Aegtjen Freer (abt. 1721)

Born about Apr 1721 in Kingston, Ulster, New York

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Biography

Aagjen was baptized in the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston, New York, on 2 April 1721, recorded as the child of Abraham Freer and Jannetjen de Graaff. Witnesses were Zalomon Freer and Neeltjen Freer.^[1]

Disputed Identity

She has sometimes been identified as the wife of Isaac Deyo, but that interpretation is not accepted here. There were three girls (first cousins) named Aagjen Freer born at approximately the same time. One of them married Isaac Dejou (Deyo), and researchers have reached different conclusions as to which girl this was. Morrison's 1903 article on "The Freer Family" identified this girl (Aagjen, the daughter of Abraham Freer and Jennetje de Graef who was baptized in 1721), as having married Isaac De Joo and Aagjen, the daughter of Hugo Freer and Marytjen de Witt who was baptized in 1725, as having married Isaac Deyon (a name that appears to be based on a bad transcription of a record). Morrison assigned three children to one wife and five children to the other.^[2] Ruth Heidgerd, in her 1968 book on The Freer Family identified Isaac's wife as the daughter of Abraham Freer and Jannetje de Graaf who was baptized in 1721.^[3] Heidgerd did not explain her reasoning. A third Aagjen Freer, daughter of Salomon Freer and Claartjen Westvaal, was baptized in 1722 and therefore also could have married in 1744. Morrison suggested that it was possible that she was the girl who married Isaac De Joo, but stated that he had placed that Aagjen as the daughter of Abraham Freer.^[4]

Based on analysis of the names of the children of Isaac de Joo and Aagjen Freer and the identities of baptism witnesses, the wife of Isaac de Joo is identified here as Aagjen Freer, daughter of Hugo Freer and Maria de Witt.

Church Records

Baptism

1. 1721. 2 April. Abraham Freer, Jannetjen de Graaff. Aagjen. Wit: Zalomon Freer, Neeltjen Freer.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hoes, page 135.
2. ↑ Morrison, George Austin. "The Freer Family of New Paltz, New York." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Volume 34, issue 2 (April 1903), pages 135 and 137.
3. ↑ Heidgerd, Ruth P. The Freer Family: The Descendants of Hugo Freer, Patentee of New Paltz. New Paltz, New York: Huguenot Historical Society, 1968. accessed on Ancestry.com, page 19 and 42.
4. ↑ Morrison, George Austin. "The Freer Family of New Paltz, New York." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Volume 34, issue 3 (July 1903), page 171.

• Heidgerd, Ruth P. The Freer Family: The Descendants of Hugo Freer, Patentee of New Paltz. New Paltz, New York: Huguenot Historical Society, 1968.

Acknowledgements

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