Pieter Hagewout

Birth

Born in the Netherlands he emigrated to America with his parents and siblings.

• Pieter Jansz, shoemaker from Drenthe, wife and 4 children: 15, 13, 9, 1/2 yr old (Extract of the 1660 Bonte Koe passenger list from "New World Immigrants: List of Passengers 1654 to 1664" edited by Michael Tepper.)

Marriage

• 1683 18 Nov; Pieter Pieterse Haeswout, ym, fr Dyckhuysen in Overysel; Dirckje Egberts, yd, fr Midwout on L.I. (c.) http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rbillard/bergen_marriages.htm

Note: "Dijkhuizen is een buurtschap in de gemeente De Wolden in de Nederlandse provincie Drenthe. De buurtschap is gelegen ten noordoosten van Ruinerwold aan de weg naar Haakswold."

• http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkhuizen_(De_Wolden)
• http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakswold

Relocates to Staten Island

"Pieter Pieterse, the younger of the two, ... removed to Staten Island, where he appears on the tax list, about 1678, as Pieter Haughwout."

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, volume 33, 1902 page 51 http://www.mocavo.com/The-New-York-Genealogical-and-Biographical-Re...

Children as named in Will and Date of Death

In the name of God, Amen. I, Peter Hagawout, of Richmond County, yeoman, being sick and weak. My executors are to dispose of all my estate at public vendue. All debts to be paid, and the remainder to my children, Altie, Peter, John, Geritie, Harmettie, Isaac, Jacob, Leffert, and Leah, and to Rachel and Diritie, the daughters of my son Egbert, equally. I make my very good friends, Hendrick Creuse and John Machilerse, executors.

Dated February 13, 1715/16. Witnesses, Mary Butler, Nicholas Manning, Augustine Graham. Proved, October 29, 1716. Unrecorded will. WNYHS XI:21