Pieter Adamsz Berkhoven Brouwer

baptism record

1646 Sep 23; Adam Brouwer; Pieter; Paulus Ver Beeck, Willem Brendenbend, Aeltje Braconye, Mary du Trieux

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Biography

Pieter Adams Brouwer was christened on 23 Sep 1646 in New Amsterdam. (419) He was the son of Adam Berkhoven Brouwer and Magdelena Jacobs Brouwer. He died about 10 Oct 1700 in Albany, Albany County, New York. (420) Only his baptism is recorded, and it is used as his birth date in this record. In 1677, his name appears with his wife Geertruyd Jans inthe list of members of the Flatlands Church. In 1687, he took the oath of allegiance to the British government as a resident of Brooklyn. He is presumed to have had sixteen children. This story of Floy White Brewer can be found at: http://www.countyhistory.com/marion/ourstories/004.htm

Built first mill on the Gowanus, Brooklyn. : See the free-space page Adam_Brouwer's_Children for the sourced confirmation of Pieter as a child of Adam, as named in Adam's will, and his baptism.

Birth

: 23 SEP 1646 New Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland (now New York NY),<ref>Source: #S32 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Adam Berkhoven Brouwer</ref>

First Marriage

: Husband of Petronella Uldricks Clein — married 1674 in Albany, Albany, New York, United States : 1669 Albany, New York, USA<ref>Source: #S-471207094 Page: Birth year: 1646; Birth city: New York; Birth state: NY. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=329886&ti=0&indiv=... Text: Birth date: 23 September 1646Birth place: New York, NYDeath date: 10 October 1700Death place: Marriage date: 1674Marriage place: Albany, NY APID: 4725::329886</ref> : 1674 Albany, Albany, New York, United States<ref>Source: #S-877412760 Page: Source number: 4684.005; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: .Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=157100&ti=0&in... Text: Birth date: 1646Birth place: NYMarriage date: Marriage place: of NY APID: 7836::157100</ref><ref>Source: #S-877412760Page: Source number: 4684.005; Source type: Family group sheet,FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=243208&ti=0&in... Text: Birth date: 1646Birth place: NYMarriage date: Marriage place: of NY APID: 7836::243208</ref><ref>Source: #S-877412760 Page: Source number: 527.000; Source type: Electronic Database;Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: CGK. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=243209&ti=0&in... Text: Birth date: 1646Birth place: N.Marriage date: Marriage place: NY APID: 7836::243209</ref><ref>Source: #S-869848842 Page: Birth year:1646; Birth city: New York; Birth state: NY. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=329886&ti=0&indiv=... Text: Birth date: 23 September 1646Birth place: New York, NYDeath date: 10 October 1700Death place: Marriage date: 1674Marriage place: Albany,NY APID: 4725::329886</ref>

Second Marriage

: Annetje Jansen : 15 FEB 1687 of NY<ref>Source: #S-550408936: Page: Source number: 4684.005; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents;Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=157100&ti=0&in... Text: Birthdate: 1646Birth place: NYMarriage date: Marriage place: of NY APID: 7836::157100</ref>

Children

1. Abraham Uldricks Brower
2. Uldrick Pieter Brouwer
3. Adolph Brower
4. Abraham Pieter Brouwer
5. Adam Pieter Brouwer
6. Adolphus Pieter Brouwer
7. Magdalena Pieter Brouwer
8. Vrouwtje Pieter Brouwer
9. Johannes Pieter Brouwer
10. Cornelia Pieterse Brouwer
11. Vroutje Pieterse Brouwer
12. Jacob Brouwer
13. Jacob Pieter Bruwer

