Jan Cornelis BUYS

Abt 1629 - Aft 1689  (~ 60 years)

• Name	Jan Cornelis BUYS
  Birth	Abt 1629
  Gender	Male
  Name	Jan DAMEN
  Will	29 Nov 1689	Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
  Death	Aft 29 Nov 1689
  Probate	28 Jan 1690	Kings County, NY
  Notes	(1) Totten, John Reynolds, "Jan Cornelis Buys (alias Jan Damen) and His Three Wives," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 66 (1935), pp. 227-229, 233-236: JAN CORNELIS BUYS, known as the soldier, emigrated in 1648. From the RECORD, Volume 54:306, we obtain the following item: "Gleanings from Book 2 of Conveyances, Brooklyn, Kings County, N. Y." p. 179: John Cornelis Buys, aged 38 years and Dirck Jansen, aged about 32 years, acknowledge they heard Jan Evertse Bout in the house of Jan Damon (i.e. Damen), tavern keeper in Brooklyn, say that he did not give Adam Brewer, the above property, but [did give it to] Adam Brewer's children (Statement not clear). Both sign August 27, 1667, in presence of Pieter Janse School and Denys Isaac Van Sartervelt, "honest persons." John C. Buys signs by mark and Arent Evertsen is an extra witness for Dircke Janse. Acknowledged and recorded September 12, 1698, before me Henry ffilkins, Registrar. If John Cornelis Buys was 38 years old on August 20, 1667, he was born in 1629 or earlier; and as he came over to this country in 1648, he was 19 years old when he emigrated and was about 22 years old when his first child by Eybe Lubbertse was baptized (BDC, I:33). This statement made in 1667 was not recorded until 1698 - at the time of the settlement of the estate of Adam Brouwer, whose will was probated at that time. Jan Cornelis Buys took the oath of allegiance in Brooklyn in September, 1687, he having then been 39 years in this country (HSYB, 1896:162). On December 4, 1654, he was granted a patent for 25 morgens of land across the North River, between Gemoenepoe and Kil van Kol (New Jersey). (CDM:381). He resided at the Wallabout and was a member of the Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn in 1677 (Stiles Brkn., I:427). He was on the assessment rolls of Brooklyn in 1675, 1676 and 1683 (Stiles Brkn., I:430, 434, and 437). He obtained a patent in 1662 from Governor Stuyvesant for 28 morgens of land in Flatbush, lying between the farm of Cors Jans Boomgart and that of Adriaen Hegeman, and also for plain-land and salt meadow, as per Liber A.:31 of Flatbush records. He was occasionally referred to on the records as Jan the soldier (KCo., 56). F. W. 132 gives the following item: 564-1649, December 12. Will, written in Dutch of which the following is an abstract of the translation thereof: DAMEN, JAN JANSEN, of Manhattan Island, mentions: Wife _____ [Not named]; son of deceased sister, Hendrickie Jans, now living with the testator and called Jan Cornelissen Buys, alias Jan Damen; brothers [i.e. brothers of the testator] Cornelis Jansen Cuyper, Cornelis Jansen Damen and Willem Jansen Damen; sister [i.e. sister of the testator] Neltie Jane Damen; the poor of Bunick in the Diocese of Utrecht. Mentions real estate and personal property. Witnesses: Thomas Hall, Cornelis Cornelissen Van Houten and Jacob Kip, Clerk (N. Y. Col. Manuscripts, III:72-73 and CDM.:51). HNN., I:434-5 gives the following item: Jan Jansen Dam (or Damen) married Ariaentje Cuvel. He removed subsequently to New Amsterdam [where his name appears on the records as early as April 19, 1638 (CDM:1)] ; he was elected one of the Twelve Men and also of the Eight Men (NNR. 52, 54). He amassed a considerable wealth and was one of the owners of the privateer La Garce. In 1649 he went to Holland with C. Van Tienhoven, to defend Stuyvesant against the complaints of Van der Donck and others, and died on his return on June 18, 1651. He does not seem to have had any children. He had three brothers: Cornelis Jansen Cuyper Cornelis Jansen Damen and Willem Jansen Damen; and two sisters: Neeltje and Hendrickje. He adopted the son of