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Kay,
This is what I have on her ancestors. I also have info on her descendants if you want that. Let me know if you have anything I don't. I'd appreciate receiving it.
Dave Bodine
David_Bodine@expatos.com
1. Catherine (Catharina) Bodine b. abt 1721, Somerset Co., NJ, May 7 1721, Raritan DRC in Somerset Co., NJ, m. abt 1746, in Greenwich Township, Warren Co., NJ, John George Hendershot, b. Jan 23 1720, Raritan Valley in NJ, d. Jan 26 1797, Greenwich, NJ. Catherine died Jan 23 1789, Greenwich Township, Sussex Co., NJ. Her name was also spelled Catrina. One person has given her birth year as 1720
Parents
2. Jacob (J. Jacob?) Bodine b. abt 1684, Staten Island, NY, m. abt 1710, Elizabeth Sebring, Jun 08 1677. Jacob died abt 1765, Hunterdon Co., or Somerset, NJ.
Jacob Bodine of Staten Island, New York
Jean Bodin of Bethune and Maria Crocheron's third child was Jacob (J. Jacob?) Bodine. According to some data, he was born about 1684, probably in Richmond County (Staten Island), New York. Some information lists his birth year as around 1690. Information from the May or July Sebring Family Newsletter gives the year 1684. This seems to make more sense than 1690. Around 1710, he was married to Elizabeth Sebring(?). From the witnesses at their children's baptisms, it would be a good guess that Elizabeth's last name was either Sebregh, Jansen, or Poljon. Information was found on the Internet, from D. L. Durham and others, stating that Elizabeth's last name is Sebring. This would make sense since it matches some of the names found on the baptisimal records. [Some people believe her last name may be Lubeteze. However, this may have come from a researcher (Sinnott, p. 158) thinking that Elizabeth's first name in Dutch, Lesbetje, written in the Raritan baptismal records was actually her last name.]
At the time of their marriage, or soon after, they were living near Raritan, New Jersey. For it was at Raritan (now Somerville), New Jersey Dutch Reformed Church that all seven of their children were baptized. [Records from the Reformed Dutch Church of Raritan, later named First Reformed Church of Raritan (now Somerville), Somerset County New Jersey. Organized March 9, 1699. These were published in the Somerset County Historical Society Quarterly, v. 2-4 (1913-1915).] In 1716, in his twenties, he was licensed to keep an inn in Middlesex County (Sinnott, p. 158). Middlesex was just west across the water from Staten Island into New Jersey.
In 1720, he was appointed a surveyor of highways for Somerset County. In a paper from T. A. Bodine, he says that in Snell's History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, Jacob was Commissioner of Roads at Sergeantville in 1738 (p. 383). [See also Monnette, Orra Eugene. First Settlers of ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey, 1664-1714 (published in 7 vols. in 1930), v. 3, p. 541. Original source is Somerset Co. Minutes 1683-1720, v. 1.] This is the County where Raritan was located and just west of Middlesex County. All of Jacob's siblings (Isaac, Peter, Abraham, Sarah and Catalina) were probably living in the Raritan area at that time, as well, since they are often found as witnesses for each other at their children's baptisms.
Jacob Bodine is located as a resident of Bethlehem Township in 1735. This comes from The Jerseyman, v. 3, no. 1, April, 1895. In the West Jersey Society's great Tract in Hunterdon County, page 3, Jacob is a leaser of 200 acres. Bethlehem Township formed part of Hunterdon County. Hunterdon County was formed in 1714 from Burlington County. Amwell Township was included in its boundaries as an original township. Bethlehem Township was formed in 1730, north of Amwell Township, its western boundary is the Delaware River, which separates New Jersey from Pennsylvania. Alexandria Township was formed from Bethlehem Township in 1765. It also borders the Delaware River.
There was a great migration of people, especially the Dutch, to the Raritan Valley in the late 1600's. Much of this was caused by excessive taxation by the British colonial government (Centennial Discourses, 57). People tried to escape this oppression by moving deeper into the country. Jacob Bodine's brother, Isaac, was one of the earliest settlers in the Raritan area (Messler, 160). In this move, they followed the Raritan River up toward its sources. The Raritan (along with the Passaic) River was one of two main rivers settlers used to gain access to the interior of northern New Jersey. It was a beautiful river at that time. In speaking of the land near the Raritan River, the secretary of New Netherland called it the "handsomest and pleasantest country that man can behold" (Wildes, 26). The river's mouth is nearly a mile wide at the city of Perth Amboy where it intersects the Atlantic. After about twelve miles, it narrows to the size of a normal river at a place called Raritan Landing. The town of Raritan is another twelve miles upstream from there. Large ships could sail all the way to New Brunswick, two miles south of Raritan Landing, but smaller boats were needed for the rest of the journey to Raritan.
