Jan Cornelis Van den Heuvel

Jan Cornelis Van den Heuvel
Governor of Demerara
In office
1765–1770
Preceded byLaurens Lodewijk van Bercheijk
Succeeded byPaulus van Schuylenburgh
Personal details
Born(1742-12-23)December 23, 1742
Maastricht, Limburg, Duthc Republic
DiedMay 6, 1826(1826-05-06) (aged 83)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s)
Maria Catharina Storm van 's Gravesande
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(died 1771)​

Frederica Henrietta Justina van Baerle
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(died 1793)​

Charlotte Augusta Apthorp
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(m. 1794; died 1823)​
Parent(s)Abraham van den Heuvel
Jacoba Johanna Henrietta Hesselt van Dinter
RelativesColin M. Ingersoll (grandson)
Charles Ingersoll (grandson)
Ralph Ingersoll (son-in-law)
John Hamilton (son-in-law)

Baron Jan Cornelis van den Heuvel[a] (December 23, 1742 – May 6, 1826)[1] was a Dutch born plantation owner and politician who served as governor of the Dutch province of Demerara from 1765 to 1770 and later became a merchant in New York City with the Dutch West India Company.

Early life

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Van den Heuvel was born on December 23, 1742, in Maastricht in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. He was the son of Abraham van den Heuvel and Jacoba Johanna Henrietta Hesselt (née van Dinter).[2]

His paternal grandparents were Jacob van den Heuvel and Hermanna Henrica Cuper. His maternal grandparents were Andres Matthias Hesfelt van Dinter and Jacoba Henrietta Martini.[3]

Career

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The Demerara colony in 1759 (East is at the top).

In 1765, Van den Heuvel was appointed Commander (an equivalent to the colonial governor) of Demerara, which was a historical region in the Guianas on the north coast of South America (which is now part of the country of Guyana) located around the lower courses of the Demerara River. In Demerara, he owned two plantations.[2]

At the time, it had been a Dutch colony since 1745 when it was separated from Essequibo. Van den Heuvel served until 1770 Demerara would remain mostly under Dutch rule until around 1812 when it merged into Demerara-Essequibo and was ceded to Britain by treaty between the Netherlands and Britain, becoming known as the county of British Guiana from 1838 to 1966. Its main town was Georgetown (which was known as Stabroek during Dutch rule).[4]

Life in America

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In 1790, due to the outbreak of yellow fever, he moved to New York City, first at 87 Liberty Street, as a merchant with the Dutch West India Company.[2] In 1800, he moved to the corner of Broadway and Barclay Streets (which is the present site of the Woolworth Building).[2]

In 1801, he was elected a director of the U.S. Branch Bank of which "Cornelius Ray was president and Robert Lenox, Nicholas Low, John Murray, Gabriel W. Ludlow, William Laurence, Thomas Pearsall, David M. Clarkson, Peter Schermerhorn, Thomas Buchanan, John Laurence and Moses Rogers were his associated directors."[2]

Personal life

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Van den Heuvel was married to Maria Catharina Storm van 's Gravesande (1734–1771), the daughter of Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande and Lumea Constantia van Bercheyck.[3] They were the parents of:[3]

  • Anna Maria Eleonora van den Heuvel, who married Pieter van Westrenen (1768–1845), who served as the Dutch Ambassador to Sweden and Portugal.[5]

After his first wife's death, he was married to Frederica Henrietta Justina van Baerle (1755–1793), the daughter of Karel van Baerle. In 1792, just one year before her death, she purchased 400 acres from James McEvers in the Bloomingdale area of upper Manhattan.[4][6] They were the parents of:[7]

After Frederica's death upon his relation to the United States, he remarried to Charlotte Augusta Apthorp in 1794.[10] Margaret was the daughter of prominent New York landowner Charles Ward Apthorp and his wife, Mary (née McEvers) Apthorp.[11] Together, they were the parents of:[2]

  • Maria Eliza van den Heuvel (1795–1873), who married John Church Hamilton (1792−1882), the son of U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.[2]
  • Charles Apthorp van den Heuvel (d. 1879), who married Mary Morris (1800−1885), the daughter of U.S. Representative Thomas Morris.[2]
  • Susan Augusta Van den Heuvel (1805–1884), who married Thomas Stanyarne Gibbes II of South Carolina.[10]
  • Justine van den Heuvel, who married Samuel Gouverneur Bibby (1790–1849).[12][13]

Van den Heuvel died on May 6, 1826, in New York City.[14] In his 1822 will, he gave his wife, "the gift to her of the use of his farm and mansion at Bloomingdale so long as she should remain his widow," however, she died three years before he did and instead of dividing the property, his children sold it in its entirety to Francis Price in 1827.[4]

Descendants

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Through his daughter Charlotte, he was the grandfather of Robert Campbell Macrae (1822–1896), who married Jane Eliza Currie (1830–1913), daughter of British explorer Vice-Admiral Mark John Currie.[15]

