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JANNEKEN ADRIAENS-

-1674
Born: Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Died: New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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  • Story: "SANNA" Susannah Melyn,Winans 1643-1689 "THE PEACH WAR OF 1655"

    Jan Winans &amp; Susannah Melyn, a couple who lived during the early years of New Amsterdam. Susannah, sometimes referred to as Sanna, came from an influential family with a turbulent history. When Susannah was only 4 years old her father was banished from New Netherlands and sent back to the Old World aboard the ship, &ldquo;The Princess&rdquo;. Why was Melyn banished? He initiated a protest against the prevailing Director-General of New Netherlands regarding treatment of the native Indians.<p>Director-General Kieft, in his paranoia, had the local natives slaughtered for little cause and, as a result, they retaliated in full. It became a two year war (1643-1645) known as Kieft&rsquo;s War or Wappinger War (named after the prevalent opposing tribe). According to S. Beck&rsquo;s book, &ldquo;New Netherlands and Stuyvesant&rdquo;, 1600 natives perished during Kiefts war. The European population of New Netherlands, at the time, was 250. Cornelis Melyn&rsquo;s property was attacked in 1643 and he had to abandon his land, home, cattle and, in fact, his entire estate because of this war singlehandedly started by Kieft. This was the same year that Susannah was born.</p><p>Cornelis Melyn wanted justice. In early 1647 he spearheaded a group of eight men to write up a complaint against Kieft, (by this time his reign as leader was over), and presented it to the Old World powers that be.</p><p>On 25 July 1647, Peter Stuyvesant, the new Director-General, feared that this group of eight would eventually turn on him, so he passed judgement on the case with a 300 guilder fine and a seven year banishment for Cornelis Melyn. Melyn&rsquo;s collegue, Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, was fined 150 guilders and three years banishment. They were to return to the Netherlands aboard the &rdquo;Princess&rdquo; and their prision &ldquo;guard&rdquo; was Kieft, himself, dominating over them on the trip.</p><p>How frustrating it must have been for Melyn and Kuyter to be prisioners under the man they accused. I&rsquo;m certain there was no kindness spared on them. However, fate dramatically stepped in. The &rdquo;Princess&rdquo; went off course and crashed into rocks near Swansea UK. Only 20 people survived (out of 101), including the two prisioners Melyn and Kuyter. Willem Kieft went down with the ship. There is speculation that one of Cornelis&rsquo;s sons, either Joannes (age 18) or Abraham (age 12) may have died on the ship as well.</p><p>Melyn returned to New Netherland in March 1649 when Susannah was almost 6 years old. Two years had passed since Susannah had last seen her father and although one could imagine a memorable reunion the truth was that her father was hardly ever home, even before he was forced to leave.</p><p>Susannah was the third youngest of 11 children (two died young) and the first to be born in the New World. Her father, also a Patroon of Staten Island, travelled at least 11 times back and forth across the Atlantic to secure the settlement of the new colony. It was Sanna&rsquo;s mother, Jannetje, who was left in charge of the family.</p><p>It was an uneasy time to live in the new world, especially without the constant help of a marriage partner. In 1655 their son was killed in an attack known as the &ldquo;Peach War&rdquo;. A Dutch farmer shot and killed a Wappinger woman he caught stealing a peach from a tree in his garden. Her relatives were enraged and formed a search party to find and destroy the farmer. In their path they burned farms, killed 50 Dutch lives, and took another 50 hostage. Susannah&rsquo;s parents lost their 22 year old son Cornelis and a son-in-law, Claes allertsen Paradys. Another son-in-law, Jacob Schellinger, was one of the 50 hostages. Their 15 year old son, Jacob, &ldquo;was much wounded, but recovered, not without great difficulty&rdquo;. Sanna was only 12 when this massacre tore her family appart. (As a note, her first brother named Cornelis did not live past his third birthday. The two sons named after their father both had short lives).</p><p>When Susannah married Jan Winans she must have been prepared for a life of motherhood, uncertainty, and hard work, but the celebration of their marriage must have been a joyous family event because they shared their wedding day with Sanna&rsquo;s sister Maria and her new husband Matthias Hatfield. (It was Maria&rsquo;s first husband, Claes allertsen Paradys, who died in the 1655 massacre).</p><p>Together Jan and Sanna had at least 9 children. Jan was a founding father of Elizabethtown New Jersey and is one of the &ldquo;80 Associates&rdquo; connected to the town. He was a substantial landowner. At his death he owned around 200 acres of property. He owned many books (a rare commodity), a Gold and Silver Plate and a Coat of Arms.</p><p>Susannah&rsquo;s great grandparents, Lambrecht Melyn &amp; Perynken Van Hernitem, were also married in August (6 August 1553) at the very famous 14th Century, Church of Our Lady, Cathedral in Anterp Belgium.</p>