In 1760, Jacob was supposedly living in Lebanon Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He made a will or bill of sale on September 3, 1763, leaving some slaves to his son, Cornelius. This tattered piece of paper had his name written as J. Jacob Bodine. This is the only evidence that his first name may not actually have been Jacob, but possibly John. (This was found in some unpublished notes on John Bodine of Nelson County, by MBP, p. 2, in the Frankfort Historical Society's files. See also the short biography on James Morrison Bodine in the History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, v. 2, p. 1010.) However, if his children followed Dutch naming customs, which it appears they did, Jacob's first name is definitely "Jacob." All of his male children named their first sons "Jacob." This would follow the Dutch custom of naming the first male child according to the name of its paternal grandfather. According to information from undocumented sources, Jacob died in either Hunterdon County or Somerset, New Jersey. D. L. Durham says he died in Somerset.
The seven children of Jacob and his wife Elizabeth are mentioned in the baptismal records at the Dutch Reformed Church of Raritan.
3. Elizabeth Sebring Jun 08 1677.
The name "Sebring" has been spelled many ways, including: Cebring, Seaborn, Sebering, Sebrant, Sebrige, Sebrink, Sebryng, Seubering, Subring, and Sybrink. All of these are the result of phonetic spelling and translation from the Dutch language.
Her grandfather was Roelof Lukassen Sebring, born about 1595 in Beyle, Drenth, Netherlands. He had five known children.
Her father, Jan Roeloffsen Sebring, was born in 1631 at Beyle, Drenth, Netherlands. He married Adrianna Polhemius abt 1660. Jan came to the New World sometime between 1650 and 1660. Some records indicate he arrived in New Amsterdam on April 15, 1660 on the ship De Bonte Koe (The Spotted Cow); however, some records indicated he may have been there as early as 1654. It is possible that either the Jan Soubanick that was listed on De Bonte Koe was not the same as Jan Sueberingh, listed in these records. More likely, Jan may have returned to his home country and made a second trip back. He died about 1703.
Her mother, Adrianna Polhemius, was born at Island of Itamarca, Brazil about 1644 where her father was a minister. She was actually of European descent. She probably came to New Amsterdam with her father in 1654. She died about 1685 to 1702 in New York. Her father was Johannes Theodorus Polhemius and her mother was Catharine Van Der Werven. Johannes was born in 1598, probably in Boikirchen, Germany. He was probably born near the present Wolfstein in Rhenish Bavaria. At some point, he moved to Amsterdam. Johannes may have been married twice, with a daughter from the first marriage, name unknown.
On December 3, 1635, a Rev. John Theodore Polheim applied for service overseas. He, along with a large expedition including newly appointed governor, Count Hoham Maurice of Nassau, sailed from Texel Harbor on October 25, 1636 and landed on the Recif of Pernambuco, Brazil on January 23, 1637. The Dutch had established colonies in Brazil in 1630 by conquering the Portuguese. The final distribution of the colonist was made in 1638. Johannes went as minister with the colony and garrison which occupied the island of Itamarca, also called Tamarca or Tamarica, adjacent to the Recif. The Dutch settlers for the island were mostly of Wesphalian and Palatine stock. It is especially stated that Johannes was selected on account of his language talent. He not only preached there, but often accompanied the Army in the field and on the mainland. We has able to preach to the Indians in their own language, preaching at various times in German, Dutch, French and Portuguese.
The Dutch administrations in Brazil, which succeeded that of Gov. Maurice, were inefficient and corrupt. The Portuguese revolted and the Dutch finally capitulated January 25, 1654. They were given three months in which either to depart or to embrace the Roman Catholic religion and become Portuguese citizens. In April 1654, there was a fleet of sixteen Dutch ships in the Harbor of Recif to evacuate the Dutch Protestants together with a small number of Dutch and Portuguese Jews.
