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Adriaen Jansen Koning       Immigrant Ancestor  see FAMILY TREE
Born: Abt. 1625 Well, Gelderland, Netherlands

   
Married: 15 Mar 1650 Well, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Died: Abt. 1691 New York
   

FATHER

Jan Gijsbertsen Konick

MOTHER

Mareke Adriaens

WIFE

Lyske (Elizabeth) Damen

CHILDREN

1. Adam Koning
    b. Abt. 1655
    d. Aft 1696
witness to baptism of son of Heyman Koning in 1696

2. Jan Koning
    bap 14 Jun 1657

3. Hayman Adriansen Koning
    bap 17 Apr 1659
    m. 31 Oct 1683 Marritie Andries
    d. Abt. 1705

4. Gysbert Koning
    bap. 15 Jun 1662

5. Gysbert Koning
    bap. 20 Sep 1665

6. Lijsbeth Koning
    bap. 20 Sep 1665
    m. 14 Dec 1688 Alexander Lamb
    d. 4 Dec 1734

7. Maritje Koning
    bap. 31 Oct 1668
    m. 27 Dec 1698 John Layton

8. Jacob Koning
    b. Abt. 1670
    m. 8 Dec 1695 Margaritie Pieters
    m. 25 Aug 1711 Claesie Jacobs Stille
    m. 22 Jul 1754 Geertruijd Roosen
    d. 28 May 1755

9. Jan Koning
    bap. 18 Jun 1671

10. Johannes Koning
    bap. 5 Dec 1674

Adriaen Jansen Koning
by Susan Brooke
Feb 2021

Ariaen Koning (Connick) was born about 1625, one of three children born to Jan Gijsberts Koninck and Mareke Adraensdr.  His mother died when he was a young child and his father remarried and had another three children. In 1636, when Adriaen was probably about 10 years old, his father "as husband of Mareke Jansen (his second wife) and as father and guardian of his children by Mereke Adriaensen" agreed that the children of both marriages would equally share their parent's inheritance. (1)  When the 2nd wife died, his father remarried again and had two more children.  We know this from the estate settlements of his father who died in 1646. (1)   Adriaen Koning was probably about 21 when his father died. The record states, "Adriaen Jansen, Gijsbert Jansen and Mareke Jansen receive for their maternal heritage the house where Jan Gijsbertsen used to live."  This record clearly puts Adriaen Koning as a child of the first marriage.  The house of Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck, his father, was next to the home of his father's brother, Adriaen Gijsbertsen Coninck. (1)
Three years later on 15 Mar 1650, Adriaen Jansen Koning of Wel married Lyske Damen. (2) He is reported to have been an innkeeper in Wel. (3) And in a couple of the baptismal records from that time he is referred to as "Capper"  or  vulgo "de kapper" which may translate to barber. (4)  Together they had at least 4 children by 1663 when they decided to sail on the Bonte Koe for America. The ship's record reads "Adriaen Jansen Konink from Wel, and Wife and four children 8, 6, 4 yrs & 6 mos." (5)
The 6 months old infant on this ship was named Gijsbert and he must have died shortly after their arrival, because in 1665 Adriaen and his wife Lyske had twins baptized and one of them was also named Gijsbert. (4) They had at least 4 more children in New York after that with the last being baptized in 1674.  Also in 1674 Adriaen purchased a house with a yard. It was on "Heerestraet with house number 3." (6)
Adriaen died sometime around 1691 as his widow remarried on 11 Aug 1691.  He was probably in his mid 60's. 

