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BORGARUS
Pieter DeWandelaer's In-Laws - Anthony and Anna
Anthony Bogarus was born at Albany on 7 January 1682. Anthony was the middle child of ten children born to Pieter and Wynte (Bosch) Bogarus. Anthony's parents lived in Albany after they were married. In 1667 Anthony's oldest brother, Everardus, was born. It was ten years before they had another child. Anthony's maternal grandparents were Corneliunise Bosch and Maritje Tomase Mingal. The Mingal family had settled at Beverwyck in 1654. Cornelius Teunise Bosch is said to have come to Beverwyck in 1631 as a servant to Cornelius Maase Van Buren. Cornelius Bosch owned considerable real estate and frequently was in court accused of slander, back biting and defamation. At the time of Cornelius' death, Anthony's mother was the only child.
Anthony's faternal grandfather, Everardus Bogardus, was born in 1607 at Warden, in Utrecht providence in the Netherlands. On 27 July 1627, Everardus enrolled at Leyden University for the study of theology. He graduated from there in 1630 and was appointed Chaplin at the Dutch West Indies Company station at Brazil, South America. He returned to Holland and married there for the first time. He was shortly widowed. On 17 June 1631 he was ordained as a minister for the Dutch Reformed Church.
Everardus was assigned to New Amsterdam on 17 August 1632. He sailed aboard the frigate "Zoutberg" with Director-General Wouter Van Twiller and 104 Dutch troops. They arrived at New Amsterdam April 1633. What took them so long? He was ordained as the first Dutch minister there in the Old Fort.
In March 1638 Everardus married the young widow, Anneke. After Everardus and Anneke were married, they lived at New Amsterdam on the 62 acre farm, left to her by her first husband. The farm became known as the "Dominie's Bouwerie" (Preacher's Farm). Everardus and Anneke had four children of their own between 1638 and 1645, making a grand total of nine kids. Their youngest child was a son, Pieter Bogardus, who was baptized at New Amsterdam on 2 April 1645.
Through Everardus influence, the West India Company built their first church in the Colony within the walls of Fort Amsterdam at the Battery. He obtained a grant for 62 acres on Manhattan Island. Everardus exercised a large popular influence, but had a hot temper. He often openly rebuked Directors Twiller and Kraft from the pulpit. Both directors were poor governors. Weary of tyrannical administration, he decided to return to Holland to resign from his assignment. On 19 August 1647, Everardus and Director Kieft left New Amsterdam for Holland aboard the "Princess". The ship "Princess" met its end on the rocks off the southern coast of Wales during a hurricane on 27 September 1647. Everardus, Gov. Kieft and eighty others onboard drowned.
Anneke was again a window, now with nine children. In 1648, Anneke moved to Beverswyck and acquired additional land there. In 1652, Anneke received a grant of land from Gov. Stuyvesant, and in 1654 Gov. Stuyvesant granted her another 172 acres. She had the original land at New Amsterdam ,which was acquired by Jans and Everadus, reconfirmed to her on July 1654 by Governor Stuyvesant. In 1657 Anneke sold some land at New Amsterdam and moved back to Beverwyck, where she bought a house and a lot and settled there with her four youngest children, who had all been born in New Amsterdam. Her older five children had grown and married.
Anneke's youngest child, Pieter Bogardus, was twelve years old at this time. He remained at Albany and was a mariner. On 10 February 1665 Pieter Bogardus was married to Wyntje Cornelia Bosch. Wyntje was born about 1644 at Albany.
Anthony's father, Pieter Bogarus, was a magistrate of Albany in 1673. Being a magistrate either left Pieter with lots of free time or else the position inspired him. Between 1677 and 1687, Pieter and Wyntje had six more children. Anthony Borgardus was born in 1682, followed by another boy, girl and boy.
In 1690, Pieter Bogarus was commissioned to treaty with the Five Nations ( a powerful tribe of New York Indians) and to look out for the defense of the town. The same year Pieter moved his family, wife and seven children, from Albany to Esopus (Kingston, NY). There at Kingston, Pieter and Wyntje had two more children.