The Polhemius family was quartered separately. Catharine reached Holland safely with her four children, apparently destitute, as her husband had not received his salary for a long time. The Rev. Pohlemius, however, arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654 on the French Frigate, St. Charles. The Dutch ship, on which he had left Brazil, was captured by a Spanish privateer, not far from Recif. This was the same ship reported in A. Biet's "Voyage De La France," which translates, "A Spanish pirate being about March or April 1654, at Barbados, with a barque vessel captured from the Dutch near Recif, was ordered to retire from the island. But the Spanish privateer with its prize was in turn captured by a French man-of-war, the ship St. Charles." Sailing from Amsterdam on June 14, 1656, Catharine and her children were reunited with Johannes in New Netherland.
He married Catharine about 1643 in Brazil. He died on September 9, 1676 in Flatbush, Long Island, New York. His father was Johann Theodor Polhemius. Catharine was born about 1612 and died around 1702 in Flatbush, Long Island, New York. Her father was Daniel Van Der Werven.
The names of and information concerning Elizabeth's Sebring relatives came from a web site on the Internet. As of September 1998, this site was located at "www.n-link.com/~theditz/". The names of her siblings and their spouses were there as well as her parents and her parents' families. Most of this information apparently came from a D. L. Durham. But this does not appear to be her web site. An email contact address from this site was "ahn@texramp.net".
Grand Parents
4. Jean Bodin b. abt 1662, Bethune, France, m. (1) Jan 11 1680, in Midwout, Flatbush, NY, Mary (Maria) Crocheron, b. abt 1660, d. bef 1703, m. (2) Esther Bridon, b. France, d. Staten Island, NY. Jean died 1745, prob NY.
Jean Bodin of Bethune, France
Jean Bodin from Bethune would have probably been in his teens when he first arrived in America. He was born about 1662. He is most likely the Jean Bodin that was mentioned in the 1706 census as being 45 years old. No other Jean Bodin on Staten Island at that time could have been anywhere near 45 other than Jean of Bethune. [R. Bodine writes, "The entire Staten Island census of 1706 was published in John E. Stillwell's Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, 1903, vol. 1, p. 150-156. Appearing on the census, alone, is John Bedyne, age 26, and elsewhere is John Bodin, 45. No date was given in the original census. The date has been estimated by some known birthdays of people mentioned in the census. Stillwell points out that the date of the census may actually be 1708, as evidenced by other known birth dates of some of those counted and their recorded ages thereon. The John Bedyne, age 26, would be Jean Bodin, believed born on 23 Jan 1681, son of Jean (of Medis) and Esther (Bridon) Bodin. John Bodin, 45, would be Jean of Bethune...Esther was not married to Jean of Bethune yet. She is listed separately with children Francis, Jacob and Jane, no ages given..." Esther would have been a widow at the census.]
Jean would first have arrived at the small fortress-city of New Amsterdam or Fort Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. (This is where the city of New York is today. The site of the fort would be just south of the World Trade Center.) This was where most ships coming to the New World docked. The church where he served as witness to a baptism in 1677 was then called the Church of St. Nicholas. It was also referred to as the "Church in the Fort." It is now the Collegiate Church.
Shortly afterwards, he moved across the narrow channel to Brooklyn (Breuckelen as it was called back then). He attended the Dutch Reformed Church of Flatbush in the Midwout area of Brooklyn where his future wife, Maria Crocheron also attended. Maria was a young woman from near Ryssel in Flanders (called "Vlaanderen" in the betrothal record). Ryssel is Flemish for the city of Lille, now a French city. At that time it was the capital of French Flanders. Jean and Maria's families had only lived about 20 miles from each other in France. On December 26, 1679, he and Maria were engaged ("betrothed"). They were married in Midwout [Betrothal record (cited earlier). In Dutch, Midwout could mean something like "Middle Wood." It was the name of an area in Brooklyn. See NYGBR, v. 8, p. 183 for discussion on Midwout.] Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemius was the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Midwout (see page 18 of "Sebring Collections"). He was the grandfather of Jacob Bodine's wife, Elizabeth Sebring. Jan Pietersz van Deventer started the Church at Midwout (see p. 14 of "The Van Deventer Family") Jean and Maria were married on January 11, 1680. [Small abstract in Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, 1898, p. 88: 1680, Jan. 11. Jean Bodin, to Maria Crossron. These may not be original spellings. These are abstracts of the Dutch Church of Flatbush records. The originals are lost. The man who copied them rewrote some of the names.]
