Lt Hendrick Jochemsz Schoonmaker

Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker

• Sex: M
• Birth: 1624 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Christening: 29 NOV 1624 in Hamburg, Germany
• Death: 1681 in Kingston, Ulster, NY
• Father: Jochim SCHOMAKER b: ABT 1598 in
• Marriage 1 Elsje Jansen VAN_BREESTEDE b: ABT 1622 in New Amsterdam, New York, NY Married: 1657 in Fort Orange, NY

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New Amsterdam Immigrant circa sometime in or before 1653

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Family

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bhusler/genealogy/Bill/Reunion/Web%2...

Hendrick Jochmsz Schoonmaker, born About 1624 in Hamburg (now Germany); died About 1682 in Kingston, New Amsterdam.

He married Elsie Janse 1653 in Albany. 4609. Elsie Janse, born in Breestede, Schleswig, Denmark; died in Kingston, New Amsterdam. She was the daughter of 9218. Jan Jansz Van Breestede and 9219. Engeltje Janse.

Children of Hendrick Schoonmaker and Elsie Janse are:

1. Unknown Schoonmaker, born Nov 4, 1653.
2. Unknown Schoonmaker, born About 1654.
3. Jochem Hendricksz Schoonmaker, born About 1655 in Albany, New Amsterdam; died About 1730 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York; married (1) Petronella Sleght Aug 31, 1679; married (2) Antje Hussey Apr 28, 1689.
4. Egbert Hendricksz Schoonmaker, born About 1658 in Albany, New Amsterdam; married Anneke Berry Oct 13, 1683 in Kingston, Ulster County.
5. Engeltje Hendricksz Schoonmaker, born Mar 1662/63 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York; married (1) Nicholas Anthony; married (2) Stephen Gasherie 1699.
6. Hendrick Hendrickse Schoonmaker, born May 1665 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York; died 1712 in Rochester; married Geertruy DeWitt Mar 24, 1687/88 in Kingston, Ulster Co., New Amsterdam.
7. Volckert Hendrickse Schoonmaker, born May 1665; died in in infancy.
8. Hillitje Hendrickse Schoonmaker, born Oct 1669; died in in infancy

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Biography

"Hendrick Jochemse, the progenitor of the Schoonmaker family in this country, was a native of Hamburgh, Germany. He came to this country in the military service of the Dutch West India Company and settled at Fort Orange previous to 1655, where for some time he kept an inn, the good-will of which he purchased of Steven Janse Conick. While residing at Fort Orange, either in 1657 or 1658, he married Elsie, daughter of Jan Janse Van Breestede and Engeltjen Jans, and widow of Adriaen Pieterzen Van Alcmar. The early records of Albany contain frequent mention of Hendrick's name, and show him to have been a man of social and financial standing. He acquired much property; loaned money to Governor Stuyvesant 'in time of need,' and was active in the military duties rendered necessary by the times, being Lieutenant 'in the company of his Noble Honor, the Director General.' In the fall of 1659 this company was ordered to Esopus to defend the settlers against the Indians. While yet there it was disbanded and Schoonmaker, attracted by the beauty and fertility of the place and tempted, doubtless, by the promise of Gov. Stuyvesant to grant land to the soldiers who should settle there, decided to remain permanently at Esopus. Here he become prominent as he had been at Albany, and his military knowledge and experience were constantly of use in the warfare against the Indians. In 1662, when the burghers organized a company of militia at Esopus, he was appointed Lieutenant under Thomas Chambers as Captain. Though severely wounded he fought bravely at the Indian attack on Wildwyck June 7, 1663; and he it was who led the Dutch burghers in their mutiny against the exactions of the English garrison in 1667. He died about 1681."[3]

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http://lewis187.home.mchsi.com/Weaver/Schoonmaker-1.htm#a (dead link)

According to The Schoonmakers of New Amstterdam on Ancestry.com information, Hendrick married Elsie Janse who had been born in Breestede, Schlewswig, Denmark (Court Minutes for Oct. 14, 1653). She was the widow of Adriaen Pieterse Van Alemaer.

Hendrick is acknowledged to be one of the first settlers or planters in the Dutch area of New York then known as New Amsterdam.

The Library at Historic Huguenot Street is named for the Schoonmaker family, one of the earliest Dutch families in what is now New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. The Schoonmaker family has long ties to the Huguenot founders of New Paltz.

• Residence: Wiltwyck, Ulster, New York, British Colonial America - Oct 24 1661
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 3 2021, 21:57:17 UTC
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