Harmon Hendricks Rosenkrans

We do know that Harmon Hendrick Rosenkrans came from Bergen, Norway, and was known as "Harmon the Portuguese" because of his service with a company of Dutch soldiers in Brazil. Harmon arrived in New Amsterdam sometime during the mid-1600's and married the widow Magdalena Dircks Van Dort there in early 1657.

On their wedding day, Magdalena (who was possibly slightly inebriated) made fun of an innkeeper who also happened to be a political appointee (the fire warden). The innkeeper took offense, brought charges against the pair, and had them deported to Holland. Harmon received a discharge from his military obligations by a special act of the Council, and was sent back to Holland with his new wife.

Fortunately for the many thousands of us living here today, Harmon and Magdalena were allowed to return to New Amsterdam in June of 1658. They were not permitted to remain in New Amsterdam. They settled in Mombaccus, near Kingston, NY, and took up farming. Today, Mombaccus is known as Rochester Township (no relation to Rochester, NY, the home of Eastman Kodak, which is in western New York state.)

1657 03 Mar; Herman Hendrickszen, van Bergen in Noordwegen; Magdaleen Dircks, wid Cornelis Caper

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Name aka: 'Herman Hendricksen Rosenkranz' & 'Harmen Hendricksen'. Harmen was a soldier for the Dutch West India Company in Brazil, & had the nickname 'Harmans the Portuguese', although he was neither Portuguese nor Dutch. His father was Henrick Rosenkranz of Bergen, Norway. In 1659 Hendricksen was torutured by Indians for 8 days. His 2 brother-in-laws were killed. His will was made out on June 25, 1692. Owned a tavern with Magdalena. His wife was deported because of minor crimes (back to Holland). Hendrick joined her later. They were allowed to come back to the New Netherlands as long as they stayed out of the tavern business. The passenger list of the ship 'Bruynvisch' in late June 1658 show that 'Harman Dircksen from Norway with wife & child' sailed from Holland to New Amsterdam.

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Harmon Rosenkrans was born into a family that originated in the Netherlands but had obtained fishing rights off the coast of Norway. Harmon himself was probably born in Bergen, Norway, and there may have been some Dutch-Norwegian intermarriages in his family. He would leave from Bergen around 1650 for New Netherlands, the new Dutch colony in North America. He sailed to New Amsterdam, the main port city in the Dutch province, which had been established only thirty years before he arrived.

Harmon stayed in New Amsterdam only long enough to find a bride. In 1657, he married the widow Magdalen Dircks, who was probably Dutch. Within three years, they had moved north on the Hudson River to the smaller and less developed village of Kingston. There they had the first of their nine children, Alexander, in 1660. Because opportunities to own land increased the father one ventured into the frontier, the Rosencranzes moved west in 1680 to the uncultivated banks of the Peterkill in what is now Rochester township in Ulster County. Harmon died in 1697, after almost a half-century in the New World. Name

According to Allen Rosenkrans' work from 1900, Harmon and Herman were interchangeable at that time in the Netherlands. He stated that the name was normally written as Harmon Hendrick. Harmon also wrote his name in 1683 on a petition as "Harmonn Hyndryx".[2] The surname was not written as custom at the time was the use of patronyms (the father's first name used as a surname) which was put to an end by the British when they took over the region.

Allen stated that the first record with Harmon's surname was in 1661 which stated that Magdalena was wife of "Harmon Hendricx Rosenkrans" although it was not penned by Harmon.

Alternate spelling of first names from merge: Harmon Hendricksz Harmen Hendricksen Origin

Harmon born on 29 November 1634 at Bergen, Norway although his family was of Dutch descent.[2] He arrived in New York, New York in 1650 and in 1659 was still found living there.[citation needed] Marriage

Herman Hendrickszen, Van Bergen in Noordwegen, married Magdaleen Dircks, Wede Van Cornelis Caper on Mar 3, 1657. Marriage was recorded at the Reformed Duch Church of New Amsterdam, NN[3] [4]. The record states: "March 3, 1657. Herman Hendrickszen VanBergen in Noordwegen en Magdaleen Dircks, wed'r Cornelis Caper." The record translated into modern English (per Rosenkrans' book) is: "March 3, 1657. Herman Hendrickson, from Bergen, in Norway, to Magdaleen Dircks, widow of Cornelis Caper."[4]

