Harmen Coeten

• General Notes
  • VOORTHYSEN. GUELDERLANDT
    Immigrated on DeTrouw (The Faith) to New Amsterdam (NY) - 12 Feb 1659
    Moved to Bergen Co. NJ ~1665
    
    THE FIRST PROOF OF HARMEN COERTEN RESDING IN THE NEW WORLD
    AND HIS APPROXIMATE BIRTH DATE ARE FOUND IN AN AFFIDAVIT MADE BY
    HIM AND OTHERS ON FEBRUARY 14, 1664. THIS AFFIDEVIT WAS CONCERNED
    WITH JOHN SCOTT'S (ENGLISH) RAID ON NEW UTRECHT. HARMEN AND HIS
    FAMILY HAD SETTLED IN NEW UTRECHT, (NOW PART OF BROOKLYN) LONG
    ISLAND. HARMEN'S MARK OR COAT OF ARMS IS HIS SIGNATURE ON THE
    AFFIDEVIT.
    DIVERS DECLARATIONS
    RESPECTING THE VIOLENT
    CONDUCT OF JOHN SCHOT
    BEFORE ME, PELGROM CLOCQ, BY THE RIGHT HONABLE DIRECTOR-
    GENERAL AND COUNCIL ADMITTED A NOTARY PUBLIC RESIDING IN THE
    VILLAGE OF MIDOUT, IN NEW NETHERLAND, AND THE UNDERNAMED
    WITNESSES, APPEARED JACOB HELLAKENS, AGED 52 YEARS, CRISTIAEN
    ANTHONYS, AGED 42 YEARS, JAN VAN DEVENTER, AGED 35 YEARS, THEUMIS
    IDEND, A SINGLE MAN, AGED 25 YEARS, HARMEN COERTEN, AGED 54
    YEARS, ADRIAEN WILLEMSEN, AGED 27 YEARS, JAN VAN CLEEFT, AGED 36
    YEARS, AND TREYNTJE CLASS, A PREGNANT WOMAN. AGE 46 YEARS, WIFE
    OF RUT JOOSTEN, ALL INHABITANTS OF THE VILLAGE OF NEW UTRECHT,
    WHO HEREBY DECLARE AND TESTIFY, ON THIER TROTH, IN FAVOR AND FOR
    THE ENDS OF JUSTICE, ON THE REQUISITION AND AT THE REQUEST OF MR.
    ADRIAEN HEGEMAN, SHERIFF OF THE VILLAGE OF MIDOUT, ECT., BY AND
    IN THE PRESENCE OF MR. BALTASAR DE VOS AND FRANCIS DE BRUYN, AT
    PRESENT SCHEPENS OF THE VILLAGE OF NEW UTRECHT HERE, THAT IT IS
    TRUE AND TRUTHFUL THAT ON SATURDAY, THE 12TH OF JANUARY LAST,
    JOHN SCHOT, CAPTAIN OF A TROOP OF HORSE AND FOOT, CAME TO THEIR
    VILLAGE, MAKING GREAT NOISE. THE AFORE-SAID JOHN SCHOT, STANDING
    ON THE BLOCK-HOUSE, SPOKE IN ENGLISH, BUT ALL THAT THE ABOVENAMED
    ARYEN WILLEMSE COULD UNDERSTAND WAS JOHN SCHOT SAYING: THIS
    COUNTRY AND ALL AMERICA FROM VIRGINIA UNTO BOSTON, BELONG TO KING
    CHARLES. THE ABOVENAMES DEPONENTS ALSO JOINTLY DECLARE THAT JOHN
    SCHOT WENT INTO THE BLOCK-HOUSE AND EXAMINED THE LITTLE CANNON
    WHICH HE UPSET WITH THE CARRIAGE. AND HIS MEN, HAVING AFTERWARDS
    REPLACED IT, BY HIS ORDER, SETTING IT IN THE KINGS'S NAME, IN
    ANOTHER PORT-HOLE OF THE BLOCK-HOUSE, WHICH HE CALLED THE KING'S
    PORT, THEY FIRED A SALUTE ON THIS OCCASION.
    JACOB HELLAECKENS FUTHER DECLARES ALONE, THAT JOHN SCHOT CAME
    TO HIM, AND UNDERSTANDING THAT HE, DEPONENT, WAS A MAGISTRATE,
    INQUIRED IF HE WILL SUBMIT TO THE KING'S AUTHORITY AT PRESENT?
    WHERE-UNTO THE DEPONENT ANSWERED: THE KING IS OUR FRIEND ALREADY,
    FOR WE ARE NOT AT WAR; BUT I REMAIN UNDER THE LORD TO WHOM I HAVE
    SWORN ALLEGIANCE. THEN JOHN SCHOT SPOKE: AS YOU WILL NOT CONSENT,
    THEN YOU MAY SEE WHAT WILL COME OF IT.
    JAN VAN CLEEF DECLARES, IN COMMON WITH ALL THE DEPONENTS
    EXCEPT TREYNTIE AFORESAID, THAT JOHN SCHOT SAID: YE SHALL NOT ANY
    LONGER LOOK UPON PIETER STUYVESANT YOUR GOVERNOR, BUT ONLY AS A
    PRIVATE MAN, FOR HE IS A GENERAL NO MORE; HE, JOHN SCHOT,
    FORBIDDING THEM, THE DEPONENTS, TO GIVE HIM ANY PROPERTY OR MAKE
    HIM ANY PAYMENT; AND (IF THEY MUST GIVE OR HAD GIVEN ANY, THAT
    HE, JOHN SCHOT,) WOULD INSIST TO PIETER STUYVESANT FOR IT AND
    CONSTRAIN HIM THEREUNTO BY THE SWORD.
    TREYNTIE CLAES, WIFE OF RUT JOOSTEN, DECLARES THAT WHILST IN
    HER HOUSE AN ENGLISHMAN OF GREAT FLATT, A SMITH, CAME ALONG