  • Story: Indian Uprising On Staten Island

    <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066"><font size="4">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong> Indian Uprising on Staten Island</strong></font></font></font><p><font size="4"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1655, a colony on Staten Island, under Baron Hendrick Van der Capellen,&nbsp; was destroyed by indians.&nbsp; The colonists were taken prisoner. This colony was headed by a Captian Adrain Post.</font></font>&nbsp;</font></p><font size="4"><p><br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Captain Post&nbsp; had cultivated friendly relations with the Indians and familiarized himself with their language, an acquisition which was destined to be of much service to him at a most critical period in his career. As a result of the 1655 Peach Tree Indian War which broke out over Hendrick Van Dyke&#39;s shooting of a Native woman stealing peaches from his tree in Bergen, the settlements on the lower North (Hudson) river and around New Amsterdam (New York) were distorted by Iroquois attackers.</font></font> </p><p><br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The flourishing colony did not escape in the general attack made by the Indians upon the whites, and on the night of 15 September 1655,</font></font> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">the colony on Staten Island was burned to the ground by the Natives from Hackensack. Twenty-three persons were killed on Staten Island,</font></font> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">and sixty-seven were taken prisoners, among being Captain Post, with his wife, five children (Adrian, Maria, Lysbeth, and two unknown children) and a servant girl. (N.Y. Col Docs, XII, 98)</font></font> </p><p><br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An example of the confidence the Indians had in his integrity is the fact that in Oct. 1655 the Hackensack Chief, Pennekeck, sent Captain Post with fourteen of his fellow prisoners over to New Amsterdam to ask the Director-General for powder and lead in exchange for these captives. Captain Post made the journey between New Amdersdam and the Native headquarters at Paulus Hook, Bergen, several times before an agreement was reached. On 21 October fifty- six captives were released in exchange for powder, lead, guns, blankets and wampum. Among those freed were Adrian&#39;s wife and children. He had another conference with the Hackensack Chiefs, Pennekeck and Oratamy, on October 26, and would seem to have been successful in securing the release of all prisoners after a time. (N.Y. Hist MSS, I, 153; N.Y. Col. Docs., XII.,46,47,48.)</font></font> </p><p><br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Upon effecting his own exchange, the faithful superintendent returned to Staten Island and hunted up the few head of cattle left, but owing to the complete destruction of the crops, buildings and other property, most of the cattle had died, and he was obliged to sell others to obtain means to maintain his wife and children. (N.Y. Col. Docs, XIII.,206.)</font></font>&nbsp;<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When Van der Capellen heard of the great havoc made by the Indians in his colony, he instructed Captain Post to gather together the survivors and to erect a fort on the Island and also&nbsp; to keep the people provisioned. This, however, was impracticable, as the Captain with his starving family during the ensuing winter were obliged tocamp out under the bleak sky without any protection or means of defense. The authorities recognized the insurmountable difficulties in the way of protecting the colony, and decided to withdraw the soldiers and abandon him to his fate unless he would remove with his people and his patron&#39;s cattle to Long Island. (N.Y. Col. Doc.,XIII, 60-1.) The creditors of Van der Capelle, seeing the desperate condition of the colony, he began to harass Post for the payment of the Baron&#39;s debts, and suit was brought by Jacob Schellinger and others against him as agent for the Baron for payment of a note; and <font color="#ff0000"><strong>Janneke Melyn</strong></font> claimed as hers some of the few</font></font> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">cattle still in Post&#39;s possession. ( Cal. N.Y. Hist MSS I., 164.)</font></font> </p><p><br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under his accumulating hardships and exposures and harassment&rsquo;s, Post fell sick, and in the following April his wife was constrained</font></font> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">to petition the authorities for a postponement of the suit brought by Schellinger, and to urge that the soldiers might be allowed to remain</font></font> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">for the present on Staten Island. The soldiers who had escorted her to New Amsterdam were directed to return with her to Staten Island,</font></font> <br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">but they become tired of their exposure on that desolate spot, and declared they would not accompany her. (Cal, N.Y. Hist. MSS., I., 165.)&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">Direck van Schelluyne, for and on behalf of Madam Post, in view of her husband&#39;s continued illness, petitioned on 27 April 1656 the Director-General and Council at New Amsterdam to send an armed force to the Island for the protection of the rights of Baron van der Capelle de Ryssel, Patroon of that place, and for somebody else to take care of the property during Captain Post illness. The authorities, however, insisted that there was nothing on the Island worth preserving but the cattle, which ought to be removed to Long Island, and as the population consisted of only six or seven persons (Captain Post, his wife, five children, one male and one female servant), it would be folly to send a garrison for their protection.</font></font> <br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">The armed force was accordingly refused. (Cal. N.Y. Hist. MSS., I., 165,166,638.) On 20 July 1656, Schellinger recovered judgment against</font></font> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">Post on a note signed by <font color="#ff0000"><strong>Cornelius Melyn</strong></font> and others, claiming to be agents of Baron van der Capelle. (N.Y. Col. Docs.,XII., 170.)</font></font> </p><p><br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The attempt at colonizing Staten Island by individual enterprise having failed, the Island was purchased by the West India Company, to</font></font> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#000066">whom nineteen persons presented a petition, August 22, 1661, for tracts of land on the south side, in order to establish a village, which was allowed by the Company, Captain Post being one of the grantees. (N.Y. Col. Docs.,XIII., 206) It is probable, however, that he did not avail himself of the grant, but removed to Bergen (now Jersey City, N.J.) about this time, if, indeed, he was not already a resident there. In 1662, he was one of petitioners to have a clergyman settled at Bergen, and promised to contribute twenty florins therefore yearly. (N.Y. Col Docs MSS XIII,,233.)</font></font> </p></font><p>&nbsp;</p><p>http://longislandgenealogy.com/SIIndians.html</p>

 
 
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