VAN METEREN, Jan Jansen

1683 - 1745  (61 years)

• Name	VAN METEREN, Jan Jansen
  Born	14 Oct 1683	Kingston, Ulster County, New York
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aug 1745	Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia
  Person ID	I5807	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	VAN METEREN, Jooste Jansen,   b. 1656, Guelderland, Netherlands ,   d. 13 Jun 1706, Salem, Burlington County, New Jersey  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	DU BOIS, Sarah,   b. 14 Dec 1662, Hurley, Ulster County, New York ,   d. Abt 1726, Salem, Burlington County, New Jersey  (Age 63 years)
  Married	12 Dec 1682	Kingston, Ulster County, New York
  Family ID	F2251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	BODINE, Jean
  Married	1705	Somerset County, New Jersey
  Children	1. VAN METEREN, Sarah,   b. Abt 1706,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. VAN METEREN, John,   b. Abt 1708,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. VAN METEREN, Mary,   b. Abt 1709,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F2250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	MOLLENAUER, Margaret,   b. Abt 1687, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. 13 Aug 1745, Frederick County, Virginia  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Married	1710	Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey
  Children	1. VANMETER, Rebecca,   b. Abt 1711, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. VANMETER, Isaac,   b. Abt 1713, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. VANMETER, Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1715, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. VANMETER, Henry,   b. 1717, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. VANMETER, Rachel,   b. Abt 1719, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. VANMETER, Abraham,   b. Abt 1721, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. VANMETER, Jacob,   b. 17/17 Mar 1722/1723, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. 16 Nov 1798, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky  (Age 75 years)   8. VANMETER, Maudlina,   b. 1725, Somerset County, New Jersey ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F2247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The family settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where Jan became a wealthy land owner and horse breeder. "Kegley's Virginia Frontier in describing the earliest history of Virginia, says: 'The Van Meters cross the Powtomack (Potomac River). John and Isaac Van Meter were traders who knew the country about the Potomac and the Shenandoah as early as 1728. After 1721 Isaac lived in New Jersey, but John had moved westward toward the southwest part of Maryland. In 1730 their petitions for 10,000 acres each in the forks of the Shenando River and 20,000 more for other families were granted. This was not to interfere with the surveys of Carter and Page.' ...Jost Hite with Robert McKay began acquiring land in the Shenandoah Valley in 1731. They with one hundred families were desirous of seating (settling) themselves on the back of the Great Mountains on land lying between the land of John Van Meter, Jacob Stover, John Fishback and others. ... Hite acquired the Van Meter grants in 1734 and patents began to issue to his settlers, one thousand acres to each family ... joining the land of 'Jost Heyd' and others . "Mrs. Sims' article (material provided by Mrs. Ruth Bruner Sims of Frankfort, Kentucky) says John Van Meter and his brother Isaac, were granted 110,000 acres of land in the Shenandoah Valley by the Royal Governor, William Gooch, which they later sold to their cousin, Jost Hite, after selecting choice sites for themselves, while it was still a wilderness." He died on 13 August 1745 at Apequon, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia and his will was probated there on 3 September 1745. "He drew up a lengthy will in which Jacob Van Meter was called 'my fourth and youngest son,' by which he inherited an equal share of 'all Staylen (stallions), geldings, mares, colts.' He inherited land, but not the estate 'Opequen,' on which his father lived, since he was the youngest."