• General Notes

  Children: Adam, Eva H, Jan H, Kathlyntje, Bartholomeus, Hendrickje and Hendrickje
  
  1648, 20 Dec: marriage banns to Jannitgen Wouterse of Vollenhove, Overijssel
  1660: citizen of Leiden; children bp at the Mare Kerk, Pieterskerk and Hooglandsche Kerk in Leiden, Netherlands between 1653 and 1661.
  1664, 7 Apr: name with that of 5 children on passenger list of the Concord. He was either a widower at that time or his wife came later with youngest child, Hendrickje, b 1663.
  1665, 15 Mar: was "pruning trees in the [Rensselaerwyck] Colony garden"
  1670: living on land behind Kinderhook; and was a selectman of Kinderhook
  1671: married daughter of a mason - perhaps Geertruy Johannis (see '49 history)
  1677: moved to Schenectady and bought land on the VanCurler Bouwery
  1690, 9 Feb: was killed and burned by the French and Indians along with his son, Bartholomeus and two Negroes during the Sat/Sun Schenectady Massacre.
  
  
  On December 20, 1648 he married Jannitgen Wouters with whom he had six children.
  Jannitgen died in 1662 and it is believed their youngest child, Hendrickje, died around the same time.
  
  Hendrick, along with his other five children sailed from Holland for New Netherland on April 17, 1664 on the ship De Eendracht (The Concord).
  
  Married (2?) Geertruy Johannis in Kinderhook?
  
  Killed in Schenectady massacre
  
  Hendrick Meese/Meesen Vroman/Vrooman, the third brother was living behind Kinderhook in 1670, for six years; the same year Robert Sanders leased the long island called Steenraby. In 1677 he moved to Schenectady, where his home lot was on the north side of State Street, extending from Center Street to and including the Central R.R. Depot. His bouwlandt was a portion of Van Curler's land. The engine house of N.Y.C.R.R. Company, southwest of the city, now stands nearby in the center of his land. In 1678 he mortgaged his home and barn lying near Voorset and Van't Dorpe Shaenhechtady. In the massacre of 1690 Hendrick was killed, with his son Bartel and two negroes. Hendrick had 4 children:1.Bartel Vroman/Vrooman was killed in the 1690 massacre.
  2.Adam Vroman/Vrooman.
  3.Jan Vroman/Vrooman.
  4. Eva Hendrick Vroman/Vrooman, who married Jochem Lambert Van Valkenburg, the son of Lambert Jochemse and Annstje Jacobs. They had ten children.
  
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Details of Hendrick's family with Jannitgen Wouterse

Details of Hendrick's family with Geertruy Johannis