Dominie Everardus Bogardus

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Biography

Dominie Everardus Bogardus was born in 1607 in Woerden, Woerden, Utrecht, The Netherlands. His parents were Willem Cornelisz Bogaert and Niesjen Pietersdr. He was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, arriving in 1633.

Evert married Anneke Jans in March 1638 in New Amsterdam. Together they had the following children: Willem Bogardus; Cornelis Bogardus; Jonas Bogardus; Pieter Bogardus.

He died on September 27, 1647 off the coast of Wales, lost at sea.

• Evert Willemsz' earliest history is as in an orphanage in Woerden, Utrecht, Netherlands in 1623.
• Orphanage documents indicate that he had an older brother named Pieter and two younger brothers, one of these younger brother is shown in other records to be a half-brother named Pieter Muysevoet.
• A will written in Leiden in 1636 shows that Evert Bogaert and his half-brother Pieter Muysevoet had an elder brother, Cornelis.
• Evert attended school and later university in Leiden , where he Latinised his name to Everhardus Bogardus.
• In 1630 he worked in Guinea for the WIC.
• In 1632 he was named as the dominie (minister) to Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan, arriving in 1633 and filling that role until his death (in a ship wreck off the coast of Wales) in 1647.

Evert married Anneke Jans (widow of Jan Roeloffs) either 1637 or 1638 in Manhattan.

Children of Everardus Bogardus and Anneke Jans

1. Willem Bogardus, b. November 02, 1638, Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, d. Abt. 1711, New York, NY.
   
2. Cornelius Bogardus, b. September 09, 1640, Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, d. May 1666, Beverwyck, Albany Co., NY.
   
3. Jonas Bogardus, b. January 04, 1642/43, Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, d. date unknown.
   
4. Peter Bogardus, b. April 02, 1645, Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, d. Abt. 1703, Kingston, NY.

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Son of Willem Jansz Bogaert.

Everardus was educated in theology at Leyden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands, founded in 1575. He later became a well-known minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Netherlands and was know as Dominie Everardus Bogardus. In 1638, he married Anneke Jans, widow of Roleff Jansen. In 1647, he sailed to Holland on the ship "de Princess Amalia" and was lost at sea off the coast of Swansea, Wales.

A detailed look at the life of Everardus Bogardus can be found in "Fulfilling God's Mission" - "The Two Worlds of Dominie Everardus Bogardus 1607-1647" by Willem Frijhoff.

Legacy

Prominent members of that family included James Bogardus, who pioneered in the construction of cast-iron buildings during the 1840s.[6] Bogardus Place is located in the Washington Heights section of New York City borough of Manhattan (ZIP code 10040). It was opened in 1912, and runs one block (641.7 feet) between Hillside Avenue and Ellwood Street, and is named for the family who previously owned much of the land that forms both Fort Tryon Park, and the Fort Tryon section.