Joost Jan van Meeteren
1656-1706
Born: Meppel, Drente, Netherlands
Died: Salem, Salem, New Jersey
<a name="_Toc349695237"></a><a name="_Toc358853845"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc349695237;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: large;">Joost Jansen Van Meteren (John of New York) & Sarah Du Bois</span></span></span> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;">Joost Jansen Van Meteren, farmer, b. 1656, in Gelderland, Holland (Netherlands), d. June 13, 1707, Salem Co., N.J.; m. 12 Dec 1682, Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y., Sarah Du Bois, b. ca. 1662, Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y., d. 1726, Salem Co., New Jersey.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Parents: Jan Joosten Van Meteren and Macyken Hendricksen, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">infra</em>; Louis Du Bois and Catharine Blanchan, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">infra</em>.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Joost Jansen Van Meteren was born in Gelderland, Holland in 1656. He came to America as a child with his parents on the ship <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vos</em> [Fox]. They landed at New Amsterdam (New York City), in the New Netherlands, on April 12, 1662. They then traveled ninety miles up the Hudson River to Wiltwijck (present day Kingston, Ulster Co., New York), where they settled. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">The local Indians were called the Esopus. During the 1660s, there were many hostile incidents between white settlers and the Esopus. Following the “First Esopus War,” the Director-General of New Netherlands transported eleven Indians to Curacao, to be sold into slavery. This so incensed the Esopus that they sought revenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">The Indians had been invited by the Director-General to meet him in Wiltwijck and renew the peace. They gave no indication of unwillingness to do so. However, on June 7, 1663, in what is called the Second Esopus War, the Indians attacked and burned the town of Hurley first, killing and injuring numerous inhabitants, and carrying away into captivity a number of women and children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, the Indians, who had gathered inside the fortified town of Wiltwijck for the peace talks attacked the town and its inhabitants, causing similar devastation and taking additional captives, including Joost Jansen Van Meteren, his mother, Macyke Hendricksen van Meteren, and two of his siblings.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">The captives—one man, twelve married women, and thirty-one children—remained among the Indians for three months. They were separated from each other, and were constantly moved from place to place to avoid rescue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old squaws took charge of some. Others were held in particular families, and others still were required to accompany the Indians in their wanderings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Meanwhile, the settlers sent to New York for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On June 16, 1663, Lieut. Christian Nyssen arrived with forty-two soldiers, and on July 4, 1663, Captain Martin Kregier, an old Dutch settler, arrived with a larger force in two yachts and ample military supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But summer passed in negotiating with the Indians for the captives’ return, and in guarding the gathering of the harvest.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Finally, toward the end of summer, the decision was made to lead an expedition to rescue the captives. Information had been carefully gleaned from friendly Indians and from one or two escaped captives. A captured Wappinger Indian was employed to guide the rescue party, having been promised his freedom and a cloth coat if he led them aright, but death in case of treachery. The captives were held in the "New Fort," six miles from the junction of the Shawangunk kill with the Wall kill. [A kill is a creek.] The Wappinger Indian instructed the party of whites to ascend the first big water (Rondout) to where it received the second (Wall kill); then ascend the second big water to the third (Shawangunk), and near its mouth they would find the Indian stronghold. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">The party set out from Fort Wiltwijck September 3, 1663.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were forty-five men under Captain Kregier, with eight horses taken to bear the wounded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the company, besides the soldiers and two Negro slaves, were seven freemen, all volunteers, including Jan Joostn Van Meteren, Louis Du Bois, and Mathew Blanchan.