Death

: 10 Oct 1700 Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey<ref>Source: #S-926516926</ref><ref>Source: #S-471207094 Page: Birth year: 1646; Birth city: New York; Birth state: NY. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=329886&ti=0&indiv=... Text: Birth date: 23 September 1646Birth place: New York, NYDeath date: 10 October 1700Death place: Marriage date: 1674Marriage place: Albany, NY APID: 4725::329886</ref><ref>Source: #S-869848842 Page: Birth year: 1646; Birth city: New York; Birth state: NY.Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=329886&ti=0&indiv=... Text: Birth date: 23 September 1646Birth place: New York, NYDeath date: 10 October 1700Death place: Marriage date: 1674Marriage place: Albany, NY APID: 4725::329886</ref><ref>Source: #S-869875135 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoold&h=348684&ti=0&indiv... Text: Death date: 10 October 1700Death place: APID: 5771::348684</ref><ref>Source: #S-869875135 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoold&h=348687&ti=0&indiv... Text: Death date: 10 October 1700Death place: Bergen, NJ, USA APID: 5771::348687</ref><ref> Source: #S32 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Adam Berkhoven Brouwer</ref>

Church records

• 1646 Sep 23 Pieter, Adam Brouwer. Wit.: Mr. Paulus Ver Beeck, WillemBredenbend, Aeltje Braconije, Mary du Trieux. <ref name="evanbapt">Thomas Grier Evans. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.</ref>

1. 1682 May 14 Vrountje; parents: Pieter Brouwer, (mother not recorded); op N. Utrecht; witnesses: Willem Brouwer, Elisabeth Brouwer. <ref>David William Voorhees, editor, Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol.1, 1677-1720 (NewYork: Holland Society of New York, 1998). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".</ref># 1685 Mar 21 Johannes, Pieter Brouwer, Pieternelle ___. Wit.: Theunis___, Sara Brouwers. <ref name="evanbapt" /># 1692 Mar 13 Cornelia; parents: Pieter Brouwer, Pieternelle Uldricks.Wit.: Cornelis Seebringh, Aeltje Fredericks. <ref name="brookbapt">A.P. G. Jos van der Linde, Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".</ref># 1694 Nov 15 Jacob; parents: Pieter Brouwer, Pieternelle Cleine. Wit.: Jacobus Ferdon, Geertruid Jansen. <ref name="brookbapt" />

Research notes

Marriage

Pieter was not married to Gertruyd Jans <ref>John Blythe Dobson. "Some Erroneous Marriages in Bergen's Kings County", New Netherland connections. vol. 6. num. 4. 1996. Berkeley, CA: Dorothy A. Koenig.</ref><ref>John Blythe Dobson. ResearchGate.net. Accessed 19Oct 2016. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261251741_Some_erroneous_marriages_in_Bergen's_Kings_County</ref> or Annetje Jansen <ref>Chris Chester. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed May 23, 2016. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogyd... citing NYG&BR 67:222</ref>. These assumptions were made due to the badly transcribed records of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church.

