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Jan Pietersen Meet or Mead

Male 1659 - 1709  (49 years)


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  • Name Jan Pietersen Meet or Mead 
    Born 17 Feb 1659  Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1709  Mead's Basin, Wayne Township, Passaic, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5907  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Pieter Janszen Meet or Mead,   b. Bef 1620, of Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 24 Jul 1699  (Age < 79 years) 
    Mother Styntje Jacobs,   b. Bef 1620, of Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 22 Sep 1654  , Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2515  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Grietje Mandeville,   b. Bef 1668, of New York City, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 11 May 1687  Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2519  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Zabriskie, George Olin, "The Jan Cornelisen Van Hoorn/Van Horne Family," The American Genealogist, Vol. 46, No. 1 (January 1970), pp. 47, 54-55:
      Joris Jansen Van Hoorn, son of Jan Cornelisen Van Hoorn by his wife Hillegond Joris, was born about 1638 or 1639 in Hoorn, Noordt Holland. Marvin says he was born 4 Sept. 1645 but his source is not apparent and it cannot be traced to the baptismal register of the Dutch Reformed Church, as can his other birthdates. Williams does not place Joris Jansen Van Hoorn as a son of Jan Cornelisen, but even a cursory study of the baptismal entries concerning the children of Joris Jansen should have convinced that Joris was, indeed, son of Jan. Also, as a son of Hillegond Joris, he was obviously named for his grandfather.
      A Joris Jansen, a house carpenter from Hoorn, came to New Netherland on The Brownfish in 1658 and it is barely possible that he was the son of Jan Cornelisen who had remained in Holland until 1658, or who had returned to Holland and was coming back to New Netherland. More likely, however, the carpenter was an older man (note the journeyman level, a skilled occupation) whom we cannot now identify.
      Joris Jansen Van Hoorn lived in the City of New York but few authentic records can be identified as certainly relating to him. His name appears in the Dutch Church baptismal register nine times (all without "Van Hoorn"), seven times as a father and twice as a witness. His name cannot be identified among those who petitioned Pieter Stuyvesant to surrender New Amsterdam without a fight, or who shortly thereafter signed an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. His name is not among the list of property owners made about 1674. In 1686 he lived on the east side of present Broad Street (HSYB 1916:29).
      With marriage banns dated 11 March 1666 at the Dutch Reformed Church in New York, Joris Janszen, j. m. Van Hoorn, married Maria Rutgers, j.d. Van Amersfoort. Both were previously unmarried and he was born in Hoorn, Noordt Holland, and she in Amersfoort, Utrecht, daughter of Rutger _____ and Styntje Jacobs, born ca. 1643 or 1644. At the age of nineteen she came to New Amsterdam with her mother, her sister Wyntje Rutgers (aged 16), her step-father Pieter Janszen Meet/Mead from Amersfoort, a half sister Kniertje Pieters Meet (aged 7) and a half brother Jan Pietersen Meet (aged 3), arriving on the Rosetree which sailed from Holland in March 1663 (NYGBR 15:34). Pieter Janszen and wife Styntje Jacobs joined the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam on 9 July 1663 (ibid. 9:76). In the 1686 list of church members prepared by Dominie Selyns, Maria Pieters, wife of Joris Janzen, is a member, but he is not. In this entry (HSYB 1916:29) she is given the patronymic of her step-father, an infrequent but far from rare custom among the New Netherland Dutch.
      On 29 Feb. (with banns dated 5 Feb.) 1692 in the Dutch Reformed Church in New York Maria Rutgers, widow of Joris Janszen, married Jan Andrieszen, widower of Margrietje Jans Doorens. In New York on 31 May 1700, Maria Rutgers, wife of Jan Andriesse, witnessed a baptism at the Dutch Church. In Bergen (now Jersey City) on 2 April 1700, Mereytje Rutger, wife of Jan Andresen, witnessed the baptism of a grandchild. In New York on 19 Nov. 1699 and again on 15 Dec. 1703 she witnessed baptisms of grandchildren. No further record of her has been found.
      The children of Joris Jansen Van Hoorn and his wife Maria Rutgers were born in New York and baptized there in the Dutch Reformed Church. At times some of them used the patronymic "Jorise" with and without the place name "Van Hoorn/Van Horne."
      Children: . . .
      i. Rutger, bapt. 5 Jan. 1667. . . .
      ii. Jan/John, bapt. 31 March 1669. . . .
      iii. Hillegond, bapt. 10 April 1672.
      iv. Styntje, bapt. 19 Dec. 1674; witnesses: Pieter Janszen and Hillegond Joris (child's paternal grandmother and step-grandfather); d.y. . . .
      v. Styntje, bapt. 9 May 1677. . . .
      vi. Aefje/Effie, bapt. 16 March 1680.
      vii. Asseureus, bapt. 4 July 1683; witnesses: Asseureus Hendrickszen and Hillegond Joris (child's paternal grandmother and an uncle-in-law)."

