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Hans Hansen Bergen (circa 1610 – 1654) was one of the earliest settlers of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and one of the few from Scandinavia. He was a native of Bergen, Norway. Hans Hansen Bergen was a shipwright who served as overseer of an early tobacco plantation on Manhattan Island,〔Evjen, John O. (1916). ''Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674''. K. C. Holter Publishing Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1916.〕 before eventually removing to Brooklyn's Wallabout Bay, where he was one of the earliest settlers and founded a prominent Brooklyn clan. __notoc__ ==Biography== Hans Hansen Bergen emigrated to New Netherland in 1633 in a company with the Director-General of New Netherland, Wouter Van Twiller, and Bergen was initially known in early New Amsterdam records by various names, but chiefly Hans Hansen Noorman and Hans Hansen Boer. (The word ''Boer'' is Dutch for 'farmer.')〔Evjen, John O. (1916). ''Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674''. K. C. Holter Publishing Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1916.〕〔Bergen was also sometimes referred to in early records as Hans Noorman, Hans Hanszen, Hans Hanszen Noorman, Hans Hanszen de Noorman, Hans Hanszen Van Bergen in Norweegan or simply Hans Hansen.()〕 Bergen was married to Sarah Rapelje, the first female child of European parentage born in the colony of New Netherland〔(14 Generations: New Yorkers Since 1624, the Rapaljes Are On a Mission to Keep Their History Alive, Steve Wick, Newsday, March 28, 2009 )〕 and whose chair is preserved in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.〔(Joseph Hoagland: Dutch Pioneer in Sullivan County, ancestry.com )〕 Following Bergen's death in 1654, his widow remarried Teunis Gysbert Bogart.〔Evjen, John O. (1916). ''Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674''. K. C. Holter Publishing Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1916.〕〔Bergen, Teunis G. (1876). ''The Bergen Family - or the descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen''. J. Munsell, Albany, New York.〕〔Shorto, Russell (2004). ''The Island at the Center of the World, The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America'' Doubleday. New York〕〔Sarah Rapelje, Hans Hansen Bergen's wife, became the ancestor with her second husband Teunis Gysbert Bogart of the actor Humphrey Bogart, who also descended from Hans Hansen Bergen as well. ()〕 Along with his father-in-law, Joris Jansen Rapelje, Bergen acquired and managed several pieces of property. In 1647, Bergen received a patent for in the Wallabout Bay area of present-day Brooklyn.〔( ''Notable Anniversaries In Brooklyn History'' (New York Daily News. June 4th 1997) )〕(Rapelje was a substantial property owner, as well as one of the Council of Twelve Men.) Following his land grant, Hans Hansen Bergen moved to the area on western Long Island now located within the borough of Brooklyn, where he made his living as a farmer. Apparently illiterate, Bergen signed his name to official documents with a simple 'H'.〔(Register in Alphabetical Order, of The Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y., Teunis Garret Bergen, S. W. Green's Sons, New York, 1881 )〕 Following Bergen's death, in 1662 two of his sons settled at what is today's Bedford, Brooklyn, near their Rapelje grandfather.〔(A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Stephen M. Ostrander, Alexander Black, The Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, 1894 )〕 Bergen is a place name which today appears frequently in Brooklyn, including in the neighborhood of Bergen Beach〔(History of Bergen Beach, bergenbeachcommunity.com ) Welcome to Bergen Beach Community,〕 and two New York City Subway stations named Bergen Street, both named for the family. Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen owned the land that became Bergen Beach, which they subsequently sold to entrepreneur Percy Williams, who developed it into a summer resort.〔(Bergen Beach, District History and Addresses, Congressman Anthony Weiner, weiner.house.gov )〕 Some also believe that Bergen County, New Jersey as well as Bergen Township take their names from this early Norwegian settler,〔(Princeton, Sixty Three, Princeton University Class of 1863, Published for the Class, 1904 )〕 although the evidence is inconclusive.〔Stiles, Henry Reed (1869). ''A History of the City of Brooklyn'' . Reprinted by Heritage Books.〕〔Westervelt, Frances A. (1923). ''History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1630-1923''. Lewis Historical Pub. Co. New York.〕〔In his 1916 book ''Scandinavian Immigrants in New York'', author John Oluf Evjen rejected the idea that Bergen County, New Jersey, had been named for Hans Hansen Bergen. "Hans Hansen had no property on the west of the Hudson where Bergen lay. Bergen in New Jersey was founded after his death."() But the records of Princeton University, formerly the College of New Jersey, mention the Bergen family "after whom Bergen County in New Jersey is named."()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Hansen Bergen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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