Pieter Adamsz BROUWER

Bef 1646 - Aft 1701  (> 56 years)

• Name	Pieter Adamsz BROUWER
  Birth	Bef 23 Sep 1646
  Christening	23 Sep 1646	Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New Netherland [now New York City, New York County, NY]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Peter ADAMSZ
  Death	Aft 1701
  Notes	(1) Chris Chester, The Brouwer Genealogy Database <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydat a/index.htm>: [The information on this website is copyright protected. Use of material on this website is for non-commercial, personal or educational use only. This disclaimer must appear on all copied material. Any reproduction for commercial use is prohibited. Copyright © 2008-2013 by Chris Chester. All rights reserved.] Pieter Adamsz Brouwer b. 23 September 1646 • Father: Adam Brouwer b. c 1620, d. bt 22 Jan 1692 - 21 Mar 1692 • Mother: Magdalena Jacobs Verdon b. c 1627 • Pieter Adamsz Brouwer was baptized on 23 September 1646 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam; sponsors Mr. Paulus van der Beek, Willem Bredenbent, Aeltje Braconye, Mary du Trieux. • He married Petronella Uldrickse Kleyn, daughter of Uldrick Kleyn and Baefje Pieters, before 1673. • Pieter Adamsz Brouwer was also known by the patronymic Pieter Adamsz. • A deed of 1701 calls Pieter the eldest child of Adam Brouwer. He was apparently at Schenectady immediately after his marriage to Petronella Kleyn, and is last found in a record at East Jersey in 1701. The date and place of his death is not known, and it is possible that he went to the Albany, New York area later in life. He named his eldest son (Adam Brouwer's first grandson) Uldrick (for his father-in-law) and this may have been a sore point for Adam as late as 1692, when he disinherited Pieter in his will. Pieter's older children are found in Bergen Co., New Jersey, and his youngest three children in the Albany, New York area. • On 1 Sep 1679, Peter Brouwer was "bound over to answer at the Gravesend sessions for an assault on Gerrit Croesen." As Gerrit died shortly thereafter, the question seems open as to whether or not his death was the result of the assault. • He witnessed the baptism of Willemyntje Matthyse Brouwer , daughter of Matthys Adamsz Brouwer and Marietje Pieterse Wyckoff, on 26 February 1682 at Old First Dutch Reformed Church, Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, (sponsors Pieter Brouwer, Eegtje (Agatha) Joris, also recorded at Flatbush). • Pieter Adamsz Brouwer and Petronella Uldrickse Kleyn were members of at Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Flatbush, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, on 30 March 1682 living at Gowanus. Pieter is listed as Pieter Adamsz, and is recorded with his father, Adam Brouwer. • Pieter Adamsz Brouwer took the Oath of Allegiance in September 1687 at Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, as "Pieter brouwer, native." • "Pieter Brouwer is among the soldiers from King's County sent in 1690 to Albany." • Peter is named in his father's will dated 22 Jan 1691. He is given three shillings and, for "his disobedience" is cut off from an equal share of his father's property, with his share to pass on to his children. • On 10 Oct 1700, Peter Brower of East New Jersey deeds Abram and Nicholas Brower of Brooklyn, "Whereas there is a corn mill in Brooklyn called Gowanus Mill bounded by land of Jacob Hanson, Hendrick Vechte, Volkert Briez, formerly in the tenure of Adam Brower, deceased, true owner as by a conveyance from Tunis Nyssen, deceased, and heirs of John Evertse Bout, deceased, etc." The indenture states that Peter Brower is the eldest son of Adam Brower, deceased. Signs by his mark. Witnessed by William Laurence, Anthony Karr, both sign by mark. Acknowledged 21 Oct 1700 before Col. Gerardus Beeckman, Justice of the Peace. • Pieter is the eldest child of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Verdon, as stated in the deed of October 1700. His wife lived in Schenectady, and after their marriage, the couple apparently remained there through the births of their two eldest children. Pieter then relocated the family to Brooklyn, possibly lived in New Haerlem for a short period, then settled in East Jersey, where he is said to be from in October 1700. The marriage records of a few of his children state that they were living in Newark. However, a check of some land records there, of that time, did not find any Browers or Brewers (Newark was founded and settled by "English" families, many coming from the New England Colonies. While his six oldest children all married in the Dutch Church at Hackensack, New Jersey, and raised families in that area, the next three youngest children were all married at Albany, New York, and remained in that area. No record of Peter is yet to be found post October 1700, when he would have been 54 years old. As the three youngest children are later found in the Albany area, it is possible that Peter moved once again, this time to that area. It could also be reasoned that Peter died shortly after October 1700, and his widow, along with her three youngest children, returned to the Albany area, a place where she grew up and where her extended family remained. A Peter Brouwer did stand as sponsor at a baptism in March 1723 at the Reformed Dutch Church at Albany (see below). • A Petrus Brouwer (with Hendr. Oothout) were sponsors on 3 March 1723 at the baptism of Hendrik Bovy, son of Claes Bovy and Cornelia Brouwer. It is not known for certain who this Peter Brouwer is. The child who was baptized would be a grandson of this Peter Brouwer, and if alive in 1723, he would be 77 years old. The next closest relation to the mother, Cornelia Brouwer, would be her nephew, Peter Brouwer, b.1701, son of her brother Abraham Brouwer. This Peter Brouwer was alive in 1723, had married Dina de Groot, and was sponsor at a number of baptisms in Hackensack, although no other baptisms in Albany. • T.G. Bergen, in 1878 (NYG&BR 9:127) incorrectly attributes three wives to Pieter Brouwer, stating that he married 2nd, Geertruyd Jans, and 3rd, Annetie Jansen. Neither of the two women were wives of this Pieter Brouwer. Totten in 1936 (NYG&BR 67:222) disproves the 2nd and 3rd marriages.
  Person ID	I19469	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Adam BROUWER,   b. Abt 1620, Cologne, Present-Day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany d. Between 22 Jan 1692 and 21 Mar 1692, Gowanus, Kings County, NY (Age ~ 72 years)
  Mother	Magdalena Jacobs VERDON,   b. Abt 1631, New Amsterdam, New Netherland [now New York City, New York County, NY] d. Aft 12 Aug 1698 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Marriage Banns	19 Mar 1645	Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New Netherland [now New York City, New York County, NY]
  Marriage	21 Mar 1645	Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New Netherland [now New York City, New York County, NY]
  Family ID	F9422	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Petronella Uldrickse KLEYN
  Marriage	Bef 1673
  Family ID	F8688	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024