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Birth: 1634 OR 1640 Heikop, Netherlands
Death: 1687 or 1714 New York
Father: Teunrs MIDDAGH (ca1600-)
Teunrs MIDDAGH (ca 1600 - )
Aert Teunrssen MIDDAGH (1634 OR 1640 -
1687 or 1714) & Breckje Hansen BERGEN (7 Jul 1642 - )
Dirck Aertson
MIDDAGH (23 Aug 1671 - 14 Sep 1710) & Catalyntje Van NESTE (abt 1672 - 11
Dec 1757)
Jacobje
MIDDAGH (24 Oct 1693 - 16 May 1782) & Adrian (Aderyon?) ATEN (4 Sep 1695 -
10 Dec 1757)
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)
Misc. Notes
(MIXED
INTERNET SOURCES)
He emigrated
from Heykoop, Netherlands about 1641 to New Amsterdam.
Captain Aert Teunissen
Middagh was born in Heicop, South Holland and emigrated to New Amsterdam-
America prior to 24 Oct. 1654. He received a patent for one hundred acres of
land on Wallabout Bay, Long Island, which is now in the borough of Brooklin
-New York City. The Captain returned briefly to Holland in May of 1661; and
returned to Brooklyn on ye ship "Beaver". It is known
he and his family made other trips back to Holland and that some of his
children were born there.
Aert is listed as a communicant of the Brooklyn DRC on 4/9/1664 and as a member of the church from 1677 to 1685. On 3/1/1660 he and others petitioned the government to allow them to form the village of Brooklyn. His wife Brechtje was a communicant of the Brooklyn Church on 4/2/1662.
Captain Middagh was the Captain of "ye Breuckelen Troops", a provincial militia in Brooklyn from 1663. Captain Middagh's wife was Breckje Hansen Bergen, the daughter of Hans Hansen Bergen of Long Island and New Jersey. Her mother was the famous Sara de Rapalje, the first child born in New Netherlands. Breckje was a native of New Netherland, being baptized in New Amsterdam on July 27, 1642. She was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, joining in 1662.
Considered
very well off, Captain Middagh drafted a petition to the Council of New
Netherlands on March 1, 1660 requesting: "lands to form a village on the
margin of the river in a place so that we may be in sight of Manhatans or Fort
Amsterdam. The request was granted, and the village of Keike
("Lookout") being thus established.
Aert was possibly the orphaned son of Gysbert Theunise
Bogaert and Aertje Bastiaens, raised by Gysbert's sister Neeltje and her
husband Gysbert Middagh, which would explain use of Middagh as surname.
Although shown on passenger list in 1661 on ship Der Bever,
he is believed to have first come to America ca. 1652. possibly in company of
Theunise Gysbert Bogaert, who was possibly his uncle (many believe he was
Aert's father).
Aert was a neighbor of Theunise Bogaert, who eventually married the widowed Sarah DeRapalie. Aert married Sarah's oldest daughter Breckje.
Occupation: Probably trader or merchant, as he made many
trips back and forth to Holland.
Middagh
means midday in both Dutch and Norwegian.
Spouse: Breckje
Hansen BERGEN
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Birth: 7 Jul 1642 New Amsterdam
Death: New
York
Father: Hans Hansen BERGEN
(-<1654)
Mother: Sarah Jorisen RAPALJE
(1625-1685)
Misc. Notes
Can find
several spellings of her name, i.e., Breckje, Brechje, Breechje, Brechte,
Breekje, Begien, Bregien, Brektje. They all translate to an English name
equivalent of "Rebecca".
According to
the entries on the records of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church in the city
of New York, the following are the children of HANS HANSEN BERGEN and Sarab
Rapalie:--
II. Brecktje, dau. of "Hans Hanszen
Noorman," bapt.
July 27th, 1642; witnesses, Jan, Montfoort
and
Sarah Planck.
(Sarah
Planck was the wife of Pieter Monfoort. )
Children
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Aert Teunrssen MIDDAGH (1634 OR 1640 - 1687 or 1714) &
Breckje Hansen BERGEN (7 Jul 1642 - )
Dirck Aertson MIDDAGH (23 Aug 1671 - 14
Sep 1710) & Catalyntje Van NESTE (abt 1672 - 11 Dec 1757)
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