Johannes ‘Jan’ Dirkse Van Eps

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Killed in the Schenectady Massacre (1690)

Jan Van Eps and his sonne and 2 of his Children kild." (4) "List of ye People kild and Destroyed by ye French of Canida and there Indians at Skinnechtady twenty miles to ye Westward of Albany, between Saturday and Sunday ye 9th day of February, 1689/90.

Jan Van Eps was the only son of Dirk Van Eps and Maritie Damens. The father died early and the mother married two husbands afterwards, the last of whom was Cornelis Van Nes of Albany.

With Jan Van Eps were also killed three of his children, and a fourth, Jan Baptist, then seventeen years of age was carried away by the French. He remained with the Indians three years, but finally escaped in one of their excursions against the Mohawks. On account of his familiarity with the language of the natives, he was often employed by the Governors of the Province as an interpreter.

The Van Eps house lot was on the north corner of Church and State streets and embraced about two hundred feet on each street.

The east half, including the corner, was early sold to the Bratts.

It is probable that Van Eps resided upon the west half at the time of massacre.

GEDCOM Note

Killed with some of his children in the massacre of Schenectady NY in 1690
Called Jan in some records
Dutch pioneers bought the site of Schenectady from the Mohawk Indians in 1661. Schenectady was chartered as a borough in 1765 and as a city in 1798.
French and Indian Wars
King William's War (1689-1697) was named for King William III of England. It grew out of the struggle in Europe called the War of the League of Augsburg (see GRAND ALLIANCE). The war began when Indians allied to the English raided French settlements near Montreal. The French and their Indian allies struck back against New York and the New England colonies, attacking Schenectady, N.Y., and Salmon Falls, N.H., in 1690. The English responded in the same year by seizing Port Royal, the seat of the government of the French territory of Acadia. They also launched two unsuccessful assaults on the province of Quebec, one each in 1690 and 1691. The war ended in 1697 with the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick. This treaty gave back to England and France all the American land they had lost during the war.