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'''Colonial Government - ''New Jersey Colonial Assemblyman'' '''
== Biography ==
Jan was baptized 12 Apr 1654 along with his twin,<ref>Hatcher, Patricia Law. ''The Family of Phillip (Sole) Sales of the Winthrop Fleet'' (In entirety: Pgs 43-57), New England Historcal and Genealogical Register, Volume 168 (Jan 2014), Pgs 55-56.</ref> [[Teunissen-22|Denys "Nys"]] to Theunis Nÿssen in the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.<ref>Evans, Thomas Grier, Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Vol 2, Part 1, Pub 1901 by NYGBS, NY. https://archive.org/stream/baptismsfrom163921evan#page/n79/mode/2up</ref><ref>Hatcher, P. L. (2014, January). The Family of Phillip (Sole) Sales of the Winthrop Fleet. The New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 168(January 2014), 43-57. </ref>. Born in Gowanus and residing in the Ferry of Brooklyn, Jan Teunisz married at the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church on November 15, 1679, [[Bogaert-46|Catalina Teunis Boogard (Bogaert)]] of Wallabout. <ref>November 15, 1679 in Flatbush, ‘‘Jan Tunisz to Catalina Boogard’’ , Holland Society of New York. Year Book of the Holland Society of New-York. ‘‘Flatbush Dutch Church Records’’, Pg 88. New York: The Secretary, 1898. https://archive.org/stream/yearbookofhollan1898holl#page/n263/mode/2up </ref>
On 20 January1686, Jan purchased a farm at Roysfield: Jeronimous Rapalje (brother-in-law), and brothers John and Cornelius Teunissen (Jeromus Repley, Cornelius Tinnisone and John Tinnisone of Kings County, New York conveyance in Roysefield, Middlesex County, Vol B (EJ): Folio 81. <ref>Available through: NJSA Searchable Databases and Records, https://wwwnet1.state.nj.us/DOS/Admin/ArchivesDBPortal/NJProprietors.aspx </ref><ref> Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary And Post-revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. Vol 21, Page 97, January 20, 1686: Liber B, #81: https://archive.org/stream/calendarofrecord211newj#page/n221/mode/2up</ref><ref>Pearson, Pamela. Colonial Families of New Jersey. Pub 2007, Colonial Roots, Delaware. Pg 149.</ref> Again on 22 March 1686, purchased unsurveyed land totaling 660 acres along with Jeronimous Rapalje (brother-in-law), and brothers John and Cornelius Teunissen (Jeromus Repley, Cornelius Tinnisone and John Tinnisone of Kings County, New York conveyance in Roysefield, Middlesex County, Vol B (EJ): Folio 83. <ref>Available through: NJSA Searchable Databases and Records, https://archive.org/stream/calendarofrecord211newj#page/n221/mode/2up </ref><ref> Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary And Post-revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. Vol 21, Page 97, March 22 of 1686: Liber B, #83: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112103455855;view=1up;seq=117</ref><ref>Pearson, Pamela. Colonial Families of New Jersey. Pub 2007, Colonial Roots, Delaware. Pg 149.</ref>
The family resided in New Netherlands/New York until their arrival in New Jersey between 1685 and 1691, based on birth of daughter Sarah in New York and appointment of County Commissioner in Somerset New Jersey in 1692.<ref>Leaming, Aaron, 1715-1780. ‘’The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey : the acts passed during the proprietary governments, and other material transactions before the surrender thereof to Queen Anne, the instrument of surrender, and her formal acceptance thereof, Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions consequent thereof : collected by some gentlemen employed by the General Assembly, and afterwards published by virtue of an act of the Legislature of the said province with proper tables alphabetically digested, containing the principal matters in the book’' 2nd ed. Pg 322. Philadelphia: W. Bradford, 1881. https://archive.org/stream/grantsconcession00newj#page/322/mode/2up </ref> In 1694 Jan became Highway Commissioner for Somerset County, <ref>Leaming, Aaron, 1715-1780. ‘’The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey : the acts passed during the proprietary governments, and other material transactions before the surrender thereof to Queen Anne, the instrument of surrender, and her formal acceptance thereof, Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions consequent thereof : collected by some gentlemen employed by the General Assembly, and afterwards published by virtue of an act of the Legislature of the said province with proper tables alphabetically digested, containing the principal matters in the book’' 2nd ed. Pg 346. Philadelphia: W. Bradford, 1881. https://archive.org/stream/grantsconcession00newj#page/346/mode/2up </ref><ref>Snell, James P. History of Hunterdon And Somerset Counties, New Jersey: With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881. Pg 647. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89082603374;view=1up;seq=789 </ref> On March 9, 1699: John Tuynesen was appointed church elder <ref>Messler, Abraham, Forty Years at Raritan: Eight Memorial Sermons with Notes for a History of the Reformed Dutch Churches in Somerset County, N.J. Pub 1873, A. Lloyd, publisher. Pg 161. https://archive.org/stream/fortyyearsatrari00inmess#page/160/mode/2up </ref>
