Lysbet Janse Van Nuys

Lysbeth Janse Jacobsen was born about 1658 in New Utrecht, Kings County, Long Island, New Netherland, daughter of Jan Jacobsen and Geertie Gysberts. Also known as Elizabeth Van Nuys (she was a step-daughter of Auke Janse Van Nuys).

On 15 May 1694 mentioned in the will of Aucke Jansen Van Nuyse as a daughter of his wife, Geetie, by her first husband, Jan Jacobse, and as wife of Dirck Janse Van Sutphen.

Children:

• 1. HENDRICKJE, of New Utrecht, L. I., bap. there Dec. 18, 1681. She m. ( 1) Peter Tiercke ( son of Thomas Tiercke, who immigrated from Holland in 1652), and (2) Benjamin Van Cleef (son of Jan Van Cleef and Engeltje Pietersen), who was bap. Nov. 25, 1682. With her second husband she re- moved to Monmouth, N. J., where, in 1711, they joined the Marlborough Dutch Church. On the records her name usually appears as "Hank" Sutphen. After her death, Ben- jamin Van Cleef remarried.
• 2. JACOB, bap. at Flatbush, L. I., Jan. 20, 1684. (He follows under No. 2.)
• 3. JAN, bap. ibid., Dec. 18, 1685. He died in infancy.
• 4. JAN, bap. ibid., Feb. 6, 1687. (He follows under No. 3.)
• 5. DrncK, bap. Mar. 3, 1689. (He follows under No. 4.)
• 6. GEERTJE, bap. May 3, 1689.
• 7. GUISBERT, b. Oct. 16, 1693. (He follows under No. 5.)
• 8. ISAAC, b. 169-.
• 9. ABRAHAM, bap. at New Utrecht, L. I., Sept. 25, 1696. (He
• follows under No. 6.)
• 10. ELSJE. Shem. Harmen Gerretse, of New Utrecht, L. I.
• 11. ELIZABETH, of Gravesend, L. I., bap. April 6, 1699. Shem.
• Daniel Lake (son of Jan Lake, Jr. and Neeltje Claessen), who was b. Mar. 10, 1696, and d. April 11, 1776. For their children see Bergen's "Early Settlers of King's County", p. 179

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Will of Aucke Jansz

Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogates Office, City of New York (Volume I. 1665-1707), Pgs. 294, 295

• “In the name of our Lord, Amen. Whereas I, Ankie Janse Van Huys, of the Town of Flatbush, in Kings County, considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour, And not willing to depart out of this world before he should have disposed of his worldly estate.”
• Leaves “to his eldest son, John Anke, procured by his lawful wife Magdalena Anke,” £1, 4s. in money. Leaves to “all his children, procured by his first wife, Magdalena Anke, deceased, and to the children of his present wife, Geetie Ankes, procured by her first husband, John Jacobse, that are named and baptized Anke,” each 6 shillings.
• Leaves all estate, houses and lands, to his Wife Geetie for life, and then to his children by his first wife Magdalena, viz., Anatie, wife of Dirck Janse Waertman, and the two children of Geetie Anke deceased, procured by Joost Fransen, viz., Sara Joosten, and Magdalena Joosten for one share. And Janettie Anke, wife of Ryne Aertsen, Jan Anke, Pontus Anke, Abigail, wife of Lippit Peterse, Jacobus Anke, and Famettie wife of Jan Stevense. And to the children of his present wife Geetie, procured by her first husband Jan Jacobse, viz. Lysbett Janse, wife of Dirck Janse Van Sutphen, and Eva Janse, wife of Jan Anke.

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References

1. The Sutphen Family: Genealogical and Biographical Notes on Nine American .…. By Van Tassel Sutphen, Abraham Van Doren Honeyman. W.G.V.T. Sutphen, (1926 - 110 pages).
2. Honeyman, A. Van Doren, “Earliest American Ancestors of Somerset Families” in Somerset County [NJ] Historical Quarterly, Somerville, NJ, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan 1917, p. 40; Information June 1997 from Jane Ten Eyck, 1022 S. Pegasus Pl., Lafayette, CO 80026-2764;
3. Voorhees, David William, Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol. I, 1677-1720, Holland Society 1998;
4. Pelletreau, William S., Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York, pub. as Collections of the New York Historical Society, Vol I 1665-1707, p. 447 (will of Dirck Van Sutphen);
5. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~conover/connet/connet-o/p4...
6. Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 7 2017, 4:51:46 UTC
7. http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Duyne-8
8. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175386561/lysbeth-janse-van_sut...

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GEDCOM Note

Not certain of mother since her father was married three times and I do not have date of deaths or births.