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Everhardus Bogardus was a legendary Dutch Reformed dominie of the New Netherland era. He was married to Anneke Jans - by whom he had many children who established the Bogardus name across the colony of New York.

Note (2) - Everart Bogaert was born in Woerden, in the province of Utrecht, south of the Zuyder Zee, in the year 1607. At the age of twenty, on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1627, he entered the Leyden University for the study of theology. About the time of his graduation, he Latinized his name, as seemed to be the custom among the young Dutch theologians of that period, and from 1631 until the present day he is known in history and appears in all records as Everardus Bogardus. He was ordained a regular minister of the Dutch Reformed church, January 11, 1632, just five years after he had entered Leyden University. In the minutes of the synod of North Holland, at Alckmar, August 17, 1632, his name appears on the list of ministerial charges of the Classis of Amsterdam, as being sent to New Netherland, and further research reveals the fact that he was commissioned by the "Lords Directors of the Honorable West India Company of the United Provinces of the Netherlands," to minister to the spiritual needs of the colony at New Amsterdam.

He sailed from Amsterdam on the ship "Zoutberg," of twenty guns, with a military escort of one hundred and four soldiers. On this same ship with Dominie Bogardus was Director General Wouter Van Twiller, these two men who held their trust directly from the company and were to be most important personages in the distant colony, were thus conveyed with especial distinction to the province of New Netherland. For nine years after his arrival in the spring of 1633, Dominie Bogardus preached in the little wooden church built for him in New Amsterdam; a few years after, a new and somewhat larger edifice of stone was erected within the enclosure of the fort, and he conducted his services there. A house was also erected for the large families use within the confines of the fort, itself. Later, this house was to become the home of Governor Lovelace, British Governor of New York.

For fourteen years Dominie Everardus Bogardus was a faithful and beloved minister in the colony of New Amsterdam (now New York City), on the island of Manhattan. During this period he carried a heavy burden of responsibility; to this fact the records give ample evidence. He was the most learned man in the community to whom all turned for advice and counsel. With the courage and zeal of his convictions he was absolutely fearless in the discharge of his duty. He had been sent to New Amsterdam with the special mission of attending to the spiritual welfare of the colonists, and although he was not the authorized director of provincial affairs, he was forced through stress of circumstances to assume the material care, oftentimes, of the little flock of which he was, in very truth, the good shepherd. Valentine says: "Full justice is yet to be done his memory."

In 1638 Everardus Bogardus married Anneke ( b.Weber) Jansen, the widow of a farmer, Roeloff Jansen, by name who had died in 1637, leaving her with 4 children.

In July, 1647, Dominie Bogardus sailed on the ship "Princess" for Holland, his special object in taking the return voyage to the Netherlands being his desire to report before the Classis of Amsterdam, and also before the representatives of the West India Company, in order that he might vindicate himself regarding certain charges, unjustly made against him, by the jealous and villainous Director General Kieft. Valentine says: "The amount of important business which he was expected to transact, while in the mother country, in behalf of his parishioners, evinced the continued respect and confidence of his people."

The "Princess," however, was fated never to cast anchor in the home port of Amsterdam. In the darkness of a September night, in 1647, the captain had somehow lost his bearings, and in the fury of a gale the little ship was driven on the rocks to her destruction, off the southern coast of Wales, and Everardus Bogardus, together with eighty fellow passengers, perished beneath the waters of Bristol channel.

After the death of her husband, the dominie, Anneke Jans, with her family, returned to Beverwyck (Albany), and there bought a residence on the north side of Yonkers (now State) street, where she died in 1663. Just previous to her death she made her famous will, which provided for the disposal of her estate, both personal and real, which was considerable in amount. It included in the real property, the farm of sixty-two acres — called the "Dominie's Bouwerie," reaching from Broadway to the Hudson river, and from Warren to Christopher streets, in New Amsterdam (now New York City), all of which was afterward claimed by the corporation of Trinity church and became the subject of unending litigation by the heirs of Anneke Jans Bogardus, who have sought to possess the land which they considered their rightful inheritance.

The sale of the Dominei's Bouwerie to Trinity Church, who had previously leased the land from Anneke Jans and her estate was signed by all, with the exception of her son, Cornelius, who had predeceased her. The heirs of the estate of Cornelius had a house and property within the confines of the 62 acre area which they maintained and lived in undisturbed up to the point when the head of the household of the time, departed for service for the colonist's during the Revolutionary War for Independence. The British occupied the city, Trinity Church is an Anglican Church (Church of England), hence the land occupied by the Bogardus family of Cornelius's descendants were evicted. Once the Americans had won the war, Trinity maintained their right of ownership of the land that they "allowed" the Bogardus family to occupy prior to the "abandonment" of the property by it's head of household. Therein lies the dispute that endured up until the 1920s. During many a generation, the suit was brought up again and again. In the late 1890s, early 1900s a group calling themselves the Holland Haarlem and Trinity Church Estates waged their last battle. Thousands, by then, joined in the suit. The courts ruled against the trustees on the grounds that there were far too many descendants of Anneke Jans by that time and it would never be able to be sorted out.

