Joost van den Bogaert
Joost van den Bogaert, involved in the earliest days of the New Netherland colonies, the South or Delaware River especially, married Angnieta (Niesjen) Jans Selijns in February 1618. She was an earlier relative of the Domine Hendrick Selyns who served as a minister in the New York for two periods not long after the Dutch colonies were taken over by the English.
Angnieta Selijns' parents were Jan Jeanszen Selyns (1555-1624, of Jean Willemsz Selyns) and Apollonia Hansdr Sprenckhuysen.
Joost van den Bogaert was in the South River (Delaware) region of New Netherland as early as 1624, or sooner. Under date Jan. 1625, in "Chronology: Addenda", I. N. Phelps Stokes in his Iconography quotes "Instructions for Willem Van Hulst" (Willem Verhulst) an early director of New-Netherland who followed the administration of Cornelis Jacobsen May and preceded Pieter Minuit's administration. The Instructions include this paragraph concerning (skipper) Joost van den Bogaert, who had been in New Netherland earlier, and was still there in 1625. Bracketed additions in the extract below are mine (EJ):
"And whereas Joost van den Boogaert requests permission to come over [[to Holland]] on a visit, he [[Verhulst]] shall allow him to do so, but first have him draw up the account of his entire administration, both of the trading-goods sent with Jan Brouwer and Cornelis Jacobsz Mey and those that came over for Pieter Courten, and advise us distinctly of whatever fault he may have to find with the said account." [Stokes, I. N. Phelps, The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909, Vol. 6 (New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928), p. 8]
This part of the "Instructions for Willem Van Hulst" is also interesting, since in a following paragraph, the instructions require Director Willem Verhulst "to have his usual place of residence on the South River, the skippers being present there are joined to him as councillors, with whom he shall deliberate and act upon all matters of importance." Clearly the headquarters of New Netherland at the time these instructions were issued was in the South (Delaware) River. This residence was on "High Island" near (now) Trenton, NJ. Van Laer reports that Joost van den Bogaert returned to Holland later in 1625.
Joost van den Bogaert and his wife Angnieta Selijns had several children baptized in Amsterdam between 1621 and 1635:
kind Apolonia kind Clar
vader Joos van den Bogaert vader Joos van den Bogaert
moeder Niesje van den Bogaert moeder Angnieta Selijns
doop 21 november 1621 doop 7 januari 1625
religie Hervormd, Nieuwe kerk religie Hervormd, Nieuwe kerk
SAA 40/148 SAA 40/287
kind Abraham kind Anna
vader Joos van der Bogaert vader Joost van den Bogaert
moeder Angneta Selijns moeder Angnietje Selijns
doop 10 maart 1630 doop 4 mei 1632
religie Hervormd, Nieuwe kerk religie Hervormd, Nieuwe kerk
SAA 41 p.71 SAA 41/191
kind Marija
vader Joost van den Boogaert
moeder Angnieta Selijs
doop 25 januari 1635
religie Hervormd, Oude kerk
SAA 7/27
Possibly Joost van den Bogart had an earlier child in 1620, who died as an infant.
