DESCENDANTS IN HOLLAND. 1629-1899.
Pages 571-578 in the original Swartwout Chronicles manuscript.
The Swartwout Brothers – Wybrantlt, Tomys, and Herman, – wholesale tobacco merchants, engaged in that business, in 1629, on the Keizersgracht, one of the largest of the semicircular canals of Amsterdam, Holland. They severally dwelt, it would seem, near their store-houses, in the northwestern part of the city, not far from the wide harbor called the Ij, and not many blocks distant from the site of the present Centraal-Spoorweg Station (Central Railroad Station), north of the Dam. Some years later, Wybrandt and Herman severally owned and occupied two adjoining residences, fronting on the Wagenplein, (Wagon Square,) near the Haarlemmerpoort, (Haarlem Gate,) in the same part of the city.
As is known, Wybrandt was the father of a daughter, Fredericka. His brother Herman was the parent of seven sons and five daughters. Two of his sons were educated at the famous university of Leyden, founded in 1575, by Prince William of Orange. “Its fame,” says Baedeker, “soon extended to every part of Europe. The greatest scholars of their age, Hugo Grotius, Scaliger, Salmasius, Boerhave, Wyttenbach, and others resided and wrote here, and Arminius and Gomar, the founders of the sects named after them, (Arminians and Gomarists,) were professors at the university. The library, the oldest and one of the richest in Holland, contains upwards of one hundred and sixty-five thousand volumes and fifty-three thousand valuable manuscripts.”
Roeloff (Latinized Rodolphus), Herman Swartwout’s eldest son, on April 27, 1665, entered the university at the age of thirty years as a student of medicine, and graduated, on September 22, that year, as a doctor of medicine, from the
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university of Harderwyk, founded in 1648. His name also is enrolled on the register of the university of Groningen, under the date of September 17, 1655, where he pursued for some time the study of theology. His brother, Abraham, ten years his junior, also entered the university of Leyden, on April 27, 1665, and there pursued the study of philosophy. Doctor Roeloff Swartwout’s son, Herman, at the age of sixteen years, was registered a student, on August 26, 1687, at the university of Leyden.
Herman, the son of Floris Swartwout, (a younger brother of Roeloff and Abraham,) born in Amsterdam in 1676, and died there, on June 11, 1740,
[Outer View of Haarlem Gate, 1765]
was professionally a master sculptor, (beeld-honwer,) or carver of statuary in wood and stone. Laurens, his son, born in Amsterdam, in 1700, was for many years a popular surgeon, (chirurgijn,) and had a large practice in that city.
Doctor Laurens Swartwout’s son, Hendrik, was the youngest of his children, two sons and six daughters. When a small boy, Hendrik exhibited many evidences of natural ability and observation for the pictorial representation ot things, animate and inanimate. He desired to become a portrait painter, but his parents disapproved of his following a profession of uncertain remuneration, and he was educated to be a surgeon. He and Alida, the daughter of Jan and Gesina van Ryn, a descendant of one of the ancestors of the famous
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Dutch painter, Rembrandt Harmensz van Ryn, were married, on December 28, 1760, in the Walloon (French) Church, in Amsterdam. 1
The coat-of-arms of the Amsterdam van Ryn family as described by Rietstap, is a red shield, having a gold band lying horizontally across the center of it, displaying three fleurs-de-lis of gold; the crest being the head and neck of a brach-hound in gold. 2
[DOCTOR HENDRIK SWARTWOUT]
Doctor Hendrik Swartwout, although attentive to the duties of his profession, not infrequently occupied his leisure in sketching and painting. Some
Hendrik Laurens/ Swartuout et Alicia \an R>n, Ayant en leurs Annonces par trois Dinianchcs dc Ante fans aucune oppotition, on etc marie/ en l’Kglife Walonne d’Amsteidam le 28 dv Mois de Decenibre lAn 1760. Fait par les Conducteurs de l’Hghfe dv dit lieu, le 14 dv Muis de Jamier I’An 1761. Au norn de Tous, \V. Franrois, L’un ties Pafteurs/’-Record of the Walloon Church.
(Translation.) Hendrik, son of Laurens Swartwout, and Alicia van Ryn, having had their banns for three successive Sundays without any opposition, they were married in the Walloon Church of Amsterdam, the 28th of the month of December, in the year 1760. Done by the conductors of the church of thesaidplace,the14thofthemonthofJanuary,inthe)ear1761. Inthenameofall,\V.Fiancois, one of the pastors. 2Dei/ue11lesalafastcdor,accompagnc detroisjleurs-de-lisdvmeme. Cimier:lineteteetcoldec/n’e/i, braque <Por. Ai11101ialGenual. Par J. 15. Rietstap. Gouda, Netherlands, 1884.
