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Persoonlijke gegevens GERRITT HENDRICKS JANS (NY 1688) DEWEES 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1640 in Leiuwarden, Freesland, Netherlands.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1641 in Leeuarden, Freisland, Holland.
• (Resided) rond 1663 in Ft. William Hendrick on island of Manhattan.
• (Move) na 1690 in To Germantown, Pennsylvania.
• Hij is overleden op 30 juni 1694 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 54 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1701 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 61 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Hendrick Adrian or DeWees en Adraentje Jans
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 juli 2022.

Gezin van GERRITT HENDRICKS JANS (NY 1688) DEWEES

Hij is getrouwd met SYTIE (NY) LIUWES.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 28 september 1662 te Amsterdam, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. LAMBERT (LEWIS) (NY 1688) DEWEES  1672-1742 
2. Ariaentie DeWees  1673-????
3. WILLAMYNTIE PIETRE (NY 1688) (DE WEES) DEWEES  1673-1737 
4. Hendrick DeWees  1677-1794
5. WILLEM LIUWES (NY 1688) DEWEES  1680-1745 
6. Lisbeth DeWees  1681-????
7. Cornelius (PA) Dewees  1682-> 1735 

Notities over GERRITT HENDRICKS JANS (NY 1688) DEWEES

Su Su Dale's Ancestor 1
Ancestor of Alonzo Greer

Gerrit Hendricks Dewees
Birth: 1640 Leiden, Leiden Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Death: 30 Jun 1694 (aged 53œ54) Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial: Upper Burial Grounds, Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Memorial #: 76573214
Bio: Emigrated to America (United States) about 1662/63. Lived in what is now New York City between 1663 and 1690.

Purchased property in 1691, as per copy of deed annexed.

Deed from Herman op de Graff to Gerrett Hendricks de Wees.

By these Presents be it known to all whom it may concern. THAT WHEREAS. Dirck Sipman at present residing in the city of Crefelt in the county of Cologne, did purchase of William Penn. Proprietor and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania. Certain 5.000 acres of land in the said Province whereof he is at present in lawful possession and of which I Herman op de Graff by virtue of the full powers unto me for that purpose given. Do grant unto Gerrett Hendricks deWees under the yearly rent of two Rix Dollars or 2 pieces of Eight yearly forever. Certain 50 acres of land situate in the German Township part whereof consists in a Town lot of the breadth of 14 Perches and 4 feet. Bounded on the one side towards the South East by William Reittinghousen, and on the other side towards the North West by Dirck Keysers Land extending Westward to the Main Street and Northward to the German Township line and containing XXX acres and the remaining XX are situate amongst the said Germantown outside lotts extending and bounded also on the southeast by William Reittinghousen on the northwest by Dirck Keyser, Northward by the Township line, and Westward by the division street, and of the same breadth of XXX Perches Which 50 acres of Land situated as above I the said Herman op de Graff as attorney of (and in the name of) the said Dirck Sipman do hereby grant unto the said Gerrett Hendricks de Wees, Together with all the rights, titles and interests of the said Dirck Sipman of, in and to the same to the intent and purpose that the said Gerrett Hendricks de Wees his Heirs and Assigns hereafter forever possessing the same shall and may peaceably and unmolested, have hold and possess the same herein granted Land with any claim and demand of the aforesaid Dirck Sipman his Heirs and Assigns. On the other hand the said Gerrett Hendricks deWees hereby binds

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himself his Heirs and Assigns yearly on the first day of the first month commonly called March to pay unto the said Dirck Sipman his Heirs and As signs forever, The said yearly rent of 2 Rix Dollars or 2 pieces of Eight the payment of which yearly rent to be made in the year 1691 on the first day of March .

And lastly the said Gerrett Hendricks de Wees shall be obliged in order for the more better assurance of his right to the said (50) acres of Land to cause this present grant or a sufficient Extract thereof to be duly entered into the appointed Public Town Record.

In Testimony whereof the Parties have set their hands and Seals hereunto. Done at Germantown 1690 the 1st day of the first month commonly called March.

Witnesses. Herman op de Graff (Seal) Isaac Shumaker. Gerret Hendricks de Wees (Seal) Paul Wulff. Passed in the Court of Records ye 22nd. 9th. M. 1698. (Deed Book, I; 9, 218._Philadelphia, Pa.)