ingeschrevene:
Boghaert, Joost
relatie informatie:
Kind van
datum begrafenis:
25-02-1620
begraafplaats:
Zuider Kerk
SAA Begraafregisters voor 1811; NL-SAA-11231484
As one of the first members of the governing council of New Netherland, Joost van den Boogaert most certainly knew Pieter Minuit, a director of New Netherland from 1626 until his recall from service in 1632. Minuit later worked for the crown of Sweden, for which in March 1638 he established a Swedish colony in the South (Delaware) River. A footnote from Documents Relating to New Netherland, 1624-1626 (A. J. F van Laer) elaborates further upon Joost van den Bogaert's movements in 1625, and on his activities as late as the year 1640:
"Joost van den Boogaert probably returned to Holland on the ship "Orangenboom," which was to leave New Netherland at the end of August 1625. His name does not appear after that date in connection with New Netherland history. On April 19, 1637, he was a witness to the baptism of Ysaac, son of Ysaac de Rasiere and Eva Bartels, at Recife, Brazil (Algemeen Nederlandsch Familieblad, 1888, 5:142). In 1640 he entered the service of the Crown of Sweden and came to New Sweden as agent in charge of a colony of emigrants from the province of Utrecht, who settled in the vicinity of Fort Christina. In Beauchamp Plantagenet's Description of the Province of New Albion, printed in 1648, he is referred to as "one Bagot under the Swedes name and Commission, there traded to crosse the Dutch of Manhattas, and to undersell them, and left and seated there eighteen Swedes, who proclaiming a gold mine drew more to them, and have gotten a great trade." (See Amandus Johnson, The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, I:137, 141-44, 200, 203; and "Zweedsche Archivalia," edited by G. W. Kernkamp, in Historisch Genootschap, Bijdragen en Mededeelingen, 1908, 29:56, 191.) [Source: Van Laer, A.J.F., Documents Relating to New Netherland 1624-1626, trans & ed. A.J.F van Laer, in the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., 1924, p. 262, note 12 --online at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/huntcexp.html].
In 1637, Pieter Minuit himself had engaged in service for the crown of Sweden, after being recalled from his directorship of New Netherland by the Dutch West Indies Company. But in view of Johan Printz's instructions to send the Utrecht colonists away, it would be interesting to see how Joost van den Boagert had "entered the service of the Crown of Sweden and came to New Sweden as agent in charge of a colony of emigrants from the province of Utrecht" --yet his colony was driven away from the vicinty of the Swedish Fort Christina. It would be worthwhile to check New Amsterdam and other Dutch church marriage records in the late 1630s and into the 1640s, to see which persons stated their place of origin as Utrecht.
Joost van den Bogaert may not have returned to New Netherland after 1625, but he did go at least one season to Brazil. He appears as a sponsor in the Dutch baptismal records of Brazil several times during the year 1637, the year of the inception of the New Sweden colony. Probably van den Bogaert was voyaging and trading in the Caribbean during that season. Joost van den Bogaert was a sponsor at baptisms in Brazil between Februrary and September 1637, including the baptism of a son of Isaac de Rasiere, and a son of Admiral Cornelis Lichthart. Joost's wife, Angnieta Selijns, had most likely accompanied him to Brazil on his 1637 voyage, since she was also a sponsor at a Brazil baptism in 1637, and not noted as having someone stand in her place on that occasion.
[1637] Febr. 1. Aeltien. Ouders: Harman Hendricks an Janneten Lamberts; get.: Joost van den Bogaert, Jacob Coets, Anna Janss, Lijsbeth Philips
[1637] Apr. 19. Ysaac. Ouders: Ysaac de Rasiere en Eva Bartels; get.: Dhr Servatius Carpentier, Joost van den Bogart, Maria Solers, Joanna de Ridders.
[1637] July 12. Johannes. Ouders: Dhr. Jan Corn. Lichthart en Anna Janss; get.: Dhr Jacob Stackhower, Joost van den Bogart, Elbert Crispijns, Eva Bartels, Anna Baccelier.
[1637] -- September 18. Jacob. Ouders: Jan Jacobss en Naomie de Four; get.: Joost van den Bogaert, Matthijs Becx, Agnieta Selijns, Margareta Soler.
Angnieta Selijns, the wife of Joost van den Bogaert, is said to have died in Brazil in 1639. Some of their children married and had families in Brazil.
In 1642, Joost van den Bogaert attempted to establish a settlement in the South (Delaware) River. See the extract below from C.A. Weslager's work, Dutch Explorers, Traders and Settlers in the Delaware Valley. Double-bracketed annotations in the extract are the author's (EJ), and footnotes have been preserved but expanded to include the full titles of works cited in the footnotes:
"Some persons in Holland recognized the importance of furthering the colonization of the Delaware; but, failing to get the company's support, they arranged to settle under Swedish auspices. On November 2, 1642, a party of Dutch settlers from Utrecht arrived at Fort Christina [[a settlement of the New Sweden colony in the Delaware --now Wilmington, Dleaware]] under the leadership of Joost van Bogaert, who had been in New netherland earlier and had been a member of Verhulst's council.[72] Evidently these Bogaert followers settled a short distance from Fort Christina, which made the Swedish authorities feel a little uncomfortable; when Printz left Sweden to take charge of the colony, he was instructed to tell then "to leave that place and betake themselves further away from said fort."[73] It is not certain where these Dutch ultimately settled, but their community did not survuve and the members apparently scattered and settled among the Swedes and other Dutch.[74]"
72. Van Laer, Documents Relating to New Netherland 1624-1626, trans & ed. A.J.F van Laer, in the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., 1924, p. 262, note 14.
