Elizabeth Amy Biggs

Other Events:

• Baptism: 6 Dec 1713, Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America
• Beneficiary: 24 Feb 1760; in the will of her father, John Biggs, as Elizabeth Pitinger

Notes:

Mentioned in the will of John Biggs as daughter Elizabeth Pitinger.

Detour is currently in Carroll County which was created in 1837 from parts of Baltimore and Frederick Counties.

Elisabeth, the elder of John Biggs Sr., married Daniel Pittinger in New Jersey, and they also came to Maryland. Pittinger purchased "Royenton Plains" from Henry Munday in 1745 and also leased Lot No. 3 on "Monocacy Manor" directly north of John Biggs' lot. Another daughter, Henrietta Biggs, married John Beatty, Jr., a son of Susanna Beatty, and after his death Jacob Barton.

Elizabeth married Daniel Pittenger in 1732/3 in Somerset County, Colony of New Jersey, British Colonial America. Daniel (son of Richard Pittenger and Sycha Psyche Hendricksen) was born in 1709 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died in Jan 1796 in Detour, Frederick County, Maryland, United States; was buried in Jan 1796 in Rocky Ridge, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Pittenger was born about 1734 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died after May 1794.
2. Maria Catharina Pittenger was born about 1736 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died in 1802 in Carroll County, Ohio, United States.
3. Daniel Pittenger was born between 1740 and 1749; died after May 1794.
4. Prudence Pittenger was born between 1740 and 1753; and died.
5. John Pittenger was born in 1740/1; and died.
6. Hannah Pittenger was born about 1736 in Somerset County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died in Oct 1794 in Foxville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States; was buried in Oct 1794 in Frederick County, Maryland, United States.
7. William Pittenger was born on 4 Jul 1749 in Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America; died in 1819 in Ohio, United States; was buried in 1819 in Eckmansville, Adams County, Ohio, United States.
8. Benjamin Pittenger was born in 1751 in Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America; died on 28 Nov 1815 in Frederick County, Maryland, United States; was buried in Nov 1815 in Rocky Ridge, Federick County, Maryland, United States.

Other Events:

• Name: Jan Biks
• Will: 24 Feb 1760, Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America
• Probate: 10 Mar 1761, Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America

Notes:

...John Biggs (1787-1761) was the first leaseholder on "Monocacy Manor." He was of English descent, born in Ulster County in New York Colony. There he married Eva Lambertse Brink, and at Kingston eight of his ten children were baptized. About 1726 the family moved to New Jersey, settling in Somerset County in the Raritan River area. Also in this locale were William Dern, his future next door neighbor on "Dulany's Lot," as well as Cornelius Low, Susanna Beatty, the Middaghs and others with whom he would later associate in Maryland. A ninth child was born in New Jersey, and there his wife Eva died. Then, no doubt encouraged by Susanna Beatty, he moved to Maryland sometime after June 1737, when we have the last record of him in New Jersey. In Maryland he married the widow Mary Stilley and on August 23, 1741 leased Lot No. 2 on "Monocacy Manor." His lot, which he called "Biggs Delight," was leased for the natural lives of his sons Benjamin and William Biggs. It was situated near the southwestern corner of the whole tract, just north of the mouth of Glade Creek, two miles west of today's Walkersville. his land fronted along the Monocacy River opposite "Hedge Hog" on the west bank. Between these parcels the River could be crossed by a ford which today has been replaced by Biggs Ford Bridge.
...In addition to his leased land, John Biggs purchased 50 acres on "Dulany's Lot" which in 1758 he sold to Stephen Ramsburg. Ramsburg combined these acres with the former Farquahar parcel on "Dulany's................continued, pages missing. There is a note: pp. 109, 114, 309: John Bigg's second wife Mary Stilly or Stell was not the widow of Jacob Stilley, who died after John Biggs. (Source: Historical Society of Carroll County (Maryland), "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: the early settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing County, Inc., 1987, pg. 309)