    MAKING CONSIDERABLE NOISE AND UPROAR, INQUIRING FOR MATTHUS
    PICSTAERT, THREATENING TO RUN HER THROUGH WITH A SWORD WHICH HE
    HELD IN HIS HAND CLEAR OUT OF THE SCABBARD, AND POINTED THREE
    DIFFERENT TIMES AT HER, THE DEPONENT'S BREAST, CALLING OUT, WHERE
    IS THE MAN? SO THAT, EVENTUALLY, ALL THE ENGLISHMEN CAME INTO HER
    HOUSE AND STILLED THE FURY; SHE, THE DEPONENT, BEING IN GREAT
    DREAD AND TROUBLE.
    FURTHER DEPONENTS SAY NOT, BUT ARE WILLING TO CONFIRM BY
    OATH, IF NEEDS BE, ALL THE AFORESAID. THRU DONE AND EXECUTED IN
    THE VILLAGE OF NEW UTRECHT ABOVEMENTIONED, ON THE 14TH FEBRUARY 1664,
    IN THE PRESENCE OF ME BALTASAR DE VOS AND FRANCOYS DE BRUYN.
    SCHEPEND, AS WITNESSES, WHO HAVE SIGNED THE ORIGINAL
    MINUTE REMAINING WITH ME, THE NOTORY, AS WELL AS THIS COPY.
    (SIGNED)
    ARIAEN WILLEMS HIS MARK
    HARMEN COERTEN HIS MARK
    TREYNTIE CLAES HER MARK
    JAN CLEEF HIS MARK
    CHRISTIAEN ANTONIS HIS MARK
    JAN VAN DEVENTER,
    JACOB HELLAKENS,
    THEUNIS IDENS,
    B. VOSCH,
    FRANCOIS DE BRUYNE. 12
    12 DOCUMENTS OF COLONIAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK,
    VOL II. PP 480-481
    "LATER IN THE SAME YEAR IN WHICH THE FOREGOING AFFIDAVIT WAS
    MADE COL. RICHARD NICHOLS TOOK POSSESSION OF NEW NETHERLANDS, AND
    THE RULE OF THE DUTCH IN NEW NETHERLAND, LONG ISLAND AND NEW
    JERSEY CEASED AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ASSUMED CONTROL. DURING
    THE FOLLOWING YEARS THERE WAS A CONSIDERABLE EXODUS OF SETTLERS
    WESTWARD INTO NEW JERSEY. MANY FAMILIES WENT BY WAY OF STATEN
    ISLAND, BUT HARMEN COERTEN AND HIS FAMILY APPEAR TO HAVE FOLLOWED
    HIS BROTHER GUERT DIRECT TO THE DUTCH SETTLEMENT AT BERGEN.
    HARMEN COERTEN TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE TOWN OF BERGEN
    ON NOVEMBER 22, 1665 ( greener, p91) "THE FOLLOWING OATH OF
    ALLEGIANCE TO THE BRITISH CROW THAT WAS SIGNED BY THE BERGEN
    INHABITANTS WAS FOUND IN "HISTORY OF HUDSON COUNTY" WRITTEN BY
    CHARLES H. WINFIELD ON PAGES 102 AND 103.:
    "THE OATH OF A LEGEANCE TAKEN BY THE INHABITANTS BERGEN ALIAS AND
    IN THE JURISDICTION THEREOF, BEGINNING THE 20 NOVEMBER, 1665
    "YOU DOE SWARE BY THE HOLY EVANGELISTS CONTAYNED IN THIS BOOK TO
    BARE TRUE FAITH AND A LEGEANCE TO OUR GOV LORD KING CHARLES THE
    SECOND AND HIS LAWFULL SUCCESSORS; AND TO BE TRUE AND FAITHFUL TO
    THE LOADS PROPRYETORS AND THIER SUCCESSORS AND THE GOVERNMENT OF
    THIS PROVINCE OF NEW JERSEY AS LONG AS YOU SHALL EQUIVOCATION OR
    MENTALL RESERUATION WHATSOEUER, AND SO HELPS YOU GOD.
    CAPTT. NICHOLAS VER LET, JUSTICE PAULUS PIETERSEN
    HERMAN SMEEMAN, MAGISTR HENDRICK TUNISEN
    GASPER STEINMENTS, DITTO ADOLPH HARDENBOO
    ELVAS MICHEILSEN, DITTO GEURT GARETSEN
    IDER CORNELLISSEN, DITTO BARTHEL LOTT
    HANS DIEDRECT, CONSTABLE CHISTIAN PIETERSEN
    TYNEMANT VAN VLICKT, TOWNW CLARKE THOMAS FREDERICKSEN
    CAPTT. ADRIAN POST, ENSIGNE CORNELIS ABRAHAM
    JACOB LUBY HERMAN EDWARDS
    ARENT LAWRENCE HERMAN COURT
    JAN TIBOUT RENIER VAN GIESE
    ENGELBERT STEENHUIS JAN EUERSEN CASABON
    PIETER JANSEN JOAS VANDE LYNDE
    LAURENCE ANDRIES GARRET GARRETSEN
    DERRICK TUNISEN CLAES ARENTSEN
    WOUWE HARMENSEN LAURENCE ARENTSE
    ISAAK VAN VLECK
    THE FACT THAT HARMEN COERTEN OWNED LAND IN AND NEAR BERGEN,
    NEW JERSEY IS PROVEN BY GUERT COERTEN'S WILL. THE WILL DESCRIBED
    PROPERTY OWNED BY GUERT AS EXTENDING TO LANDS OF HARMEN COERTEN.
    
    NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, VOL. 56, PP 266-269,
    PP 232-233. GREENER, JOHN H., THE COURTER FAMILY, PP 85-91
    LIST OF PASSENGERS, 1654 TO 1664, FROM NEW YORK COLONIAL MSS VOL 14,
    PP 83-123. YEARBOOK OFTHE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, 1915, BURIALS
    IN THE VILLAGE OF BERGAN IN NEW JERSEY, PP25 AND 27.
    DOCUMENTS OF COLONIAL HISTORY OF NEW YOUR, VOL II PP 480-481.
    HOLLAND SOCIETY COLLECTION, VOL IV, RECORD OF REFORMED CHURCH OF
    BERGEN, NEW JERSEY- MARRIAGES IN THE VILLAGE OF BERGEN, NEW JERSY.
    BAILEY, ROSALIE FELLOWS, DUTCH HOUSE AND FAMILIES, PP 372-374 AND 414 

Click here for details of Harmen's family with Aertje Gerrits (Coeten)

Source/Citation http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/h/o/Kenneth-T-Shorter/GENE10-0001.html

---

This page is within a frameset. View the entire genealogy report of Coeten families, or surname index of Coeten pedigrees or report summary Coeten heritage from 'Huttick, Powers, Schwartzstrub, DeGroat,... and more....'.
Family Systems Therapy.

---

Copyright © 2007 GenoPro Inc. All rights reserved.