas Brouwer and his wife "Jonica," of Brookland, conveyed their half of the mill property and business to Abraham Brouwer, also of Brookland [<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WT-42WD?i=494&cc=2078654" target="_blank">Kings Co. Deeds 4:12</a>].</p><p>On 15 December 1714, Nicholas Brewer, of the Borough and Town of Westchester, divided a piece of meadow land with Samuel Vail of the same place. This indenture, abstracted in "Westchester County Miscellanea," <i>New York Genealogical Record</i> 60(1929):310, citing "Book 4, p. 146" can be found online at FamilySearch.org in <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLL-Y38Q-V?i=455&cat=237049" target="_blank">Records of the Town of Westchester, v.56, book 4, p. 146</a>. On 14 February 1715/16, Nicholas Brewer, of the Borough and Town of West Chester, sold to Clement Daniels, cooper of West Chester, two acres of land in Westchester. The deed is only signed by Nicholas [See NYGBR 60(1929):310, citing Book 4:211, which is <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLL-Y38Q-S?i=469&cat=237049" target="_blank">found online here</a>]. Apparently, (8) Nicholas Brouwer had relocated to the Town of West Chester after conveying their half of the Gowanus mill property to their siblings, Abraham and Cornelia (Caljer) Brouwer in mid 1712. In 1718 and 1719, Nicholas, referred to as of Westchester County, miller, purchased a number of properties in the City of New York [New York Co. Deeds 28:492, 494, 500, 501]. "Nicolaas Brouwer and Jannetje Coljer, his wife, of the Manor of Fordham," were listed among the members of the Refomed Dutch Church of New York City on 26 May 1719. On 1 April 1726, Mary Sinclair bought from Nicholas Brouwer and Jannetje, his wife, a lot in the East Ward of New York City.</p><p>We know of seven children of Nicholas Brouwer and Jannetje Caljer, five sons, two daughters, born between the years 1693 and 1707, at which time the couple lived at Gowanus, Long Island. Baptism records for sons (29) Adolphus, (30) Jurge, and (33) Nicholas, as well as daughter Lysbet (Elizabeth) are found in the records of the Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Breuckelen. Son, (32) Cornelis was baptized at the New York Reformed Dutch Church. Records of baptism are not found for daughter Magdalena nor for son (31) Nazareth. Magdalena, who married in 1725, Joost Vredenburgh, and so was likely born between 1700 and 1705, give or take a year. (31) Nazareth, who married Anne Rozell by 1730 would have been born during the first decade of the 1700s. [We will cover each of the sons in future posts]. The children of Nicholas Brouwer would have come of age while their parents lived in Westchester County, apparently at Fordham Manor, and would have reached adulthood between 1714 and 1730 or so. The couple's first known grandchild was born in 1714 and the youngest grandchildren appear to have been born in the late 1730s. It should be noted that today Fordham Manor is within the Bronx, which is now a borough of New York City (which is coextensive with Bronx County). Also note that the 1698 census (mentioned above) records Nicholas with but one child. That would have to be the son Adolphus who was baptized in 1693 and who we know reached adulthood and left descendants. Daughter Lysbet was baptized in 1699, after the 1698 census, which leaves a six year gap between the first and second child. With only one child recorded in 1698, we'd have to assume that if any children were born to Nicholas and Jannetje during this six year period, they did not survive to 1698. <br /></p><p>We do not have dates of death, nor of burial, nor estate settlements or wills for either Nicholas or Jannetje. I'd like to search for more land records, but as of this writing, the last record that we have for both Nicholas and Jannetje is the deed of 1 April 1726 mentioned above. But again, I'd like to do some searching here. In a 2007 email from the late William B. Bogardus, I was told, "there was apparently an old bible of Nicholas and Jannetje supposedly at the "Old Stone Dutch Church in NY"; Nicholas, son of Adam, died "in or about the year 1749" and "at the time of his death left no child him surviving, but left his heir-at -law one grandchild, Hannah Brouwer, then the wife of Edmund (not Edward) Turner." Finding documented evidence to confirm this approximate date of death has to date not been successful. </p><p><b>Contemporaries: </b>Neither <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/03/family-of-willem-brouwer-and-lysbeth.html" target="_blank">Willem Brouwer of Beverwijck</a>, nor <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/jan-brouwer-and-jannatje-jans-of.html" target="_blank">Jan Brouwer of Flatlands</a> named sons Nicholas. None of (1) Adam Brouwer's other sons gave the name Nicholas to any of their sons. (8) Nicholas did name a son Nicholas. He was born in 1707. Thus far in my research I have not encountered any records regarding (8) Nicholas that might be confused for records regarding his son (33) Nicholas. As far as I have been able to determine, the given name Nicholas, within the descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer, is only found among the descendants of (8) Nicholas Brouwer, during the colonial period.</p><p><b>Genetic genealogy: </b>As of this writing, and by my count, the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a> has 19 members who are either proved descendants of (8) Nicholas Brouwer, or are certain descendants by virtue of their Y-DNA test results, which match the provable descendants in the Project. More members represent (8) Nicholas Brouwer in the Project, then do any of (1) Adam Brouwer's other sons. The runner up, (2) Pieter Brouwer, has ten descendants in the Project. Of the 19 participants, eight have taken an advanced BigY test. While the test results of the eight have yet to identify a SNP that would separate all male descendants from the other descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer, FTDNA and YFull have identified three SNPs (E-BY52668, E-BY173116, and E-FT90657) that identify sub-branches whose common ancestor is (8) Nicholas Brouwer. We hope that more of the Project's current participants who are descendants of (8) Nicholas Brouwer, upgrade to the BigY-700 test so that an even more complete picture of the genetic descendants can be seen.<br /></p><p>William J. Hoffman covers Nicholas Brouwer and his family in "Brouwer Beginnings," at <i>TAG</i> 24(1948):161-5. He mentions the numerous errors found in published accounts and manuscripts covering his children. The son (29) Adolphus is also covered on pages 165-9. Hoffman does not mention the son (31) Nazareth. He apparently was unaware of him.<br /></p><p>Nicholas Brouwer and Jannetje Caljer were covered in the pages of this website back on <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/12/nicholas-brouwer-and-jannetje-caljer.html" target="_blank">December 14, 2012</a>. Their <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p171.htm#i20394" target="_blank">profiles on the Brouwer Genealogy Database</a> provide source citations.</p><p>BGB 736 <br /></p><p><a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-7-abraham.html" target="_blank">< Previous post in this series</a></p><p><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-17250860823305787992022-11-18T08:19:00.002-05:002023-01-07T10:44:51.502-05:00The Grandsons of Adam Brouwer: (7) Abraham Brouwer, Son of (1) Adam Brouwer<p> As a reminder, the numbers in parenthesis preceding some names refers to that individual's place on the simple chart featured in the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-prelude.html" target="_blank">Prelude post</a> to this series. I will keep that post as the Featured Post, to the right, during the time that I am working on the posts for this series. Each grandson of (1) Adam Brouwer will have an individual post.