73. "The Instruction for Johan Printz" (trans. Amandus Johnson, Swedish Colonial Society, Philadelphia, 1925), pp. 76-78.
74. Johnson gives further details about this colonization in Swedish Settlements* 1:136, 137, 200-203. See p. 203 fn 21, to the effect that Bogaert was the individual called Bogot in Plantagenet's Description of the Province of New Albion.
[Source: C.A. Weslager and A.R. Dunlap, Dutch Explorers, Traders and Settlers in the Delaware Valley. 1961/1965. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 157-158]
*Full title of this work is: The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware: Their History and Relation to the Indians, Dutch and English 1638-1664 (2 Vols. Amandus Johnson, 1911, New York: D. Appleton & Co. for University of Pennsylvania). Vol. 1 is available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=-WlKAAAAYAAJ& See Chapter XVII "The Utrecht Colony And The Third Expedition" in Johnson, The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware... Vol. 1, beginning on p. 135.
Possibly Joost van den Bogaert was already in the process of involving himself with the founding of New Sweden in 1637. Much business interaction was ongoing since 1636 between Swedish officials and Pieter Minuet, and also with Samuel Blommaert. Blommaert was another Dutch merchant involved in the New Sweden concept, who had earlier invested in unsuccessful Dutch settlements on the Delaware.
An entry in William J. Hoffman's Random Notes Concerning Settlers of Dutch Descent may concern a second wife of Joost ven den Bogaert. Further research is needed with respect to a second wife. Emphasis in the following text is mine (EJ):
"Another important merchant and shipmaster who lived for some time at New Amsterdam was Adriaen Blommaert. He was in all probability a son or at least a near relative of Samuel Blommaert, a partner of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and also a director of the West India Company..." [9 Apr. 1657, Not. J. v.d. Ven].
"Adriaen Blommaert was from Mauslandsluis [Maassluis] near Rotterdam on the Meuse River. His wife was Helena Jacobs Swanevelt [NYRec, 9:41]. They made a will before Not. de Winter at Amsterdam on 1 Jan. 1652 when he was on the point of sailing for New Netherland. They were living at Amsterdam on the Brouwerstraat in the house "In the Sign of the Boomgaert in Nieuw Nederland" (The Orchard in New Netherland), which she had inherited from her former husband, Joost van den Boogaert --there was a person by that name in the early days in Brazil, --who either had taken his name from his house or had given his name to the house, both common customs in that period [2 May 1652, Not. H. Schaeff]. Such house signs were often the inspiration for a coat-of-arms."
But Joost van den Bogaert was using that name since at least 1621, and the wife of the Joost van den Bogaert of the early days of New Netherland was Angneta Selijns! Their oldest child was born in 1620 or 1621, so Joost would have been born around 1600, or before. Angneta Selijns is said to have died in Brazil in 1639 [death record needed]. Did this Joost van den Bogaert then remarry Helena Jacobs Swanevelt, who later married Adriaen Blommaert? Or was there another man with a similar name?
One Joost van den Bogaert was buried in Amsterdam in 1650; a second wife could have remarried before Adriaen Blommaert's second voyage.
