Elsje Janse1

#6906, (circa 1622 - )
Father*Jan Jansen2 (s 1600 - b 1641)
Mother*Engeltje Jans2 (s 1602 - )

Family 1

Adriaen Pieterszen b. s 1620
Children 1.Jannetje Adriaense13 (c 1643 - b 1682)
 2.Sytie Adriaense14 (c 1645 - b 1682)

Family 2

Hendrick Jochemsen b. s 1623

Family 3

Cornelis Barentsen Slegt b. s 1622
Elsje Janse was also known as Elsje Jans Brestede.3 
Her married name was Pieterszen. 
Her married name was Jochemsen. 
Her married name was Slegt. 
Birth*circa 1622She was born circa 1622 at Breestede, Denmark (now Germany).4 
Marriage*17 May 1643She married Adriaen Pieterszen on 17 May 1643 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New Netherland.5 
Marriage*between 1646 and 1662She married Hendrick Jochemsen between 1646 and 1662.6 
Baptism12 February 1662She sponsored the baptism of Jannetje DeWitt on 12 February 1662 at Kingston, Ulster Co., New YorkG; (also sponsor Jan Jansen.)7,8 
28 March 1662She was in Court on 28 March 1662 at Wiltwyck, Ulster Co., New NetherlandG.9 
6 March 1663She witnessed the Court Proceeding of Hendrick Jochemsen on 6 March 1663 at Wiltwyck, New Netherland.10 
Marriage Bann26 September 1684Marriage banns for Elsje Janse and Cornelis Barentsen Slegt were published on 26 September 1684 at Old Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster Co., New YorkG.11 
Marriage*circa October 1684She married Cornelis Barentsen Slegt circa October 1684 at Ulster Co., New YorkG.11,1 
Elsje Jans, from "Breestede" (Bredstedt), a daughter of Jans Jansen and Engeltje Jan van Breestede, came with her parents to New Netherland in 1636. She was married, on May 17, 1643, to Adriaen Pietersen van Alcmar, widower of Grietje Pietersen.
The Council minutes of that period tell us how Adriaen wooed and won her as his wife. It appears that Elsje was in the service of Cornells Melyn of Staten Island. She left the service before her term had expired, in order to marry Adriaen. Melyn was much displeased at this, and brought suit against Egbert Woutersen, her stepfather, "husband and guardian of Engel Jan, her mother," for damages on account of Elsje's marriage engagement.
Elsje appeared in court on September 11, 1642, and testified that "her mother and another woman had brought a young man to Staten Island." She claimed she had never seen him before. They desired that she should marry him. She declined at first, but finally consented. "She concluded her testimony by returning in court the pocket-handkerchief she had received as a marriage present."
Five days later she made the declaration that she sent for Adriaen Pietersen, and that on his coming to Staten Island she accompanied him on board his yawl.
A week later, Melyn and the Fiscal had Pietersen before the court, charged with Elsje's abduction. Pietersen was ordered to bring her into court, deliver her to Melyn, and receive her again from him "on giving security for the payment of the damage Melyn may have sufifered." [citation: NYGBR VII:117].
After the death of Adriaen Pietersen, Elsje married Hendricksen Jochemsen, of Esopus. After his death she married Cornells Barentsen Slecht (Sleght), who was in New Amsterdam in 1662, and at Wiltwyck (Esopus) in 1664. [ciatation: Records of New Amsterdam 1653-1674 IV:170, and T. F. Chamber The Early Germans in New Jersey 497].
Elsje had three sisters and one brother in New Netherland.12
 

