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Descendants of Albert Andriessen Bradt

Generation No. 2


2. EVA2 ALBERTSE (ALBERT ANDRIESSEN1 BRADT) was born 1630, and died Abt. 1689. She married (1) ?. She married (2) ROELOFF SWARTOFF. He was born 1634, and died May 1715 in Hurley3.

Notes for ROELOFF SWARTOFF:
Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston; New Pork: Printed for the Cranscri??er and Editor ??y the ??e Dinne Press. 1891. COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY ROSWELL RANDALL HOES. p 92-93 states:

"Roeloff Swartwout, baptized at the Oude-Kerk, in Amsterdam, Holland, on June 1, 1634, havingattained his majority while living on his father's bouwerij, at Midwout, visited Beverswijck, in 1656,with an intention of settling there. During his sojourn in the village he became acquainted with EvaAlbertse Bratt, the widow of Antoine de Hooges, the late secretary of Rensselaerswijck, residing onthe northwest corner of Bever and Handelaars (Broadway) streets, south of the block-house church,then building in the square formed by the intersection of Jonkers and Handelaars streets. On findinghimself enamoured with this attractive woman, he solicited her hand in marriage. His father attendedtheir marriage on August 13, 1657. On the morning of that day the following marriage contract wasentered into and signed by the betrothed parties:
'In the name of the Lord, Amen. Be it known by the contents of this present instrument that, in theyear sixteen hundred and fifty-seven, on the thirteenth day of the month of August, appeared beforeme, Johannes La Montagne, in the service of the General Privileged West-India Company, deputy atFort Orange and the village of Beverswijck, Roeloff Swartwout, in the presence of his father, ThomasSwartwout, on the one side, and Eva Albertse, widow of the late Antoine de Hooges, in the presenceof Albert Andriessen [Bratt] her father, on the other side, who, in the following manner, havecovenanted this marriage-contract, to wit: that for the honor of God the said Roeloff Swartwout andEva Albertse, after the manner of the Reformed religion, respectively held by them, shall marry;secondly, that the said married people shall contribute and bring together all their estates, personal andreal, of whatsoever nature they may be, to be used by them in common, according to the custom inHolland, except that the bride, Eva Albertse, in presence of the orphan-masters, recently chosen here,to wit: Honorable Jan Verbeeck and Evert Wendel, reserves for her and Antoine de Hooges'schildren, for each of them, one hundred guilders, to wit, for Maricken, Anneken, Catrina, Johannes,and Eleonora de Hooges, for which sum of one hundred guilders for each child respectively,mortgages her house and lot lying here in the village of Beverswijck; it was also covenanted by thesepresents, by the mutual covenant of the aforewritten married people, that Barent Albertse [Bratt] and TeunisSlingerland, brother and brother-in-law of the said Eva Albertse and uncles of said children, should beguardians of said children, to which the aforesaid orphan-masters have consented; whichabove-written contract the respective parties promise to hold good on pledge of their persons andestates, personal and real, present and future, the same submitting to all laws and judges.
"Done in Fort Orange, et supra, in presence of Pieter Jacobsen and Johannes Provoost, witnesses called for the purpose.

"ROELOOF SWARTWOUT.
"This is the mark of + Eva Albertsse.
"THOMAS SWARTWOUT,
"ALBERT ANDRIESSEN,
"JAN VERBEECK,
"EVERT WENDEL,
"TEUNIS CORNELISSEN.
"Johannes Provoost, witness.
"This is the mark of + Pieter Jacobsen.
"Acknowledged before me,
"LA MONTAGNE,
"Deputy at Fort Orange."1

