Jan (Derick or Derkison) Woertman was a son of Dirck Jans Woertman and Marrietje Teunis; christened 1665 in Breucklyn on Long Island (later Brooklyn, New York). He was married on 17 January 1690 in Brooklyn, New York, to Anna Maria Andries (Andriessen) (Chr 1670 in Brooklyn, Kings, N.Y.; daughter of Andries Jureadusen or Juriansen and Annetje Pieterse Praa.
The couple lived at first in or near Brooklyn, where their older children were baptized. Jan is recorded on the assessment roll of Brooklyn of 1693 and also in the census of 1698. sometime after 30 September 1698 (baptism of son Pieter in Brooklyn) they removed to the Raritan in Somerset County, New Jersey, where their later children were baptized. There appears to have been a John Woertman on the Raritan in 1699, as per p. 34 of Messler's Somerset County.[1]
The first move westward into the American hinterland began early for the Woertmans of New York, As early as 1650, a Dutch explore Cornelius Van Tunhover, had returned to the New York area to tell of a valley where the fattest deer roamed and 60-pound turkeys could be had for the shooting. This land, he said, was the pleasantest and handsomest place a man had ever seen. Huge pines, oaks, chestnut and hickory trees grew there, and a glistening river meandered through meadows and fields of corn. Not too long after this, negotiations began between the Dutch and the Raritan Indians; and, by the 6th of Dec. 1651, Augustine Hermanon had received a grant of almost all the entire northern half of what is now Somerset County--granted to him by the Raritan Indians.
Among the early settlers of this beautiful valley was Jan Derick Woertman (Wortman) who, with his family, came from Brooklyn Heights, New York, in the year 1699 his daughter Elizabeth being christened in Somerville in September of that year. By the year 1704, he removed to the village of Raritan where he remained for a number of years, moving from there with grown children to Pluckernin. Here he erected a long old-fashioned house made of logs that was to be known for many years as the Workman Homestead. Here a descendant, Jan Wortman, known as Squire Wortman (no doubt because of his vast estate of 500 acres) entertained the patriots, Gisbert Sutphel (see Catherine Wortman), Aaron MeIick, and Colonel Stephen Hunt when they met to plan their resistance to the British army a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed. It was here too that Jan Wortman, trained by his father in the family trade as a blacksmith, shed the horses of George Washington and his entourage during the RevoIutionary War. Some nights John and his helpers worked all through the night repairing the carriages and shoeing the horses so they would be ready for the General the next morning.
The Woertman tradition in America had been one of civic loyalty. Derick Jans had begun it in 1673 when he became an officer of his town in Brooklyn. Jan Derick continued it as Justice of the Peace in New Jersey; Squire Jan Wortman, his nephews and sons planned and worked for the revolutionary forces and from Somerset County Peter and Andrew Wortman joined the Militia. In a neighboring state from the county of Washington, Maryland, other Workman sons, whose record follows, on the 28th day of August 1776 joined the service declaring themselves, Isaac Workman, Stephen Workman, Joseph Workman, Jacob Workman, John Workman, and Andrew Workman, to be for the cause of liberty.
Birth
Jans Dericksen Woertman|Workman was born ca. 1665, at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York[2][3][4][5][6]
Parents
Father: Dirck Janse Woertman
Mother: Merritje Teunise Denyse
Marriage
Jan Dircksen married Anna Maria Andriessen on January 17, 1690/1 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.[7] His bride apparently was no older than about 15 or 16, so her marriage required her parents' consent.[8]
Children
Children of Jans Derick Woertman and Anna Maria Andries were:[9]
Andries, baptized 22 November 1691 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.
Dirck, baptized 26 November 1693 in Brooklyn, N. Y.; died in Bushwick, New York; married ELIZABETH ------------------- (born about 1696) and had children born in New Brunswick,New Jersey: Anna Marie Wortman born 3 Feb. 1723; Dirck Wortman born 28 March 1725; Jacobus Wortman born 21 April 1727; (Note the move for a time to New Jersey).
