Adriaen Hegeman (abt. 1624 - 1672)

Born about 1624 in Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Catelijn Margits — married 7 Mar 1649 in Sloten, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands

Descendants

Died 4 Apr 1672 at about age 48 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, New York colony

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Biography

See Netherlands Ancestry of the Hegeman Family of New Netherland for Adriaen's ancestry.

Adriaen was born in Elburg, Gelderland in 1624 ^[1], the son of Hendrick Hegeman, a minister of the Dutch Church at Vorchten. His 2 brothers were ministers of the Dutch church also. He moved to Amsterdam before 1649 to join the silk trade. On March 7, 1649 at the age of 25, he was married to Catharina Margits,the daughter of a London diamond cutter.^[2] What was Joseph Margits doing in Amsterdam? I suspect the English Civil War was a bit too hot for him. The 1640's were a tumultous time in England. In fact, the King was executed on Jan. 30, 1649, 2 months before Adriaen and Catarina's wedding.

In about 1650, Adrian moved his family to the Dutch colony in America. They resided in New Amsterdam in 1653. Then in April 1661, Adrian purchased land in Flatbush. He became a prominent person in the area. During his lifetime, he acquired more than 350 acres of land and became the largest property owner in Flatbush. He was a magistrate there in 1654-58, 1660 and 1663. He was secretary and schout (sheriff) of the five towns of Kings County in various years between 1659 and 1671. Adrian also helped to establish the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church and School.

Adriaen emigrated from Holland and first of the American Hegeman (Hageman / Hagaman) line. He arrived about 1652, with his wife and several children. He lived in New Amsterdam for a time then bought land on western Long Island, what is now Brooklyn and Flatbush, then called Midwout (middle of the woods) At the time Adriaen's bann's were proclaimed on 29 Jan 1649, his parents were deceased. ^[3]

Smit's "Dutch in America" says that Adriaen Hegeman purchased 59 morgens of land ( a morgen is a Dutch unit of land equal to about 2 acres) in Midwout about 15 Apr 1661. Midwout is one of the six early villages in Brooklyn and now is called Flatbush. It was the farm area of New Amsterdam and had lush forests with game, wetlands and good fishing. The swampy areas must have reminded the Hollanders of home.

Trading was done with New Amsterdam by ferry (230 years before the Brooklyn Bridge) and settlers apparently went to church (Dutch Reform) in New Amsterdam as the Hegeman baptismal records are there.

Adriaen and his friend Jan Strijcker were involved in many political and legal affairs of Long Island. They functioned as the 2 schepens (judges) and Adriaen was the schout (sherrif) of the Long Island towns. The two men were close friends and were instrumental in building the first church on Long Island, the Dutch Reform Church at Midwout in 1654. The Church was rebuilt in 1698 and in 1776 its bell announced the advance of the British forces on New York. The present third church building, built in 1797,is still in the original location at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Church Lane. The stones used in its construction were the remains of the second church.

In the scrapbook is a copy of Adriaen's signature from a legal document, taken from Stryker's Family History. The document from the Colonial Documents of New York deals with the shocking behavior of the English who were trying to take over the Long Island towns. Many of Adriaen's legal writings exist as abstracts or transcriptions in "NY Colonial Documents".

Occupation

By 1649, Adrian worked as a silk weaver and lived on Egelantier Street in Amsterdam.
Adriaen is mentioned as being the first schoolmaster of the town of Flatbush, 1659-1671. Education and literacy were extremely important to the Dutch immigrants.
Adrian Hegeman worked as a teacher and community leader in Early Flatbush – A bronze plaque honoring him as a teacher is attached to Erasmus Hall High School in the general area of where the old school once stood. He was a magistrate there in 1654-58, 1660 and 1663. He was secretary and schout (sheriff) of the five towns of Kings County in various years between 1659 and 1671. Adrian also helped to establish the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church and School. A public elementary school is also named in his honor in the vicinity of where his farm and homestead were located.