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of his pen-and-ink drawings are still preserved as family souvenirs, in Amsterdam. The portraits of himself and wife, made by him in the later days of his life, are said to be good likenesses. The quaint arrangement of the letters of their names, with memorial inscriptions of the dates of their births and marriage, and a wreath-encircled medallion, bearing the Latin motto, vigilantia et fidelitate, (vigilance and fidelity,) and an altar, on which is an offering of two flam-
[ALIDA VAN RYN SWARTWOUT]
ing hearts, guarded by a cock and a dog, were drawn, as shown by the date, 1777, when he was forty years of age. He died, in Amsterdam, on December 3, 1800, and his wife, on April 14, 1821.
Their last child, Jan Hendrik, was born in Amsterdam, on July 2, 1776. As privileged by law at that time, any male person born in Amsterdam, on obtaining his majority, and having complied with all the legal requirements, could become a freeman ot the city. This designation, should he and his wife die, without leaving means lor the support oF such of their children as were under
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[A FAMILY SOUVENIR OF 1777]
age, would entitle them as orphans to be supported and educated by the city. Desiring to be a freeman, he, on November 18, 1802, having complied with the requirements of the law, was declared “a born freeman.”
His acquaintance with Susanne Jacqueline, daughter of Jean Pierre and Marie Jacoba Mens Hebert, residing with her parents, on the Gelderschekaay (Gelderland quay), near Koningstraat, led to their marriage, on July 27, 1806. He was then living-with his mother at their home, Xo. 26 Runestraat.
Louis Bonaparte, having been created king of Holland, in 1805, by his brother, Napoleon, emperor of France, the administration of the government of the city of Amsterdam was considerably changed. From the Civic Register, (Registre Civique,) the information is derived that Jan Hendrik Swartwout was appointed, on July 19, 181 r, a commis (clerk) of the district of Amsterdam, in the department of the Zuiderzee. 1 The position was one evidently connected with the regulation of the commerce of the city, which he filled with merited acceptance for many years.
He died in Amsterdam, on January 20, 1851, and his widow, on January 27, 1854. They were the parents of two sons and one daughter. The coat-of-arms of the Hubert family is described as being a shield of silver, with a red chevron drawn to a point, with a tree in a foreground of
E.\trait dit Rt^istrc Civ’n/itt’ cL l\uro>ulisi>imoil d\lni\ttidam, Di/>a> hm nt <lv /.itidt> ztu, ly J/nt/t’t, 181 1. Co»i}>us Jan J’Umy bwartwout. hfioyin (it la uai.sstun r, 1776. Coiiu/iiut\ .l/nsttt1
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green, with a chief of blue, the principal a crescent of gold between two stars on the sides of the field.1
Jan Hendrik, the eldest son of Jan Hendrik and Susanne Jacqueline Hebert Swartwout, was born in Amsterdam, on June 17, 1807. He was four and forty years old, when, on April 8, 1852, he married Catharina Maria Courier, born on January 23, 1808. Their conjugal happiness was terminated by his death on the thirteenth of July, 1853. No children were born to them.
The coat-of-arms of the Courier family was originally acquired by a French ancestor, who married a woman of quality of German extraction. Their union privileged the display of a divided shield, the right of which is red with two stars of gold ranged between
[VAN HENDRIK SWARTWOUT SMOKING A PIPE]
two bars of the same; on the left, which is silver, half eagle of black, animated on that side. 2
Frcderik Jacobus, the youngest son of Jan Hendrik and Susanne Jacqueline Hebert Swartwout, was born in Amsterdam, on November 14, 1813. Having enjoyed the benefits of a primary education obtained in different schools of the city, he, on November 4, 1813, began, as it is evident, at the age of fifteen years, the study of pharmaceutics, and, on August 4, 1837, was legally titled an apothecary, (apotheker,) or pharmacist, and engaged in the business of one on the Grimburgwal, and later continued it on the Heerengracht. On June 29, 1857, he was appointed city-apothecary in the Inner Hospital, (stads-apotheker in het Binnengasthuis,) which position he held until his death. He was appointed lecturer (lector) in the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, and acquitted himself of the duties of that office until 1877, when the institution was incorporated with the Amsterdam University, (Amsterdamsche Universiteit) .
He was one of the founders of the Netherland Society for advancing the practice of Pharmacy, (Nederlandsche Mattschappij ter bevondering der Pharmacie,) and was chairman of the society for many years. On November 12, 1856, he was made a corresponding
[DOCTOR FREDERICK JACOBUS SWARTWOUT]
member of the Societe dE Pharmacie of Brussels, Bel
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gium. Having been appointed one of the commissioners to prepare a new pharmacopoeia by Willem III., king of the Netherlands, he, with his associates on its completion, was awarded the thanks of the king for that important service, in a decree, dated February 28, 1872. On June 30, 1880, Doctor FreDerik Jacobus Swartwout was made an honorary member of the Netherland Society for advancing the practice of Pharmacy.
