Name: Hendrick
ATEN
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Birth: abt 1661 Flatbush (New Amsterdam)
Death: 17 Jul 1750 Foster's Meadow, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Father: Adrian Hendrickse ATEN
(1630-1700)
Mother: (Unknown)
Adrian Hendrickse ATEN*
(abt 1630 - Apr 1700) & (Unknown)
Hendrick ATEN (abt 1661 - 17 Jul 1750)
& Maria DEMOTT (1678 - )
Adrian
(Aderyon?) ATEN (4 Sep 1695 - 10 Dec 1757) & Jacobje MIDDAGH (1693 - 1782)
John
(Jan?) ATEN (22 Dec 1732 - 1790) & Elizabeth BADYN (1733 - )
Cornelius ATEN (18 Jan 1766 - 21 Mar 1857) & Sarah (Sally) BELL (13
Feb 1770 - Jun 1856)
Aaron Kimble ATEN (18 Feb 1812 - 9 Sep 1901) & Dorcas GLASS (25 Jan
1814 - 20 Nov 1892)
Ellen Arminda ATEN (17
Dec 1849 - 6 Mar 1919) & Moody ROBINSON (1850 - 1938)
Adelia Gertrude
ROBINSON (12 Sep 1878 - 16 Jan 1973) & Newton COFFEY (1875 - 1969)
Leo Newton
COFFEY (1901 - 1998) & Elsie Maureen WALKER (1903 - 1983)
Fred
Coffey
Misc. Notes
Much of the following is from “An
Aten Genealogy”, by Alan J. Lamb.
“Hendrick
Aten was the first child of Adriaen Hendrickse Aten and probably his first wife
whose name is not known. Hendrick was born about 1661 in Flatbush in the Dutch
colony of New Netherlands. Flatbush was on the western end of Long Island and
was one of the ‘Dutch Towns’ which were eventually to become Brooklyn. Shortly
after Hendrick’s birth the English took over New Netherlands in 1664, and it
became New York permanently after another Dutch-English conflict in 1674.”
“On 26-30
Sept., 1687 Hendrick and his brother Thomas were recorded as taking an oath of
allegiance to the English crown. Both were identified as natives, and were thus
born in New Netherlands. At the time Hendrick was identified as being in
Brooklyn (Breucklijn) and Thomas of Flatbush (Fflackbush).”
Hendrick
married Mary (Maria) DeMott in about 1694. Hendrick Aten and his sister Annetje
Aten Skillman were witnesses to a baptism on 22 May 1698 at Flatbush. On 7 Oct.
1707, Hendrick and his sister Pieterje (Pieterie) Aten Snedecker were witnesses
to a baptism of their sister Annetje Aten Skillman’s child.
Hendrick and
Mary resided at Foster’s Meadow, near Jamaica, Queens Co., NY. Land records
show he owned considerable land there. Records of the First Reformed Dutch
Church of Jamaica show the baptism of Elizabeth, their daughter, on 20 Oct. 1713.
Also on 27 Apr. 1715 their daughter Mary was also baptized.
He made his
will on 10 Feb 1749, and it was probated 4 Feb 1751. “Hendrick died 19 July
1750 according to the Bible record of his son Adriaen. That New Testament and
Psalms was published in Holland in 1637 and contains a wealth of family
information including the following entries translated from the Dutch language:
‘In the year 1750 on 19 July died father Hendrick Aten; In the year 1752 on 23
April died his wife Mary L.’”
His Will:
IN THE NAME
OF GOD AMEN the tenth day of February in the year of our Lord Christ one
thousand seven hundred and forty nine I Henry Ater of Hempstead in Queens
County on the Island of Nassau in the Colony of New York, Yeoman being very
ageed and infirm in body but of sound mind and memory thanks be given unto God
therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is
appointed for all Men to die do make and ordain this my last Will and testament
that is to say principally and first of all I give and Recommend my soul into
the hands of God that gave it and for my Body I recommend it to the earth to be
buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing
doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the
mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath
pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise and dispose of the same
in the following manner and form:
Imprimis it is my will and I do
order that in the first place all my just debts and funeral charges be paid and
satisfied out of my estate by my Executors hereafter named.
Item I give and bequeath unto Mary my dearly beloved wife all the
Interest and income of all the Moneys that shall be belonging unto me at my
decease for hur support so long as she my now said wife doth continue my Widow
to be ordered and paid by my executors hereafter named.
Item I give and bequeath unto Mary my aforesaid Wife the whole use and
privilege of all my household Goods and Movables except the moneys above
mentioned for hur proper use and Support so long as she doth not commit
Embezalment nor wast so long as she doth continue my Widow.
Item I give and bequeath unto my four children viz Aderayon Ator Powel
Ater Elizabeth Rainer and Mary Allburtis all my estate that shall be left and
remain at the marage or decease of my aforesaid wife of what name or kinds
soever to be equally divided among them my said four children by my executors
hereafter named.
Item lastly I constitute make and appoint my loving sons in Law Anthony
Demott John Allburtis and Aaron Plase Executors of this my last Will and
Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow Revoke and disanul all and every
other former Testaments Will Legacies and Executors by me in any ways before
this named willed and bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other to
be my last Will and testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and afixed my Seal the day and
Year above first Writen
Henry
X Ater Ls
Signed sealed Published pronounced and declared by the said Henary Ater as his
last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers.
Richard
Everit
James
X (themark of) Alburtis
Aaron Burtis
Probate
Feruary 4th, 1750 at Jamaica Queens Co.
Marriage: abt 1694
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Spouse: Maria
DEMOTT
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Birth: 1678 Kingston, New York
Father: Michael DEMOTTE (~1649-)
Mother: Annetje WESTBROOK (>1658-)
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Hendrick ATEN (abt 1661 - 17 Jul 1750) & Maria DEMOTT
(1678 - )
Adrian
(Aderyon?) ATEN (4 Sep 1695 - 10 Dec 1757) & Jacobje MIDDAGH (24 Oct 1693 -
16 May 1782)
Paul ATEN (1700 -
1782)
Judick ATEN (1705
- )
Elizabeth ATEN
(Oct 1713 - )
Mary ATEN (Sep
1715 - )
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