Jan Roelofse Seubering

Jan Roelofs Seuberinge was the son of Roeloff Lucassen Seuberinge. 

He was born in 1631 at Beyle, Drenthe, Netherlands.

He married Adrianna Polhemus, daughter of Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus and Catharina Vanderverven, in 1659 at Dutch Reformed Church, Midwout, Kings County, New York.

He married Aeltje (Unknown) circa 1702; second marriage Jan.

He died in 1703 at near, Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey. He died in 1756 at Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey.

    He was also known as Jan Roelofse Sebring , John R. Seaberling. 

He immigrated in 1660 to New Amsterdam, New York County, New York; it is claimes aboard the sho "De Bonte Koe" with the Van Voorhees Family.

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Came to America 1652 aboard the ship, De Bonte Koe (The

Spotted Cow)

"the inhabitants of Midwout nominated six men in Apr 1654 from whom three were chosen to act as schepens of the village. In the absence of any Midwout records earlier that 1659, we cannot state postitively the names of these officers. We know that Adriaen Hegeman was appointed a local magistrate in 1654, and find his name on the earliest record of the village as serving still in the capacity of schepen. It is therefore reasonable to presume that the other men, whose names are found with his on the record of July 2, 1959, were appointed schepens with him in 1654. If this is correct, then the first three local magistrates of Midwout were Adriaen Hegeman, Willem Van Boerum, Jan Sueberingh."

 Jan and Adrinna were members of the RDC, Midwout, until 1681 when they removed to Bergen NJ.

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Last name also spelled SEBRING

Name also speller Jan Roelofse Sebring

In the book "Some Descendants of Mordecai McKinney," published in 1953 and edited by Gerald McKinney Petty and Eulah McKinney Ridgway, it states that Roelof came to America about 1660 on the ship "De Bonte Koe" (Spotted Cow). He settled in Flatlands on Long Island.

Jan was brother-in-law to Steven Coerts, immigrant ancestor (from Drenthe) of the Van Voorhees family, aboard the "Bonte Coe". The Voorhees were ardent Leislerians. Jan lived in Flatbush. 1681, moved to Bergen, NJ.

Wayne (from the Dutch Colonies List at Rootsweb) said that Jan and Adrianna Sebring were mentioned first in the Midwout area in 1671. He also found this: Left for Jamaica Theodorus Polhemius and Catharina Polhemius, Elisabeth Polhemius x died 30 Sept. 1683 (Flatbush Church Records, by David Voorhees, p. 359) and on the same page they had the same note for Jan Sebring and Adrianna Polhemus).

According to a question posted by Kristen Finch on the Polhemus page of www.genforum.com, Johannes Polhemus may have been the pastor at Midwout in the mid 1600's. Kristen asked, "Was he a pastor at the Ref. Dutch Church in Midwout (Flatbush), New Amersfort and Brooklyn app. 1655-1677?"

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There is some doubt : "Jan Soubanick, from Bile (Beilen), in Drenthe, arrived in New Amsterdam April 15, 1660, on the ship 'De Bonte Koe' (The Spotted Cow). He is generally accepted as Jan Suebrinck although his surname also appears in records as Suebering (Versteeg). This date of arrival of Jan Suebering probably is correct, but the words 'generally accepted' imply a possible doubt. If his name were found among arrivals in 1652 with Jan Strycker and wife Lambertje Suebering, some conflicting views might easily be reconciled."

One of very few published articles on The Sebring Family was written by the Rev. Minor Swick of Flushing, L. I., and appeared in Volume III of the Somerset County Historical Quarterly (New Jersey) in 1914 (pp. 118-124). Swick says, "The male ancestor, however, of most of the Sebrings in America, so far as known, was Jan Roelofse Seberinge.... He was born in Holland in 1631, and came to America, it is claimed, in 1660, in the same ship ('De Bonte Koe') with the Van Voorhees family."

But, in the next paragraph Swick says, "Jan Roelofse, with his wife, Adrianna, was a member of the Flatbush church from 1654 to 1676, and he was the owner of lands in Flatlands, and of a home in Flatbush; but laterin 1681 they moved to Bergen, New Jersey, and became a member of the Dutch church there in 10/2/1682."

Jan was at one time an alderman ("scheppenen") and also served as a constable in Midwout (Flatbush).