[van den] Bogert, Joost
datum begrafenis: 21-11-1650
begraafplaats: Wester Kerk
Begraafregisters voor 1811; NL-SAA-11236211
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Speculative note:
As mentioned above, Joost van den Bogaert had taken goods for Pieter COURTEN to New-Netherland in the early 1620's. 1638 and 1639 baptisms in Amsterdam record children of one JAN van der Bogaert and wife Annetje COURTEN:
kind Susanne kind Jan
vader Jan van den Bogaert vader Jan van der Bogaert
moeder Annetje Coerts moeder Annetje Coerten
doop 21 maart 1638 doop 13 december 1639
religie Hervormd, Nieuwe kerk religie Hervormd, Nieuwe kerk
SAA 42 p.75 SAA 42 p.169
Perhaps this Jan van den Bogaert was a younger brother or relative of Joost van den Bogaert, and maybe his wife Anna Coerten was related to the early Pieter Courten who sent goods in the 1620s to New-Netherland.
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Descendants of Joost van den Bogaert and Agnietje Jans Selyns
Joost van den Bogaert
... married to ...
... Agniesgen (Niesje) Jans Selyns, daughter of Jan Jeanszen Selyns 1555-1624 and Apollonia Hansdr. Sprenckhuysen, born on 4 December 1593, Amsterdam, baptized on 5 December 1593, Oude kerk, Amsterdam, died in 1639, Pernambuco, Brazil.
... Children and descendents:
1. Appolonia van den Bogaert, baptized on 21 November 1621, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
... married in Brazil, to Abraham Tapper. Said to have had no issue.
2. Clara van den Bogaert, baptized on 7 January 1625, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
... married to David van Keyssel [Note 6]. Children:
2.1. Jacob van Keyssel, baptized on 23 October 1647, Dutch Reform Church, Brazil
2.2. Agnieta van Keyssel, baptized on 8 October 1648, Dutch Reform Church, Brazil
... married to Nicholaes Kerfbyl (possibly a son of Cornelis Jans Kerfbyl). Children:
2.2.1. Cornelis Kerfbyl, baptized on 30 July 1670, Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
2.2.2. David Kerfbyl, baptized on 2 March 1672, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.3. Cornelus Kerfbyl, baptized on 3 March 1673, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.4. Maria Kerfbyl, baptized on 20 June 1674, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.5. Anthonij Kerfbyl, baptized 22 September 1675, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.6. Anthonij Kerfbyl, baptized on 9 July 1677, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.7. Nicolaes Kerfbyl, baptized on 9 September 1678, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.8. Clara Kerfbyl, baptized on 14 June 1680, Oude kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.9. Cornelia Kerfbyl, baptized 26 September 1683, Amstel Kerk, Amsterdam
2.2.10. Jan Kerfbyl, baptized on 21 April 1686, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.3. Appolonia van Keyssel, baptized on 10 May 1651, Dutch Reform Church, Brazil
2.4. Jacobus van Keyssel, baptized on 2 June 1653, Dutch Reform Church, Brazil
2.5. Elisabet van Keyssel, baptized on 19 August 1655, Oude kerk, Amsterdam
2.6. Anna van Keyssel, baptized on 27 February 1658, Nieuwe Zijds kapel, Amsterdam
2.7. Elisabeth van Keyssel, baptized on 25 May 1660, Oude kerk, Amsterdam,
... married to Jan van Tarelingh.
2.8. Johanna van Keyssel, baptized on 23 April 1662, Oude Zijds kapel, Amsterdam
2.9. Sara van Keyssel, baptized on 16 March 1663, Oude kerk, Amsterdam
2.10. Clara van Keyssel, baptized on 24 August 1664, Oude Zijds kapel, Amsterdam
2.11. Johanna van Keyssel, baptized on 15 September 1666, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam,
... married to Marcus de Bruijn.
2.12. Anna van Keyssel, baptized on 7 December 1667, Zuider Kerk, Amsterdam
2.13. Susanna van Keyssel, baptized on 9 November 1668, Oude kerk, Amsterdam
3. Abraham van den Bogaert, baptized on 10 March 1630, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
4. Anna van den Bogaert, baptized on 4 May 1632, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
... married to Jan Adriaensen Stockhof. Children:
4.1- 4.4. four children Stockhof
5. Maria van den Bogaert, baptized on 25 January 1635, Oude kerk, Amsterdam
... married to Pieter Altroff. Child:
5.1. Jan Altroff, died unmarried, age 24.
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