Of the little information extant concerning Roeloff Swartwout while residing in Beverswijck, thereappears to be none regarding any business to which he may have devoted his attention. The patroonof Rensselaerswijck, Jeremias van Rensselaer, who, being the second son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer,had taken, in 1658, the management of the affairs of manor, it would seem was somewhatapprehensive that Roeloff Swartwout's presence in Beverswijck might be associated with unknowninterests detrimental to those of the colony and sought to discover what they were by instituting aninquiry regarding them. Evidently nothing prejudicial to the interests of the patroon was learned, for therecords of the manor do not disclose any information elicited by the inquiry.
Four years prior to Roeloff Swartwout's marriage, a number of colonists in Rensselaerswijck,believing that they could more advantageously advance their individual interests by cultivating landexempt from the restrictions and jurisdiction of a manorial proprietor, bought from the Indians severaltracts of land lying along Esopus Creek, on the west side of the Hudson, about fifty-five miles south ofBeverswijck.
In 1659, about sixty people were settled there, having "nine hundred and ninety schepels1 of grain inthe ground," and employing a layman "at their own expense" to read to them, when assembled onSundays for religious services, the liturgy of the Reformed Protestant Church and selected sermons.
In the summer of that year, having decided to become a settler at Esopus, Roeloff Swartwoutdetermined to make a voyage to Holland in order to provide himself with needed agriculturalimplements and to secure the service of several young and robust farmers. Requiring money adequatefor his outlays, he sold, on August 15, 1659, "a garden lying in the village of Beverswijck," previouslythe property of Antoine de Hooges; and on the following day he mortgaged his dwelling, and the loton which it was standing, for "the sum of one hundred and forty-seven guilders in good wholemerchantable beaver skins," which debt he promised to pay on July 1, 1660.2
While at Amsterdam he was frequently questioned by the different lords-directors of the West-IndiaCompany regarding affairs in New Netherland, and particularly concerning the prospects of thecolonists settled at Esopus. Learning that it was the intention of the company to establish a local courtthere, he solicited the lords-directors to appoint him schout of the settlement. Perceiving that he was inmany ways highly qualified to discharge the duties of the office, and finding that his relatives andfriends in the city eagerly vied with one another in bearing personal testimony to his fitness, they, onthe day of his sailing to New Netherland, made known to him the following appointment:
"The directors of the Incorporated West-India Company, department of Amsterdam, being especiallydirected and authorized to manage the affairs of New Netherland, make known, that whereas it isnecessary for the promotion of justice in the village of Esopus that a suitable person perform the dutiesof a provisional sheriff, for which one Roeloff Swartwout has been proposed to us, who has been inthat country a long time, therefore placing confidence in the capability, piety, and fitness of the saidRoeloff Swartwout, we have provisionally appointed and commissioned him sheriff in the aforesaidvillage, on the Esopus, giving him full power, order, and authority to occupy this position in the saidplace, and in that district, to attend to and perform the duties according to the usages of the sheriffshere in this country, and the instructions given him or which may in future be given him, to bring to trialall who obstruct and break political, civil, and criminal laws, ordinances and edicts, and sue alldelinquents in the said village and its jurisdiction according to his aforesaid
structions, and to have them conformably mulcted, executed, and punished by the punishment set forth therein, to demand that upon his order and complaint all criminal matters and abuses shall be settled and abated, and all sentences be executed speedily and without delay, and to do further in this regard what a good and faithful sheriff is in duty bound to do, on the oath taken by him.
"We command, therefore, all burgemeesters, schepens, and inhabitants within the jurisdiction of the aforesaid village to acknowledge and respect the aforesaid Roeloff Swartwout as our officer and sheriff as aforesaid, and if asked, to give him all necessary and possible assistance in the performance of his duties, for we have found this to be necessary for the service of the company and the promotion of justice.
"Done at the meeting of the directors at Amsterdam, this fifteenth of April, Ao. 1660.
"Jacob Pergens. "By his order, "C. van Seventer."1 In the "instructions for Roeloff Swartwout, as provisional sheriff in the village on the Esopus, in New Netherland," he was ordered to "take rank of the burgemeesters and schepens" of the place and sit in their meetings as president when they were judicial ones. To prevent "licentiousness and violence," it was his duty "to be always at hand," and have his deputies "go through the place," and have them "in churches, on the market-place, and at other centres where people congregated." He was also to take care that the village was "kept free from unruly people and pedlers." For his services as sheriff he was allowed to "receive one-half of all civil fines," and one-half of all fees for tax and court-notices, and one-third of everything that fell to the village in criminal cases, and also "such salary as in time" might "be allowed him."2
In a letter to Director-General Stuyvesant, dated April 16, 1660, the Amsterdam directors wrote:
"One Roeloff Swartwout, who now comes over with some young men and farmers to settle at the Esopus and engage in agriculture, has petitioned us here for the office of sheriff of that place, and although it is premature in our opinion, we have granted the aforesaid request to encourage the man, and to promote justice as soon as a court is established, and have engaged him in this quality provisionally on the usual emoluments and such further salary as may
be granted him in due time, subject to our approval; this for your Honors' information and government."
Having taken passage on the ship de Bonte Koe (the Spotted Cow), sailing from the port of Amsterdam, on April 15, 1660, Roeloff Swartwout reached New Netherland about the end of June, having brought with him divers agricultural implements and three farm-laborers: Cornelis Jacobz van Leeuwen, Arent Meuwens, from Gelderland, and Ariaen Huyberts, from Jena.
His appointment as provisional schout of Esopus greatly displeased the provincial authorities of New Netherland. They not only felt themselves slighted in not having it referred to them for approval, but considered themselves to have been treated with a spirit of contempt for which the Amsterdam directors of the West-India Company were censurable. Inasmuch as they were not disposed to incur any reproach for insubordination and obtrusive conduct, they nevertheless undertook to debase the character of Roeloff Swartwout and to depreciate his fitness for the office. In asserting that he had not yet reached his majority, they were untruthful, for he was then twenty-six years of age. In order to disparage him in the estimation of the lords-directors, they, on June 25, wrote:
"We have been very much astonished by the appointment to and the delivery of the sheriff's place at the Esopus to one Roeloff Swartwout as well because of his minority as on account of his unfitness for the place, especially when a court shall be needed there, which, as your Honors say, is as yet premature, as there is for the present no court of justice there, and it does not appear that one will be in a long while for want of inhabitants fit to sit upon the bench.
"Anyway, if in the course of time this should occur, a man of greater age, capacity, and esteem will be required to take the sheriff's place, he should be one, who, at the same time, would be able to attend then to the duties of a commissary for the company."1
The disrespect of the director-general and the provincial council in objecting to the appointment evidently affronted the lords-directors, for they wrote to those officials on September 20, saying:
"We have more reason to be astonished over the rejection of and objection to our choice made of the person of Roeloff Swartwout as sheriff on the Esopus than your Honors have had in regard to his having been chosen, in which as
we have had sufficient judgment we also believe possess power and authority to have our orders and commands strictly obeyed, and we desire this especially in this case, unless much can be said of the said Swartwout's life, for in other respects he is old enough to be fit, and if there were any deficiency therein, then he has time to outgrow it, as he cannot execute his duties as long as there is no court of justice established there, which will not be the case yet for some time as your Honors say yourselves."1
Having rented a bouwerij, embracing forty-three morgens or about eighty-six acres, belonging to Jacob Jansen Stol's widow, her husband having been killed by the Indians at Esopus, in October, 1659, Roeloff Swartwout occupied it shortly after his return from Holland.2
The Reverend Hermanus Blom, called to preach at Esopus while visiting the place in 1659, having returned from Holland to New Netherland in the following year with a license from the Classis of Amsterdam, dated February 16, 1660, constituting him a minister of the Reformed Protestant Church and authorizing him to preach principally in Esopus, "both on water and on the land, and in all the neighborhood," began his pastorate there, on September 5, that year.
To provide him a home the settlers were taxed two-and-a-half guilders on each morgen of land possessed by them. "Roeloff Swartwout, tenant, for Widow Stol," is entered on the tax-list as having forty-three morgens, for which he was rated to pay a tax of one hundred and seven guilders and ten stivers.
Seventeen members of the congregation partook of the Lord's Supper, celebrated at the Esopus for the first time on Sunday, December 26, 1660. Among them were Roeloff Swartwout and his wife, Eva."

