Helena Schermerhorn Vandenbogert

Helena Schermerhorn was born with a few years of 1660. She was the daughter of New Netherland pioneers Jacob Janse and Jannetje Segers Van Voorhout Schermerhorn. She grew up in a large family in Beverwyck/Albany, Schenectady, and in other parts of her father's holdings in what would become Albany County in 1683.

By the mid-1680s, she had married Myndert Harmense Vandenbogert. Beginning in 1685, their children were christened at the Albany Dutch church where both partners were members and baptism sponsors.

She was among the children noted as the wife of "Myndt. harmense" in the will filed by her father in May 1688.

These Vandenbogerts were Albany mainstays for a number of years. However, by the end of the century, Myndert Harmense probably had relocated to his recently acquired land in Dutchess County. Still in her thirties, Helena Schermerhorn Vandenbogert probably brought her family there as well. We seek defining information on her later life and passing.

Sources: The life of Helena Schermerhorn Vandenbogert has no CAP biography number. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.