...In 1726, John and Eva moved to New Jersey and lived near the Rariton river in Somerset County. On December 30, 1728, John Biggs witnessed the will of Thomas Hall's wife "Gheerty". A ninth child, Catherine, was born in New Jersey. Eva (Brink) Biggs died there in about 1735. Sometime after June 1737, John Biggs moved his family to Maryland, where he married Mary Stille and had another daughter: Sarah, born 1750, married Joseph Hedges. In 1845, Lyman Draper interviewed Joseph Hedges, then 78 years old, in Ohio Co., Virginia (now West Virginia)
...In 1741, John Biggs II and his family were living on an estate called Monocacy Manor, located on the Monocacy River near today's city of Frederick, Maryland. He also owned some town lots in Frederick.
...As early as the 1660's, Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore and the first Proprietor of Maryland, began setting aside for himself and his heirs prime land intended for leasing but not for patenting (private Ownership). These lands were called "manors". In 1741, most land was owned by the English crown or favored friends of the crown. Monocacy Manor was owned by the fifth or sixth Lord Baltimore. Actual leasing was carried out by his agent, one Daniel Dulany, an English lawyer who made the mistake of remaining loyal to the crown during the Revolution. Rent was set at 10 shillings per 100 acres. A typical lease of the day could require, for example, that the leaseholder build "one good substantial dwelling house, thirty feet long and twenty feet wide, with a brick chimney thereto. The leaseholder might also be required to plant 100 apple trees within five years. Leases often prohibited excessive cutting of timber, which was considered an asset owned by the proprietor. When the lease expired, the land and all improvements reverted back to the Lord Proprietar.
...John Biggs II was the first tenant on Monocacy Manor. Parcels of land were usually leased for a period equal to the natural lifetimes of three individuals selected by the leaseholder. These frequently were for his own life and the lives of two sons, with the hope that one of them would live a long time. John Biggs' lot, which he called B"Biggs Delight", was leased for the natural lives of himself and two of his sons, Benjamin and William. His land fronted the Monocacy River on the east bank directly across from "Hedge Hogg". The river could be crossed between these two parcels of land by Biggs Ford which was later replaced by Biggs Ford Bridge.
...Twice after 1743, leaseholders in Monocacy, despite the fact that their leases had not expired, and not taking
into account die work they had put into developing their parcels of land, were threatened with wholesale eviction. Before the Revolution, the Sixth lord Baltimore decided to sell all "his" manor lands. Lucky for the tenants, the sales were not a success in Monocacy Manor. While some manors were sold in their entirety or nearly so, not a single lot in Monocacy Manor was sold. This was due to the high asking price and the scarcity of money and die fact that sales could not eliminate the unexpired leases of existing tenants.
..."Monocacy" is an American pronunciation of the Shawnee name "Monnockkesey". The land of Monocacy Manor is located along the Monocacy River in the shadow of the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland. The river and mountains stretch southward until they meet the Potomac River. The Monocacy lands end there.
...After the Revolution, in 1781, the new United States government confiscated this manor and sold it in small parcels. A thorough survey of eight Maryland manors, including Monocacy, made after confiscation shows that Monocacy had excellent soil, "none of it as yet exhausted through excessive cultivation." Most all of the lots were heavily wooded and over two-thirds of them had water.
...By the end of the American Revolution, the leases on most manor lots had expired. The lots were sold at auction to the highest bidder rather than by an established asking price. In the case of Monocacy Manor, payment could even be made by soldiers' pay certificates which were accepted at full face value. A traffic in these pay certificates by army officers and person of wealth had resulted in most land ending up in their hands. The poor tenants, who had invested what little capital they had in improving the land, could not successfully bid against these indibiduals and, therefore, lost their land, improvements and all.
...John Biggs II and his sons eventually owned large areas of farm land in Maryland some of it in Monocacy. In addition to his Monocacy land, which he managed to hold on to, he purchased 50 acres on "Dulany's Lot", which he sold in 1758. He also purchased "Good Luck" in 1751, 100 acres on Fishing Creek. It was Biggs only land survey. Some of this land remained in the Biggs family until 1883, when the house built by John Biggs II in Monocacy manor and the cemetery in which he was buried were destroyed and another family took possession of the land. A large stone barn which he built was still standing about 1840. Bernice F. Hathaway in her book Biggs-McGrew and Allied Lines, states: "This land remained in the Biggs family until 1883, at which time the family graveyard stones were buried and the cemetery plowed over and made into a field. John Biggs lies there."
...John Biggs II still had ties to his former home, New Jersey, as evidenced on July 30, 1754, when he received a chattel mortgage from George Sexton for underwriting Sexton's loan of £7/5/0 to Malachi Bonham, a Baptist pastor at Kingwood, New Jersey. Also in 1754, he held a chattel mortgage with Charles Hedges from Robert McPherson to guarantee McPherson's appearance in court the following March. In 1754, he witnessed Susanna Beatty's will (his neighbor in both New Jersey and Maryland).
...In 1760, John Biggs II wrote his own Will, naming two sons and five daughters and appointing his friend and neighbor, Stephen Ramsburg, as executor. In 1761, John Biggs II died on "Biggs Delight" in Monocacy Manor. After his death, neighbor Caspar Devilbiss tenanted his Monocacy parcel. Sons Benjamin and William had earlier moved to the area of present day Carroll County, Maryland. The Will, probated in Frederick County, Maryland, February 21, 1761, is quite long. I include part of it:

