Person:Harmanus Van Borckelo (1)

THE NEW YORK Genealogical and Biographical Record, VOL 84, THE VAN BARKELO FAMILY IN AMERICA by Mrs. John M Spell. 1953

"Harmanus; mar. Elizabeth Duryea in June 1775."

NAMES OF PERSONS for whom MARRIAGE LICENSES where issued by the SECRETARY of the PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, Previous to 1784, Printed by the order of Gideon J. Tucker, Secretary of State. 1860

"1765. May 31. Barkelow, Harmanus, and Elizabeth Duryee,"

GENEALOGIES of LONG ISLAND FAMILIES, From The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume I, by Henry B. Hoff, 1987.

"DECENDANTS OF JOOST DURYEA AND CATHERINE SCHENCK Elizabeth, m. June 1765, Harmanus Barkuloo, of New Utrecht, who had children; - Sarah, Catherine, Harmanus H. George, John or Johannes, William, Elizabeth, and Ann or Nancy."

THE PATRIOT:

Information from the "APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP TO THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WASHINGTON, D.C." 1928

"Harmanus Barckeloo was commissioned March 1776 as 2nd Lieutenant in the New Utrecht Company of the Kings County Militia."

According to records from his descendant William H. Barkuloo, he served under George Washington.

THE REFUGEES of 1776 from LONG ISLAND to CONNECTICUT, by Frederic Gregory Mather 1913. "THE MILITIA OF KINGS COUNTY. ("Archives of the State of N. Y. - The Revolution," p. 286)

A return of the Officers chosen by the different Companies in Kings County, who have signed the Declaration and taken their Comissions, 1776.

New Uytrecht.... Captain Abr'm Van Brunt; 1st Lieutenant ; Ad n Hegeman; 2nd Lieutenant Harm's Barkulo; Ensign Wm. Barre."

REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS of SUFFOLK AND KINGS COUNTIES; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, AND THE BRITISH PRISONS AND PRISON-SHIPS AT NEW-YORK, by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., 1849. Information provided by David M. Morehouse.

"KINGS COUNTY.

782. Officers chosen by the different Companies in Kings Co., who have signed the Declaration and taken thier Comissions. - March '76. MILITIA

    N. Utrecht - Adrian Van Brunt, Capt.; Adrian Hegeman, 1st Lt.; Harmanus Barkulo, 2d Lt.; Wm. Barre, Ensign."

THE LOYALIST:

REVOLUTIONARY INCIDNETS of SUFFOLK AND KINGS COUNTIES; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, AND THE BRITISH PRISONS AND PRISON-SHIPS AT NEW-YORK, by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., 1849. Information provided by David M. Morehouse.

"SUBMISSION OF KINGS COUNTY.

828. Thus the people of Kings County, after a few had been persuaded or forced into rebellion, were abandoned by their countrymen to all its penalties. Accordingly they lost no time in seeking th make their peace with the Kings Comissioners.

    'To the Right Honorable Richard, Lord Viscount Howe, of the Kingdom of Ireland, and his Excellency Wm. Howe, Esquire, General of His Majexties Forces in America, the Kign's Commissioners for restoring peace to His Majecty's Colonies in North America.
    Your Excellencies by your Declaration bearing date July 14, 1776, were pleased to signify that "the King is desirous to deliver his American subjects from the calamities of war, and other oppressions which they now undergo; and to restore the Colonies to his protection and peace;"...  we therefore, whose names are hereunto subscribed, freeholders and inhabitants of Kings County, in the Province of New York, reflecting with the tenderest emotions of gratitude on this instance of His Majesty's paternal goodness, and encouraged by the affectionate manner in which His Majesty's gracious purpose hath been conveyed to us by your Excellencies, who have thereby evinced, that humanity us ubseparable from that true magnanimity and those enlarged sentiments which form the most shining characters, beg leave to represent to your Excellencies,
    That we bear true allegiance to our rightful sovereign, Geo. the Third, as well as warm affection to his sacred person, crown, and dignity; to testify which, we, and each of us, have voluntarily taken oath [in the church at Flatbush] before Wm. Axtell, Esq., one of His Majesty's Council for this Province, in the following words, viz:
    I do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty, King Geo. the Third, and that I will defend his crown and dignity, against all persons whatsoever.  So help me God.
    That we esteem the constitutional supremacy of Great Britain over these Colonies and other depending parts of His Majesty's dominions, as essential to the union, security, and welfare of the whole empire; and sincerely lament the interruption of that harmony which formerly subsisted between the parent State and these her Colonies.  We, therefore, humbly pray that your Excellencies would be pleased to restore this County to His Majesty's protection and peace.
    Nov., 1776

... Wm Barre, Harmanus Burkuloo, Adrian Hegeman, (all members of the same New Utrecht Company) ..."

