Magdalena Jacobs Brouwer

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76504540/magdelena-jacobs-brouwer

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Children of Magdalena Jacobs Verdon and Adam Brouwer Berkhoven:

1. Pieter Brouwer+ b. 23 Sep 1646, d. 10 Oct 1700
2. Matthys Brouwer+ b. 30 May 1649
3. Willem Brouwer+ b. 5 Mar 1650/51
4. Maria Broouwer b. 4 Jun 1653
5. Jacobus Adams Brouwer b. 17 Apr 1655, d. b 30 Apr 1707
6. Fytie Brouwer+ b. bt 1656 - 1659
7. Helena Brouwer+ b. 31 Oct 1660
8. Aeltje Brouwer b. bt 1662 - 1664
9. Adam Brouwer Jr. b. 18 May 1662
10. Abraham Brouwer b. 18 May 1662
11. Sara Brouwer b. bt 1664 - 1666
12. Nicholas Brouwer b. 16 Apr 1672
13. Anna Brouwer b. c 1677
14. Rachel Brouwer b. bt 1677 - 1678

Reference:

Marriage banns for Adam Brouwer Berkhoven and Magdalena Jacobs Verdon were published on 19 March 1645 at Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, New York County, New York. Adam Brouwer Berkhoven married Magdalena Jacobs Verdon, daughter of Jacob Verdon and Mary Badie, on 21 March 1645.

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Biography

Birth

: From the Court record (see below), we know that Magdalena was the daughter of Jacob Verdon and Maria Thomas Badie. In her marriage record<ref name="Marr">"Marriage Book ..." vol.VI, p. 36, 19 March 1645, Adam Brouwer, from Ceúlen, and Magdalena Verdon, from New Netherland.</ref>, she was recorded as a "native" of New Netherland.
: Macy<ref>Macy, “Some New Light on Aeltje Braconie and Maria Bade,” pp. 26-27.</ref> makes a convincing case that Magdalena was born about 1631. Her last child was baptized on 7 May 1678. Any birth date birth prior to 1628 would have made her more than 50 years old at the time of that birth. Her first marriage occurred in April 1645. Because of the extreme shortage of women in the new colony, it is likely that she would have married prior to the typical age of 18, so after 1627. Because her husband, Adam Brouwer, was listed before her brother Thomasin the 1663 petition to the orphan's court (see Court records, below), it is likely that she was the first child. Her father died before November 1634. So Thomas would have been born about 1633 (making him aged about 22 when his only child was baptized), and given the typical two-year spacing, she could have been born about 1631, making her aged 14 at first marriage--young but plausible considering the shortage of eligible brides. For example, two sisters, Maria and Jannetje Rapalje, each married before their 14th birthdays, in 1640 and 1642 respectively.

Marriage ===: According to a near-primary source, Magdalena married Adam Brouwer in New Amsterdam on 19 March 1645.<ref name="Marr"/>

: Secondary sources have some minor disagreements over the precise date of the marriage. Totten <ref>Totten, "Verdon Family Notes," p. 108.</ref> agrees with the Marriage Book, giving a date of 19 March. Hoffman<ref>Hoffman, "Brouwer Beginnings...," p. 194; citing CDNY XIV:70, mentioning the wedding feast on that day.</ref> believes that 19 March was the date that intentions were registered and that the marriage actually occurred on 21 March. He claims that at the marriage feast, on that day, is where Dominie Bogardus first criticized Director-General Kieft. If so, this event marks an intersection of family history with grand history. The feud between Bogardus and Kieft continued until they were recalled to Amsterdam in 1647--both sailing on the same ship. Theissue remained unresolved because the ship sank off the coast of England, killing both of them.<ref>Shorto, pp. 140, 178-179.</ref>

Children

1. Pieter Adam Brouwer
2. Mathys Adams Brouwer
3. Willem Brower
4. Maria Brouwer
5. Jacobus Adams Brouwer
6. Fytje Adams Berkhoven Brouwer
7. Helena Brouwer
8. Adam Brouwer
9. Aeltje Brouwer
10. Sara Brouwer
11. Abraham Adams Brouwer
12. Nicholaes Adamsz Brouwer-Berchoven
13. Rachel Adamse Brouwer
14. Anna Adams Brouwer : Some sources list an additional child. See the free-space page Adam_Brouwer's_Children for the sourced explanation of why Daniel Adams Brouwer is not a child of the family.