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https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-26389485/harmon-he... 4 Harmon Hendrick RosenkransGender: MaleAlias name: Harmon the PortugueseBirth: Nov 29 1634 - Bergen, Hordaland, NorwayMarriage: Spouse: Magdelena Dirksen Dircks - Mar 3 1657 - Dutch Reformed Church, New York, New York, New AmsterdamDeath: Sep 4 1697 - Rochester, Ulster, New York, USABurial: Sep 4 1697 - Kingston Dutch Reformed Church, Ulster County, New YorkFather: <a>Hendrick Herman Rosenkrans</a>Mother: <a>Annaitje Rosenkrans</a>Wife: <a>Magdelena Dirksen Dircks</a>Children: <a>Alexander Augustus Rosenkrans</a>, <a>Anna Davenport (born Rosencrans)</a>, <a>Annetje Rosenkrans</a>, <a>Rachel Hendrickse Rosenkrans</a>, <a>Sara Rosenkranz (born Rosencrans)</a>, <a>Hermanus Rosencrans</a>, <a>Christina Hendrickson Kortright (born Rosenkrans)</a>, <a>Dirk Rosenkrans</a>, <a>Hendrick Rosekrans (born Rosencrans)</a>Siblings: <a>Jacob Dircksen Rosenkrans</a>, <a>Alexander Rosenkrans</a>, <a>Albertse Rosenkrans</a>, <a>Christina Rosenkrans</a> Record 40000:26389485:

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https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10109-25801549/harman-he... 4 Harman Hendrickson RosenkranzGender: MaleBirth: Circa 1634 - Bergen, NorwayMarriage: Mar 3 1657Death: Circa 1697 - Rochester, Ulster Co., NYFather: Hendrick Herman, Harmonsz Rosenkranz (born Rosenkrans)Mother: Annatje Roosencranz (born Unknown)Wife: Magdalena Rosencrans (born Dircks)Children: Christina Kortright (born Rosenkrans)Alexander RosenkransDirk R. RosenkransRachel Van Garden (born Rosenkrans)Sarah RosenkransAnnatje Rosenkrans, &40Harmanus Rosenkrans, d. young&41Anna RosenkransHendrick Hermansen RosenkranzDirk Roosencranz Record 10109:25801549:

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!Comp Vol 7 pg 298, 252, 762 Kingston NY

!Comp Vol 7 pg 298, 252, 762 Kingston NY Dutch Church by Rev. Hoes

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!FAMILY RECORDS; Research by Barbara Sch

!FAMILY RECORDS; Research by Barbara Schomp Kirby: Correspondence; St. Martins Catholic Church, Gent, Belgium, Baptismal Ltr; St. Nicholas Church Records. Research by Harold Doud, Fullerton, CA, courtesy of Millie Taylor, Jacksonville, FL: Scandanavian Immigrants in New York (1972 reprint) by Evjen, pp 68-79; The First Americans, Mrs. Rosecrans (NYGBR Vol 90 1959, pp 2-5; Register of Early Settlers of Brooklyn by Bergen, pp 373-4; New Amsterdam and It's People by Innes pp 240, 267-8, 318-24. The Dutcher Family (NYGBR Vol 41 Apr 1910 pp 112-3; Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York (NYGBR Vol 5 1874 pp 30, 34, 94, 151. Vol 6 1875 pp 145, 190); History of Brooklyn by Stiles Vol 2 p 321; Ancestors of Edward Irving Eldridge by Frost pp 114-5; Records of New Amsterdam (1976) by Berthold Fernow.

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The Rosenkrans Family in Europe and Amer

The Rosenkrans Family in Europe and America. Compiled by Allen Rosenkrans. New Jersey Herald Press, Newton, N.J.,1900. pp. 48-50. Marge Gray, 1224 Knobb Hill Dr, Jacksonville, FL 32221-6117

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! adopted the name Rosenkranz in 1664

! adopted the name Rosenkranz in 1664

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Marriage record of Reformed Dutch Church

Marriage record of Reformed Dutch Church in New York, New york.

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!NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat

!NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

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!1. MARRIAGE: Reformed Dutch Church Reco

!1. MARRIAGE: Reformed Dutch Church Records, New York, New York, NY

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Information from Ancestral Book compiled by Harold Doud According to a genealogy published by Allen Rosenkrans in 1900 his family line goes back to one Erik, Knight of Holstein, The family emigrated to Holland where they remained about one hundred fifty ye

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!A History of the Fulkerson Family from

!A History of the Fulkerson Family from 1630 to the Present by Laila Fulkerson Thompson, page 16. !Surname: Also known by the surname Rosenkranz or Rosenkrans

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SOURCES; 'THE ROSENKRANS FAMILY IN EURO

SOURCES; 'THE ROSENKRANS FAMILY IN EUROPE & AMERICA;" COMPILED BY ALLEN ROSENKRANS, NEWTON, NJ 1900. THIS FAMILY GROUP SHEET WAS TAKEN FROM A COPY OF A GROUP SHEET THAT I FOUND ON THE ANCESTRAL FILE. AF# IS:GMHB-CL.