"...I give and bequeath to my sons, Benjamin Biggs, William Biggs and to my daughters Elizabeth Pitinger, Hendricka Barton, Mary Doddridge and Catherine Julian the tract of land and plantation whereon I now live being a part of Monocacy Manor, allowing my wife the house and plantation one year after my decease.
"...I give and bequeath to my sons Benjamin Biggs and William Biggs all my wearing apparel and my three guns and three pistols and three swords.
"...I give and bequeath to my wife, Mary Biggs, two lots lying in Frederick town and one tract of land called Good Luck until my daughter Sarah Biggs arive at sixteen years of age, and then only half of the foresaid lots and tract of land during her life.
"...I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah and her heirs and assigns forever when she shall arrive at sixteen years of age the aforesaid lots in Fredericktown and the aforesaid tract of land, allowing my wife Mary one half during her life but if my daughter should die before she arrives at sixteen years of age or leaves lawful issue, that then the aforesaid two lots and the aforesaid tract land after my wife's decease be sold and the arising thereon be equally divided among my children, namely, Benjamin Biggs, William Biggs, Elizabeth Pitinger, Hendricka Barton, Mary Doddridge and Catharine Julian.
"...I give and bequeath to my wife Mary, one peuter tankard, and large peuter dish and three small ditto. One peuter basin, seven peuter plates, two horses, three mares, three milch cows, and all other cow kind excepting one, and also all the winter grain threshed and unthreshed and also all the grain in the ground and also all the Indian corn and oats and also one of my pots and two iron pots, one potrack, one plow, all my swine young and old and all my sheep and also one feather and two chaff beds, bedclothes belonging to beds, bedsteads and also flax both dressed, and also part of the hemp, and one side saddle and bridle and six year old cask and one cider mill in consideration of my wife's paying all the debts I have, that have been contracted within nine years past as also my burial charges and paying my daughter when she arrives at the age of sixteen years the sum of 20 pounds current money.
"...I give to James Stille, my wife's son before I married her, one bay mare, three years old this summer.
"...I give all the remainder of my personal estate to be equally divided among my children namely, Benjamin Biggs, Williams Biggs, Elizabeth Pitinger, Hendricka Barton, Mary Doddridge and Catherine Julian, and lastly do I constitute and appoint my well beloved wife Mary Biggs and my truly friend Stephen Ramsburg to be my executors of this my last will and testament revoking all other and former wills by me before this time made, ratifying this and no other to be my last will and testament." (Source: "The Biggs Family", Janet M. Flynn, p2-6 - The American Connection; PDF, Family History Books (http://books.familysearch.org/))

John married Eva Lambertse in 1709 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, British Colonial America. Eva (daughter of Huybert Lambertse and Hendrickje Swartwout) was born before 25 May 1690 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America; died in 1735 in Rariton, Somerset County, Somerset, New Jersey, British Colonial America; was buried in 1735. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Eva Lambertse Brink
• Baptism: 25 May 1690, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, British Colonial America; Address:
  Old Dutch Church

Other Events:

• Name: Jan Bigges

Notes:

