Frans Janszen Bloetgoet (abt. 1623 - aft. 1676)

Born about 1623 in Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Lijsbet Jans — married 8 Feb 1653 in Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Descendants

Died after 29 Dec 1676 after about age 53 in Flushing, Queens County, Province of New York

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Biography

Frans Janszen Bloetgoet is Notable.

Frans Jansen Bloodgood/Frans Janszen Bloetgoet b. s 1623, d. c 29 Dec 1676 son of father: Jan Heyndrickse Goetbloet ( Jan Hendricks) Bloetgoet of Amsterdam, father of Frans Jansen, who was married on October 28, 1612 at Gouda, Holland to Frans's mother Geerten/Geertgen Thomas( van Gouda/from Gouda). Franz Jansen Bloodgood was born say 1623 at Gouda, The Netherlands. He married Lysbeth Jans at Reedijk, near Gouda, The Netherlands, on 8 February 1645. Frans Jansen Bloodgood died circa 29 December 1676 at Flushing, Queens Co., Long Island, New York.

"Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (c. 1623 - 29 December 1676) became a prominent immigrant leader in New Netherland: first, as secretary to the New Netherland Colonies on the Delaware river in 1659, and then he was appointed Schepen of Flushing, Queens, Long Island in 1673. On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the western Long Island settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown."

"Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (Bloodgood) ( - 1676) is supposed to have been a resident of Gouda, Holland, born about 1635, and emigrating to America in 1658, the year after his marriage to Lysabeth Jans of Gouda. He is first found in Flushing, Long Island, on November 4, 1659. In that year he was an agent of the Dutch Commissioners to New Amstel, the Colony on the Delaware, an office he held at other periods as late as 1673. In 1660 he owned land in Flatbush and was sued that same year in New Amsterdam for rent owed Pieter Hermzen. He was Schepen at Flushing in 1673, and in 1674 Deputy to New Orange (New York). On March 24, 1674, he was made Chief Officer (Schout) of the inhabitants of the Dutch Nation dwelling in the Towns of Flushing, Heemstede (Hempstead), Rustdorp (Jamaica) and Middleburgh (Newtown). His duty was to warn them on the approach of the enemy to repair to New Orange with arms. He held no actual military commission, although generally referred to now as Captain. Upon the second surrender of New York to the English he was Privy Counsellor to the Governor. By trade he was a carpenter and builder and seems to have been prosperous in business. His will is dated at Flushing, December 29, 1676, but is unrecorded. He states that he is sorely wounded and very weak and is supposed to have been engaged in a skirmish with Indians at Whitestone, L. I. He presumably died the same day that he made his brief testament. He was a good Dutchman, although living in Flushing, an English settlement, and had his five children all taken to New Amsterdam for baptism. His widow survived him and married again in 1679, taking Wouter Guysbertse of Brooklyn, as her second husband."^[1]

Name

Also known as Frans Bloedgoed, Frans Goetbloet, Frans Bloetgoet, Frans Goedbloedt, Frans Bloedtgoedt.

Birth

About 1623 Gouda, Zuid-Holland.

About 1635 Gouda, Zuid-Holland. ^[2]

Marriage

Frans Jans Bloetgoet married Lijsbet Jans.

• The marriage was recorded on 08 Feb 1654 in Gouda, South Holland, the Netherlands. ^[3]

Children

1. Geertie
2. Jan doopdatum: 13-12-1656; vader: Frans Jansen Bloetgoet; moeder: Lijsbet Jans; ^[4][5]
3. Adrianentje ^[6]
4. Ibel
5. Judith
6. William ^[7]
7. Neeltje
8. Jan
9. Lysbeth

Arrival

1658-1659 New York, New York. ^[8][9]

Will & Death

The will of Frans Bloetgoet was dated December 29, 1676 in Flushing and read: "In the name of God, amen I Fraancis Bloodgood being sorely wounded and weak, I make my wife, Elizabeth executive and she is to dispose of my estate to my children according to their duties and deserts."

His will was proved on or before 13 Jan 1676/77. (The original is not recorded in the will books although a copy has survived and has been filmed)

In 1675 an inventory of Frans Bloetgoet's estate included lands, 3 meadows, 10 horses and mare, 1 oxen and boles, 4 cows, 5 swine, 40 sheep.

This will was transmitted to the Office of Records on Fanuary 13, 1677. It was the very first will to be filed in the Surrogates Office in New York where for years it could be seen and copied. Wills were later transferred to Jamaica and stored. They have since been destroyed by a fire.