Allan Rosenkrans, one of the compilers of the Rosenkrans history claims through family tradition gives the origin of the name as follows. "A certain Scotchman, a McDonald, engaged in one of Holland's wars of the olden time. Proving brave and true to the cause he had espoused, the King, for some especial service, crowned him with a wreath of roses. From this he became known as Rosenkrans--a wreath of roses. (This name signifies in Dutch, a garland of roses.) This appeliation followed him upon his removal to Norway.) (Old Sussex County Familes, by Charles Edgar Stickney. Reprinted 1988 by Virginia Alleman Brown of Genealogical Researchers, p.64.)

I have to emphasize that the above information comes from family TRADITION. Tradition is NOT always accurate. In " Ancestors and Descendants of Captain Peter Westbrook of New Jersey and his wife Lydia Vredenburgh" by Harold Doud of Fullerton CA., Mr Doud comments on Allen Rosenkrans' hisitory of the Rosenkrans' thus: "There is a pretentious Rosenkrans genealogy, published in 1900 .... which takes the line back to one Erik Knight of Holstein. The family is supposed to have emigrated to Holland where they remained about one hundred fifty years and then went to Norway where they became engaged in fishing and whaling and some of them were enobled. However this compiler feels safer to start the line with Harman Hendricks."

Harmon, also known as Herman was the immigrant to America, coming from Bergan , a province of Norway. This is proved by the record of his marriage in the old Dutch Church at New York, which is said to be the first Protestant Church to be established there. Harman was a soldier in the service of the Dutch West India Company. he was sometimes referred to as Harman, the Portuguese, which indicated a stint of service in the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He probably came to New Amsterdam as part of the reinforcements brought there from Brazil in 1655. He received a discharge from this service 17 Apr 1657 shortly after his marriage." (Douds "Ancestors and Descendants....") About 1660, Herman and Magdaleen settled at Esopus (Kingston, NY) where according to church records, eight children were born to them...

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!Source is Mildred Taylor citing Harold

!Source is Mildred Taylor citing Harold Doud of Fullerton, CA who gives his sources (Doc. #1384). Doud furnishes considerable details on his life and court battles including his capture and escape from hostile Indians.