...Ensign John Biggs of Worcestershire, England, immigrated to America in 1664. He was a soldier in the military expedition of Colonel Richard Nicolls who defeated the Dutch and established English rule in New York (then New Amsterdam) and Delaware. On May 25, 1664, Co., Richard Nicolls departed from Portsmouth, England, on four ships with 300 soldiers and 450 men. on August 29, 1664, when the Nicholls' expedition arrived at New Amsterham, Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered to them. Not a shot had been fired. Sir Robert Carr, commissioned by Col. Nicolls, pressed on and captured Delaware on September 30, 1664 and Fort Amstel on October 13, 1664. Fort Amstel's name was changed to Newcastle and the British now controlled New York and Delaware.
...John Biggs, John Ogle, Thomas Wollaston, James Crawford and Lieutenant George Hall served together as military comrades in the Nicolls expedition. Ogle, Wollaston and Crawford settled in Delaware as neighbors. John Biggs and George Hall stayed in New York. Members of these families would pioneer, marry and settle together for generations, moving through Delaware and New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. Some of them ultimately settled in Illinois.
...After his service to the crown, John Biggs settled in New York near the Hudson River at Kingston, about halfway between New York and Albany. No record can be found of his first marriage, but he was a widower on September 28, 1686, when he married Mary Hall, the daughter of George Hall, lieutenant in the Nicolls expedition. The record of their marriage was recorded by a Dutchman. The entry reads:
"Jan Biggs of O. Engeland (Old England) in Oostershire (Worcestershire), widower, resid. In Morbelton (Marbletown) and Mary Hal, J. D., born in Kingstowned (Kingston, NY) and resid. as above."

...In 1666, John Biggs set what was to become a Biggs family tradition and fought the Indians in New York. in april of 1669, the commissioners appointed by Governor Lovelace (Nicolls' successor) formally organized the militia of Hurley and Marbletown under the following commissioned officers: "henry Pawling, Captain; Christopher Beresford, Lieut; John Biggs, Ensign." Most, if not all, of these men were professional soldiers, George Hall, was a soldier in the Marbletown company. In August 1685, the company for Hurley and Marbletown was co-officered by the now Lieutenant John Biggs. In his book "The Skillmans of American", by William J. Skillman, Skillman describes a special contingent of twenty five men sent by the Governor of New York to "chastise the Indians who three years previously had perpetrated the cruel Wiltwyck Massacre." among these were joohn Biggs and George Hall. The twenty five men were promised "a land bounty of ten acres each at Esopus." (Esopus is the old Indian name for present day Kingston, New York.) Mr. Skillman goes on to state that "some of them, the savages having been punished, settled down and made their homes in that region so recently harried." In 1674, George Hall was made "Schout" (Dutch for "Sherriff") of Esopus.

...The Calendar of New York Land Papers 1643-1803 contains the following entries on John Biggs and George Hall:

"p. 6 - 1675 March 1. Minute of a grant from the Court at Marbleton, to Jan Bigg of a small piece of land. V I , p. 58.

March 9. Minute of a grant from the court at Kingston to George Hall of a small piece of land. VI, p. 59.

p. 7 - 1676 March 7. Conveyance from Madam Johanna DeLast, wife of Jeronimus Ebbing to George Hall, for a tract of land lying at the Great Bridge, at Kingston. V. 1, p. 68

p. 14 - 1676 Nov. 13. Description of survey of 20 acres of land being part of a tract known as the Butterfield, lying to ye southwest of Marbletown, laid out for George Hall (with draught). Vol. 1, p. 97.

p. 15 - 1677 May 8. Minute of a grant from the court at Kingston to Lieut. George Hall, of 6 acres of land over the Mill Kill. Vol. 1, p. 112"3
(Source: "The Biggs Family", Janet M. Flynn, p1-2 - Ensign John Biggs; PDF, Family History Books (http://books.familysearch.org/)

John married Mary Hall on 28 Sep 1686 in Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America. Mary (daughter of George Haal and Elizabeth Bickerstaff) was born in 1666 in Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America; died in 1712 in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Mary Haal
• Name: Mary Hal

Notes:

After John's death, Mary (Hall) Biggs remarried Pieter Mouritz and nothing is known about her thereafter.