Because of the time period when Frans was mortally wounded, at least one record states that Frans may have been wounded in a skirmish with the English from Connecticut.

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogical record, Saint Nicholas society of the city of New York, organized February 28, 1835, incorporated April 17, 1841 (Volume 2), quoted at a family tree at ancestry.com. The original book can be read here.
2. ↑ Genealogical Record, Volume II, The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1916) p. 90.
3. ↑ "Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Province, Church Records, 1076-1916," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-31118-3659-43?cc=2037907 : 21 August 2014), Nederlands Hervormde > Gouda > Dopen 1574 Trouwen 1574-1624, 1629-1660 Attestaties 1652-1660 > image 816 of 963; Rijksarchiefdienst Nederlands, Zuid-Holland (Netherlands National Archives, Zuid-Holland). Dopen 1574 Trouwen 1574-1624, 1629-1660 Attestaties 1652-1660. left page, last entry
4. ↑ OpenArch Amsterdam City Archives (Netherlands) - Church records baptisms DTB 94, p.248, Amsterdam, archive NL-SAA-908173
5. ↑ "Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-31159-2507-13?cc=2037985 : 21 August 2014), Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Dopen 1641-1661 > image 313 of 570; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague). left page, second entry
6. ↑ "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 6:46. Arianetje; parents Frans Bloedtgoedt, Lysbeth Jans.
7. ↑ "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 7:76. Wilhelmus; parents: Frans Goedbloedt, Lysbeth Jans.
8. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry.com Note: Place: New York, New York; Year: 1658; Page Number: 89
9. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Arrival Place: New York, New York; Year: 1659; Page Number:13. Ancestry.

• Wikipedia contributors, "Frans Jansen Bloetgoet," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet&oldid=743770658 (accessed January 28, 2017) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet (2022 version).

• NJGS. "Bloodgood, Bloetgoedt: [Bloodgood] Bloedtgoedt, Frans Janszen." njgsbc.org. Accessed 02 Oct 2016. http://njgsbc.org

• Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database" (2016) Capt. Franz Jansen Bloodgood.

• Dobson, John Blythe. "The Earliest Generations of the Goetbloet alias Bloetgoet Family" in New Netherlands Connections 12 (2007) pp. 12-15.

• Smith, J. & B. Captain Frans Janse Bloetgoet: Bloodgood Descendants to Update "Bloodgood Genealogy" (1999).

• Smith, William T. Bloodgood Genealogy From 1462 - 1999 (Metuchen, New Jersey, 1999) [1].

• Howard S.F. Randolph, "Teuntje Teunis and Her Descendants",

• New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.59 (1928): 59:14. Hereinafter cited as "Teuntje Teunis, NYGBR 59 (1928)."

• David William Voorhees, editor, Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol.1, 1677-1720 (New York: Holland Society of New York, 1998), page 223. Wouter Gijsbrechtsz, young man from Hilversum in Holland, residing at Brooklyn, with Lijsbeth Jans, from Gouda, widow of Frans Bloedgoed, residing at Flushing in this country; and married the 14th Dec. at Brooklyn, with certificate from Flushing aforesaid. Hereinafter cited as RDC Flatbush Recs.

• Thomas Grier Evans, editor, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 2 (New York: Printed for the Society, 1901), page 118. Lysbeth; parents: Frans Goetbloet, Lysbeth Jans; witnesses: Lysbeth Hertmans. Hereinafter cited as Baptisms RDC New Amsterdam/New York (1639-1730).

• Howard L. Swain, "Frans Bloodgood (Bloedtgoedt) of Flushing, New York", New Netherland Connections Vol. 12, pp.1-11 (2007). Note 34 cites Original Wills, Box 1-180, 1662-1761, FHL film #0501142, file (box) 27.

• Thomas Grier Evans, editor, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 2 (New York: Printed for the Society, 1901), page 107. Jan; parents: Frans Goedtbloedt, Lysbeth Jans.

• Parker, Mrs. Annie Bloodgood, "Captain Frans Bloodgood of Flushing, Long Island, and some of his Descendants", in Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, v.6, #3 (March 1917), pp.229-232.

• Joel Munsell's Sons, publisher, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous, to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776, repr. 1968, Baltimore, v.4, p.118; v. 5, pp.235-6.

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Richard Draper Katharine Mounger Hal Wolverton

• This person was created on 13 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.