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The following is an excerpt from my article, “Identifying the True Ancestry of Hilletje, wife of Isaac-2 Bragaw (Bourgon-1 Broucard) as the granddaughter of Pieter-1 Roelofszen [Bas] and Jan-1 Boeckhout [John-1 Buckhout] both of Mespath Kills, Newtown, Queens County, New York,” as published in the July, August, September 2004 issue of New Netherland Connections (Volume 9, Number 3).
“For several decades, most descendants of Isaac-2 Bragaw (Bourgon-1 Broucard) and his wife, Hilletje, have assumed that she was identical with Heyltje, the daughter of Gisbert Janz and Sophia Janz van Putten. While the research efforts of those who have gone before us are always appreciated, the basis for this identification was very weak and should not have been broadly accepted:
'Isaac Bragaw, as Broucard, was born in Brooklyn and was baptized in the Dutch Ch. there. He used the spelling of Bragaw [as opposed to Brokaw]. Mr. Pitman, in his record of him, suggests that his wife, Hilletje, was possibly the Hilletje Jans, who was baptized May 12, 1678, in the Brooklyn Dutch Church, a daughter of Gysbert Jans and wife Fytje Van Putter, as she was the only Hilletje who was baptized in Brooklyn about that time; that Gillis Jans was a witness at the baptism of Isaac's daughter, Hilletje. That otherwise she was unidentified. (Elise Foster, Our Brokaw--Bragaw Heritage, 3).'
Isaac and Hilletje named no known children Gysbert or Fytje/Sophia. However, the names that they did give to their children provided valuable clues towards identifying her actual parents. They named their eldest known daughter Aeltje; I presumed that she was named in honor of her maternal grandmother since their second daughter was named in honor of Isaac's mother and their third daughter was named in honor of Hilletje, following a well-known Dutch pattern. Among Isaac and Hilletje's sons, Roelof was the only one without an elder kinsman bearing the same name in Isaac's family…”
For more information about New Netherland Connections, please see…
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~streeter/nnc/
For more information on Hilletje's ancestry, please see the BRAGAW, BAS and BUCKHOUT documents at my web site...
http://www.perry.streeter.com
Perry
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