the last named sister - Jan Cornelis Buys - who assumed his name, having been left 600 Car. guilders. Jan Jansen Damen, at his death, willed 400 Car. guilders to the poor of Bunick, in the province of Utrecht. The inventory of his personal property fills 10 folio pages in the records. From the above items we see that JAN CORNELIS BUYS (alias JAN DAMEN) was the son of a Cornelis Buys and his wife Hendrickje Jans Damen, and was the nephew and adopted son of Jan Jansen Damen. Items of interest relative to Ariaentje Cuvel (or Cuvilje), wife of Jq,n Jansen Damen, may be seen in CDM:1, 53, 63, 123 and 326 and relative to Jan Jansen Damen in same volume, 1 to 55, inclusive. In connection with the statement of HNN, 434-5, which says that Jan Jansen Damen "does not seem to have had any children," I call attention to the following item (CDM, 1): "April 30, 1638, Report, William Weyman and Jan Tomassen Groen, referees of the settlement made by Ariaentje Cevely on her children." It would seem from this item that if she had any children that they were by some other husband than Jan Jansen Damen. That she did have children by another husband is demonstrated by the following item quoted from NAP, 306-7: Our information upon this point is derived from the Journal of the Labadist missionaries, Danker and Sluyter, who visited New York in 1679. While in the town they lodged with one Jacob Hellekers, the site of whose house is now occupied by the building No. 255, Pearl St., near Fulton St. They were therefore near neighbors to Jan Vinje, with whom they soon became acquainted. He was then, they tell us, about sixty-five years of age, a prominent man, well known to all the citizens, many of whom had themselves resided in the town and had been intimately acquainted with him for from thirty to forty years. It was the common understanding that he was the first person born in the colony, and the date of his birth would therefore go back to the year 1614. His parents, so the Labadists inform us, were Guillaume Vigne, and his wife Adrienne Cuville, from Valenciennes in France. How they came to be at New Amsterdam in the early days of the trading-post we do not know, but there is certainly nothing improbable in the assertion that a trader or an officer of the post should have had his family with him at New Amsterdam. In the mouths of their Dutch neighbors, the husband became known as Willem Vinje, and his wife as Adriana Cuvilje. There is reason to believe that Willem Vinje was the first tenant of the farm laid out north of the present Wall St. by the West India Company, and that he died there. In 1632 his widow married Jan Jansen Damen, with whom the farm is more generally associated. At the date last named, as we axe informed by an instrument in the Albany records, of the four children of Willem Vinje and his wife, two were married, Maria (to Abraham Verplanck), and Christina (to Dirck Volckertsen), while two, Rachel and Jan, were "minors"; as both of the latter, however, were married within the next six years (Rachel to the Secretary Van Tienhoven), they must have been in the latter years of their minority in 1632, and the age of Jan Vinje, according to the Labadists, which would have been seventeen or eighteen at that time, is thus confirmed. . . . Adriana Cuvilje was the widow of Gulyn (Guilliam, Willem) Vinje; by whom she had four children, one of whom, Rachel, married Secretary Cornelis Van Tienhoven; so Jan Jansen Damen became Van Tienhoven's stepfather-in-law, which accounts for his active support of Van Tienhoven and also of Governor Kieft. From CDM, we obtain the following items: November 29, 1663, Petition of Cornelis Jansen [Vanderveer] of Midwout, for pardon, he having accidentally killed Jan Damen's son, aged 8 years (CDM, 255). November 19, 1663, Gerrit Cornelis of Midwout, in support of the above petition (CDM, 255). November 24, 1663, Lammetje, wife of Jan Strycker, in corroboration of the above (CDM, 