</p><p>(7) Abraham Brouwer, the sixth of seven sons of (1) <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon</a>, was likely born previous to 1667. He does appear on the Oath of Allegiance taken in September 1687, as "Abram brouwer native," i.e. born in the province. From this it is safe to assume that he was at least age 21 in September 1687. Abraham, along with four of his sisters (Aeltje, Anna, Sara and Rachel) were certainly born during the ten year period between the recorded baptisms of their brother (6) Adam (baptized 6 May 1662) and brother (8) Nicholas (baptized 16 April 1672). </p><p>Marriage banns for (7) Abraham Brouwer and his wife Cornelia Caljer are found in the Flatbush Reformed Protestant Dutch Church records, and dated 6 February 1692. The record reads as, "Abraham Brouwer Berks, young man at Brooklyn, with Cornelia Halsijen, young lady at Bushwick." So, here is another example of the use of the Berckhoven suffix to the Brouwer surname (in this case recorded as "Berks"). Cornelia's surname is probably mis-transcribed. The <i>H</i> may have been a mistake for a <i>K</i> as in "Kaljer" or "Kaller," as the family surname is sometimes recorded. She was a daughter of Jurian Caljer and Lysbeth Cornelis Van der Hoeven of Boswijck (Bushwick), Long Island. A record of her baptism does not survive. Her father was reportedly living in the area of Kinderhook (now in Columbia Co., New York State) during the time she would have been born (we estimate her birth as about 1677). Jurian Caljer was residing at the "Flatts" at Kinderhook in 1682, and only relocated to Boswijck in the early 1690s. He is not found on the Oath of Allegiance roll of Kings County in September 1687. During the 1670s the Kinderhook area would have been serviced by the Albany Reformed Dutch Church. Both Jurian and his wife are found on the members roll of the Albany Reformed Church in 1683 and 1687. Baptism records for that church prior to 1683 have not survived. Seven months after their banns were published, Cornelia's sister, Jannetje Caljer married (7) Abraham's younger brother (8) Nicholas Brouwer. The two families would together operate and expand the Gowanus mill property from the time of (1) Adam Brouwer's death until about 1710. The given name Jurian, also seen as Jurge, Jeury, Jurry and a bit later as Jeremiah, originates with the two Caljer sister's father, and is found exclusively among the descendants of (7) Abraham Brouwer and (8) Nicholas Brouwer through at least the colonial period. If that name is found in your ancestral Brouwer line (during the colonial period) you are near certainly a descendant of either (7) Abraham or (8) Nicholas.</p><p>As mentioned, Abraham is found on the September 1687 Oath of Allegiance roll at Brooklyn. He is found on the 1698 census at Boswijck (Bushwick) in Kings County, with a household of 1 man, 1 woman, 2 children and 2 apprentices. He is recorded between Humphrey Clay (<i>English</i>) and Alexandre Coquer (<i>French</i>) who in turn is followed by Abraham's father-in-law, Jurian Coljer (2 men, 2 women, 3 children). Abraham is named in Adam Brouwer's will of 22 January 1692. On August 1698, Magdalena, widow of Adam Brouwer, conveyed to her two sons, Abraham and Nicholas, her right in the dwelling house, mill houses and creeks in exchange for an annual payment of 300 guilders, 10 skipples of wheat, two of Indian corn and two loads of hay. From this point on we find a number of deeds by which the children of Adam Brouwer, and their heirs, convey rights in the Gowanus mill property to Abraham and his brother (8) Nicholas. By about 1710, Nicholas in turn conveyed his share in the properties to Abraham, leaving Abraham, and subsequently his heirs, as the owners of the Gowanus mill property throughout the remainder of just about the entire 1700s. See the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/documenting-brouwer-mill-at-gowanus.html" target="_blank">post of November 23, 2015, "Documenting the Gowanus Mill Property"</a> for specifics. Abraham Brouwer is on an assessment list at Brooklyn, dated 20 December 1706, with 66 acres.<br /></p><p>We know of six children of (7) Abraham Brouwer and Cornelia Caljer, four daughters and two sons. The eldest, Elizabeth, was baptized at the New York Reformed Dutch Church in 1695. Baptism records for daughters Magdalena (1697) and Marytje (1699) as well as youngest child (28) Abraham (1706) are found in the Brooklyn RDC records. No records of baptism survive for daughter Jannetje who was likely born between 1700 and 1705 at Gowanus as she was married (to Johannes Burger) by 1725, and for son (27) Jeury who was also likely born during the years of 1700 and 1705 (he married in 1726). </p><p>In the later part of 1732, (7) Abraham Brouwer married Elizabeth Gerritsen, who appears to be a daughter of Jan Gerritszen and Elisabeth Gysberts, and was a widow of Nathaniel Britton of Staten Island (will dated 1 June 1729, proved 11 November 1729). Elizabeth was Nathaniel's second wife and mother of six of his fourteen children. Abraham and Elizabeth engaged in a marital agreement dated 1 September 1732 and recorded in Kings County Deeds Lib. 5, p. 95. On 5 May 1734, Abraham sold a 135 acre farm on Staten Island to Peter Hagewout (<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WC-NZL8?i=100&wc=M7HP-WPD%3A358137601%2C358168901&cc=2078654" target="_blank">Richmond Co. Deeds, Lib. D:157-161</a>). The deed states that Abraham had acquired the land from Daniel Shotwell and Elizabeth, his wife, by deed dated 7 May 1722. The 1734 deed was not recorded until 7 October 1745, at the request of Peter Hagewout, and was acknowledged at that time by Daniel Corsen, one of the witnesses to the 1734 deed. </p><p>As with his brothers before him, no date of death or burial, and no will or probate file has been found for (7) Abraham Brouwer. In September 1737 he did convey the Gowanus mill property in two separate deeds to each of his two sons (27) Jeury Brouwer and (28) Abraham Brouwer. The last record we have for both (7) Abraham Brouwer is dated 18 February 1739, in which he and his wife, Elizabeth, stood as sponsors/witnesses at the baptism of Abraham, son of (28) Abraham Brouwer and Sara Kimber, at the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at New Utrecht. The last record we have for Elizabeth (Gerritsen) (Britton) Brouwer is dated 30 November 1743 when she consented to the marriage of her son, William Britton.</p><p><b>Contemporaries: </b>Neither <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/03/family-of-willem-brouwer-and-lysbeth.html" target="_blank">Willem Brouwer of Beverwijck</a>, nor <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/jan-brouwer-and-jannatje-jans-of.html" target="_blank">Jan Brouwer of Flatlands</a> gave sons the name Abraham. The Abraham Brouwer closest in age to (7) Abraham would be (10) Abraham Brouwer, son of (2) Pieter Brouwer, who was born about 1675 (married in 1700). The later may have only been about ten years younger than his uncle. The given name Abraham is found not only among the descendants of (7) Abraham, but also among the descendants of (2) Pieter and (5) Jacob Brouwer. Confusing records between a number of various Abraham Brouwers becomes a problem with later generations (I count seven Abraham Brouwers born between 1701 and 1730, and many more throughout the remainder of the colonial period). However, there should be no problem in confusing (7) Abraham Brouwer with any other individual of the same name.</p><p><b>Genetic genealogy</b>: Y-DNA testing (<a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about/background" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a>) has given us the clearest picture of a Y-DNA signature for descendants of (7) Abraham Brouwer when compared to that of descendants of his brothers. Three descendants of (7) Abraham, two being descendants of (28) Abraham and one a descendant of (27) Juery have taken advanced BigY tests. The comparative results has allowed the Project to identify the SNP E-BY6312 as a SNP that is unique to descendants of (7) Abraham Brouwer, and not found among descendants of his brothers. If your Y-DNA test results are positive for E-BY6312, then you are a descendant of (7) Abraham Brouwer. We hope that with more participation and future testing the Brewer DNA Project will be able to identify unique SNPs for other sons of (1) Adam Brouwer as well.