According to the following, found in the Recorder's office in Philadelphia, the above lot of ground was sold by Zytian de Wees, widow of Gerret Hendricks de Wees, through her Attorney, Claus Rittenhouse, in 1701, to Conrad Cod Weis:

THIS ENDENTURE made the 23d. day of December one thousand seven hundred and one between Claus Ruttinghuysen, lawful Attorney of Zytian de Wees widow of Gerric Hendricks deWees. on the one part, and John Conrad Cod Weis of Germantown on the other part, for and in consideration of 23 pounds current silver money of Pennsylvania a certain half lot containing 25 acres. and a further consideration of a yearly rent of six shillings to be paid to Dirck Sipman his Heirs and Assigns forever. Witnessed by Hans Senrussmirls. Peter Keyser. (Exemplification Records. I, 390.)

Claus Ruttinghuysen, Attorney, etc., for Zytian de

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Wees, widow of Garrett Hendricks de Wees, sold the other half lot to John Henry Mehls, the same then being in possession of Zytian deWees, widow of Garrett Hendricks de Wees, for the sum of 17 pounds. Witnessed by Arret Klinkin and Peter Keyser. (Exemplification Records, 8, 392, L.)

Deed from John Conrad Codweis to William Dewees. This Indenture made October 2nd. 1703. between John Conrad Codweis of Germantown county of Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, on the one part. and William Dewees of the same Township, County and Province on the other part. WITNESSETH THAT THE SAID John Conrad Codweis for and in consideration of the sum of twenty seven pounds, current silver money of Pennsylvania which sum is secured to be paid by a bill of mortgage under the said William Dewees's hand and seal bearing date with these presents, the receipt whereof lie the said John Conrad Codweis doth hereby acknowledge, and for both acquit and discharge the said William Dewees his heirs and assigns forever. doth Grant, Bargain &c a certain half lot in Germantown March unto Gerard Hendricks de Wees by a deed of Enfoeffin dated the first of March 1690. acknowledged in open court March Conrad Codweis, by virtue of a deed of sale from the above mentioned Gerard Hendricks de Wees' widow Zytian dated the 18th day of April 1701. acknowledged in a court of records, held at Germantown 1703.

John Conrad Weis. Exemplification records. No.8, p.386. Recorder of Deeds' Office, Philadelphia, Pa.

This same land was sold by William Dewees to Conrad Rutters, on the 22d of 11th month, commonly

"From the DeWees/Deweese/Duese newsletter"

"Garrett Hendricks de Wees" (1641 - ca.1700)
part III The Dutch period (1641 - 1663)
by Curtis Dewees & Jack C. Vaughn

"Gerrijt Hendrix of Amsterdam and Sijtske Liuwes in this town((Lieuwarden),have been announced the 14th,21st and 28th of September. Confirmed (married) same 1662.

Family Members
Parents
Hendrick Adriaensz DeWees 1615-1679
Spouse
Sijtske Lieuwes Dewees 1649-1703
Children
Wilhelmina Dewees Rittenhouse 1673-1737
Lieuwes Lambert Dewees 1674-1743
William Dewees 1678-1745
Cornelius Deweese 1682-1735
Maintained by: Cheryl Horton (50514031)
Originally Created by: John Dawson (46487722)
Added: 15 Sep 2011
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76573214/gerrit-hendricks-dewees?_gl=1*3ns9dx*_ga*MTAyNDE5MzI2NC4xNjE4MDgwNzMz*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY1ODUxMTU5OS4yNTkuMS4xNjU4NTE0MTIwLjA.
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76573214/gerrit-hendricks-dewees: accessed 22 July 2022), memorial page for Gerrit Hendricks Dewees (1640œ30 Jun 1694), Find a Grave Memorial ID 76573214, citing Upper Burial Grounds, Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Cheryl Horton (contributor 50514031).

