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The Hissem-Montague Family  |
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The Hissem-Montague Family |
The Bush family was Dutch. Once in America their surname evolved through Bosch, Van Bosch, and Den Bos. Most of them lived in Kingston, New York, a center of Dutch settlement in the New Netherlands colony.
(16) "Walter" Jan Woulter Van Der Bosch (1612)My 8th great-grandfather. A resident of Ravensteyn [Ravenstein], Nord-Brabant, Netherlands. Ravensteyn [Ravenstein] is located on the Meuse river. A shoemaker. He married Wilhelmine Voight, the daughter of Peter Voight. She died in 1635 and Jan subsequently married Hendrika Mulder in Ravesteyne, Holland. Jan died and was buried in Ravensteyn.
| Ravenstein, the Netherlands
A fortified town on the shores of the Meuse, or Maas, river in the south of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. |
My 7th great-grandfather; the Emigrant. Jan Woutersen Van Der Bosch, the son of Jan Woulter Van Der Bosch and Wilhelmine Voight was born on 30 October 1638 in Ravensteyn, Nord-Brabant, the Netherlands. Woutersen = Son of Wouter [Walter]. His first wife was Annetje Arents whom he married in 1658, while still in Europe, and had one child, a daughter. After Annetje's death he would marry again, this time to Wyntie Pierters Rutgers, in America.
In February 1659 Jan and his family emigrated from Raversteyn to the New Netherlands colony in America onboard the ship DE TROUW, 'the Faith.' They arrived in New Amsterdam on 5 May 1659.
"DE TROUWThe DE TRPIW's departure was listed as "Amsterdam" with a destination of "Nieuw A'dam" (New Amsterdam). Between 1659 and 1664 DE TROUW and her Schipper, Jan Jansz Bestevair, would make the crossing six times.
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Jan Woutersen, from Ravensteyn; shoemaker, and wife and daughter." - from the ship lists in Olive Tree Genealogy
| New Amsterdam: The Immigrants
"New Netherlands was not a colony of the Netherlands. It was the product of a stock company established by the Estates General of the Netherlands. Its purpose was to produce a profit for its stockholders. While it was chartered by the Estates General, the Dutch legislative body which was subject to the King and Queen of Orange, the company administered the colony with all the authority of a monarch. Its colonists did not enjoy all the civil liberties of the citizens in The Netherlands, who at that time in history, led the world in freedom of the individual. In New Netherlands, there was no representative government as there was in the Netherlands. The company appointed the governor and vice governor. The governor was answerable only to the Dutch West Indies Company. The fact that the citizens of the Netherlands had ample employment available and that their enlightened rights such as freedom of religion were guaranteed, resulted in the slow growth for the colony. Here was little reason for the people of the Netherlands to undertake the long and hazardous sea voyage and the rigorous life of a colonist. At the beginning of its existence, the company offered large land holdings to stockholders who agreed to colonize their holdings. These large land holders were called Patroons. They intended to work the land with indentured laborers. The indentured workers were like vassals under the feudal system that was dying out in Europe, except that they would be freed from their indenture in a set number of years. Then they could obtain their own land and work for themselves. This plan failed as very few could be recruited to work for the Patroons. For this reason, after consulting with the Estates General, the company in September, 1638, issued a proclamation which marked the beginning of a new era. The right to hold land in free proprietorship was thrown open to all potential colonists. The company offered the land at very attractive terms, with other inducements such as free transportation, and a house and a barn. Under this arrangement the colony began to grow and prosper. The Netherlands' claim to the colony was solid and rested upon the voyage of Henry Hudson, chartered and paid for by the Dutch East Indies Company in their search for a northern passage to the Far East. On this voyage, he sailed up the river subsequently named the Hudson river in his honor. He thought it might be the sought after northwest passage to the far East. When he arrived at fresh water he realized this was not the passage, but the mouth of a large river. He, thereupon, claimed this newly discovered land for the King and Queen of the Netherlands. The English had two colonies on the North American continent, Virginia and New England. They had claimed the entire coast of North America but insisted that these two colonies maintain one hundred mile separation between themselves. In this one hundred mile coastal area, the Dutch West Indies Company established its colony, New Netherland. This was to lead to later disputes between the English and the Dutch. Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson river in 1609. By 1623 the Company had delivered the first colonists to the new colony. There were but eighty colonists in this group who arrived on the Dutch ship Goede Vrouw (Pleasant Wife) in 1623. It took this small craft, whose keel length was but one-hundred feet, over seven weeks to make the journey across the Atlantic ocean." |
The Van Der Bosch family settled in Flatbush, on Long Island. In April 1665 Jan was listed as a Burgher and inhabitant of New Amsterdam. From the Records of Early Settlers of Kings County, New York:
WOUTERS, JAN, of Flh [Flatbush], a master-shoemaker, b. 1638.Jan resided at Stamford, Connecticut from 1671 to 1677. He took the Oath of Allegiance on September 26, 1687. A Joun Wouters Van der Bosch appears in the Flatbush Church Records of this period.