He married, in Amsterdam, on June 20, 1844, Maria Charlotta Bourse, by whom he had one child, Julienc Jacqueline Marie, born on April 16, 1846, who died, on March 22, 1847. Her mother died, on May 24, 1854.
The Bourse coat-of-arms is a shield of gold, with a red chevron, displaying three money-bags on it. The crest, a head and neck of a griffin, natural, with a red tongue. 1
On February 4, 1858, Doctor Frederik Jacobus Swartwout married, in Amsterdam, Henrietta Jourriana Wenke, who died on January 13, 1887. She bore him one child, Jean Henri Frederik, who died in infancy.
The father died in Amsterdam, on May, 17, 1886, aged seventy-two years.
Johanna Maria, the only daughter of Jan Hendrik and Susanne Jacqueline Ilebert Swartwout, was born in Amsterdam, on March 22, 1809. On June 12, 1851, in the village of Sloterdyk, a few miles northwest of Amsterdam, she was joined in the bonds of holy matrimony to Willem Frederik, son of
[MRS. WILLEM FREDERIK SWARTWOUT DE HOOG]
Jan and Helene Catharina van Groeneveldt de Hoog.
He was born in Amsterdam on December 30, 1798, and had first married, on May 31, 1822, in Amsterdam, Johanna Gerritdina Beugel, by whom he had two sons ; Jacobus Wilhelmus Leonardus, born in Amsterdam, on December 15, 1823, and Frederik Willem, born there, on November 21, 1826. His first wife died in Amsterdam, on October 8, 1846.
The marriage of Willem Frederik de Hoog and Johanna Maria Swartwout was blessed with one child, Willem Frederik, born in Amsterdam, on January 7, 1853. On January 14, 1856, the father was legally titled a born freeman
1 Dor an c/u’vron de luioin/ui^ni de // ois-bom ses dit mime. ( “nnier :line tCle el tolde griffon an nature!, /an^ni’e de oueu/es. Amoruil Gciu’ial. I’.ir J. 15. KicNt.ip.
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of the city of Amsterdam. For many years he was honored with the office of director of the municipal work-house. lie died, on December 12, 1871, and his widow, on November 29, 1891.
Their son, Willem Frederik de Hoog\ on June 4, 1879, married, in Helder, province of Noord Holland, Maria Cornelia, daughter of Johannes Franciscus and Anna Elisabeth Elders Manikus, born in Helcler, on June 25, 1853. They are the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters. Their eldest child and son, Frederik Jacobus, born in Amsterdam, on August 28, 1880, began serving in the summer of 1898, in Queen Wilhelmina’s Holland army, for a term of eight months, and is now a corporal, with the expectation of being promoted to the rank of sergeant, in April, 1899. The father, on October 7, 1882, was declared a born freeman of the city, where, since 1853, he has owned the three-story brick dwelling, No. 156, on the west side of Pieter Cornelisz Hooftstraat, not far from the Ryks Museum in which the family resides.
The de Hoog coat-of-arms is a shield of silver displaying three black boars’ heads, tusked, defenders of the field. The crest, a natural tree. Motto : Renown gves strength. 1
Several records in the archives of the city of Amsterdam disclose the information that “Joriaen” and “Elsjen Zwartwout,” deceased, were the parents of “Andries” and “Henrick Zwartwout,” who, as orphans, residing in Amsterdam, were the recipients, between the years 1554 and 1560, of money due them as rent from inherited property. The sons were evidently in comfortable circumstances, for Henrick is mentioned as having in contemplation a journey to Spain.
Line of descent of Willem Frederik, son of Johanna Maria Swartwout de Hoog, of Amsterdam.
I. Rolef and Catryna Swartwout, married about 1600.
II. Herman and Geertruijt Schutte Swartwout, married, May 1, 1629.
III. Floris and Elisabeth Hendricx Swartwout, married, December 3, 1673.
IV. Herman and Johanna Striep Swartwout, married, May 18, 1698.
V. Laurens and Jannetje Atkins Swartwout, married, June 26, 1725.
VI. Hendrik and Alida van Ryn Swartwout, married, December 28, 1760.
VII. Jan Hendrik and Susanne Jacqueline Hebert Swartwout, married, July 27, 1806.
VIII. Johanna Maria Swartwout and Willem Frederik de Floog, married, June 12, 185j.
IX. Willem Frederik de Hoog and Maria Cornelia Manikus, married, June 4, 1879.
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