Anna Elizabeth Baignoux

Jean Baignoux married twice and had three children. His first wife seems to have been called “Elizabeth Hall” in English records and “Anna Oedt” in Dutch; she was the mother of two girls shown as baptized in New York City in Dutch Reformed Church records. His next wife was Jenne Stephens, mother of Benjamin, who drowned with him in 1692

Family

Marriage license granted in New York for Jean Baignoux ["Baignouix"] and Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall, 6 Dec 1670.” [2]

from New Amsterdam & New York Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/rdcbapt.shtml

The baptisms are laid out in order as follows: The date of the baptism; the parents; the child; and the witnesses.

8 Dec [1673]; Jean Bejonge, Anna Hodde; Anna; Nicolaes de Lapleine, Anna Reynouts

17 Dec [1680]; Jean Bingou, Anna Hoedt; Marritie; Paulus Turck, Marritie Loockermans

24 Mar [1685]; Jean Petit, Jannetie Stevens; Benjamin; Pieter Pieterszen Groenevelt, Clara Ebels

Biography

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158814878/jean-(john)_petit_a-b...

Jean (John) "Petit" à Baignoux, also known as John Petit, John Benew, Jan Binjou, Jean Abignou, Jean Bejonge, Klyn Jan, Little John, etc., is thought to have come to the New Netherland colony from the area of Ba(i)gnoux, Côte d'Or, Bourgogne, France. He is referred to as a Huguenot and was born, say, 1645.

Jean joined the Reformed Dutch Church of New York on 12 Apr. 1665. He was licensed to marry Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall [sic], on 6 Dec. 1670. However, his wife is called Anna Hoede/Hoedt in and after 1673. It appears that these references relate to the same woman, i.e., that the wife he married in 1670 and with whom he had daughters, Anna and Maritie baptized in 1673 and 1680, respectively, was named Anna Elizabeth Hoedt.

The death of Jean Baignoux's first wife in 1679/80 (when Elizabeth Benew Freeman would have been about 6 years of age), and then his and his son's--apparently 11-year-old Benjamin's--drowning in 1692 (when Elizabeth would have been about 18), are thought to be the reason for the following epitaph on Elizabeth's gravestone (see Find A Grave memorial 11050741):

• Her days began with Trouble here,
• Our life is but a Span,
• And Cruel Death is always near,
• So frail a thing is Man.

Jean Baignoux's untimely death might also be the source of the Freeman family tradition that Henry Freeman's father had drowned when Henry was a minor. In other words, the story of the tragic loss of one grandfather of the 13 Freeman children might have been eventually passed down in the family as relating to the other grandfather.

For more information about Jean Baignoux and his family, see Doug Wilson's website:

http://dougwilson.com/family/reports/fam492.html

Also consult Patty Barthell Myers' work, Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman ... (1995), p. 8.

--Joseph R. Klett

from The Revised History of Harlem, James Riker, 1904, p381

Jean Baignoux bore a good character, but is little known. It was he, we presume, who, as Jan Binjou, joined the church April 12, 1665, at the same time with Abraham du Toict. Binjou (Beenyou) approaches his name in sound. Montagne writes it Benu; the English scribes usually benew. The cultured Vander Vin using a Latin prefix (se note p. 120), writes it Abignou, i.e., from Baignoux, the latter a Burgundian town, whence Jean probably came. Twice he calls him "Jean Abignou, alias Jan petit." The French called him Jean petit, the Dutch Klyn Jan, both meaning Litle John. Kleyn Jan was paid at Harlem 9 florins for "putting the drum in order." I suspect he had been one of Governor Nicolls' soldiers. He had license December 6, 1670, to marry Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall, but his wife in and after 1673, was Anna Hoede. In 1680, he married Jenne Stevens. later, if we mistake not, sailing a coasting vessel, he met with disaster. Abraham Gouverneur, writing from Boston, October 12, 1692, relates "the sad mischance of Little John and his son," who bound thence for New York, "were cast away on Nantucket Shoals, and both drowned."

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This is from records of the Dutch Reformed Church : Elizabeth HALL Sex: Female Father: Ralph HALL (bef 1635) Mother: - Birth (1) 1650 New Amsterdam Birth (2) bef 1655 Death. 1673 New Amsterdam (uncertain) Child 1: Elizabeth PETIT Birth (1) 1673 New Amsterdam. [1]

“Joe Klett also checked baptismal and land records in New York for Baignoux and PetIt and sent the following to compiler: Marriage license granted in New York for Jean Baignoux ["Baignouix"] and Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall, 6 Dec 1670.” [2]

References

• http://dougwilson.com/family/reports/fam492.html
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hall-39550 cites
• Olive Tree genealogy, records of the Dutch Reforned Church, accessed from DavidWilson.com, via Find a Grave.
• Dally, Joseph W Rev. Woodbridge and Vicinity: the story of a New Jersey township; embracing the history of Woodbridge, Piscataway, Metuchen and contiguous places from the earliest Times. New Brunswick, NJ, AE Gordon 1873
• http://dougwilson.com/family/reports/fam1559.html
• https://www.findagrave.com/user/profile/47554493