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Jan, his wife and five children arrived in the ship Fox at New Netherlandon 12 April 1662. H e came from Thielerwardt, a fortified town inGelderland, Holland, and his wife from Meppelen , Province of Drenth,where they were married and where their children were born. The familyna me was derived from Meteren, a town in Holland.
Upon the death of Joost Adrienceson of 'Boswick', Long Island, about1685, Jan Joosten Van M eteren was appointed administrator, tutor ofdecedent's children and arbitrator in proceeding s regarding the sale ofsome land in Hurley, which had beenold to Derick Schepmoes by Adrien ceduring his lifetime.
Jan Joosten Van Meteren, with his family, settled at Wiltwyck duringthe summer of 1662, bu t he is not noted in the activities of thecommunity until 7 June 1663 when the Indians raide d the settlement andcarried off women and children into captvity. Among the prisoners wereJa n's wife and two of his children, Joost Janse being one of them. He isnot named in Captain Kr ieger's journal of the rescue expedition, but itis elsewhere stated that due to his three mon ths' association with theIndians at the time of his captivity, Joost Janse had knowledge of t heirhabits, trails, plans and war feuds with other tribes, and was soimpressed with a desir e for their adventurous life.
Jan Joosten's name appears on the list of inhabitants who subscribed tothe Oath of Allegian ce, due to a change in the sovereignty of thecountry, between the 21st and 26th of October 16 64. After this datefrequent notices of him occur upon theecords of Kingston, as a farmer,an d as a man of growing importance in civil and religious matters.
Joost Janse was elected an Elder of the Church in 1667. During thetrouble in Wiltwyck durin g that year, caused by the offensiveness of thesoldiers of the English garrison, he with thre e other citizens acted asmediators in the dispute and wee able to conciliate the inhabitants ,thus preventing violence to lives and property.
The first instance of his purchase of land appears in a record whichreads 'Jan Joosten ha d from Governor Lovelace a deed for a lot, dated 20March 1671, in Marbletown' and 'on 11 Octo ber 1671 received confirmationof his 30 acre lot in Marbleton.'
He was selected on 6 January 1673 as one of the four magistrates ofHurley and Marbletown t o supervise the merging of the village of NieuwDorp into those of Hurley and Marbletown unde r the English rule. Theother magistrates were: Jan Broerso, Louis DuBois, and RoelofHendrick son. Notwithstanding the change of government Jan was continuedin that civil office until th e return of Dutch supremacy in 1675, whenGovernor Colve reappointed him to serve for anothe r term.
He was named Justice of Peace for Esopus, and was present at the Courtof Assizes in New Yor k from 4 to 6 October 1682.
Maeyken, wife of Jan Joosten, was named as a beneficiary in the Will ofEvardt Pary dated 2 6 March 1675 [Ulster Co. Probate Records].
Jan Joosten Van Meteren obtained land grants in the Province of EastJersey through a perio d extending from 1689 to the year of his death,1706 2E In company with his son-in-law, Jan Ha mel, who had married hisdaughter Geertje Crom in 1682, Janoosten appeared in East Jersey wh erethey jointly bought on 18 October 1695 from Edward Hunlocke, the deputyGovernor, of Winger worth, Burlington County, a plantation of 500 acres,located at Lassa (or Lazy) Point on the D elaware River. Lassa Point wasabout 23 miles northeast of Philadelphia.
Jan Joosten next appears as an individual purchaser of certain lands inSomerset County, Ne w Jersey, deed passing title from Governor AndrewHamilton and Agnes, his wife, under date o f 13 September 1700 to JanJoosten of Marbletown, New York, yeman, lying contiguous on the So uthbranch of the Raritan River near the present Somerville, New Jersey tothree other parcel s also granted. As a whole, the plantation aggregated1835 acres.
His Will filed with inventory of his personal property in BurlingtonCounty Surrogate's Offi ce, dated 13 June 1706, was written in Dutch. Hiswife was to retain full possession of the es tate during her lifetime,then in was to be divided, son Jost 1/2; Joost and Gysbert to hav e landat Marbletown, Joost to have 1/2 and then the other 1/2 to be dividedbetween them; Geer tje to have land at Wassemaker's; children of deceaseddaughter Lysbeth to have their portio n in money from the other childrenof Jan the testator [Ulster County Probate Record]."
Jan died in 1706.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
Abt 1621 - Yes, date unknown