Many descendants, to this day visit Trinity Church and whisper to the clerks in the gift shop, that they are the rightful owners of the land on which they stand. In fact, the church and it's burial ground are not on land owned by Anneke Jans. The church is at the base of Wall Street. The Dominies' Bouwerie was located outside the original walled city. The home Anneke shared with her second husband was located inside the fort, itself, and was the Rectory for the Dutch Reformed Church, not owned by Anneke Jans or Everardus Bogardus.

Everardus and Anneke Jans Bogardus had four children, all sons, who afterward became prominent and representative men in the colonies in which they lived

EVERARDUS

He was born in Utrecht in 1607 and educated in theology at the University of Leyden. Born "Evert Bogert," he apparently "latinized" his name about the time of his ordination in 1631. He emigrated to New Netherland in 1633 to be the Dutch Reformed minister in New Amsterdam. In 1638, he married the widow Anneke Jans - an even more legendary historical character!

His marriage produced a number of children who established the Bogardus family in New Netherland and New York. His sixteen-year-tenure in New Amsterdam came at a formative time for his church and the settlement as well. He played a leading role in both. He has been called the first "stable" minister of the New Netherland Dutch church.

His widow and their children then relocated to Beverwyck where she died in 1663. Several descendants became residents of Albany.

Note - The people of colonial Albany. Sources: Because we cannot say that he ever set foot on the site of Albany, the life of Everhardus Bogardus has not been assigned a CAP biography number. However, he is a unique individual. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and traditional resources. We cannot presume to make any original contribution to his story. Suffice it to say, what we might add has already been said! Some sources are listed below.

Biography by Wim Frijhoff published in 2001. Sketch from "Famous Americans". Genealogy from HMGFM;

Note/Article (2) - The family name of Bogardus is derived from the Dutch, "boomgard," an orchard; signifying, therefore, one who kept an orchard or possessed one of particular account, being the same as "boomgaerd," of which "bogaerd" is its concentrated form, "boom," tree, and "gaerd," yard. From this original "Boomgaerd" all the family names, such as Bogaert, Bogardus, Bogaart, Bogart, Bogard and Bogaerd have been formed.

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Everardus and Anneke Jans Bogardus had four children, all sons, who afterward became prominent and representative men in the colonies in which they lived:

  1. Willem, born in New Amsterdam in 1639; married (first) Wyntie Sybrante, in 1657, and had four children, Everardus, Sytie, Annetje and Cornelia. He married (second), in 1674, a Miss Walburga de Sille, and had Everardus, Lucretia, Maria and Blandina.

2. Cornelis (1), see forward.
3. Jonas, born in New Amsterdam in 1643, died after 1670, unmarried.
4. Pieter, born in the brick parsonage of his father, in New Amsterdam, in 1645, died in Kingston, Ulster county, New York, in 1714. He married Wyntie Cornelia Bosch. Children: Evert, Shibboleth, Hannah, Maria, Antony, Rachel, Ephraim and Pietrus.
(II) Cornelis (1), second son of Dominie Everardus and Anneke Jans Bogardus, was born September 9, 1640, in the first parsonage, located on Brugh street, New Amsterdam. He was baptized in the wooden church which had been erected for his father years before. This unpretentious little building, with peaked roof, was situated near the bank of the East river, and on the lot adjoining the garden of the parsonage which is now No. 45 Pearl street. When Cornelis was a small boy of seven, his father having perished at sea, his mother leased the home, and, taking her children and all her household belongings with her, removed to Beverwyck (now Albany), where Cornelis lived with her and his brothers in what was a comfortable home in those days, situated on what was to be the chief street of the capital city, State street. The site of this home is now occupied by the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank. Cornelis (1) Bogardus married, in 1664, Helena Teller, born in 1645, daughter of William and Margaret (Donchesen) Teller. Previous to his marriage, Cornelius Bogardus bought a house from Willem Jansen, for which he paid "85 good, whole, merchantable beaver skins, reckoned at 8 gulders apiece, with which payment the grantor acknowledges he is fully paid and satisfied." This transfer was made on September 11, 1663. He lived to be only twenty-six years old, his demise occurring in Albany in 1666, only two years after his marriage. His widow, Helena (Teller) Bogardus, married (second) Jan Hendrickse Van Ball; she married (third) Francois Rombout. Cornelis (1) and Helena (Teller) Bogardus had one son, Cornelis (2), see forward.

