Adam Pieterse Brouwer Berkhoven

From Ship Passenger Lists NY & NJ 1600-1825 by Carl Boyer. Berkhoven, Adam aus Koeln, Brauer, eingewandert 1642 oo 1645 Magdalena Verdon von Neuniederland. Seine nachkommen screiben sich Brouwer, Browere and Brewer. p14 31 Feb 1645 purchased lot of Hendrick Jansen 7 Feb 1647 obtained a patent on Manhattan Island 1661 he & Issac DeForeest held jointly old tide mill in Brooklyn known as Brouwer's Mill later as Freeke's Mill- Brouwer purchased DeForest interest Abstracts of Wills Liber 3-4 p422 Adam Brewer "In the name of God Amen. Whereas I, Adam Brewer, Berkhoon, inhabitatnt o ye Towne of Brooklandt, being at present sick, but fully having my knowledge and understading. I desire that none of my children shall trouble or move their mother during her life. I leave to my eldest son, Peter, 3 shillings by reason that he has been disobedient to his father. And also Jacob Brewer and Altie Brewer for reason of their disobedience shall not receive a penney from their father Adam Brewer but their portions are left to their children. The other children, Mathys, William, Adam, Abraham, Anna, Sarah and Rachel shall have an equal share in the estate. Leaves to Adolphus son of William, 3 pieces of 8. TO Magdalena, daughter of Peter, 1 piece of 8, and to his daughter Vrentie 1 piece of 8. This is that which ye Testator Adam Brewer as his last will and testament, he hath signed and sealed the same with his own hand, Jan 22, 1691/2 Makes Barent Van Flentburg and Wm. Nazareth turors and overseers. Witnesses, Henry Sleght, Cornelius Sebring, Johannes Fredrichs. The foregoing witnesses appeared before me, Nov 21, 1692, and made oath to the same. Benjamin Fletcher. Early Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe 1607-1657 Rev Ed, by Meredith B Colkert, Pub General Ct of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, Cleveland, OH 1985. p47 "Brouwer, Brewer orig Berchoven added to name Adam (Brouwer) From Cologne, Rhine Province, New Netherland, N.N. 1642, New Amsterdam 1645, Brooklyn 1647. d by 1698. Miller from Germany. Berchoven dropped about the year 1700. Record 65:4. 12 (origin), 67:108, 23:193 (desc) NY Gen & Biog Rec Vol VII Contributions to the History of the Early Settlers of Kings Co., NY by T.G. Bergen Adam on his arrival appears to have settled in New Amsterdam where on 31 Feb 1645 he purchased a house and garden lot of Hendrick Jansen for which in consequence of Hendrick's refusing to deliver the deed, he commenced a suit against him in May of the same year. 7 Feb 1647 he obtained a patent from the government for a lot on Manhattan Island [on the north side of Beaver St., east of Broadway]. Sold this lot in 19 Aug 1656 to Dirck Schilluyne. Adam resided on Long Island at the time. In 1661 he and Isaac De Foreest held conjointly the oldest tide mill in Brooklyn, known for many years as Brower's mill and lately as Freeke's mill of which Brouwer purchased the interests from De Foreest. He was a tenant or lessee of land held by a paten of Jan Evertse Bout of 6 Jul 1665. In 30 Apr 1707, Sybrant Brouwer to Abram and Nicholas Brouwer a deed was given to the mill executed by the heirs of Jan Evertse BOut and Tunis Nuyse to Adam Brouwer their ancestor, for the neck of land on which the mill was located. 1 Apr 1654 Teunis Nyssen, farmer of Gowanus sold to Adam Brouwer a piece of woodland extending in the woods as the patent of Nyssen's land extends, Adam built his house wich is fenced - located in GOwanus. In 1676 Adam bought of Frederick Lubbertse a piece of the meadows adjoining the dam of the Gowanus mill. He and his wife were members of the Dutch Church ob Brookly in 1677, in 1679 and 1680 the church thought he was leaning toward the Catholic religion. Vol 2 Gen & Family History of Southern NY & Hudson River Valley pp 951-953 Cuyler Reynolds NY: Lewis Hist Pub 1941 [ ] Lists a Daniel bca 1678 as a son of Adam no other mention of this son has been found in the recordsFrom Ship Passenger Lists NY & NJ 1600-1825 by Carl Boyer. Berkhoven, Adam aus Koeln, Brauer, eingewandert 1642 oo 1645 Magdalena Verdon von Neuniederland. Seine nachkommen screiben sich Brouwer, Browere and Brewer. p14 