Other Events:

• Name: Huybert Lambertse Brink
• Emigration: 23 Dec 1660, Netherlands
• Immigration: May 1661, New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands
• Misc: 7 Jun 1663, Hurley, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America; was captured & held for 3 months by the Indians in 1663 at the Buming of Hurley

Notes:

Huybert Lambertsen and his wife Hendrickje Swartwout are both buried in the Old Dutch Cemetery at Hurley, NY. Their two sons Roeloff and Thomas, and Uncle Pieter and his family are the ones who settled in the Minisink area along the Delaware. Huybert stayed on the farm at Hurley.

Will:
WILL OF LAMBERT HUYBERTSE BRINK

The following is a translation of the will of Lambert Huybertse (Brink), of Hurley, the ancestor of the Brink family in America, who came from the Netherlands in 1659 and was one of the earliest settlers of 'Hurley, Ulster county, New York. He settled on the farm on the west side of the Esopus creek still in possession of a descendant bearing the family name. The will is recorded in the office of the county clerk of Ulster county and is translated from the original Dutch.

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AMEN.

Be it known hereby to everybody, that to-day, the 12th day of February in the year of our Lord 1695/6, 1, Lambert Huybertse, of Hurley in the county of Ulster; well in body and in full power and use of my mind and memory, (praised be the Lord), considering the shortness and frailty of human life, the certainty of death and the uncertain hour thereof, and desiring to set everything in order, make this my last will and testament, in manner and form as follows: Revoking, annulling, declaring null and void, all and every testament and testaments, will and wills, heretofore made and passed, either verbally or in writing, and this alone to be taken far my last will and testament and no other.

First, I commend my soul to God Almighty, my Creator, to Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, and to the .Holy Spirit. my Sanctifier, and my body to the earth, whence it came, to be buried in a Christian manner, and there to, rest until my soul and body shall be reunited on the last day and enjoy the eternal joy of immortality, which God in his grace has promised and prepared by the only merits of our Saviour, for all who truly repent and believe in him. Concerning such wordly state of houses, lands, money, goods. accounts or what further belongs to my estate, which the Lord has been pleased to grant me beyond my merits, I order, give, and dispose thereof in form and manner following:

First, it is my wish and will, that all my honest debts shall, in due time, be paid.

Secondly, I give to my youngest son, Pieter Lambertse two horses, also, that the house in which he lives, shall be finished in garret, floor doors, win- dows, &c., out of my estate without anything being paid therefor to my other heirs. I further give to my said son, his order, heirs, or administrators, one just fifth part of my whole estate.

Thirdly, I give to my sons, Huybert Lammerse and Cornelis Lammerse, and to my sons-in-law, Cornelis Cool and Arien Gerretsen, one just fifth part of my whole estate, to dispose, each for himself, of said fifth part of my estate, as he pleases, only under this condition, that Arien Gerretsen shall have and enjoy the just fifth part of my land, lying next to the land belonging to him, and that in consideration of the fertility of this land my other four heirs shall have and enjoy in ownership my house, barn, &c., without paying therefor anything to said Arie Gerretse. but they shall divide in equal shares all other movable estate among themselves

Fourthly, I appoint as executors of this my last will and testament my said heirs, to-wit, Huybert Lammertse, Cornelis Lammerse, Pieter Lammerse, Cornelis Cool, and Arie Gerretse, demanding this my foregoing testament shall be fully obeyed and carried out. Thus done at Kingston on the day and year as above.

Before signing and passing this it is my wish that my son-in- law Cornelis Cool shall have in one piece two shares of the land occupied by me, to wit, the one now made over to him, and the other bought by him from my son Lammert Huybertse.