Owned salt-meadows in Flh in 1667.
July 2, 1678, he hired out his son Ruth [Rutger] Janse, age 8 years, to his brother-in-law, Lourens Jurianse, for 8 years to do all kinds of service proper for a lad; Jurianse to board, clothe, and send to evening school said lad, and at the end of the term to furnish him with a good Sunday and every-day suit of garments of linen and woolen and also a milch cow - from p. 30 of Lib. AA of Flh rec.
Aug. 16, 1680, he sold to Anthony Wansair a lot and orchard in Flh - from p. 131 of Lib. AA of Flh rec.
Mar. 1, 1694-5, Jan Wouters of N. Y., shoemaker, to which place he appears to have removed, sold to Lammert Zichels, smith, a house and lot in Flh on the E. side of the highway - from p. 204 of Lib. A of Flh rec.
[Signed] "Jan Wouters"
Jan's first wife, Annetje Arents, died and he then married Wyntie Pierters Rutgers in 1668.
| Evening School
As opposed to Day School. |
Jan Woutersen died on 28 February 1706 [1707] in Flatbush, Kings county, Long Island, New York. Note:
"The Dutch rarely bore a permanent surname, but went by a patronymic derived from the father's Christian name. Thus, Lambert Johnson and Jacob Johnson were simply Lambert and Jacob, sons of John or Jan; but before 1700 the Dutch in America had begun to retain the father's patronymic after the English fashion, so it need not surprise us to find in the Staten Island records that Lambert and Jacob Johnsons were sometimes known as Lambert and Jacob Wouters. This implies that they were sons of a certain Jan Wouters (John son of Walter), and that they sometimes retained the Wouters and sometimes called themselves Jansen after their father's Christian name."His children with Annetje Arents were,
My 6th great-grandfather. Hendrick, the son of Jan Woulters Van Der Bosch and Arentje Arents, was born on 30 March 1663 in New Amsterdam [Flatbush], New Netherlands. He was, however, baptized in Bergen, New Jersey for some reason. Hendrick was the only child of Jan Woutersen to use the surname of Van den Bosch, Bos, or Bush [From the Woods]. Ten siblings, who settled elsewhere, used the surname of Woutersen - from the Holland Society of New York, 1914.
Hendrick appears in the earlier Kingston, New York records as Hendrick Jansen Van Den Bosch.
He took the Oath of Allegiance in Ulster County in 1689.
Hendrick married Marie Dubois of Leyden circa 1693. She was the daughter of Jacques duBois and Pieronne Bentyn. Their children were Annetje and Jacobus. After her death, Hendrick married Ariantje Keyser. They moved to Marbletown, in Ulster county.
"Hendrick Boss [Bosch] desires 50 acres of land adjoining the land already granted to. Granted, October 16, 1704" Listed as freeholder in Marbletown in 1703, 1709, 1711-12, 1714-15 - from Marbletown Records
Hendrick died in 1715 in Marbletown, Ulster county, New York. Their children were Johannes, Agniet, Jacomyntie, Stynte, Marytje, Wyntie, and four others.
(19) Johannes Bosch (1700)My 5th great-grandfather. Johanness Bosch, the son of Henderick Jansen Van den Bosch and Ariantje Keyser, was baptized on 21 April 1700 in Marbleton, Ulster county, New York - from the Kingston Baptismal Register. The witnesses were J.P. Nucella and Marritje Davids.
Johannes married Marytjen Van Etten on 21 April 1728 in Marbletown, Ulster county, New York. She was born on 3 January 1699 in Hurley, Ulster county, New York, the daughter of Jan Jacobsen Van Etten and Jannetje Roosa. She was the widow of Cornelius Ennis.
