Notes on the Descendants of Hendrick and Jacomyntje, Children of Teunis
Van Pelt of New Netherland
This post is a follow-up of an earlier one entitled “Notes on the Descendants of Teunis Laenen Van Pelt of New Netherland.” That post provided an overview of the research on the family. “A Genealogy of the Van Pelt Family,”[1] by Effie M. Smith (hereinafter Smith) will form the basis for this family with additions and corrections made where appropriate.
Little is known of his
family. Teunis Bergen states that he was
listed in 1676 Tax List of Brooklyn, NY, assuming he used his patronymic name,
Hendrick Teunissen,[2] but
the current author was not able to find any additional information to corroborate
this.[2a] He is listed in the New Utrecht,
Kings County, NY, tax list of 1683.[3] He was one of the patentees for land in New
Utrecht on May 13, 1686 by Gov. Thomas Dongan.[4] He owned land on Guisbert’s Island, Kings
County, NY, as noted in its subsequent sale by the purchaser, Johannes Brouwer,
on 26 Jul 1693,[5]
though it is not known when Hendrick purchased or sold it. He was party to the sale of his father's land in 1700,[5a] indicating he lived in New York (no county specified). No subsequent records of Hendrick, or his
family, were found by the current author.
He is not listed in the Kings Co., NY, Oath of 1687,[6]
in the New Utrecht tax lists of 1693,[7]
in the census of Kings County, NY, in 1698,[8], in the tax lists of New York City, NY of 1695-1699,[9] nor in the 1706 census of Staten Island, NY.[9a]
As noted in a previous post, Notes
on the Descendants of Teunis Laenen Van Pelt of New Netherland, his son,
Peter3, did not marry Sarah Bogardus nor have the children
identified by Smith, [10] Peter3 Van Pelt (Jan2,Teunis1) being Sarah's husband.
It is unclear if Hendrick had a son named Hendrick3 as Smith gives no additional information about him[11] and no other records of him have been found. Teunis Bergen lists his supposed son, Hendrick3, who lived at Staten Island,[11a] but the current author has not found any records that clearly distinguish him from Hendrick3 Van Pelt (Jan2 , Teunis1) or Hendrick4 Van Pelt (Teunis3, Jan2, Teunis1)[11b] who also lived at Staten Island, at least for a time. A Hendrick Van Pelt appears in several Supreme Court of New Jersey cases in 1729 through 1731.[12] These could be in relation to this family as no other known Hendrick has been found, but it is uncertain. No other records of this family have been found in New Jersey or New York.
It is unclear if Hendrick had a son named Hendrick3 as Smith gives no additional information about him[11] and no other records of him have been found. Teunis Bergen lists his supposed son, Hendrick3, who lived at Staten Island,[11a] but the current author has not found any records that clearly distinguish him from Hendrick3 Van Pelt (Jan2 , Teunis1) or Hendrick4 Van Pelt (Teunis3, Jan2, Teunis1)[11b] who also lived at Staten Island, at least for a time. A Hendrick Van Pelt appears in several Supreme Court of New Jersey cases in 1729 through 1731.[12] These could be in relation to this family as no other known Hendrick has been found, but it is uncertain. No other records of this family have been found in New Jersey or New York.
The
Family of Jacomyntje2 Van Pelt (Teunis1)
As identified by Smith,[13]
Jacomyntje2 married Jochem Gulick. They had 10, not 9, children, as their son,
Samuel, in not noted in Jochem’s will, dated 20 Dec 1711, written in Gravesend,
NY and proved 26 Aug 1723[14]
(see also letters of administration issued for the intestate Jochem Gulick of
Gravesend to his son, John, on 4 Sep 1723).[15] Their children (not necessarily in birth
order) were (baptisms at Flatbush):[16]
1. Hendrick3, died before 06 Jan 1758[17] in Somerset Co., NJ, married Catherine Amerman;[18]
1. Hendrick3, died before 06 Jan 1758[17] in Somerset Co., NJ, married Catherine Amerman;[18]
2.
Cathelina, baptized 1
Jan 1681, married William Williamson;[19]
3.
Teunis, mentioned in his father's will;
4.
Samuel, baptized 5 Apr
1685, no further trace;
5.
Joachim, baptized 6
Feb 1687, married Geertje;[20]
6.
Peter, baptized 22 Sep
1689, died before 26 Jan 1775[21]
in Somerset Co., NJ, married Eva Van Sicklen;[22]
7.
Grietje, married Cornelius
Williamson;[23]
8.
Geertje, mentioned in her father's will;
9.
John, died before 23
Jul 1755[24]
at Rocky Hill, Somerset Co., NJ, married Rensje Van Sicklen;[25]
10.
Jacomyntje, died after
1756 (mentioned in her husband’s will), married Daniel Griggs whose first wife
was Catherine Stryker and who died in Amwell, Hunterdon, NJ before 14 Nov 1759
when his will was proved.[26]
[1] A Genealogy of the Van Pelt Family, compiled by Effie M.
Smith, The Rajput Press, Chicago, 1913, hereinafter Smith.
[2] Documentary History of the
State of New York Vol 2. by E.B. O'Callaghan, p. 269.
