Johannes Baptiste Van Eps

Captured in the French and Indian raid on Schenectady (1690).

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"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 and his sonne and 2 of his Children kild." (4)

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.