John Winans was born about 1640 and died December of 1694 at
Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He was a Dutchman and a prominent man among
the 80 Associates who founded and settled Elizabethtown, New Jersey,
around 1664 or 1665. John married Susannah Melyn on August 8, 1664.
Susannah was the daughter of Cornelis Melyn, patron of Staten Island,
New York, from 1639-1659.
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ABSTRACTS OF WILLS -- Liber 9., pages 285 and 286
Page 446.--In the name of God, Amen. This 22 of February 1723. i,
Isaac Denham, of the town of Rye, in the county of Westchester, being
sick and weak, I leave to my dear and loving wife, Hannah Denham, for
life, or so long as she shall remain my widow, all that my dwelling house
and lotment of land, houses and orchards where I now live, also $100; I
also leave to her all she can make appear she brought with her when she
became my wife. I leave to my brother, Nataniel Denham, L90 in money of
Connecticutt. I leave to my eldest sister, Rebecca, if living, L100, and
to the children of my sister Sarah, L100, and the same to the children of
my sister Hannah. I leave to my cousin (niece) Sarah, wife of Conreat
Winans, of Rahway, the daughter of my sister Sarah, L10, in addition to
her share of the L100 left to my sister's children. My executors have
power to sell all lands except dwelling house and lot. I leave to John
Carhart, of Rye, schoolmaster, 50 shillings. I make Samuel Purdy, Esq.,
and John Hortson, both of ye, executors.Witnesses, Thomas Daniels, Joseph Robinson, Thomas Robinson.
Proved, March 5, 1723.DENHAM.
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Taken from the World Family Tree, Volume I, Pedigree # 5512Information from Harry Ulrich, received 19 March 1994.
Corenlius lived in New Amsterdam and Staten Island and had
presumably came from the Netherlands. He was captured by a French
Privateer, shipwrecked, captured and held by Indians, sentenced to be
hanged by Peter Stuyvesand, had one of his ten children killed by
Indians. Because of an ongoing fued with Peter Stuyvesand, he fled to
New Haven in the late 1650's and there took allegiance to the British
Sovereign, thence disappearing from New Amsterdam records. The only
records he found in Conneticut, were of Jacob Melyn, a son of Cornelius.CMELYN.