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The principal sources that I use are articles published in The American Genealogist (TAG) and the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Record, and information provided by the Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association (1121 Linhof Rd., Wilmington, OH 45177-2917, Tel.: 937-382-3803), which is run by a noted authority on the Brouwer/Brower family, William Brower Bogardus. The sources are all listed on my website (www.pipeline.com/~lottman). On each individual's page, there should be one or more hyperlinks that will take you to the source(s) for that particular piece of information.
Adam Brouwer Berchoven (ca 1620-1693) *seems* to have come from Cologne, Germany. According to Totten (Brouwer (Brower-Brewer) Family Notes, NYG&BS Record, 67:105), Adam Brouwer was described as "a young man from Ceulen [Cologne]" when he married Magdalena Jacobs Verdon. William Brower Bogardus has been working with Prof. Frijoff from the Amsterdam Free University on the question of Adam Brouwer’s origin. Mr. Bogardus wrote in his Holiday Season 1997 "Dear 'Cousin'" letter: "Incidentally, for those who have been seeking the correct parents and ancestry of Adam Brouwer (*proof* of those already allegedly identified not having been presented)… there is a very high probability that Adam was not only from Cologne but also of German rather than Dutch origin. His birth name may have been "Adolph" and it is possible that the Berchoven name had nothing to do with his family's origin at all. I am continuing this research as time and resources permit."
According to Hoffman (TAG Vol. 23, No. 4), Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Jacobs Verdon registered their intention to marry on 19 March 1645, and were married at the New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church on 21 March 1645. The Dominie (Minister) who married them was Everardus Bogardus. The date was noted because Dominie Bogardus criticized the Director General of the colony, Willem Kieft, at their wedding party. (The feud between Bogardus and Kieft was ongoing, and eventually lead to both of them drowning in a shipwreck when they were on their way back to Holland to take their arguements to the Dutch West India Company.)
Some members of the family used the Berchoven name at times. According to Hoffman: "The name Berchoven was used by Adam’s children Nicholas, Rachel, Adam, Jr., and Anna at their marriages. Abraham used it 1695 at the baptism of one of his children and Anna who married William Hilton is entered in the Albany baptismal records as "Anna Barko" (sic) an almost unrecognizable variation. But it thereafter disappeared from the records and the surname Brouwer, Brower, Brewer remained."
I am also descended from Nicolas (Nicolaes ) Brouwer and Jannetje Colyer. The Annetje Jachnes Colyer that you mentioned is probably Annetje Jochems Colyer, Jannetje Colyer’s aunt (Jannetje’s father’s sister). By the way, Jannetje Colyer’s sister, Cornelia Colyer married Nicholaes Brouwer’s brother, Abraham. Nicholaes and Abraham worked together to run the family mill at Gowanus after their father died.
The picture of Brower’s Mill, with the Yellow Mill in the distance, was taken from an old map of the Battle of Brooklyn, Aug. 27, 1776. There was a lot of fighting around the mill during the battle. The picture of the mill can be copied from the site. The file is called mill.gif. There’s also a copy of the map in the book "Brooklyn …and How it Got That Way" by David W. Mc Cullough (The Dial Press, 1983).
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