Annetje Janse

Was widowed (when?), and her will divides her estate between her son and her daughter Maycke, and provides that Maycke will divide her own estate among her six children.

quotes are from Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry: and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: Priv. print., 1932). Wyckoff descendants and researchers looking for less humble origins in Europe should delve deeper into the ancestry of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff’s wife, Grietje van Nes, daughter of Cornelis Hendricsz van Nes and Maijgen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff.

“Pieter Claesen van Norden arrived at Fort Orange (Albany) from Holland with his master, Simon Walichz, in the year 1637. The vessel that sailed from Amsterdam, Holland, on September 25, 1636, was the Rensselaerswyck, which arrived at New Amsterdam on the following March 4, 1636-37, and proceeding up the Hudson River, reaching Fort Orange on April 3, 1637. Pieter Claesen van Norden was a passenger on it. According to the account books of the colony of Rensselaerswyck, Pieter Claesen’s services began April 3, 1637. [Van Rensselaer-Bowier MSS, p. 810.] [page 101]

“…Pieter Claesen and his sons assumed the surname of Wyckoff circa 1687.” [page 120]

“This emigrant [Cornelis Hendricksz van Nes] represents an inviting prospect for an inquiry in Holland… If one may judge by his material position and his prominence in public office in America, his career in the Netherlands should not only be of record there, but should be of some interest and importance, locally at least.” [page 183]

“Maijgen Hendricks van den Burchgraeff was the only daughter of Henrick Adriaensen van den Burchgraeff who died in Holland before June, 1635, when her mother, his widow, Annetje Janse, made a will.” [page 184]

“Maijgen’s widowed mother, Annetje Janse, of Laeckervelt, a manor near Vianen in Holland, bequeathed her in 1635, for the term of her life, the annual income from land at Scherperswijck—the name of the southern part of the polder of Leksmond, near Vianen, in the province of South Holland.” [page 185]