Dirck (Abramse) Brinckerhoff (1677 - 1748)

Born 16 Mar 1677 in Flushing, Queens County, Long Island, Province of New York

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 26 Apr 1748 at age 71 in Fishkill, Dutchess County, Province of New York

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Biography

Dirck was the 7th of 9 children. He was the son of Abraham Jorisz Brinckerhoff and Aeltje Strycker.^[1] Dirk [Abramse), b. Mar. 16, 1677; m. 1st 1700, Altie da. of Jan Gerretse Couwenhoven ; m. 2nd ________Hendrickse; d. Apl. 26,1748. Removed from Fl and settled in Flushing. The Brinckerhoffs bought in 1721 a tract of 1700 acres in Dutchess Co., as per p. 184 of Smith's His. of said Co.

Issue

1. Abraham of Fishkill, Dutchess Co., b. about 1700, m. Femmetje Remsen Vanderbeeck ;
2. John of Dutchess Co.,b. 1701, m, Jane da. of Johannes Van Voorhies, d. 1785
3. Joris of N. Y., b. 1705, d. 1768;
4. Jacob of Dutchess Co., b. 1714, m. Elizabeth Lent, d. 1758;
5. Isaac of Dutchess Co., b. Jan. 12, 1714, m. Feb. 28, 1737, Sarah Rapalje, d. Apl. 22, 1770;
6. Diana, (Garradine) m. Isaac Brinckerhoff;
7. Aeltie, m. W" Hoogland;
8. Susanna, m. Cor Luyster. ^[2]

The Brinckerhoff-Pudney-Palen House

home of the East Fishkill Historical Society^[3]

The year was 1718, and Madam Catherine Brett was beginning to offer her lands in Dutchess County for sale soon after her husband, Roger, drowned in a storm on the Hudson River after being knocked overboard from his sloop by one of the booms.

One of the first large purchasers was Dirck Brinckerhoff (1667-1748) of Flushing, Long Island. He bought from Madam Brett a tract of land of 2,000 acres lying along the "Vis Kill" (Fishkill Creek) from Fishkill village to Sprout Creek.

Will

Page 435.-- "In the name of God, Amen, March 16, 1744. I, DIRCK BRINCKERHOFF, of Flushing, Gent., being in health. I leave to my wife Elizabeth, œ16 a year, to be paid by my heir, provided she disanulls and makes void a certain Matrimonial Instrument made between us in her name, Elizabeth Anthony, bearing date June 25, 1742, and she is to make her choice. And my wife is also to take to herself a bed and bedstead and all furniture and her wearing apparell that belongs to her. I leave to my daughter Garradine, œ300. To my daughter Altye, œ300. To my daughter Susanah, œ300. All my household goods I leave as follows, viz.: To the children of my son Abraham, deceased, and to my children, John, Joris, Isaac, Jacobus, Garradine, Altye, and Susanah. "My eldest son's three sons shall have œ40 before any division, which is my son Abraham's birthright, and they are to give security to pay 40 shillings a year to my wife if required." All the rest of my movable estate, I leave to the children of my eldest son Abraham, deceased, and to my sons, John, Joris, Isaac, and Jacobus. All the rest of my lands in Flushing are to be sold by my executors. I leave to my sons all my lands in the Patent of Wawayanda, in Orange County. I make Nicholas Cowenhoven, of Brookland, Abraham Schenck, of Flushing, and Abraham Brinckerhoff, of Newtown, and my son Joris, executors." ^[4]

Church records

• 1677 Apr 02 Dirck - father: Abram Jorissen. Godparents; (?Piet)er Strijcker, Susanna Dubbels. ^[1]

1. 1703 Aug 15 Jan - Dirck Abramse, Aeltie Van Couwenhoven. Witnesses: Jan Van Couwenhoven, Gardina de Cilla. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database"
2. ↑ Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., From It's First Settlement by Europeans to 1700. New York, NY: S.W. Green's Son, 1881. p.48 [1]
3. ↑ Town of East Fishkill Historical Society [2] Accessed 24 Jun 2018
4. ↑ New York (County) Surrogate's Court. Abstract of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Volume IV. 1744-1753). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Library. New York: Printed for the Society, 1896. Available at [3]
5. ↑ Collections NY Gen. & Biog. Soc.: 1901, Vol. 2, Page 292

• Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed 30 Jun 2017. [4]Derick Abramsz Brinckerhoff

• Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society (New York)

• Thomas J. Ryan, Brinckerhoff, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #5490, Date of Import: May 9, 1999. note: has name Derick Brinckerhoff.

• John William Weaver, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #4325, Date of Import: May 9, 1999. note: has name Dirck Brinkerhoff.