Sourcs

(1) Geneanet - Jan Gijsbertsen de Koninck tree owner Peter Joost van GEFFEN

Individual Note

He is on record at Ammerzoden from 1635 to 1646 as shown in the following abstracts found at the Streekarchief Bommelerwaard:

15 Mar. 1635 Corsten Claessen, neighbor in Nederhemert, for himself and also as guardian of the late Jan Claessen�s children and as a
proxy for Adriaen Aertsen Tepper and for Bartholomeus Jansen, gun-master in Heusden, husband of Catharina Claessen;
Tuenis Guertsen, neighbor in Nederhemert; and Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck, neighbor in Well; transfer to Jan Aertsen van
Helmont, neighbor in Nederhemert, 7 hont of land in Ammerzoden, in the Welsbroek, being meadow-land, partly planted
with alders and willows. [16a]
28 Mar. 1636 Nicolaes Willemsen Rosmalen promises to Griet Woutersen an annual interest of 6 guilders. Security: a house and yard,
inhabited by him, adjacent to the north of Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck. [16b]
24 Apr. 1636 Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck, as husband of Mareke Jansen and as father and guardian of his children by Mareke Adriaensen
and by aforesaid Mareke Jans; and Thomas Guertsen and Adriaen Aertsen Tepper, as guardians of the children of the
aforesaid Mareken Adriaensen, make an agreement that the children of both marriages will equally share their parents�
inheritance. [16c]
02. July 1637 Claes Willemsen Rosmalen promises to Peter Jansen Loenen an annual interest of 6 guilders and 5 stuivers. Security: a
House and yard in Slijkwell, adjacent to the north of Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck and his heirs. [16d]
26. Nov. 1646 Abraham Hendricksen, lately widow of Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck, assisted by bailiff Peter Jans Loenen and Dirck Wouters
de Gier, on the one side, and Adriaen Gijsbertsen Coninck, as uncle of his brother�s children, on the other side make the
following division:
1st: The joint children of Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck receive: half of 10 hont of land in the Exse Werden, adjacent Frederick
Janssen; and half of 7 parts of hopland adjacent Adriaen Adriaensen.
2st: Abraham Hendricksen widow of Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck, receives a parcel of hopland in the front of Jacob Loenen�s
yard and another parcel of hopland in Ariën Aertsen Tepper�s yard, adjacent to Claes Rosmalen.
3st: Adriaen Jansen, Gijsbert Jansen and Mareke Jansen receive for their maternal heritage the house where Jan Gijsbertsen
used to live, with a small adjacent parcel of hop-land in Gerit Jansen van Herpt�s yard adjacent Adriaen Gijsbertsen
Coninck.
4st: Jan Jansen Koning and Abraham Hendriksen receive: the front part of Jacob van Loenen�s yard, adjacent Claes
Rosmalen and half of 10 hont of land in the Exse Weerden, adjacent Frederick Janssen and half of 7 parts of hop-land
in Gerit van Herpt�s yard, adjacent Ariën Aertsen.
5st: Peter Jansen Koning, Gerrit Jansen Koning and Merke Jansen Koning, the children of Jan Gijsbertsen Coninck and
Maejke Geerlinckx, receive a parcel of hop-land in Jacob van Loenen�s yard, adjacent the Slijkwellse straat and half of
10 hont of hop-land in the Exse Werden, adjacent Jenneken Rinck and half of 7 parts of hop-land in Gerit van Herpt�s
yard, adjacent Maej Loen�s land. [16e]<

(2) Marriage

Marriage of Adriaen Koning
16 Feb - 15 Mar 1750
Arian Jansen Konink of Wel
Lyske Damen
J. D. Van Herpt

(3) Koning Biography, by George King Nichols, Ann Ward Freehafer Andersen, and Marcia War Richie
     New York Genealogical & Biographical Register, Vol 136, 2005

"Before coming to America, Adriaen Jansen Koning was an innkeeper at Well, Gelderland, the Netherlands. A settlement had been in existence at Well since about 1000 A.D., a church and a brewery and a few homes clinging to the dike by the Maas River. Well, Nederhemert, Ammerzoden, Slijkwell, Wellseind and Delwijnen are all small villages in the southern part of the Bommelerwaard in Gelderland. Ammerzoden lies just to the east of Well and Slijkwell and Wllseind lie along the dike to the northwest, following the bend in the Maas. Adriaen's ancestors lived in the area before 1516. His great-great-grandfather, Jan Gijsbertsen de Conick (as his surname was usually written), first appears in the records in that year.
Adriaen's father, Jan Gijsbertsen Koning, was dead by 26 November 1646 when his estate was settled, with Adriaen named as one of the heirs. Three years later, on 15 March 1650, Adriaen married Elisabeth Damen at the Dutch reformed Church in Well. Elisabeth was from Herpt, across the Maas River southwest of Well. Their first four children, Adam, Jan, Heyman, and Gijsbert, were baptized at the same church in Well.
In 1663, this family emigrated from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam, departing Amsterdam 16 April on de bonte Koe (the Spotted Cow)."