Jan Evertsen Bout, baptized 4 May 1695 in Brooklyn, New York. He was named for Jan Evertszen Bout, his maternal grandmother's first husband. married (1) BELITIE (BELLETJE) ------------------- (it is believed that she is the Belitie Woertman who died 19 June 1720). To this union was born: one child Janavera (John) Woertman born, 19 June 1720 but died soon. Jan married (2) NELLITJE --------------------- and had children born in Somerville, Somerset, New Jersey: William (Willem) Woertman born 17 Nov. 1721; Maria Woertman born 9 Feb .1724; Sarah Woertman born 5 Feb. 1727; Jan (John) Woertman born 1 Feb. 1729 and died 1807; Catherine Woertman born about 1730 and married Johannes Van Zendt.
Marritie (Mary), born about 1697
Pieter, baptized 30 September 1698 in Brooklyn.
Lisebet (Elizabeth), baptized 19 September 1699 in Somerville, New Jersey.
Jan, baptized 30 June 1703 in Raritan, New Jersey; died young.
Harmpje (Hermitien), baptized 25 October 1704 in Raritan, New Jersey.
Anna, baptzed 30 April 1707 in Raritan, New Jersey.
Abraham, baptized 27 April 1709 in Raritan, New Jersey.
Jan, born 25 October 1710 in Raritan, New Jersey.
Isaac, born about 1712.
Lodewyck, born about 1714.
Femmetje (Femmetchen), baptiezed 23 August 1716 in Raritan, New Jersey.
Additional notes on children
Dirck, bp. Nov. 26, 1693 in Brooklyn, N. Y.; died in Bushwick, New York; married ELIZABETH ------ (born about 1696) and had children born in New Brunswick, New Jersey: Anna Marie Wortman born 3 Feb. 1723; Dirck Wortman born 28 March 1725; Jacobus Wortman born 21 April 1727; (Note the move for a time to New Jersey).
Hermitien Woertman chr 25 Oct. 1704 in Raritan, New Jersey; married LUCUS COESVERT and had a son Isaac.
Anna Woertman chr 30 April 1707 in Raritan, New Jersey; married JACOB PIETERSE.
Church Records
Marriage
1690/91. Jan 17. Jan Dircksen Woertman, "young man, born under the jurisdiction of Breuckelen", and Anna Marrija Andries, "also born under the jurisdiction of Breuckelen", had their banns proclaimed, with consent, as far as I know, of Dirck Jansen Woertman, his father, and with consent of the stepfather of the bride and of Annitje Prara, her own mother. [7]
Research Notes
LNAB
Woertman is the surname that first appears in church records for Jan, at his marriage to Anna Marrija. Quackenbush-118 20:40, 18 July 2017 (EDT)
Sources
↑ Sources are needed for the factual statements in this paragraph.
↑ Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
↑ Family Data Collection - Individual Records. Edmund West, comp.. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Birth year: 1665; Birth city: Brooklyn; Birth state: NY
↑ Family Data Collection - Births Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Source number: 21010.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: WAY
↑ 7.07.1 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"
Barth, Barbara A., "The Family of Dirck Janszen Woertman of Brooklyn Ferry", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 132 (2001), issue 3, pages 195-199.
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DNA Connections
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Woertman-7 and Woertman-4 appear to represent the same person because: This is the oldest paternal ancestor in this chain in need of a merge into the new NNS PPP. No tree conflicts. We need to keep the patronymic name Jan Derikson and Born 1665, since the other is only abt 1670. Thanks!
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Woertman-22 and Woertman-7 appear to represent the same person because: This is the oldest paternal ancestor in this chain in need of a merge. No tree conflicts. These matches have been reviewed by the New Netherland Settlers Merge Approval System, and the "Green" destination NNS profile is protected as PPP, and the "Merge Pending" profile is now ready and able to be merged into it. I saved the data to the bios. Thanks!
may be the same person. There is a DNA match between GEDCOM T564240 and A354644 on Chromosome 5 of 29.7cms. Also read the fathers biography.