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Bernardus Verbryck     see FAMILY TREE
Born: 04 Jun 1696 Gravesend, Kings, NY

Baptized: 9 Aug 1696 Brooklyn, Kings, NY

Married: Abt. 1717

     
Died: 23 Jan 1765
Probably in Hillsborough, Somerset, NJ
   

FATHER

Samuel Gerritsen

MOTHER

Ida Barents Ryder

WIFE

Jannetje Schenck

CHILDREN

1. Ida Verbryck
    Bap. 02 Nov 1718 New Utrecht Dutch Church, Long Island, Kings, New York
    witnesses Samuel Gerretsen and Joa (Ida)
 

2. Sarah Verbryck
    b. Abt. 1720
    d. 23 Nov 1743

3. Sameul Verbryck 
    b. 30 Apr 1721 (no baptismal record)
    named first son Bernardus and 2nd daughter Jannetje

4. Son Verbryck
    Bap.  17 Jun 1722   Freehold, Monmouth, NJ
    could be Samuel Verbryck   

5. Jan (John) Verbryck 
    Bap. 19 Jan 1724  Freehold, Monmouth, NJ

6. "A Child" Verbryck
    Bap. 25 Dec 1725  Freehold, Monmouth, NJ
    could be Bernardus Verbryck

7. Jannetje Verbryck
    Bap. 27 Aug 1732   Freehold, Monmouth, NJ
    d. 8 Aug 1742

8. Bernardus Verbryck
    b. Abt. 1734    Monmouth, NJ
    m. Catleyntie
    d. Abt. Jul 1810 Mercer Co., KY

9. Aeltjie Verbryck
    Bap. 09 May 1736   Monmouth, NJ
    m. Christeyaen Van Dooren

10. Wihelmus (William) Verbryck
    b. 17 Mar 1737
    Bap. 23 Apr 1738 Freehold, Monmouth, NJ
    m. Dorothy De Mott
    m. 20 Mar 1777 Rebecca Low
    d. 31 Jan 1824 Harrodsburg, Mercer, KY

Bernardus Verbryck
by Susan Brooke
Jul 2021

It is difficult to track the name Verbryck as there were several men using this name in Colonial New York. (1) However, we know for sure that Bernardus Verbryck and his brother, Gerrit Gerritsen (he sometimes added Verbryck) used the name Verbryck.  In 1715 they both were members of the Kings County Militia under Captain Thomas Stillwell listed as Barnardus Verbrick and Gerrit Verbrick. (2) Bernardus's brother Gerret baptized his first two children using the name Verbryck but by 1735 he was using the name Gerritsen. In 1735 the brothers were both members of the Freehold Church listed as Gerrit Gerretson and B V Bryck. (3)
The first record I have found of him is his birth record of Jan 4, 1696 in the bible kept by his father.(4)  It is presumed he was born in Gravesend, Kings, NY. He was baptized in Brooklyn on 9 Aug of the same year with his grandparents, Barent Juriaanse, Aaltje Steevens, as witnesses. (5) However, the next record found on him isn't until April 13, 1718 when Barnardus Verbriik and Janneke, his wife were witnesses at the baptism of Willem Schenk to Jan Schenk and Sara Kowenhover in Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey. (6)  However, his first daughter, Ida Verbryck, was baptized just seven months later on  Nov 2, 1718 in New Utrecht Drch, Long Island, Kings, NY with his parents Samuel Gerritse and his wife Ida as witnesses.(7)
The next children of Bernardus Verbryck and Jannetje Shenck, baptized from 1722 through 1738, were all baptized in Monmouth Co, NJ. (8)  "Bernardus V. Bryk and his wife" were witnesses to the baptism of Samuel to Gerrit Wykhoff and Aeltie Gerritse on September 19, 1732 in Freehold, Monmouth, NJ. (9)   He is mentioned as "Sheriff Bernardus Verbryck (of Monmouth County)" at April term, 1735. (10)  In November 1740 "Barnardy Verbryck of the County of Monmout" was in court for a debt of fourteen pounds, seven shilling to James Henderson (11) and accused in a New Jersey Supreme Court Case in 1741 as "the late sheriff of Monmouth county" of letting a person in custody go free. (12)  "Bernardus Ver Bryck, of Monmouth County, gentleman," was listed as fellow bondsman on June 3, 1741 in the Administration of Dr. Peter Le Conte, of Freehold. (13) And on Feb 2, 1742 a notice was run in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering a reward for the horse of "Bernardus Verbrych, Esq; of Freehold" who had been stolen. (14)  All this very clearly indicates Bernardus Verbryck was living in Freehold, Monmouth County, NJ from 1722 to 1742.
Then in 1745 there is a Bernardus Ver Bryck in Gravesend, Kings, NY.  Domine Johannes Arondeus, the minister at Gravesend, Kings, NY had been quarrelling with another minister. He had gone "off secretly, as was alleged, to the Raritan, where he was installed as minister; returning, however, July 31, 1748, to Kings county," where "he was charged with drunkenness and other crimes" and was suspended from the ministry.  He "refused to pay notice to the charges, however, whereupon he was declared to an unlawful minister of Kings County."   "The sudden termination of the contract made between the Churches of New Utrecht and Gravesend in 1714-15, on the part of Arondeus, left the church at a loss to know what to do in the premises, and the first step they took in the way of filling up their lack of a minister for their pulpit, was in securing the services of Bernadus Ver Bryck, a schoolmaster, to conduct services for them." (15)
"Ver Bryck began the study of Theology with Arondeus when he was Pastor of the churches of Kings County, without the permission or sanction of either Classis or Synod.  He ordained him, and the people of the Town of Gravesend, considering that laying on of hands on the part of Arondeus valid, they engaged him as their Pastor.  Ver Bryck preached in Gravesend and baptized children here, as is evident from the old church records, but removed to North Branch, New Jersey, in 1749."
On Sept 24, 1748 Bernardus Ver Bryck was a witness to the will of "George Hall, SR of the South Branch of Raritan River, Somerset Co.,"  (16)
Then on August 25, 1752 "the consistory of North-Branch - consented to dismiss Bernardus Verbryck and his wife, William Low, John Dumont and his wife, John Montfort and his wife, in all eleven persons, for the purpose of forming a new congregation, and continues to give notice that Bernardus Verbryck and Abraham Dubois were chosen elders, and Johannes de Mott and William Low deacons in said church and congregation of Neshanic." (17)
There were articles of agreement between persons formerly belonging to the church of North-Branch - to unite with the congregations of Raritan, North-Branch, and Millstone and to commence the building of a church for said new congregation.  "This covenant is subscribed by Bernardus Verbryck, Abraham Dubois, Sen., Abraham Dubois, Jr., John De Mott, Laurence De Mott, William Post, Johyn Dorland, Cornelius Van Arsdalen, Jacobus Nevius, Pieter Van dyke, Pieter Montfort, Jan Montfort, Lucus Nevius, Derick Low, Albert Stothoff, Adrian Hageman, Joichim Gulick, Jacobus Gulick, and John Brower, men of substance and character, and enough to warrant the undertaking."
In 1762 Bernardus Verbryck made a contribution to the new church at Neshanic.  He died in 1768 according to his father's bible record. (18) 