</p><p>(7) Abraham Brouwer was covered by William J. Hoffman in "Brouwer Beginnings" at <i>TAG</i> 24(1948):97-102. He covers some of the conveyances mentioned. </p><p>You can find sources for the above on the Brouwer Genealogy Database <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p157.htm#i20392" target="_blank">profile of (7) Abraham Brouwer</a>, and in this website in the post of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/12/abraham-brouwer-of-gowanus-long-island.html" target="_blank">December 4, 2012, "Abraham Brouwer of Gowanus, Long Island."</a></p><p>BGB 735</p><p><a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-6-adam.html" target="_blank">< Previous post in this series</a> <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-8.html" target="_blank">Next post in this series ></a> <br /></p><p><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-33901825993075254712022-11-04T07:21:00.005-04:002022-11-18T08:20:55.030-05:00The Grandsons of Adam Brouwer: (6) Adam Brouwer, Son of (1) Adam Brouwer<p> (6) Adam Brouwer, the fifth son of (1) Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon, was baptized 18 May 1662 at the Old First Dutch Reformed Church at Breuckelen (Brooklyn). The sole sponsor/witness was Neeltje Jans who was most likely the wife of Gerrit Dircksen Kroesen (m. 30 Oct 1661) a very near neighbor of the Brouwers, and a daughter of Jan and Elsje (___) Pieterszen (Van Huysen) whose descendants went by the surname, STAATS. They were also nearby neighbors. Neeltje Jans later, in 1680, married Volkert Hendrickszen Bries, another very near neighbor, who may well be the brother of (6) Adam Brouwer's wife, Marretje Hendrickse.</p><p>(6) Adam is on one occasion referred to by his patronymic, Adam Adamszen. That time being when recorded as a sponsor for the 29 May 1696 baptism of Helena, daughter of Willem Nazareth and Helena Brouwer. He is twice recorded as Adolph Brouwer, one such instance being as a sponsor for the 28 September 1684 baptism of Aeltje, daughter of Matthys Brouwer and Marietje Pieterse (Wyckoff), here specifically recorded as "Adolph Brouwer, de jonge" (the young, i.e. junior). The second occasion is two months later at the 30 November 1684 baptism of Jannetje, daughter of Evert Hendricksen (Van Gelder) and Fytie Brouwer. The sponsors here being "Adolph Brouwer, de jonge" and Marritje Brouwers. Both of these baptisms were recorded by the Brooklyn Church. His marriage banns, dated 18 May 1690 at Brooklyn, record him as "Adam Adamse (B)erkhoven" and his soon to be wife as Marretje Hendricks. Both resided at Brooklyn, and neither had been previously married. As best I can tell, the name Berckhoven used here is the first such appearance of that name. (1) Adam Brouwer used it, for the only known time, in his January 1692 will. (6) Adam's sister, Anna, is called "Antje Berkove" in her 6 April 1693 marriage record (Albany Reformed Dutch Church). His brother, (8) Nicholas, is called "Niclaes Berckhoven," in his marriage banns dated 15 September 1692 as recorded by the Flatbush Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. This surname of "Berckhoven" only appears to have been used during this short window of time between 1690 and 1693. [See <a href="https://archive.org/details/NewInsightIntoTheOriginsOfAdamBrouwer6302008" target="_blank"><i>New Insight Into The Origins of Adam Brouwer</i></a>, pp. 9-10 for a bit more on this name].</p><p>(6) Adam Brouwer and Marretje Hendrickse would have married soon after the 18 May 1690 date of their banns. The identity of her parents hasn't been proved with complete certainty but she is most likely a daughter of Hendrick Volckerszen (Bries) and Geertien Claes who are recorded as residing at "the Ferry" in Brooklyn in 1661. [For this family see William J. Hoffman, "The Founders of the Bras(s), Brasser, Bresser, Bries and Brazier Families In America," <i>TAG</i> 21(1944):147-153 where the BRIES family (Long Island, Piscataway) is covered. On page 148 Hoffman very briefly mentions that Marretje "may have been a Bries"]. </p><p>(6) Adam Brouwer and Marretje Hendrickse had four known children for whom we have records of baptism. Daughter Madaleentje was baptized 2 April 1692 at Brooklyn, the sponsors being Volckert Hendrickse and Hillegont Hendrickse, both of whom were children of Hendrick Volckerszen (Bries) and Geertien Claes, reinforcing the belief that Marretje was also a child of this couple. Daughter Marytje was baptized 4 May 1695 at Brooklyn. Sponsors were Willem Nasareth and Lena Nasareth [a.k.a. Helena Brouwer, sister of (6) Adam who married as her second husband, Willem Nazareth]. Daughter Hillegont was baptized 27 December 1696 at Brooklyn with sponsors Arien Claessen and Rachel Brouwer, the later being (6) Adam Brouwer's sister and the former being a brother of the above mentioned Geertien Claes. Both this sponsor and the child's name Hillegont support the idea that Marretje is a daughter of Hendrick Volckertszen and Geertien Claes, with the child being named for her mother's presumed sister Hillegond Hendrickse. The fourth, last known child and only son was (26) Hendrick Brouwer, baptized 15 January 1699 at Brooklyn, sponsors Willem Brouwer and Angenitie his wife. Willem being (6) Adam Brouwer's older brother. (26) Hendrick Brouwer is later found in New Jersey with children baptized at Raratin and at Three-Mile Run (New Brunsawick) between 1721 and 1733. His wife was Elizabeth (____). Her family name has not been discovered. We will cover (26) Hendrick in a future post.</p><p>(6) Adam Brouwer took the Oath of Allegiance at Brooklyn in September, 1687, recorded as "Adam brouwer Junior, native." On 11 December 1687 he was sponsor at the baptism of Jan (John) son of Josias Dratz (Drake) and Aeltje Brouwer. Here he is recorded as "Adam Brouwer, de jonge." (6) Adam is mentioned in his father's will of 22 January 1692. On 18 Mar 1694, Volkert Hendrickse Breets (<i>sic</i>) of Brooklyn sold to Adam Brower of Brooklyn, for fifty pounds, a lot of ground situated in Brooklyn towards Gowanus between the lands of Jacob Brower and Volkert Briez, aforesaid. This deed could be considered as another piece that supports the postulation of Marretje Hendrickse's family. (6) Adam Brouwer is on the 1698 census at Brooklyn with a household of 1 man, 1 woman and 4 children. He is enumerated between his brother (5) Jacob Brouwer and Claes Vechten. As this census is previous to the baptism of (26) Hendrick (15 January 1699), and since it records <b>four</b> children, perhaps (6) Adam had another, otherwise unknown child. There is a span of three years and one month between the baptisms of (6) Adam's first two known children. The possibility that (6) Adam Brouwer and Marretje Hendrickse had five, rather than four children, is something to be considered. But, if so, we don't have so much as a name to go on for a further search. <br /></p><p>Adam Brower, Jr. is mentioned in a Kings County conveyance dated 23 October 1701: "Volkert Briez and wife Elizabeth of Gowanus deed Coll. Gerardus Beeckman of Kings Co. land in Gowanus bounded by land <b>formerly</b> owned by Adam Brower, Jr." (<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WT-4G6B?i=316&cc=2078654&cat=278590" target="_blank">Kings Co. Deeds 2:344-5</a>). Note that this deed, while mentioning land formerly owned by Adam Brower, Jr., <b>does not</b> state that Adam Brower, Jr. was deceased. It is conceivable that (6) Adam Brouwer sold the land and perhaps moved elsewhere (his widow however, is in Brooklyn in 1708). Gerardus Beekman then turned around and sold this property, seven days later on 30 October 1701, to Nicholas Brouwer and Abraham Brouwer. (<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WT-4L7D?i=317&cc=2078654&cat=278590" target="_blank">Kings Co. Deeds 2:346-7</a>).