Merteyntje Hendrickse Berthoff

Martyntie Hendricks Vermeulen Bertholf
BIRTH 1649
DEATH unknown
BURIAL Hackensack Cemetery, Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA, MEMORIAL ID 223395176

He married Martyntie Hendrickse Vermeulen April, 15, 1676 in Sluis, Province of Zeeland, The Netherlands daughter of Hendrick Vermeulen. The posted article on Guiliaem's memorial is incorrect as to her father's name. Her middle name indicates that her father was Hendrick Vermeulen according to Dutch naming patterns at the time.

Martyntie came from Sluis, Holland in 1683 to America with her husband Guiliaem Bertholf and their first three little daughters—Sara, Maria and Elizabeth.

Guiliaem came in the capacity of catechiser voorleser and school master as he had studied theology in Middleburgh, Holland.
He settled in Harlem in 1683 and was the Town Clerk and reader in 1690. He then moved to Passaic and again moved to Hackensack where he purchased land from John Berry. His farm was located at what is now the lower part of Hackensack.

September 16, 1693 he was asked to return to Vlissingen (Flushing) in The Netherlands to the Classis for Ordination to be ordained for ministry.

After which he returned to Hackensack February 24, 1694 and assumed charge of the old "Church on the Green" and remained pastor of that church until 1724. He was the first regularly ordained and established clergyman in the Province of New Jersey for 15 years. In 1717 his salary was 50 pounds per annum.

He died a few years later and tradition says he was buried under the pulpit of the old church.

So far as records show they had issue:
1 Sara bp at 1677 at Sluis Netherlands married David Demarest
2 Maria bp 1680 at Sluis, Netherlands
3. Elizabeth bp 1683 bp at Sluis, Netherlands
4 Hendrick bp 1686 April 6, 1686 at Bergen, New Jersey
5 Quirinus bp 1688 New York City
6 Martha bp 1692 at Bergen New Jersey
7 Anna bp 1698 at Hackensack, New Jersey married Abram Varick
8 Jacobus b about 1700 and listed as the "youngest son."
Of note is the Bertholf Family Monument at Pompton Lakes Cemetery.

A search for the other memorials of the children should be made.
Sources
1 Bertholf/Bartholf family papers
2 An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent by William J Hoffman 1937 in the NYG&B Record Vol 68 pages 111-114

Spouse
Guiliaem Bertholf, 1656–1726 (m. 1676)

Children
Sarah Bertholf Demarest, 1677–1758
Hendrick Guilliam Bertholf, 1686–1766
Anna Bertholf Varick, 1697–1784

References
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223395176/martyntie-hendricks-b...

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