Jacobus Abraham Brouwer

Son of Abraham Brouwer and Lea Demarest.
William J. Hoffman, "Brouwer Notes No. II", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol. 72, pages 332-337 (1941): 72:335.
"Brouwer Beginnings" by William J. Hoffman, Manuscript, BB-50, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City, New York.

Baptized on 1 May 1709 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, sponsors Jeems Christi and Magdalena his wife.
First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), p.96.

More on his father:

Son of Pieter Brouwer and Petronella Uldrickse Kleyn.

He married with banns published on 29 March 1700 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, Lea Demarest, daughter of Jan Demarest and Jacomina de Ruine, "Abraham Brouwer, j.m. van Schoonegte [Schenectady], Lea de Marest, j.d. van Hackensack."
First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), p.27.

Witnessed the baptism of Margrita De Hart , daughter of Jonathan Hart and Antje Pieterse Slot, on 3 August 1707 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Abraham Brouwer, Margrita Jansen).
Ibid., p.92.

Witnessed the baptism of Annetie Christie , daughter of James Christie and Magdalena Demarest, on 7 September 1707 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Abram Brouwer, Antie Slot).
Ibid., p.92.

Witnessed the baptism of Lea Christie , daughter of James Christie and Magdalena Demarest, on 27 February 1709 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Abram Brouwer, Lea, his wife).
Ibid., p.96.

Witnessed the baptism of Leah Demarest , daughter of Peter Demarest and Maria Pieterse Meet, on 30 August 1713 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Abram Brouwer, Lea, his wife).
Ibid., p.104.

Abraham Brouwer was made an executor of the will of Jan Demarest on 29 March 1714; proved 10 Nov 1719, filed at Trenton (Lib. A, p.137). Called John des Marets of New Barbadoes, Bergen Co., "youman." Names his wife Magdalena; children: John of Apoghquinimy, Pennsylvania; Peter of New Barbados; Maria wife of Jacobus Slot, who has son Peter; Sarah wife of Abraham Cannan of Richmond Co., who has son Isack; Rachel wife of Thomas Hyer, of Apoghquinimy, who has son John; Jaquemine, wife of John Stewart of Chester Co; Lea wife of Abraham Brower; Magdalena wife of James Christinson, who has son John; grandson David, son of deceased eldest son David. Mentions real and personal estate. Executors: sons John and Peter. Witnesses: Joost de Baene, Sarah de Baene, John Conrad Codwise. Codicil dated 4 Dec 1719, makes a few changes in devises to daughters Conan and Heyer and substitutes son-in-law Abraham Brower as executor in place of son John. Witnesses: Vojjor Weisem (??), Poules van der Beeck, James Christyson. Letters of administration issued to the executors "sometime in February 1719/20."
William Nelson, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. XXIII, Calender of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I, 1670-1730 (Paterson, N.J.: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1901), p.136.

Will dated 29 March 1725 proved 19 Apr 1736. Called Abraham Brouwer of Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, weaver. Names wife, Lea Brower, executrix. Brother-in-law, James Christy and Pieter Demarest, tutors and administrators of my minor-enne children; also co-executors and assistants. Eldest son, Petrus Brower, has received his share (1/2 of home-lot on the east); son, David, to have land on the west side of Little Mill brook; son, Johannis, residue of real estate, which is easterly to the land of my son Petrus. Other sons, Samuel and Daniel. Daughters, Lea, Rachel, Mary (youngest). Witnessed by Benjamin Demarest, Miklaes Bon, David Demarest. 19 April 1736, Lea Brower, alias Westervelt, and Peter Demarest qualify as executors.
New Jersey. Department of State, Record of Wills in New Jersey, vols. C-D, 1734-1746; FHL film #0522736 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968), Microreproduction of original at the State Library of Archives and History, Trenton, New Jersey, C:82.
A. Van Doren Honeyman, editor, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. XXX, Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Vol. II, 1730-1750 (Somerville, New Jersey: The Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers, 1918), page 66. Abraham Brower.
"Online Image - Abraham Brouwer's Will."Digital image from microfilm. Online https://picasaweb.google.com/ccbnf1404/

Abraham Brouwer is covered in "Brouwer Beginnings," TAG 23:198, and the line of his son Samuel is then followed through his son, Jacob which leads to two well known American artists. Regarding Abraham: "There are 10 children known of this couple. All were bapt. in the Hackensack Dutch Reformed Church."
William J. Hoffman, "Brouwer Beginnings; The First Three Generations of the Adam Brouwer Berchoven Family", The American Genealogist 23:193-206; 24:23-32, 96-102, 161-170 (1947, 1948): 23:198.

Abraham Brouwer died between 29 March 1725 and May 1731 at Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey; (date of will and remarriage of his widow).