Note the origin of Adam Berkhoven Brouwer

:Floy White Brewer was born 1 February 1879 on a farm near Southport, Indiana. Her parents were John William Brewer (1838-1887) and Louisa White (1844-1895). Louisa's parents, William Woodford White and Martha M. Vandivier, did not want her to marry John Brewer because he was a widower with two children. Therefore, in June 1868, they had a "runawaymarriage." Floy took every opportunity to tease her mother about going horseback riding to the preacher's and being married in a riding habit. : John and Louisa had five children, of which Floy was the fourth. Herfather died when she was eight years old. Her mother bought a farm nearby where they continued to live. However, Louisa died in 1895 when Floy was sixteen. Her older sister kept the family together on the farmuntil she herself died in 1905. Prior to this event, Floy's brother Frank had moved to Oklahoma City to work for the Department of Agriculture so, when they sold the farm, he asked her to live with him. She arrived in Oklahoma City in March 1906 to keep house for Frank and teachpiano. :Floy left notes tracing the Brewer family back to her great-grandfather John A. Brewer of Mercer County, Kentucky. Her daughters remember discussions about their Dutch origin. The Brewer's original emigrant ancestor was Adam Berkhoven Brouwer, who shipped to Brazil as a soldier in the service of the Dutch West India Company in 1641 and shortly thereafter appeared in New Netherland as part of that Dutch colony. His descendants followed the Dutch trail from New Netherland, New York, to Hackensack, New Jersey, to Conewago, Pennsylvania, to Mercer County, Kentucky, and then to Greenwood in Johnson County, Indiana, and, finally, to Southport, in Marion County. : Of her grandparents, Floy noted that Abram Brewer (born 1815 in Mercer County, Kentucky) married Catherine Smock in 1837. Catherine was the daughter of a Peter Smock who had brought his family from Kentucky to Indiana at about the same time in 1825 that the Brewers arrived. Members of the Smock and Brewer families were among the first settlers ofGreenwood, Indiana, and established a Presbyterian Church there. According to Floy, Abram and Catherine were "very devout Presbyterians; however, sometime after their marriage, for unknown reasons, they helpedto found the Baptist Church in Southport." [That one Abraham Smock was one of its early pastors might have been a factor.] : On 27 September 1911, Floy married Leslie Jay Allen in the Methodistparsonage in Oklahoma City. Their married life was fairly adventuresome, since Dr. Allen was a veterinarian, working as inspector for the Bureau of Animal Industry. He was assigned to Nagoles on the border. This was a dangerous but exciting time in his life. Mexican ranchers were running cattle across the Rio Grande. Dr. Allen's job was to hold all cattle to be inspected; if the herd was rejected because of hoof andmouth disease, the situation was apt to become tense. Two inspectors were killed by irate ranchers and their vaqueros. During his career, Dr. Allen came to know the Earp brothers and John Slaughter, once Sheriff of Cochise County. In later days, when Bill marketed his cattle in Fort Worth, Leslie and Floy would meet with him and his wife to hash over old times. : Floy and Les had three daughters and seven grand-children. Floy diedin 1944 and Leslie in 1948 in Oklahoma City. : This information comes directly from notes made by my grandmother Floy, with additional comments by Leslie Allen.

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Son of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Jacobs Verdon. William J. Hoffman, "Brouwer Beginnings; The First Three Generations of the Adam Brouwer Berchoven Family", The American Genealogist 23:193-206; 24:23-32, 96-102, 161-170 (1947, 1948): 23:197. #2 in the genealogy.
Mrs. John Spell, "Relief Recipients in New Netherland", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.95, pp.193-196 (Oct. 1964).

Baptized on 23 September 1646 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, sponsors Mr. Paulus van der Beek, Willem Bredenbent, Aeltje Braconye, Mary du Trieux.
"Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:88.

Married Petronella Uldrickse Kleyn, daughter of Uldrick Kleyn and Baefje Pieters, before 1673.
William J. Hoffman, "Brouwer Beginnings; The First Three Generations of the Adam Brouwer Berchoven Family", The American Genealogist 23:193-206; 24:23-32, 96-102, 161-170 (1947, 1948): 23:197.

A deed of 1701 calls Pieter the eldest child of Adam Brouwer. He was apparently at Schenectady immediately after his marriage to Petronella Kleyn, and is last found in a record at East Jersey in 1701. The date and place of his death is not known, and it is possible that he went to the Albany, New York area later in life. He named his eldest son (Adam Brouwer's first grandson) Uldrick (for his father-in-law) and this may have been a sore point for Adam as late as 1692, when he disinherited Pieter in his will. Pieter's older children are found in Bergen Co., New Jersey, and his youngest three children in the Albany, New York area.

   On 1 Sep 1679, Peter Brouwer was "bound over to answer at the Gravesend sessions for an assault on Gerrit Croesen." As Gerrit died shortly thereafter, the question seems open as to whether or not his death was the result of the assault.

Lila James Roney, "The Kroesen-Croesen Family of Staten Island and Bucks County, Pennsylvania", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.75 (1944): 75:97.
E.B. O'Callaghan, editor, Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, New York (Ridgewood, N.J.: Gregg Press, 1968), CI:14.

Pieter Brouwer and Petronella Uldrickse Kleyn were members of the at Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Flatbush, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, on 19 November 1679 living at Gowanus. Pieter is listed as "Pieter Adamsz and wife", and is recorded with his father, Adam Brouwer, "under censure."
David William Voorhees, editor, Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol.1, 1677-1720 (New York: Holland Society of New York, 1998), page 337 Register of the Members from the Four Villages. 19 Nov 1679. Gowanus. Pieter Adamsz and wife (her name is not recorded).

