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Call Number: 1978.156
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder and one oversize item
The collection consists of the papers pertaining to the estate of Rutgert A. Van Brunt (1761-1818) of New Utrecht, Kings County (N.Y.). The collection appears to have been compiled by the acting executor, John C. Vanderveer. The documents include the probated last will and testament, inventories, receipts, and property disposition agreements.
Names:
- Van Brunt family
- Van Brunt, Rutgert A.
- Vanderveer family
- Vanderveer, John C.
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Auctions — New York (State) — Kings County
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State) — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Inventories of decedents’ estates — New York (State) — Kings County
- Wills — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Family papers
- Indentures
- Receipts (financial records)
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Call Number: 1978.157
Extent: 0.3 linear feet, in eleven folders, including one oversize
The Teunis G. Bergen collection of Van Brunt family genealogy papers spans the period 1770 to 1881 and measures 0.3 linear feet. The papers include letters, legal documents, and genealogical notes and transcriptions concerning the Van Brunt family, collected by Teunis G. Bergen. Much of the material concerns Kings County (N.Y.), especially New Utrecht (now part of Brooklyn), but New Jersey and other locales also appear in the genealogical documents. Many of the letters are from John Van Brunt (1802-1880) of Englewood, N.J.; these typically concern genealogy and family history, but some also include his perspectives on politics, the development of Englewood, and local issues such as a controversy over racially segregated schools. The legal documents include deeds, wills, and slave bills of sale.
Names:
- Bergen, Teunis G., 1806-1881
- Van Brunt family
- Van Brunt, John
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Englewood (N.J.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- African Americans
- Families — New York (State) — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Slavery — New York (State) — Kings County
- Wills — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- Family papers
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Legal documents
- Manuscript maps
- Research notes
- Slave bills of sale
- Transcripts
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Call Number: 1977.168
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
A four page document that records the 1791 judgment of a Kings County (N.Y.) panel of arbitrators in an unspecified dispute between the executors of the estate of Wilhemus Van Brunt and William B. Gifford of Flatbush. Van Brunt and Gifford were brothers-in-law. Col. Rutgert Van Brunt (Gravesend) and Rutgert W. Van Brunt (New Utrecht) were the executors. Surnames on the panel were Lefferts, Sands, Cortelyou, Couwenhoven, and Stillwell. The panel found in favor of the Van Brunt estate. The last page of the document includes the signed acknowledgements of the Van Brunts as having received payments in satisfaction of the award (1792-1794).
Although somewhat uncertain, the principals referenced in this document are likely as follows: Wilhemus Van Brunt (1723-1790), a farmer of New Utrecht; Col. Rutgert Van Brunt (1733-1812) of Gravesend, a farmer, county official at the time of this document, and a brother of Wilhemus; Rutgert W. Van Brunt (1757-1834) of New Utrecht, a son of Wilhemus. Wilhemus married Jannetje Van Voorhees in 1750. Her sister was Annatie, who married William B. Gifford, thereby relating the Giffords to Wilhemus by marriage. (See Teunis G. Bergen, Genealogy of the Van Brunt Family, 1653-1867, page 17-18, 17f, 41.)
Names:
- Van Brunt family
- Gifford, William B.
- Van Brunt, Wilhelmus
Places:
Subjects:
- arbitration
- Arbitration and award — New York (State) — Kings County
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1974.164
Extent: 0.02 Linear feet, in one folder
The collection includes one document, a hand drawn map of a lot at the ferry in Brooklyn, New York, surveyed by Rutgert Van Brunt for the town trustees, March 27, 1716. It is not known which Rutgert Van Brunt created the map. The map had been owned by historian and genealogist Teunis G. Bergen (1806-1881).
Teunis G. Bergen (1806-1881) of New Utrecht (Kings County, N.Y.), now part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, was a historian and genealogist. He was connected to the Van Brunts by marriage, and in 1867 he published a genealogy of the family. According to Bergen, Rutger Joesten Van Brunt was the common ancestor of Van Brunts in what became the United States. Van Brunt emigrated from the Netherlands and settled in New Utrecht in 1657. The name Rutgert was common in the family’s succeeding generations so it is unknown which Rutgert Van Brunt drew the map in this collection. It seems likely that it was one of Rutger Joesten’s grandsons, either Rutgert (died 1758) or Rutgert (died 1760), both of New Utrecht. (See Teunis G. Bergen, Genealogy of the Van Brunt Family, 1653-1867, page 10-11, 13-14)
Names:
- Bergen, Teunis G., 1806-1881
- Van Brunt family
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Maps
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Manuscript maps
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