Marriage

On March 7, 1649 at Sloten, North Holland, Netherlands, he married Catharina Margits, the daughter of an Englishman Joseph Margits. They had eight children who were born between 1651 and 1665. The marriage record of Adriaen Hegeman and Catharina Margits:^[4]
Appeared as before Adriaen Hegeman from Elburgh, silk-worker, aged 25 years, having no parents, [living] in Egelantier Street, and Catharina Margits from Amsterdam, aged 21 years, residing on the Oudezijds Achterburgwall, accompanied by her father Joseph Margits he has a brother. [Signed:] Adriaen Hegeman, Katarina Mairgit. [Marginal note:] These persons were married 7 March 1649 at Sloten by Prudentius Pennokius, minister of that place." [Confirmation of the reading of the minister’s name will be found in Amstelodamum Jaarboek 19 (1921) ^[5]

Married (civil) 22 Mar 1650 in Flatbush, Long Island, Kings Co., NY, Catharina (Katherina, Catherine) Margits, b. c. 1628 in Amsterdam, Holland. daughter of Joseph Margits and Anna Waerdenburg. baptized 16 Jan 1628 in Amsterdam, Holland, d. 1690 in Flatbush, Long Island, Kings

Husband: Adriaen Hegeman

Wife: Katharina Margits

1. Hendricus Hegeman
2. Joseph Adrian Hegeman
3. Jacobus Hegeman
4. Abraham Hegeman
5. Denys Hegeman
6. Denyse Hegeman
7. Benjamin Hegeman
8. Elizabeth Hegeman
9. John Hegeman
10. Isaac Hegeman
11. Peter Hegeman

Arrival

Arrival date: 1651 Arrival place: America^[6]

Children

From this marriage:

1. Hendricus Adriaense b. 13 April 1649 Als eerste kind laten zij op 13 april 1649 in de Oude Kerk te Amsterdam een zoon Hendricus dopen, waarbij als Witness/ getuige een Gualterus(=Latin voor Wolter) Hegeman optreedt .(most likely brother Wolter (Gualterus =latin For Wolter))^[7] D. about 1710; M. Ariaentje Bloodgood, 26 Apr 1685, Flatlands, New York
2. Joseph Adriaense b. 1651. B. about 1651, Amsterdam, Netherlands; D. about 1725; Femmetje Van der Beeck (1657-?), 21 Oct 1677
3. Jacobus b. Mar 1652/53. B. about 1652; D. about 1741; M. Jannetje Ariens, 14 Oct 1683
4. Den(u)yse b. c. 1652/5/60. B. about 1658, Flatbush, New Netherlands; D. about 1702; M. Grace Dollen (1659-1732)
5. Isaac b. 1659/66./ B. about 1656, New Netherlands; M. Marytje Roelofse Schenck, 15 Feb 1687
6. Abraham (Abram) b. c. 1660 The second child baptized at Amsterdam / Als tweede kind laten zij te Amsterdam op 30 juli 1654 een zoon Abraham dopen, waarbij Maria Straetman als getuige optreedt./ B. about 1662, Flatbush, New Netherlands
7. Benjamin b. c. 1661.B. about 1660, Flatbush, New Netherlands
8. Elizabeth Hegeman, b. c. 1663 in Midwout (Flatbush), New Amsterdam (NY). / B. about 1665, Flatbush, New York; M. Tobias Ten Eyck, 12 Apr 1684

Deed

Pieter Stuyvesant deed conveying land to Adriaen Hegeman, April 12, 1661 ^[8] Description: This 1661 deed, signed by Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherlands, conveyed a plot of land in the village of Vlack Bos (Flatbush) to Adriaen Hegeman, an early Dutch settler. In 1784, Peter Lefferts (1753-1791) married Femmetie Hegeman (1760-1847), a descendant of Adriaen. After their marriage, Peter arranged to purchase 100 acres of the original Hegeman plot, thus enlarging the Lefferts family’s Flatbush homestead. After this transaction, the original deed passed into the hands of the Lefferts family.^[9]

Events

Op 28 februari 1651 stellen Joachim Straetman, in naam van zijn vrouws voorkinderen bij Hendrick Hegeman, Adriaen en Dionijs Hegeman zich borg voor het erfhuis van Aertien Hegemans, hun overleden grootmoeder,om de lasten op het erfhuis te voldoen.
Translated: On 28 February 1651 Joachim Straetman on behalf of his wifes pre children from Hendrik Hegeman, Adriaen and Dionijs Hegeman, stands surety for the heritage of Aertien Hegemans, their deceased grandmother, to pay the costs.

Adriaens broer Dionijs Hegeman, van Elburg, kruidenier in de Nes, 29 jaren, ging op 28 augustus 1653 te Amsterdam in ondertrouw met Susanna de Schilder, van Amsterdam, 30 jaren. Hun beider ouders waren overleden.
'Translated: Adriaens brother Dionijs Hegeman from Elburg and grocer in the Nes , 29 years of age posted banns for marriage on 28 august 1653 in Amsterdam.