<br /></p><p>As with his brothers, we do not have an exact date of death for (6) Adam Brouwer. There is no extant record of a burial in either the Brooklyn or Flatbush Church records, nor in the records of the New York Reformed Church. We have found no recorded will, appointment of estate administrator, nor of a recorded estate settlement. (6) Adam Brouwer is not found on the 20 December 1706 assessment at Brooklyn. However, "Marya Brower" is listed with 26 acres. This must be (6) Adam's widow. There is no other "Marya," Marretie, Maria, etc. Brouwer that we know of that might fill this role. (3) Matthys Brouwer's wife, Marietje, was living in Westchester County. (6) Adam Brouwer's sister, Marretje appears to have died prior to 1703 when her second husband, Barent Jansen Van Tilburg is on the New York City census with one male 16-60, but no females in his household. There are no other "Marya" Brouwers who could be considered. In 1708, Maritie Browers, along with other members and inhabitants belonging to the "Low Dutch Reformed Congregation at Breukelen," signed a petition asking for a minister from Holland for "whose support we will contribute." Maritie Browers signed with her mark. (6) Adam Brouwer's wife, Marretje Hendrickse, was living in 1708. Her date or place of death has yet to be discovered. It appears that (6) Adam Brouwer died prior to 20 December 1706.</p><p><b>Contemporaries:</b> Neither <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/jan-brouwer-and-jannatje-jans-of.html" target="_blank">Jan Brouwer of Flatlands</a>, nor <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/03/family-of-willem-brouwer-and-lysbeth.html" target="_blank">Willem Brouwer of Beverwijck</a> had sons named Adam, and to my knowledge the name Adam does not appear among the descendants of either one at least through the colonial period. Of course, (6) Adam was a contemporary of his father (1) Adam for a period of about 30 years as an adult. There may be some records in which the two might be confused (see the Note following the BGD profile link below). Among the grandsons of (1) Adam Brouwer, we have (24) Adam, born in 1696, so of age in 1717, who is mostly found with his surname spelled as Brewer. There should be no reason to confuse the two. (17) Adolphus, son of (4) Willem was born in 1684, so of age in 1705, and (29) Adolphus, son of (8) Nicholas was born in 1693, so of age in 1714. Again, there should be no reason to confuse records between these two and their uncle (6) Adam Brouwer.</p><p><b>Genetic genealogy: </b>To date no participant in the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about/background" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a>, who matches the genetic descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer has claimed an ancestry back to (6) Adam Brouwer. (6) Adam Brouwer had only one known son, (26) Hendrick who himself had five sons baptized between 1721 and 1733, four of whom <b>may</b> have survived into adulthood, coming of age between 1742 and 1754 (two different sons were named Hendrick so one died in childhood). <b>Descendants, if any, of the four sons of (26) Hendrick have not yet been identified. </b>This is a family that needs work and we'll get to that when we cover (26) Hendrick Brouwer in a future post. There is a large group of participants in the Brewer DNA Project, found grouped under Adam Brouwer as "Sub-Unit A" (see the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/BrewerDNA?iframe=ycolorized" target="_blank">public results page</a>) who are certainly genetic descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer, but we have not yet discovered their complete lineages back to (1) Adam. What this group has in common is that <b>1)</b> they've all taken a BigY test. <b>2)</b> the results of the tests tell us that they all share a common ancestry with either a son, or grandson of (1) Adam Brouwer. <b>3)</b> the Earliest Known Ancestors (EKAs) of each participant can be traced back to either West New Jersey and/or Pennsylvania during the colonial period. We also know from the BigY test results that the members of this group cannot be descendants of (7) Abraham Brouwer. That they are very probably not descendants of (8) Nicholas Brouwer. That they are likely not descendants of (4) Willem Brouwer (as he may well not have any living descendants). That they are also less likely to be descendants of (3) Matthys Brouwer. That they could possibly be descendants of (2) Pieter Brouwer or of (5) Jacob Brouwer. Having said all that, right now my hunch is that this group is likely descended from (6) Adam Brouwer though the otherwise not yet traced sons of his son (26) Hendrick Brouwer. <br /></p><p>(6) Adam Brouwer is covered by William J. Hoffman in "Brouwer Beginnings" at <i>TAG</i> 24:29-30. There is not all that much there. Hoffman notes that (6) Adam Brouwer died prior to 12 June 1712 as per a deed involving (8) Nicholas Brouwer. This is later than the date suggested above. I'll note that it was Hoffman who first suggested that the given names Adam and Adolph were synonymous (for lack of a better term) in the first two generations of descendants (see <i>TAG</i> 24:163). The fact that (6) Adam is referred to as "Adolph de jonge," in a couple of instances, supports this notion.<br /></p><p>For source citations please see the post of November 25, 2012, "The Family of Adam Brouwer and Marretje Hendrickse," and the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p158.htm#i20389" target="_blank">profile page on the BGD</a>. [Note that the BGD profile shows (6) Adam Brouwer as the sponsor a baptism in 1679 (Hendrick son of Matthys Brouwer and Marietje Pieterse) and in 1682 (Hendrick son of Evert Hendricksen and Fytje Brouwer. In the former baptism (6) Adam would have been age 17, and in the later age 20. In reviewing these records again, I think it more likely that (1) Adam Brouwer, as grandfather of both children, would have been the sponsor].<br /></p><p><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9WT-4LRD?i=438&cc=2078654&cat=278590" target="_blank">Kings Co., NY Deeds 3:133 - 1708 petition of the Low Dutch Reformed Congregation at Brooklyn</a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WT-4G6B?i=316&cc=2078654&cat=278590" target="_blank">Kings Co. NY Deeds 2:344-5 (old 264-5). Deed of Volkert Briez to Gerardus Beekman</a></p><p>[Please note that the Kings Co. Deed Books images are at FamilySearch.org. You will need to sign into their website to access the images. Access is free]. <br /></p><p><a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-5-jacob.html" target="_blank">< Previous post in this series</a> <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-7-abraham.html" target="_blank">Next post in this series ></a><br /></p><p>BGB 734 <br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-75390812715552828302022-11-01T06:42:00.001-04:002022-11-04T07:28:45.400-04:00The Grandsons of Adam Brouwer: (5) Jacob Brouwer, Son of (1) Adam Brouwer<p> (5) Jacob, or Jacobus Brouwer is listed as the fifth child and fourth son of (1) <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon</a> by William Hoffman in "Brouwer Beginnings" (<i>TAG</i> 24:23-28). He is the first child of Adam Brouwer for whom we do not have a surviving record of his baptism. Traditional genealogical evidence places Jacob in the family of Adam Brouwer by virtue of the facts that he is named in Adam Brouwer's will, that he did live at Gowanus, Long Island, and by deeds between his heirs and brothers (7) Abraham and (8) Nicholas Brouwer. Over the past two decades we have been able to add to the traditional research, evidence from genetic genealogy as four participants of the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a>, who are confirmed as descendants of Jacob Brouwer by their traditional genealogical research, have Y-DNA test results that unquestionably match them with other tested participants who can proof their descent from Adam Brouwer by way of some of Adam's other sons.