LAMMERT HUYBERTSE Signed, sealed and published by Lammert Huybertse as being his last will and testament in our presence. WESSEL TEN BROECK, JACOBIS LAMETER, ARIE ROOSE. [Proved 11 April 1702]

Huybert married Hendrickje Swartwout on 16 Mar 1679 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America. Hendrickje (daughter of Roeloff Swartwout and Eva Albertse) was born about 1660/1; died on 28 May 1699 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
of Nieu Albanien (New York)

Matthew married Mary _____. Mary was born in 1634 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England; died in in Kingston, New York Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Mary Biggs

George married Elizabeth Bickerstaff in 1660. Elizabeth was born about 1640 in England, United Kingdom; died after 1675 in Ulster County, New York, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Lambert Huijberse
• Name: Lambert Huybertse Brink
• Emigration: 23 Dec 1660, Netherlands; aboard the ship de Trouw (Faith)
• Immigration: May 1661, New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands

Notes:

...Lambert Huybertse (Brink) and his wife Hendrikje Cornelisse left Wageningen, Gelderland, Holland and sailed for America on December 23, 1660 on the Ship Faith with their oldest two children Huybert and Jannetje. Soon after the family arrived in America at New Amsterdam, Lambert and his wife had their baby son baptized who had been born at sea, and then given the name "Cornelis". Cornelis was baptized on May 4th, 1661 in the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam. The family then went up the Hudson river to the Esopus settlement (Kingston). in 1662 Lambert Huybertse leased certain lands at Hurley for five years from Director Petrus Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch Governors of New York who was succeeded by the first English Governor Richard Nicolls, on Sept. 8, 1664. At the expiration of the lease in 1667 he and his sons purchased these and other parcels there and in Marbletown, providing future property for his offspring. He had charge for some time of the lands of the Director, Petrus Stuyvesant, which were in Espous, and at one time he leased one of the Stuyvesant farms there. Lambert received " the Brink Patent" at Hurley, Ulster Co., NY, where his original stone house still stands on the homestead.
...Lambert Huybertse's wife and oldest three children were captured at the attack on Kingston and Hurley by the Indians June 7th 1663, and were captives three months.
...On April 27, 1689 Lambert Huybertse "makes over" to his sons Huybert and Pieter, 324 acres of land in "Horley" (Hurley), and on the 9th of March 1702, he conveys to Cornelius Cool, his son-in-law, 63 acres of land "at Horley, along the Espous."

WILL OF LAMBERT HUYBERTSE BRINK
The following is a translation of the will of Lambert Huybertse (Brink), of Hurley. The will is recorded in the office of the county clerk of Ulster county and is translated from the original Dutch.

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AMEN.
..."Be it known hereby to everybody, that to-day, the 12th day of February in the year of our Lord 1695/6, 1, Lambert Huybertse, of Hurley in the county of Ulster; well in body and in full power and use of my mind and memory, (praised be the Lord), considering the shortness and frailty of human life, the certainty of death and the uncertain hour thereof, and desiring to set everything in order, make this my last will and testament, in manner and form as follows: Revoking, annulling, declaring null and void, all and every testament and testaments, will and wills, heretofore made and passed, either verbally or in writing, and this alone to be taken far my last will and testament and no other.
..."First, I commend my soul to God Almighty, my Creator, to Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, and to the Holy Spirit. my Sanctifier, and my body to the earth, whence it came, to be buried in a Christian manner, and there to, rest until my soul and body shall be reunited on the last day and enjoy the eternal joy of immortality, which God in his grace has promised and prepared by the only merits of our Saviour, for all who truly repent and believe in him. Concerning such wordly state of houses, lands, money, goods. accounts or what further belongs to my estate, which the Lord has been pleased to grant me beyond my merits, I order, give, and dispose thereof in form and manner following.
..."First, it is my wish and will, that all my honest debts shall, in due time, be paid.
..."Secondly, I give to my youngest son, Pieter Lambertse two horses, also that the house in which he lives, shall be finished in garret, floor doors, windows, etc., out of my estate without anything being paid therefor to my other heirs. I further give to my said son, his order, heirs, or administrators, one just fifth part of my whole estate.
..."Thirdly, I give to my sons, Huybert Lambertse and Cornelis Lammerse, and to my sons-in-law, Cornelis Cool and Arrien Gerretsen, one just fifth part of my whole estate, to dispose, each for himself, of said fifth part of my estate, as he pleases, only under this condition, that Arien Gerretsen shall have and enjoy the just fifth part of my land, lying next to the land belonging to him, and that in consideration of the fertility of this land my other four heirs shall have and enjoy in ownership my house, barn, etc., without paying anything to said Arien Gerretse. but they shall divide in equal shares all other movable estate among themselves.
..."Fourthly, I appoint as executors of this my last will and testament my said heirs, to-wit, Huybert Lambertse, Cornelis Lambertse, Pieter Lambertse, Cornelis Cool, and Arien Gerretsen, demand this my foregoing testament shall be fully obeyed and carried out. Thus done at Kingston on the day and year as above.
..."Before signing and passing this it is my wish that my son-in-law Cornelis Cool shall have in one piece two shares of the land occupied by me, to wit, the one now made over to him, and the other bought by him from my son Lammert Huybertse.
"Lambert Huybertse.
"Signed, sealed and published by Lammert Huybertse as being his last will and testament in our presence.
"Wessel Ten Broeck
Jacobis Lameter
Arie Roose"

