Simon Aersen De Hart

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Simon Aersen De Hart
BIRTH
11 Oct 1643
Nieuwkoop, Nieuwkoop Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
DEATH
1727 (aged 83–84)
Kings County, New York, USA
BURIAL
Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery
Flatbush, Kings County, New York, USA
MEMORIAL ID
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PHOTOS 5
FLOWERS 22

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Son of Aert De Hart and Gerritjen Staffels.

Simon Aersen DeHart came to New Netherland in 1664.
On 2 March 1664 Thos. Franzen sold a 30 acre farm at Gowanus, Long Island to Simon Aerson.

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Jacques Bentin and Willem A. Bennett purchased a 930 acre tract of land from the Indians in 1636 in that area that would later be known as Brooklyn, New York. The original grant "covered nearly all the land south of 27th Street in the city of Brooklyn." In 1666, Bennett's widow, who had remarried Paulus Vanderbeek by that time, conveyed a portion of that property defined as "premises with the adjoining land described as a 'certain piece of woodland situate and lying on the Gauwanes over the second meadow'" to Thomas Fransen. This property is in the vicinity of the present day 46th and 47th Streets of New York City. In 1674, Fransen's widow then conveyed "said premises to Seimen Aersen" of Gowanus.

Sources differ on when Simon actually purchased this property - some give the date as 1664, the year he arrived in the New World, others as 1674, when the actual deed is recorded. It is possible that he resided on the property before he actually purchased it or that the transaction was simply not legalized until a later date. The actual patent from Governor Fletcher was not granted until 1696, and only then because a property dispute had arisen between Simon and a neighbor, Adriaen Bennett.

The 300 acres that Simon purchased of Mrs. Fransen was on the "shore of Gowanus Cove, west of the present Third Avenue near Thirty-seventh Street."

Simon built there a stone house that was to remain standing for over 200 years and, when demolished in the late 1800's, was the oldest building in Brooklyn. No definite date is known for its construction but it is referred to in documents prior to 1680 (see description by the Labadist missionaries, below). In 1696 a survey was completed by Augustus Graham that shows the house on a plat that divided the original Benton-Bennett purchase into sections owned by three individuals: Adriaen W. Bennett, Simon Arison and Agnas Van Dyck. There was a pond at one corner of the DeHart property that Stiles refers to as the "'Binnen-water' (lake or marsh), located near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 39th Street."

The north end of the property lay on the bay of the North River between two meadows. Simon owned the middle section of the original 930 acres, bordered on the west by the Van Dyck land and on the East by Bennett's property.

See http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/view-house-simon-aertsen-de-hart ......for a picture of the house.

Married 1st Geertje Cornelis, daughter of Cornelis.

Witnessed the baptism of Geertje Carelse Van Dyck , daughter of Carel Jansz Van Dyck and Lijsbeth Aersen van Hert, on 8 May 1681 at Midwoud, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, (witnesses Geertje vander Hard, Symon van der Hard).

Simon Aersen DeHart took the Oath of Allegiance in 1687 at Kings Co., Long Island, New York, in the country for 23 years.

Children by Geertje Cornelis:
1. Cornelis DeHart b. ca. 1670
2. Catherine DeHart b. ca. 1672, d. 15 Apr 1742
3. Gysbert DeHart b. ca. 1675, d. b 6 Dec 1712
4. Elias DeHart b. 21 Mar 1677
5. Clasje DeHart b. ca. 1678
6. Dorethea DeHart b. 1 Aug 1680
7. Geertje DeHart b. 20 Aug 1682
8. Simon De Hart b. 30 Mar 1684, d. b 3 May 1685
9. Simon DeHart b. 3 May 1685, d. between 30 Jul 1744 and 27 Nov 1745
10. Annetje DeHart b. 6 Jul 1687

Catherine is probably a daughter of Simon De Hart. No record of baptism is found. She named her second son Simon.

Married 2nd with banns published on 19 June 1691 at Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Flatbush, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, Annatje Andries Willjards. Simon Aerse Ter Haert, widower of Geertie Cornelisen, with Annetie Anderies Welijaerd, widow of Willm Huijke, both residing at Brooklyn.

Witnessed the baptism of Elyas DeHart , son of Elias DeHart and Catherine Lane, on 18 September 1709 at Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Flatbush, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, (witnesses Symen de Hart, Antje de Hart).

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
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Marriage 1670 Baptized on October 11, 1643 at his place of birth in Holland. He was married three times, being widowed, and had seven sons and seven daughters. He died in 1727 in South Carolina, USA, having lived a long life of 84 years, and was buried in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

He was born Simon Aertszen, meaning son of Aert. He came to America with a sister... Lysbeth, as is recorded on the passenger list of The Caulderland.