(III) Cornelis (2), son of Cornelis (1) and Helena (Teller) Bogardus, was born in Beverwyck, or Fort Orange (Albany), October 13, 1665. Following his mother's second marriage to Jans Hendrickse Van Ball, little Cornelis (2) went to live with his uncles, Pieter and Jonas Bogardus, who were children of Dominie Everardus and Anneke Jans Bogardus. They were living at the time, in their home, adjoining on the east the residence in which their mother, Anneke Jans Bogardus, had lived during her lifetime, a site occupied in 1910 by the office of the Albany Evening Journal. When, several years later, Pieter Bogardus removed to Kingston, New York, Cornelis (2) accompanied him and there married Rachel De Witt, in 1691. She was a daughter of Tjerck Classen, son of Nicholas and Taatje De Witt, whose home in the Netherlands was in Grootholdt, district of Zunderland, in the southern part of East Friesland. Tjerck Classen De Witt came to America some time previous to the year 1656, and is the ancestor of the De Witt family in the United States. De Witt is one of the few Dutch-American names illustrious in the Fatherland. Grand Pensioner Johannes De Witt administered the government of Holland from 1652 to 1672. He and his brother, Cornelis De Witt, also prominent in civil and military life in the Netherlands, were killed by a mob at The Hague, following years of faithful service to their country. Tjerck Classen De Witt was their kinsman. He was married in the Reformed Dutch Collegiate church in New York city, April 24, 1656, to Barbara Andresson, from Amsterdam, Holland. In the spring of 1657 he removed to Beverwyck (Albany), where he resided until September, 1660, when he exchanged his Albany, or Beverwyck property with Madame De Hutter for land she had in Esopus (Kingston) New York, whither he removed. He was a magistrate of Ulster county in 1689, and held other prominent offices. He died in Kingston, February, 1701. His will, dated March 4, 1687, gave to his daughter, Rachel (De Witt) Bogardus, a twelfth of his whole estate, less one hundred pounds, which amount represented a sum which had been previously donated. A descendant of his, Maria De Witt, married Captain James Clinton, who afterward became a general in the American revolution, and their son, De Witt Clinton, one of the most prominent, energetic and beloved governors of New York state.

Cornelis (2) Bogardus was an owner of a vessel which he employed in the carrying trade along the Hudson river from New York to Albany, and possibly to more distant points along the coast. In 1700 he returned to Albany, his birthplace, remaining there for a few years. He was made a "Freeman" of that city, and became prominent in its affairs. Later on he accompanied Captain Nicholas Evertsen on a raid in the colonial service against a band of French privateers off the coast. This occurred in 1704. He died in the spring of 1718, in Kingston, New York.

(V) Lewis, son of Cornelis (3) and Catharine (Tudor) Bogardus, was born near Fishkill village, Dutchess county, New York, October 9, 1738, and was baptized in Fishkill, May 27, 1739. He married Annie Mills, born October 12, 1745. Lewis Bogardus manfully contested for what he truly believed to be his lawful rights against the corporation of Trinity church, as did his brother, Cornelis (4) Bogardus. For many years he occupied a home in New York City, situated in the midst of land now partly covered by St. John's Square. This home, called the "Possession House," was located on a section of the celebrated "Dominie's Bouwerie," and, with the surrounding grounds, was enclosed by a substantial, high picket fence, and claimed by the Bogardus heirs as a part of their rightful inheritance. While Lewis Bogardus remained in this home on Manhattan island, he was not disturbed in his possession; but during his absence, while serving in the war of the American revolution, his wife and children, with all their household belongings, were forcefully evicted from their home by men acting under the authority of Trinity Church corporation. His service in the revolution reflects great credit upon his name. He enlisted early and served until the close of the conflict. He had inherited the fearless temperament of his illustrious ancestor, Dominie Everardus Bogardus, and while defending his country he never hesitated to perform any act requiring especial bravery. He served under Colonel Peter Gansevoort in the Third Regiment of the New York line of the Continental army, also as a member of the Du Bois regiment in the Levies, and again in the Dutchess county militia, a regiment of minutemen under command of Colonel, Jacobus Swartwort. After the close of the revolution, he returned to his country home near Fishkill, where he died January 12, 1808.

Lewis Bogardus and his wife, Annie (Mills) Bogardus, had a large family, and it is known that nine of their eleven children married.

