Jannetje Jans Barentsen

Jannetje was born in 1630 in Holland, Netherlands.

She died at the age of 61 on March 16th, 1691 in Bergen Co., N.J..

General Notes
- In July, 1658 Laurens Van Buskirk was sent by the Orphans Master at New Amsterdam to South River (Delaware) to assist the widow of Christian Barentsen Van Horn, a carpenter, who died as a result of a malady that took many lives in that area. Four and a half months later Laurens and Jannetje married on 12-12-1658 according to the marrige registry of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam.
  
  Jannetje Jans married first Christian Barentsen of the Hoorn, Holland thus the name Van Hoorn. they came from Holland to the Dutch Settlement in Delaware first, had 3 sons Cornelius, Barent, Johannes. Then her husband died in September 1658. She moved to the New York colony and in December married Laurens Andriessen, and had the 4 sons surnamed Van Buskirk. Both Laurens and Jannetje died in 1694. She had money from her first husband, which went into the land purchases in New Jersey. Lourens was Lutheran; she had been Dutch Reformed; some of the data comes fom each churches records listed. Apparently as long as the Dutch ran the colony, everybody had to be Dutch Reformed. Only after the British took over were they free to be known as Lutherans by choice.