In the History and Commercial and Industrial Record of County of Kings and City of Brooklyn, New York 1683-1884, by Henry R. Stiles, we find the following on page 220: "....the inhabitants of Midwout nominated six men in April, 1654, from whom three were chosen to act as schepens of the village. In the absence of any Midwout records earlier than 1659, we cannot state positively the names of these officers. We know that Adriaen Hegeman was appointed a local magistrate in 1654, and find his name on the earliest record of the village as serving still in the capacity of schepen. It is therefore reasonable to presume that the other men, whose names are found with his on the record of July 2, 1659, were appointed schepens with him in 1654. If this is correct, then the first three local magistrates of Midwout were Adriaen Hegeman, Willem Van Boerum, Jan Sueberingh." Stiles then reproduces the signatures of the three men named. Jan signs his name Jan Roelofzen Sueberinge.

Even if the assumption that Jan Sueberingh was appointed as early as 1654 is incorrect, this record shows positively that he served in Midwout at least eight months before his supposed arrival April 15, 1660!

The editor offers two possible explanations for these discrepancies: one, that Jan Soubanick who came on "De Bonte Koe" was not the same person as Jan Sueberingh or two, that Jan Sueberingh, also known as Jan Roelofse Seberinge, came to New Amsterdam earlier, and made a round trip back to the Netherlands, returning on "The Spotted Cow" with his sister Willemptje Roelofse, who had become the second wife of Steven Coerte Van Voorhees. In any case it seems likely that Jan Roelofse Seberinge came to New Amsterdam as early as 1654. Perhaps he came with the Stryckers in 1652.

John Cletus Sebring reported to Walter W. Sebring in 1963 that Kenn Stryker-Rodda, D. Litt., C. G., F. A. S. G., President of the Long Island Historical Society, and a noted genealogist, a Sebring descendant through Lambertje Sebering who married Jan Stryker, had made several trips to Holland and had others do so for him; yet he had been unable to find any records pertaining to the Sebring family of those early years; that he thought the archives were lost during the war years, when Germany occupied the country. The 1969 reprint of David S. Crater & Job H. Lippincott's New Jersey Index of Wills, with a foreword by Kenn Stryker-Rodda, indicates that the latter was at that time President of the American Society of Genealogists, President of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey, and General Chairman, League

of Historical Societies of New Jersey. He is also the Editor of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record.

Our original surname has been spelled in legal documents both as Sueberingh and as Seuberingh; as to which is correct, no one probably knows. The early Sebrings spelled it many ways as shown by church records, wills and other legal documents. It has also been spelled Sebring, Seaborn, Sebern, Seabring, Sebrant, Sebrige, Sebering, Sebryng and Sebringh. However, the most common form back over these years was SEBRING (translators, in copying from Datch manuscripts, often mistook the "z" for an "s", which has caused confusion).

In a land grant to Rev. Polhemius from Pieter Stuyvesant, the name of Jan Roelofze is mentioned as owning land in common with Rev. Polhemius. This is a case where the surname was dropped, for at that time there were no other Jan Roelofze except Jan Roelofze Sueberinge living and owning land in Midwout, L. I.

11/25/1663 - Jan Eltings was attorney for Jan Sebring in demanding 360 guilders of Jan Hendrie for payment of the sale of a horse. Jan Roelofze signed his name as Jan Roelofzen Sueberinge.

The Assessment Rolls of Kings County, Long Island, 8/22/1675 show Jan's personal property as 2 polls, 4 horses, 1 ox, 6 cows, 2 ditto of two years, 2 ditto of one year, 4 hogs and 19 morgans of land and valley.

In a certificate similar to a character reference for one Jan Elten, Jan is witness at age 48. It is stated the he was a native of the land of Drenthe [Sebring Collections, p. 15 referencing Colonial Manuscripts of NY, vol. XXVII, p. 136].

Jan sold on 5/17/1681 his cultivated lands in Flatbush to Roelof Verkerk of North Utrecht, lying north of the lands of Jacob Hendrickse, east of the public highway from the village of Flatbush to New Utrecht, south of the church lotts and west of the lands of the wellem Beekman." [ Liber AA, p. 157, Flatbush Records].

Court Records of Flatbush, LI, Liber B, p. 108 show that 10/15/1662 - Femmetje Hermans, widow of Pieter Janse requested that the magistrates appoint guardians for her children, Leffer and Pieter Peiterse. Jan Sebring and Peiter Lodt (both old scheppenen) were appointed.

In 12/19/1702, he signed the conveyance for his deceased first wife on her mother's land along with the other heirs and their wives.

Jan and his second wife were sponsors of his grandson Jaentien who was baptised on 4/23/1703 (son of Johannes Sebring and Aeltje Leffertse Sebring). This is the last record found on Jan - he was then 72 years old and still able to travel over the Indian trails from Bergen to the Raritan. There were then no roads through the Jerseys and were none till 1712 [The Sebring Collections, p. i-15].