On June 28 1674 during the brief return to Dutch rule, Pieter Schaefbanck, Court-messenger of the renamed City of New Orange, conveyed to Ariaen Jansz Coonick, by deed, a house and lot located on the east side of the High or Broad Way, having to the north the house and lot of Harmen Smeman and to the south the lot of the grantor, butting with the eastern extremity against the garden of Domine Samuel Drisius, deceased. 

Adriaen died, probably in New York City, before 11 August 1691 when Elizabeth Konning, widow, and Huybert Atents of New York City, clerk, obtained a marriage license.  Elizabeth was living on 23 July 1699 when she was a witness at the baptism of her son Heyman Koning's son Adam. (witnesses; Jan Layton, Elizabeth Damme, wife of Hybert Arentse.)  She was probably deceased by 24 January 1709/10 when letters of administration on the estate of Hubert Artentsen of New York City, lately deceased intestate, were issued to his daughter Hellegonda Van Schlechtenhorst without any mention of his wife.

 

(4) Baptisms of children

Jan Koning
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Jan (14 Jun 1657)
Aerjan Jansz Coningh
alias Capper
Lijske Damen
Witness: Abram Hendrick
Birth of Harmon Koning
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Heyman (17 Apr 1659)
Aerjan Janse Coninck

Lijske Damen
Gysbert Koning
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Gysbert (15 Jun 1662)
Aerjan Janse Coninck
alias vulgo "den kapper"
Lijske Damen
Wikitree
Lysbeth and Gysbert (twins)
20 Sep 1665
Adriaen Janszen Koninck
Lysbeth Damen
Witnesses: Claertje Evels, Geertruyd Jans
Wikitree
Maria
31 Oct 1668
Adriaen Janszen
Lysbeth Adams
Witnesses: Aechtie Jans, tryn Jans
Wikitree
Jan
18 Jun 1671
Adriaen Janszen
Lysbeth Adams
Witnesses: Jan; Tryn Jans
Wikitree
Johannes
5 Dec 1674
Adriaen Janszen,
Lysbeth Ariaens
Witneses: Carsten Luurzen, Sytie Ariaens
 

(5) Passenger List Bonte Koe
Sailed from Amsterdam 16 April 1663, arrived in New Amsterdam between 11 May 1663 and 17 August 1663

Adriaen Jansen Konink from Wel, and Wife and four children 8, 6, 4 yrs. & 6 mos.

(6) Wikitree

On July 28, 1674, during a short-term restoration of Dutch authority, Pieter Schaefbanck, a court messenger of the renamed city of New Orange, sold to Adriaen Jansen Koninck van Well; a house with a yard on the east side of the High of Broadway. The building and plot bordered on the north side with the possession of Harmen Smeman and in the south to that of the salesman Pieter Schaefbank and in the far east, it hit the garden of Reverend Samuel Drisius, who had already died. On the basis of the city's Castello Map in 1660, we can now determine exactly where the family lived. The fence on the north side of Adriaen Koninck's plot was between the current Manhattan Insurance Builiding and Broadway nr 74 and straight through his backyard later New Street where the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) now stands. Adriaen lived with his family in Heerestraet with house number 3. 

 

 

 

An interesting aside

 

Daniel Brouwer, the great grandson of David Demarest, the immigrant, married Maria Koning, the great granddaughter of Adriane Koning, another immigrant, on 10 Oct 1743 in Hackensack, New Jersey.  David Demarest and Adriane Koning came to New York from Amsterdam on the same ship.  The Spotted Cow left Amsterdam on April 16, 1663.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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