Op 20 februari 1654 hebben Henrick Gerrits, als gevolmachtigde van Adriaen en Dionijs Hegeman, mitsgaders Helmich Hegeman, voor zichzelf en voor hun erfgenamen verkocht aan Dirck Peters C.S.6 schepel zaailand in de vrijheid van Elburg op de Noordkamp, stellende tot waarborg de helft van het zaailand bij het Olde kerkhof, waarvan Beert Stuyrman C.S.de andere helft toebehoort.

Op 16 oktober 1655 wordt Adriaen Hegeman, inwoner en magistraat van het dorp Midwout, gemachtigd samen met Jan Strijcker en Thomas Swarthout, om het dorp Midwout uit te leggen volgens een door hen voorgesteld plan, rekening houdende met het feit, dat zes plaatsen gereserveerd worden voor openbare gebouwen: het kantoor van de schout, het huis van de predikant, de secretarie, de school,een herberg en het gerechtsgebouw .

Op 29 november 1660 verschijnt voor de openbaar notaris Dirck van Schelluynen en getuigen: Jan Cornelissen Cleyn, meester timmerman te Betlehem in de kolonie Renselaerswijck, die verklaart te constitueren en constitueert mits deze Mr. Adriaen Hegeman, scholtus van Midwout, Amersfort en Breuckelen op Long Island, om zijn plantage in de jurisdictie van Midwout en zijn woonhuis in genoemde plaats zo goed mogelijk te verhuren . De akte hiervan ingekort:

Geloofd zij God. In Midwout verschenen op 29 November 1660 voor mij, Adriaan Hegernan, tegenwoordig secretaris van Midwout en Amersfoort in Nieuw-Nederland de hierna genoemde getuigen, Corneles Dercsen Hooghlant aan de ene zijde en Steven Coerts aan de andere zijde. De genoemde Cornelis D. Hooghlant verklaarde, dat hij had verkocht en Steven Coerts, dat hij had gekocht een stuk maisland gelegen te Amersfoort, tussen de bouwerij (akkerland) van Wolfert Gerritsen van Couwenhoven en Frans Jensen, timmerman, .......... te zamen met het huis en omgeving liggende te Amersfoort, de hooibergen, met het bouwhuis inclusief alle brouw-gereedschappen als ketels, vaten, tonnen en wat er meer toe behoort, met een wagen, een ploeg en een ijzeren eg, twee ossen, al het uitgezaaide graan, 4 schepels erwten en 4 schepels boekweit. Dit alles wordt verkocht met hetgeen aard- en nagelvast is, met de lasten en de lusten, zoals verkoper het bezeten heeft .......... Voor den aankoop van het bovengenoemde land enz. belooft Steven Coerts als koper te betalen aan C. D. Hooghlant, hiervoor genoemd of aan zijn rechtverkrijgenden de som van fl 400.- in Hollands geld en 3000 gulden in goed sewan (d.i. de door de Indianen als geld gebruikte bevervellen). Alles in 4 termijnen: de eerste termijn van fl 400.- in Hollands geld (na verkoop van 't sewan) zomer 1661, de tweede termijn groot fl 1000.- Mei 1662, de derde en vierde terrnijn tot gelijk bedrag achtereenvolgens Mei 1663 en 1664.De acte werd op 4 December 1660 ingeschreven en was getekend door Comelis Diercksen, Steven Koers, Nicholaes de Meyers en Aucke Jans.

Death

Adriaen Hegeman Died April 4, 1672 in Flatbush, Kings, New York, United States Adrian died in Flatbush in 1672 at the age of 48. He was buried in the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, the cemetery of the church he helped found ^[10].

Notes

There are two baptismal records where an Adriaen Hegeman is a witness well after 1672. "Adriaen Hagenaer" was a witness for a child born to Thomas Jansz van Dyck in 1675. And in 1690 when his daughter Elizabeth Hegeman married to Tobias van Eyck had a child baptized, "Adriaentje Hegemans" was a witness. ^[11] His first three sons all had sons named Adriaen Hegeman, but they were all born after 1680 and would not have been old enough in 1690 to be a witness at a baptism. It is possible Adrian Hegeman had a son named Adrian Hegeman.