Through his daughter Margaret, he was the grandfather of seven, including John Van den Heuvel Ingersoll (1815–1846), a Yale educated lawyer who edited a political paper in Ohio and served as secretary of the Indian Commission,[16] Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819–1903),[17] who was a member of Congress from Connecticut from 1851 to 1855 (who married Julia Harriet Pratt, the daughter of U.S. Representative Zadock Pratt).[14][18] and Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821–1903), who served as Governor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1877 (who married Virginia Gregory, the daughter of Admiral Francis Gregory)[10]

Through his daughter Maria,[1][19] he was the grandfather of fourteen, including General Alexander Hamilton (1815–1907), a major general in the Civil War,[20] Charlotte Augusta Hamilton (1819–1896), John Cornelius Adrian Hamilton (1820–1879), Schuyler Hamilton (1822–1903), who served in the Mexican War,[21] Maria Eliza Hamilton (1825–1887), who married Judge Charles A. Peabody (1814–1901)[22][23] Charles Apthorp Hamilton (1826–1901), a judge of the circuit court for Milwaukee,[1][24] Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), who married Henry Wager Halleck in 1855 (and after his death, George Washington Cullum in 1875), William Gaston Hamilton (1832–1913), a consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,[21] Laurens Hamilton (1834–1858), who drowned accidentally while serving as part of a military escort aboard a ship returning the remains of President James Monroe to Richmond, Virginia.[25][26][27]

Through his daughter Susan, he was the grandfather of Charlotte Augusta Gibbes (1825–1887), who married John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890).[10]

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Once in America, he started going by John Cornelius Van den Heuvel
Sources
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  3. ^ a b c Bevervoorde, Henricus Johannes Engelbert van (1824). Geschiedenis van het geslacht van Bevervoorde (in Dutch). pp. 83–84. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Miller, Tom (14 October 2013). "The Lost Van den Heuvel Mansion -- Broadway at 78th Street". daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com. Daytonian in Manhattan. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  5. ^ Anthonisz, Richard Gerald (2003). The Dutch in Ceylon: An Account of Their Early Visits to the Island, Their Conquests, and Their Rule Over the Maritime Regions During a Century and a Half. Asian Educational Services. p. 198. ISBN 9788120618459. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  6. ^ Trager, James (1987). West of Fifth: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Manhattan's West Side. Atheneum Publishers. p. 52. ISBN 9780689117756. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  7. ^ Mott, Hopper Striker (1908). The New York of Yesterday: A Descriptive Narrative of Old Bloomingdale, Its Topographical Features, Its Early Families and Their Genealogies, Its Old Homesteads and Country-seats, Its French Invasion, and Its War Experiences Considered, in Their Relation to Its First Religious Society, the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, Organized [in] 1805, Incorporated [in] 1806 as the Church at Harsenville. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 332. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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  12. ^ Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New York. Banks & Brothers. 1887. p. 369. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  13. ^ Hutchinson, Elmer T. (1942). Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Volume VIII: 1791-1795. Heritage Books. p. 152. ISBN 9781585497850. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  14. ^ a b Cutter, William Richard (1913). New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. Vol. 3. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
  15. ^ Macrae, Alexander (1976). History of the Clan Macrae. Gateway Press. p. 118. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  16. ^ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1913). Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College: Including Those Graduated in Classes Later Than 1815, who are Not Commemorated in the Annual Obituary Records. Yale College. p. 252. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  17. ^ "Colin M. Ingersoll Dead: Pneumonia Carries Off a Man Prominent in Connecticut for Half a Century" (PDF). The New York Times. September 14, 1903.
  18. ^ "INGERSOLL, Colin Macrae - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  19. ^ Van Rensselaer, Florence (1949). The Livingston Family in America and Its Scottish Origins. pp. 315–316 – via HathiTrust.
  20. ^ Hamilton, Alexander, of "Heuvel" (1887). Dramas and Poems. Dick & Fitzgerald – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ a b "The Death List of a Day. John Church Hamilton". The New York Times. July 26, 1882. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
  22. ^ "Ex-Judge Peabody Married: The Bride, the Guests, and Some of the Presents". The New York Times. February 4, 1881. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  23. ^ The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State Progress. Concord, N.H.: J.N. McClintock. 1901. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  24. ^ Wisconsin Bar Association (1903). "Memoirs: Charles Apthorpe Hamilton". Proceedings of the Annual Meeting. pp. 209–211 – via Google Books.
  25. ^ "Death of Laurens Hamilton of the Seventh Regiment—Arrival of the Remains". The New York Times. July 13, 1858. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017.
  26. ^ Clark, Emmons (1890). History of the Seventh Regiment of New York, 1806–1889, Vol. 1. Seventh Regiment. pp. 427–428 – via Google Books.
  27. ^ Wolfe, Udolpho; Wolfe, Hudson G. (1858). Grand civic and military demonstration in honor of the removal of the remains of James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, from New York to Virginia. New York, U. Wolfe. pp. 224–239 – via Internet Archive.
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Political offices
Preceded by Governor of Demerara
1765–1770 		Succeeded by
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