The Dewees Family

The origin of the family surname of DeWees is unknown although it has been clearly documented that the ancestor of all Dewees families in America is Garrett (or Gerret, or Gerrit) Hendricks DeWees who arrived in New Amsterdam from the Netherlands with his wife around 1663. While this should clearly demonstrate that the surname —DeWees“ is Dutch, we have noted in previous chapters in this family history blog that the use of surnames by the rural Dutch was not in practice in the 1600s. Garrett [son of Henrick] Hendricks was in fact named after his father, Hendrick Adrianense, who in turn was named after his father, Anriane Heyndricks. So where did the surname DeWees originate? I believe that no one knows for certain. One theory is that the family soon after their arrival in America may have assumed the name of one of their ancient French Huguenot ancestors who used the name —D‘Ewees“. Another undocumented source suggested that the Dewees family were descendants of Jan Pietre (born 1563), the only son of French Hugenots who died when he was very young. When Jan Pietre was adopted by a family they gave him the name —de wees“, which means —orphan“ in Dutch. Nice story, but it is probably mostly myth.

Garrett Hendrick (1640-Abt 1700):

Garrett Hendricks, age 21, married 18-year old Sijske (or Sytie, or Syntia, or sometimes written as Zytien) in the Dutch Reformed Church in Lieuwarden, Netherlands on September 28, 1662 less than a year before they emigrated to the New World into the port of New Amsterdam where they disembarked in the summer of 1663. Garrett‘s father, Hendrick Adriaensz, a Dutch seaman, had died only a few years earlier in the East Indies in 1661 and it seems likely that he had left his son little in the way of an inheritance. So Garrett and his new wife left their Dutch homeland to seek a new life with new opportunities in America. Their first home was a small stone structure built against the walls of the old Fort Amsterdam constructed many years earlier at the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Unfortunately, perhaps as one of our county‘s first cases of eminent domain, they were forced to move as their house was scheduled to be torn down to make way for the construction of new fort walls. They were as a compromise, given a house on Smith Street (in Brooklyn?) where the family was to live for the next 26 years. During that period the Dewees family had nine children recorded as baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church. In one of the colonial records, Garret Hendricks De Wees is listed as being a butcher and he most likely operated his business right from his home on Smith Street.

By the mid-1680s probably everyone in the province of New York, now under the control of the English, knew about the availability of land in William Penn‘s new colony of Pennsylvania. Not only had Penn directly promoted his new colony in the Netherlands but it was well know that his wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, was of Dutch heritage. It is not surprising therefore, to learn that many of the earliest settlers in Pennsylvania were transplants from New Amsterdam. One of these families was our Dewees family who sailed from New York to the small new settlement of Philadelphia in 1690. Prior to leaving New York, the oldest Dewees daughter, Wilhelmina Dewees, age 17, married 23-year old Nicholas —Claus“ Rittenhouse. Claus‘ father, William Rittenhouse (then Willem Rittenhausen) was born in Germany in 1644 where at a young age he learned the papermaking trade with his uncle. William with his uncle later moved to the Netherlands where they were employed by a paper manufacture until William with his wife and family emigrated to America in 1688. It is unclear whether the Rittenhouse family first disembarked in New York where Claus met and married Wilhelmina Dewees, but we know that by 1690 the Rittenhouse family was living in Germantown, Pennsylvania, a new settlement located a few miles northwest of Philadelphia. When Garrett Dewees with his wife and family moved to Pennsylvania in 1690, they leased property immediately adjacent to the Rittenhouse property, also in the new settlement of Germantown. The Rittenhouses were at this point, in-laws of my Dewees ancestors.

The majority of the earliest settlers of Germantown were in fact mostly Dutch Quakers. It was not until the early 1700s with the great migration of the German Mennonites into Pennsylvania that the population of Germantown decidedly tilted to a German majority. Many of the earliest Dutch settlers in Germantown had worked in the cloth and textile mills in Holland and brought the knowledge of this trade with them to America. The abundant creeks in the area that flowed to the Schuylkill River and eventually to the Delaware River were ideal for the development of an American textile industry which required a source of flowing water to power the mills. William Rittenhouse immediately recognized that this growing textile industry was exactly what he needed to make paper. Papermaking at this point in history was made from discarded rags and cotton, giving birth to the term —rag paper“. William Rittenhouse went on to establish the first paper manufacturing plant in America located on a small rivulet later named Paper Mill Run where it empties into the Wissahickon Creek. The plant was to be operated by the next six generations of his family beginning with William‘s son, Claus, who took over the operations when his father died in 1708. For what it is worth, in 1996 William Rittenhouse was inducted into the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame.

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