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HARMON HENDRICK ROSENKRANS, the progenitor of the most numerous branch of the Rosenkrans Family in the United States of America, from whom were descended Colonel John Rosenkrans, of the Revolution, and General William Stark Rosecrans, of the Civil War, was of Holland descent, but came from Bergen, Norway, to New Amsterdam about the middle of the seventeenth century where he was married in 1657. His marriage record copied from the Genealogical and Biographical records of New York taken from the First Reformed Dutch Church of the city is as follows: Married: "March 3, 1657, Herman Hendrickszen Van Bergen in Noordwegen en Magdaleen Dircks, wed’r Cornelis Caper. †" This marriage record is in Holland Dutch, which modernized into English is: Married March 3rd, 1657, Herman Hendrickson, from Bergen, in Norway, to Magdalena Dircks, widow of Cornelius Caper. This form of our ancestor’s name denotes that he was the son of Hendrick or Henrik, and as it is nowhere else found so written, but is usually written Harmon Hendrick, we shall thus write it when speaking of him. Herman and Harmon were interchangeably used in Holland and among the early settlers, as were Jacobus and James, Johannis and John. But one instance is found where he wrote his own name, that being in 1683, when he signed his name to a petition, writing it "Harmon Hyndryx." As family names were then but little used he did not write the name Rosenkrans. After his marriage in New York, 1657, we next find him in Kingston where he settled about 1660. His son Alexander was born in Kingston, as his marriage record shows, and he was baptized in New York April, 1661. That he was living in Kingston in 1661 is evident from the fact also that according to the Kingston records Magdalena, wife of "Harmon Hendricx Rosenkrans" was baptized and received into the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, June 24, 1661, and he was taxed that year twelve guilders toward building a parsonage for the "Domane Harmanus Blom." The above record in 1661 is the first one found where his surname is written, it being Rosenkrans as we now write it, though not written by himself.</line><line /><line>† A previous marriage of a female of the name Rosencrans is found in these records as follows: Married: "1642, November 9, Michoel Buguet j m VanNovan in Vranckryck en Eazabeth Rosencrans wed Van Vissengen." When translated this reads as follows: "Married, 1642, November 9, Michael Buguet, young man from Novan in France, to Elizabeth Rosencrans, widow from Vissengen." As the name Buguet has not been found in the Ulster County records, these were probably strangers to the Holland branch of the family, and settled elsewhere, perhaps in New York or on Long Island.</line><line /><line>Harmon Hendrick must have had nine children at least, as the Kingston records show seven after Alexander between the dates 1661 - 1675, and the ninth one is found in a will recorded in Albany, dated 1726, made by his daughter Sarah not found elsewhere. Eventually he left Kingston and purchased a large tract of land on the Peterskill, in Mombaccus township, now Rochester, Ulster County, New York, where he settled prior to 1683, as at that date he signed a Rochester petition spoken of, praying for the election rather than the appointment of a certain official. The date of his purchase in Mombaccus cannot be ascertained as the early Kingston land records were lost. It was located on the Peterskill, near Alligerville, and contained a mill property, subsequently owned in part by his son Alexander. The Peterskill empties into the Rondout near Alligerville, whose post-office is Kiserike. In 1896 Mrs. Schoonmaker, widow of Judge Augustus Schoonmaker, of Kingston, who formerly lived near Alligerville, in answer to a letter of inquiry informed me that there was still an old mill standing on the Peterskill near Alligerville, and that this old mill probably stands on the site of Alexander’s mill, once owned by his father.</line><line /><line>Harmon Hendrick died in Rochester about 1697, as the Kingston records show that Magdalena, his wife, and Alexander his son, Executors of Harmon Hendrick Rosenkrans, sold land to Moses DuPuy, September 14, 1697. (Book A.A., p. 185). September 21, 1703, Alexander Rosenkrans and other heirs sold 150 acres more to Moses DuPuy. This change of administrators and disappearance of the widow’s name indicate that Magdalena had died between the dates 1697 and 1703. Harmon Hendricks occupation in Kingston is not mentioned in the records, but Kingston was only a village at the time of his living there and he was undoubtedly a farmer or "yeoman" as in after years. In 1663, soon after his settlement there, Kingston was raided by the Indians, and the church and some dwellings were burned; some of the inhabitants were killed and a few of the children were carried off, but as far as known Harmon and his family were Providentially left uninjured. Kingston was then the nucleus of a great settlement which extended westward along the Rondout to the Neversink and the Delaware, and along this route Harmon Hendricks family mainly settled. As previously stated, though from Norway he was of Holland descent, but whether born in Holland or Norway has not been definitely determined. The probability is that he was born in Norway. As we learn from the Bendixen letter several of the Rosenkrans family named Herman and Hendrick, and Herman Hendrick went from Holland to Bergen between 1593 - 1652, and it is possible that he was one of them. But Mr. Thiset, the Royal Archivist of Denmark, thinks that Herman Hendrickszen was the son of one of the two "Dutchmen," as he calls them, Herman, the Merchant Fisherman, and Henrik, the Burgesell, the former probably a son of Captain Dirk, who obtained rights in Norway as early as 1617. He was evidently the son of Henrik, as the name indicates, and born in Bergen, but as the early records there were burned, the date and place of his birth cannot be positively determined. This, however, is evident, that he was of the Holland family of the Rose-wreath, which came from the early German family, descended from Erik, the Knight, who was presented with the Rose-wreath, added it to his coat of arms, and 1325 took the name of Rosenkrantz.</line><line /><line>Of Magdalena Dircks, wife of Harmon Hendrick, nothing is known prior to her marriage, in 1657, but from that we learn that she was the widow of Cornelis Caper. She, like her husband, was undoubtedly of Holland extraction, and perhaps born in Amsterdam. The name, Dircks, was apparently a common one in the Rosenkrantz family, and the two families were probably associated prior to this marriage, 1657. In early life Magdalena, like Mary, had "chosen the better part," she had accepted the Saviour. As Mary Magdalena was the first to find and to recognize the Saviour after His resurrection, so Magdalena Rosenkrans was apparently the first of the family to find Him in the new world, and to confess Him before men. In doing so she fulfilled an important duty and set an example of love and loyalty to the Saviour worthy of imitation by all her descendants. Harmon Hendrick’s children were Alexander, Annatje, Rachel, Harmanus, Anna, Hendrick, Christiana, Dirk and Sarah.