255). November 25, 1663, Baltus Barents to the same effect (CDM, 256). November 25, 1663, Jan Strycker, to the same purport (CDM, 256). November 20, 1663, Declaration of Jan Cornelis Buys of Midwout, father of the deceased boy, forgiving Cornelis Jansen [Vanderver] for the above accident (CDM, 256). November 20, 1663, Declaration of Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt, Thys Lubertsen, Gerrit Lubbertsen, relatives of Jan Cornelis Buys, forgiving Cornelis Jansen [Vanderveer] for the accidental killing of the above lad (CDM, 256). November 29, 1663. Order on the above petition, allowing Cornelis Jansen [Vanderveer] freedom from arrest for three months to establish his innocence (see post Vol. 10, Part III, p. 12) (CDM, 256). January 10, 1664. Petition of Cornelis Jansen [Vanderveer] from Alakmaer, now of Midwout, praying a pardon for the accidental manslaughter he committed (CDM, 258). These above-cited articles taken as a whole show that Jan Cornelis Buys and Jan Damen were one and the same person. The child accidentally killed was 8 years old in 1663 and hence was born in 1655-6. From BDC, I:41 we have the item: "Lubbert, son of Jan Corn Buys and Ybetje Lubberts was baptized. Sponsors: Jan Damen [i.e. Jan Jansen Damen, the uncle and adopted father of the child's father] and Pietertje de Ruyter." This child Lubbert was undoubtedly the child that was accidentally killed. RNA, 11:93 gives us the following item: May 1, 1656, Jan Corns Buys, alias Jan Damen and Lubbens Gysbertsen, widow, request permission to tap, as they have been driven from their houses by the last trouble with. the Indians. Whereon is endorsed :?Petitioner's request is granted like others. This item shows that Jan Cornelis Buys had the alias of Jan Damen and corroborates the statement in the will of Jan Jansen Damen and the items concerning the accidental killing. In the RECORD, 47:163 there appears what seems to be a satisfactorily correct abstract of the joint will of Jan Cornelis Buys and his third and last wife Willemtje Tyssen. The original of this will was written in Dutch and the original will is said to be recorded in Liber I, 203 of Conveyances and the English translation in Liber 1:75 of Conveyances. The English translation is very poorly expressed and the following may be said to be an abstract thereof containing all essential testamentary facts: Will of Jan Buys and Willemtie Tyssen of Breucklyn in Kings County [who were then husband and wife]. The will being a joint will [and written in preparation for the death of either one or of both]. Dated November 29, 1686, and proved January 28,1689-90. Half of whole estate to children procured [by the testator] by Ebye Lubberse [his first wife], Femmetje Janse [the testator's second wife] and Willemtje Thyssen [the testator's third and last wife and the joint testatrix], and the children procured by Roelof Willemse [the first husband of Willemtje Thyssen the joint testatrix] in equal shares. Children of Willemtie Thyssen [by Roelof Willemse]: Machtiltie and Willem Roelofse. Hillitie and Thys Buys, children of the joint testators. To Willem Roeloffse, 100 guilders, wampum. Residue of whole estate to children of the testators [i.e. children of Jan Cornelis Buys and Willemtje Thyssen]. Witnesses: Jeronimus Rapale, Hendrick Sleght. signed Jan Buys and by the mark set by Willemtie Tyssen This will being in Dutch, after the same was translated into English and the witnesses were sworn, it was ordered recorded by the Court of Sessions held for this County (Kings) the 28 day of January 1689-90. This will shows that Jan Cornelis Buys and his third wife Willemtie Thyssen were both alive on November 29, 1686, and that either one or presumably both were dead on January 28, 1689-90. JAN CORNELIS BUYS married as his first wife IDA (YBE, YBETJE or EYBE) LUBBERTZE, the date of this marriage was early enough for him to have a child born to him by Eybe Lubbertse and baptized