Anthony Bogarus was eight years old when his family moved to Kingston NY. There he grew up with his eight siblings.
Anthony Bogardus married at Albany, on 19 February 1710 to the widow, Jannetje (Lsybet) Knickerbacker Lansing. His father, Pieter Bogardus, died at Kingston on 28 January 1712.
Lsybet's father, Herman Knickerbacker, had purchased of land on the west side of the Hudson River, north of Albany in December 1682. Herman Knickerbacker had signed a contract with Anthony Van Schaick to buy and sell land at the northern end of the "Halve Maan", a tract of land named for Henry Hudson's ship the "Half Moon". This land ran toward Saratoga Lake and now is known as Schaghticoke. Jannetje Knickerbacker was born at Rensselaerwyck in 1686, and she went by the name of "Lysbet".
In 1690 Harmen Knickerbacker moved to Half Moon. On 20 February 1697, Harmen made further purchases of the land at Half Moon from Anthony Van Schaick. In the deed, Harmen is referred to as "Hare Janse Knickerbacker Van We". Lysbet Knickbacker was twenty-one years old when she married Henderick Lansing Jr. on 22 March 1704. Her youngest brother was only five years old; her oldest brother was twenty-five.
On 1 May 1704, after working twenty years on this land at Half Moon, Harmen Knickerbacker purchased land at Dutchess County from Herman Gansevoort. Soon afterwards the family moved to this land in the lower Hudson Valley, which was near Tivoll and Red Hook. When Herman moved his family, he took wife, two daughters and four sons; leaving the oldest son, Johannes at Half Moon. Their last child was born in 1707. Elizabeth was forty-seven years old and Herman was fifty-nine years old!
Lysbet Knickerbacker's Henderick Lansing Jr. died the following year, some time between February and April 1709. This left Lysbet a widow at the age of twenty-three. On 6 March 1710 Lysbet married again to Anthony Bogardus and settled in Albany.
Her father, Herman Knickerbacker, was one of the founders of the first Dutch Church of Schaghticok which was built in 1714. Herman Knickerbacker died on 2 April 1721 at Schaghticoke. Elizabeth Bogart Knickerbacker lived until 1730 at Dutchess County.
Anthony and Lysbet (Knickerbacker) Bogardus had eight children. Wyntje was baptized on 1 September 1710 at Albany. Sometime between 1710 and 1712, they moved to New York City. Their next seven children were all born in New York City.
Anna Bogardus was the youngest child of Anthony and Lysbet (Knickerbacker) Bogardus. She was born 11 February 1725 and baptized 17 February 1725 at Albany, N.Y. Anthony and Lysbet (Knickerbacker) Bogardus had eight children. Wyntje was baptized on 1 September 1710 at Albany. Sometime between 1710 and 1712, they moved to New York City. Their next seven children were all born in New York City.
Anna Bogardus first married on 29 February 1744 to Benjamin Van Vechten. They lived at Schaghtocoke N.Y. Their first child, Margarite was born 25 August 1745. Margarite died 14 August 1747, just eleven days before her second birthday. Anna was four months pregnant at the time. Their son, Anthony, was born 24 January 1748.
Benjamin Van Vechten died on 31 August 1749 after fathering two children. After Benjamin's death in 1749, Anna (Bogardus) Van Vechten remained at Schaghtocoke with her son, Anthony. Anna married Pieter DeWandelaer in 1758.
Now Pieter DeWandelaer had taken over his father's farm Schaghticoke. He first married Adrianntje Van Vecten, who died on 21 March 1751 in Albany. Pieter and Adrianntje had two children. Johannes was born in 1748 and died before he was two years old. Barent was born in 1750 and died a few days after his first birthday. It may have been that Anna and Adrianntje were sisters-in-law.
Pieter and Anna DeWandelaer had three children. With her one surviving son, and their three, the family consisted of four children, born between 1748 and 1763. Their daughter, Elizabeth was born in Albany in 1753 and married Teunis Van Vechten in December 1777. Johannes Gansevoort DeWandelaer was born 1756; he will marry his first cousin, once removed, Gerritje (Gertrude) Gansevoort.