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Note: From History and Genealogy of the Hoagland Family In America:
This Sarah Rapelje was the first female white person born in New Netherland. The record of the Rapelje family gives June 9, 1625, as the date of her birth. She was married to Bergen in 1639. He died about 1654, and she soon after married Tunis Gisbert Bogart, and so became the ancestress of all the Bogarts in the vicinity of New Amsterdam. At the marriage of Annetje to [Dirck Jansen] Hoogland the witnesses were, "Tunis Gisbert Bogart, stepfather, and Jan Louis Rapelje, uncle of Annetje." Mrs. Bogart died about 1685. Lysbeth, the wife of Dirck Cornelius Hoogland, was a sister of Sarah Rapelje (Bergen) Bogart.
From The Bergen Family by Teunis G. Bergen, Albany, NY, 1876, pp.22-24:
In 1639, HANS HANSEN BERGEN married SARAH, daughter of Jores (George) Jansen Rapalie, (since spelled Rapalje and Rapalye,) born according to the family record on the 9th day of June, 1625, and who was the first white female child of European parentage born in the colony of New Netherlands, which then covered the present states of New York, New Jersey, and a portion of Connecticut.1 The early historians of this state and locality, led astray by a petition presented by her, April 4th, 1656 (when she resided at the Waaleboght), to the governor and council, for some meadows, in which she states that she is the first born Christian daughter in New Netherlands, assert that she was born at the Waaleboght.
Judge Benson in his writings even ventures to describe the house where this took place. He says: "On the point of land formed by the cove in Brooklyn, known as the Waaleboght, lying on its westerly side, was built the first house, a one-story log house, on Long Island, and inhabited by Joris Jansen Rapalie, one of the first white settlers on the island, and in which was born Sarah Rapalie, the first white child of European parentage born in the state." In this, if there is any truth in the depositions of Catalyn or Catalyntie Trico (daughter of Jeronomis Trico of Paris), Sarah's mother (a copy of which may be seen on pages 49, 50, and 51 of vol. 3 of New York Documentary History), they are clearly mistaken. In her
deposition taken on the 14th day of February, 1684-5, before Col. Thomas Dongan, governor of the province, she states that she came over in 1623 or 1624, to the best of her remembrance.
In the other, taken "at her house on Long Island, in ye Wale Bought this 17th day of October, 1688," before William Morris, justice of the peace, she states that she was aged about 83 years, and was born at Paris; that in 1623 she came to this country in the ship Unity, commanded by Arien Jorise, that as soon as they came to "Mannatans," now called New York, they sent two families and six men to "harford River," two families and six men to Delaware River, eight men they left at New York to take possession, and the rest of the passengers, about eighteen families, went with the ship as far as Albany, then called
"Fort Orangie." That deponent lived in Albany three years, that in 1626 she came from Albany and settled in New York, where she lived afterwards for many years, and then came to Long Island "where she now lives."
Sarah, therefore, undoubtedly was born at Albany instead of the Waaleboght, and was probably married before she removed to Long Island, there being no reason to suppose that she resided there when a single woman, without her parents.
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