Jan Roelofs1

#18022, (circa 1632 - )
Father*Roelof Jansz1 (c 1602 - c 1637)
Mother*Anneke Jans1 (s 1604 - c 1663)
There are few records that tell about the life of Jans Roelofssen.
1. From Zabriskie's "Annek Jans in Fact and Fiction."an] was unmarried at the time of his mother‘s death. It has been said that he later married Annatje Pieters, and that both were killled in 1690 at Schenectady." See (2)
2. "List of ye kild and destroyed by ye French of Canada and there Indians at Skinnechtady twenty miles to ye westward of Albany between Saturday and Sunday ye 9th day of Febryary 1689/90," includes "Jan Roeloffse de goyer burnt in ye house." (O'Callaghan, Documentary Hstory of the State of New-York I:190).
3. From the marriage records of the Church at New Amsterdam: [23 Aug 1665] Jan Roelofs, j. m. Van Vlecher in Noord Wegen, en Tytje Lippes, Wede. Van Laúrens Laúrenszen. his is intriguing because of the reference his origins at the same place as his mother Anneke.2,3,4 
Birth*circa 1632He was born circa 1632 at NetherlandsG.5 

Citations

  1. [S1158] William S. Pelletrau, compiler, Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York (New York: New York Historical Society, 1893-1913), NYHS Vol. XXVII, Abstracts IV:487–490, will of Anneke Jans Bogardus. Names "her children, Sarah Roeloffson, wife of Hans Kierstede; Catrina Roeloffsen, wife of Johanes Van Brugh; also Jannettije and Rachel Hartgers, the children of her deceased daughter, Fytje Roeloffsen, during her life the wife of Peter Hartgers, representing together their mother's place; also her son Jan Roeloffsen, and finally, William, Cornelius, Jonas, and Peter Bogardus."
  2. [S666] Samuel S. Purple, editor, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890), p. 31.
  3. [S1170] E. B. O'Callaghan, editor, The Documentary History of the State of New York (Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co. (Vols. I, II, III); Charles Van Benthuysen (Vol. IV), 1849–1851).
  4. [S1646] George Olin Zabriskie, "Anneke Jans in Fact and Fiction", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 104 (Apr. and Jul. 1973), p. 71.
  5. [S1172] Arnold J. F. van Laer, translator and annotator, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974), II:42–43, document 20b, "Settlement of Annetje Jans upon her minor children by Roeloff Jansen, her first husband," dated 21 Jun 1642 at Fort Amsterdam. Restatement of an apparently lost agreement with her children's guardians prior to her marriage to Everardus Bogardus. Promises each their share of their father's estate, and gives the names and ages of the children: Sara Rouloffs, aged about sixteen years; Trijntjen Rouloffs, aged thirteen years; Sijtjen Rouloffs, aged eleven years; Jan Rouloffsen, nine years old; and Annitjen Rouloffsen, aged six years. The last, Annitjen, is not mentioned in her mother's will of 1663. Presumably she died childless during the interval.