Cornelis Sergetsen VAN EGMONT

1599 - 1683  (84 years)

• Name	Cornelis Sergetsen VAN EGMONT  [1]
  Born	1599	Voorhoudt, Holland, Netherlands   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	LRFR-8JF
  Immigration	25 Aug 1643  [2]
  	Came to America from the Netherlands w/ entire family
  Land Assessment	27 Jun 1662	New York, British Colonial America   [2]
  Residence	Voorhout, Holland, Rensselaerwyck, Welsburgh Farm ON Castle Island, Albany CO, NY   [2]
  Died	22 Nov 1683	Castle Island, Albany, New York Colony   [1]
  Buried	Rural Cemetery, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America   [1]
  Person ID	I594769122	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Segerse VAN EGMONT,   b. 1573, Egmont Castle, Voorhoudt, South Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 1643, Castle Island, Albany, New York Colony  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Trintje VAN EGMONT,   b. 10 Jan 1575, Egmont Castle, Egmont, South Holland, Netherlands ,   d. Apr 1599, Voorhout, South Holland, Netherlands  (Age 24 years)
  Family ID	F536729346	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bregtje Jacobse JACOBSEN,   b. 19 Sep 1598, Voorhoudt, Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 1 Apr 1667, Castle Island, Albany, New York  (Age 68 years)
  Children	1. Cornelis VAN EGMONT,   b. 1621, Voorhout, Teylingen Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 1683, Albany, New York  (Age 62 years)   2. Claes Cornelissen VAN EGMONT,   b. 1623, Voorhoudt, South Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 24 Jun 1662, Rensselaerswyck, New Netherland  (Age 39 years)   3. Lysbeth VAN EGMONT,   b. 1627, Leiden, Holland, Netherlands ,   d. Apr 1667, Fort Orange, New Netherland  (Age 40 years)   4. Seger CORNELIS VAN EGMONT,   b. 1629, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 24 Jun 1662  (Age 33 years)   5. Jannetje Segerse EGMONT, van VOORHOUT,   b. 23 Jun 1633, Leiden, Leiden Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands ,   d. 20 Jan 1700, Schenectady, Albany, New York Colony  (Age 66 years)   6. Neeltje Cornelise EGMONT,   b. 1635, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands ,   d. Bef 1 Apr 1671  (Age 36 years)
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2023
  Family ID	F536729345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Adopted the last name van Voorhoudt AFTER arriving in America* Is an ancestor of the Egmont and Schermerhorn families of Albany, New York City, and Staten Island. He is a descendant of the royal Egmont family of Holland. He was born about 1598/99 in the town of Voorhout, a small village near Leyden and Amsterdam, Holland. "He is said to be descended from the Egmond Family that played an important role in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages, and has traced their descent from the Pagan kings, (King Radboud I648-719 of Frisia) Their chateau was on the North Sea, about three miles west of Alkmaar, and from 1423 to 1558, they were at the height of their power." Egmond is today a village on the North Sea coast, part of the municipality of Bergen in the present-day Dutch province of Noord-Holland. Apart from being the centre of the medieval family which is shown below, Egmond was the location of one of the most important Benedictine abbeys in the county of Holland, founded in the 10th century. Cornelis Segers by Stefan Bielinski In November 1663, one Cornelis Segers Van Voorhout filed a joint will with his wife, one Bregje Jacobsen. At that time, he was identified as a farmer of "Rensselaerswyck Colony." The Dutch language document named a son, three daughters, and referenced the children of another deceased son. That New Netherland pioneer also was known by a variety of names and appears to be the first American ancestor of those Albany residents who would identify under the surname "Seeger." Cornelis Segers appears to have arrived in the colony in 1642. In August 1643, he signed a contract and took up residence on a farm on Castle Island. Within a few years, the couple had drafted a will that stated "they possess nothing." At the time of his arrival, his wife "Bregje" (the subject of a number of compiled profiles) was forty-five years old and, by that time, the couple reputedly had six children - all or most of them born in Europe. Thus, Cornelis Segers (the patriarch) may have been born prior to 1600. In 1646, he appears to have taken over the other farm on the island formerly held by Adrian Van Der Donck. In March 1649, he is said to have engaged the son of Thomas Coningh to help him with the harvest. It is unclear whether this and subsequent references to similarly named individuals (including a namesake son) refer to the Seeger family patriarch or to one of his descendants or other kin. He appears to have died prior to 1680. With so many similarly unassignable references, and missing important demographic data, we move on for now from the life of the pioneer settler known as Cornelis Segers. ========= Cornelius (Cornelise, Cornelis) Segerse (Segertse, Segersen) was an early settler in New Netherland. According to Richard Schermerhorn, he made a contract with Patroon Van Rensselaer on 25 August 1643, before sailing from Holland to America the following month aboard "Het Wapen Van Rensselaerwyck." The contract document gives his name as Cornelise Segertse van Egmont. Cornelis was born born about 1599 at Egmond, North Holland, Netherland. He emigrated September 1643 from Voorhout, South Holland, Netherland to Rensselaerwyck, New Netherland on the Wapen Van Rensselaerwijck with his wife and six children, and settled at Rensselaerwyck. At the time of his emigration he was about 44 years old. Accompanying him on the journey were his wife Brechje Jacobsen, 45 years old, and 6 children: Cornelis, 22; Claes, 20; Seger, 14; Lysbeth, 16; Jannetie, 10, and Neeltie, 8. He settled in Rensselaerwyck and became a farmer at a time when most of the other Rensselaerwyck settlers were making their living as fur traders. His first farm was one of the two farms on Castle Island, near Albany, and was previously occupied by Brant Peelen, who had died. In 1646, he took over the other farm on the island for the remaining 3 years of the lease to Adrian Vanderdonck, thus controlling the entire island. An 1651 inventory of the farm of Cornelis Segers named his farm as Welysburgh and indicated that he owned 13 horses and 22 cows, that the farm contained 70 morgens, and the rent was 1210 guilders. He made his will on 22 November 1662 and signed his name Cornelis Segersen [4] Richard Schermerhorn hypothesized that he belonged to the original Egmont family of Holland, but came to America from the town of Voorhout, which is near Leyden, and about 20 miles southwest of Amsterdam. He died about 1677.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Jan 2023), entry for Cornelis van Egmont, person ID LCZ7-VGL. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Jan 2023), entry for Cornelis Sergetsen van Egmont, person ID LRFR-8JF. (Reliability: 3).