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Personal data Hendrik Berends Hulshoff 

• He was born on December 2, 1664 in Zenderen, Borne, Overijssel (doopsgezind).Source 1

  Spellingvariant: Henrik Berents of Henrik Berendsz Hulshoff.

• (Levensloop) from 1697 till 1745.Source 2

  Hendrik Hulshoff, zn. van Berend Hulshoff, (koopman te Borne) en Geesken ten Cate, geb. te Zenderen op 2 dec 1664, doopsgezind, koopman, oudste en leraar der 'Oude Vlamingen' te Zenderen, ovl. te Borne op 4 jan 1745, otr.te Deventer op 3 jul 1697, tr. te Borne Jenneken ten Cate, dr. van Gerrit ten Cate (koopman te Borne) en Trijntje Gerrits, geb. te Borne circa 1666, ovl. te Borne na 1750.
  
  Hij was wever op de "Paschen", oudste en leeraar te Borne, bij de Oud-Vlaamsche Doopsgez., † Borne 4 Jan(uari) 1745, tr(ouwt) Jenneken ten Cate Gerritsdochter, van Groningen.
  
  Hendrik Berends Hulshof, wever en leraar te Borne, en Jenneke ten Cate.
  
  Hendrik Hulshoff, usually called Hendrik Berents, was a spinner and weaver, married to Jenneken ten Cate of Groningen, and lived in "het Paschen" at Zenderen near Borne in the district of Twenthe in the Dutch province of Overijssel. From 1690 on, hewas an elder of the Groningen Old Flemish Mennonites. This group also had a congregation in Twenthe, which split in 1728 into the Borne and Hengelo congregations. As elder he made official trips to the Old Flemish congregations; in 1719 he made a journey all the way to Polish Prussia. On 22 May, accompanied by his brother Arent Berends, he started out on a trip via Groningen and Harlingen, to Vlieland, and from there by boat to Danzig, where they arrived on 28 June. Here he met with Mennoniteleaders, including Jan van Hoek and Anthony Janssen, but he did not preach. In Gruppe he visited Jacob Bertelt (Bartel), "being a man of the other Mennonites" (i.e., Bertelt belonged to the Waterlanders), for whom he had brought a letter and a "greatbasket full of books" from Holland. On 5 July the travelers arrived at Przechovka or Przysierk, later called Wintersdorf, not far from Schwetz. (In the Naamlijst of preachers of 1755 the congregation is called "In't Colmsche op Kunpad en Przekowsky.") Here Hulshoff took up his residence in Elder Benjamin Wedel's house. This was also a Groningen Old Flemish congregation. Hulshoff visited many members and preached several times; and on Thursday, 13 July, he officiated at the ordination of thetwo preachers, Jacob IJsaäks (Isaak) and Abraham Onrouw (Unrau). On the following Sunday he officiated at the reception into the congregation by baptism of at least 31 baptismal candidates, to whom he had given baptismal instruction on the previousMonday. They also visited the brethren in Wolz (?) and Schönsee. On Saturday the matter of the discipline of Hans Voet (Voth) was acted upon, and on Sunday, 23 July, he conducted communion and feetwashing. On Tuesday, 25 July, he preached once more. Onthis occasion many persons came from other places, even from the other side of the Vistula.
  
  Afterward Hendrik and Arent Hulshoff took their departure. On the return journey they spent a night with a member at Montau, Pieter Baltzer (Balzer) of the Frisian branch. After a short stay in Danzig, where the brothers had business—our elder managed very eminently to combine the spiritual calling with the material—they traveled overland via Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Lingen, and Noordhorn back to their home, arriving there on 13 August.
  
  The travel account was written up by Hendrik Berends Hulshoff himself, and was published in 1938 with an introduction by H. Ch. Hulshoff. Among the important items included is a list which Hulshoff received from his fellow elder Alle Derks, and one which he himself made of the members of the congregation in "Persighofke en 't Koenpat (Przechowka)." Presumably Hendrik Berends made a second journey to Prussia and Poland.
  
  Jenneken ten Cate, dr. van Gerrit ten Cate (koopman te Borne) en Trijntje Gerrits, geb. te Borne circa 1666, ovl. te Borne na 1750, otr. te Deventer op 3 jul 1697, tr. te Borne met Hendrik Hulshoff, zn. van Berend Hulshoff (koopman te Borne) en Geesken ten Cate.
  
  Hendrik Berents Hulshoff te Borne was oudste van de sociëteit der Groninger Oude Vlamingen van 1710 tot 1745.
  
  Hij is wever, spinner, koopman; leraar der doopsgezinden van Twenthe, als zodanig verkozen 1696; oudste bij de Groninger Oude Vlamingen, als zodanig verkozen in 1710, in welke kwaliteit hij in 1719 de geloofsgenoten in Polen bezocht (zie eerder; afb. 4 & 5). Hij woonde te Zenderen in de Paschenswoning (tevens vermaning, afb. 3), de laatste twee jaar van zijn leven bij zijn dochter Jenneken te Borne. Het echtpaar had een talrijk nageslacht. Uit "Doopsgezinde Bijdragen", nieuwe reeks 18.

• He died on January 4, 1745 in Borne, Overijssel, he was 80 years old.Source 3
• A child of Berend Jansz. Hulshoff and Geeske Hendriks ten Cate
• This information was last updated on September 17, 2022.

Household of Hendrik Berends Hulshoff

He is married to Jenneken Gerrits ten Cate.

Permission for the marriage has been obtained in Deventer on July 3, 1697.Source 4

3-7-1697 Henrik Berents (Hulshoff) jm van Zenderen, met Jenneken Gerrits ten Kate, jd, van Borne. att.geg. den 18 july (1697).

Child(ren):

1. Fenneken Hendriks Hulshoff  > 1697-???? 
2. Jenneken Hendriks Hulshoff  > 1697-????
3. Geesken Hendriks Hulshoff  ± 1702-????
4. Gerrit Hendriks Hulshoff  < 1708-1781 

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