</p><p>Jacob Brouwer was married 29 January 1682 to Annatje Bogardus, a daughter of Willem Bogardus and Wynnetje Sybrants and a granddaughter of Dom. Everardus Bogardus and <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/anneke-jans-in-fact-and-fiction.html" target="_blank">Anneke Jans</a>. The marriage is recorded in both the records of the New York Reformed Dutch Church with banns dated 8 January 1682 and in the records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush (banns 7 January 1682), with the later stating that the couple was married at Brooklyn. Both records place Jacobs place of birth as Gowanus, and Annatje's as New York (she was baptized on 3 October 1663 at the New York Reformed Dutch Church). They lived at Gowanus, Long Island and had nine known children born between 1683 and 1704, seven of whom have surviving records of baptism (five at Brooklyn, two at New York). Baptism records are missing for two children. Of the nine, six are sons. They are (20) Sybrandt Brouwer, (21) Jacob Brouwer, (22) Willem Brouwer, (23) Everardus Brouwer, (24) Adam Brewer, and (25) Pieter Brouwer (see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-prelude.html" target="_blank">"Prelude" post</a> to this series). <b>The sons, born between 1683 and 1699 would have reached the age of maturity between 1704 and 1720</b>. </p><p>William B. Bogardus, in his book, <i>Dear "Cousin": A Charted Genealogy of the Descendants of Anneke Jans Bogardus (1605-1663) to the 5th Generation - and of her sister, Marritje Jans</i>, includes a tenth child and seventh son, a so called John Brouwer who married Antje Van Oort, a daughter of Goosen Van Oort and Maria Peeck. Antje's sister, Maritje Van Oort had married (22) Willem Brouwer, while her brother Willem Van Oort <b>possibly</b> married Magdalena Brouwer, who is one of (5) Jacob Brouwer's three daughters (See Chart 7A in <i>Dear Cousin...</i>). Actual records for John (claimed to be Brouwer) including that of his marriage to Antje Van Oort, consistently record his name as <b>Broun</b> (Brown) and not once as Brouwer. He (recorded as John <b>Broun</b>) did in fact witness a baptism in 1712 for a daughter of (22) Willem Brouwer, but his presence as a witness can be attributed to the fact that his wife, Antje Van Oort, was a sister of the child's mother, Maritje Van Oort. <b>There is no direct or convincing evidence that (5) Jacob Brouwer had a son named John</b>, and we do not include him among (1) Adam Brouwer's grandsons.<br /></p><p>As mentioned, we do not have a record of baptism for (5) Jacob Brouwer. William Hoffman does not offer an estimate or approximate year for his birth in "Brouwer Beginnings." Hoffman arranges his genealogy with (5) Jacob Brouwer as the fifth child, after Adam Brouwer's fourth child, daughter Maritje who was baptized 4 June 1653 and before the sixth child, daughter Fytje who also does not have a surviving record of baptism. The seventh child, daughter Helena, was baptized 31 October 1660 at Brooklyn. Based on the dates of the marriages for both (5) Jacob and his sister Fytje, it is apparent that both were likely born during the seven year span between 1653 and 1660. I've estimated a date of "abt. 1655." His appearance on the September 1676 assessment roll at Breukelen (Brooklyn) would imply that he was at least age 21 in 1676. It is conceivable that Jacob could have been born earlier, sometime within a window from late 1647 to early 1648, between the baptisms of (2) Pieter Brouwer (23 Sep 1646) and (3) Matthys Brouwer (30 May 1649). (5) Jacob would have been named for his maternal grandfather, Jacob Verdon. The traditional custom of that time and place would have been to name a second son for the maternal grandfather. Although feasible, the widow is tight, and Magdalena Verdon would have been awfully busy with three children under age four in early 1650. Born "abt. 1655" might be the safer placement. It also should be remembered that conventional or traditional naming customs were <b>often not strictly adhered to by many parental couples.</b> In many cases, Adam Brouwer's own children are an example of this. Of Adam Brouwer's 13 children who did have sons, only four gave a son either the name Adam or Adolphus.<br /></p><p>First mention of (5) Jacob Brouwer is 1675 and 1676 when Gerrit Kroesen was taxed in Brooklyn for land between the home lots of Jacob Brouwer and Volkert Hendricksen Bries. As mentioned above, Jacob Brouwer is assessed at Brooklyn in September 1676 with 1 poll. He is then assessed at Brooklyn on 26 September 1683 with 2 cows, 1 cow of 2 yrs., and 6 morgens of land and valley (a morgen is about 2 acres) for 42 pounds, 10 shillings. In September 1687 he took the Oath of Allegiance at Brooklyn as a "native," in other words, born in the province. Jacob is mentioned in his father's will dated 22 January 1692. He, along with his brother Pieter and sister Aeltje, being described as disobedient children. While Pieter at least received 3 shillings, Jacob and Aeltie were to receive, "not a penny." Their shares to go directly to their heirs. It's not known just what offense the three siblings committed. Some have speculated that Pieter went wrong by not naming a son for his father. The same cannot be said for Jacob, who did name a son Adam, although he was born in 1696 after his grandfather's death. It is true that Jacob's eldest son was not named Adam. We can never really know for sure, but certainly people will speculate. At a town meeting in Brooklyn on 25 February 1692/93, Jacob Brouwer's lands at Gowanus are mentioned in a "Division of Common lands and woods." [It should be noted for clarity that Gowanus was within the political jurisdiction of the Township of Brooklyn at this time]. He is on the 1698 census of Kings County, at Brooklyn, with a household of 1 man, 1 woman and 6 children. The children would be (20) Sybrandt, (21) Jacob, (22) Willem,, (23) Everardus, Anna, and (24) Adam. On 17 October 1704, "Willem Brower Junr. son of Jacob Brouwer of Brooklyn," put himself as apprentice to Stephen Bedent of Brooklyn, feltmaker. [Note here that the description, "Junr." is not used in regard to a father-son relationship as we would use such a designation today. In that time it referred to the fact that Jacob's son Willem was "junior" to Jacob's brother, Willem, who was also living in Brooklyn at the time. The record is differentiating between two Willems, one older, and one younger, or "junior"]. Both Jacob Brouwer and Willem (Junr.) sign this document (with their marks).</p><p>(5) Jacob Brouwer's date of death or burial is not known. Neither are recorded in either the Brooklyn or Flatbush Church records, nor in the records of the New York Reformed Dutch Church. There is no surviving record of a will, nor of a settlement of Jacob's estate, or the appointment of an administrator. It is known that Jacob was living on 17 October 1704 (see above). On 26 December 1706, Annitie Brower is found on the Kings County assessment roll with 26 acres. Jacob Brouwer does not appear on the roll, and Annitie Brower must certainly be his widow. (5) Jacob Brouwer died between 17 October 1704 and 26 December 1706. </p><p>All known evidence tells us that (5) Jacob Brouwer lived his entire life at Gowanus, Long Island. We will look at his six sons in future posts, but for now we'll mention that sons (20) Sybrant, (21) Jacob, (23) Everardus and (25) Pieter lived out their adult lives in New York City, meaning specifically on Manhattan Island. (24) Adam Brewer and (22) Willem lived in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The former joined the Society of Friends (Quakers). Grandsons of (5) Jacob Brouwer were born between the years 1707 and 1745, and would have reached adulthood during the years 1728 to 1763.</p><p><b>Contemporaries:</b> Neither <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/03/family-of-willem-brouwer-and-lysbeth.html" target="_blank">Willem Brouwer of Beverwijck</a>, nor <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/jan-brouwer-and-jannatje-jans-of.html" target="_blank">Jan Brouwer of Flatlands, L. I.</a> named sons, Jacob. The grandsons of these two progenitors, as well as grandsons of Adam Brouwer, who were named Jacob were all born too late to cause any type of incorrect identification with (5) Jacob Brouwer.