The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-04
HIS MONEY IS SURE
MR.. BURT REOEIVES DIRECT IN
FORMATION OF HIS FORTUNE.

EUhM d llUd VI lao ! Oh OhId
Heirs Have a Meeting at Cleveland, Ohio,
and Make Arrangements for Receiving
the Dutch oflciaIs in May Who Will
Visit This Country and Turn Over the
Money-wichtta has Seven Heirs to the
Large Fortune-FuH History of the Case
and why 1t Was Held by the Dutch
Goyernment-What the Heirs Say.
Everybody in the city knows Mr.. Jes-
sic Burt, the genial weighmaster Of the
Fourth avenue scales, and were rejoiced
when they read in the Eagle that Mr..
Burt had fallen heir TO a large fortune.
1T was not like most fortunes which was
in doubt, but it was certainty and his
claim as one Of the heirs Of Anneke
Jams Bogardus was easily proven.
Since the publication in the Eagle
Mr. Burt has received hundreds Of let
tiers from every portion Of the union
congratulating him and also asking
him TO give a full history Of the estate.
He wrote to Mrs. E Kippler of Cleve-
land, Ohio, and in return received the
following history Of the estate:
''Annebe JAMS Bogardus, whose maid
enname was Anneke JAMS Weber, was
a granddaughter Of Prince William Of
Orange, who was afterwards King Of
Holland Her father who succeeded
King William to the throne Of Holland
In about the year 1900, was WolpeTt
Weber. Anneke Jams Weber married
John Roeloffson, and came to America
In about the year 1920, which marriage
Is on record in Won Masterland, Hol-
land. They emigrated to Albany, y. Y.
which at that time was known as Bea-
Eerwick.
I'm the year 1920. John RoeIofson re-
ceived from the Holland United West
indies company, citation for certain
lands on the Island Of Manhattan
John RoeOffson died in the year 1887
and in the year 1893 his widow was mar
ried to the Rev. Evorardus Bogardus,
which said Bogardus purchased the
property adjoining that now left by her
former husband, Roeloffson.
'Arnot Weber, the nephew of Mrs.
Bogardus, purchased the property adj
Joining those above named, and by lea
wing Will in which he devised same
no his aunt, Anneke Jams Bogardus,
which properties taken together, con-
stituted w'hat is now known as the Trim
ity church property, consisting of about
1872 acres. The title to these proper
ties were afterwards confirmed to An
neke Jams Bogardus by grants from
the Dutch governor, Stuyvesant in the
year 1854.
Mrs. Bogardus died in the year 1863
The following year. New Netherlands
as New York was then called, passed
into the hands of the English, and the
English governor Nichols, on the 9th
day of August, 1864, confirmed by grant
the title of these properties in the heirs
of Annke Jams Bogardus- which said
heirs held the property until on or
about the year 1870, as shown by some
leases on record in the city of New
York and elsewhere
'In the year 1705, the then English
church prepared a patent and sent the
same to England for the signature of
Queen Ann, but the queen refused to
sign the grant and forbid the governors
Of New York TO issue patents of this
property TO the church.
About the year 1770, agents of Trim
lily church with masked and blackened
faces and with many acts of barbarity
dispossessed the heirs by physical force
though never having any claim upon
Wn1CQ 10 D2S6 Thelr title.
AZ the close of the revolutionary
war, the property was leased to the
Trinity Church Corporation by Govern
DIT Fletcher, which leases were made
without authority on the part of the
governor and have since expired.
There Is IN addition to the above
property, about 100 Dutch acres known
ss Harlem Flats. or Dutch Farm, title
to which has by recent decision of the
supreme ooIrt OF che state OF New York
been decided 20 be IN the heirs of the
original p2fentees, among whom are
Bome Of the heirs OF Annlte Jane Ro-
gardzs. also Resolve Waldron, Jams
DE Lamented. Adolph Meyer, Lawrence
and Cornelius Jansen, jams De La Mon
tagnie, Abraham De Ia Montague, Is |
Rac De Lamater. Jams Magic, Barent
Weldron and others
The patents were issued in 1866 and
1857 by Governor Nichols, also confirm
ed by Governor Thomas Dougan in 1856 |
This property viii also be taken into
consideration by the company in their
efforts to enforce t{le rights of the heirs |
Of A1neke JAMS
Tn the latter part of the 18th century |
the king Of Holland left certain proper |
ties In that country in trust, for the heirs |
or the sixth and seventh generations
The income was to be collected and |
placed in the Orphans chamber and ac- |
cumulated at per oant interest, until |
the time for distribution should arrive. |
This money has been accommodating for |
more than <hree hundred years, and |
the funds now creared and held by the |
Bank of Holland, the successor to the |
Orphans Chamber, amount to more
than Eighty Million dollars.
The King of Holland had two chill |
dren; his son. Wolpert Weber. and |
his daughter, Sarah who afterwards /
man by the name of Brewer. |
'Wolpert Weber had two children. |
Anneke Jams and son, whose name !
al present is not 10 us known. but the
heirs of Annel0a Jams are now entitled /
to their share Of the vast fortune of gold |
now held BY the bank
Early in 1895. suit was commenced
by the governor of Holland 10 confs-
cate this money. claiming that the time
for distribution had so long since pass
ed that they were entitled to the prom
erty. The bank contested the case and /
won the suit, the courts holding that
the heirs still had the right to the
property. This decision was rendered
In July, 1895.
The work of the Incorporated com
pany will BE 10 trace the lineage of the