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">On September 5, 1663, they reached the vicinity of the New Fort. The following is Captain Kregier's account:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">"September 5th. Arrived, about two o'clock in the afternoon, within sight of their fort, which we discovered situated upon a lofty plain. Divided our force in two Lieutenant Couwenhoven and I led the right wing and Lieutenant Stillwell and Ensign Niessen the left wing. Proceeded in this disposition, along the hill so as Not to be seen and in order to come right under the fort; but as it was somewhat level on the left side of the fort, and the soldiers were seen by a squaw who was piling wood there, and who sent forth a terrible scream which was heard by the Indians, who were standing and working near the fort, we instantly fell upon them.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">The Indians rushed forthwith through the fort towards their houses, which stood about a stone's throw from the fort, in order to secure their arms and thus hastily picked up few guns and bows and arrows; but we were so hot at their heels that they were forced to leave many of them behind. We kept up a sharp fire upon them, and pursued them so closely that they leaped into the creek which ran in front of the lower part of their maize land. On reaching the opposite side of the kill, they courageously returned our fire, which we sent back, so that we were obliged to send a party across to dislodge them. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">In this attack the Indians lost their chief, named Japequanchen, fourteen other warriors, four women and three children, whom we saw lying both on this and on the other side of the creek. But probably many more were wounded when rushing from the fort to the houses, when we did give them a brave charge. On our side, three killed and six wounded; and we have recovered three-and-twenty Christians, prisoners, out of their hands. We have also taken thirteen of them prisoners, both men and women."</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Having rescued most of the captives, they returned to Wiltwijck. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Young Joost Jansen Van Meteren is not named in Captain Krieger's journal of the rescue expedition, but family lore says that he became enamored of the Indians and their lifestyle during his three months in captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;">Sarah Du Bois was baptized in Wiltwijck (Kingston), New York, on September 14, 1664.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, the family moved to New Paltz, New York, which her father and two of her brothers helped found.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joost and Sarah’s engagement to marry was published in the Banns of the Reformed Dutch Church at Kingston on November 18, 1682. It was followed by the recordation of their marriage: </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;">“Joost, Jans, j.m. of Meteren, in Gelderlandt (Gelderland), resid. in Mormur (Marbletown) and Sarah Du Bois, j.d., of Kingston, resid. in the Nieuwe Pals (New Paltz). Married in the Paltz (New Paltz), 12 December, 1682.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First publication of Banns, 18 Nov.”</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;">The initials “j.m.” and “j.d.” after the names of the bride and groom are the initials for the Dutch words “young man” and “young daughter,” and meant that they had never been married before.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Sarah Bu Bois was independently involved in at least one land transaction following her husband’s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Per tradition, she was identified by her maiden name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“An Indenture dated June 19, 1714, between Colonel Daniel Coxe, of Burlington, of the one part, and Jacob du Bois, of the county of Ulster New York, and Sarah du Bois of the county of Salem, and John Van Metre and Isaac Van Metre, of the county and division aforesaid, of the other part” recites that Daniel Coxe purchased Thomas Williams’ land in Salem county—7,000 acres—in consideration of 750 pounds “lawful pounds money of New York, at eight shillings the ounce,” and that the said Coxe conveys unto the said Jacob du Bois, Sarah du Bois, John Van Metre and Isaac Van Metre, 3,000 acres beginning on a branch of the Maurice River, and being part of the 7,000 acres taken up upon the right of the three property purchases of Thomas Williamsby Daniel Coxe. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;">The Du Bois and the Van Metres then divided the land by the compass, the Du Bois taking the land on the north side of the land, and the Van Metres taking the land on the south side of the land.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John and Isaac Van Metre were widow Sarah Du Bois Van Metre’s sons, and Jacob Du Bois was her brother. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like her mother-in-law, Macyken Hendricksen Van Meteren, Sarah Du Bois Van Meteren was identified by her maiden name in legal and religious documents.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Sarah Du Bois Van Meteren was present at the baptism of her grandchild, Sara, daughter of Cornelis and Rebecca Van Meter Elting, at Kingston, in 1715. She died in 1726 at Salem County, New Jersey.