Willem Adriaenszen Bennet

Abt 1610 - Abt 1644  (34 years)

• Name	Willem Adriaenszen Bennet  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1610	Netherlands   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FSID	LHZZ-3SQ
  Occupation	Cooper (barrel maker)
  Religion	Huguenot, Dutch Reformed
  Death	Abt 9 Sep 1644	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I45475	footsteps | Bunker
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Marie Badie,   b. Abt 1607, Netherlands d. Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
  Children	+ 1. Willem Willemszen Bennet,   b. 1639, New York, New York, United States d. 1686, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States (Age 47 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown] + 2. Adriaen Willemsen Bennet,   b. Abt 1640, New York, New York, United States d. New York, New York, United States  [Father: natural]  [Mother: unknown]
  Family ID	F25019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Owned bottom land in 1636 in Brooklyn "Colonial history of N J First series Vol 32" "Historic New York Breuckelen - Origin of Breuckelen" By Putnam pg 25-6 ""The first grant of land, in what was afterwards the city limits of Brooklyn, appears to have been (The Waalboght) to William Adriaense Bennett and Jacques Bentyn, who in 1636 purchased from the indian sachem Ka a considerable tract at Gowanus, on which a house was erected, only to be destroyed in the Indian Wars of 1643 and probably died at the time in which his house was burned down by Indians;

  
  

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• Sources

  [S288] Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www./ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-F6QD : Wed Apr 02 04:19:20 UTC 2025), Entry for Williem Adriaensen Bennet, 1644. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-F6QD