Jan Hendrickszen Brevoort (1644 - 1714)

Born 1644 in Bredevoort, Utrecht, Guilderland, Netherlands [uncertain]

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Died 28 Oct 1714 at about age 70 in New York, Province of New York

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Biography

On 5 January 1639, Jan Hendrickszen Brevoort was born in Brevoort a small hamlet near Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands (located about 30 miles SE of Amsterdam and one mile outside the city walls of Amersfoort). His father was Hendrick Janszen.

He arrived in New Netherlands, America about 1660 with his parents and siblings. "Brevoort was only 14 years old when Harlem village was first settled. He was living at that time at Bushwick, with his father, Hendrick Jansen Van Brevoort. Their farm was on a little eminence called Kyckuyt [Kykuit, Lenape word for lookout; which delineated a rough circle that is today’s Division Avenue, Kent Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue and Keap Street]. Young Brevoort was often called Kyckuyt on this account, and is even mentioned on the later tax lists of Harlem as Jan Hendricks Brevoort, alias Kyckuyt. About 1677, he and his father began using the surname Brevoort taken from their home town in Holland. Jan was one of the early members of the Corporation of the Town of New Harlem: "Situated in that portion of Manhattan Island, north and east of a line running from 74th Street and the East River to 129th Street on the Hudson." It is included by this description in the Charter issued by King James the Second of England thru Governor Thomas Dongan in 1686.

Jan was active in the Dutch Church at Harlem (no longer standing but original church and cemetery were located at 125th Street, about midway between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) and also in public affairs, serving as overseer of the town (1678 and 1679) and as constable at various times.

He married Annetje Bastianens from Werckhoven, Utrecht (about 18 miles SW of Amsfoort) on 29 January 1668. She was probably the daughter of Bastiaen Ellison, who lived near Stuyvensant's Bowery (property bounded by 14th and 10th Streets, Bowery and 6th Avenue; (now Greenwich Village) which was conveyed to Jan on 13 November 1701.

In 1706 he was listed as a tax payer in the Common Council of NY minutes.He was a tutor (guardian) of the children of Henerick Bastieanense, whose widow was likely Jan's sister. He was a farmer and Assistant Alderman in The Bowery, Manhattan from about 1702 -1714.

His will is dated 28 October 1714, proven 21 December 1714 in New York. So he died sometime between these dates.

Notes. 1. Name changes through time and usage were common with early immigrants to America at this time. The surname naming pattern of the next generation as a modified father's first name is quite interesting, especially when trying to locate earlier ancestors. 2. Brevoort Playground, NYC "This playground and the adjacent housing development are named for one of New York’s oldest families, the Brevoorts. Today, the Brevoort real estate firm still maintains some of the family’s holdings, including a Manhattan residential building called The Brevoort at 11 Fifth Avenue. The Brevoort name, like the name Stuyvesant, is synonymous with the story of Old New York." see http://www.klein-kraepelin.com/about-the-brevoort-11-fifth-avenue/ for more information; purportedly once Buddy Holly's home 3. The land holdings of the Brevoort family in Manhattan expanded to about 80 acres by 1771. The property stretched from the Bowery to 6th Avenue and from what is now 9th Street to18th Street. 4. Koppelpoort Amersfort (Medieval Gate) photo was taken by Bert from Netherlands - Amersfoort, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7296659 5. Painting of Harlem Waterfront “Manual of the Corporation of the City of New-York,” 1863. The Harlem waterfront as it appeared in 1765. The steeple of the Reformed Low Dutch Church can be seen at the far right. Just below are what appear to be headstones. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/under-a-bus-depot-traces-perhaps-of-nieuw-haarlem/?_r=0 6. About Bushwick: Now a neighborhood in Brooklyn. "In 1638, the Dutch West India Company secured a deed from the local Lenape people for the Bushwick area, and Peter Stuyvesant chartered the area in 1661, naming it Boswijck, meaning "little town in the woods" or "heavy woods" in 17th-century Dutch. Its area included the modern-day communities of Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint. Bushwick was the last of the original six Dutch towns of Brooklyn to be established within New Netherland." http://forgotten-ny.com/2005/11/broadway-brooklyn/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick,_Brooklyn#cite_note-Citycyclopedia-35

See also: https://books.google.com/books?id=iK1J8ESty44C&pg=PA495&lpg=PA495&dq=brevoort+utrecht&source=bl&ots=T-1GMHLqDR&sig=up8sXQ0Q-kzLMXdLIythmarIQuI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv0d_rk6TRAhXJ4iYKHfD9CqAQ6AEIQDAH#v=onepage&q=brevoort%20utrecht&f=false

Church records

• 1668 29 Jan Jan Hendrickszen, j.m. Van Amsersfoort, op Mispat, en Annetje Bastiaens, j.d. Van Werckhoven. ^[1]

1. 1669 13 Jan Hendrickje, Jan Hendrickszen, Annetie Bastiaenszen. Wit.: Hendrick Bastiaenszen, Anna Bordings.
2. 1670 17 Dec Hendrick, Jan Hendrickszen, Jannetje Jans [sic]. Wit.: Gysbert Van Loenen, Marritie Hendricks.
3. 1673 12 Nov Marritie, Jan Hendrickszen, Annetie Bastiaens. Wit.: Cornelis Bastiaenszen, Metje Bastiaens.
4. 1676 21 Jun Elias, Jan Hendrickszen, Annetie Bastiaens. Wit.: Laurens Janszen, Annetie Bastiaens.
5. 1679 09 Apr Jannetje, Jan Hendrickszen, Annetie Bastiaens. Wit.: Joost Van Oblinus, Mayken Cammut. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Samuel S. Purple. "Marriages from 1639 to 1801 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York" In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. I. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.
2. ↑ Thomas Grier Evans. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.

• NJGS. "Brevoort." njgsbc.org. Accessed 13 Jun 2016. http://njgsbc.org/files/BCFamilies/BCFam-Brevoort.pdf PDF

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• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/4559699/person/61197261/facts