Catherine van Pelt

Biography

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5. Catharina2 Hegeman (Hendrick2, Adriaen1), born ca. 1697-8, died 2 April 1757 “in the 60th year of her age.” she married 8 September 1716 in the Flatbush Dutch Church, Jan Aertse van Pelt, baptized 25 December 1696 in the Brooklyn Dutch Church, died 22 October 1766 “aged 79 years,” son of Aert Theunissen Lanen van Pelt, of New Utrecht, and Neeltje Jans van Thuyl.[146] She is referred to in their marriage record as “born at and living in Jamaica” and he as “born at and living in New Utrecht.” Her parents served as baptismal sponsors to her eldest child, and her parentage is further confirmed by the presence of her and her husband as baptismal sponsors for Joseph, son of Joseph Hegeman (no. 4) in 1719.

In the 1731 census of New Utrecht, “Jan van Pelt” is listed as having a household (including himself) of 2 males and 2 females above ten years, 1 male and 3 females under ten years, and one male slave.[147] Catharina and her husband sold land at New Utrecht in 1742,[148] and are said by Parsons to have removed to New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., N.J. in that same year.

Of the six children which seemed to be implied for this couple in the 1731 census of New Utrecht, only two are accounted for here. There is a large gap, particulary, between the first and second of the known children we show, and though the register of the New Utrecht Dutch Church where they were baptized seems reasonably complete for the period, that of Flatbush, where others might well have been taken, is quite sporadic.

Known issue (all baptisms in the New Utrecht Dutch Church):

1. Adriaentje van Pelt, born 11 January 1720, baptized 17 Jan. following with sponsors “Hendricus Hegeman and his wife Adriaantje.” she married (possibly as his first wife) 18 November 1743 (but where?), her first cousin, Guysbert Sutphen (Jr.), of Bedminster Tp., Somerset Co., New Jersey, born 23 August 1720, died 16 November 1796, and buried in Bedminster churchyard, son of Guysbert Sutphen, of Monmouth Co., and Geertruy Aerse van Pelt.[149] He is said to have married secondly in October 1789, Peternella Voorhees, of New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., N.J.
2. Catharina van Pelt, baptized 9 May 1731; no sponsors named. An undocumented passage in the 1913 Van Pelt genealogy has been frequently cited for her supposed marriage, on 30 April 1758 in the New York Dutch Church,[157] to Nicholas Quackenbos, born 25 August 1734 and baptized 28 August following in the Albany Dutch Church, son of Johannes Quackenbos (or Quackenbosch) and Margaretha Bogaert.[158] This is erroneous; the Catharina Van Pelt who married Nicholas Quackenbos was in fact the one baptized 16 February 1735 in the New York Dutch Church, a daughter of Jan Van Pelt and Hillegond Boekenhoven.[159]
3. Teunis van Pelt, baptized 5 May 1734; no sponsors named.
4. Jan van Pelt, baptized 17 April 1737; sponsor: Geertje, wife of Petrus van Pelt.