</p><p><b>Genetic genealogy: </b>Four members of the <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about/background" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a> are direct male descendants of (5) Jacob Brouwer. All four are descendants of Jacob's son (24) Adam Brouwer. Three of the four have paternal lineages back to Jacob that are proved by traditional genealogical research. The fourth is a descendant of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-g-brewer-1795-1886-of-miami-greene.html" target="_blank">John G. Brewer of Miami, Greene Co., Ohio</a>. Advanced BigY-700 testing of the descendant has enabled us to conclude that he is a descendant of Jacob Brouwer and combining that conclusion with the known descendants of Jacob Brouwer has led us to place John G. Brewer as a great-great grandson of Jacob Brouwer, his most likely lineage now being John G. Brewer (1795-1886) > George Brewer (1770-1851) > Elazerus Brewer (1731-1820) > Adam Brewer (1696-1768) > Jacob Brouwer. While two of the four participants have taken the BigY test, their test results have not singled out a unique SNP that would identify Jacob Brouwer's descendants from the descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer's other sons. The Brewer DNA Project could use the participation of direct male descendants of some of (5) Jacob Brouwer's other five sons. <br /></p><p>Sources for the above can be found on the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p165.htm#i20371" target="_blank">BGB profile for (5) Jacob Brouwer</a> and on the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/jacob-brouwer-and-annatje-bogardus.html" target="_blank">post of September 20, 2012, "Jacob Brouwer and Annatje Bogardus."</a></p><p>William J. Hoffman covered Jacob Brouwer in "Brouwer Beginnings" at <i>TAG </i>24:23-28. Hoffman includes accounts of some of the earlier incorrect claims regarding children and grandchildren attributed to (5) Jacob Brouwer and his sons. </p><p><a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-4-willem.html" target="_blank">< Previous post in this series</a> <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-6-adam.html" target="_blank">Next post in this series ></a><br /></p><p>BGB 733 <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-446863111695560232022-10-21T06:49:00.002-04:002022-11-02T07:19:32.622-04:00Broken Links<p> A reader has sent an email alerting me to a few broken links found within the pages of this blog, specifically in the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">June 1, 2012 post, "The Family of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon."</a> The broken links here are to PDFs that were originally uploaded to RootsWeb Free Pages, which had some major troubles a few years back, it was down for some months, and when restored some of the PDFs that had been posted there still did not come back. I don't why. So, I've replaced the broken links in the June 1, 2012 post, both in the post itself and for good measure I'll post them in this post as well. I'm certain that there are other broken links as well. I don't have the time to go through each post to search for and correct broken links. Instead I'll rely on you, the reader to alert me of any that you might be interested in viewing or downloading. Just <a href="mailto:ccbnf1404@gmail.com" target="_blank">send me a note</a> pointing out the post and specific document, I'll replace it and add a link below. <b>And, Thank You to the reader who brought this to my attention.</b><br /></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11iZDd1aMlPTkng2jdY-cK_BPnsmnPI-R/view" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon, Family Group Sheet</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z-2aF5NCWwBlnvZGET3Tls-ctoGwbIai/view" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer's Will (Transcript)</a> <br /></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13sGy1Ayi3nLffFv4DXQH63KN-ACndRdm/view" target="_blank">New Insight Into The Origins of Adam Brouwer</a> which is also archived in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150410085602/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/Research/new%20insight%20into%20the%20origins%20of%20adam%20brouwer%20final.pdf" target="_blank">New Insight Into The Origins of Adam Brouwer</a>. </p><p>BGB 732<br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-16318129245810753332022-10-19T09:53:00.004-04:002022-11-02T07:18:36.544-04:00The Grandsons of Adam Brouwer: (4) Willem Brouwer, Son of (1) Adam Brouwer<p> Willem, likely the third son of (1) <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon</a>, was baptized 5 March 1651 at the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church. The baptism record only records his father, "Adam Brouwer," as was customary at the time Willem was baptized. The sponsors were Willem Beeckman, Johannes Marcus, Maria int houte paert ("the wooden horse," the name of a tavern) and Lysbeth Cregiers. There is no known family relationship with any of the sponsors with either of Willem's parents families. Lysbeth Cregiers was the wife of Martin Cregier/Kregier. "Maria in the wooden horse," may have been Maria du Trieux who also was a sponsor for Willem's brother <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-2-pieter.html" target="_blank">(2) Pieter Brouwer</a>.</p><p>Willem was married at least twice, and quite likely three times. His first wife, Elizabeth Simpson, was most probably a daughter of Peter Simpson who was one of the first settlers at Gravesend, Long Island, being among the first associates who were granted a patent there in 1645. He died sometime in 1696. Peter Simpson's wife (presumably Elizabeth's mother) survived him. Her name was Grietje, or Greetie, and she was living in 1698 at Gravesend. Her family name has not been learned. T. G. Bergen, in his <i>Early Settlers of Kings County</i>, does not include a daughter (of any name) for Peter Simpson (p. 263) but does list a son, Robert, of whom I have not been able to locate an existing record. There is no surviving record of marriage for Willem and Elizabeth. They were married by 1679, as their first child, daughter Magdalena, was baptized at Brooklyn on 14 September 1679. The record as found in the Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Breuckelen records calls the mother "Betje Brouwer," while the Flatbush church records names her as "Elsje Brouwer." Willem and Elizabeth had five children baptized between 1679 and 1690, the first (1679), third (1684) and fourth (1687) at Brooklyn, the second (1681) and fifth (1690) and the New York Reformed Dutch Church. In no baptism record is either of Elizabeth's presumed parents, Peter or Grietje Simpson, recorded as a sponsor, although both were living during this period. The mother in each record is named as (1) Betje/Elsje Brouwer, (2) Lysbeth, (3) Elisabeth Brouwer, (4) Elisabeth Brouwer, (5) Elisabeth <b>Simpsons</b>. She is called "Lijsbet <b>Pietersen</b>, wife of Willem Brouwer," on 11 June 1677 when she is recorded as a member of the Brooklyn Church. </p><p>There is then a gap of twelve years between 1690 and 1702 before we find the next record of baptism for a child of Willem. This is Jannetje, parents: Willem Brouwer and Marta (no surname), 18 January 1702 at Brooklyn. She was Marthe Boulton, whose parents are not known. There is no surviving marriage record for Willem and Marthe. She is simply recorded as Marte or Marthe in the records of her first three children (1702, 1706, 1709 at Brooklyn), but in the record of her fourth child, Susanne, baptized at the French Protestant Church of New York, she is recorded as Marthe Boulten. Susanne Bourdet was a sponsor for two of Marthe's children, but any relationship between the two is not readily apparent. The Bourdet surname is one to be explored though. </p><p>In the years between 1690 and 1702, Willem is found on the 1698 census for the Town of Brookland, with a household of 1 man, <b>1 woman</b>, 2 children and 2 apprentices. On 15 January 1699, "Willem Brouwer, <b>Angenietie his wife</b>," are sponsors for Hendrick, son of Adam Brouwer and Marretje (Hendrickse). William Hoffman, in "Brouwer Beginnings" (<i>TAG</i> 23:204 footnote) notes that this is the only mention of Angenietie and "is probably a mistake," but then mentions the gap in baptisms and states, "so that he could have married Angenietje between these years." Considering the fact that records from Brooklyn during this period are incomplete, something Hoffman certainly would have been aware of, I'm not sure why he would