 

Sources

(1) The name Verbryck in Colonial

From Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York, by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, 1979
We have a Roeloff Verberck who came over in 1663 and was in Flatbush in 1687.
A Gerrit Verbeeck was on the Spotted Cow in 1663
And a Barent Verberck living in New Utrecht gave an oath of allegiance in 1687

oath of allegiance 1687 Flatbush , Roeloff Verberck  24 years

In April 1663 on the Spotted Cow, Gerrit Verbeeck

Oath of Allegiance 1687 Kings Co Sept 1687 of New Utrecht pg 38 Barent Verberck

There was also a Jan Jansen Verberck who came over on the Rosetree in 1663 and was living in Fort Orange in 1664
Sailed on the Rosetree in 1663

  Jan Jansen Van Kirk (Verberck, Verkerck), from Buren - and wife and five children ages 1 (nursing), 5, 6, 8, and 9 years
    [Source #83A]

Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and ...

Jan Verbeeck delegate from Fort Orange 1664

(2) Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan. GPC, 1979, reprinted from a larger O'Callaghan work published 1849-51
Kings County Militia 1715,  pg 182 Barnardus Verbrick and Gerrit Verbrick

(3) Brouwer Genealogy
 "Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown", 
Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vols. 22-38 (1947-1963): 23:94; 24:21, "Church Members." 1735
Gerrit Gerretson and B. V. Bryck
 

(4) The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record  Vol. 133  Number 3 pg. 165
      Bible originally kept by Samuel Gerritsen, the father of Bernardus Verbryck
     "The 4th day of June o.s. Anno 1696 our son named Bernardus was born on a Fridays about 7 o'clock in the morning."
Bible of Samuel Gerritsen

(5) "Bap. Aug 9 1696
Ferdinandus    Samuel Gerritse, Ida Barends, parents.Witnesses: Barent Juriaanse, Aaltje Steevens.
Record found in Year Book of the Holland Society of New York on a "third list - Two sheets evidently not belonging to Brooklyn Church Records."

Year book of the Holland Society of New York

 By Holland Society of New York, pg 194
Baptisms of Brooklyn

Baptism of Bernardus Verbryck

(6) Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol 22, pg 61
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1718 Apr 13 Willem: Jan Schenk and Sara Kowenhoven: Witnesses Barnardus Verbriik and Janneke, his wife

(7)  New York Genealogical &Biographical Record 112:131
1718 Nov 2   Ida (Joa) baptized to Barnardus Verbryck and Jannetje (Schenck)
Witnesses: Samuel Gerretsen and Joa (Ida) s.v.
Baptism of Ida Verbryck

(8) Records of the Dutch Congregations of Freehold and Middletown from the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey

1722 Jun 17 "son, Barnardus Verbriik and Janneke Schenck" no witnesses, Raritan, Freehold and Middletown, Somerset, NJ

1724 19 Jan "Jan: Barnardus Verbiik and Janneke Schenk" no witnesses, Raritan, Freehold and Middletwon, Somerset, NJ

