baptism

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rbillard/na_baptisms_1639-1...

1686 Nov 28; Jan de Vries, Adriaentje Dircks; Johannes; Johannes Kip, Anna Van Brug

(labeled) Jan De Vries III

Jan de Vries (II) was one of 16 farmers whose name appears on the Tappan Patent (New Jersey). He purchased two shares. One for himself and one for his son Jan deVries (III).

"From the Hudson River it was across the salt meadow and through the narrow valley of the Tappan Creek (present day Piermont, New York) that the first inland settlement to the west was made. Land was purchased from the Lenni Lenape Indians on March 17, 1682.

Five years later, in 1687, legal title to the land known as the Tappan patent, was granted by Governor Thomas Dongan of New York to thirteen Dutchmen and three free Negroes. The Tappan patent is believed to be the only land grant of its kind in the country to include both blacks and whites on an equal basis. They were all prosperous farmers from the settlement called the Bouwerie which grew up around Peter Stuyvestant's farm in what had been New Amsterdam. As their farms became crowded by the late 17th Century, they came together to purchase new unsettled lands in the wilderness. " ( ~• there seems to be an exhibit of editorial discretion here as to whether all the farmers were prosperous and happy farmers from the Bouwerie) (It is my opinion that the black de Vries and Manuels families were not so happy) The source for the quote is: http://www.oldtappan.net/index.php/town-info/history

marriage

• Johannes De Vries [j.m.], born in Tappan
Marytie Pecker [Becker], [born in the Stadycken in the Paltz in Germany and living in Tappan],

widow of Wendel Mengely January 10, 1719 [betrothed]