31 Feb 1645 purchased lot of Hendrick Jansen 7 Feb 1647 obtained a patent on Manhattan Island 1661 he & Issac DeForeest held jointly old tide mill in Brooklyn known as Brouwer's Mill later as Freeke's Mill- Brouwer purchased DeForest interest Abstracts of Wills Liber 3-4 p422 Adam Brewer "In the name of God Amen. Whereas I, Adam Brewer, Berkhoon, inhabitatnt o ye Towne of Brooklandt, being at present sick, but fully having my knowledge and understading. I desire that none of my children shall trouble or move their mother during her life. I leave to my eldest son, Peter, 3 shillings by reason that he has been disobedient to his father. And also Jacob Brewer and Altie Brewer for reason of their disobedience shall not receive a penney from their father Adam Brewer but their portions are left to their children. The other children, Mathys, William, Adam, Abraham, Anna, Sarah and Rachel shall have an equal share in the estate. Leaves to Adolphus son of William, 3 pieces of 8. TO Magdalena, daughter of Peter, 1 piece of 8, and to his daughter Vrentie 1 piece of 8. This is that which ye Testator Adam Brewer as his last will and testament, he hath signed and sealed the same with his own hand, Jan 22, 1691/2 Makes Barent Van Flentburg and Wm. Nazareth turors and overseers. Witnesses, Henry Sleght, Conelius Sebring, Johannes Fredrichs. The foregoing witnesses appeared before me, Nov 21, 1692, and made oath to the same. Benjamin Fletcher. Early Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe 1607-1657 Rev Ed, by Meredith B Colkert, Pub General Ct of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, Cleveland, OH 1985. p47 "Brouwer, Brewer orig Berchoven added to name Adam (Brouwer) From Cologne, Rhine Province, New Netherland, N.N. 1642, New Amsterdam 1645, Brooklyn 1647. d by 1698. Miller from Germany. Berchoven dropped about the year 1700. Record 65:4. 12 (origin), 67:108, 23:193 (desc) Adam may have last come from Cologne but he was probably there as a soldier fighting for the Dutch freedom cause. Later Adam signed up with the West Indies Company in which his father Pieter Clemmentssen Brouwer was a charter member and 1st president and general manager. Pieter died very young, when Adam was only about 5 years old, and just before Manhattan was purchased from the Indians. BROUWER/BROWER/BREWER (from Brouwer Genealogy, New City Library, NYG&B Record)) Magdalena Jacobs VERDON, b. 1625 or 1627, Amsterdam; d. 1717, bur Brooklyn Churchyard (will 1698); m. Mar 21, 1645, int Mar 19, 1645, NYDRC, Adam (Berkhoven/Kerkhoven) Brouwer/Brower (b. Jan 18, 1620 (or 1627), Hoorn, the Netherlands (Immigrated from Cologne, Germany) (IMMIGRANT), d. Apr 15, 1693, age 73, bur Brooklyn Churchyard with his w, mother-in-law and g-m in-law), by Dom Everhardus Bogardus. He was the son of Peter Clement Brouwer, (merchant of Hoorn and the first President and General Manager of the Dutch West India Company, org in 1614) and Helena Mey (she was the sis of Peter Cornelise Mey, navigator of the DWIC, for whom Cape May, NJ was named). He went to Brazil in 1641, on the "Swol", as a soldier for the DWI Co. He came to New Amsterdam in 1642, from Cuelen (Cologne) and bought a house of Hendrick Jansen, blacksmith, on Feb 21, 1645. In 1647, he received a patent for a lot on Manhattan Island, but sold it Aug 19, 1656, to Dirck Van Schelluyne. Shortly afterwards he removed to Brooklyn. Miller. He built the first flour mill in North America, at Gowanus, with Isaac De Forest (land patented Jul 8, 1645, to Jan Evertsen Bout), later called the "Old Gowanus Mill", or "Freeke's Mill" (The property was sold by Adolphus Brouwer to John C. Freeke in 1798.) They were originally tenants of Bout, but Bout gave the land to his children in 1667. During the Battle of Long Island, in the American Revolution, much fighting took place around the mill site (just N of Union, west of Nevin and east of Bond). Her house, which burned in 1852, was on Carroll, mid-way between Nevin and Third Ave. He was sole owner and operator, 1663-1693. His sons established a new mill in the same neighborhood, known as Denton's Mill. He was also a soldier for the DWIC. Robert.Protzman@@akzo-nobel.com