Person:Matthys De Haert (1)

Matthys De Haert

b.Abt 1667

d.27 Oct 1751 New Amsterdam

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m. 27 Jun 1695

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Name^[1]	Matthys De Haert
Alt Name^[1]	Matthias Dehart
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	Abt 1667
Marriage	27 Jun 1695	Kings Cty, Livingston, NY, USAto Jannetje Maurits
Death^[2]	27 Oct 1751	New Amsterdam

▼References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Lanier, Henry Wysham. A century of banking in New York, 1822-1922. (New York: The Gilliss Press, 1922)
78.

DE HAERT, Matthys The De Haerts were among the wealthy citizens of New Amsterdam; Balthazar De Haert was one of the leading citizens who aided the city by lending money for repairing defences in 1664.. He gave 250 fl. Matthys was included among the "best and most affluent inhabitants" in 1674 hisproperty being valued at 12,000 fl., while Balthazar De Haert's house was deemed to be worth 2,000 fl. The "Widdow Matthias Dehart" in 1676 was worth ~1200, while a Daniel De Haert was taxed ~3. 15s. on property assessed at ~600.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 New Netherland Connections. (Berkeley, California: Koenig, Dorothy A)
8(2003):64.

additions and corrections to a previous article:
'Matthijs DE HART was the "natural" son of Balthazar DeHart. ... Matthijs was born about 1667 according to his grave stone inscription in St. John's Church Cemetery, Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He died 27 October 1751. ... Balthazar had two natural sons : Matthijs, whose mother is unknown and Daniel DeHart whose mother was Margaret Stuyvesant.'

The reader is also advised to see the book The Dehart Family, Some of the Descendants of Balthazar de Haert, A Merchant of Early New York, 1980, by David M. Riker.