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Jan Corneliuse DAMEN2 Cornelus Janse1)
Jan Cornelise was born about 1638 in Buninch, Utrecht, Netherlands and married about 1686 in New Utrecht, Kings, New York, Fytje MARTENSE She was born about 1643 in Flatbush, Kings, New York and died before 1707. Jan died 20 Jan 1707 in Flatbush, Kings, New York.
Date: Wed Nov 13 06:09:29 1996
Name: Lorine McGinnis Schulze
E- mail: lschulze@bconnex.net
Address:
Surname of Immigrant: DAMEN
Given name(s) of Immigrant: Jan Cornelise
Origin of Immigrant: Bunik, Netherlands
Name of Ship: ?
Arrival Date: circa 1650
Immigrant's Date & Place of Birth: circa 1638 Bunik Netherlands
Immigrant's Date & Place of Death: 1707 Flatbush, NY
Immigrant's Spouse: Sophia (Fytie) MARTENSE
Source of Information: NYG&BR; Register of Early Settlers of Kings Co. Long Island by Bergen (some errors!); baptismal records of Reformed Dutch Church, NY; Early Settlers of Bushwick Long Island NY Vol. 3 by Andrew J. Provost; Jan Cornelis Buys alias Jan Damen..... by John Reynolds Totten in Genealogies of Long Island Families by NY G&H Society;Krommerijners in de nieuwe wereld by MSF Kemp
Immigrant's Children:
1. Jakbis bpt 1661 Brooklyn NY
2. Marta bp 1661 Brooklyn
3. Marta Jansen bp 1662 Brooklyn m. Jan/John REMSEN s/o Rem Jansen VANDERBEEK
4. Cornelis Jansen bp 1663 Brooklyn - who did he marry????
5. Neeltje Janse b ca 1664 m Michael Pieterse PARMENTIER
6. Aeltie janse m Samuel PHILIPS
7. Cornelia Janse DAMEN b. ca 1666 m. Pierre/Pieter UZIELE - this is my line
8. Lysbeth Janse m. Jan/Jean CASIER
9. Jan Janse bp 1674
10.Sophia Janse bp 1674
11.Lysbeth Janse bp 1676 -Is she the one who md. Jan/Jean CASIER???
12.Jan Janse bp 1678 NY
13.Sophia Janse bp 1680 New Utrecht
14.Celetje/Celia Janse m. Frans LE ROY s/o Simeon LeROY dit AUDY (LeROY also my line)
15.Geesje Janse bp 1685 NY
16.Risjen Janse b ca 1687 m Peter VAN AKEN
Help needed to straighten out children!
Notes: I am seeking Jan Cornelise DAMEN's parents *and* the parents of his wife Sophia or Fytie MARTENSE. Any help appreciated and I will gladly share my extensive files on the DAMEN and BUYS family in NY
.Jan Cornelise Damen was the common ancestor of the DAMEN family. In 1650 he left Bunnik, a village on the Ryn in Utrecht, for Long Island NY, and married Fytie/Sophia Martens. The surname might be derived from Demen, a hamlet in North Brabant where Jan most likely lived at one time.
On 29 Apr. 1655 he purchased a house and land adjoining that of Jan Dirksen's in Brooklyn and by 1677 was keeping a tavern here. On 21 Aug. 1663 he purchased from Cornelis Hendrickse Van Eens a farm on the West side of the road in Flatbush NY. In 1667 he is recorded as a member of the Reformed Dutch church of Brooklyn hailing from the Wallabocht. He is on a patent of Brooklyn in 1677 and took the oath of allegiance there in 1687. In 1674 he apparently resided at Norman's Kil, and bought a farm at Kyckuyt from Claes Claessen Smit. In 1686 he bought the main portion of the farm of Pieter Ceser Alburtis at the Wallabocht.
He and his wife made a joint will dated 1 Sept. 1680 and probated 20 June 1707. Jan Damen voted at a town meeting in Flatbush NY on 19 Jan. 1703-04 and again on 12 Aug. 1704.
He was one of the signers of a petition in Brooklyn, New York in 1663:
"On the first of March in this year (1663), the following petition
was presented:
'To the Right Hon'ble Director-General and Council of New Netherland:
'Shew with due reverence and respect, the undersigned, neighbors and
inhabitants of the village of Breuckelen [Brooklyn], our Honors'
obedient servants, that there lies convenient to us a certain place
near Breuckelen fit to be erected into a new village, for our advantage,
being a woodland (as we) believe (is) known to your Honors, in which
place there is sufficient accommodation whre twenty or thirty persons
can have a suitable place and lot; and as the valleys thereby furnish
no nearer place (than) those adjoining between the 3d and 4th kills,
to supply the cattle with fodder, and is also the nearest spot, therefore
we, the Petitioners, are under the necessity of turning to your Honors,
humbly praying and soliciting that the aforesaid requested place may be
granted to them, each his lot, as the valleys in the hay season be far
from here, and they seek the nearest, in order to bring in the grass dry
and in good condition (with God's blessing), for the preservation of the
cattle, and all that is annexed thereto, that appertains to the farmers.
