Jan Roelofs

In Early Records of Albany, 1:1, 269, and other places, Professor Pearson has supplied the name of Jan Roeloffsen with the words 'De Goyer', thereby confusing him, as has been done also in History of the Schenectady Patent, p. 140, 263, with Jan Roeloffsen De Goyer, who perished in the burning of Schenectady in 1690. This man, as the name indicates, came from Gooi, or Gooiland, in the province of North Holland.

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Son of Roeloff Jansen and Anneke Jans. John Reynolds Totten, "Anneke Jans (1607-8?-1663) and Her Two Husbands", New York Genealogical & Biographical Record Vol. 56, pages 202-243 (1925): p.208. Born 1634, died 1690.

Jan Roelofszen was born in 1634 at "de Laets Burg Farm", Rensselaerwyck, New Netherland, (aged 9 on 21 June 1642). William Brower Bogardus, Dear "Cousin": A Charted Genealogy of the Descendants of Anneke Jans Bogardus (1605-1663) to the 5th Generation - and of her sister, Marritje Jans (Wilmington, OH, U.S.A.: Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, 1996), chart no.1. George Olin Zabriskie, "Anneke Jans in Fact and Fiction", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol. 104, pp. 65-72, 157-164 (1973): 104:68.

Jan testified in court in Beverswyck on 10 Feb 1654, that he was then 20 years of age. Earlier sources state that he died, supposedly unmarried in 1690 during a massacre by the French and Indians. As shown by Hoffman, the Jan Roelofse who died in the Indian massacre was a diferent person of the same name, who had married Baefje Pieters, the widow of Ulderick Cleine. This Jan Roeloffse is not known to have left any issue, and is spoken of as "then unmarried" in his mother's will of 29 Jan 1663. Jan is said to be the one who accidently killed Gerrit Verbeek in Albany in 1665, for which "unfortunately mishap" he was exonerated by the Governor. He signed the deed of sale of his mother's home in Beverwyck to Dirck Wesselsen Ten Broeck. On 18 Jun 1659, he signed a deed having to do with a patent for land granted to himself, Jans Roeloffsen, on 24 Mar 1654. He took the oath of office as Surveyor of Beverwyck on 25 Nov 1654.

Jan Roelofszen and Jan Roelofs, may be one and the same.

Jan Roelofs married with banns published on 23 August 1665 at Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, New York, Tytje Lippes. Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.31. Jan Roelofs, j.m. Van Vlecher in Noord Wegen, en Tytje Lippes, Wede, Van Laurens Laurenszen.

He died after 1670. William Brower Bogardus, Dear "Cousin": A Charted Genealogy of the Descendants of Anneke Jans Bogardus (1605-1663) to the 5th Generation - and of her sister, Marritje Jans (Wilmington, OH, U.S.A.: Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Descendants Association, 1996), chart no.1.

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