...Lambert's son Gerrit is not included in the above will. It was at first thought that perhaps he had died by the time of the will but he witnessed a baptism at a later date from that wil. He is not listed in the Kingston baptisms. Researchers have found that Gerrit's family surname became Terpenning, which on add to the mystery of Gerrit.
(Proved 11 April 1702, 8 Olde Ulster, pp. 153-5).

Name:
The Brink name was primarily adopted in the transition to New York

Emigration:

In The Faith
(De Trouw)
Sailed December 23, 1660
Captain Jan Jansen Bestevaer
Arrived New Amsterdam May, 1661
Lammert Huybertsen from Wageningen - and wife and two children ages 2 and 3 1/2 years

Immigration:


New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) the capital of New Netherland was a Dutch settlement/trading post established in 1624. On September 8th, 1664, Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, officially establishing New York City. After this date it became. New York, British Colonial America, until 1775

Lambert married Hendrickje Cornelisse about 1654 in Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands. Hendrickje (daughter of Cornelis Barents and Lysbet Arents) was born on 29 Oct 1638 in Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands; died in 1696 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in 1696 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Hendrickje Cornelise Van De Cuyl
• Name: Hendrickje Cornelisse Van De Cuyl
• Emigration: 23 Dec 1660, Netherlands
• Immigration: May 1661, New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands
• Misc: 7 Jun 1663; was captured & held for 3 months by the Indians in 1663 at the Buming of Hurley

Notes:

Apparently Hendrickjen Cornelisse passed away before Lambert Huybertse Brink as she is not mentioned in his will.

...The first Dutch Church of Kingston was built of logs in 1661, This building was burned by Indians on 10th of June, 1663 and forty-five villagers were taken into captivity including Lambert Huybertse Brink's wife Hendrickje Cornelisse and their three oldest children - Huybert, Lysbet and the toddler Cornelis.
...On that day, at about noon when most of the men were in the fields, bands of Indians entered through the gates, and scattering among the people and into the houses in a friendly manner, offered beans and maize for sale. A short time afterward several horse-back riders hurried through the mill-gate from Hurley, crying 'The Indians have destroyed the New Village'. When the cry was heard, the Indians began a general attack, murdering, or in some cases, taking prisoners; plundering, and then setting fire to the village on the windward side. However, a shifting of the wind prevented a total destruction, and the arrival of the men from the fields made the Indians flee.
...After three months the Brink family and others were rescued from captivity. The burned church was rebuilt in 1667 on the same site. The church at Kingston was the only Dutch Church in all of Ulster County for the families to attend and that is where we find all their baptisms.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 1 Jun 1634, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; Address:
  Oude Kerk
• Misc: 26 Dec 1660, New Netherland; partook of the first Lords Supper; Address:
  Old Dutch Church
• Occupation: 23 May 1661, Rennselaerswyck, New Netherlands; First Schout (sheriff) of Esopus (Ulster County)
• Immigration: 1663

Notes:

