Joost "Joseph" Vanzeis

Joost or Joseph Van Sice, eldest son of Johannes Joosten was baptised on Jan. 4, 1699 in New York City. He was a gunsmith and armorer, and as a young man appears to have moved to Schenectady where he founded that line of the family. There is an account of Joseph Van Sice for services as a blacksmith in the Seneca country dated Sept. 15, 1726 and a commission for him to be an armorer to the Indians in the Seneca Country on Aug. 25, 1732. On Mar 24 1732 he witnessed the will of Cornelis Van Der Volgen whose widow he shortly married as his 2nd wife. He married (1) Helena Magdelena, dau. of Jan and Geesje (Veeder) Vroomna (born 10 Nov 1707, Vrooman Genealogy page 18) and they had Johannes, bp. 16 Jan bp. 23 Jan 1726 in Schenectady, sp. Gisbert Van Brokel, Maritie Vromans (aunt and her husband); Judickje, m. Henricus H. Veeder. On Nov. 8, 1732 Joseph m. (2) Elisabeth, dau. of Jacobus Peek, widow of Cornelis Van Der Volgen, and had the following additional children: Jacobus, bp Schenectady 19 Aug 1733, sp. Judith Verwey, wed: van Seisse (grandmother), Jacob Schermerhorn. Corneius bp. Schenectady 29 Mar 1737; Petrus; Margariet. Source: Van Sise family. New York: Published 1959 - Page 6 http://0-persi.heritagequestonline.com.alpha1.suffolk.lib.ny.us/hqo...

Van Sice (Seyssen), JOSEPH (Joost), m. first, Helena Magdalena, dau. of Jan Vrooman, and secondly, Elisabeth, dau. of Jacobus Peek, and wid. of Cornelis Van der Volgen, Nov. 8, 1732. In 1735 he lived on lot now occupied by William McCamus & Co.; was a gunsmith and armorer. Ch. bp: Johannes, b. Jan. 16, bp. Jan. 23, 1726; Judickje, m. Henricus H. Veeder; Jacobus, Aug. 19, 1733; Cornelis, March 29, 1737; Petrus; Margariet, m. Doctor Dirk Van Ingen. Source: Contributions for the genealogies of the descendants of the first settlers of the patent and city of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800 by Jonathan Pearson (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1873) http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/firstsettlers/vanerde_va...