Witnessed the baptism of Willemyntje Brouwer , daughter of Matthys Brouwer and Marietje Pieterse Wyckoff, on 26 February 1682 at Old First Dutch Reformed Church, Breuckelen (Brooklyn), Kings Co., Long Island, New York, (sponsors Pieter Brouwer, Eegtje (Agatha) Joris. Also recorded at Flatbush.).
Ibid., p.414. Willemijntje; parents: Matthijs Brouwer, Marritje Pieters; op Breukelen; witnesses: Pieter Brouwer, Agatha Joris.
A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), page 121. Willemje; parents: Mathijs Brouwer, Marritje Brouwer.

Pieter Brouwer took the Oath of Allegiance in September 1687 at Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, as "Pieter brouwer, native."
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York, Excerpted from The Documentary History of the State of New York (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979, 1989, 1999), p.38.

"Pieter Brouwer is among the soldiers from King's County sent in 1690 to Albany."
William J. Hoffman, "Brouwer Beginnings; The First Three Generations of the Adam Brouwer Berchoven Family", The American Genealogist 23:193-206; 24:23-32, 96-102, 161-170 (1947, 1948): 23:197.

Peter is named in his father's will dated 22 Jan 1691. He is given three shillings and, for "his disobedience" is cut off from an equal share of his father's property, with his share to pass on to his children.
Will dated 22 January 1691/92 proved 21 March 1692 (on file at the office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals in Albany). He calls himself "Adam Brouwer Berkhoven inhabitant of ye town of Bruckland, being at present sick a body but fully having his knowledge." His witnesses are named as Henry Sleght, Cornelius Sebring and John Fredricks. Adam leaves his "whole estate moveable and immoveable my wife Magdalena Brewer and my utmost will and desire is that none of my children shall trouble or move their mother during her life." Adam Brower "makes to his eldest sonn Peter Brewer three shillings for reasons that he was disobedient to his father, as also Jacob Brewer and Aeltie Brewer, who for reasons of their disobedience shall not receive a penny from their father Adam Brower, but ye testator bequeath ye land from ye three disobedient children Peter Brewer ye eldest, Jacob Brewer and Aeltie Brewer upon their children ye portion of Peter upon his children, ye portion of Jacob upon his children, ye portion of Aeltie upon her children." Adam names his children as Mathys, William, Adam, Abraham, Nicholas, daughter Mary, Fytie, Helena, Anna, Sara, Rachel, "these eleven children shall have equal portions amongst them, also ye children of ye disobedient children above named they shall also with ye other eleven children equally divided." Adam makes special bequests to Adolphus son of William Brewer "three pieces of eight"; to "Mathys his daughter Magdalena one piece of eight, and Mary her daughter Magdalena one piece of eight. Peter Brewer his daughter Magdalena one piece of eight and his daughter Vroutie one piece of eight, with Fytie daughter Magdalena one piece of eight."
Adam Brouwer will (22 Jan 1691/92), Albany Wills, 1629-1802 Vol. AB, page 3: FHL film #0824735, Albany Court of Appeals, Albany, New York.

