Johannes Pieterse van Brugh

Johannes Pieterse van Brugh (1624–1697) was one of the early settlers of New Netherland and is the progenitor of the Van Brugh family in the United States. He was prominently connected with the Dutch West India Company as a fur and timber trader in both Rensselaerswyck and New Amsterdam.^[1]

Early life and career

Johannes Pieterse van Brugh was born in Haarlem, The Netherlands in 1624.^[2] After emigrating to New Amsterdam, Van Brugh became a prominent trader with the Dutch West India Company and was one of the burgomasters of the city in 1656.^[3]

He prospered in New Netherland by exporting furs and timber consigned from upriver at Beverwijck.^[4] Due to his wealth, Van Brugh became a civic leader and improved his status in the new world by marrying his four daughters and two sons to some of the leading landholding families of the time.^[4]

His estate was located on property between Wall and William Streets on the west side of Pearl Street in what is today the Financial District of Manhattan.^[5]

Personal life

On March 29, 1658,^[2] Van Brugh was married at New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church to Catharine (or Katrina)^[6] Roeloffe Jans (1629–1684), widow of Lucas Rodenburgh (1620–1655), late vice-director of Curaçao.^[7] She was the daughter of Roeloff Jansen (1602–1636) and Anneke Jans (later Bogardus) (1605–1663).^[8][9][10] Together, they were the parents of several children together including:^[2][11]

• Helena Van Brugh (1659–1736), who married Theunis De Kay (1659–1708),^[6] who owned land on Whitehall Street.^[12]
• Anna Van Brugh (1662–1735), who married Andries Grevenraet (1659–1710).^[13][14]
• Catharina Van Brugh (1665–1730), who married Hendrick van Rensselaer (1667–1740), director of the Eastern patent and son of Jeremias van Rensselaer, the acting patroon of the manor of Rensselaerswyck.^[4]
• Pieter Van Brugh (1666–1740), who served as Mayor of Albany, New York from 1699 to 1700 and again from 1721 to 1723. He married Sara Cuyler (1670–1742).^[4]
• Maria Van Brugh (1673–1724), who married Stephen Richard (1670–1730),^[2] the grandson of a French nobleman.^[3]
• Johannes Van Brugh II (1671–1720), who married Margaretta Provoost (1673–1705), sister of David Provoost, the 24th Mayor of New York City.^[2]

Van Brugh made his will on December 22, 1696 and died in 1697.^[2]

Descendants

Through his daughter Anna, he was an ancestor of J. Hooker Hamersley, the prominent Gilded Age lawyer and poet.^[6]

Through his daughter Catharina, he was the grandfather of:

• Maria Van Rensselaer (1689–1756), who married Samuel Ten Broeck (1680–1756), son of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck;^[15]
• Catherine Van Rensselaer (1691–1770), who married Johannes Ten Broeck (1683–1765), another son of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck;^[16][17]
• Anna Van Rensselaer (1696–1756), who married Peter Douw. They were the grandparents of Peter Gansevoort and great-great-grandparents of Herman Melville);^[15]
• Johannes Van Rensselaer (1707/08–1783),^[18][19] who married Engeltje Livingston (1698–1746/7) and Gertrude Van Cortlandt;^[15]
• Hendrick van Rensselaer (1712–1763), who married Elizabeth van Brugh (1712–1753) and Alida (née Livingston) Rutsen (1716–1798);^[20]
• Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1717–1781), who married Ariantje Schuyler (1720–1763) and Maria Low.^[21]

Through his son Pieter, he was the grandfather of Catharina Van Brugh (born in 1689), who married Philip Livingston (1686–1749), the second lord of Livingston Manor.^[22]

References

Notes

1. Pearson, Jonathan (1872). Genealogies of First Settlers of the Ancient Country Albany 1630-1800. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 142. ISBN 9780806307299.
2. Pearson, Jonathan (1872). Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 142. ISBN 9780806307299. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
3. Woodbury, Charles Levi (1904). Genealogical Sketches of the Woodbury Family Its Intermarriages and Connections. Manchester, N.H.: John B. Clarke Company. pp. 206-207. ISBN 9785871921210. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
4. Bielinski, Stefan (2003). "Catharina Van Brugh Van Rensselaer". New York State Museum.
5. Stanwood, James Rindge (1882). The direct ancestry of the late Jacob Wendell, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. David Clapp & Son. p. 24. Pieterse prominently connected with the Dutch West India Company.
6. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1905). The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: History, Customs, Record of Events, Constitution, Certain Genealogies, and Other Matters of Interest. V. 1-. p. 72. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
7. Sisson, Edward Hawkins (2014). America the Great. Edward Sisson. p. 3123. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
8. Stefan Bielinski (December 14, 2014). "Anneke Jans". The People of Colonial Albany. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
9. "Curaçao Papers" (PDF). New Netherland Research Center -New Netherland Institute. July 30, 1984. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
10. "Anneke Jantz Bogardus". Times Union. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
11. Collections of the New-York Historical Society: Second series. New-York Historical Society. 1841. p. 395. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
12. Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America. The Huguenot Society of America. 1904. p. 54. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
13. Holland Society of New York (1896). Year Book of the Holland Society of New-York. The Secretary. p. 179. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
14. Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1904). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Devoted to the Interests of American Genealogy and Biography. Vol. XXXV. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 139. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
15. Reynolds, Cuyler (1911). Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
16. Bielinski, Stefan. "Johannes Ten Broeck", New York State Museum
17. Runk, Emma Ten Broeck (1897). Ten Broeck Genealogy, Being The Records and Annals of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck of Albany and his Descendants. New York, De Vinne press. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
18. Bielinski, Stefan. "John Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum
19. Find A Grave Memorials
20. Bielinski, Stefan. "Hendrick Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum
21. Bielinski, Stefan. "Kiliaen Van Rensselaer", New York State Museum
22. "Catharina Van Brugh". A Portrait of Livingston Manor, 1686-1850 by Ruth Piwonka (Clermont, NY, 1986), p. 33. Retrieved August 22, 2015.

Sources

• Howell, George Rogers (1886) Bi-centennial History of Albany: History of the County of Albany, N.Y. from 1609 to 1886 (W. W. Munsell & Company - Albany NY, Volume 2, page 658)
• Venema, Janny (2003) Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652–1664 (State University of New York Press) ISBN 978-0791460801

External links

• Loucks-Wallace Genealogy