Citations

  1. [S716] John O. Evjen, Scandanavian Immigrants in New York 1630--1674 (Minneapolis: K. C. Holter Publishing Company, 1916), p. 212: "Elsje Jans, from "Breestede" (Bredstedt), a daughter of Jans Jansen and Engeltje Jan van Breestede, came with her parents to New Netherland in 1636. She was married, on May 17, 1643, to Adriaen Pietersen van Alcmar, widower of Grietje Pietersen.
    ...After the death of Adriaen Pietersen, Elsje married Hendricksen Jochemsen, of Esopus. After his death she married Cornells Barentsen Slecht (Sleght), who was in New Amsterdam in 1662, and at Wiltwyck (Esopus) in 1664. Elsje had three sisters and one brother in New Netherland."
  2. [S716] John O. Evjen, Scandanavian Immigrants in New York, p. 218-9: "Jan Jansen, from "Breestede," (Bredstedt), came over to New Netherland with his parents, Jan Jansen and Engeltje Jans, and his three sisters, Elsje, Dorothea and Tryntie Jans, in 1636.
  3. [S1138] Edwin R. Purple, Contributions to the History of Ancient Families of New Amsterdam and New York (New York: privately printed, 1881), p. 21.
  4. [S716] John O. Evjen, Scandanavian Immigrants in New York, p. 212: "Elsje Jans, from "Breestede" (Bredstedt), a daughter of Jans Jansen and Engeltje Jan van Breestede, came with her parents to New Netherland in 1636. She was married, on May 17, 1643, to xdriaen Pietersen van Alcmar, widower of Grietje Pietersen.
    ...After the death of Adriaen Pietersen, Elsje married Hendricksen Jochemsen, of Esopus. After his death she married Cornells Barentsen Slecht (Sleght), who w^as in New Amsterdam in 1662, and at Wiltwyck (Esopus) in 1664.
    Elsje had three sisters and one brother in New Netherland."
  5. [S666] Samuel S. Purple, editor, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890), p. 12, 17 May 1643, "Adriaen Pieterszen, Van Alcmaer, Wede. [widower] Van [of] Grietje Pieters, en Elsje Jans, Van Breestede."
  6. [S221] Roswell Randall Hoes, compiler, Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (New York: De Vinne Press, 1891), p. 507, marr. no. 70. Cornelis Barentz Slegt (wid. of Tryntie Bos), of Woerden, in Holland, and Elsie Jans (wid. of Hendric Jochemz), of Breestee, both res. in Kingstouw[N].
  7. [S221] Roswell Randall Hoes, Baptisms and Marriages ODC Kingston, p. 2, no. 14, 1662; Baptisms by Domine Hermannus Blom, Kingston; Tierck Claese de With and Barber Andriesse; Jannetjen, 12 Feb.; sponsors Jan Jansen, Janetje Sebyns, Elsje Jans.
  8. [S663] Gustave Anjou, compiler, Ulster County N.Y. Probate Records (New York: Gustave Anjou, 1906), I:56-58, entry for Tjerck Claese De Witt, of Kingston, citing Folio 252, his will dated 4 Mar 1687 (in Dutch).
  9. [S1351] Samuel Oppenheim, translator and editor, The Dutch Records of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (n.p.: New York State Historical Society, 1912), p. 27.
    Elsje Jans, wife of Hendrick Jochemse, had attached the value of six and one-half schepels of wheat in the possession of Aldert Heymanse Roose, belonging to Barent the shoemaker, and now gives notice of the attachment. She also gives notice of another attachment of the value of five schepels of wheat and three and one-half guilders, in zeewant, in the possession of Evert Parys. "The money belongs to Jonas Ransou who owes the above named amount to me." She gives notice of the attachment of the money of Frans Pietersen in the possession of Albert Gysbertse, and "all the money that is coming to him there."
  10. [S1351] Samuel Oppenheim, Dutch Records of Kingston, p. 62.
    Before The Schout; Evert Pels, Aldert Heymanse Roose, Albert Gysbertsen, Tjirick Classen deWit.
    Hendrick Jochemsen, plaintiff, vs. Annetjen Aerts, defendant. Plaintiff demands vindication of his honor; says that defendant called his wife a whore, and charged him with keeping false books, and watering his brandy. Defendant denies the accusation, states that she said he showed her a false account, as is entered in the minutes of February 20, 1662, and demands proof of the accusation and vindication of her honor because plaintiff called her a whore.
    Plaintiff requests that justice he done him, or otherwise he will be obliged to seek it elsewhere.
    An order had been given by the Court to plaintiff, on February 6, that the parties should produce proofs, and as plaintiff has no other witnesses than his own wife, both parties are ordered to keep the peace. In addition, Hendrick Jochemse is ordered to pay a fine of twenty-five gldrs., and Elsjen Jans and Annetjen Aerts are each also ordered to pay a fine of six gldrs., to go to the poor, for having used vile and nasty language before the Court.
  11. [S221] Roswell Randall Hoes, Baptisms and Marriages ODC Kingston, p. 507, marr. no. 70. Cornelis Barentz Slegt (wid. of Tryntie Bos), of Woerden, in Holland, and Elsie Jans (wid. of Hendric Jochemz), of Breestee, both res. in Kingstouw[N]. First publication of banns 26 Sep 1684, no marr. date given. [(p. 500) Woerden is in the province of South Holland, on the Old Rhine, 18 miles E. S. E.; (p. 507) Breestee is the present day Bredstedt, a village of Sleswick, Denmark, near the North Sea and 24 miles W. S. W. of Flensborg]
  12. [S716] John O. Evjen, Scandanavian Immigrants in New York, p. 212.
  13. [S1171] Thomas Grier Evans, editor, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Baptisms From 1639 to 1730 (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901), p. 15. Jannetje, dau. of Adriaen Pietersz., Van Alcmaer [mother not named], bapt. 5 Aug 1643; sponsors D. Everardus Bogardus, Egbert Wouterszen, Sara Roelofs, Tryntje Everts.
  14. [S1171] Thomas Grier Evans, Records of the RDC in NY: Baptisms 1639–1730, p. 19. Sytie, dau. of Ariaen Van Alcmaer [mother not named], bapt. 17 Apr 1645; sponsors Jacob Roy, Constapel. Jan Janszen Cuyper, Direk Claeszen. Engel Jans, Arrientje Cornelis.