Who was father of Adam Brouwer Berkhoven a Dutch West Indies soldier who settled in New Amsterdam in 1642?

The identity of the parents of Adam Brouwer is not known. He was born in Cologne in about 1620, was employed as a soldier by the Dutch West India Company in Brazil before coming to New Amsterdam about 1642. For a discussion of the origins of Adam Brouwer see "New Insight into the Origins of Adam Brouwer New Netherland Connections Vol.13, no.4 (2008) and available as a PDF download at Brouwer Genealogy.

On Thu Jun 11 06:10:16 19983, Adam again tries to get wages due to him by the West India Company. He gives his power of attorney to Govert Loockermans, a wealthy merchant who often traveled to Holland and was the local agent for the powerful Verbrugge family. 149j Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Adam Brouwer, from Cologne, a soldier who sailed for the Chamber of Amsterdam to Brazil in the year Thu Jun 11 06:10:16 199886, in the ship Swol, of which ship Willem de Haes was merchant, and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and empowers, as he does hereby, Mr. Govert Loockermans, merchant on the ship De Jager, to demand and collect and receive from the honorable directors of the General Chartered West India Company one hundred and eighty-nine guilders, earned by him, Adam Brouwer, of their honors at Fort St. Louis de Merinhan, as appears by the account annexed; on payment of which sum by the honorable directors to the above mentioned Loockmans, he is empowered to give a receipt therefore which shall avail.

He, the principal, promises to hold and cause to be held valid whatever shall be done in the matter by his attorney. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 21st of September 4, 16444. The original record hereof was signed by Adam Brouwer and by Adriaen van Tienhoven and Gysbert Opdyc as witnesses.

Two days later, Adam’s first child Pieter was baptized. Pieter’s sponsors were the husband of his grandmother, his great grandmother and her husband and Mary du Trieux who was the daughter of Philipe du Trieux and Jacquemine Noiret. At this time, Maria (Mary) du Trieux was the wife of Cornelis Volkertsen Viele.

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