write off the baptism record in which they are recorded as "Willem Brouwer, Angenietie, his wife" as a mistake. Although there is no other record to support it, there also is not one that contradicts it. It seems reasonable to me that Willem Brouwer's second wife was Angenietie (___), and that the couple simply did not have any children. By 1702, Willem (age now about 51) married a much younger woman, this being Marthe Boulten, who did have children between the years 1702 and 1712. If about age 40 in 1712, Marthe would have been born around 1672. </p><p>The last record found for Marthe Boulten is the 1712 baptism record of her daughter, Susanne. On 29 May 1705, "Marta Brouwers" was the sole sponsor for the baptism of Sara, daughter of Jan Challwer and Sara Luwis (Brooklyn Church). In 1708, Sara Knight (Willem's sister, then wife of Thomas Knight) and Martha Brouwer were indicted by a grand jury for false swearing with regard to a riot that occurred at a tavern kept by Thomas Knight. When nobody appeared against them at the hearing during the next court session, the charges were dropped. On 7 May 1708, Willem Brower and Martha his wife of Brooklyn conveyed to Cornelius Sleght of Newtown (Queens County), a house and garden spot in Brooklyn (six rods in the front, seven rods in the rear) bounded easterly by "the highway," westerly by George Hanson's land, northerly by Thomas Knight (Sara Brouwer's husband) and southerly by he lot of said Willem Brower bought of Cornelius Vandewater. Willem and Martha both signed with their marks. </p><p>As with his wife, Martha, the last record that we have for Willem is the 1712 baptism of their daughter Susanne in New York City's French Protestant Church. Willem's eldest married daughter, Lysbeth, was the wife of Harmen Gerretz Van Sant and was a member of the Reformed Dutch Church at Bensalem and Sammany in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on 22 June 1710. This couple had a son, William, baptized at the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1708. Willem's daughter, Catharina (baptized in 1690) married Joshua Cresson, 24 September 1710, at the North and Southampton Dutch Reformed Church at Churchville, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. On 20 Jan 1701, Willem's son Adolphus, recorded as "Adalfas Bruer," witnessed a deed recorded in Bucks County, for a tract of land in Bensalem conveyed by Thomas Revel of Burlington Co., West New Jersey as administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Tathaem of Burlington, dec'd, relict of John Grey alias Tathaem of Burlington, to Thomas Stevenson (this deed was acknowledged 14 Dec 1704).</p><p>All told, Willem Brouwer had nine children, by two wives, who are documented by records of baptisms, six daughters and three sons. The three sons, (17) Adolphus, (18) Johannes and (19) Samuel will be covered in future posts. Three of Willem's children are the first among the descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer to be documented in the area of Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which bounds the city of Philadelphia. They were there during the first decade of the 1700s.</p><p>We really do not have any contemporary men to (4) Willem Brouwer who might be confused with him. <b><a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/03/family-of-willem-brouwer-and-lysbeth.html" target="_blank">Willem Brouwer of Beverwijck</a></b> was deceased in August 1668, and was likely born three or four decades prior to (4) Willem Brouwer. Willem Brouwer of Beverwijck's supposed son, <b>Willem Brower</b> who wrote his will in 1757, was clearly a bit younger and is well documented in Schenectady and the Mohawk Valley region of New York. Records regarding these two cannot reasonably be confused with records that might belong to (4) Willem Brouwer. We also have no record of any sons of Willem, named Willem/William.</p><p><b>Genetic genealogy:</b> The <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/brewer-dna/about" target="_blank">Brewer DNA Project</a> has yet to encounter a member or participant who has claimed to be a direct male descendant of (4) Willem Brouwer. We will see when we look into Willem's sons, that he may well in fact have no direct male descendants living today. At least none that have yet been recognized or documented.<br /></p><p>William Brouwer is covered by William Hoffman in "Brouwer Beginnigs" at <i>TAG</i> 23:204-6. </p><p>For more, including source citations see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/family-of-willem-brouwer-son-of-adam.html" target="_blank">post of September 2, 2012, "The Family of Willem Brouwer (son of Adam Bouwer)</a>, and his <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p175.htm#i20381" target="_blank">profile on the BGD website</a>.</p><p>BGB 731</p><p><a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-3-matthys.html" target="_blank">< Previous post in this series</a> <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-5-jacob.html" target="_blank">Next post in this series ></a><br /></p>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068447077581264936.post-46291346663495693722022-10-06T06:59:00.003-04:002022-10-19T09:57:16.609-04:00The Grandsons of Adam Brouwer: (3) Matthys Brouwer, Son of (1) Adam Brouwer<p> (3) Matthys Brouwer is the second son of <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/family-of-adam-brouwer-and-magdalena.html" target="_blank">(1) Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon</a>. "Mathys, child of Adam Brouwer," was baptized at the New Amsterdam Reformed Church on 30 May 1649. His mother's name was not recorded in the baptism register, but this was something that was not unusual at the time. Many of the baptism records from the years around 1649 only record the father's name. That same day, Aeltie, child of Paulus Van der Beeck was also baptized. Aeltie was Mathys' mother Magdalena Verdon's half-sister. The sponsors/witnesses for Mathys' baptism were Mathys and Barentje Molenaers. What if any family relationship they may or may not have had with Adam Brouwer, or Magdalena Verdon, is not apparent. The "surname" Molenaers is an occupational name, and it most probably describes Mathys Molenaers' occupation at the time. A molenaar (in Dutch) is a miller. Adam Brouwer would soon build and operate a grist mill of his own. Perhaps he was employed by Mathys Molenaer in 1649 and simply named his second son for his employer who may have taught Adam the trade of a miller. This is just speculation, albeit a plausible one. <br /></p><p>Marriage banns for "Mathys Brouwer, j.m. Van N. Jorck, en Margrietje Pieters, j.d. Van N. Amersfort," were published by the New York Reformed Dutch Church on 26 January 1673. The banns tell us that Mathys was born in New York (City) which at the time he was born was New Amsterdam. This would imply that in May 1649 his parents, (1) Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon had not yet settled at Gowanus. Mathys married <b>Marietje Pieterse</b>. The marriage record incorrectly calls her Margrietje. In all other records she is recorded as Marietje, Marritje, or some other near variation in spelling. She was a daughter of Pieter Claesen and Grietje Cornelise Van Ness. Descendants of Pieter Claesen a took the surname Wyckoff (with many varied spellings). This would have first occurred during the later years of the 1600s. I have not found a record in which Marietje Pieterse, or her father for that matter, is found with the surname Wyckoff. Marietje Pieterse was likely born around 1648, at New Amersfort, a.k.a. Flatlands. </p><p>On 19 November 1679, "Matthijs Brouwer and wife Marritje Pieters" were members of the Flatbush Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. They were recorded as living at "Brooklyn Ferry." A record from the Old First Dutch Reformed Church at Breuckelen (Brooklyn) under the date of 30 November 1680, states that the couple were "both from Manhattan Island." As "Mattys Brouwer," he is recorded on an Assessment List dated 26 September 1683 at Brooklyn with 1 poll, 1 cow and 1 cow of 3 years. On 26 September 1687, Matthys took the Oath of Allegiance in Orange