Isaac Adrianse Adriaens Hegeman

Isaac Hegeman, of New Lots and Jamaica, L.I., b. say 1656 in New Netherland, alive in 1718. He (then of Flatbush) was betrothed 15 Feb. 1687 in the Flatbush Dutch Church, to Marritje/Marike Roelofse Schenck, b. 14 Feb. 1667, who as “Marritje Rulofs” was received into the membership of the Flatbush Dutch Church on 21 March 1684. In the 1698 census his household consisted of 1 man, 1 woman, 3 children, and no apprentices or slaves. He was clearly the father of the known sisters Neeltje and Catharina Hegeman — both of whom named children Isaac and Maria — despite the fact that Bergen assigns them to his brother Joseph. Moreover, “Isaak Hegeman” served as baptismal sponsor to his namesake Isaak, son of Teunis Bogaart and Catharina Hegeman, on 2 Nov. 1718 in the Dutch Church of Port Richmond, Staten Island.

    Known issue: Adriaen Hegeman, bapt. 9 Sept. 1688 in the Flatbush Dutch Church, with sponsors Roelef Martensen and Lijsbet Heeghman. Although in previous versions of these notes we tentatively accepted Bergen’s statement that this Adriaen Hegeman was the one who married Martha van der Beeck, it has since been determined that this Martha’s husband was actually a son of Abram2 (Adriaen1) Hegeman. It may be doubted whether the present Adriaen ever reached adulthood, for he did not appear as a baptismal sponsor to any of the children of his sister Catharina or Neeltje, below. Catharina Hegeman, b. say 1692 at Oostwoudt (i.e. New Lots), presumably d. by 2 June 1767 as she is not named in her husband’s will. She was betrothed 20 Oct. 1711 in the Flatbush Dutch Church, to Theunis Gysbertse Bogaert, of Brooklyn, b. 1689 at Brooklyn, d. between 2 June 1767 (when he made his will) and 27 April 1768 (when it was proved) [WNYHS 7:146]. They lived at Fresh Kills, near Port Richmond, Staaten Island. For their issue see S.V. Talcott, Genealogical notes of New York and New England families (Albany, 1883), p. 41, and John A. Bogart, The Seven Bogert-Bogart families in Canada whose ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of New Netherland (Harrison, N.Y., 1962), 89-90, where however both authors erroneously make her a daughter of Joseph Hegeman. Neeltje Hegeman, b. say 1697 at New Lots (according to her marriage record). She m. 19 Sept. 1716 in the Flatbush Dutch Church, Coert [Gerritse] van Voorhees, of Jamaica and Gravesend, d. between 3 Jan. 1746 (when he made his will) and 24 July 1750 (when it was proved) [WNYHS 4:291-2]. In 1723, “Koert Van Voorhees” served as a baptismal sponsor in the Dutch Church of Port Richmond, Staten Island, for a child of Teunis Bogaert and Neeltje’s sister Catharina Hegeman, and Voorhees appoints as one of the executors of his will “my brother-in-law Teunis Bogart.”