Broer Sinex was one of three sons of Sinnick Broer, the progenitor of
the Sinex and Sinnickson family lines.  The other two sons being Anders
and Jan, whose names when anglicized to the English version became
Andrew and John, respectively.

We first read of Broer Sinnick and/or Broer Sinexe in various and sundry
court records of New Castle County, Delaware, in the mid to late 1600s.
According to a record found indicating that Hendrick Jacobsson
Falkenberg along with Broer & Anders Seneke sold Broer Sinnex'
plantation on Appoquinimick Creek to Justa Anderson on 12 October 1672
for 930 gilders, describing themselves as the "heirs of Seneca Brewer".
This is an indication that there was also a daughter who evidently was
married to this Falkenberg.  To date there is nothing known of her
except that they had a son named Henry.

Anders  & Jan left Delaware and "crossed over the River" into New
Jersey.   Anders married (1) Margriet Poulson with whom he had 2
children; (2)  Sarah Gilljohnson with whom he had 5 children.  Anders
will was dated 17 June 1696 and proved 4 April 1700.

Jan married once, to Gertrude (aka Hiertrud and/or Greta) Savoy and they
had eight children.  Only one son had male offspring and then one
generation only.  To the best of our knowledge, all Sinnickson named
descendants are through Anders.

Broer, being our direct ancestor, married Sophia Jurianson, the widow of
his late business partner Anders Jurianson.  Sophia had 5 sons of this
first marriage and whom Broer agreed to raise and to divide the
inheritance from their father as they each came to the age of 21.
Sophia & Broer had one son only, named James.  Sophia's sons were
Christiern Joransson aka Christiern Andersson; Joran Andersson; Erick
Joransson aka Eric Andersson; Jons Joransson aka Jons/James Andersson;
and Peter Andersson.

There has been much controversy or speculation as to the age of the sons
of  our progenitor, Sinnick Broer.  According to the ages of  the five
sons of Sophia's first marriage, the eldest became of age in 1685 so was
born about 1664.  If we take 20 years off that bringing us to a possible
birth year of 1644 for Sophia and possibly 1640 - 1644 for Broer.
Although there remains the possibility that Broer was a much younger man
than his wife Sophia, especially she being a widow with five children.
But we can't age them too much as their son James, our next direct
descendant,  was born about 1678 and this would put Sophia about 38
years of age.

Broer & Sophia's son James married Darcus Harmonsen, and evidently there
was some conflict between her & her father-in-law since according to the
Will of Bruer Sinexen (Broer Sinex) she was not to have or receive
anything of his Estate, it was to go to James and then to James & Darcus
eldest son Bruer.  James & Darcus also had sons James Jr & John.  There
was a first born son also named Bruer who died prior to the birth of the
second son so named Bruer.

Bruer who has also been shown as Brewer, being the eldest son of James &
Darcus married Brita Hendricksson and they were the parents of  five
children, the youngest born November 26, 1735.  We find that on 29
August 1744 Breur Sinnex purchased a lot in Newport from John and Mary
Chappel of Philadelphia.  (Recital, New Castle County deeds, Q:338-339)
On 28 Sept. 1744, Brewer Seneke, "intending to move to another country",
sold his and his wife's pews to his brother John Seneke and his wife.
(Burr, 390)  He had been sued, we discover, by his brother James.  On 16
Sept. 1745 the sheriff sold Breur Sinnex's home plantation, on a court
judgment by James Sinnexon, to John Chapell, who sold the same to Joshua
and Ebenezer Woolaston.  (New Castle County deeds, P:383, as recited in
B2:481-484).  On 20 August 1746, on the basis of the same judment by
James Sinnex vs. Breur Sinnex for L 105.10, plus 37 shillings 6 pence
interest, the sheriff also sold Broer's Newport lot to Thomas Reece.
(New Castle County deeds, Q:338-339)  Bruer/Brewer, true to his word did
"go out of the country", but evidently alone, as we next find him in the
Pee Dee River area of Anson County and on February 27, 1748 according to
the Register Book, Parish of Prince Frederick, Winyaw, South Carolina,
he married the widow, Anne DeWitt.  There are no known children of this
union at this time, however.  The wife that Brewer left behind was very
much alive during this time and did not die until  March 27, 1755 and is
buried at Old Swedes Cemetery.  Thus, with this in mind,  Breur or
Brewer, this eldest son of James & Darcus,  was indeed very much a
bigamist.

