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Personal data Theodorus Polhemus 

• He was born in the year 1646 in Island Itamarica, Brasil.Sources 1, 2, 4
• Resident in the year 1710: .Source 3
• He died in the year 1722 in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, he was 76 years old.Sources 1, 2, 4
• He is buried in Flatbush, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States of America.Source 1
• A child of Johannes Theodorus Polhemus and Catharine van Werven

Household of Theodorus Polhemus

(1) He has/had a relationship with Aertje Teunise Bogaert.

Child(ren):

1. Catherine Polhemus  ± 1679-± 1747
2. Johannes Polhemus  1685-1762
3. Neeltje Polhemus  ± 1686-????
4. Elizabeth Polhemus  1693-1776 

(2) He has/had a relationship with Aertje Teunise Bogaert.

Notes about Theodorus Polhemus

The very interesting story of Reverend Johannes Theodorus Polhemus. He was born in 1598 in Zweickirchen, Rhenish, Bayern, Germany. Reverend Johannes Theodorus Polhemus originally preached in the Palatinate, Germany. Later moved to Holland and preached (where he married his wife?) and then back in Germany. They moved to Brazil in 1637 at the request of Count Maurice of Nassau, West Indies, who asked for a capable minister to come. The Synod of North Holland chose Johannes Theodorus Polhemus. Four ships left Amsterdam, Holland in October 1636 and arrived in Brazil in January 1637. The Dutch established colonies in Brazil in 1630 after conquering the Portuguese. Polhemus was sent to the island of Itamarca with Dutch settlers. His older children were born there. When the natives rebelled, the Dutch moved back to the mainland in 1647. In 1654 the Portuguese won the land back from the Dutch and the settlers were given three months to leave Brazil or stay and become Catholics. A fleet of 16 Dutch ships arrived to evacuate the Dutch Protestants and some Dutch Jews. Polhemus’ wife and children were on a different ship than he; they returned to Holland, but he did not. The Dutch ship Rev. Polhemus was on was captured by Spanish pirates. They in turn were overtaken by a French man-o-war ship called the Saint Charles. The French delivered the Dutch passengers to New Amsterdam in September 1654. Catherine Polhemus asked the church to give her the money owed to her husband so she and the children could join him in New Amsterdam. The West India Company gave Catherine some of the money owed to her husband, and she and the children sailed aboard the ship “Golden Otter” to New Amsterdam in 1656 and were reconnected with Reverend Polhemus. This story is a transcription from Genealogies of Long Island Families, Vol. I, The Reverend Johannes Theodorus Polhemus and some of his descendants.
Written by JJ Du Bois

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