Court records

: Since her father's death, before November 1664, Magdalena's mother, Marie Thomas Badie, had remarried twice--first to Willem Adrianensz Bennet, second to Paulus van der Beeck. On February 8, 1663, Magdalena, via her husband Adam Brouwer, entered into legal action to gain her share of her father's estate. The Minutes of the Orphan Masters of New Amsterdam<ref>Fernow, pp. 229-230.</ref> read as follows: ::Adam Brouwer, Tomas Verdon and Arien Willemsen, all children by previous marriages of the wife of Paulus van de Beecq ... request, whereas up to date they have not received their father's inheritance, that they may have it from Mr. Paulus van de Beecq, who has hitherto retained it. : The court referred the issue to the Director-General. The ultimate result of the action is unclear.

Church membership ===: Adam Brouwer and Magdalena were entered into the initial membership roll of the Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn on 12 March 1660.<ref>Hoffman, p. 195.</ref>

Death ===: The date of Magdalena's death is unknown. On 12 August 1689, she conveyed property to her sons and sons-in-law.<ref>Totten, p. 128.</ref> That is the last known record of her life.

Burial ===: The place of her burial is unknown. A Find-A-Grave entry<ref>Find-A-Grave, Magdalena x Brouwer, memorial ID 175807196, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175807196/magdalena-x-brouwer .</ref> states "location of grave unknown".

Research notes ==Those pursuing the theory that Magdalena was actually born in Holland might be interested in this record (retained from a previous version of the profile):

::kind: Magdaleen doopdatum: 04-03-1618 kerk: Nieuwe Kerk godsdienst: Hervormd father/ vader: Jansz, Jacob mother/ moeder: Tomas, Maritje <ref>Amsterdam Archive bronverwijzing: DTB 39, p.490 Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Doopregister: NL-SAA-24254984 </ref> There are two children baptized of parents Maritje Tomas and Jacob Jansz , one child Maritje born in 1622 and Magdaleen born in 1618 . Maybethe familysearch record could provide more info ?

Sources Notes

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Sources

• Fernow, Berthold. The Minutes of the OrphanMasters of New Amsterdam 1655 to 1663 (New York : Francis P. Harper, 1902). Digital page images. Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/minutesoforphanm01newy : 2019).* Hoffman, William J. "Brouwer Beginnings: The First Three Generationsof the Adam Brouwer Berchoven Family." The American Genealogist vol. XXIII (cont. in vol. XIV). Online page images. American Ancestors.https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11854/193/0 : 2019.* Macy, Harry, Jr. “Some New Light on Aeltje Braconie and Maria Bade.” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 142 (2011): 21–38.* Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World. Kindle Edition. (New York, Vintage Books: 2004).* Totten, John Reynolds. "Verdon Family Notes." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record LXIV (April 1933): 105-132.
• Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/ .* "Marriage Book of the Register of the Persons who are herein Recorded, and who were Married Here our Outside the City of New York--from the 11th December, 1639 to the 15th May, 1652." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol. VI (no. 1, Jan. 1875). Online page images. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/stream/newyorkgenealogi1875gree : 2019.

Supplemental sources ==These sources were retained from earlier versions of this profile. Discredited sources and unreachable family trees on Ancestry were removed.

• Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society (New York)* Pelletreau, William. Historic Homes And Institutions And Genealogical And Family History Of New York (Lewis Pub. Co., New York, 1907) Vol. 3, Page 209* Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. II. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=flhg-17thcentco... ProvostProvost, Andrew. Early settlers of Bushwick, Long Island, New York and their descendants (A.J. Provost, Darien, Conn., 1949-1963. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=genealogy-glh22... New York City Marriages, 1600s-1800s: Author:Genealogical Research Library, comp.: Publication: Online publication- Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Marriage: 1645 New York::: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=nycmarriages_ga...::: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=nycmarriages_ga... Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Gale Research, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 2012) ::: Arrival: 1642 New York, New York; Page Number: 544.::: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=pili354&h=21976...

Acknowledgments

This profile was rewritten by Jim Moore on 5 May 2019. Prior profiles resulted from GEDCOM imports and edits by: Rosemary Palermo, Bryan Sypniewski, "Beaman Family Tree.ged," "Newman Family Tree.ged," Wade Lippman, Michael Warner, "Smith-Hunter.ged," Paul Lee,Teresa Harageones, Colin Bryant,Peggy Shackelford, Keith Reeves,Wayne Burnie, Loren Fay and Scott Hufford.

GEDCOM Note

She is buried in Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery.

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