• John Martin 'Marty' Brinckerhoff, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #0634, Date of Import: May 9, 1999. note: has name Dirck Brinckerhoff, husband of Aeltie Cowenhoven Brinckerhoff and Elizabeth Anthony Brinckerhoff.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998), "Electronic.": Ancestral File Number:

BKH0-GG

• https://www.brinckerhoffinn.com/history.html----

Research notes

LNAB

Abramse, Dirck's patronymic, is the "surname" that first appears in church records for him, at the baptism of his son Jan. Quackenbush-118 15:03, 19 July 2017 (EDT)

Misc.

Date of birth is 3/16/1677. His first wife Aeltie died when she was 62 and he was 63. He remarried two years later when he was 65 and died when he was 71.

from Jacqueline G. Forrestal, Mar 2000:

There is a colonial cemetery here in Queens, NY which has been part of a lawsuit. You may write to me or to Mr. Gallagher for more information: JamesG12@aol.com The following chain of correspondence probably explains it well enough, however.

Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Jacqueline G. Forrestal 00:48, 21 August 2015 (EDT)00:48, 21 August 2015 (EDT)00:48, 21 August 2015 (EDT)~ Message from James Gallagher: Hello Brinkerhoff Family members and other interested community groups. We need your help. Please forward this off to as many Brinkerhoffs and others as possible. Time is short. If you could e-mail to any in the Netherlands and Netherlands related media - newspapers, magazines, etc.

We (the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, Inc., founded in 1983) are fighting to have an empty abandoned lot in my community turned into a landmark. It is the burial place of 77 of the first settlers of this area. (the Brinkerhoff's, the Powell's, the Adriannes, the Lawrences, the Cornells, etc.) . Many of the tombstones are still there but are in very poor condition buried many years by weeds, undergrowth, and debris. If this community work doesn't stop maybe mine too !! Anyway it is an interesting story. I am leaving out a lot of details. However, if you could forward this letter to others I would appreciate it. I think we have a fighting chance if we can get an extension. A two week notice is insane. I'll send you retypes that were in local newspapers recently later tonight. The NY Times also did a story on it March 5, page 7 in "The City" section. Whatever you do will be greatly appreciated.

The Queens Historical Society has their own web page also. www.preserve2.org/qhs

Also check out the web page below. Interesting. on the history of the Brinkerhoff's check out www.aonet/~jm/heritage/brink.html

on fort totten: forttotten.org/bayside

Jim Gallagher, President Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, Inc.

Please read the attached letter.

Please forward the letter to as many as you can. We will need as much help as we can on this one. This is going to be a real grass roots campaign. A dollar here and a dollar there. We need to ask the judge for additional time. Two weeks to come up with $100,000. We need tons of phone calls to our local political leaders.

Paul's letter below is excellent.

We need as much help as we can get on this one. And a prayer.

Thank You again.

TTYL

From: Paul E. Kerson Attorney at Law 118-35 Queens Blvd., suite 1205, 12th Floor Forest Hills, New York 11375 (718)-793-882 FAX (718)-261 5013

To: James J. Gallagher, Jr., President Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, Inc.

Date: 03/12/00

Re: Brinkerhoff Cemetery

Dear Jim,

Please circulate the enclosed letter as early as possible among your members.

We must raise $100,000 within the next (2) TWO weeks.

Do not take "No" for an answer. A colonial cemetery can NEVER be replaced once it is gone.

All the best.

Signed Paul

text of the letter

Paul E. Kerson Attorney and Counsellor at Law Forest Hills Tower, suite 1205, 12th floor 118-35 Queens Blvd. Forest Hills, New York 11375

(718)-793-8822 FAX (718)-261-5013

March 12, 2000

Brinkerhoff Family Members Queens Historical Society Members Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, Inc. Members

Journalist who have written about the Brinkerhoff Cemetery

Elected Officials interested in the Brinkerhoff Cemetery

Re: Brinkerhoff v. DeDomenico Queens County Supreme Court

Dear Clients, Friends and Neighbors:

On Feb. 29, 2000, lawyers for the DeDomenico Estate and the City and I met with Justice Thomas Polizzi to discuss this case.

Justice Polizzi has given us until March 28, 2000 to finalize a settlement. He strongly suggested that the community come up with the funds to buy out the interest of the DeDomenico Estate in the colonial Brinkerhoff Cemetery so it can be preserved for all time.

After hard bargaining under Court supervision, I was able to get the DeDomenico Estate to reduce it's demand from $250,000 to $100,000. The attorney for the Estate has indicated that this is their final offer.

Why should we raise $100,000 ?

Why is this important?

Why have I worked on this case without fee for hours and hours on many days for over a year?

To answer these questions, I must tell you a story.

I knew my late grandparents well. Early in the last century, they were immigrants to the Bronx, New York. My father's parents are buried in a family plot on Staten Island. My mother's parents are buried in a large cemetery in Suffolk County.

However, the graves and monuments to my ancestors past my grandparents' generation were DELIBERATELY destroyed. Their villages, towns and cities were also destroyed. Their headstones were used as paving blocks and today constitute sidewalks and building foundations all over Eastern Europe.