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Jacob Sebering was the son of Roeloff Lucassen Seuberinge. 

He was born in 1634 at Drenthe, Netherlands.

He married Femmetje Vanderveer, daughter of Jan Cornelius Vandervere and Femmetje Isabella Bergen.

    Jacob Sebering was also known as Jacob Roelofse Seuberinge , Jacob Roelofse Sebring. 

He resided at at Raritan Valley, New Jersey, in 1685.

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Jan emigrated to America with his brother-in-law Steven Coerte Van Voorhees aboard "De Bonte Koe" in April 1660. He settled in Flatbush, L.I., and attended the Dutch Church there where his father-in-law preached. On March 6, 1674, he conveyed to the Rev. Polhemus 24 morgens of land in Flatbush which he had bought of Cornelius Smallwood and on May 17, 1681, he sold the balance of his property there and removed to Bergen, N.J. On Oct. 2, 1682, he and his wife were received into the Dutch Church there by certificate from the church in Midwout (Bergen Dutch Church recs.).

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Jan came to the New World sometime between 1650 and 1660. Some records indicate he arrived in New Amsterdam on April 15, 1660 on the ship De Bonte Koe (The Spotted Cow); however, some records indicated he may have been there as early as 1654. It is possible that either the Jan Soubanick that was listed on De Bonte Koe was not the same as Jan Sueberingh, listed in these records. More likely, Jan may have returned to his home country and made a second trip back. He died about 1703.

The name "Sebring" has been spelled many ways, including: Cebring, Seaborn, Sebering, Sebrant, Sebrige, Sebrink, Sebryng, Seubering, Subring, and Sybrink. All of these are the result of phonetic spelling and translation from the Dutch language.

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Jan Roeloffsen Seubering aka Sebring

Born 1631 in Beyle, , Drenthe, Netherlands

Son of Roeloff L. Seubering and Jeanne (des MARETS) Seubering

Brother of Willemtje R. Seubering and Lambertje R. Seubering

Husband of Adrianna Polhemius — married 1656 in Kings, Livingston, New York, United States

Father of Ida (Sueberingh) Biljou, Cornelis Janse Sebring, Cornelis Sebring, Cornelius Seubering, Willemtje Jan Seubring, Ida Suebering, Ida Sueberingh, Lucas Sebring, Katryn Jan Seubring, Maria Van Wyck, Maria VanWyck, Theodorus Van Wyck, Theodorus VanWyck, Roelof Sebring, Johannes Sebring, Roelof J. Sebring, Roelof Janse Sebring, Elizabeth Sebring, Elizabeth Seubring, Daniel Seubring, Catharina Sebering, Marietje Mary Sebring and Mary M. Sebring

Died April 23, 1703 in Bergen, New Jersey, USA

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• Residence: Drenthe,Flatbush,Kings Co,NY Hudson CO, NJ, Somerset Co, NJ
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Oct 10 2017, 2:49:58 UTC

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Oct 10 2017, 2:49:58 UTC

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Jan Roelofse Sebring 1631-1703 was born in the Netherlands and immigrated by 1659 when he is found on a list of schepens/magistrates in Midwout/Flatbush. Some think he may have arrived before 1654, and some think he may have been the "Jan Soubanich" who arrived on the De Bonte Koe in 1660. He owned land in Widout/Flatbush between what is now Flatbush and Uttica Avenues near Prospect Park, Brooklyn. He married Adrianna Polhemius (1644-after 1685) shortly after his arrival, and she was the mother of his children. They were members of the Midwout Reformed Church until 1681 and joined the Bergen Reformed Church in 1682 showing that they moved to Bergen in New Jersey. Bergen village was located in what is now Jersey City, NJ. Since grandson Folkert was born in Midwout, it seems that not all of Jan Roelofse's young adult children moved with him at that time or some returned at least temporarily to Midwout.

Children of Jan Roelofse and Adrianna Sebring were:

• Cornelius b. 1660, purchased land in Washington Valley in 1713
• Ida b. 1664, m. 1684 Isaac Billew in Bergen, moved to Raritan Valley
• Lucus b. 1666, remained in Brooklyn
• Johannes b. 1673, apparently alive 1731 if he were the Johannes Sebring involved in the Dutch Reformed Church battles with Rev. Theodorus Frelinghuysen.
• Roelof b. 1675, see below
• Marietje b. 1685 in Bergen, m. 1713 Mordecai McKenney

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