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Henry Van Brunt

The New Netherland Ancestors of

HENRY VAN BRUNT



Architect




				__Rutger Joosten Van Brunt11
			       |
			   __Cornelius Rutgerszen Van Brunt10,12
			  |    |
			  |    |__Tryntje Claes11
			  |
		      __Nicholas Van Brunt7,13,16
		     |    |
		     |    |          __Willem Andriaenszen Bennet10
		     |    |         |
		     |    |     __Adrian Willemszen Bennet10
		     |    |    |    |
		     |    |    |    |     __Thomas Badie10
		     |    |    |    |    |
		     |    |    |    |__Maria Thomasdr. Badie10
		     |    |    |         |
		     |    |    |         |__Aeltje Braconie10
		     |    |    |
		     |    |__Tryntje Adriaens Bennet10,12
		     |         |
		     |         |     __Jan Thomaszen Van Dyke9,10
		     |         |    |
		     |         |__Agnietje Jans Van Dyke9,10
		     |              |
		     |              |__Tryntie Achias9
		     |
		 __Nicholas Van Brunt7,14
		|    |
		|    |          __Jacob Hendrickszen Hafte16,18
		|    |         |
		|    |     __Hendrick Hendricks16
		|    |    |    |
		|    |    |    |     __Bartel Claeszen18
		|    |    |    |    |
		|    |    |    |__Geesje Bartel16,18
		|    |    |         |
		|    |    |         |__(Hildegonde (__) or Hillitje Arent)18,19
		|    |    |
		|    |__Geesje Hendricks7,16
		|         |
		|         |     __Jacques Cortelyou17
		|         |    |
		|         |__Helena Cortelyou16
		|              |
		|              |__Neeltje Van Duyn17
		|
	    __Nicholas Van Brunt7,15
	   |    |
	   |    |                         __Wolfert Gerritszen Van Kouwenhoven7
	   |    |                        |
	   |    |                    __Gerrit Wolfertszen Van Kouwenhoven7
	   |    |                   |    |
	   |    |                   |    |__Neeltgen Jacobs7
	   |    |                   |
	   |    |               __Willem Gerritszen Van Kouwenhoven7
	   |    |              |    |
	   |    |              |    |     __Cornelis Lambertszen Cool7
	   |    |              |    |    |
	   |    |              |    |__Aeltje Cornelise Cool7
	   |    |              |         |
	   |    |              |         |__(__)7
	   |    |              |
	   |    |          __Cornelis Willemse Van Kouwenhoven7
	   |    |         |    |
	   |    |         |    |          __Jean Monfoort8
	   |    |         |    |         |
	   |    |         |    |     __Pieter Monfoort7,8
	   |    |         |    |    |    |
	   |    |         |    |    |    |__Jacqueline Moreau8
	   |    |         |    |    |
	   |    |         |    |__Jannetje Monfoort7,8
	   |    |         |         |
	   |    |         |         |__Sarah De Planck8
	   |    |         |
	   |    |     __William Covenhoven7
	   |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |    |          __Marten Schenck
	   |    |    |    |         |
	   |    |    |    |     __Roelof Martenszen Schenck7
	   |    |    |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |    |    |    |__(__)
	   |    |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |    |__Margaretta Schenck7
	   |    |    |         |
	   |    |    |         |     __Pieter Claeszen Wyckoff6,7
	   |    |    |         |    |
	   |    |    |         |__Annetje Wyckoff7
	   |    |    |              |
	   |    |    |              |     __Cornelis Hendrickszen Van Ness6
	   |    |    |              |    |
	   |    |    |              |__Grietje Van Ness6
	   |    |    |                   |
	   |    |    |                   |__Maycke Hendricks Van de Burchgraeff6
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Catherine Covenhoven7
	   |         |
	   |         |          __Hendrick Willemszen1
	   |         |         |
	   |         |     __Daniel Hendrickson1,3,7
	   |         |    |    |
	   |         |    |    |     __Albert Andrieszen Bradt1,2
	   |         |    |    |    |
	   |         |    |    |__Gisseltie Albertse Bradt1,2
	   |         |    |         |
	   |         |    |         |     __Barent Rottmer2
	   |         |    |         |    |
	   |         |    |         |__Annetje Barents2
	   |         |    |              |
	   |         |    |              |__Geesje Barents2
	   |         |    |
	   |         |__Annetje Hendrickson4,7
	   |              |
	   |              |          __Jan Thomaszen Van Dyke5
	   |              |         |
	   |              |     __Jan Janszen Van Dyke1,2,4
	   |              |    |    |
	   |              |    |    |__Tryntje Achias5
	   |              |    |
	   |              |__Catharine Van Dyke1,4,7
	   |                   |
	   |                   |     __Matthys Janszen Lanen Van Pelt3
	   |                   |    |
	   |                   |__Teuntje Thyssen Van Pelt3,4
	   |                        |
	   |                        |__Marykens Gysberts3
	   |
       __GERSHOM JAQUES VAN BRUNT15
      |    |
      |    |__Elizabeth Jaques15
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HENRY VAN BRUNT15
      |
      |__Elizabeth Prince Bradlee15



