Daniel Polhemius (abt. 1662 - abt. 1730)

Born about 29 Nov 1662 in Flatbush, New Netherland

Ancestors

Husband of Neeltje Cornelisze (Vanderveer) Polhemius — married 13 Aug 1685 in Flatbush, Kings, New York

Descendants

Died about 1730 at about age 67 in Flatbush, Kings County, Province of New York

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Biography

Capt. Daniel Polhemius was born about 1662, in Midwout (Flatbush), L. I., and died there about 1730. Throughout his entire life he lived on his father's homestead in Flatbush which, as we have noted above, he acquired from his brothers and sisters in 1702.

On Aug. 13, 1685, Daniel Polhemius married, in the Flatbush Dutch Church, Neeltje Vanderveer by Rev Varick ^[1] who was living in 1705, when her husband made his will; she was a daughter of Cornelis Jans & Tryntje Gillis (Mandeville) Vanderveer. Daniel was listed as a patentee for the Town of Flatbush in the patent granted Nov. 12, 1685, by Gov. Thomas Dongan, and as a native he took the Oath of Allegiance in Kings County in September 1687 ^[2]. He served as Constable in Flatbush in 1690, as a Supervisor there from April 1705 to April 1707, and as Judge of Sessions in Kings County from 1722 to 1724 ^[3]

Daniel is shown as a Cornet of a Troop of Horse in Kings County on July 29, 1690 ^[4], and in 1700 as Captain of a similar unit in a regiment of Kings County Militia ^[5].

On March 17, 1701, the Clerk of the Council sent a letter to Capt. Daniel Polhemius of Kings County and to Capt. John Lawrence of Queens County, ordering them to bring over their respective troops of horse to attend the funeral of Gov. Bellomont ^[6]. The Council issued an order Dec. 14, 1699, on a petition of Engelbert Lott and other inhabitants of Flatbush against Daniel Polhemus, Roeloff Verkirk, John Vliet, and Isaac Hegeman ^[7], and on Jan. 3, 1707, Daniel himself signed a petition of the elders of the Dutch Congregation of Flatbush of which Mr. Freeman was the minister ^[8].

Like his elder brother Theodorus Polhemus, Capt. Daniel over the years was a party to numerous land transactions. On Jan. I, 1696, he sold to Jan Cornelise Vanderveer one-half of a corn mill, with its appurtenances, with one-half of the dwelling house and the ground belonging to it for 4000 gl. and on Jan. 19, 1698, he sold to the same party, the remaining half of the same ^[9]. In 1709 Daniel sold to Engelbert Lott the southerly one-third part of his farm. The latter's son Abraham Lott inherited this property from his father and in May 1730 bought the other two-thirds' part of the farm from the children of Daniel Polhemus.

Dec 1702 Daniel acknowledged delivery of a deed / patent for a double lot in Flatbush from his brother Theo, Johann Seabring, Cornelis Van Wyck and Johannes Williamse as co-heirs of their mother as originally given by Stuyvesant. Refer Long Island Conveyances document image att.)

On Nov. 30, 1709, Hendrick Ver Wey, mason, of Middletown Township, Monmouth County, N. J., conveyed to Daniel Polhemus, gentleman, of Flatbush in Kings County on Long Island, for £175, land with buildings in Monmouth County bounded by the North River, Samuel Hofmerce's land, Jumping Brook, and James Grover, Jr's., land ^[10].

Almost two decades later, on April 8, 1728, Capt. Daniel and Cornelius Cornell, yeoman, of Flatbush bought of Rip Van Dam and Lancaster Syms, Esq., of New York City, for £775, 708 acres of land on the west side of the Millstone River in Somerset County, along the land of Thomas Hart, of which Capt. Daniel was to have 433 acres and Cornelius Cornell 275 acres ^[11].

On May 4, 1729, Daniel Polhemus of Flatbush, "Island of Nassau," conveyed for £225, to Hendrick Polhemus of Somerset County, N. J., 240 acres of land; it consisted of 223 acres bounded by land of Thomas Hart, by land of Hendrick's brother, Daniel Polhemus, Jr., and by land of Cornelius Cornell, and 17 acres sold by Jacques Dircks of Kings County to Daniel Polhemus, and also bounded by land of Cornelius Cornell ^[12].

The will of Daniel Polhemus of Flatbush, dated Dec. 14, 1705, named his wife Neeltje and the following children: Johannes (the eldest), Catrina, Elizabeth, Cornelius, Jacob, Daniel, Marya, Hendrick, Abraham, and Margareitje; wife now with child. The executors were his kinsmen John Vanderveer and Cornelius Sebring. Witnesses Henry Ffilkin, Engelbardt Lott, and Aries Jansen. Recorded Lib 3 of Conveyances page 57. ^[13]. ^[14]

Abstract of his will was re-printed in "Long Island Source Records: From the New York page 6 NY Genealogical and Biographical..." By Henry Bainbridge Hoff, 2001 reprint Baltimore, Maryland.

