Bourgon Broucard

Bragoon Braghar - also seen as Bourgen Broecord, or Brocard, was a Frenchman. One source suggests that the Broucard family was in Mannheim Germany at the birth of daughter Jannetje. Mannheim was a tolerant center where many religious refugees congregated, and if the Broucards were in Mannheim, it might suggest that they were Huguenots.
We expect for two reasons that they immigrated to America before about 1687. One is that Jannetje married a man who had been born in New York (Hans Teunise Covert, the son of Dutch immigrants). The other reason is that the first child of Hans and Jannetje, named Catherine Covert, was born in Brooklyn in 1688.
A third indication is that, curiously, Hans Teunis Covert took the oath of allegiance in 1688, perhaps in preparation for marriage and entering into the public records of the English government of New York. The young couple lived on Long Island for a time, then moved to Somerset Co., New Jersey by 1706. It is expected that the older Broucards followed this pattern also.
In 1690 Hans Teunis Covert appears to have purchased land in Queens Co. NY with a Bourgen Broecord, presumably his father-in-law (though possibly a brother of Jannetje). By 1702, both Hans and Bourgen Brocard were living in Somerset Co., NJ and together they purchase 2000 acres "at the mouth of the Millstone River".
In 1706-07, Hans Covert sold Newtown land, co-owned by him and two other Millstone residents, an Isaac Bourga (a Brokaw spelling?), and an Andrew Bird, Jr., possibly related to Thomas Bird, husband of Hans Covert's oldest daughter Catherine.
No additional information is presently known about the residence, children, burial site etc. of the Broucard family. (This biography based largely on data from The New York Genealogical and Biological Record, published by the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, Vol. 37, 1906. See below.)

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth		expect France
Marriage			to Catherine Le Fevre
Death		possibly Millstone, Somerset Co. NJ

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 9        Generation 10              Generation 11                        
                                                                                                         
                                                                               
                                                                                
                                                                  
                                                          
                                                                            
                 +-- Hans Teunise Covert 
                 |   (1657/58-1723)                                            
                                           
                 |                         
                 |                                                 
 Bragon Covert --+                                                             
 (1696-????)     |                                                               
                 |                          +-- Bourgon Broucard  
                 |                          |                                    
                 +-- Jannetje Brokaw ------+                       +-- Abraham Le Fevre
                     (1667 - ????)          |                       |
                                            +-- Catherine LeFevre --+
                                                                    |
                                                                    +-- Antoinette Jerrian
                                 
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Children

( children with Catherine LeFevre)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Jannetje Brokaw	F

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
expect France
possibly Mannheim, Germany
expect Brooklyn/Long Island, NY	expect by 1687	birth of granddaughter Catherine Covert
expect Somerset NJ, possibly Millstone