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Biography of HENRY VAN BRUNT

 
VAN BRUNT, Henry, architect, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 5 September 1832, was graduated at Harvard in 1854, and studied architecture. For two years during the Civil War he served in the navy on the staff of the admiral commanding the North Atlantic squadron. He has practised his profession in Boston, MA, and of late years in Kansas City, Missouri, while retaining his office in the former city. Mr. Van Brunt has occasionally written on subjects connected with his art for the "Atlantic Monthly" and other periodicals. He was the architect, in conjunction with William R. Ware, of Memorial Hall, the Harvard Library, the Medical school, and the buildings of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts; of the Conservatory of Music, Stone Hall, and the sanitarium of Wellesley college; of the First Church of Boston, St. Stephen's Church at Lynn, St. John's Memorial Church at Cambridge, Grace Church at New Bedford, and many other ecclesiastical buildings; of public libraries in Cambridge and Dedham, Massachusetts, and East Saginaw, Michigan, as well as the Library of Michigan University at Ann Arbor. He was a member of the firm of Van Brunt and Howe, architects of many mercantile buildings in the west and of station buildings for the Union Pacific Railroad.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  710.
   2.  Ibid., p. 175.
   3.  Ibid., p. 1632.
   4.  Aitken, William Benford, Distinguished Families in America Descended from
       Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.  New York:  The
       Knickerbocker Press, 1912.  187-190.
   5.  Ibid., p. 174-177.
   6.  Hoffman, William J., "An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent -
       Van Ness - Van den Burchgraeff," The New York Genealogical and
       Biographical Record, 72 (1941):  148-155.
   7.  Cocheu, Lincoln C. "The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family."  The New York
       Genealogical and Biographical Record, 70 (1939):  230-225, 353-356; 71
       (1940):  69-74, 157-162, 273-276, 365-367; 81 (1950):  123-125, 172-178,
       225-230; 82 (1951):  34-42, 89-97, 175-183, 211-236; 83 (1952):  86-91,
       147-152.
   8.  Riker, op. cit., p. 1025.
   9.  Aitken, William Benford, Distinguished Families in America Descended from
       Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.  New York:  The
       Knickerbocker Press, 1912.  174-177.
  10.  Ledley, Wilson V., "Willem Adriaense Bennet of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Some
       of His Descendants," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       93 (1962):  193-204; 94 (1963):  34-41, 107-114, 156-169, 203-213; 95
       (1964):  10-27, 155-165, 203-207.
  11.  Bergen, Teunis G., Genealogy of the Van Brunt Family, 1653-1867.  Albany:
       Joel Munsell: 1867.  1-4.
  12.  Ibid., p. 5-6.
  13.  Ibid., p. 11-12.
  14.  Ibid., p. 22.
  15.  Ibid., p. 54-55.
  16.  Cortelyou, John Van Zandt, The Cortelyou Genealogy - A Record of Jacques
       Corteljou and of Many of His Descendants.  Lincoln:  Press of Brown
       Printing Service, 1942.  82-85.
  17.  Ibid., p. 67.
  18.  Riker, op. cit., p. 261.
  19.  The source used does not indicate which woman was the mother of Geesje
       Bartel.

 

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