liam the Silent, by his secret marriage it is said, was born in 1580, and she married a man named Sybrant, and their granddaughter Wyntie, was the first wife of William Bogardus, and the said William was the first son born of Anneke Webber Jansen Bogardus, by her second husband, the dominie, Everardus Bogardus, and who was the first minister to the new world colony of the Dutch at New Amsterdam.

Wolfert Webber, a brother of Sarah, and the other child of William the Silent, was born in 1582, and married in 1600, and as previously stated to Catherine Jonas, and the names of their children will be repeated here in order that the reader will become more familiar with their generation.

Wolfert Webber, born 1602, married Arrentze Arrens in 1622, and their daughter Rachel, born in 1623, was married February 9th, 1646, to John Van Horn, and which Van Horn is the ancestor of some of the present day family of this name.

Marytje Webber, born in 1603, married Tyman Jansen.

Anneke Webber, born 1605, married first Jan Roeloff Roeloffson. Anneke Webber, born 1605, married second to Dominie Everardus Bogardus. The writer has not been able to distinguish between Wolfert Webber, and Wolfert Arnot Webber, as to their relationship, nor has he been able to ascertain the parentage of the latter.

A record has been found of a Wolfert Webber, and also an Arnot Webber, in connection with the tax lists of New York City in 1695 to 1699, and which tax lists are the earliest on record, and no authentic record having been found of any previous Webber, or their estate, on Manhattan Island these individuals were evidently descended from Wolfert Webber, born in 1602, and who was a brother to Anneke Jans Bogardus.

The following tax list transcriptions will be of interest to the present day Webber family descendants, as regards their family tradition concerning an unsettled Webber estate in New York City.

Many of the present day Webber family descendants are of the opinion that they were connected with the old Jans Bogardus family and the colonial estate of that family, but the writer has found no genealogical justification for this belief or tradition, except through later intermarriages, and not as an original, or a general proposition.

TAX LIST-December, 1695.

KEEPING OF THE POOR FOR SIX MONTHS

BOWERY WARD

Running north as far as the present Gramercy Park including the Bowery.

Wolfert Webber. 45 farthing. II pence. I qr. Wolfert Webber, Assessor.

TAX LIST-1698.

For raising 994 pounds and three shillings for the purpose of maintaining soldiers at Albany, N. Y.

NORTH WARD

Located between Beaver, New, Prince, William and Wall streets.

Wolfert Webber. House. 25 farthing. 9 shilling 7 pence.

BOWERY WARD

For the same purpose as in the North Ward.

Wolfert Webber.

pence.

Arnot Webber. pence.

30 farthing. II shilling. 6

45 farthing. 17 shilling. 4

It can be noted from the above enumerations, that there was a Wolfert Webber, and an Arnot Webber, and both living in New York City at that tax listing time, and that both of their estates were located in the Bowery Ward, and it can also be noted that the taxes of Arnot Webber, in the Bowery Ward, were greater than those of Wolfert Webber, thus indicating that his holdings were the larger.

In 1696, Wolfert Webber was assessed in the North Ward, and also in the Bowery Ward, while Arnot Webber was assessed in the Bowery Ward only. The house of Wolfert Webber was in the North Ward, it can be noted, while his estate, and also the estate of Arnot Webber, were located in the Bowery Ward, and the house of Arnot Webber was therefore located upon the land of his estate, according to the above quoted tax list, while the house of Wolfert Webber was located adjacent to his estate in the Bowery Ward. Wolfert Webber is shown as the Assessor in 1695, 1696, and 1698. He was evidently a nephew twice removed from Anneke Jans Bogardus.

No record has been found by the writer of any will of Arnot Webber, and no knowledge has been available to the writer as to where his estate was located, other than that it was somewhere in the Bowery precinct as above bounded.

No record has been found by the writer of ANY