Jean then lived on Staten Island, New York, in one of the Huguenot colonies that sprang up. The first permanent settlement on Staten Island did not exist until 1661 when peace was established with hostile Indians. Walloons and Huguenots made up a good percentage of the early settlers. Jean and Maria had six children before Maria died in Hunterdon County, New Jersey (the county west of Somerset County). Several researchers mention the children of Jean Bodin by his "first wife," but there doesn't seem to be any original document giving the names of these children. Sinnott (p. 156) is probably the earliest to give the names of these, but where she got this is unknown.
There are various dates given for the death of Maria Crocheron. One, from the Internet, is 1697. No source was given. Another date given is March 4, 1696 (info from MBP). It is unknown where this very important date comes from. Supposedly, the Hunterdon and Somerset County, New Jersey records were burnt during the Revolutionary War. So it is difficult to get proof from that end. Some have said she was evidently deceased before her father (c. 1696); although, this is not totally evident from his will (Wills of NY Co., Book 5, p. 126.). There is a little more evidence concerning her death date in "Land Records of Richmond County," Book B, page 313. This involves money paid to a Jaque Poillon by the account of Jean Bodin's children, from the estate of John Crocheron, deceased 1697. Giving money to "Jean Bodin's children" instead of to Maria herself would seem to point to the fact that Maria had already died. In 1703, her brother, Nicholas Crocheron, mentioned "the children of John Bodine by his first wife, my nephews and nieces" in his will. [Will of Nicholas Crocheron, February 10, 1702/3. Will was proven on July 24, 1707 (NY Archives: Wills: 7, p. 410).] By this time, Jean Bodin was evidently going by the more American name of John Bodine. Nicholas' instructions reveal that Jean Bodin of Bethune did marry again after Maria died, but it does not say who that second wife was. [An article in the "Bodine Branches" newsletter of October 1959 also said that John had been married before and had children. It gave the reference: NY Wills, 7, p. 312. Also in Baird, p. 39.]
T. A. Bodine says that all of Jean Bodin's sons removed from Staten Island to the region of the Raritan River in New Jersey. They are found there in 1705. All the sons, except Jacob, remained in Middlesex and Somerset Counties.
In a speech at the second annual reunion of the Aten and Albertson families in Delaware, New Jersey on August 27, 1898, Rev. John Bodine Thompson said the following about the Dutch who migrated to America:
...the same liberty and the same customs and usages which existed in the Netherland existed in like manner in New Netherland. The free schools in which Holland led the van of the world were established also on the shores of the new world. And when these were suppressed and their other excellent customs derided, after the English conquestin 1674, they began to "go west" into the wilderness. From Manhattan Island and Long Island and Staten Island, they followed up the Raritan to its sources.
The following is from the "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," v. 4 (1915), p. 22. It is titled "A Dutch Migration from the Raritan Valley to New York State in 1785 and Later," by Rev. Minor Swick, Flushing, NY:
...in the latter part of the 17th Century, there was an extensive migration of the Low Dutch settlers on Long Island and their descendants to the valley of the Raritan in New Jersey, opccupying a large part of the region on both sides of the river, from where New Brunswick now is, upward to Bound Brook and Somerville, and along the Millstone and South and North Branches of the Raritan. Then, about 100 years later, 1785 and after, there was a like extensive migration of the descendants of these people from all this region, and especially from Somerset County, to the then far-away wilderness of the "Lake Country" of Central New York. Among these were families bearing the names ...Bodine. ...some went to Cayuga county others to Genesee county.
The Second Wife of Jean Bodin, Esther Bridon
Some time later, Jean, now a widower, married his second wife. This may have been the widow of Jean Bodin of Medis. Her name was Esther (or Hester) Bridon. She was the daughter of Francois and Jeanne Susanne Bridon. Esther was the executrix of her father's will and made an inventory on his estate on May 22, 1704 (NY Wills, 5/6, p. 385).