1725 Dec 25 child: "Barnardus Verbryk and Jannek Schenk" no witnesses, Raritan, Freehold and Middletown, Somerset, NJ

1732 Aug 27 Jannetie: Bernardus V Bryck and Jannetie Schenk, Raritan, Freehold and Middletown, Somerset, NJ

1736 May 9 Aeltje: Barnardus Ver Bryke, Monmouth Co. NJ

1738 Apr 23 Wilhelmus: Bernardus Fabryk and Janneje Schenk, Raritan, Freehold and Middletown, Somerset, NJ

(9) Early Dutch settlers of Monmouth NJ by George Crawford Beekman, 1901  pg 99
1732 Sep 19 Samuel: Gerrit Wykoff and Heltie Gerritse, Witnesses Bernardus Sbriyk and wife

(10) Early Dutch settlers of Monmouth, N.J. by George Crawford Beckman, 1901 page 99.  "Thunis Amack is named among the grand jurors impanelled by sheriff Bernardus Verbryck at April term, 1735."
Also named as sheriff of Monmouth will of John Porterfield, Jan 1, 1735 Monmouth Will BK 4 pg 136.

(11) New Jersey Supreme Court Case #18115
Nov 1740 "Barnardy Verbryck of the County of Monmouth" was in court for a debt of fourteen pounds, seven shillings to James Henderson.
New Jersey Supreme Court Case 18115

(12) New Jersey Supreme Court Case # 23890  Accused of letting Thomas Stilwell go free.
Mar 1741 Thomas Stilwell owed £15. 10 to Neele Livingston. Bernardus Verbryck as sheriff permitted him to go at large. Neele Livingston is bringing suit against Verbryck the "late sheriff." Robert Lawrence was his atty. 1715 militia under Capt Thomas Stilwell

New Jersey Supreme Court Case 23890

(13) Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series---VOL. XXX  Calendar of New Jersey Will, Administrations, Etc. Volume II - 1730-1750 Edited by A. Van doren Honeyman, 1918  pg 247

(14) Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Edited by William Nelson  Volume XII  II Extracts From American Newspapers, Relating to New Jersey Vol. II  1740-1750, 1895

  Stolen on Wednesday Night, the 26th of January from Bernardus Verbrych, Esq; of Freehold township, near the Court-House, Monmouth County, a sorrel Gelding, about 14 Hands high, a Star in his Forehead, Snip upon the Nose, long switch Tail, natural Pacer, clean built, shod before, the Shoes and Hoofs much wore, branded D. A. on the near Buttock; and had on a Rhode Island Saddle almost new, a snaffle Bridle, and perhaps a Halter.  Whoever secures the said Gelding, and gives Notice therof to the Owner aforesaid, or to Joseph Steinard, of Philadelphia, so that he may be had again, shall have Forty Shillings Reward; and whoever secures the Thief, shall be reasonable rewarded by
    Bernardus Verbrych
Note: He is supposed to be stolen by a Man with black bushy Hair, who wears a greyish Coat.--The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 2, 1742.  3.
 

(15) 300th Anniversay of the Gravesend Reformed Church, by Seymour Durst page 15
"How long Arondeus officiated at Gravesend is not known, but it could not have been long, for in 1745 the Church was ministered unto by Bernardus Ver Bryck."---The sudden termination of the contract made between the Churches of New of New Utrecht and Gravesend in 1714-1715, on the part of Arondeus, left the Church at a loss to know what to do in the premises, and the first step they took in the way of filling up their lack of a minister for their pulpit, was in securing the services of Bernardus Ver Bryck, a schoolmaster, to conduct services for them as a pulpit supply in the interim.
Ver Bryck began the study of Theology with Arondeus when he was a Pastor of the Churches of King's County, without the permission or sanction of either Classis or Synod.  He ordained him, and the people of the Town of Gravesend, considering that laying on of hands on the part of Arondeus valid, they engaged him as their Pastor.  Ver Bryck preached in Gravesend and baptized children here, as is evidenced from the old Church records, but removed to North Branch, N. J. in 1749, and thus his connection with this Church ceased.

(16) Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey  First Series - Vol XXXII  Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Inc Volume III  -  1751-1760  pg 140 

((17) Forty Years at Raritan, by Abraham Messler, 1873 pg 268 and 269
The records of the church commence on the 25th of August 1752, and recite that the consistory of North-Branch, on account of the necessity of establishing the Christian ordinances and having the Gospel preached, had consented to dismiss Bernardus Verbryck, and his wife, (and others) in all eleven persons, for the purpose of forming a new congregation, and continues to give notice that Bernardus Verbryck and Abraham Dubois were chosen for elders.

(18) The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record  Vol. 133  Number 3 pg. 166
Bible originally kept by Samuel Gerritsen, the father of Bernardus Verbryck
January 2?, 1765 my brother Barnardus fell asleep in the Lord aged 68 years, eight months.
Bible record of Samuel Gerritsen