(VI) General Robert Bogardus, second son of Lewis and Annie (Mills) Bogardus, was born in his father's home in St. John's Park, New York City, May 22, 1771. His early days were passed amid the stirring scenes of the American revolution. The great things happening at that time no doubt had considerable influence upon a youth and went far toward developing an intensely patriotic character. The conversations of his parents, fraught with solicitude for the welfare of the infant republic, kindled in the sensitive nature of this intelligent lad an ardent desire to make a place for himself in the world. Not long after the termination of the war, his parents returned to their country home near Fishkill, and permanently located there. With an ambition born of a high purpose in life, Robert decided to remain in New York, where the best educational opportunities offered. It was there that he completed his studies with a thorough course in law, which profession he followed successfully throughout his life, rising to the highest round of the legal ladder, and becoming one of the most eminent lawyers of his day in the United States. Beginning with his early manhood, Robert was vitally concerned in the welfare and advancement of his native state, and the city of his birth, being one of its foremost and influential citizens for at least fifty years of his life. His name appears on the official city records early in the nineteenth century. He was one of the largest taxpayers as a holder of extensive property on Manhattan Island. His name is found inscribed on the corner-stone of the old City Hall as a member of the common council, who, with other civic officials, on May 26, 1803, celebrated the laying of this stone. He was a member of the convention framing the constitution of the state of New York, and it is said he drafted the document.

General Robert Bogardus had an interesting military career. In November, 1812, he was placed in command of the Third Brigade of the New York militia infantry, succeeding General P. P. Van Zandt, resigned. This command comprised the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, under Colonel Mapes; the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth, under Colonel Dodge; the Tenth, under Colonel Anderson; the Fifty-first, under Colonel Van Hook; the Eighty-second, under Colonel Strong, and the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment from Staten Island. In July, 1813, General Bogardus resigned command of the Third Brigade of Infantry to accept the command as colonel of a volunteer regiment which was mustered into service as the Forty-first United States Infantry, under act of July 5, 1813. This was everywhere regarded as the "crack" regiment of New York City. His officers were: Lieutenant-Colonel, J. W. Livingston; captain, Alexander Hamilton; first lieutenant, J. M. Schermerhorn; second lieutenant, Alexander Clinton. When General J. P. Boyd took his departure from New York, Governor Daniel D. Tompkins reappointed Robert Bogardus to act as commander-in-chief of the Third Military District of New York State, and he held this position until the close of the war.

General Bogardus was one of Governor De Witt Clinton's staunchest supporters in the Erie canal project, and naturally aided in bringing it to a successful issue. He was a member of the legislature in 1811, and state senator for five sessions, beginning in 1827. He was in the highest sense "a man among men," throughout his public career, and no less in his own home, where he was a most loving, unselfish, and devoted husband and father. His residence in New York was first in Cherry street, where he resided a great many years, and later at No. 501 Broadway, where he erected the handsome mansion which was his home until his death, September 12, 1841.

General Robert Bogardus married, in New York, in 1792, Maria Sabina Waldron, who was born in 1774, her death occurring in New York City, January 3, 1855. She was the daughter of Oliver and Sarah (Jay) Waldron, both parents having descended from old and representative families of New York City. Children:

  1. Sarah Jay, born in New York City, January 10, 1794, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1860; married, in New York City, December 14, 1814, Commodore Foxhall Alexander Parker, of the United States navy.

2. Archibald Robert, born in New York City, 1797, died in 1850.
3. Maria Sabina, born in New York City, 1798, died January 23, 1855.
4. William Henry, born in New York City, 1805, died in 1850; married, in 1830, Jane E. Robertson.
5. Wilhelmena, twin of William Henry, died in infancy.
6. Laurentini, born in New York City, September 16, 1806, died in South Norwalk, Connecticut, October 8, 1880; married, March 16, 1831, Arthur Henry Snowden, born June 4, 1802, died September 24, 1893.
7. Ethelbert, drowned while yet an infant.
8. Alonzo, born in New York City, June 12, 1808, died April 20, 1887; married, May 15, 1834, Emma Livingston, born August, 1817, daughter of Henry and Ann Eliza (Van Ness) Livingston, and a direct descendant of Robert Livingston, first "Lord of the Manor."
9. Aspasia, twin of Alonzo, born in New York City, June 12, 1808, died February 11, 1885; married, in New York City, January 26, 1835, John Bayard Snowden, born near Utica, New York, August 4, 1808, died October 22, 1863, in Nashville, Tennessee.
10. Washington A. H., see forward.
(VII) Washington A. H. Bogardus, youngest son of General Robert and Maria Sabina (Waldron) Bogardus, was born in New York City, March 7, 1811. His preparatory education was acquired in private schools. He studied law in the office of his father, but despite a natural aptitude for the legal profession, he preferred not to practice it. He married Ruth Fitch, born in Canaan, August 7, 1815, died March 1, 1894, daughter of Caleb Mayhew and Temperance (Davis) Fitch, of Columbia county, New York. Caleb M. Fitch, born July 22, 1779, was the son of Cyperan and Ruth (Rand) Fitch. Following their marriage, May 15, 1834, Washington A. H. Bogardus decided to locate in the town of Mentz, Cayuga county, New York, where he built a handsome residence, which he named "Locust Hill," and they resided there until 1856, when he returned to New York City and purchased a house on Sixty-fifth street, which he made his home until his death, January 12, 1887. Though never actively engaged in business, he devoted much of his time to the affairs of his estate. He always occupied a prominent and influential position in the community in which he lived, and was greatly respected. He had but one child, Robert, born February 21, 1835, see forward.