More on his mother:

Daughter of Jan Demarest and Jacomina de Ruine.

She was baptized on 18 April 1682 at Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bergen, (now Jersey City, Bergen Co., New Jersey), sponsors Nicola der Pree, Reychie Hermans.

Witnessed the baptism of Leah Demarest , daughter of David Demarest and Antje Pieterse Slot, on 26 November 1699 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Jan Pieterse Sloth, Lea DeMaree).
First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), p.81.

Witnessed the baptism of Lea Slot , daughter of Jacobus Pietersz Slot and Maria Demarest, on 15 December 1706 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Pieter DeMaree, Lea DeMaree).
Ibid., p.91.

Witnessed the baptism of Lea Christie , daughter of James Christie and Magdalena Demarest, on 27 February 1709 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Abram Brouwer, Lea, his wife).
Ibid., p.96.

Witnessed the baptism of Leah Demarest , daughter of Peter Demarest and Maria Pieterse Meet, on 30 August 1713 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Abram Brouwer, Lea, his wife).
Ibid., p.104.

"Lea, wife of Abraham Brower," is named in her father's will dated 29 March 1714. Her husband was made executor by codicil dated 4 Dec 1719.
Will dated 29 March 1714 proved 10 Nov 1719, filed at Trenton (Lib. A, p.137). Called John des Marets of New Barbadoes, Bergen Co., "youman." Names his wife Magdalena; children: John of Apoghquinimy, Pennsylvania; Peter of New Barbados; Maria wife of Jacobus Slot, who has son Peter; Sarah wife of Abraham Cannan of Richmond Co., who has son Isack; Rachel wife of Thomas Hyer, of Apoghquinimy, who has son John; Jaquemine, wife of John Stewart of Chester Co; Lea wife of Abraham Brower; Magdalena wife of James Christinson, who has son John; grandson David, son of deceased eldest son David. Mentions real and personal estate. Executors: sons John and Peter. Witnesses: Joost de Baene, Sarah de Baene, John Conrad Codwise. Codicil dated 4 Dec 1719, makes a few changes in devises to daughters Conan and Heyer and substitutes son-in-law Abraham Brower as executor in place of son John. Witnesses: Vojjor Weisem (??), Poules van der Beeck, James Christyson. Letters of administration issued to the executors "sometime in February 1719/20.
William Nelson, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. XXIII, Calender of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I, 1670-1730 (Paterson, N.J.: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1901), p.136.

Witnessed the baptism of Jacobus Slot , son of Johannes Slot and Willemptie Alberse Van Voorhees, on 16 July 1721 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Petrus Slodt, Lea, wife of Abram Brouwer).
First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), p.128.

Witnessed the baptism of Lea Brouwer , daughter of Jan Brouwer and Antje Hendrickse Mandeville, on 2 November 1725 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Petrus Brouwer and mother).
Ibid., p.146.

Witnessed the baptism of Abraham Brouwer , son of Samuel Brouwer and Maria Hartje, on 12 October 1729 at Tappan Reformed Church, Tappan, New York, (sponsors Petrus Brouwer and Lea Brouwer).
Arthur C.M. Kelly, Baptism Record of the Tappan Reformed Church (Rhinebeck, New York: Arthur C.M. Kelly, 1998), p.29, no.596.

Witnessed the baptism of Lea Brouwer , daughter of Peter Brouwer and Dina de Groot, on 3 September 1730 at Dutch Reformed Church, Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Johannis Brouwer and Lea Brouwer).
First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), Sch.:73.

Lea Demarest married 2nd at Reformed Dutch Church, Schraanlenburgh, Bergen Co., New Jersey, on 15 May 1731 Roelof Lubbertsz Westervelt, son of Lubbert Lubbertszen Westervelt and Geesie Roelofse van Houten.
Voorhis David Demarest, The Demarest Family: A record of the desMarets family in France, the Holy Land in the Crusades, again in France, Holland, the Palatinate (Germany) again in Holland and the migration to America, 1663 (Hackensack, NJ: n.pub., 1964), p.III-1.

Witnessed the baptism of Lea Brouwer , daughter of Jacob Brouwer and Jannetje Hartje, on 10 April 1732 at Dutch Reformed Church, Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Michiel Hartje and Lea Brouwer).
First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), Sch.:74.

Witnessed the baptism of Abraham Brouwer , son of David Brouwer and Jannetje Hartje, on 21 October 1733 at Dutch Reformed Church, Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Roelof Westervelt, Leah, his wife).
Ibid., Sch.:76.

On 19 April 1736 Lea Brower alias Westervelt, qualifies as executrix of the estate of her late husband, Abraham Brower.
A. Van Doren Honeyman, editor, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. XXX, Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Vol. II, 1730-1750 (Somerville, New Jersey: The Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers, 1918), page 66. Abraham Brower.