Jan purchased the share of 1684 property owned by brother Cornelius on 17 August 1699.<ref> Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary And Post-revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. Vol 21. 1699, pg 304. Liber G #74 https://archive.org/stream/calendarofrecord211newj#page/n635/mode/2up</ref><ref>Pearson, Pamela. Colonial Families of New Jersey. Pub 2007, Colonial Roots, Delaware. Pg 149.</ref>
In an attempt to bring together newly settled ''New Caeserea'' or ''New Jersey'', a governing assembly was structured in 1702/3. At least two family members participated in this New Jersey Colonial General Assembly, [[Thuenissen-1|Cornelius]] and Jan/John.<ref> Journal And Votes of the House of Representatives of the Province of Nova Cesarea Or New Jersey: In Their First Sessions of Assembly, Began At Perth Amboy, the 10th Day of November, 1703. Jersey City: Printed by J. H. Lyon, 1872. 1703 Assembly Record: ( http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000055483094;view=1up;seq=49 John Tunissen), http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000055483094;view=1up;seq=49 ( http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000055483094;view=1up;seq=11 Cornelius Tunissen), ( http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000055483094;view=1up;seq=235 John Tunissen)</ref><ref>Snell, James P. History of Hunterdon And Somerset Counties, New Jersey: With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881. Pg 642. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89082603374;view=1up;seq=783 </ref>
Jan served in the 1704 General Assembly in the House of Representatives<ref>Copies of original entries from the New Jersey State Archives: research received as a PDF e-mail attachment, March 10, 2016</ref> and the 1710 Sixth Assembly for the Eastern Division representing Somerset County<ref>Copies of original entries from the New Jersey State Archives: research received March 10, 2016</ref><ref>Ricord, Frederick W. and Nelson, Wm., Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol 13 or Journal of the Governor and Council, Vol 1, 1682-1714. Published Trenton, NJ, 1880. Pgs 425-426. https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelatin13newjuoft#page/424/mode/2up </ref><ref>Snell, James P. History of Hunterdon And Somerset Counties, New Jersey: With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881. Pg 642. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89082603374;view=1up;seq=783 </ref> 25 February 1707 - 23 Jan 1709, John Tunison also served as justice, county of Somerset and Middlesex. <ref>Liber AAA of Com., pg 84,113 as listed in records of the New Jersey State Archives: research received as a PDF attachment, March 10, 2016</ref><ref>Snell, James P. History of Hunterdon And Somerset Counties, New Jersey: With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881. Pg 644. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89082603374;view=1up;seq=786 </ref>
Jan (Theunissen) van Middleswart died in 1742.: <ref>Honeyman, A VanDoren, Editor, Somerset County Historical Quarterly,’’Wallerand Dumont and His Somerset County Descendants’’ Volume 1, 1912, pg 113 https://archive.org/stream/somersetcountyhi01hone#page/n121/mode/2up/search/1742 </ref>
=== Children ===Birth Record for other children in NY <ref>This citation is available through the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society through purchase or membership, it is also available on line here: Evans, Thomas Grier. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York. Baptisms From 25 December 1639, to 27 December 1730. Volume 2, Page 520. https://archive.org/stream/collectionsofnew03newy_0#page/519/mode/2up/search/Bogaert</ref>
# Jan Teunissen - b. 1679# [[Middleswart-46|Femmetje Teunissen Van Middleswart]] - August 8, 1680, parents: Jan Theunissen and Cathalyntje Teunis. <ref>Birth Records of the Dutch Reformed Church in Brooklyn. Year Book of the Holland Society of New-York, 1897. https://archive.org/stream/yearbookofhollan1897holl#page/n375/mode/2up </ref># [[Van_Middleswart-1|Teunis Teunissen Van Middleswart]] - July 16, 1682 <ref>Teunis is listed as being baptized on July 16, 1682 in the Flatbush (Brooklyn) church. His name was not in the same church records as siblings Sarah and Femmetje. His baptismal record is listed here: John Albert, 1889-. The Bogart Family: Tunis Gysbert Bogaert And His Descendants. Scranton: Privately printed by Haddon Craftsmen, 1959. Pg 108. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062847850;view=1up;seq=130</ref># [[VanMiddleswart-3|Sarah Teunissen Van Middleswart]]- February 1, 1685, Jan Teunissen, Cathalintje Teunis, parents. Witnesses: Nys Teunissen, Aertje Teunis. <ref>Birth Records of the Dutch Reformed Church in Brooklyn. Year Book of the Holland Society of New-York, 1897. https://archive.org/stream/yearbookofhollan1897holl#page/n385/mode/2up/search/Teunis</ref># [[Middleswart-48|Abraham Teunessen Van Middleswart]] 19 September 1699, Thuenissen, Jan and wife, Raritan, New Jersey.<ref> Honeyman, A. Van Doren, Editor. Somerset County Historical Quarterly, ‘’First Reformed Church, Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms, Baptismal Records From 1699’’, Pg 40, Volume 2, 1913, Pub Somerset County Historical Society. https://archive.org/stream/somersetcountyhi02hone#page/n49/mode/2up </ref>
===Land Records===
