John “Jan” Winans

• BIRTH 1640 Haarlem, Haarlem Municipality, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• DEATH 16 Dec 1694 (aged 53–54) Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA
• BURIAL First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 144974425

John Winans was Dutch, a prominent man among the "80 Associates", who founded and settled Elizabethtown, N.J., 1664-5, along with brothers-in-law Jacob Melyn and Matthias Hatfield. John was well educated, had books (inventory) when books were rare, had Gold and Silver Plate and Coat of Arms. He married (1) [Aug 26,] 1664, at New Haven, Conn., Susannah Melyn.

John "Jan" Immigrated w/ brother (Barnanbus?) before 1653. It is generally believed, based on research by European genealogists, that Jan is the son (or nephew) of the famous 17th century Haarlem landscape painter Jan Wynants and his first wife. Although there is no known proof, it is thought that the painter's son (Jan) by his first wife, left home to become an apprentice to a Gobelin weaver after his father's second marriage. The son, presumably Jan/John Winans, removed to New Netherlands sometime before 1653.
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Jan sometimes signed his name Jan Wynants, which is Southern Netherlandish ("Jan Wijnants, Weaver" by Edythe D. Winans Groome, 1980)
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His marriage in 1664 in New Haven, Connecticut, is the first known record of Jan Winans in the New World. Jan and Susanna were married in a double wedding ceremony with her widowed sister Maria Paradys to Matthias Hatfield, also a professional weaver.
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Jan was granted 200 acres of land in Elizabethtown on December 9, 1676 (General Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Liber I, page 161 and Liber II, part II, page 37.)
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His will (under the name John Winance) was written February 14, 1687 and his inventory was appraised in 1695. His estate was valued at 271.15.8 pounds by Obadiah Sale and Benjamin Meeker.
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John and Susannah (Melyn) Winans' children were:
1.) John, b. [1st July] 1665, d. bef. 1673;
2.) Susannah, b. [Feb. 6] 1667, m'd, 1688, Hendrick, son of Jacob and Margaret (Stuyvesant) Backer;
3.) Elizabeth, 1669-1739, m'd Captain Ebenezer Lyon;
4.) Samuel, 1671-1747, m'd Zerviah ....;
5.) John, 1673-1734, m'd Remember ....;2 Mrs. Frances (Moore) Doddridge, widow of Philip;
6.) Joanna, b. bet. 1675-8, nothing further known;
7.) Conrad,3 b. about 1680, d. Feb. 1727-8, m'd Sarah, daughter of James and Sarah (Denham) Palmer, granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Denham, of Rye, N.Y. (see Baird's "Rye"). Two of Conrad's sons, James, b. 1715, d. Apr. 4, 1795, m'd Sarah Reynolds, b. about 1716, d. Oct. 10, 1802, and William, b. 1727-8, went to Greenwich, Conn., and later to Dutchess Co., N.Y., are ancestors of New York State Winans;
8.) Jacob, 1682-1722, m'd Mary ....;
9.) Isaac, b. 1684, d. 1723, m'd Hannah .... (ancestor of Ross Winans, of Baltimore, b. 1796, in Sussex Co., N.J.)
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Jan/John, m'd (2) about 1693, Ann Robertson, daughter of Wm. Robertson, a notable physician and large landholder. Their son, William, 1694-1763, m'd Hannah ....; he was the grandfather, by one daughter, of the wife of Colonel Edward Thomas, by the other, of Dr. William Winants, surgeon of the Revolution.

Spouse
Susannah Melyn Winans
1643–1692

Children
Susannah Winans Baker 1667–1734
Elizabeth Winans Lyon 1669–1739
Samuel Winans 1670–1747
John Winans 1673–1734
Jacob Winans 1684–1723

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Immigrated w/ brother (Barnanbus?) before 1653

Jan sometimes signed his name Jan Wynants, which is Southern Netherlandish ("Jan Wijnants, Weaver" by Edythe D. Winans Groome, 1980)

His marriage is the first known record of Jan Winans in the New World. Jan and Susanna were married in a double wedding ceremony with her widowed sister Maria Paradys to Matthias Hatfield, also a professional weaver.

Jan, along with brothers-in-law Jacob Melyn and Matthias Hatfield, was one of the original "Associates" who founded and settled Elizabethtown, New Jersey about 1664. He was well educated, as evidenced by the number of books in his home.

He was granted 200 acres of land in Elizabethtown on December 9, 1676 (General Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Liber I, page 161 and Liber II, part II, page 37.)

His will (under the name John Winance) was written February 14, 1687 and his inventory was appraised in 1695. His estate was valued at 271.15.8 pounds by Obadiah Sale and Benjamin Meeker.

Besides household goods and weaving apparel, he owned gold and silver plate. The inventory of his property included six oxen, six 3-year-old steers, six cows, nine 2-year-old cattle, seven 1-year-old cattle, three calves, 60 sheep, one mare, 22 swine, one cart and wheels, one sled, two yoke and yoke irons, two chains, and one plow and iron harrow. [Jan Wijnants, Weaver by Edythe D. Winans Groome, 1980] ("As We Were - The Story of Old Elizabethtown" by Theodore Thayer, 1964)