Johannes was a farmer. He moved into the Minisink, between Milford and the Delaware Water gap. On 10 December 1755 Johannes, his wife, and a son and daughter were killed in an Indian raid. The records indicate that they lived just above Shawnee, where the Smithfiled church was located, but perhaps on the New Jersey side.
Johannes and Marytjen died on 10 December 1755 in Upper Smithfield township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania. Their children were Benjamin, John/Johannes [Thomas Hesom and Catherina Kleyn were witnesses at the baptism of Johannes Bosch and Mary Johnson's daughter, Cathrina, in 1755], Jannetjin [Jane], Jacobus, and Nathaniel.
(20) Jacobus "James" Bush Sr. (1740)My 4th great-grandfather. Jacobus Bush, the son of Johannes Bosch and Marytjen Van Etten, was born on 26 October 1740 in Kingston, Ulster county, New York. A weaver and, eventually, a large landowner. He married Eva Brink in Ulster county. She was born in about 1744, the daughter of Thomas Brink and Franciscus Schoonover. He was paying taxes in Pennsylvania in 1761. By 1765 they were living near Walpack, were their son, Benjamin, was baptized.
A Revolutionary War veteran. He served as,
- a Private in Captain Samuel Hover's 8th company, 6th battalion of Northampton county militia on 14 May 1778.David Heysham, his eventual son-in-law, was also in Schoonover's company
- a Private in Captain Benjamin Schoonover's 2nd company of Northampton county militia in June 1780, in Schoonover's 8th company, 5th battalion in 1781, and Schoonover's 2nd company, 5th battalion on 2 May 1782 - from the Pennsylvania Archives, series 5, volume 8, pages 397, 419, 569.
He aquired a land grant [for war service?] of 400 acres on 26 February 1793, about 2 miles from where Stroudsburg is now located - from file #3360 Easton Pennsylvania court house. Jacobus died on 17 March 1820, at the age of 79.
"Fri. Mar. 31, 1820Jacobus had a will dated 19 February 1809, but this was not probated. His will,
Died on the 17th instant in the Smithfield Twp. Northampton Co.
Mr. James Bush, Sr. the the 88th year of age [sic]." - from "The Mountaineer" newspaper of Northampton county, Pennsylvania
"In the name of God, Amen. I James Bush of Lower Smithfield township in the county of Northampton State of Pennsylvania being of sound mind memory & understanding the uncertainity of life do make and publish this my last will & testament in manner & form following to wit:Jacobus' son, James Jr., was the administrator of the estate.
First I do direct that all my just debts be first paid out of my personal estate and that the remainder of said personal estate be equally divided among all my children namely, Mary, Ann, Rachel, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Thomas, James, John, Richard, Nicholas and Henry.
Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary the sum of ten pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania--Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Rachel ten pounds of lawful money of Pennsylvania--Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann Wolfinger ten pounds of lawful money of Pennsylvania. Item I give I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth ten pounds of lawful money of Pennsylvania, which said four bequests are to be paid by all my sons in such proportion as falls to each ones share, that is, each son pay one seventh of the said bequests. 1 give and devise unto my sons, Benjamin, Thomas, James, John, Richard, Nicholas and Henry Bush my whole meal estate wheresoever it may be in equal proportions to them their heirs and assigns forever. And I further order that my said real estate shall be divided into seven parts of equal value and one of those pails shall take in the buildings which [they] now occupy and when the division is so made I order and direct that my son Henry shall have that part which includes the buildings aforesaid and lastly I nominate and appoint John Brown Frederic Brotzman and my son Henry Bush to be the executors of this my will, hereby making all former wills by me made heretofor & declaring this and no other to be my last will [&] testament
Witness where I have hereunto set my hand seal the 19teenth day of February Eight hundred and nine
James X Bush
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Signed sealed published & declared by the said as his last will testament who in his presence at his request have subscribed as whitnesses.
P Hollinshead"
His children were Thomas, Mary Smith, Anna Wolfinger, Benjamin, Rachel Wisemore, Elizabeth Heysham, James Jr., John, Richard, Nicholas, and Henry.
(21) Elizabeth Bush (1762)My 3rd great-grandmother. Elizabeth Bush, the daughter of Jacobus Bush and Eva Brink, was born after 1762, or in 1768 in Smithfield township, Northamptonn county Pennsylvania, per Marlin Hissim. She married David Heysham.