(VIII) Robert Bogardus, only son of Washington A. H. and Ruth (Fitch) Bogardus, was born in the town of Mentz, Cayuga county, New York, February 21, 1835. Until twelve years of age he received instructions from tutors at his home, but then entered the Red Creek Academy for Boys. Here he remained for several years, when he became a student in the famous Aurora school, and afterwards in the Fort Plain Institute. He was a close student, a great reader, and of an inventive turn of mind, several valuable patents testifying to his inventive genius, notable among which was one for a rotary engine and another for a refrigerator car. Robert Bogardus, during the autumn of 1853, when only about eighteen years of age, succumbed to an illness that nearly cost him his life, and ever after seriously impaired his constitution, so that although a man of unusual attainments, he was always, during the remaining years of his life, compelled to submit to physical limitations. In 1862 he made New York City his home up to within three years of his demise, when he removed to Rome, New York, in which city he died, June 3, 1901.

Robert Bogardus married, September 2, 1856, in Belleville, Jefferson county, New York, Martha Eliza Searles, daughter of James Harvey and Martha Gott (Ransom) Searles.. She was born in Ellisburgh, Jefferson county, New York, April 23, 1837. James Harvey Searles was born in Bennington, Vermont, May 4, 1806, and was the son of James and Abigail (Thurston) Searles. He married, May 4, 1830, Martha Gott Ransom, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Porter) Ransom. Robert and Martha Eliza (Searles) Bogardus had two children:

  1. Maria Sabina, see forward.

2. Washington A. H. (2), see forward.
(IX) Maria Sabina, only daughter of Robert and Martha Eliza (Searles) Bogardus, was born at the family country seat, "Locust Hill," town of Mentz, Cayuga county, New York, August 31, 1857. When she was five years of age, her parents removed to New York City, where she was educated. She married, November 9, 1881, William James Gray, of Albany, New York (see Gray V). Mrs. Gray is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having had ten ancestors who served their country faithfully in its struggle for liberty, to whom she traces through direct lines. She is also a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, tracing to John Alden, Priscilla Mullines, Thomas Mullines (father of Priscilla) and Thomas Rogers. She has descended on her mother's side from the family of Governor Endicott, of early Massachusetts history, and eight of her ancestors participated in our colonial wars. An inmate of her beautiful home is her widowed mother, Martha Eliza (Searles) Bogardus, now in her seventy-third year, capable yet of life's keenest enjoyment.

(IX) Washington A. H. (2) Bogardus, only son of Robert and Martha Eliza (Searles) Bogardus, was born at "Locust Hill," November 22, 1858, died in Greenwich, Connecticut, November 7, 1902. He was prominent in business circles of New York City at the time of his death, being vice-president and general manager of the Tubular Dispatch Company and also general manager of the New York Mail and Transportation Company. He was a member of the Holland Society of New York, the Knickerbocker Yacht Club, the Indian Harbor Yacht Club of Greenwich, Connecticut, the National Union Club, and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, New York. He inherited the sterling qualities and characteristics that distinguished his great-grandfather, General Robert Bogardus. He was a most pleasing and popular speaker and platform orator. He possessed unusual personal magnetism that first attracted, while his fluent speech and happy mode of expression, coupled with endless resource of argument, wit, occasional sarcasm and great good humor, held and delighted his audiences. Having always had a decided preference for the profession of law, he decided in his later years to prepare for a legal career. He completed his studies and was admitted to the New York state bar in 1902, just before his death. His life promised a brilliant future, as he was eminently fitted by birth, education and environment to fill and adorn any position in life the years might have brought him. He married, in Chicago, Illinois, January 12, 1886, Mary Pauline Couch, born in Waterloo, Iowa, December 15, 1864, daughter of George William and Calinda (Hungerford) Couch. Children:

  1. Pauline Hungerford, born January 16, 1888; educated at Madame Veltine's school, Fifth avenue, New York City, and at St. Timothy's school near Baltimore, Maryland.

