John Adam Van Zandt

Note: ...from NYGBR vol. LXI pp. 232-4:

]OHANNES2 VAN ZANDT was born in Amheim, Gelderland, and was probably the one year old child who emigrated with his parents in 16S8, and so was born about 1657. He moved to Albany with his mother and step father, and probably married both his wives there. The name of his first wife is unknown. The Bible record states that she had a daughter Ytje, and died in childbirth. There are plenty of records to prove the existence of this daughter, who must have been born about 1679'"80. In that case Johannes probably married first about 1677-78, his wife dying in 1679-80. He married second, on Oct. 20,1681, Margaret Vanderpoel, the daughter of Wynant Vanderpoel, who was born Albany about 1665. Margaret was a sister of Gerrit Wynantszen Vanderpoel, the second husband of Catharina Van Zandt. It was from her father, Wynant Vanderpol, that the name Wynant, which continued for generations in the family, came. By this wife he had eleven children, the first six baptised at Albany, and the last five at New York. "Johannes Van Sandt" and his wife "Margariet Van Sandt" were members of the Dutch Church at Albany before 1683 On March 7, 1688-9, Abraham Isaacks, the fifth child of Jannetje Jans by her second husband, sold to his "brother Johannes ten Santen" (who signed the document "Johannus van Zant") a quarter interest in a sawmill. Records The explanatory note says "He was apparently a brother-in law of Abraham Isaacksen, ' but we now know that they were half-brothers. In April, 1693, "Johannes van Sandt was paid 6g. for doot kisse voor biddende Jongen". Mr. van Laer says this means "small coffin for beggar boy," the word biddende being used in the sense of bedelende, or begging. The boy was apparently an orphan and a pauper, who was buried by the deacons out of the poor fund. Or perhaps it means "Small coffin for French Praying Indian boy." Johannes van Sandt was evidently a carpenter by trade. Sometime between April and September, 1693, Johannes Van Zandt and his wife and family moved from Albany to New York, for on Sept. I, 1693, they presented their letters from the Albany Church to the New York Church. On April 14, 1702, Johannes Van Zandt was paid for work done at Fort William Henry. His daughter Jannetje was married tn New York on May 12, 1704, and his daughter Catherine was married in Newtown, L. I., on Jan. 16, 1712; so it seems probable that between those two dates Johannes Van Zandt and his family moved again, from New York City to Newtown, L. 1. There he died on Oct. 16,1724, "of consumption," and his wife, Margaret, followed him to the grave ten days later, on Oct. 24, 1724, "of a sore leg". We have his will, dated at Newtown Sept. 23, 17.24. In it he calls himself a "yeoman," men~tions his wife, Margaret, his sons Wynant, Isaac and Bernardus, and speaks of the "rest of my sons and daughters," but does not give their names. The will was proved Nov. 9, 1724. The dates of the signing and probating of the will of Johannes Van Zandt confirm the date of his death as given in the family Bible. In fact it is quite remarkable that nearly every entry in the Bible can be corroborated from other sources, making us positive of the truthfulness of all the statements contained therein.