...Roeloff Swartwout was the son of Tomys and and Hendrickjen (Otsen) Swartwout. Roeloff was bom and baptized in Amsterdam, Holland. On August 13, 1657, in Beverswyck, New Netherland, he married Eva (Bradt) de Hooges, the widow of Antoni de Hooges, and the daughter of Albert Andriessen and Armetje Barentse (von Rottmers) Bradt.
...The book Ship Passenger Lists New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) on page 123 lists "Roeloff Swartwout, farmer (On his retum to New Netherland where he had previously resided.)" as a passenger "In Der Bonte Koe (Spotted Cow) and then continues with the names of three men who were "in the employ of Swartwout",
...Eva (Bradt) Swartwout died in Hurley, Ulster County, New York about the year 1689. On October 8, 1691, Roeloff Swartwout remarried Francijntje Andries, widow of Abraham Lubbertszen. He also outlived his second wife. On March 30, 1714, he made his will and died in Hurley in May 1715.

Immigration:
DE BONTE KOE (The Spotted Cow)

Sailed from Amsterdam 16 April 1663, arrived in New Amsterdam between 11 May 1663 and 17 August 1663
Captain Jan Bergen

De Bonte Koe means The Spotted Cow. While little is known of de Bonte Koe, it is surmised that the ship was 170 feet long, 49 feet in beam, and about 20 feet in depth, based on similar ships of the period (Historical Handbook, 1935). The above rendition of de Bonte Koe is from the Holland Society and was publshed in the January 1996 edition of the Van Voorhees Niewsbrief.

Roeloff married Eva Albertse on 13 Aug 1657 in Beverwyck, New Netherland. Eva (daughter of Albert Andriesz and Annetje Barents) was born in Jan 1632/3 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; died on 8 Oct 1689 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Oct 1689 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Aefje Albertse
• Name: Affien Albertse Bradt
• Baptism: 9 Jan 1633, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Emigration: 25 Sep 1636, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Immigration: 4 Mar 1637, New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands
• Misc: 26 Dec 1660, New Netherland; partook of the first Lord's Supper; Address:
  Old Dutch Church

Notes:

...Eva Albertse (Andriessen) was the daughter of Albert Andriessen of Fredrikstad, Norway. She arrived, in company with her parents and two brothers, one of whom was born on the sea, at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637. She lived with them in the vicinity of the present Albany, where she in in October, 1647, was married to Antony de Hooges, one of the leading men in the colony of Rensselaerswyck. He was a widower with several children.
...After his death she was married August 13, 1657, to Roeloff Swartwout who became sheriff of the present county of Ulster, New York. (Source: John O. Evjen Ph.D., Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674 (Minneapolis, Minn.: K. C. Holter Publishing Company, 1916), p30)

Notes:

Married:

Marriage Contract between Eva and her second husband Roeloff Swartwout.
—In the name of the Lord, Amen, be it known by the contents of this present instrument, that in the year 1657, on the 13th day of the month of August, appeared before Johannes La Montagne, in the service of the General Privileged West India Company, deputy at Fort Orange and village of Beverwyck, Roeloff Swartwout, in the presence of his father, Tomas Swartwout, on the ___, and Eva Albertsen (Bratt), wifow of the late Antony De Hooges, in the presence of Albert Andriessen (Bratt), her father of the other side, who in the following manner have convenanted this marriage contract, to wit, that for the honor of God the said Roeloff Swartwout and Eva Albertsen 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 and real, of whatsoever nature they may be to be used by them in common, according to the custom of Holland, except that the bride, Eva Albertse, in presence of the orphanmasters, recently chosen, to wit, Honorable Jan Verbeeck and Evert Wendels, reserves for her a 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 Beverwyck; it was also convenaned, by these presents, by the mutual consent of the aforewritten married people, that Barent Albertse (Bratt) and Teunis Slingerland, brother and brother-in-law of the said Eva Albertse, and uncle of said children, should be guardians of said children, to which the aforesaid orphanmasters have consented: which above written contract the respective parties promis to hold good, on pledge of their persons and estates, personal and real, present and future, the same submitting to all laws and judges.
—Done in Fort Orange, ut supra, in presence of Pieter Jacobsen and Johannes Provost, witness, for that purpose called.
Roeloff Swartwout
This is the mark of + Eva Albertse
Thomas Swrtwout
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 Oarnge
Signed by Roelof Swartwout
(Source: Evjen, Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674, p32-33 - Roeloff Swartwout and Eva Albertsen - marriage.)