Sophia (Styje) Marie Janse Bookenoogen Hendricks Armitt

Styje Boekenoogen

• Birth: c.1658 Alkmaar
• Death: 25 MAR 1740 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 4 6 7
• Father: Jan Willemsz Boekenoogen b: 1632 in Haarlem, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Mother: Sytje Gerrits Dekker b: ABT 1635 in Haarlem, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Marriage 1

AFT 1685 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA with Gerhard Hendricks b: 1649 in Kriegsheim, Germany (in the Palatinate)

Children

1. Willem Bokenoogen Hendricks, b. 1670, Kriegsheim, Germany, d. 1749, Towamencin Twp., Montgomery Co., PA.
2. Lambert Hendricks, b. 1672, Kriegsheim, Germany (in the Palatinate), d. 1708.
3. Sarah Hendricks, b. December 02, 1678, Kriegsheim, Germany (in the Palatinate), d. June 15, 1742, German Town, Philladelphia County, PA. [NOTE: dates and locations of sons do not match with Styje being their mother and may not even belong to this Gerhard Hendricks - Alex Moes]

Marriage 2

26 JUL 1701 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA with Richard Armitt

Children

1. John Armitt b: 08 DEC 1702 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA
2. Stephen Armitt b: 17 JUN 1705 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA

notes

From William J. Hoffman's genealogical work on the Boukenoughe family comes the following passage on Pages 173 about Styje:

Styje Boekenoogen mar. at Germantown Gerrit Hendericksz de Wees, widower fo Marya...who had arrived in 1685, with his family and servant, from Kriegsheim in the Palatinate. He was mentioned on the tax list in 1693. De Wees was one of the four signers of the firts formal protest against slavery in America addressed to the monthly Quaker meeting on April 18, 1688. He died before 1701 when his widow sold land. She remarried Oct. 1701 as "Sophia Johnson", as she was called, Richard Armitt a prominent Quacker merchant of Philadelphia who had emigrated to PA in 1700. The meeting of Friends as Leek, Staffordshire, England, under date of 2 Oct. 1701, gave a certificate, in which is set forth that Richard Armitt had transported himself to Philadelphia in 1700 and that previously he had "followed his trade in London, and made some voyages to Spain and other places". this certificate was signed by many members of the meeting, his father John Armitt being among them. His mother was deceased at the time. He was selected by the Common Council of Philadelphia on 13 Oct. 1733 as Clerk of the Market and Collector of the Stall Rents; on 6 Feb. 1727 Wharfinger of the Wharfs of the City; on Aug. 4 1729 he was chosen to keep th fire engine in repairs, and play the same once a month, for $3 per annum". He died at Philadelphia 7 Aug. 1748. His wife predeceased him 25 MArch 1740. They had children and many descendants.

Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. VI, No. 2, March, 1919, pp. 64-96: Early Minutes of the Phildelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends. "30th of the Seventh Month, 1701. Joan Forrest and Ann Buckley accompanied Richard Armitt (also spelled Armett) and Sophia Johnson, who (are) declaring their intentions of marriage with each other the second time... They are left to their liberty to consummate the same, according to the good order of Truth."

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