On May 8, 1722, he bought an eighty acre tract of land at Charles Neck from Francis Bridon. This was near the other tract of land that Esther (Bridon) Bodine had bought with her first husband (Richmond Co. Deeds, C, p. 299). On November 10, 1724, land was willed to them by Susannah Bridon on the north side of Fresh Kill in Charles Neck (NY Wills, 10, p. 5). She was the widow of Esther's brother (Sinnott, p. 156). On February 2, 1736, John and Esther Casson, heirs-at-law to Francis Bridon, conveyed a house and ten acres of land at Charles Neck to Jean Bodin (Richmond Co. Deeds, D, p. 104-105). John and Esther continued to live past March or May 7, 1736/7 when Jean signed a deed with his wife Hester selling land to Joseph Bedle, witnessed by Fransois Boden and John Lisk (Richmond Co. Deeds, D, p. 131-134). It was witnessed by son Francis and John Lisk. This is their last known record.
5. Mary (Maria) Crocheron b. abt 1660, d. bef 1703.
6. Jan Roeloffsen Sebring b. 1631, Beyle, Drenth, Netherlands, m. abt 1660, in Brazil, Adrianna Polhemius, b. abt 1644, Island of Itamarca, Brazil, d. bet 1685-1702, New York. Jan died abt 1703, near Bergen Co., NJ.
7. Adrianna Polhemius b. abt 1644, Island of Itamarca, Brazil, d. bet 1685-1702, New York. According to the FHC, she was born in Itmarca, Brazil in 1644 and died in 1685 in Bergen, Genesse NJ at age 41.
Great Grand Parents
8. Jean Bodin b. France, m. ?. Jean died bef Mar 4 1695, Staten Island, NY.
Jean Bodin of Northern France
Not much is known about this Jean Bodin. He was probably born in or near Northern France. His family might possibly be from Cambrai where the last name used to be "le Baudain." He may be the one to have had land surveyed on Staten Island on April 1, 1686; although, this could have been his son's land (Richmond County, NY, Deeds, D, p. 131). He is the Jean Bodin who died on Staten Island in 1694 as shown by his estate administration there. Jean owed money principally to a Paul Richards. Richards was appointed administrator of Bodin's estate on March 4, 1694/5 (NY Wills, 5, p. 101). An inventory of his estate was taken on February 11, 1695 by Richard Michell, Hans Laurens and Abraham Lacomen. It was then filed that May. Bodin's estate included fourteen cows and steers valued at 35 pounds, three horses and a colt valued at 13 pounds, one hundred sheep valued at 50 pounds, eighty scheppels of wheat valued at 12 pounds (a scheppel was about one bushel), and two Negro men and one Negro woman valued at 100 pounds. The total was 242.9.9 pounds (NY Wills, 5/6, p. 114). It was found that Bodin's debts of 385.14.3 pounds exceeded his assets. On December 26, 1695, there were no further assets to be secured. Richards was then cleared of any more responsibility in this matter (NY Wills, 5/6, p. 106). No family members were mentioned in any of these legalities, not even a wife. So it is not known if she survived him.
Some very good research has been done into the connection between this Jean Bodin and his probable son, Jean Bodin from Bethune. The researcher (R. Bodine) writes, "Although the evidence is circumstantial, I do believe Jean Bodin who died 1694/5 was the father of Jean of Bethune...When the elder Jean Bodin died, his estate was appraised by Richard Michell, Hans Laurens and Abraham Lacomen. This latter individual, Abraham Lakerman, was the husband of Katherine Crocheron, sister of Marie Crocheron, wife of Jean Bodin of Bethune. Another sister, Adrianna, was married to Jacques Poillon, and their son, Jacques, was married thirdly to Judith Bodine, whose immediate relationship remains to be established, but the name Judith was used only in this family. Also, Jean Bodin of Bethune went on to sue Paul Richards, the administrator of the estate of Jean Bodin (Research done by RB).
9. ?.
10. Jean Crocheron occupation planter, m. Mary (Maria) __________. Jean died 1696, Dec 13 1695, Staten Island, Richmond Co., NY.
11. Mary (Maria) __________.
12. Roelof Lukassen Sebring b. abt 1595, Beyle, Drenth, Netherlands, m. ?.
13. ?.
14. Johannes Theodorus Polhemius m. Catherine (Catharine) Van Der Werven.
15. Catherine (Catharine) Van Der Werven.
Great Great Grand Parents
28. Johann Theodor Polhemius m. ?.
29. ?.
30. Daniel Van Der Werven m. ?.
31. ?.
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