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Données personnelles JOOST HENDRICKSON (NY 1662) van METER 

• Il est né en l'an 1660 dans HOLLAND.
• Il est décédé le 13 juin 1706 dans New Jersey, il avait 46 ans.
• Un enfant de JAN JOOST (NY 1662) van METER et MACYCKEN (HENDRICKSON) HENDRICKS
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 12 juillet 2023.

Famille de JOOST HENDRICKSON (NY 1662) van METER

Il est marié avec Sarah Blanshan DuBois.

Ils se sont mariés le 12 décembre 1682 à Kingston, Ulster County, NY, il avait 22 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. John (Jan Jansen) Dubois (VA) van Meter  1683-1745 
2. Rebeccah Dubois van Meter  1686-???? 
3. Catron Dubois (VA) van Meter  ± 1688-???? 
4. Lysbeth DuBois van Meter  1689-????
5. Isaac Dubois van Meter  1692-1747 
6. Henry DuBois (NJ) van Meter  1695-1795 
7. Abraham DuBois van Meter  1700-???? 
8. Jacob DuBois van Meter  1705-????
9. Melinda DuBois van Meter  ± 1705-????

Notes par JOOST HENDRICKSON (NY 1662) van METER

ANCESTOR OF TED MOORE THRU FATHER

Joost Jansen Van Meteren
Birth: 1660 Meteren, Geldermalsen Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: 13 Jan 1706 (aged 45œ46) Daretown, Salem County, New Jersey, USA
Burial: Old Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Daretown, Salem County, New Jersey, USA
Memorial #: 184623335
Bio: Married on Dec 12, 1682 in Kingston NJ

Found this on the internet:
Only a year after arriving in America little Joost Jansen Van Meteren had an adventure which set the pattern for his whole life and planted the pioneering seed which flowered in succeeding generations. He was captured by the Indians. On June 7, 1663 while the men were away working in the fields the Minnisink Indians entered several villages under the pretext of selling vegetables and. suddenly began murdering their unarmed victims. They took all they could find of value, set the villages on fire and took about 45 women and children captives. Among them were Jan Joosten's wife Maycke and son Joost from Wiltwyck and Louis DuBois' wife Catherine Blanchan and baby daughter Sarah from Esopus. Joost and Sarah were later to be married. For three months the men searched the Catskills, but had no success until on Sept. 3 a friendly Indian gave a clue to the location of the captives. A rescue party was formed led by Louis DuBois and Capt. Kreiger whose journal relates this event. Meanwhile, since the Indians were running short of food and winter was not far off they had decided to burn some of their Captives. Catherine DuBois and her baby Sarah were selected to be first. When the Indians were about to put the torch to her pyre she began to sing the words of the 137th Psalm. Enchanted by her voice they demanded that she continue to sing, Of course, she did. The approaching rescuers heard her, were guided to the spot, attacked the Indians and released all the prisoners. Little Joost, too young to be much affected by the horrors of captivity, thoroughly enjoyed his three months of Indian life. Later as an adult he frequently left home to spend many weeks at a time with various tribes. In this way he was among the first whites to explore the wilderness areas to the west of the coastal settlements. He was particularly impressed by the beauty of the Valley of Virginia and urged his sons to settle there, which they eventually did. Thus began the pioneering spirit of the Van Meters who for the next 200 years were among the first settlers and participants in the key events which shaped the nation as it thrust evermore westward.

Let's trace this activity in more detail, beginning with Joost's father Jan Joosten Van Meteren, our immigrant ancestor. In 1667 he was elected an elder in the Dutch Reformed Church in Wiltwyck and became more and more prominent in civil and religious affairs. His house was a popular place for baptisms. In 1673 he was elected one of the four magistrates of Hurley and Marbletown. Beginning in 1689 he began to accumulate land grants in the Province of East Jersey on the South Branch of the Raritan River in the area of the present Somerville, New Jersey in Somerset County. Here he owned 1835 acres, the home for a number of years of Joost, his sons and grandsons. Jan Joosten Van Meteren died in New Jersey in about 1706.

Joost Jansen Van Meteren, who sometimes called himself John Van Meter, married Sarah DuBois at New Paltz on December 12, 1682. About 15 years later he moved his growing family to Somerset County, New Jersey on his father's land which he later inherited. Joost and Sarah seem to have had five sons, but only three of them are well known. John, our ancestor, was the eldest, baptized in Kingston, N.Y. on October 14, 1683. The others were Isaac, Henry, Abraham and Jacob. There also were four daughters Rebecca, Lysbeth, Rachel and Malinda.

John and his first wife Sarah Bodine had three children born in Somerset County and baptized in the Reformed Dutch Church on the Raritan at Readington. Soon after Sarah died in 1709 John married again to Margaret Mollenauer and had eight more children including our Isaac Van Meter, born in Somerset County on June 3, 1713. Isaac grew up in Somerset County, married Alice Scholl there in 1736 and had three children who were baptized In the Readington church, including our Johannes, or John, baptized June 6, 1740.

In the meanwhile the Van Meters were on the move again. Joost's sons John and Isaac and Henry, aided by their widowed mother Sarah DuBois Van Meter, began buying land in Salem County, New Jersey in 1714 until they owned about 6000 acres there in the vicinity of Pittsgrove and Daretown. Joost's son Henry settled in Salem County and except for a few years in Virginia lived out his life there. John and Isaac, however, heeding the advice of their father to settle in the rich lands of the Valley of Virginia, were anxious to move on to the south.

A brief account such as this must skip entirely over most branches of the family and even neglect the details of the particular branch of interest. Much of the past still has not been retrieved, but an amazing amount of information is nevertheless available, patiently collected, studied and pieced together from deeds, wills, court and church records, family Bibles, local histories, census records, genealogical publications and correspondence by dedicated family historians over a period of a great many years. Readers who wish to learn more than this brief sketch provides are most welcome to direct their inquiries to:

James T. Van Meter
1201 Yale Place Unit 208
Minneapolis, MN 55403-1955
Phone: 612-349-4681
Family Members
Parents
Jan Joosten Van Meteren 1630-1706
Macyken Hendricksen van den Oever Van Meteren 1624-1706
Spouse
Sarah DuBois Van Meteren 1662-1726
Children
John Van Meter 1683-1745
Rebecca Van Meteren Eltinge 1686-1755
Lysbeth Van Metre 1689-Unknown
Isaac VanMeter 1692-1757
Henedrix Van Metre 1695-Unknown
Created by: J.L. (47713575)
Added: 25 Oct 2017
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184623335/joost-jansen-van_meteren
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184623335/joost-jansen-van_meteren: accessed 12 July 2023), memorial page for Joost Jansen Van Meteren (1660œ13 Jan 1706), Find a Grave Memorial ID 184623335, citing Old Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Daretown, Salem County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by J.L. (contributor 47713575).

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