2. Robert, born August 12, 1894, died October 3, 1894.
3. Washington Everardus, born January 1, 1896; he is preparing for college at St. George school, near Newport, Rhode Island, having finished his course at the celebrated Fay School for small boys at Southboro, Massachusetts.

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Born in Holland.

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Joanne Benne lists as Everadus Bogardus D., B: 1607; D: Sept. 27, 1647

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EVERADUS BOGARDUS

Birth: About 1601 Of, , , Netherlands

Death: 27 SEP 1647 at sea - coast of Wales on the ship "de Princess Amalia"

Spouse: ANNEKE WEBBER

29 JAN 1638 Of, , , New York

Everadus Bogardus

Birth: 1606 Woerden, , Utrecht, Netherlands

Death: 27 SEP 1647

Father: Willem Janse Bogaert

Mother: Adrieaslr Van Ryteveld

Everadus Wilhelmus Bogardus Domine (Rev.) Birth: 1606 Woerden, Netherlands

Birth: 1607 Veenendaal, Noord Holland, Netherlands

Birth: 1607 Woerden, Utrecht, Netherlands

Apr 1633 Arrived New Amsterdam on the ship "Southberg"

Death: 27 Sep 1647 At sea

Father: Willem Janse Bogaert

Mother: Adrieaslr Van Ryteveld

Spouse: Annekje Jans Webber

Marriage: Mar 1637/38

Dutch Church, New Amsterdam

Everadus Rev. Bogardus

Birth: 1607 Woerden Village, Leyden, Holland

Death: 27 Sep 1647 At Sea off the coast of Wales on the ship "de Princess Amalia"

Father: Willem Bogaert

Mother: Susanna Adriaensdr Van Ruyteveld

Spouse: Anneke Jans

Marriage: 2 Jan 1637 New York City, New York

Everadus Wilhelmus Bogardus Rev.

Birth: 27 Jul 1607 Woerden, (near Utrecht) Netherlands

Ordained Min Dutch Ref Ch by 1632

Death: 27 Sep 1647 ship wrecked off coast of Wales

Father: Willem Janse Bogartus

Mother: Adriesir Van Ryteveld

Spouse: Anneke Jans

Marriage: Mar 1637/38 New Amsterdam, New Netherlands

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He was the head of the Dutch Church in New Netherland and they lived at what is now "23 Whitehall Street in New York City."

He was born "Evert Willemsz" in the little Dutch market town of Woerden. His parents are unknown. He and his brother "Pieter" and 2 half-brothers wer placed in the town orphanage. He and his brother "Cornelis" adopted the name of "Bogaert" in early adulthood. He was a tailor's apprentice until Sept. 1622, when he was permitted to attend Latin School. On June 13, 1622, a sudden illness left him deaf and dumb and sporatically blind. He miraculously regained his faculties on September 17, 1622, during the singing of Psalms. He entered Leiden University on July 17, 1627 and was awarded a scholarship to attend Theological College on June 29, 1629. On September 9, 1630, he was sent to the Coast of Guinea in Africa as "Comforter of the Sick". On June 14, 1632, he attained his goal of being ordaind a minister. He Latinized his name to "Everhardus Boghaerdus" (which was anglicized to Everardus Bogardus). He arrived in New Amsterdam (Fort Amsterdam) in April 1633, to be the Dominie of the Church (second clergyman). He arrived on the ship "Southberg" (Quotberg), along with the Church Director " Wouter Van Twiller", and Adam Rolantsen, the first schoolmaster. Everardus was a tall stately man of high character but hot temper. His eyes were of the dark piercing type, but mercy was mingled with justice in the expression of his mobile mouth. He was in no-wise an exponent of "the poor parson of the towne", for the house he built was one of the most attractive in the little hamlet and its front door was distinguished above others by the elegant adornment of a bright brass knocker. The first church in New Amsterdam was erected in 1633 on the north side of Parel Street (Pearl St.) between the present lines of Broad and Whitehall Streets, and had a congregation of 50 members.

He was lost at sea while on the way back to The Netherlands for a hearing over an issue with the Director Generals (Wouter Van Twiller and William Kieft). The ship "The Princess" wrecked off the coast of Wales with 100 passengers on August 16, 1647.

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1st Dutch Reformed minister to "New Amsterdam"

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I married the widow of the late Roelof jans von Masterland, whose name became known both as "von Masterland" and "von Marshland."

Reverend was a given title.

