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It is a know fact that the Dutch engaged in trading from Africa to the Carribean to the Colonies. Several years ago while on a cruise to St. Martin or Ste. Martinque, while visiting the Dutch side of the island the main street was named Avenida Brouwer, spelled the old Dutch way. Were those Brouwers related to the New Amsterdam Brouwers? Were they in the slave trading business?
My studies show that Adam (Berkhoven) Brower was a stubborn and fiesty ol' cogger. I know where I get that from now.
Adam was wealthy, owning a major portion of Long Island. The family owned the mill where Adam found himself in court for denying service to someone who had wronged him. The court ordered Adam to mill the mans wheat.
Adam cut off some of his children with no inheritance because of there disrespect for their mother.
He donated land to the Dutch Reformed Church with conditions. If the Church failed to meet these conditions the property which now holds the Dutch Reformed Church in downtown New York City, worth millions today, was to revert to the Brouwer descendents. This did occur, but after litigation it was establish that there was so many descendents that each would only get a few dollars. Not worth it to finish out the court case, case dismissed.
Adam's son, Pieter Adams Brouwer, was one that was disinherited. Pieter had married beneath his status to Petronella Klein, the daughter of a very poor German emigrant, Ulderick Klein. Ulderick was so poor that he lived along the canal in the "Negro Section" of New Amsterdam. Ulderick was poorly educated as well. But as we all know the heart weighs over the mind in these matters and Pieter and Petronella were married in 1674 in Albany, away from the family. Adam was beside himself. "What would people think?" Because of his disinheritance Pieter got in the last word by naming his first son Ulderick Pieter Brouwer after his father-in-law and himself. Dutch custom was to have the first son named after the father's father, which should have been Adam Pieter Brouwer.
Because of this connection with the lower class area of the colony at the time, I have to question, "Was the Brouwer family involved in trading from Africa to Carribean to southern colonies i.e. NC and up to NY????
Elbert Richard Brower
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