Awaiting, therefore, a favorable answer, if your Honors the
Director-General and Council, in your wise discretion, shall vouchsafe
to grant the same, we remain your Honors' obedient servants.
Albert Cornelissen, Tiercs Dierckss,
Tietje Schiercks, Peter Peters,
Barent B. Jansen *FN 1. Harmen Heyndricks,
Jan Jacobsen, Pieter Lambert,
Jan Damen Jan Hibon,
Joost Verstraalen, Symen Joosten,
Jan Peters, from Deventer *FN 2. Jores Jorise,
Casper Pieters, Heydrick Fallkers,
Jan Martyn, Cornelys Van Borsem,
Henrycus Teunis, Piere Wouterse,
Theunis Cornelis, Lodewy(ck) Jongs,
Symon Clasen, Cornelys Janse Spuyler,
Tjerck Jansen, Yokam .... uedden,
Heyndryck Jansen Bern,
Tonis Snysken Barent Pjterse.'"
1683
The oath of allegiance was this year taken by the following inhabitants of Breucklyn :
Jan Damen, 37 years
Extracted from a list of communicants in the Protestant Reformed churches of Brooklyn , Flatbush , Flatlands , and New Utrecht , from September 6th, 1677 to 1685 , copied, by Hon. Teunis G. Bergen , from the church records of Flatbush , in the handwriting of Rev. Casparus Van Zuuren , who, during said period, was Pastor of the churches in the above-mentioned towns. The original spelling of the record has been followed as nearly as possible.
Jan Damen and Sophia Martens his wife.
Cornelia Jans Damen.
Jan Cornelis Damen --2 horses, 5 cows, 4 ditto of 2 yrs.; 3 ditto of 1 yr., £63.10; 10 morgens of land, £20: Total, £83.10.
A List Of All The Freeholders, Their Wives, Children, Apprentices, And Slaves, In The Town Of Brookland, About 1698.
Name Men Wom Chi App Sla. Jan Cornelisse Damen 1 1 4 - 1
Page 332.-- Jan Cornelis DAMEN. In the name of God, Amen. On this day, being the 1st of September, anno 1680, between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening, appeared before me, Mitchell Hainells, Clerk, admitted by the Constable and overseers of Brookland, in their own persons, Jan Cornelis Damen, being in good health of body, and Sophia Martense his lawful wife, at present being very sick in bed, but in the free exercise of understanding and senses as it evidently appeared to me. The survivor is to have the full use of all the estate in Brookland and elsewhere. If the survivor should re-marry, then he or she is to have one half the estate.
Witnesses, Martin Ryersen, Jan Buys, Johanes Casperse. Proved before Henry Filken, Esq., September 3, 1706.
CHILDREN of Jan Cornelise DAMEN and Sophia Fytje MARTENSE:
1. ELIZABETH b: Abt 1656; New Utrecht, Kings, New York.
md: 14 Dec 1779; New Amsterdan, New Netherlands.
Jan (Jean) CASIER
md: 1 Dec 1700; New Amsterdan, New Netherlands.
Lucas SCHERMERHORN
2. MARTHA b: 24 Jul 1661; Brooklyn, Kings, New York.
md: 11 Dec 1681; Wallabout Bay, Kings, New York
Jan RAMSEN.
3. CORNELIUS b: 11 Feb 1663; New Utercht, Kings, New York.
4. NEELTJEN JANSE b: 2 Apr 1693; New Utrecht, Kings, New York.
md: ; , , New York.
Michael Peterse PALMENTIER.
+ 5. CORNELIA b: Abt 1666; Brooklyn, Kings, New York.
md: 6 Apr 1686; Staten Island, Richmond, New York
Pierre UZIELE.
6. AELTJE JORIS b: Abt 1668; New Utrecht, Kings, New York.
md: 29 Oct 1695; Brooklyn, Kings, New York.
Samuel PHILIPS.
7. RUSSIA b: Abt 1670; New Utrecht, Kings, New York.
md: ; , , New York.
Pieter VAN AKEN.
8. SOPHIA b: 19 Aug 1674; New Utrecht, Kings, New York.
9. JAN b: 28 Aug 1678; New Utercht, Kings, New York.
A. SOPHIA b: 8 Aug 1680; New Utrecht, Kings, New York.
B. CELETJE b: 7 Oct 1683; New Utercht, Kings, New York.
md: ; , , New York.
Frans KONING or Le ROY
C. GEESJE b: 1 Nov 1685; New Utercht, Kings, New York.
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