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Catherine Margits
chr.4 Feb 1625 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
d.16 Apr 1690 Flatbush, Jamacia, Kings Co., New York State
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m. 7 Mar 1649
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also spelled Katherine The Amsterdam Years of Joseph Margetts, Father-in-Law of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland by John Blythe Dobson THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, Vol. 130, Number 3, July 1999 page 178-179; Catharina, bap. (as “Catelyn, daughter of Joseph & Anna Margitts”) 4 Feb. 1625 in the New Church, Amsterdam, with sponsor Niclaes Jacob,[26] d. 1690, before 16 Apr., and buried from the Dutch Church of Midwout (now Flatbush), Kings Co., L.I., N.Y.[27] She m. 7 Mar. 1649 at Sloten, near Amsterdam, by Amsterdam marriage intention dated 29 Jan. preceding,[28] Adriaen Hegeman, b. ca. 1624 at Elburg in Gelderland, living 27 Sept. 1671 (when he was confirmed as an executor of the will of Jan Everts Bout, of Brooklyn),[29] but died, presumably in the province of New York, by 28 May 1672.[30] Proven by previous writers to have been a son of the late Rev. Hendrick Hegeman, Dutch Reformed Minister at Vorchten, Gelderland, by his first wife (name unknown),[31] he is described in the marriage intention as “Adriaen Hegeman, of Elburgh, silk-worker (syreder),[32] aged 25 years, having no parents, [living] in Egelantier Straet.” She is recorded as “Catharina Margits, of Amsterdam, aged 21 years [an understatement], living on the Oudesyts Achterburgwall, accompanied by Joseph Margits, her father.” He signs as “Adriaen Hegeman” and she as “Katarina Mairgit,” Following the births of their first two children they left for New Netherland in 1652, settling at Midwout (modern Flatbush), on the west end of Long Island, where her husband was (as we have seen) appointed Shout of four of the “five Dutch towns” (Flatlands, Brooklyn, Flatbush, and New Utrecht) in Kings County.[33]... References
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