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| Jan Wouters Van Der Bosch |
Immigrant Ancestor |
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| Born: Abt 1633 Ravensteyn, Holland |
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| Emigrated from Holland in 1659 |
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| Died: Aft. 1695 probably Flatbush, NY |
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FATHER
Jan Wouters (Jan son of Wouter)
WIFE
1st Arente Arents
2nd Weyntje Peters
CHILDREN with Arente Arents
1. Lambert Jansen Bap. 17/Nov/1660 NY
2. Hendrick Jansen Bap. 30/Mar/1663 NY
3. Wouter Jansen b. Abt. 1666 Flatbush, NY
CHILDREN with Weyntje Peters Meet
1. Rutgert Jansen Bap. 16/Nov/1669 NY
2. Benjamin Jansen Bap. 09/Apr/1671 NY
3. Jacob Jansen b.
31/Dec/1672 Branford, CT
4. Judith Jansen b. Abt Dec/1675
5. Jan Jansen b. Abt Feb/1676
6. Sarah Jansen Bap. 05/Dec/1680 Flatbush, NY
7. Cornelius Jansen Bap. 21/Sep/1684 Flatbush, NY
8. Antje Jansen b. Abt. 1688
Below from Wilene Smith SHAFER / HITCHINGS Family File
The Dutch rarely bore a permanent surname, but went by a patronymic derived from
the father's Christian name. Thus, Lambert Johnson and JACOB JOHNSON were simply
Lambert and JACOB, sons of JOHN or JAN; but before 1700 the Dutch in America had
begun to retain the father's patronymic after the English fashion, so it need
not surprise us to find in the Staten Island records that Lambert and JACOB
JOHNSON were sometimes known as Lambert and JACOB WOUTERS. This implies that
they were sons of a certain JAN WOUTERS (JOHN son of WALTER), and that they
sometimes retained the WOUTERS and sometimes called themselves JANSEN after
their father's Christian name. This makes it all the more likely that Walter
Johnson was their brother, for, as the son of JAN WOUTERS, he would be named
after his grandfather WALTER or WOUTER.
Consequently, it is necessary to locate a JAN WOUTERS who could have been father
of Walter, Lambert, and JACOB. And what is our amazement to learn that JACOB
JOHNSON, son of JOHN WOUTERS, was born in Branford, Conn., December 31, 1672
(Branford Records, Vol. 1, p.174). Here is a Dutch JACOB JOHNSON who, learning
the English tongue in his infancy, would be most eligible to marry an English
girl. That he is identical with the JACOB of Staten Island is proved by the
father's name; and his wife, SARAH BENHAM, was born four years later, September
6, 1676. According to Savage, JAN WOUTERS lived at Branford from 1667 to 1673;
and, when we come to search for his antecedents we find that in 1667 he owned
salt meadows in Flatbush, L. I., the very place where Walter Johnson,
undoubtedly his son, married his second wife. From Branford he returned to
Flatbush, where in 1678 he hired out his son Ruth (Rutgert) to his
brother-in-law Laurens Jurianse. He was living in 1695, when he calls himself of
New York.
JAN WOUTERS is by no means an uncommon name, and it will therefore require some
evidence to prove that our man of that name, who was a master-shoemaker by
trade, was identical with JAN WOOUTERS Van der BOSCH, whose name appears in the
Flatbush Church Records of this period. On May 12, 1678, were baptized JACOBUS,
aged 5 1-2, Judith, aged 2 5-6, and Jan, aged 1 1-4, children of JAN WOUTERS Van
der BOSCH and WEINTIE PETERS, who came from Stanford, New England. It is
probable that the original record reads "Branford," and that "Stanford" is an
error of the copyist who prepared these records for the press; for a limited
search in Stanford, Conn., has failed to reveal the presence there of any Jan
Wouters or Van der Bosches. Moreover, the age of JACOBUS (the Latinized form of
JACOB or James) exactly corresponds with the age of JACOB JOHNSON, son of JAN
WOUTERS, who was born at Branford in December, 1672. On the whole, it is
extremely improbable that two Jan Wouters, one at Branford and the other at
Stanford, each had a son Jacob born in the same month of the same year. Another
proof of identity is the fact that JAN WOUTER[S] Van der BOSCH married WEINTIE
PETERS, while Laurens Jurianse Haf married Kenira Peters; and we have already
mentioned that Laurens Jurianse was brother-in-law of our JAN WOUTERS. --Donald
Lines Jacobus, in Caroline Erickson Perkins, The Descendants of Edward Perkins
of New Haven, Conn. (Rochester, NY: 1914), 75-76.
4 JACOB2 JANSEN or WOUTERS (1) Jan1, born at Branford December 31, 1672, married
SARAH BENHAM of Wallingford, who was born September 6, 1676, and settled on
Staten Island. Children:
JACOB3, baptized March 25, 1701. The witnesses were Lambert and Reyne Jansen.
CORNELIS3, son of Jacob "WOUTERS," baptized April 20, 1703. The witnesses were
Thomas Sutton and Susanna Du Secoy.
WYNTIE3, baptized July 3, 170[_]. The witnesses were Lambert Jansen and his
wife.
JOHANNA3, baptized April 22, 1707.
BENJAMIN3, son of Jacob "WOUTERS," baptized Oct. 23, 1711. The witnesses were
Hendrick Maarlin and Antie Wouters. --Caroline Erickson Perkins, The Descendants
of Edward Perkins of New Haven, Conn. (Rochester, NY: 1914), 78.
WOUTERS, JAN, of Flatbush, a master-shoemaker, b. 1638. Owned salt-meadows in
Flatbush in 1667. July 2, 1678, he hired out his son Ruth (Rutgert) Janse, aged
8 years, to his brother-in-law Lourens Jurianse for 8 years to do all kinds of
service proper for a lad; Jurianse to board, clothe, and send to evening school
said lad, and at the end of the term to furnish him with a good Sunday and
every-day suit of garments of linen and woollen and also a milch-cow, as per
p.30 of Lib. AA of Flatbush recorded Aug. 16, 1680, he sold to Anthony Wansair a
lot and orchard in Flatbush, as per p.131 of Lib. AA of Flatbush recorded Mar.
1, 1694-5, Jan Wouters of N. Y., shoemaker, to which place he appears to have
removed, sold to Lammert Zichels, smith, a house and lot in Flatbush on the east
side of the highway, as per p.204 of Lib. A of Flatbush records. Signed his name
"Jan Wouters." --Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings
County, Long Island, N. Y., From Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700 (New
York: S.W. Green's son, 1881),
393-94.
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