Witnessed the baptism of Abraham Edwards , son of David Edwards and Lea Brouwer, on 9 November 1740 at Dutch Reformed Church, Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co., New Jersey, (sponsors Joannes Brouwer and Lea Westervelt).

First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), Sch.:88.

Children by Abraham Brouwer b. ca. 1675, d. between 29 Mar 1725 and May 1731:

   Peter Brouwer b. 24 May 1701, d. b Feb 1734

   Johannes Brouwer b. 2 May 1703

   Samuel Brouwer b. 18 Feb 1705

   David Brouwer b. 16 Jan 1707

   Jacob Brouwer b. 1 May 1709, d. between May 1757 and Mar 1763

   Lea Brouwer b. 8 Apr 1711, d. before Aug 1714

   Lea Brouwer b. 22 Aug 1714, d. b 22 Jun 1745

   Rachel Brouwer b. 9 Dec 1716, d. ca. 1750

   Daniel Brouwer b. 5 Jul 1719, d. 15 Jan 1791

   Maria Brouwer b. 19 Nov 1721

First Reformed Church (Hackensack N.J.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (New York: Collections of the Holland Society, 1891), p.121.
Ibid., p.129.

Married Jannetje Hartje, daughter of Coenrart Hartje and Leuntje Magielse, circa 1731.
Voorhis David Demarest, The Demarest Family: A record of the desMarets family in France, the Holy Land in the Crusades, again in France, Holland, the Palatinate (Germany) again in Holland and the migration to America, 1663 (Hackensack, NJ: n.pub., 1964), p.III-1.
Genealogical and Biographical Record vol. 72, pages 332-337 (1941): 72:335.
"Brouwer Beginnings" by William J. Hoffman, Manuscript, BB-50, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City, New York.

Jacob is the only one of his father's children NOT mentioned in his will of 29 March 1725.
(See will above.)

Witnessed the baptism of Jannatie Brouwer , daughter of David Brouwer and Jannetje Hartje, on 13 August 1749 at Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, New York, (sponsors Jacobus Brouwer, Jannetje Hartje, z.h.v.).
"Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 26:59.

Jacob Brouwer and Jannetje Hartje were members of the at Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, New York, on 21 May 1750 "Jacobus Brouwer & Jannetje Hartje, Egte Liede. van Second River."
"Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in the City of New York - Church Members List", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.59,60,61,62 (1928,1929,1930,1931): 61:75.

Witnessed the baptism of Jacob Brouwer , son of David Brouwer and Jannetje Hartje, on 15 May 1757 at Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, New York, (sponsors Jakob Brouwer, Tryntje Brouwer, j.d.).
"Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 28:37.

Jacob Brouwer witnessed the will of Peter Demarest on 1 April 1763; proved 2 Oct 1763. Pieter Demaree of Bergen Co. Names eldest son Peter, his part of the woodland and 1/2 of cleared land where he lives. Son, Jacobus, 2 acres where he lives. Sons John, Jacobus, David and Samuel, rest of real estate. My five sons shall pay to my daughters and grandchildren £100, viz: to Mary, 1/12, Treyntie, 1/12, Sarah, 1/12, Leya, 1/12, Margaret, 1/12, Ledeya, 1/12, Mary, 1/12, Anna, 1/12, Madlentie, 1/12. To children of Hester,1/12. To children of Jackmintye, 1/12. To children of Elizabeth, 1/12. Daughter Madiena, my easy chair. Wife, Mary, use of whole estate while my widow. Executors: my wife Mary, my friend Lorence Van Buskirk, Esq., and my friend George Blinckerhoff. Wit.: David Brower, Jacob Brower and Jan Brower. Lib. H, p. 312.
A. Van Doren Honeyman, Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Vol. IV, 1761-1770, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. 33 (Somerville, N.J.: The Unionist-Gazette Association, Printers, 1928), page 112. Pieter Demaree.

Children by Jannetje:

   Lea Brouwer b. 10 Apr 1732

   Maria Brouwer b. 14 Oct 1733, d. 28 Jul 1769

   Abraham Brouwer b. 28 Oct 1735, d. May 1816

   Rachel Brouwer b. 19 Feb 1738

   Elizabeth Brouwer b. 10 Mar 1740

   Jannetje Brouwer b. between 1745 and 1750

   Jacobus Brouwer b. 23 Aug 1748

   John Brouwer b. ca. 1749/50, d. 12 Apr 1823

William J. Hoffman, "Brouwer Notes No. II", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol. 72, pages 332-337 (1941): 72:335-7.

Jacob Brouwer died between May 1757 and March 1763; when was sponsor for a baptism, and when his wife Jannetje Hartje was called a widow on her marriage record to Nicholas Anderson.

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
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