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Everardus Bogardus

BOGARDUS, Everardus, clergyman, born in Holland; drowned in Bristol channel, 27 September 1647. He came to New Amsterdam in 1633, and was the second minister in the colony. He publicly accused Governor Van Twiller, whom he had accompanied from Holland, of real-administration, and in consequence was himself charged with unbecoming conduct, and was about to depart for Holland in order to defend himself, but was detained by Governor Kieft. In 1642 a new Church was built for him. The following year he warned Governor Kieft against making war upon the Indians, and in 1645 denounced him for drunkenness and rapacity. Kieft brought the clergyman to trial, but the dispute was compromised. When Kieft returned to Holland, after the arrival of Stuyvesant in 1647, Bogardus sailed in the same vessel, to answer charges brought against him, before the classis in Amsterdam. The vessel entered Bristol channel by a mistake, and struck upon a rock, going down with eighty persons, among them Bogardus and Kieft. *His wife, Annetje Jansen, corrupted into Anneke Jans, born in Holland about 1600; died in the village of Beverwyck, New York, 19 March 1663. She first came to America in 1630, with her first husband, Roelof Jansen, of Waterland, who had been sent out by Patroon Van Rensselaer as assistant steward at Albany. They afterward removed to New Amsterdam, among the earliest Dutch settlers. Here, in 1636, they obtained from Governor Wouter Van Twiller a grant of sixty-two acres of land, the present boundaries of which are the North river, Christopher street, Bedford street, West Houston street, Sullivan street, Canal street, West Broadway, Barclay street, Broadway, and Fulton street, around to the River again. Shortly afterward Jansen died, leaving Anneke with four children. In 1638 she married Everardus Bogardus. After the death of Dominie Bogardus, Anneke, again a widow, with four additional children, continued to reside in the City, and in 1654 she obtained from Governor Stuyvesant a patent in her own name of the farm above mentioned. In her will she named as her sole heirs Sarah Roelofson, Katrina Roelofson, Jannettys and Rachel Hartgers (two children of her deceased daughter Frytie), and John Roelofson, her children by her first husband, and William, Cornelius, Jonas, and Peter Bogardus, children of the second marriage. On 27 August 1664, the grant of land was confirmed by the English government, as may be found recorded in the office of the secretary of state at Albany in the "Patent Book," pp. 28-30. In 1670 part of the land, a salt meadow north of Canal street, was sold at public auction; but the sale was never carried out, on account of sortie alleged flaw in the title. In 1671 five of the heirs conveyed the whole farm (or bouwery) to Colonel Francis Lovelace, then governor of the province of New York. But one of the sons, Cornelius, did not join in this conveyance, and therefore his heirs have always claimed that they have a right to their share of the property. In 1705 the estate, then known as the "King's Farm," was leased or granted by the colonial authorities under Queen Anne to Trinity Church; and, in spite of numerous contests, that corporation has continued to enjoy all the benefits and revenues of the vast property to this day. Nicholas Brower, one of the heirs, brought a suit in ejectment in 1750, claiming that the title was not in Queen Anne. He was non-suited by default, renewed his suit in 1760, and was again beaten. In 1807 Colonel Malcolm, who had married an heir, brought an unsuccessful suit in the New York Supreme Court, to recover a part of the property. In 1830 three other heirs had a similar experience. Chancellor Walworth in 1834 dismissed a suit brought by Jonas Humbert. In 1847 Cornelius Brower brought nine suits, all of which were dismissed. In these Vice Chancellor Sanford, after examining every fact on both sides, decided that, waiving all other points, the Church had acquired a perfectly valid title by undisputed possession longer than the limitation at which title might be gained by possession in 1705, when the land came to the Church. The accompanying view represents New York at that time.

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In 1638, Domine (Reverend) Everadus Bogardus was called to New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company to serve as the second Dutch Reform minister. He arrived aboard de Sontberg to succeed the ministry of Domine Jonas Michaelis. That same year, in Nieuw Amsterdam, Everadus met and married Anneke Jans, widow of Roeloff Janssoon. They would have four sons: Jonas, Pieter, William, and Cornelius. Our line descends through Cornelius who was born in 1640. Everadus was born in 1607 in Woerden, Holland and was the son of Willem Jansz (Janse) Bogaert and Susana Adrieaslr Vavryteveld.

Everadus had attended school in Woerden, Holland and later attended the University of Leyden (Leiden) in 1627. On September 9, 1630, he was sent by the Consistory of Amsterdam to Guinea, Africa as a "Comforter to the Sick." He had returned to Amsterdam in 1632 whereupon he became an ordained minister. In 1632, he signed his name as Everhardus Boghaerdus, having Latinized his name from Evert Bogaert.

