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- Notes for ANNEKE WEBBER:
Anneke Webber Jans was the grandaughter of William the Silent - (William I, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584 the father of the Dutch Republic).
There is a tradition that Anneke Jans was the granddaughter of William the Silent, who became Prince of Orange and William I of Holland. He married four times, the last secrectly to one Sara Webber, a commoner, by Sara he had two children: Sarah, born in 1580; Wolfert, who was born in 1582.
These children were called by their mother's surname "Webber". Wolfert married Catherine (Tryntje) Jonas in 1600. They had three children: Wolfert, Martie, and Anneke Webber. Anneke was born in 1605 and died in 1663.
In 1624, Anneke married Jan Roeloffsen. In 1630, she, her husband and their three daughters went from Holland to New Amsterdam, N.Y. They remained there for a short ime and then moved to Rensselacrwyck on the Hudson where Jan served as a farm superintendent for the son where Jan served as a farm superintendent for the walthy Killian Van Rensselaer, a Director of the West Indes Company. In 1634 he moved back to New
Amsterdam where he received a grant of 62 acres of land on the North (or Hudson) River. This is the land that there has been so much litigation over. It is located on the lip of Manhattan Island and today is valued at billions of dollars. After Jans' death in 1637, Anneke went back to New Amsterdam and in 1638 she married the Reverend Everardus Bogardus (the Latinized form of Bogaert). Bogardus died in 1647. In 1657, Anneke moved
to Beverwyck (Albany), N.Y. She died in 1663 and is buried in the Middle Dutch Church Yard on Beaver Street, Albany, N.Y.
In Harpers Magzine for May 1885 is a very full and interest account of Anneke Jan Bogardus' farm.
Genealogy (KindredKonnections Craig Rice) states Born on 15 Jan 1605 in Maaesterland, South Holland. She died on 27 Feb 1663 in Beverwyck, Albany, NY. She has reference number NXGFj-KR She was buried in Beverwyck, Albany, NY
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Burial: 1663, Middle Dutch Church Yard, Beaver St., Albany8
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Bogardus (Bogart), Anneke (Annetie) Janse.(*) This celebrated character came to Rensselaerwyck, in 1630 with her husband Roeloff Jansen who acted as assistant bouwmeester for the Patroon at a salary of 180 guilders. Five or six years after, the family was found at New Amsterdam where Roeloff received a patent in 1636, for 31 morgens (62 acres) of land lying along the East river between the present Warren and Christopher streets. About this time he d., and in the year 1637 or 1638 his widow married Domine Everhardus Bogardus or Bogart, the first settled minister of New Netherland. Ten years later she again became a widow and so continued until her death which took place in 1663 at Albany. to which place she had returned after the death of her second husband in 1647. Her property consisted chiefly of the Domine's Bouwery above mentioned, and was divided by her will equally among her three daughters and five sons. By her first husband, whom she married in Holland, she had, First: Sarah Roeloffse who married Surgeon Hans Kierstede, June 29, 1642. After his death she married Cornelis Van Borsum of Brooklyn ferry, Sept. 1, 1669; and later Elbert Elbertsen of New York, July 18, 1683. She came from Amsterdam with her parents in 1630, and became a great proficient in the Indian tongue; in 1664 she acted as interpreter in the treaty made by Stuyvesant with the River Indians. She died in 1693. Second: Catrine Roeloffse. She married Lucas Rodenburg vice director of Curaáoa, who d. about the y. 1656. Her second husband was Johannes Van Brugh, who was a prominent merchant and magistrate of New Amsterdam, and served in the common council several years after the English accession. They were married March 29, 1658. He d. in New York at an advanced age about 1699. His widow survived him. Their children were, Helena, wife of Teunis DeKay, m. May 26, 1680; Anna, wife of Andries Grevenraet; Pieter; Catharina wife of Hendrick Van Rensselaer of Albany; Johannes; and Maria, wife of Stephen
(*) She is said to have been the daughter of Tryn Jansen, midwife
at New Amsterdam and connection by marriage of Govert
Loockermans. Dutch MSS., III, 55; O'Callaghan's History New
Netherland, I, 142.
Richard. Third: Sytje. She married Pieter Hartgers Van Wee who came over in 1643, and first settled in Beverwyck as one of the magistrates of the court of Fort Orange in 1654. He d. in Holland in 1670 leaving two daughters in Beverwyck. Fourth: Jan. At the date of his mother's will in 1663 he was unmarried. In 1665, he accidentally killed one Gerrit Verbeck with a gun, for which he was acquitted by the governor in form. Soon after he removed to Schenectady where with his wife he was slain by the French and Indians in the great massacre of 1690, leaving no children. By her second husband, Do. Bogardus, Anneke Janse had four children. Willem; Cornelis, bp. in New York, Sept. 9, 1640; Jonas, bp. Jan. 4, 1643, and Pieter bp. April, 2, 1645.
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1605 - 1663 (58 years)
Has 12 ancestors and 78 descendants in this family tree.
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