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	The New York Genealogical and Biological Record, published by the New York Genealogical & Biogrphical Society, 226 West 58th Street, New York. Vol. XXXVII, 1906. Three sections of continued Covert family history begin on pages 117, 197, and 267. See: http://www.archive.org/stream/newyorkgenealogi83newy/newyorkgenealogi83newy_djvu.txt It would seem that the wife of this Hans or Jan was Jannetje, dau. of Bragoon Braghar (or Bourgen Broecord, or Broeckaert). Before the removal to New Jersey, two of the issue of this couple were bap. in Brooklyn and one in New York, as follows: Bap. 3 Aug 1690, Ariaentje, dau. of Hans Teunissen Coevers and Jannetje Boka. (Hoi. Soc. Year-Book, 1897.) Bap. April r6 (sic), 1693, Theunis, son of Jan Coeverts and Jannetje Broeckaert. (N.Y. B. & B. S. Coll. 1901) Bap. 29 Mar 1696, Bragon, son of Hans Coevers and Jannetje Coevers. (Hoi. Soc. Year-Book, 1897). 21 June 1690 Hans Teunis Covert & Bourgen Broecord, both of Bedford, Kings Co., N.Y., bought land in Newtown, Queens Co., N.Y. (Queens Co. Deeds, B. II, p. 353.) 21 Feb 1700/01, John Covers & wife, Jane, of Newtown, sell land there. Signed, "Jan Coevers, Jantie Coevers." (Queens Co. Deeds, B. II, p. 319.) 9 May 1702 John Coverson and Bragoon Braghar, of Somerset Co., N.J., planters, bought 2,000 acres at the mouth of the Millstone River, N.J. (E.J. Deeds, C. II, p. 447.) 15 March 1706/7, Hans Coverd and Andrew Bird, Jr. of Millstone River, N.J., and Isaac Bourga, of Newtown, N.Y., sold Newtown land. Signed, "Jan Coevers." (Queens Co. Deeds, B. II, p. 318. Rev. E. T. Corwin's "Historical Discourse on the Occasion of the Centennial Anniversary of the Reformed Dutch Church of Millstone" (N.J.) refers to the purchase of the 2,000 acres on the banks of the Millstone River by "John Covers and John Brocars".	See complete text at Covert Family History, NY G&B Record
2	Early History of New York by Bergen, as quoted in The New York Genealogical and Biological Record, Vol. XXXVII, 1906, p. 117. Coevers or Covert, Teunis Janse emigrated in 1651, from Heemstede, in North Holland; m. Barbara Lucas or Jans; resided at first in New Amsterdam, and finally settled in Bedford in Brooklyn, at which place he took oath of allegiance in 1687; member of Ref. Du. Ch. of New Amsterdam prior to 1660; member of Ref. Du. Ch. of Brooklyn in 1660, 1677 and 1685; and died prior to 1700. Issue: Hans Teunise, m. Jannetje Boka (Bragow); oath of allegiance 1687; on the Raritan, N.J. 1705. Marretje Teunise, m. 24 Nov 1682 Jean Messerole, Jr. of Bushwick. Lucas Teunise (see under Lucas Covert & family) Mauritz Teunise, bap. 6 Aug 1663; m. i April 1690 (sic, 1 April 1690?) Ann Fonteyn, widow of Jacob Jansen; oath of allegiance 1687. Aeltje Teunise, m. 18 May 1679 in New York, william Pos or Post of New York. Sarah Teunise, m. 7 April 1680 in New York, Arent Frederickson of New York. Annetje Teunise, bap. 18 Aug 1661; m. 16 Apr 1687 Garrett Sprong. Jannetje Teunise (supposed), m. Titus Syrachs DeVries. Aaggrica or Eechtje, m. Derk Paulus of Jamaica. Jahannes Teunise m. Jannetje; oath of allegiance 1687; settled on the Raritan, N.J.
3	Notes of Robert Covert(deceased), Port Charlotte FL, 1996, posted online at: http://www.open.org/rumcd/d0001/g0000014.htm Note: Nov 2008 this site address no longer functional. These notes, copied Jan 2008, were posted as part of a Covert family tree, owner not recorded. Records of Dutch Ref. Ch. of Brooklyn: "Bragon Covert was baptized 29 Mar 1696. Parents were Hans Coevers & Jannitje; witnesses were Ysaac Brokaer & Marritje Coevers. (Hol. Soc. Yr. Bk. 1897, p. 170). The owner of this family tree lists Bragon Covert's mother as Jannetje Brokaw, & her parents as Bourgon Broucard and Catherine LeFevre; Bragon Covert's father as Jan Teunise Covert, & his parents as Tuenis Janssen Covert & Barbara Lucas Van Kessel; maternal grandfather as Lucas Van Kessel.
4	"Covert Ancestry" compiled by Edson Salisbury Jones, contributed by Byron Barnes Horton, Sheffield PA, Edition of 50 copies. Reprinted from the New York Gen. & Biogr. Record,1906, N.Y.; printed by Tobias A. Wright, 1906. Copy at MN Hist. Soc. Library, St. Paul, MN viewed 2008 by Elizabeth Wilson Williams; slim paperback of maybe 20 pages, brittle, pages loose from binding. Extract: "Bergen's "Early Settlers of Kings Co., N.Y." treats the Covert family the most extensively of any work seen. Of Theunis and his family, he says: Teunis Janse (Covert) emigrated 1651 from Heemstede; m. Barbara Lucas or Janse; Hans Teunise (Covert) m. Jannetje Boka (Bragow). In records of Ref. Du. Ch. of NY before 1660; and Holland Society Year Book 1879 Hans/Jan Teunis (Covert) m. Jannetje, dau. of Bragoon Braghar or (Bourgen/Broecord/Broeckaert). Bragon b. 1696 (son of Hans Coevers & Jannetje Coevers) (Hol. Soc. Year-Book 1897) Rev. E. T. Corwin's "Historical Discourse on the Occasion of the Centennial Anniversary of the Reformed Dutch Church of Millstone" (NJ) refers to the purchase of 2,000 acres on the banks of Millstone River by "John Covers and John Brocars", p. 25.