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Children: <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jan Jansen aka John Van Meter </strong>(1683-1745), <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supra</em>; Rebecca Van Meteren Elting (1686-1755); Lysbeth _______ (ca. 1689- ); Rachel ________ (1692- ); Hendrick Jansen (1695-1759); Abraham (1700- ); Isaac (1702- ); Jacob (1705- ); and Malinda ______ (1710- ).</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;">I found information concerning the baptisms of some of their children in Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, as follows: (1) Jan, October 14, 1683. Sponsors Jan Joosten and Macyken Hendricksen; (2) Rebecca, April 26, 1686. Sponsors Gysbert Crom and Catryn du Bois; (3) Lysbeth, March 3, 1689. Sponsors David du Bois and Janneken Meulenaer; (4) Hendrix, September 1, 1695. Sponsors Abram de Boys, Jan Hamel.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Their children, Jan (John), Isaac and Hendrix subsequently shortened their last name to Van Metre. </span></span></p> <div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: medium;"></span></span><hr align="left" size="1"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: medium;"><!--[endif]--> </span> <div style="mso-element: footnote;"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"> Excluding the references to the Esopus Wars, the majority of this section has its origins in Samuel Gordon Smyth’s, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The origin and descent of an American Van Metre family: collated from civil, church, military, and family records</em> (Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Press, 1923).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> </div> <div style="mso-element: footnote;"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society</em>, Vol. II, p. 558, she was baptized in Kingston. </span></span></p> </div> <div style="mso-element: footnote;"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baptismal and marriage registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston : Ulster County, New York, 1660-1809</em>, by Anonymous (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1980), 506.</span></span></p> </div> <div style="mso-element: footnote;"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Id</em>., 499.</span></span></p> </div> <div style="mso-element: footnote;"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society</em>, Vol. II, p. 559-560, viewed on Ancestry.com.</span></span></p> </div> <div style="mso-element: footnote;"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: calibri;"> <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baptismal and marriage registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston: Ulster County, New York, 1660-1809,</em> by Anonymous (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1980).</span></span></p> </div> </div>
<p><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: calibri; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa;">Born in off the River Waal between Tielerwaard and Bommelerwaard in 1653 Joost Jans arrived in New Amsterdam at age 10. He was one of the captive 26 children taken by Indians in the raid of 1663. He is listed on the tax assessment roll of New Ultricht; New Jersey dated of 1665, became a member of the Dutch Protestant Church in 1677, and married 12/12/1682 to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sarah du Bois</span>. Sarah b 09/14/1662 d 1726 in Salem NJ was Louis du Bois’ infant daughter and near martyr. In 1687 Joost Jans Van Meteren took the oath of allegiance to the British crown. 1699 he became a Deacon of the church. A 1701 record of tax assessment shows 46 acres of land in New Ultricht to his name. In 1709, he moved to Middletown, New Jersey.</span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: calibri; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: calibri; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa;">The Minnisink Indians raided and burned the villages of Hurley and Kingston on June 7, 1663, carrying away among captives, the wife and two children of Jan Joosten. They were not rescued till ten weeks later on September 5 by a group of soldiers from New Amsterdam led by Capt. Martin Krieger. </span></span></p>