[2a] A Hendrick Thijnussen was a witness for the baptism of Aeltje, daughter of Mardaleen Hendricks (presumably daughter of Hendrick Thijnussen), at the Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn, NY on 7 Aug 1676, so probably not Hendrick Van Pelt, see Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York, First Book of Records, translated and edited by A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, p. 116.
[3] Documentary History of the State of New York Vol 2. by E.B. O'Callaghan, p. 287.
[2a] A Hendrick Thijnussen was a witness for the baptism of Aeltje, daughter of Mardaleen Hendricks (presumably daughter of Hendrick Thijnussen), at the Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn, NY on 7 Aug 1676, so probably not Hendrick Van Pelt, see Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York, First Book of Records, translated and edited by A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, p. 116.
[3] Documentary History of the State of New York Vol 2. by E.B. O'Callaghan, p. 287.
[4]
Reminiscences of Old New Utrecht and Gowanus, by Charlotte Rebecca Woglom
Bangs, p. 33.
[5] Register
in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, NY, by
Teunis G. Bergen, p. 53. I have not
found this record in Kings County, NY, Deeds to verify this.
[5a] Genealogical Gleanings from Book No. 2 of Conveyances, Brooklyn, Kings Co. NY, by Josephine Frost, RECORD 54(1923);311
[5a] Genealogical Gleanings from Book No. 2 of Conveyances, Brooklyn, Kings Co. NY, by Josephine Frost, RECORD 54(1923);311
[6] O’Callaghan, E. B., The
Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. 1, (Albany: Weed, Parsons
& Co., Public Printers, 1850) pp. 429-432.
[8] Documentary
History of the State of New York, by E. B. O'Callaghan, Vol 3, p. 133
[9]
Collections of the New York Historical Society, 1911, Tax lists of the City of New York, December, 1695-July
15th, 1699.
[9a] John E. Stillwell's Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, Vol I. 1903, pp. 149-156.
[10] Smith,
p. 172.
[11] Smith,
p. 26.
[11a] Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, NY, by Teunis G. Bergen, p. 355.
[11b] Staten Island and Its People, by Charles W. Leng, Vol 5, p. 98, mentions records of a Hendrick Van Pelt in Staten Island from 1696-1701, but this is undoubtedly in reference to the baptismal records of the children of Hendrick4 Van Pelt (Teunis3, Jan2, Teunis1).
[11a] Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, NY, by Teunis G. Bergen, p. 355.
[11b] Staten Island and Its People, by Charles W. Leng, Vol 5, p. 98, mentions records of a Hendrick Van Pelt in Staten Island from 1696-1701, but this is undoubtedly in reference to the baptismal records of the children of Hendrick4 Van Pelt (Teunis3, Jan2, Teunis1).
Case# Plaintiff Case Type County Year
43504* VanPelt,
Hendrick Hendrick VanPelt v.
Martha Sollem Unk Unk 1729
43507* VanPelt,
Hendrick Hendrick VanPelt v.
Matheu Sollom Unk Unk 1730
43506* VanPelt,
Hendrick Hendrick VanPelt v.
Cornelius Sollom Unk Unk 1730
43466 Vanpelt,
Hendrick Hendrick Vanpelt v.
Cornelius Sollem Unk Unk 1731
43084* VanPelt,
Hendrick Hendrick VanPelt v.
Myndert Lefever Debt Middlesex 1730
Martin [Martha?], Mathias and Cornelius were sons of Anthoni
Juchum Salm and Elizabeth Thyssen of New Utrecht and settled near New
Brunswick, Middlesex, NJ. Myndert Lefever was also of New Utrecht and settled near New Brunswick, Middlesex, NJ.
[13] Smith,
p. 20.
[14] Abstracts
of Wills in the Surrogate’s Office, New York City, Unrecorded Wills, Vol 11, p. 93.
[15]
Abstracts of Wills in the Surrogate’s Office, New York City, Vol 2, p. 272
[16] Records
of the Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol 1,
translated and edited by David William Voorhees: presumed Cathlina (no name),
p. 403; Samuel, p. 437; Joachim, p. 441; Peter, p. 446.
[17] Documents
Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol 32, Abstracts
of New Jersey Wills, Vol 3, p. 136.
[18] Her
maiden name appears in the baptismal records of her children, Catherine and
Mary, Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown, Genealogical
Magazine of New Jersey, Vol 22, p. 6, 33.
[19] Gerritsen-Willemsen Family Record, and Williamson Family of
Gravesend, by Aline L. Garretson, RECORD 133(2002):169
[20] Gulicks
of the USA., by David E. Guilick, p. 87.
Contrary to History and Genealogy of the Hoagland Family in America, by
Daniel Hoogland Carpenter, p. 183, the wife of Adrian Hoogland was Jacomyntje,
daughter of Joachim Gulick and his wife, Geertje.
[21] Documents
Relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey,
Vol 34, Abstracts of New Jersey Wills, Vol 5, p. 214.
[22] Gulicks
of the USA., by David E. Guilick, p. 122.
[23] Gerritsen-Willemsen
Family Record, and Williamson Family of Gravesend, by Aline L. Garretson, RECORD
133(2002):170
[24] Documents
Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol 32, Abstracts
of New Jersey Wills, Vol 3, p. 136.
[25] Gulicks
of the USA., by David E. Guilick, p. 227.
[26]
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol 32,
Abstracts of New Jersey Wills, Vol 3, p. 135.