LONG ISLAND Source Records, From The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Selected and Introduced by Henry B. Hoff. 1987

LOYALISTS AND "DOUBTFUL" MEN OF KINGS COUNTY, 1777

"One document, entitled "The Declaration Against Popery," read as follows:

    'I A.B. do solemly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe, that in the Sacrament of the Lords supper there is not any transubstantiation of the Elements of bread & wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consevration thereof by any Person Whatsoever: And that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other Saint, and Sacrifice of the Mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and Idolatrous: And I do solemly in the Presence of God, prefess, testify and Declare, that I do make this Declaration andy evry part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English protestants, withou any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever, and without any dispensation granted me for the Purpose by the pope, or any other authority or Person whatsoever, and without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons, or Power wahtsoever shall Dispense with or Annul the same, or Declare that it was null or Void from the beginning.  Kings County.  October ye 16th 1777.'

The declaration is signed by the following officers of the militia companies of the county: ... Harmanus Borkuloo, Ensign

1777 Officers of the New Utrecht company were Captian Adrian Van Brunt, Lieutenant Johannes Couwenhoven and Sergeants Isaac Van Brunt and Peter Van Der Bilt. The privates were ... Harmanus Barcalo Jaques Barcalo John Bennet ... The privates had twenty-six guns, seventeen bayonets, eighteen swords, thirteen cartridge boxes, eleven pounds of powder and twenty pounds of ball...

Another paper, dated 1779 and signed by Colonel William Axtell, lists inhabitants holding woodlands on the banks of the river in Brooklyn and New Utrecht who consented to sell land to the Barrack Master General. They are, with the acres involved in each case, as follows: Harmanus Barkuloo (5 acres) Jaques Barkuloo (10 acres) ..."

REVOLUTIONARY WAR GRAVES REGISTER, The National Society of the Sons Of The American Revolution.

"Barkaloo Harmanus; 1745-1788; Private Cem, New Utrecht, NY; Second Lieutenant - France, NY"

DAR PATRIOT INDEX Centennial Edition Part 1 National Society of the Daughters of the American REvolution Centennial Administration. 1990

"Barckeloo, Harmanus: b 2-23-1745 NY d 11-10-88 NJ m Elizabeth Duryea 2Lt NY"

The CIVIL, POLITICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY and COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL RECORD of the COUNTY OF KINGS and THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. N. Y. FROM 1683 TO 1884, by Henry R. Stiles, Vol I. ~ 1900

"NEW UTRECHT'S SHARE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. In the year 1776, at the outbreak of the War of the Revolution, New Utrecht was early occupied by the British troops, who remained in possesion, from the Battle of Long Island to the evacuation fo New York, - a period of seven years. The troops were quartered on the inhabitants all this time; and those who joined the American ranks from Hew Utrecht, were forced to make night-journeys across the Bay or the Narrows, in fishing-boats, to Staten Island and New Jersey. The traditions of personal conflicts and quarrels between the villagers and the troops; and of attacks by boats at night are numerous and amusing. But, through everything, the British kept a firm hand on the grainaries, cattle and crops of the village. The bluff at Fort Hamilton, called Denyse's Ferry Landing, was occupied during the time of the Revolution by the houses of Denyse Denyse, Abram Bennett and Simon Cortelyou. Here, in August, 1776, a party of Americans established a battery of two or three twelve-pounders; and, without waiting for an attack, opened fire on the frigate Asia, which headed the fleet of Lord Howe, as it arrived to subdue the rebellion. The guns of the fleet rapidly returned the compliment,... On August 22d, 1776, 16,000 British and Hessian troops effected a landing in face of the fire of the little battery. Thus, the first resistance made to the British arms in the Middle States of America, was on the soil of New Utrecht, near where the present Fort Hamilton stands."

THE BARKULOO FAMILY. Information provided by Titus Podea from the research of Mary Barkuloo Podea. 1996.

"The Barkuloo Family

Harmon Jason van Barkelo Line

Born Wed Died Age Name 1745 1765 1788 43 Lt. Harmanus Barkuloo 1745 1765 1820 75 Elizabeth Duryea ..."