From the HAGAMAN family records available to me the following seems to constitute the male line of descent beginning with the first immigrant to America, ADRIAN (ADREAN) HAGAMAN (HEGEMAN) of my line.
There are two references regarding ADRIAN HAGAMAN:
1. Notation, “From Congressional Library as Washington.”
ADRIAN HAGAMAN and CATRINA, his wife came from Amsterdam, Holland in 1650. He settled at Flatbush, Long Island – bought land there, was magistrate there many years. In 1661, he was Schsut (schout) fiscal (sheriff) of five Dutch towns. He died in 1672.
His children were:
Joseph, Hendrickus, Jacobus, Abraman, DENYSE, Isaac, Benjamin, Elizabeth, John.
2. Notation, “From Bergens early settlers of King’s County.”
ADRIAN HAGAMAN emigrated about 1650 from Holland, married Catherine _______,
died 1672. About 1653 he resided in New Amsterdam (New York City) and April 25, 1661, he obtained a patent for fifty morgens with plain and meadow land in addition in Flatbush, where he removed April 29, 1668. Catherine, his wife joined the Dutch Reformed Church of New York to which place she appears to have removed.
Issue:
Joseph, Henrious, Jacobus (baptized March 9, 1653 in New Amsterdam), Abraham, DENYSE, Isaac, Benjamin, Elizabeth (who married Tobias Ten Eyck, April 12, 1684), John, (married Fennestrye DeVries Titus in 1692. (DeVries – Dutch; Titus – English)
Second Generation
DENYSE HAGAMAN, son of ADRIAN, of Flatbush , Long Island married Lenistia ________. Denyse died prior to 1710.
Issue:
1. Jacobus of the Raritan married Jannetje ________.
2. Adrian of Brooklyn ferry married Sarah ________.
3. Dallius (?) of the Raritan as early as 1703 married Gertruy (?) ________.
4. Joseph DENYSE of Flatbush married Alida Andrieza.
5. Denyse of the Raritan, baptized at Jamaica, married Maria _______, and died in 1748.
Note: The records are vague on this fifth child. It seems unreasonable that there would be two sons named Denyse – must be some error in the notation.
Third Generation
JOSEPH DENYSE HAGAMAN married Alida Andrieza, lived at Flatbush, N.Y.
Issue:
1. ANDERIS
and probably more.
Fourth Generation
ANDERIS HAGAMAN, born 1719 and married Maria Terhune, October 17, 1741.
Issue:
1. Joseph, born December 9, 1742.
2. Roelus (?), born March 25, 1744.
3. DENYSE, born October 27, 1745.
4. Maria, born December 5, 1747.
5. Anderis, born March 10, 1750.
6. Johannis, born April 23, 1752.
7. Jacobus, born October 25, 1754.
8. Garret, born July 2, 1758.
Fifth Generation
DENYSE HAGAMAN, son of Anderis, married Parmela or Prudence Van Dyke in 1773. She was the daughter of Francis Van Dyke.
Issue:
1. Mary, married James Quick Jr.
2. FRANCIS VAN DYKE married Martha Beekman
3. Andrew, married Anne Suydam
4. Eliza or Elizabeth married John Stryker
5. Anne, married John Williamson
6. Sophia, unmarried.
7. John, married Lucretia Polhemus.
8. Joseph died prior to 1811, unmarried.
Sixth Generation
FRANCIS VAN DYKE HAGAMAN married Martha Beekman
Issue:
1. Mary ______
2. DENNIS, born June 11, 1797, married Catherine Voorhees of Middlebrook, New Jersey.
3. Christopher Beekman, born July 23, 1803, married Emaline Farley, they had six children.
4. Abraham, born October 16, 1807, married Louisa Collins, daughter of Samuel Dunbar of Natchez, Mississippi. Abraham Hagaman was a Presbyterian minister. Abraham’s Diary
5. John, born February 17, 1810, married Elsie Ann Langelier (?) February 22, 1832.
Seventh Generation
DENNIS HAGAMAN married Catherine Voorhees
This was the first marriage, not informed about other two marriages. Understand this Dennis Hagaman died in his 90’s.