     
Children of EVA ALBERTSE and ROELOFF SWARTOFF are:
4. i.   THOMAS3 SWARTWOUT.
  ii.   CORNELIA SWARTWOUT, b. Bef. March 13, 1665/66, Based on baptism date.
  More About CORNELIA SWARTWOUT:
Baptism: March 13, 1666/67, Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster, NY4
  iii.   ANTONI SWARTWOUT, b. Bef. January 8, 1660/61, Based on baptism date.
  More About ANTONI SWARTWOUT:
Baptism: January 8, 1661/62, Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster, NY5



3. STORM2 VAN DER ZEE (ALBERT ANDRIESSEN1 BRADT) was born November 2, 1636 in on board "The Arms of Rensselaerswyck" during severe storm on the way to America. He married LENA SLINGERLAND November 4, 17346.

Notes for STORM VAN DER ZEE:
Collections on History of Albany, ALBANY, N. Y.: J. MUNSELL, 82 STATE STREET. 1871 states:
"Van Der Zee, Storm, son of Albert Andries Bratt "de Noorman" came to Rensselaerswyck in 1630.
The tradition is that one of Bratt's children was born on shipboard on the passage out in the midst of a heavy storm, in consequence of which, he was called Storm Vanderzee. O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. That Van Der Zee was an alias for Bratt in early times is certain; in an old deed Storm's son Wouter is called "Wouter Storm Bratt, alias Wouter Van Der Zee." Storm Van Der Zee was a trader, and in 1661, was complained of for smuggling in New Amsterdam. He m. Hilletje, dau. of Gerrit Lansing, and had at least two sons who lived to maturity, .... Albert, and Wouter. "

More About STORM VAN DER ZEE:
Burial: England
     
Child of STORM VAN DER ZEE and LENA SLINGERLAND is:
5. i.   ALBERT3 VAN DER ZEE, b. 1679.


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