James Jr married Margaret Werdman (or Werdeman) and they had 10
children.  For the many years that I had researched this line we
believed James & Margaret to be our next direct line ancestor and
through their son Henry and his wife Anne Stalcup.  It was not known by
other researchers even, that Anne was the young widow of Israel Stalcup,
being borne Sinex herself, a daughter of  John Sinex (a brother to James
Jr and Brewer [the bigamist]) and his wife Ingeborg nee Tossawa/Tussey
.   So here we have a double line, with James & Margaret's son Henry
marrying John & Ingeborg's daughter Anne.

Henry & Anne had, amongst their other children, a son Henry who
continued our line of descendancy.  This was all taking place in
Delaware.

In the early 1800s three sons of Henry Jr & his wife Rachel migrated to
New Albany, Indiana.  These sons were John, Thomas aka Thomas William &
Brewer.  John Sinex married Mary Stetzer with whom he had 5 children.
He was also the Coroner of Floyd County, IN for either 18 or 20 years.
Brewer Sinex married twice - first to Mary Selvy with whom he had 7
children and 2nd to Rachel Thompson with whom he had 2 children.  Thomas
William Sinex was our next direct line ancestor.  Thomas married Flora
West and they had 7 children.  Thomas William & Flora's son Elisha West
Sinex married Caroline Kerns and continued our line through their son
Thomas Sinex.  Thomas Sinex married Lieuella Ozena Walker and they
became the parents of Beulah Chomial who died at age 10; Mabel Gertrude
(my grandmother); Reuben Thomas; Ella Ruth; Elisha Ford, Joyce Leola;
Lena Fern; Paul (stillborn) and Melvin Leroy, being their only child
born in the State of Washington who died at age 12 in 1920.

My grandmother Mabel Gertrude Sinex has 5 generations of descendants but
since the majority are still living, I cannot at this point continue to
list them.  In my immediate lineage there are 13 generations of this
family line in America.

Some information of these descendants of Sinnick Broer can be viewed in
my Wilcox/Sinex genealogy data base.  I do not claim in any way that it
is entirely accurate since it  has been accumulated through family
tradition, and the many, many SINNICKSON and SINEX researchers that I
have had the privilege of researching with and/or exchanging research
information with, over the years.  I have tried to obtain documents and
have been able to do so in many instances but with an open mind leave it
open for use as a guideline to your own research.

Broer Sinnick or Broer Sinex as he was also known, was buried on the 2nd
of December 1709 under his own pew at the south side of the Alter of
Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church.  This was an honor held for him as
being a very faithful vestryman of the Church.

From another researcher through the SINEX/NEBEKER line comes the
following and I quote --
"We had a chance to stop in Wilmington and visit the "Old Swedes
church".  It's a beautiful building, and we were able to go through it
and the surrounding area.  Our guide confirmed the story that I had
heard previously - perhaps from you - that Brewer Seneca was buried
beneath the floor of the church.  He said the exact location was
unknown, but he did show us the approximate area.  He said that this
"honor" was reserved for the clergy and their family, but that Brewer
was buried in the church since he was the first sexton there.  He is
apparently the only one buried under the church who was not clergy or
clergy family.  It was exciting to see the location where so much of our
family history had occurred." -- unquote

Among the original colony of Swedes who settled in Delaware and built
Fort Christina in 1638 was Rev. Reorus Torkillus, who established
religious worship in the fort, the first meeting-place for Christians on
the Delaware, and there it was continued until the church at Tinicum was
erected in 1646.  Crane Hook Church is said to have been built in 1667,
probably by the united efforts of the Dutch congregation and the
Swedes.  It was used for publich worship until the "Old Swedes' Church"
was built in 1698 on the present site.  Lutheran in denomination the
church was the religious center for not only the Swedes but English and
persons of various ethnicity and religious affiliation, as evidenced the
by the names of those who were baptized, married or buried.  Eventually
Swedish ministers were replaced by English ministers under cordial
circumstances.