*January 1686 (above)
* March 1686 (above)
*1699 (above)
* 8 June 1703, 1,250 acres sold to “Planter” John Tuneson Van Middlesworth from John Royse on the Millstone River in Somerset County. Purchased under the Quit-Rent system. <ref> Liber H (EJ) Folio 190, available through the New Jersey State Archives.</ref>
*19 May 1724, 200 acres from John Van Middleswart to Hendrick Rooseboom and Casparus VanNoorStrandt, North side Raritan River, Somerset County. This document refers back to the March 1686 original land purchase as the location of this transaction. Jan Teunesen Van Midleswart (who was listed as Jan Tunnisen in 1684) had his share and later purchased the ‘’full and equal one third share belonging to Cornelius Tunisen’’ and conveyed this land to his son, Jan Van Middleswart.<ref>Liber K(EJ) Folio 28, available through the New Jersey State Archives</ref>
*18 Oct 1729, from Peter Sonmans to John VanMiddleswart, conveyance in Somerset County. <ref> Liber K(EJ), Folio 109, available through New Jersey State Archives.</ref> This conveyance includes the name of Abraham Dumont and is referenced in an article in the Someret County Historical Quarterly. <ref>Honeyman, A VanDoren, Editor, Somerset County Historical Quarterly,’’Wallerand Dumont and His Somerset County Descendants’’ Volume 1, 1912, pg 113 https://archive.org/stream/somersetcountyhi01hone#page/n121/mode/2up/search/1742 </ref>
=== Church records ===* 1654 1) Nijs 2) Jan, Theunis Nijssen. Wit.: Jan Evertszen Bout, Albert Corn. Wantenaer, Willem Bredenbend, Mr. Paulus Van der Beeck, Aeltje Cornelis, Grietie Jans. <br />''Note: The baptism record does not mention that they were twins which was typically the way that multiple birth baptisms were recorded in the New York Dutch Reformed Church.'''<ref>Thomas Grier Evans. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In ''Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society''. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.</ref>
* Jan Teunisz, young man, born at Gowanus, residing at the Ferry of Brooklyn, with Cataline Teunis Boogaard, young lady born and residing at the Wallabout, witness: bride's father; and married the 16th November at Brooklyn. <ref>David William Voorhees, editor, Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol.1, 1677-1720 (New York: Holland Society of New York, 1998). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".</ref># 1680 Aug 08 Femmitje; parents: Jan Theunissen, Cathalintje Teunis. Wit.: Theunis Gysbertsen, Sara Jorissen. <ref name="brookbapt"> A. P. G. Jos van der Linde, ''Old First Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, New York: First Book of Records, 1660-1752'', New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".</ref># 1682 Jul 16 Teunis; parents: Jan Teunisz, Cataline Teunis Boogaard; op Amersfoort; witnesses: Jan Hansz Bergen, Annetje Teunis. <ref>David William Voorhees, editor, ''Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York'', Vol.1, 1677-1720 (New York: Holland Society of New York, 1998). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".</ref># 1685 Feb 01 Zara; parents: Jan Teunissen, Cathalintje Teunis. Wit.: Nijs Teunissen, Aertje Teunis. <ref name="brookbapt" /># 1695 May 05 no name recorded; parents: Jan Teunisse, Cathalijntje Teunis. Wit.: Ghijsbert Bogaert. <ref name="brookbapt" /># 1699 Sep 19 Abraham; parents: Jan Thuenisse and wife. Wit.: Cornelis Thuenisse and wife. <ref>"First Reformed Church Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms", Somerset County Historical Quarterly Vol. 2 (1913): 2:40. via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".</ref>
== Sources ==
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* Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." ''freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata''. Accessed May 23, 2016. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm '''Jan Theuniszen'''
* Dobson, John Blythe. "Some Erroneous Marriages in Bergen's Kings County", ''New Netherland connections''. vol. 6. num. 4. 1996. Berkeley, CA: Dorothy A. Koenig.
* Dobson, John Blythe. ''ResearchGate.net''. Accessed 19 Oct 2016. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261251741_Some_erroneous_marriages_in_Bergen's_Kings_County
== Acknowledgments ==
* WikiTree profile Denyse-15 created through the import of Lent_Vise_2011-05-11aa.ged on May 26, 2011 by [[Sypniewski-1 | Bryan Sypniewski]].
* WikiTree profile Vanmiddlesward-1 created through the import of Lent_Vise_2011-05-11aa.ged on May 26, 2011 by [[Sypniewski-1 | Bryan Sypniewski]].
* This person was created through the import of Smith-Hunter.ged on 10 March 2011.
* WikiTree profile Vanmiddleswart-2 created through the import of DeNise.ged on Sep 24, 2011 by [[Mealy-11 | Sara Tanke]].
* Consultation with KPerry, also of Middleswarth line, in an effort to track this family line through land record, name and location changes. Thank you very much!
* This person was created through the import of grant2.ged on 07 February 2011.
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