<p>Captured by Indians - twice </p><p>A mile and a half east of Martinsburg, Opequon Creek flows by the <br>Van Meter property, and at the junction of county routes 36 and 38 <br>rests a stone bridge, 117 feet long and 20 feet wide. Known as the <br>Van Meter Ford stone arch bridge, the structure was build in 1832. <br>It was accepted on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><p>The October 1985 issue of Wonderful West Virginia [magazine] says: <br>"One of the earliest settlers in Berkeley County, John Van Meter, <br>obtained approximately 40,000 acres of land in the lower valley of <br>the Potomac from Gov. Gooch of Virginia in the early 1700s."</p><p>To learn more of this family, we must go back to Holland. Jacob Van <br>Meteren of Breda printed the Coverdale Bible, the first in English <br>and one of the rarest of books. It is said that the Van Meterens who <br>came to America from Holland derive their name from Van (of) and <br>Meteren, a town in the province of Guelderland.</p><p>The first evidence of the presence of the Van Meter family in America <br>is contained in the list of passengers arriving on the ship Fox at <br>New Amsterdam on Sept. 12, 1662. In the list we find Jan Joosten <br>Van Meteren. His wife was Macyken Hendricksen. They are my ancestors.</p><p>In 1682, their son, Joost Jan, married Sara du Bois of Kingston, N.Y. <br>She was the daughter of Louis and Catherine du Bois, French Huguenots <br>who had fled religious persecution to the Lower Palatinate in Germany, <br>then to America around 1660. In 1663, raiding Indians captured <br>Catherine and her baby, Sara. They were later rescued.</p><p>The oldest son of Joost Jan and Sara was Jan (John) Van Meter, <br>born in 1683. In 1705, he married the daughter of another Huguenot <br>who had been smuggled out of Marseille in a hogshead on a vessel <br>bound for the New World. John died in 1745 and was buried on his <br>farm near Martinsburg.</p><p>After his first wife died, John remarried and had eight more <br>children. The youngest was Magdalena, born in 1725, who married <br>Robert Pewsy.</p><p>A newspaper genealogy column says that Magdalena, Robert and two <br>of their daughters were captured by Shawnees. It continues:</p><p>"Whatever became of the two little girls is unknown, but they <br>probably were killed by the Indians. Pewsy and his wife were <br>separated, and the latter was taken north to the lakes by another <br>tribe. ... In the meantime, while Robert Pewsy was living among his <br>Shawnee captors, he had married a squaw and had two <br>children. ... Pewsy was allowed to return to visit his former<br> home on Otter Creek. ... It is believed that Magdalena arrived <br>back before her husband."</p><p>Juanita S. Halstead<br>Scott Depot</p><p>Above is from a letter to the editor of the Charleston Gazette Online</p>
Records from Dutch Reformed Church<br>Jooste Jansen with his mother & 1 other child was taken prisoner 7 Jun. 1663 by the Minnesink Indians. They were rescued 3 months later. As a result he gained a knowledge of their habits, trails, plans & war feuds with the other tribes & was impressed by their adventurous life.
<p>.He was born in Holland, and died Abt. 1706 of Kingston, Ulster Co., New York. JOHN VAN METER: John Van Metre, a Dutchman from the Hudson, was an Indian trader and pioneer explorer of the Shenandoah Valley, who spied out the land about the time of Governor Spotswood's expedition in 1716. <br>The "History of the Valley" [p. 51] gives a traditional account of the coming of the Van Meters to Virginia and the circumstances connected therewith: "Tradition relates that a man by the name of John Van Meter, from New York, some years previous to the first settlement of the valley, discovered the fine country on the Wappatomaka [South Branch of the Potomac]. This man was a kind of Indian trader, being well acquainted with the Delawares, and once accompanied a war party who marched to the South for the purpose of invading the Catawbas. The Catawbas however anticipated them--met them very near the spot where Pendleton Court-House now stands, encountered, and defeated <br>them with great slaughter. Van Meter was engaged on the side of the Delawares in this battle. When Van Meter returned to New York, he advised his sons, that if ever they migrated to Virginia, by all means to secure a part of the South Branch bottom, and described the land immediately above 'The Trough' as the finest body of land which he had ever discovered in all his travels. <br>Subsequently his sons, John and Isaac, took his advice and petitioned Governor Gooch, in 1731, for 40,000 acres, which was granted, and which they later transferred to Jost Hite, whose wife was Anna Maria du Bois, a near relative of Louis du Bois." <br>Jooste Janse Van Metre was supposed to have died about 1706. The last record concerning him is found in the baptismal register of the Reformed Dutch Church at Raritan [now Somerville], N. J., where his name appears with that of Kathleyn [wife of Isaac] Bodyn as sponsors at the baptism of his granddaughter Sarah, the eldest child of Jan [John] Van Metere, 30th October, 1706. <br>In an article relating to the last of the Southern Indians, which appeared in the Virginia Historical Magazine [Vol. III., p. 191, footnote], it states that "Mr. John Van Meter of New York gives an account of his accompanying the New York Delaware Indians in 1732 (?) on their raid against the Catawbas. They passed up the South Branch of the Potomac and he afterward settled his boys there." The Catawbas and Cherokees were ancient foes of the Delawares and the latter drove them from their home in the Carolinas westward through Virginia and Pennsylvania and some of them finally settled in Kansas. </p><p>Above from The Blanchan Family Website</p><p> </p>