Sources

1. ↑ Based on his marriage in 1649, where it says he is 25 and from Elburg, which normally would mean he was born there]
2. ↑ "Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, FamilySearch (: 21 August 2014 Marriage 7 March 1649]), Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1647-1649 > image 467 of 574; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague)
3. ↑ "Ancestry of Adriaen Hageman of New Netherland"
4. ↑ In the original marriage record,(see image) “Amsterdam” is represented by a special symbol derived from the letter A, and the syllable “burg” in “Achterburgwall” is represented by a curvy symbol somewhat resembling an ampersand. Catharina understates her age, for she had already passed her 24th birthday at the time. Melssen plausibly suggests that the phrase “ hy en broeder hebben” refers to the groom. A few errors have crept into published references to this document. “Achterburgwall” is misread as “Voorburgwal” in the article in Jaarboek van het C.B.G. 28 (1974), while the 1985 article in De Halve Maen mis-translates “syreder” as “silk merchant.”]
5. ↑ Een onderzoek in de archieven van Amsterdam leverde de akte van ondertrouw op: Adriaen Hegeman, van Elburg, zijreder, 25 jaren oud, ouders overleden, een broer hebbend, wonende in de Egelantierstraat, en Catharina Margits, van Amsterdam, 21 jaren oud, geassisteerd door haar vader Joseph Margits, wonende op de Ouwezijds Voorburgwal, dd. 29 januari 1649
   Amsterdam archive: intended marriage Church registration: inschrijvingsdatum : 29-01-1649
   naam bruidegom: Hegeman, Adriaan naam bruidegom: Hegelman, Adriaan naam bruid: Margist, Katrina naam bruid: Margits, Catharina.
   • bronverwijzing: DTB 466, p.339 opmerkingen: Huwelijksintekeningen van de KERK.Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Ondertrouwregister: NL-SAA 26348687
6. ↑ Ancestry Tree
7. ↑ Baptism son Hendricus
8. ↑ image original deed
9. ↑ Translation of Peter Stuyvesant deed conveying land to Adriaen Hegeman, circa 1800s; Lefferts family papers, ARC.145, box 1, folder 3; Brooklyn Historical Society Translated deed
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #41893849
11. ↑ 1690 Jan 30; Tobias ten Eyck, Lysbeth Hegeman; Adriaen; Coenraedt ten Eyck, Adriaentje Hegemans New Amsterdam Baptisms

See also:

• Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (Nederland), and Iconographisch Bureau (Nederland). Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie: en het Iconographisch Bureau. ('s-Gravenhage: Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, 1947-1971, c1972-), 35, 1974, Hegeman door Melssen

• Wardell, Patricia A. "Hagerman: Hageman, Adrian" njgsbc.org. Accessed 17 Oct 2016. http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/

• Early records of the city and county of Albany (Volume 3) New York State Library,History Bulletin 10; Albany 1918, p. 45-46.

• Register in alphabetical order, of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y.Adriaen Hegeman pg.132

• The Hegeman Family of New Netherland: a brief outline of the first three generations

• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 41 edited by Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, Hopper Striker Mott, George Austin Morrison, John Reynolds Totten, Louis Effingham De Forest, Harold Minot Pitman, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Arthur S. Maynard, Conklin Mann. 1910. pp 47-48

• Find a Grave Memorial Created by: Terry T Record added: Sep 13, 2009 find a grave 41893849

• R.A. Elburg 154. , RA. Elburg121, fol. 73. en C.B. Puyboeken Amsterdam en D.T.B. 466, blz. 339- D.T.B. 8, blz. 210 Source: R.A. Elburg 154. RA. Elburg 121, fol. 73

• Dutch emigration to North America 1624-1860 by B. H. Walbelke; New York 1944, p. 49.

• American Families of Historic Lineage by John Cornell, New York, nd, v.4, pp.203-8.

• Aulls-Bryan & Allied Families by Leslie A. Bryan, Ann Arbor, 1956, p.80.

• Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, ed. by Wilfred Jordan, v.2, pt.1, pp.812-13.

• The Dutch Settlers of Albany, v.5, Yearbook 1929-1930, Albany,pp .13-14.

• GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK ANDTHE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY, v.3, comp. by Cuyler Reynolds, 1914, New York, pp.1441-

• EARLY SETTLERS OF KINGS COUNTY, LONG ISLAND, N.Y., by Teunis G. Bergen, repr. 1973, Cottonport, LA, pp.135.

• AMERICAN ANCESTRY, v.10, 1895 (repr. 1968), by J. Munsells' Sons,pp.78-9.

• COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, v.4, 1930 (repr. 1987), ed. by Frederick A. Virkus, pp. 527,580.

• COMPILED GENEALOGY OF THE HAGAMAN FAMILY, 1650-1947, unpublished MSS at the Holland Society of NY, p.1.

• HAGEMAN-PENDLETON GENEALOGY, comp. by Ora E. Burnett & Ethel Millies, 1985, pp.1-2.

• THE STRYKER FAMILY IN AMERICA, v.1, by William N. Stryker, p.10. Ancestry of Adriaen Hegeman, comp. by John Hagaman - GEDCOM, Apr. 1999, printed on FTM (MSS.)Co., NY.3

• Early Settlers of Kings County, Teunis Bergen,1881

• The Bergen Family, Teunis Bergen, 1876, p. 406

• Published accounts of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland probably begin with Teunis G. Bergen’s Bergen Family (1866), which he expanded in the second edition of this work (1876) and also in his Register … of the early settlers of Kings County (1881).

• De Nederlandsche Leeuw,vol. 15, col. 208, + reply in vol. 17 (1899), cols. 46-8, which hinted at the possibility of, while not proving, his affiliation with Elburg in Gelderland.

• John J. DeMott’s 1952 manuscript on the “Hegeman Family” at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

• Literature: Teunis G. Bergen,The Bergen Family; or, the descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, one of the early settlers of New York and Brooklyn, L.I., 1st ed. (New York, 1866), p. 166 n; 2nd ed. (Albany, 1876), p. 406 n.;the same author’s Register … of the early settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y. … (New York, 1881), 134-9 (a good account of Adriaen Hegeman,but badly garbled in respect of his children);

• “Hegeman,” De Nederlandsche Leeuw 15 (1897): col. 208; J.C. Gijsberti Hodenpijl van Hodenpijl, “Hegeman,” De Nederlandsche Leeuw 17 (1899): cols. 46-48; 18 (1900): col. 255;

• William A. Eardeley, Chronology and Ancestry of Chauncey M. Depew; with fifty-four other affiliated families, [and] … an appendix on the Hegeman ancestry (New York, 1918), 187-96;

• Rosalie Fellows Bailey, “Signatures of Flatbush, L.I., Settlers,” pt. 2, De Halve Maen, 38, no. 2 (July 1963), 11-12, 14-15, at p. 15;

• John Blythe Dobson, “The Amsterdam years of Joseph Margetts, father-in-law of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland,” NYGBR 130 (1999): 174-80.

• Family History Library microfilm no. 113,205. This record has previously been quoted less completely in Rosalie Fellows Bailey, “Signatures of Flatbush, L.I., Settlers,” pt. 2, De Halve Maen, 38, no. 2 (July 1963), 11-12, 14-15, at p. 15; J.Th.M. Melssen, “De Familie Hegeman,” Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie 28 (1974): 28-45, at pp. 28, 39; “The Ancestry of Adriaen Hageman [sic] of New Netherland,”

• De Halve Maen, 58, no. 4, (Feb. 1985), 1-3, 21, at p. 1; and John Blythe Dobson, “The Amsterdam years of Joseph Margetts, father-in-law of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland,” NYGBR 130 (1999): 174-80, at pp. 178-9.

• "The Stryker Family in America" by William Norman Stryker, 1979.

• In "The History of the Town of Flatbush", (GenealogyLibrary.com), p. 109,

• Family Data Collection - Deaths. Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.

• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Gale Research. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.

• International Genealogical Index, Online Database Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS]. Publication: \i FamilySearch\i0 . http://www.familysearch.org : 2 Feb 2011 Date: 20 May 2011Source: #S-269701049: Page: Ancestry Family Trees Text: [ Ancestry.com]

• Dutch emigration to North America 1624-1860 by B. H. Walbelke; New York 1944, p. 49.

• New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920. Ancestry.com. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.

• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Page: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/9639887/person/397595735/facts

• World Family Tree: WFT#6, tree 3383 has some of his descendents. WFT#7, tree 2933 has some descendants as well.

• "The Hegeman Family of New Netherland: a brief outline of the first three generations." Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. Accessed Nov. 18, 2017. https://johnblythedobson.org/genealogy/index.html.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Hegeman-130 created through the import of RYER.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by Lawrence Schliessmann.
• This person was created through the import of Newman Family Tree.ged on 12 March 2011.