Tomys Swartwout
Tomys Swartwout | |
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Born | June 1, 1607 |
Died | October 1679 |
Spouses | Ariaentjen Sijmons
(m. 1630; died 1630)Hendrickjen Barents Smient
(after 1631) |
Children | 9, including Roeloff Swartwout |
Parent(s) | Rolef Swartwout Catryna Swartwout |
Thomas or Tomys Swartwout (June 1, 1607 in
Early life
Tomys Swartwout was born in 1607 in Groningen, Netherlands to Rolef Swartwout (1575–1634) and Catryna Swartwout (b. 1579).[3] Swartwout was one of the earliest New Netherlanders to buy and sell American tobacco in the Netherlands. He started a wholesale tobacco business in Amsterdam, joining his older brothers, Wybrant and Herman, in 1629.[4]
New Amsterdam
Swartwout and family left Amsterdam for
Swartwout was one of the nineteen signers of the "Humble Remonstrance and Petition of the Colonies and Villages of this New Netherland Province" sent to Stuyvesant on December 11, 1653, an important early document in the campaign for democracy in America.
Personal life
In March 1630, Swartwout married Ariaentjen Sijmons in Amsterdam. She died in childbirth nine months later on December 17, 1630 after giving birth to their only child, Jan Swartwout. On June 3, 1631, Swartwout married Hendrickjen Barents Smient (b. 1609), with whom he would have eight children, among others Roeloff (1634–1715; the founder of Kingston and Hurley), Cornelis, Barent, Trijntje, Jacomijntje and Rachel.[1][8]
Swartwout did not die in 1660 in Beverwijck, New Netherland[3] as is sometimes claimed, but evidently returned to Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. He is mentioned as a witness there on several occasions, from 1664 on, as is his wife.[9] They lived on Herengracht. Thomys died in Amsterdam in 1679 and was buried there on October 15, 1679.[2]
References
- ^ a b Thomas Swartwout genealogy page
- ^ a b Municipal Archives Amsterdam, Burials book 1228, p. 26
- ^ a b c Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1905). The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: History, Customs, Record of Events, Constitution, Certain Genealogies, and Other Matters of Interest. V. 1-. The Society. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ^ a b c Weise, Arthur James (1899). The Swartwout Chronicles (PDF).
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- ISBN 9780199937752.
- ISBN 9781465317629.
- ^ Baptismal records Municipal Arches Amsterdam, May 15, 1636 for Cornelis and July 7, 1648 for Rachel
- ^ Municipal Archives Amsterdam, Baptismal book 44 p. 93 November 2, 1664; p. 346 April 27, 1672; p. 503 Sep 21 1766 and Marital Banns book 497 p. 59 August 22, 1671; p. 474 April 2, 1672. These records concern the baptism of a grandson, Thomas Swartwout, two granddaughters, Hendrikje Koot and Hendrikje Swart, and the marriages of his daughters Trijntje and Jacomijntje. It is also clear from the Amsterdam records that most of Thomas and Hendrickje's children returned with them to Amsterdam and remained there.