On 10 Oct 1700, Peter Brower of East New Jersey deeds Abram and Nicholas Brower of Brooklyn, "Whereas there is a corn mill in Brooklyn called Gowanus Mill bounded by land of Jacob Hanson, Hendrick Vechte, Volkert Briez, formerly in the tenure of Adam Brower, deceased, true owner as by a conveyance from Tunis Nyssen, deceased, and heirs of John Evertse Bout, deceased, etc." The indenture states that Peter Brower is the eldest son of Adam Brower, deceased. Signs by his mark. Witnessed by William Laurence, Anthony Karr, both sign by mark. Acknowledged 21 Oct 1700 before Col. Gerardus Beeckman, Justice of the Peace.
Josephine C. Frost, "Genealogical Gleanings From Book No. 2 of Conveyances, Brooklyn, Kings Co., N.Y.", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.54 (1923): 54:315.
Kings County, New York, Deeds v.1-4; FHL #1413189 (New York, New York, Salt Lake City, Utah: Recordak Corp.; Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957), Microfilm of original records at the New York Registers Office in New York City., 2:349. "Peter Brower of the Province of East New Jersey of one part and Abram Brower and Nicholas Brower of Broockland of the second part...A certain neck or hooke of land and meadowes with a certain corne mill there on standing lying situate and being in the township of Brookland commonly called by the name of the Gowanus Mill neck bounded north by said mill creeke (including sd. creeke) and soe by the land of Jacob Hansen south by the highway to a place called the Gowanas in the township aforesaid along by the house of Hendricke Vechte being some part thereof and other part there of south by the home lott of Volkert Bries east by a creeke running by the upland and west by a certain creeke alsoe running through the meadow into said mill creeke all formerly in the tenure and occupation of Adam Brower late of Broockland aforesaid deceased the true owner thereof as by certaine conveyances from Tunis Nyssen deceased and the heyrse of John Evertse Bout dec'd may appeare etc. Now this indenture witnesseth that the said Peter Brower eldest son and heyre of the said Adam Brower deceased for and in consideration of a certaine summe of good and lawful money of the province of New Yorke to him in hand payd at and before the ensealing and delivery here by the said Abram Brower and Nicholas Brower." Peter Brower signed by his mark PB. Witnessed by William Lawrence and Anthony Karr (their marks).

Pieter is the eldest child of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon, as stated in the deed of October 1700. His wife lived in Schenectady, and after their marriage, the couple apparently remained there through the births of their two eldest children. Pieter then relocated the family to Brooklyn, possibly lived in New Haerlem for a short period, then settled in East Jersey, where he is said to be from in October 1700. The marriage records of a few of his children state that they were living in Newark. However, a check of some land records there, of that time, did not find any Browers or Brewers (Newark was founded and settled by "English" families, many coming from the New England Colonies. While his six oldest children all married in the Dutch Church at Hackensack, New Jersey, and raised families in that area, the next three youngest children were all married at Albany, New York, and remained in that area. No record of Peter is yet to be found post October 1700, when he would have been 54 years old. As the three youngest children are later found in the Albany area, it is possible that Peter moved once again, this time to that area. It could also be reasoned that Peter died shortly after October 1700, and his widow, along with her three youngest children, returned to the Albany area, a place where she grew up and where her extended family remained. A Peter Brouwer did stand as sponsor at a baptism in March 1723 at the Reformed Dutch Church at Albany (see below).

   A Petrus Brouwer (with Hendr. Oothout) were sponsors on 3 March 1723 at the baptism of Hendrik Bovy, son of Claes Bovy and Cornelia Brouwer. It is not known for certain who this Peter Brouwer is. The child who was baptized would be a grandson of this Peter Brouwer, and if alive in 1723, he would be 77 years old. The next closest relation to the mother, Cornelia Brouwer, would be her nephew, Peter Brouwer, b.1701, son of her brother Abraham Brouwer. This Peter Brouwer was alive in 1723, had married Dina de Groot, and was sponsor at a number of baptisms in Hackensack, although no other baptisms in Albany.

Holland Society of New York, compiler, Records of The Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, New York 1683-1809 (Baltimore, Maryland: reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc., 1978), 2:98.

Children by Petronella Uldrickse:

   Uldrick Brouwer b. ca. 1673

   Abraham Brouwer b. ca. 1675, d. between 29 Mar 1725 and May 1731

   Magdalena Brouwer b. ca. 1680

   Vrouwtje Brouwer b. 14 May 1682

   Jan Brouwer b. 21 Mar 1685

   Adriaentje Brouwer b. 1691

   Cornelia Brouwer b. 13 Mar 1692

   Jacob Brouwer b. 15 Nov 1694

   Antje Brouwer b. before 1700

   Maria Brouwer b. ca. 1700

A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), page 131. Cornelia; parents: Pieter Brouwer, Pieternelle Uldricks.
Ibid., page 161. Jacob; parents: Pieter Brouwer, Pieternelle Cleine.

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
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