      2. Unverified from notes on Family Search accessed 25 July 2019:
      "Grietje Gillis "Grietie, Margaret, Gretle" Meet formerly Mandeville or de Mandeville is not the same person as her sister, Gerritje Jillisae "Gerritie, Gertrude, Grietje" Banta formerly Mandeville or de Mandeville. The two are further confused because Grietje (the younger sister) married Jan Pieterse Mead, who was the son of Grietje's older sister's (Gerritje) second husband, Pieter Janszen Mead by his prior marriage to Styntje 'Christiana' Jacobus.
      Daughter of Yellis Jansen de Mandeville and Elsje Hendricx.
      Lucy Dubois Akerly, "Yellis Jansen de Mandeville of Garderen, Holland, and Greenwich Village on Manhattan Island and Some of His Descendants", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.38 (1907): 38:287.
      Voorhis David Demarest, The Demarest Family: A record of the desMarets family in France, the Holy Land in the Crusades, again in France, Holland, the Palatinate (Germany) again in Holland and the migration to America, 1663 (Hackensack, NJ: n.pub., 1964), p.iii-2.
      Grietje Mandeville was born before 1672.
      She married Jan Pieterszen Meet, son of Pieter Jansen Meet and Styntje Jacobs, at Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, New York, on 11 May 1687.
      Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), page 61. Jan Meet, j.m. Van Oudt Amersfoort, i't Sticht Van Uytrecht, en Grietje Mandeviel, j.d. Van N. Amersfoort op't lange Eylt, beyde woonende alhier.
      Witnessed the baptism of Jakap Haff , son of Lourens Haff and Kniertje Pieterse Meet, on 11 September 1689 at Old First Dutch Reformed Church, Breuckelen (Brooklyn), Kings Co., Long Island, New York, (witness: Grietje Jillissen).
      A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), page 128. Jakap; parents: Lourens Haf, Kaniertje Haf.
      Grietje Mandeville was named in her father's will dated on 15 September 1696 called Geritie Mandeviell now wife of John Mutt.
      Will dated 15 September 1696 proved 22 May 1704, called Jellis Mandevill of Greenwich in the County of New York. To my beloved wife Elsie Mandeville all my estate real and personal during her natural life or until she shall happen to remarry... To my son Hendrick Mandeville in preference of all other gifts in right of being my eldest son, my home or plantation lying and being in Queens County upon Nassau Island. To my son David Mandeviell for and in consideration of his great services and for other sufficient reasons and motives...in preference to all other gifts before any division be made all that my negro called Peter together with the sum of fifty pounds current money of this province to be paid to him by my executors. All my estate both real and personal to all my children namely Hendrick Mandeville, David Mandeville, Tryntie Mandeville now wife of Cornelius Jansen De Saen, Heltie Mandeville now wife of Lawrence Johnson, Gerrette Mandeville now wife of Peter Mutt and Geritie Mandeviell now wife of John Mutt to be equally divided. Appoints wife Elsie Mandeviill to be sole executrix and after her decease appointsmy two sons Hendrick and David Mandeveill as executors.
      New York Co. Surrogate's Court, Record of Wills, v.1-2, 1665-1699; FHL film #0874513 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971, 1982-83), Microfilm of original records in the Surrogate's Court, New York Co., New York, 2:372-373.
      Children by Jan Pieterszen Meet b. ca. 1660:
      Pieter Meet
      Johannes Meet
      Jacob Meet
      Christina Meet
      Elsje Meet
      Maretie Meet
      Gilles Meet
      Lucy Dubois Akerly, "Yellis Jansen de Mandeville of Garderen, Holland, and Greenwich Village on Manhattan Island and Some of His Descendants", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record vol.38 (1907): 38:287.
      Voorhis David Demarest, The Demarest Family: A record of the desMarets family in France, the Holy Land in the Crusades, again in France, Holland, the Palatinate (Germany) again in Holland and the migration to America, 1663 (Hackensack, NJ: n.pub., 1964), p.iii-2.
      Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
      http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/surname_index.htm