Records in New York refer to Ter Aert, Aertszen, and DeHart.
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Gravesite Details
Common practice of mass burial containing stacked bodies fourteen deep and entire cemeteries being destroyed by epidemic, vandalism, markers stolen, developments, many graves of this era have been lost. The deceased were buried in unmarked graves.

Family Members
Parents

Aart Symonsz De Hart
1607–1651

Gerritjen Staffels DeHart
1609–1651

Spouses
Geertje Cornelissen, Cornelis De Hart
1655–1689 (m. 1670)

Annatje Andries Willjards Heocken, De Hart
(m. 1691)

Siblings

Balthazar DeHaert
1633–1672

Lijsbeth Aersen De Hart Van Dyck
1647–1734

Half Siblings
Lysbeth Ards Van Der Hard Van Dyck
1662–1734

Children
Cornelis De Hart
1670 – unknown

Catherine De Hart Joosten, Van Sise
1672–1742

Gysbert De Hart
1675–1712

Elias Simonszen De Hart
1677–1727

Clasje De Hart Blydenburg
1678 – unknown

Dorethea De Hart Kinne
1680–1762

Geertje De Hart Kinne
1682 – unknown

Simon De Hart
1684–1745

Annetje De Hart Lequier
1687 – unknown

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"He was born Simon Aertszen, meaning son of Aert. He came to America with a sister. He had ample means, purchasing 300 acres in Brooklyn and two negro slaves immediately. Records in New York refer to Ter Aert, Aertszen, and deHart, all meaning "son of Art." He owned and operated a farm at Gowanus, New York prior to 1679. He built a stone house that stood for 200 years. His son Simon inherited the 300 acre plantation, now in Brooklyn, NY. Came to New Amsterdam (NY) in 1667 from Holland on the ship Calderland."

- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=acoggin&i...

• see page 51 of The Dutch american Farm by David Steven Cohen (1992):
The De Hart Bergen House in Gowanus:
http://collectornuts.com/dehart.pdf

http://www.onemorefoldedsunset.com/2014/08/third-at-37th.html

A diary kept by Labadists missionaries Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, who visited the region in 1679 - 80, gives a detailed account of their journey and includes a visit to the house, where the DeHarts gave them a warm welcome:

"We found a good fire,' they say, in speaking of the house, "half-way up the chimney, of clear oak and hickory, of which they made not the least scruple in burning profusely. We let it penetrate us thoroughly. There had been already thrown upon it, to be roasted, a pail-ful of Gouanes oysters, which are the best in the country. . . "

(Simon Aesen (DeHart) purchased land in Gowanus that was part of a tract of 930 acres purchased by William Arianse Bennet and Jaques Bentin from the Indians in 1636.He bought 300 acres of land from Thomas Fransen the deed being dated March 2, 1674.) < a sketch of early Brooklyn with the Bennet and Bentin land

another account

http://collectornuts.com/dehart.pdf He was born 1643 in Niewkoop, South Holland, Netherlands, and died in Kings Co, NY. He married (1) GEERTRYUD "GERTRUDE"CORNELISSEN Abt. 1670 in Brooklyn, NY

She was born Abt. 1653 in Netherlands, and died 1687 in New York. He married (2) ANNETJE ANDRIAES WILLYARD June 19, 1691. She was born Abt. 1660, and died Aft. 1745.

• Simon himself did not use the DeHart Surname, but simply referred to himself as Symon, son of Aert. On September 30, 1687 he took the oath of allegiance to the English monarchy at Breucklijn, Kings Co, NY (source: Meyers, Carol M., Early New York State Census Records, 1663 - 1772, Gardena, CA: RAM Publishers, 1965), and he was appointed city commissioner in 1688. However, on 14 Sept 1697, he was involved in an act of rebellion when several Dutchmen defaced the King's arms hanging at the courthouse of Kings.

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/e/m/Linda-Demko/GENE8-0002.html

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Taken from the following: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/k/u/h/Maxine-Kuhn/FILE/0001page.html

Descendants of Prince William DeHart
Generation 1
1.
PRINCE WILLIAM1 DEHART was born about 1550 in Burgandy, France. He died in Brest, France. He married ELIZABETH UNKNOWN.

Notes for Prince William DeHart:
William** born in Brest of Hart (de Hart) in France per Debra Clear, Internet.

The following was written about William's descendants who fled France because of religious persecution.

A Few of the DeHarts*

       Since "de" is a French preposition corresponding roughly to the English "of," the name DeHart is basically Hart.  This French preposition is often used in titles, as in Marquis de la Fayette, but more often as a mere preposition.

       The Patronymica Britannica has the following comment on the name, Hart:

       "A common charge of heraldry.  Its Medieval form as a surname was LeHart.  We have a large importation from Germany where the name or word implies hard, stiff, inflexible."