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Ref. Num.	Description	Extract
W1	My Family Website on Rootsweb.com, owner Debbie Harrison; see at: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2424533&id=I519050993 For extract of data on our direct line, see "My Family" by Debbie Harrison on Rootsweb.com No sources listed. Jannetje BROKAW (b: 1667 in Mannheim, Ger; d. 1722 in Millstone, Somerset Co. NJ, daughter of Bourgon Brocard (b. Mar 1644/45 in Bungary, Fr; d. 1720 in Raritan, Somerset Co. NJ) and Catherine LeFevre (b.1648 in Etaples, Fr; d. Aft. 1712 in Somerset Co. NJ). 6 children of Bourgon Broucard & Catherine LeFevre: 1. Jannetje BROKAW b: 1667 in Mannheim, Ger 2. Marie BROKAW 3. Catherine BROKAW 4. Isaac BROKAW 5. Abraham BROKAW b: Abt. 1684 in Cripplebush (Bushwick), L I, NY 6. Catrina BROKAW b: Aft. 1728
W2	Christopher Rumbaugh, Corvallis, Oregon, website: http://www.open.org/rumcd/d0001/g0000014.htm Notes for these generations of Coverts: Teunis Janssen Covert m. Barbara Lucas Van Kessel (daughter of Lucas Van Kessel); Jan Teunise Covert m. Jannetje Brokaw (daughter of Bourgon Broucard & Catherine LeFevre); Bragon Covert m. Ann Selover. Sources include 1996 interview of Robert Covert (deceased), Port Charlotte, FL; Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn; "Hol. Soc. Yr. Bk. 1897, p 170", mentions gravestone of John Covert, Seneca Co. NY Appears well sourced; some source titles unclear (abbreviated).

Source notes

• Dutch Kills, Brooklyn, Long Island: Per Wikipedia,
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Kills,_Queens
  Dutch Kills was a hamlet on a navigable tributary of Newtown Creek. It remained a community of farms during the 19th century, and in 1870 consolidated with Hunters Point, Ravenswood, Astoria & Steinway to form Long Island City, Queens NY. Dutch Kills "occupied what today is centrally Queensboro Plaza."
  Newtown Creek forms part of the boundary between present-day Queens Co. (Queens) & Kings. Co. (Brooklyn). It runs parallel to and just soutn of I-495 which crosses the East River into Manhattan at the Queens Midtown Tunnel. The southernmost tributary runs northward from an area of Kings Co. (Brooklyn) just SE of I-278,the Brooklyn Queens Expy,, into Newtown Creek in Queens.
• Identity of baptism witnesses (for Bragon Covert) Ysaac Brokaer & Marritje Coevers are unknown. Ysaac Brokaer could be a grandparent; or they could be an aunt & uncle.