Jan Jansen van Amersfoort

Jan Jansen van Amersfoort, son of Jan Dircksen van Amersfoort, came to New Netherlandt either in 1638 (@ age 2 or 3) with his father, or in 1642 when his father made a trip to Holland and back to New Netherlandt. It is speculated that Jan Dircksen may have come alone in 1638 and made the 1642 trip to fetch his family. Jan Jansen v A's contract as New Amsterdam City Carpenter (15 May, 1657) indicated that he was a "Bachelor and Freeman", meaning that he was unmarried, over 21, and not indentured. In 1658, he accepted the job to erect a stockade at Kingston, and later became the City Carpenter for Kingston. He married Catryn Mathyssen, d.o. Mathijs Jansen van Ceulen and Margriet Hendrickse, in Kingston, 3 Oct, 1660, and they baptised their first child 8 weeks later.
Jan was exiled from the colony for abusing his wife and motherinlaw. On one occassion, Jan had beaten Katryn so badly that she was thought dead, and taken to her mother's house for last rites. She was 8 months pregnant at the time, and luckily she and child survived the beating. Jan was a heavy drinker and a "hothead"; he appeared as a defendant in court in more than 70 occasions between 1660 and 1678. He disappeared in 1678, and it assumed that he either died at that time, or left the area never to return.

Marriage

Kingston DRC Marriages 1660-1809 1660

• 03 Oct; Jan Jansen, jm, of Amesfoort; Catharyn Mattysen, jd, both liv Esopus.

Children

1. Has No Children Styntje van Steenbergen b: 19 Dec 1660 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
2. Has Children Thomas Jansen van Steenbergen b: 1 Jul 1663 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
3. Has No Children Styntje van Steenbergen b: 16 Aug 1665 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
4. Has No Children Geertjen van Steenbergen b: 9 Oct 1667 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
5. Has No Children Mattys Jansen van Steenbergen b: 18 Jun 1671 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.
6. Has No Children Sara van Steenbergen b: 1675 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York.

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GEDCOM Note

Came over from Holland in 1660, single. He was a carpenter. He was among the earliest settlers of Esopus, Ulster, NY.