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About Egbert Sanderzen
1. EGBERT SANDERZEN ( - 1662) m ( ) Harmentje Harmens
Just when he came from his native Holland to New Amsterdam (New York City), does not appear; that his parents came to America seems doubtful. His father would in any event be difficult to trace, as there would be little to go on except that his first name would be Sander or Sanders; his sons would all be Sanderszons (sons of Sanders). In like manner, Egbert Sanderszon’s son, of our line, was Tunis Egbertszon, and Tunis’ son was James Tunison; all according to the old Dutch custom of giving children the first instead of the second name of their father to use as a family name. When the English took over, they found identities so difficult to record that they forced the Dutch to also establish a distinct family name and stick to it in the generations to follow. In this operation, the children of Tunis Egbertszen chose Egbert as a permanent family name in place of the temporary “Tunison” under which they had appeared in the Staten Island census of 1706/8.
Egbert Sanderszen was the father of the Egbert families of Staten Island and many of those of New Jersey. Perhaps he had brothers in New Amsterdam; the records of the Dutch Church there show; 1643, Thomas Sanders, smith, baptized Robert; 1644, Cornelius; 1647, Thomas.” In 1644 an Egbert Egbertsen and Arent Corssen made an affidavit to Governor Kieft. In 1658, Barent Egbertsen and Aechtje Alberts baptized Tryntie in New Amsterdam.
In “Bergen’s Long Island Families”, we find: “Egbert Sanders, whose wife was Harmentje Harmens, owned a lot in Flatbush, which he sold in 1661 to Jan Cornelius Buys.” In 1661, he and Jan Theunisen Van Dyclduysen petitioned for land to erect a sawmill in Bergen, New Jersey, and move their families there; Dutch MSS page 224. Also: ”In 1661 Peter Mactein brought suit against Egbert Sander in Flatbush; his son was baptized Theunis 1662.”
Dutch Church, New York, records show that July 9, 1662, Egbert Sanderszen and his wife Hermenttje Harmens baptized a son Theunis; witness, Grietje Jacobs. Evidently the father died not long afterward; November 29, 1664 is recorded marriage of “Harmentje Harmens, Wede ‘van (widow of) Egbert Sanders, to Gerrit Thyszen Van (from) Amsterdam.” Harmentje was probably a sister or otherwise related to Elbert Harmense of New York, who married Catherine, daughter of Jan Louwe Bogert; her name does not appear in the Harmens (Dussing) family line of New York.
Other records located by the late Laurence LaTourette Driggs of New York City and the late Br. Seneca Egbert of Wayne, PA., with both of whom the compiler of these family records (Charles P. Staubach), had considerable correspondence; both descendants and close students of the Egbert family lines and who loaned all their finding to this compiler, show that Egbert Sanderszen left two sons, “Sanders Agbertszen” and “Tunis Egbertsen;” also a daughter “Geartje Egberts”, who married Laurence Ackerman in 1679. Harmentje Harmens, mother of Geartje, witnessed, with Jan Wilmensen, baptized in 1680 of Lysboth, daughter of Geertje Egberts and Laurens Ackerman.
Long and Davis (Staten Island and its People page 312) express the thought that the Staten Island Egbert family may have been headed by Govert Egbert, who crossed from Holland in the ship “Spotted Cow”, and settled on Manhattan Island; he evidently went to New Jersey. “Garret Egbert, Dutch,” was recorded as one of the seventy-six men who, on September 11, 1673, took an oath of allegiance in Elizabethtown, N.J. (Hatfield’s History of Elizabeth). He was registered there as a taxable in 1685 and is said to have a brother Berent Egbert. However, the name Govert and Garret have never been found among Staten Island Egberts, nor the name Barent in any early generation.
As far as known, the children of Egbert Sanderszen and his wife Harmentje Harmans were:
- 1) Sanders Egbert (c 1660 - ) m ( 1682 ) to Elsie Pieters Staats m. ( 1701 ) to Magdalena Van Gysse (Giesen). Born probably prior to 1660 in 1677, “Sander Egbertsen” of Wallabout was a member of the Dutch Church in Brooklyn. In 1682, Sander Egbertse married in Brooklyn, Elsie Pieters Staats of New Utrecht, daughter of Peter Johnson or Jansen. They lived in Gowanus, L.I., their daughter Armetje was baptized in Brooklyn in 1683. In 1684, Sander Egbertsen bought for 15 pounds, 27 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow from William Claus of Staten Island. Staten Island cattle-mark was assigned to him in 1684. In 1697 Sander Agbertsen and wife Elsie sold to George Hoagland, land “Bounded east by my honored father Peter Jansen, west by land of Geret Cruse, north by river;” the deed refers to Peter Staats, “Brother-in-law to Sander Egberts.” Sanders Egbertszen was Constable on Staten Island in 1703; his wife had probably died about 1700; in 1701, “Sanders Egbertszen, widower of Elsie Staats, married in Hackensack Church, New Jersey, Magdalena Van Gysse, widow of Cornelius Poclofse Van Hauten, in Bergen Church.) Children: Annetje, Elsie and Egbert Sanders; also, perhaps, Marritje, Elizabeth, Anna and Sara Sanders.
- 2) Tunis Egbert(szen) ( 1661 – 1721 ) m ( ) Susanne Leteliers; md 1682c.
- 3) Geartje Egbert(szen) m (1679 ) Laurens Ackerman (1640 - ), son of David Ackerman; with his brothers David and Lodewyck, he and his wife helped organize the church in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1686. Children: Lysbeth baptized 1680, wit: Jan Wilmensen, Harmentje Harmens; Egbert baptized 1685; wit. Lodwyck Ackerman; Marritje Loockmanns. Lysbeth md Cornelius Vanderhoof, Albany; Jannetje, born 1682, md Jacobus Van Voorhees; Egbert md Elizabeth Bryant; Catherine, born 1687 md John Verwey; David, born 1689, md Sarah Culver; Johannes, born later, md Jacomine Demarest.
EGBERT FAMILY HISTORY as written by Charles P. Staubach and submitted by John E. Mellick.
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Egbert Sanderzen's Timeline
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1630
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Netherlands
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1650
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Flatbush, KingsCounty, New York
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1656
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Fort Orange, New Netherland Colony
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1660
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Midwout, New Netherland Colony
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1662
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Fresh Kills, Staaten Island, New Netherland Colony
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1662
Age 32
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Staaten Eylandt, New Netherland Colony
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August 17, 1929
Age 32
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September 12, 1929
Age 32
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