County, New York. It is important here to point out the the Orange County, New York of 1687 is not the same as the Orange County, New York of today. In 1687 Orange County also included what is today, Rockland County, which in 1687 was the southern portion of Orange County. It's likely that this is where Matthys lived in 1687, and that would be on the west side of the Hudson River, just north of Manhattan Island and across from Westchester County which is on the east side of the Hudson River. Mathys was named in his father's will dated 22 January 1692. He stood as sponsor/witness for baptisms of three different grandchildren in 1706, 1708 and 1710 at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in Tarrytown, Westchester County. On 18 April 1716 both Matthys and Marietje were recorded as member nos. 83 and 84, "from Cortlandt Manor," at the Sleepy Hollow Dutch Church. Matthys Brouwer died prior to 29 July 1726 when he is described as deceased in the marriage banns of his daughter Jannetje Brouwer who married Jan Pell (Lutheran Church of New York City). Marietje was living on 26 September 1725 when as "Maretje Brouwer," she witnessed the baptism of her granddaughter Mattheus Vos, son of her daughter Willemtje Brouwer and her husband Jan Vos by the Lutheran Minister. She is described as the child's grandmother in the record. No record of death or burial has been found for either Matthys or Marietje. There is no record of a will, nor of the settlement of either estate.</p><p>We know of eleven children of Matthys Brouwer and Marietje Pieterse. There are surviving baptism records for seven of the children. The surviving records are dispersed between the New York RDC and the Reformed Churches at Brooklyn and Flatbush (whose records often overlap). The records of the later two churches have gaps and are not complete which may account for missing baptisms for four of the children. There are four sons, (13) Peter, (14) Samuel, (15) Hendrick and (16) Johannes. We will cover each in future posts. Six of the couple's seven daughters reached adulthood and married.</p><p>William J. Hoffman covers Matthys Brouwer in "Brouwer Beginnings" at <i>TAG</i> 23(1947):202-204. </p><p>Floyd I. Brewer in his <i>A Dutch-English Odyssey; Stories of Brewer and Estey Families in North America, 1636-1996</i> (1997) incorrectly places his post colonial period Brewer ancestry as descended from Matthys Brouwer. He recognized this error only after his book was published. In correspondence with the late William B. Bogardus, and in Floyd I. Brewer's defense, I was informed that Floyd did not research his colonial period ancestry himself. He had hired two professional genealogists, one of which suggested a lineage that led back to Matthys Brouwer. She was wrong. Floyd I. Brewer's correct lineage leads back to (1) Adam Brouwer's son (8) Nicholas Brouwer.</p><p>Frank J. Doherty, <i>Settlers of the Beekman Patent</i>, Vol. 2: 763-765, follows one line of descendants of Matthys' son (16) Johannes, but only to his sons. The account here essentially follows Hoffman's account in "Brouwer Beginnings" and adds a bit more on the last generation followed, that being grandsons of (3) Matthys.<br /></p><p>On this website see the <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-family-of-matthys-brouwer-and.html" target="_blank">August 8, 2012 post, "The Family of Matthys Brouwer and Marietje Pieters (Wyckoff)</a>. </p><p>For source citations see the <a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p171.htm#i20379" target="_blank">profile of Matthys Brouwer on the BGD website</a>.</p><p>We do not have any records or evidence of any contemporaries to (3) Matthys Brouwer who might bear the same name. Matthys did not name any of his sons, Matthys. He has two known grandsons with the name, they being Matthys, baptized 1695, son of (14) Samuel and Matthys, baptized 1711, son of (16) Johannes. There are a couple of records of men similarly named, from the colonial period that we will list here and try to expand on in the future:</p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Mattheus Brouwer and wife, Elizabeth</b> had daughters Elizabeth and Maria baptized at the North Branch Reformed Church at Readington, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey in May 1750 (sponsors John Egbert and Metje Egbert) and 3 June 1753 (no sponsors recorded) respectively. </li><li><b>Matheus Brouwer</b> and Marijke Beker were witnesses for the baptism of Maria, daughter of Samuel Elsworth and Janneke (___), 15 May 1750, Lutheran Church, New York City.</li><li>A <b>Mathew Brewer/Brower</b> was sued by Joseph King in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey in 1764. (<a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/mathew-brewerbrower-in-hunterdon-county.html" target="_blank">Post of April 27, 2020</a>). </li><li>A <b>Matheus/Mathew Brewer</b> is found in Dutchess County, New York, "Ancient Documents" involved in lawsuits from 1741 through 1743. (<a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/matheus-mathew-brewer-in-dutchess.html?m=0" target="_blank">Post of August 7, 2013</a>).<br /></li></ol><p>All of the above would have had to have been born prior to 1730, and in the case of no. 4 prior to 1720, most likely in the greater New York City area. I would venture to say that no. 3 above is likely the same individual as no. 1. There is also <b>Mathew Brower/Brewer of Greene Co., Pennsylvania</b> who has been covered in <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/mathew-brower-of-greene-county.html" target="_blank">previous posts starting in 2013</a>. This Mathew Brower/Brewer was living as late as 1820 and was perhaps born in the period of 1755-1760. He apparently was in Lebanon, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey prior to settling in Greene Co., Pennsylvania.</p><p>(3) Matthys Brouwer, born in New Amsterdam in 1649, lived in Brooklyn, certainly at or near Gowanus after he married. His eleven children were all born or baptized between 1673/74 and about 1695. In 1687 he is found in Orange County (that part now Rockland County) and afterwards at Courtlandt Manor in Westchester County, New York. Son (14) Samuel, born by 1677 had eleven children born between 1695 and 1716. Son (16) Johannes had five children born between 1711 and about 1720. The roster of Matthys' grandchildren may be incomplete. Records for both of the sons just mentioned are found in the records of the Old Dutch Church at Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County, New York, through the first half of the 1700s. More on them in future posts.<br /></p><p><b>Genetic genealogy: </b>To date the Brewer DNA Project has no known direct male descendants of (3) Matthys Brouwer, whose Y-DNA test results match those of other descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer. However, the Project does have two members, both of whom claim to be descendants of (3) Matthys Brouwer through his son (14) Samuel, but whose Y-DNA tests do not match those of the members of the Adam Brouwer group. Their tests identify their predicted haplogroup as R-M512, while Adam Brouwer's descendants are identified by E-BY6201. The two, along with two other members, form the group <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/BrewerDNA?iframe=ycolorized" target="_blank">"Under Consideration B" at the Brewer DNA Project</a>. We will elaborate on this further when we take up (14) Samuel, but for now I'll just say that one of the two has a very strong claim, a solid ancestry based on traditional genealogical research, back to (14) Samuel, while the second has a very plausible ancestry, yet neither are genetic descendants of (1) Adam Brouwer.</p><p><a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-2-pieter.html" target="_blank">< Previous post in this series</a> <a href="https://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-grandsons-of-adam-brouwer-4-willem.html" target="_blank">Next post in this series ></a><br /></p><p>BGB 730<br /></p><div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Chris Chesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15357968881533223410noreply@blogger.com0