Issue:
1. Martha Beekman, born June 17, 1821, married John Ditts, lived at Readington Hunterdon County, New Jersey – they had several children.
2. Sarah Marie, born November 28, 1823, married a Mr. Cruser and lived near Princeton, New Jersey – had several children.
3. FRANCIS VAN DYKE, born February 23, 1826.
Eight Generation
FRANCIS VAN DYKE HAGAMAN, married Anna Rosena Cooke (Peebles)
Second marriage for both. Francis Van Dyke Hagaman graduated at Princeton, class of 1848. He was a cotton planter and teacher of mathematics at Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana, where he came to join his Uncle Abraham Hagaman after graduating from Princeton. Buried at Concord Church, West Feliciana Parish, La.
Issue:
1. William Frederick, born West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, November 10, 1860.
2. ROBERT LEE, born same place, April 12, 1866.
3. Isabella Fluker, died in infancy.
4. Irene Feliciana, died in infancy.
Isabella and Irene were twins.
Ninth Generation
ROBERT LEE HAGAMAN, married Kate Vernon Darden, October 16, 1895.
Robert Lee Hagaman graduated in medicine at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, practiced medicine in Centreville, (Wilkinson County) Mississippi and in Raymond, (Hinds County) Mississippi, for more than fifty years. He died October 15, 1947, at age 81 years.
Issue: (All born at Centreville, Mississippi)
1. Francis Henry, born August 19, 1896, married Edwina Short, October 31, 1920, died August 19, 1939.
Also graduated in medicine at Tulane University in 1918. Practiced medicine in Sardis and Jackson, Mississippi.
Issue:
Frank Henry, born May 31, 1922
2. Robert Lee, Jr., born August 30, 1899, unmarried, died December 1993. (Compiler of most of this record.)
3. ADRIAN VAN DYKE, born January 10, 1905, died August 6, 1981.
4. Anna Rosena, born June 24, 1906, married Marvin Brister Ware, December 11, 1932. Dr. Ware graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and practiced medicine in Jackson, Ms. Until his death, February 24, 1952.
Issue:
Mary Vernon, born May 13, 1934.
Brister Hagaman, born October 4, 1936.
Frances Lee, born November 5, 1939.
Anna Clifford, born November 28, 1943.
Tenth Generation
ADRIAN VAN DYKE, married Susan Hart Griffith, February 21, 1934.
Graduated in medicine at Vanderbilt University, was an Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist in Jackson, Mississippi until his death August 6, 1981.
Issue:
1. FRANCIS VAN DYKE, born November 28, 1937.
Eleventh Generation
FRANCIS VAN DYKE HAGAMAN, married Frances Edna Nixon, September 7, 1964.
Graduated in medicine from University of Mississippi, practiced medicine in radiology in Texas and Louisiana. Retired in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Issue:
1. LEE NIXON, born September 9, 1966.
2. Frederick Trotter, born April 29, 1968.
3. Susan Love, born January 24, 1971, married Dan Irwin, June, 1996.
Twelfth Generation
LEE NIXON HAGAMAN, married Stacie Lynn Lippert, October 9, 1999.
Graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University BBA Finance 1989.
Issue:
1. Lauren Elizabeth Hagaman, born February 13, 2001.
2. Sydney Ashlynn Hagaman, born July 30, 2002
Note spelling of surname.
In all our records it is shown as HAGAMAN but there is a reference back a generation or two ago that the spelling was originally HEGEMAN in the old country. Why and when the spelling was changed is unclear.
The above data is compiled from available family records; it is incomplete, sketchy, and possible erroneous in the earlier generations because of the meager records. The least that can be said is that it furnishes a starting point to establishment of our line back to Adrian Hagaman (Hegeman).