       Use of the French article "le" with the name, Hart, by the Germans and others, is obviously a recognition of its French origin.  The Dutch sometimes prefixed the article "ter"' and also used the French "de."

       There are divergent traditions and family records as to when and where the DeHarts first entered America, but all agree that they originated from the French Huguenots.  The plight of these French Protestants is too well known to require much comment. However, in all the bloodshed of the Reformation, no other people suffered such barbaric brutality as did these pious Huguenots.  For half a century before the reign of Henry IV, tens of thousands were massacred at Vassy, at Paris on Bartholomew's Eve, and elsewhere.  Hundreds of thousands fell in battle fighting for liberty and religious freedom. In 1598, Henry IV granted religious freedom by the Edict of Nantes.  The Edict was nominally in effect for nearly one hundred years, but regardless of its repeated confirmation, after Henry's death they suffered beastly persecution.  In 1685 the Edict was revoked.  The church was annihilated and its membership almost exterminated.  They had no alternative but to flee or die.  The few who escaped sought refuge wherever they could find protection in Protestant communities.

              Holland had become a Protestant State and William of Orange, an ardent Protestant, was then its Stadtholder.  Sone of these refugees were welcomed by the Dutch, among whom Here persons named Hart.  In Holland they took the name of Ter Haert or DeHart.  The French name, DeHart, probably meant, of or from the community or Province of Hart.

            The Dutch colony of New Netherland was founded in 1623 and New Amsterdam in 1620. Since there was religious freedom in the new colony, it was quite natural for some of the Huguenot refugees, then in Holland, to go along with the Dutch colonists.  In this way the first DeHarts came to America.

            In the History of First American DeHarts (From the History of The Bergen Family) is written: 'Simon Aertsen Ter Hart or DeHart emigrated to this country in 1664 and owned and occupied prior to 1679 the farm at Gowanus. ...He married first Geertie Cornelissen." The children by his first wife were Smon, Elyas, and Annetie.  His son Simon inherited the plantation of three hundred acres in Brooklyn and married Angenetie, daughter of Jan Van Dyck.  For several generations the oldest son took his father's name, Simon.  One of the sons of each family was named Elyas.

            From family records of the DeHarts in an old Bible now in possession of the descendants of Sally DeHart Marr, it is known that Simon Artsen DeHart was born in Holland in 1643 and came to New  Amsterdam in 1664.  Elias one of the two sons by Simon Artsen's first wife, was born the twenty-first of March 1677.  Simon, the first son of Elias DeHart was probably born around 1700.  He moved to Spartanburg county, South Carolina, during the Colonial period where he became a permanent resident.

       There is good reason to believe that most if not all of the American DeHarts are descendants of Huguenots who fled to Holland for refuge and came from there to New Netherland, now New York.  They intermarried with the Dutch in Holland and New Netherland. Throughout the years that have followed, they have married into families of many nationalities.  With amalgamation going on for three and one-half centuries, there is little that is French left to the DeHarts but the name.

       However, some desirable traits have been inherited or handed along, such as industry, integrity, frugality, and thrift.  Then too, the religious tenet of the older Carolina DeHarts was uniformly Calvinistic. They were basically Baptist.  A few of the later generations have absorbed the Anglican faith of the families into which they have married.

       Andrew J. DeHart of Bryson City, North Carolina, quotes from Dr. Mary DeHart Lightner of Los Angeles, California, as follows: "The marriage records and wills show that they, the DeHarts, married into what later proved to be our most distinguished families, such as the Honorable John Hart, signer of the Declaration of Independence (correction! this John Hart is not related to the DeHarts); the Wendells of Hudson Bay Company; the grandmother of Oliver Wendell Holmes; John Delano the Grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the wife of General Winfield Scott, Cornelius Vanderbilt and many others."

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• Writer of this article is unknown.
  • Lucile Long DeHart Long stated in her letter of 9/28/1997 that William DeHart was born in 1550 and gave his name as Prince William of Burgundy, France!

According to The DeHart Family Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 1, 1940, Bryson City, North Carolina, a DeHart is recognized as the first soldier to volunteer for service before Lincoln made his initial call was brother of General R. P. DeHart. In October, 1860, he visited relatives in Kentucky whom he found to be rabid adherents to the Southern cause, remained only twenty-four hours, and after returning home, organized a company who gave their oath to serve if the impending war came. (The article did not mention his name or if he were a Confederate or Union soldier.)

Prince William DeHart and Elizabeth Unknown had the following children:
2. i. BALTHAZAR2 DEHART. He died in 1672 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He married MARY STUYVESANT.

               ii. MATHIAS DEHART.

3. iii.SYMON JACOBUS DEHART.

               iv.DANIEL DEHART MD.

               v. WILLEMETJE DEHART.