Following his father's death before 1616, Evert had lived in an orphanage at Woerden where he became a tailor. On the 13th of June 1622, he was stricken by a serious illnes which for some time deprived him of speech, hearing and sight. He miraculously regained his speech the 17th of September 1622 and declared that he would become a minister should he fully recover.

During his ministry in New Amsterdam, Everadus encountered many difficutlties with the Director's General, Wouter van Twiller as well as his successor, William Kieft. Following many charges and counter-charges, the Director General and council offered to submit their charges to impartial judges in Amsterdam. Everadus, preferring to defend himself before the Classis of Amsterdam, sailed along with the Director General Kieft on the 17th of August 1647 aboard the Princess for Amsterdam. In a violent storm off the coast of Wales in the Bristol Channel, the ship was wrecked. Though there were some survivors, both Everadus and Director General Kieft were drowned.

There have been many stories about Anneke Jans being the daughter of Wolfert Webber, the illegitimate son of William, Prince of Orange and of a fortune which is being held for the descendants of Anneke. This line of descent has been disproven. There have been lawsuits by the descendants of Everadus Bogardus and Anneke Jans concerning the land on which now stands Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. The land which Anneke inherited from her first husband, Roeloff, came to be called "Domine's Bouwerie" which was united in English days to another "Company's Bouwerie and granted a patent by the Colonel Governor, Lord Corbury in 1705. It was this questionable conveyance which has served as the grounds for the lawsuit, which has been unsuccessful and was last attempted in the early 1900's. Another story regarding the lawsuit is that Cornelius, son of Everadus, died in 1666 at the age of twenty-six, three years after the death of his mother, Anneke Jans Bogardus, before her will could be settled.

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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.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 16 2019, 4:17:32 UTC

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jun 16 2019, 5:18:29 UTC
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Everardus Bogardus
Also Known As:
"Dominie Bogardus", "Rev. Bogardus", "Evert Bogaert - Everardus Bogardus"
Birthdate:
July 27, 1607
Birthplace: Woerden, Woerden, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Death: September 27, 1647, off the coast, Wales (death by drowning off the coast of Wales).
Immediate Family:
Son of Willem Jansz Bogaert and Susanna Adriaensdr van Ruyteveld
Husband of Anneke Jans
Father of Willem Bogardus; Cornelis Bogardus, I; Jonas Bogardus; Pieter Bogardus and Maria Bogardus
Brother of Cornelius Willemsen Bogaert
Half brother of Cornelis Bogaert; Floris Bogaert and Aeltje Bogaert
Occupation:
Reverand, Minister - Dominie, second domine of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, arriving in 1633

GEDCOM Source

Geni.com Dominie Everardus Bogardus Everardus Bogardus
Also Known As:
"Dominie Bogardus", "Rev. Bogardus", "Evert Bogaert - Everardus Bogardus"
Birthdate:
July 27, 1607 (40)
Birthplace:
Woerden, Woerden, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Death:
September 27, 1647 (40)
off the coast, Wales (death by drowning off the coast of Wales)
Immediate Family:
Son of Willem Jansz Bogaert and Susanna Adriaensdr van Ruyteveld
Husband of Anneke Jans
Father of Willem Bogardus; Cornelis Bogardus, I; Jonas Bogardus; Pieter Bogardus and Maria Bogardus
Brother of Cornelius Willemsen Bogaert
Half brother of Cornelis Bogaert; Floris Bogaert and Aeltje Bogaert
Occupation:
Reverand, Minister - Dominie, second domine of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, arriving in 1633 Dominie Everardus Bogardus

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MINISTER OF THE DUTCH CHURCH AT NEW AMSTERDAM, DIED IN A SHIP WRECK OFF THE COAST OF WALES WHEN ON A RETUN TRIP TO HIS NATIVE LAND.

Everhardus Bogardus was a legendary Dutch Reformed domine of the New Netherland era. He was married to Anneke Jans. Their children would establish the Bogardus name across the colony of New York.

miniature of Domine BogardusHe was born in Utrecht in 1607 and educated in theology at the University of Leyden. Born "Evert Bogert," he apparently "latinized" his name about the time of his ordination in 1631. He emigrated to New Netherland in 1633 to be the Dutch Reformed minister in New Amsterdam. In 1638, he married the widow Anneke Jans - an even more legendary historical character!

His sixteen-year-tenure in New Amsterdam came at a formative time for his church and the settlement as well. He played a leading role in both. He has been called the first "stable" minister of the New Netherland Dutch church.

In 1647, he sailed for Holland on business. Barely forty-years-old, Everhardus Bogardus died in 1647 while en route to Europe. He is said to have been lost at sea - perhaps off the coast of Wales. His widow and their children then relocated to Beverwyck where she died in 1663. Several descendants became residents of Albany.

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