Each and every spring for the past 3,500 years, my family gathers to recount the ancient written family history. We also re-tell the family history of the more recent past, to the extent we can remember it.

My brother's father-in-law rose to a very high position in this society. He was Vice Provost of an Ivy League University. A few years ago, the University sent him on an exchange program with Eastern European Universities. The walkways at one of them were constructed with the headstones of our ancestors.

Last spring, at our family gathering, there were tears in his eyes as he recounted how he witnessed students obliviously walking with muddy shoes on the inscriptions that were designed to honor the departed.

Cemeteries are important for the living. They tell us about who built our community, about how they lived and what they built, and why. Cemeteries make us think about the past, the present and the future, and the relationship among them.

But more importantly, a society that honors the memory of the dead will also honor the existence of the living.

The early Brinkerhoffs were part of a society that honored John Bowne's differing beliefs and thus laid the foundation for the most well-integrated, tolerant city and county since ancient Rome.

We cannot allow neglect to accomplish the evil the Europeans brought upon themselves by design. We are the New World, a society created by our ancestors to be better than the old one.

To honor the early Brinkerhoffs is to pay respect to all our forebears who built this city and county into the economic engine of human growth and progress it is today and hopefully always will be.

Fore $100,000, we can give this message to our descendants for all time. It is a small price to pay. Your personal or institutional contribution should be sent or committed this wee to Stanley Cogan, President, Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37th Avenue, Flushing, New York 11354, telephone (718) 939-0647.

If you are a journalist, I hope you will print this letter right away so our whole city and county will contribute.

I hope I can report to Justice Polizzi on March 28 that we have done our job - that we have projected American values far into the distant future.

Sincerely,

Paul E. Kerson

This a copy of a letter that we have been sending to Dutch related organizations asking for assistance.

FRESH MEADOWS HOMEOWNERS CIVIC ASSN., INC.

March 17, 2000

Ms. Marie Bronius Holland American Club of Dayton 1407 Cobblestone Street Dayton, OH 45432

Dear Ms. Bronius:

I am writing to you to solicit your assistance in the preservation of the historical landmark and cultural heritage of the early Dutch settlers in Queens, New York, particularly in Fresh Meadows.

I am referring to the 270 years old colonial Dutch cemetery, where 77 members of the Brinkerhoff family were buried. The earliest tombstone dates back in 1730. They were descendants of the oldest families in Queens - the Dutch settler Joris Dircksen Brinkerhoff who arrived to the "New Amsterdam" in 1642.

The Queens Historical Society and the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, Inc. spearheaded the preservation cause of this historical landmark. For many years, we searched for the owner of the property/cemetery. At present, our court claim is pending in the State Supreme Court. Justice Polizzi has given us until March 28, 2000 to finalize the $100,000.00 - and buyout the interest of the DeDominico Estate in the Brinkerhoff colonial cemetery, so it can be preserved for all time. This is a short time!

Please see attached newspaper articles from New York Times and Queens Chronicle; as well as the letter of appeal from our lawyer, Paul E. Kerson.

Our civic association survives from the $10.00 annual dues from its 480 paid members to defray cost of our regular newsletter. We solicited pro-bono assistance and services everywhere to bring this preservation of the Dutch American heritage to the present and hopefully to the future. Unfortunately, we have limited resources!

We need all the help we can gather to sustain the important task we have began. Can we count on you? Please send your financial support, payable to Queens Historical Society, with mailing address at 143-35 37th Avenue, Flushing New York, 11354 - Attention to Stanley Cogan - President (Tel. # 718-939-0647).

We are most grateful for your support.

Very truly yours,

James J. Gallagher, President

(Tel. No. 718-454-4326)

Abraham and Aeltje had another son Derick Brinckerhoff, who married Aeltie Janse Cowenhoven, daughter of Jan Gerretse Van Couwenhoven and Geradientje De Sille. Derick and Aeltje also settled for a time in Flushing and had 2 sons there, in about after 1700.

from Jacqueline Forrestal, Apr 2000:

Has anyone been in touch with you about your correspondence with me in March?

This is the GenExchange web site that lists the Brinkerhoff Cemetery:

Brinkerhoff Cemetery, Black Stump (QUEENS COUNTY NY) Address: 182nd Street @ Black Stump Road (73rd Ave) Records Information: What records exist for this cemetery have been entered into the Burial Index.

http://www.genexchange.com/CemListDetailco.CFM?ID=10309&State=NY&County=QUEENS

You can search for names at this site, too.

Jim Gallagher has told me that a benefit dinner will be held at the Douglaston Manor in Douglaston, Queens, on Tuesday, May 30th.

Also, Queens Public Television is filming the story this afternoon in Flushing, Queens.

I just want to be sure that you are "in the loop" =

Regards,

Jacqueline Forrestal