Birth

Born 1662 in Flatbush, Kings, New York

Marriage

Husband of Neeltje C. Vanderveer — married August 13, 1685 in Flatbush, Kings, New York by Rev. Varick ^[15]

Children

1. Johannes b. abt. 1686...
2. Catrina b. abt. 1688; mar. abt. 1703, Jacob Duryea bap. Nov. 21, 1686, d. in 1758, a son of Joost & Magdalena (LeFebre) Duryea, and a brother of Abraham Duryea who mar. her cousin Elizabeth Polhemus no. 16. Jacob was a farmer who lived first in Bushwick and afterwards in Brooklyn....
3. Elizabeth b. abt. 1690; prob. d. unmar....
4. Cornelius b. abt. 1691....
5. Jacob b. abt. 1693....
6. Daniel bap. Nov. 29, 1695, in the Brooklyn Dutch Church; sponsors Johannes Sebring and Femmetje Michiel....
7. Marya bap. Oct. 2, 1698, in the Brooklyn Dutch Church; sponsors, Cornelius Sebring and Maria Vanderveer. Baptism entry as Maria in Brooklyn First Church, Protocolle Book, 1660-1664. ^[16]
8. Hendrick bap. Oct. 6, 1700, in the Brooklyn Dutch Church; sponsors, Johannes Van Wyck and Hendrickje Vanderveer. ^[17]
9. Abraham b. abt. 1702....
10. Margareitje bap. April 18, 1704, in the Brooklyn Dutch Church; sponsors Minicus Vanderveer and Maria his wife. Abt. 1727, mar. Derick Ammerman a son of Jan & Sarah (Wyckoff) Ammerman. ^[18]
11. Neeltje b. posthumously in 1706 and was undoubtedly the unnamed child referred to in her father's will. She mar. Nicholas Ammerman who d. in Hillsboro, N. J., in 1777, a son of Jan & Sarah (Wyckoff) Ammerman, and a brother of Derick Ammerman who mar. her sister Margareitje Polhemus no. 27. This couple moved from Long Island to New Jersey where the parents joined the Dutch Church in Readington in 1741. Later they went to Sourland, N. J., where Nicholas owned a two-hundred-acre farm....

Baptism Sponsors

17 August 1707 Daniel and Neeltje were witnesses to the baptism of Tryntje, daughter of Minicus Janse and his wife Johanna in Brooklyn. ^[19]

Death

Died Abt 1730 in Flatbush, Kings, New York. ^[20]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6961/42037_2421401696_0511-00171?pid=2080646
2. ↑ (S-HF:41; )-DH:I:429)
3. ↑ (S-HF:62 & 68).
4. ↑ (CHM:II:281)
5. ↑ (DRCH:IV:809)
6. ↑ (CHM:II:366)
7. ↑ ( CCM:145 )
8. ↑ (CHM:III:698)?
9. ↑ (B-KC:324)
10. ↑ (NJ-D:I:364)
11. ↑ (Ibid.:C-3:158)
12. ↑ (Ibid.:E-2:378)
13. ↑ (KC-D:III :57)
14. ↑ Long Island Source Records: From the New York Genealogical and Biographical ...https://books.google.ca/books?id=BKTGFtLlrrAC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=Daniel+polhemus+will+AND+1705&source=bl&ots=tCpv7ASaeV&sig=Mc39M4KF6Vg43aJSV21Fr0Tgk3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_s8PO78HRAhXFsVQKHf36AewQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=%20polhemus%20%20&f=false
15. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6961/42037_2421401696_0511-00171?pid=2080646
16. ↑ https://www.ancestry.ca/interactive/6961/43103_356291-00652.
17. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6961/42037_2421401696_0511-00045?pid=80447
18. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6961/42037_2421401696_0511-00045?pid=80447
19. ↑ Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Brooklyn and Flatbush NY, Book 72 Image 55 https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6961/images/42037_2421401696_0511-00055?pId=150081635
20. ↑ Long Island Source Records https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48331/images/LongIslandSrcRec-001959-104

• Source: (1) Peck, I. Heyward, "The Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemius and Some of His Descendants," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 90, pp. 172, 225-227 (1959)

• Abstract of the will - Long Island Source Records: From the New York page 6 NY Genealogical and Biographical ...By Henry Bainbridge Hoff, 2001 reprint Baltimore, Maryland. https://books.google.ca/books?id=BKTGFtLlrrAC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=Daniel+polhemus+will+AND+1705&source=bl&ots=tCpv7ASaeV&sig=Mc39M4KF6Vg43aJSV21Fr0Tgk3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_s8PO78HRAhXFsVQKHf36AewQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=%20polhemus%20%20&f=false

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Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Polhemius-15 created through the import of Misty_s ancestry.ged on Sep 16, 2012 by Misty Wood.
• WikiTree profiles Polhemius-30 and Polhemius-38 through the import of McKinney Family Tree - 2012-04-24 13-50-07.ged on Feb 27, 2013 by Cathy Ritter.
• WikiTree profile Polhemius-43 was created by Niesha Johnson through the import of Family Tree.ged on Oct 12, 2014.

• WikiTree profiles Polhemus-52 and Polhemus-54 created through the import of Ancestor's that we lost, the Decendants they left behind_2011-08-28_01 (2).ged on Sep 12, 2011 by Willette Bryant.
• WikiTree profile Polhemus-91 created through the import of Misty_s ancestry.ged on Sep 16, 2012 by Misty Wood.

All the above profiles have been merged into WikiTree profile Polhemius-30.