November 3, 1652 (BDC, I:33). EYBE LUBBERTSE died prior to August 24, 1663 (Brkn. :141), as on that date "Jan Corneliszen Buys married his second wife Femmetje Jans"?as will later be shown. The parentage of Eybe Lubbertse is not at present determined. From Liber D. p. 283, Flatbush Town Records we obtain the following item: Jan Cornelisz Buys, widower of Eeybe Lubbers, deceased, on April 24, 1668 A.D., declares that on that date he had the following named surviving children begotten by the aforesaid Eeybe Lubbers deceased, viz.:?Corneles, Henderickyen, Tryntigen, Diefverien and Nelien, over whom Jan Vanderbyldt and Gerrit Lubbersz were appointed guardians. (See also RECORD, 47:163.) Note that in the list of his children by Eeybe Lubbers, living on April 24, 1668, no mention is made of a child named Lubberts. * * * JAN CORNELIS BUYS married as his second wife FEMMETJE JANS: "August 24, 1663 Jan Corneliszen Buys, widower of Ybe Lubberts was married to Femmetje Jans, widow of Teunis Nysse. Married at Middelwoud with letters from Breuckelen" (Brkn., 141). Femmetje Jans died and was buried in the Flatbush Church, December 13, 1666 (Flat. Frost, Burials:16). We have no record of baptism of any child of Jan Cornelis Buys by his second wife Femmetje Jans. The records, however, seem to indicate that he had at least one child by her. In the joint will of Jan Cornelis Buys and his third and last wife Willemtje Thyssen we have the following quoted item in which Jan Cornelis Buys refers to his children, "procured by Eybe Lubberse, Femmetje Jans and Willemtie Thyssen.["] We have baptismal records of his children by Eybe Lubbertse, and his children by Willemtie Thyssen are mentioned by name in the will and we have baptismal record of one of them. Therefore it seems that on November 29, 1686?the date of the will?there must have been living issue of Jan Cornelis Buys by Femmetje Jans. It is for this reason that we ascribe . . . [Jacob Janse Buys] to the mother Femmetje Jans, and this child must have been born between August 24, 1663, and December 13, 1666. * * * JAN CORNELIS BUYS married as his third wife on some date between December 13, 1666, and January 14, 1674, WILLEMTJE THYSSEN, widow of Roelof Willemszen. From KCo, 389 we obtain the following items: ["]ROELOF WILLEMSE from Beverwyck (Albany) married WILLEMTIEN _____. They were members of the Dutch Church, Brooklyn, in 1663." "ROELOF WILLEMSE married WILLEMTJE TYSON after 1663, and she married as her second husband JAN CORNELIS BUYS. ROELOF WILLEMSE died prior to 1686. They had the following-named children: Roelof and Machteltje Roelofse." ROELOF WILLEMSE and WILLEMTJE THYSSEN had 3 children two of whom are mentioned in the joint will of Jan Cornelis Buys and Willemtje Thyssen made November 29, 1686, and the other, whose name is given by KCo. 389; and his name is not mentioned in the will of 1686, hence he was either dead on that date, or KCo. is in error in having recorded him. From Flat. 134 we obtain the following item: "December 25, 1684. Wilhelmus, son of Landolphus Evans and Margriet Bleuw was baptized. Sponsor: Willemtie Thyssen." This was apparently the last appearance of Willemtje Thyssen on the church records.
  Person ID	I11922	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Cornelis BUYS
  Mother	Hendrickje Jans DAMEN
  Family ID	F5716	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Ida LUBBERTZE
  Marriage	Bef 3 Nov 1652
  Children	1. Cornelis Janse BUYS,   b. Bef 3 Nov 1652   2. Hendrick Janse BUYS,   b. Bef 15 Mar 1654   3. Lubbert Janse BUYS,   b. Bef 2 Feb 1656   4. Neeltje Janse BUYS   5. Divertje Jans BUYS   6. Jan Jans BUYS   7. Tryntje Janse BUYS   8. Abigail Janse BUYS   9. Hendrickje Janse BUYS
  Family ID	F5715	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Phaebea FAELIX,   b. England d. Bef 13 Dec 1666
  Marriage	24 Aug 1663
  Notes	(1) Totten, John Reynolds, "Jan Cornelis Buys (alias Jan Damen) and His Three Wives," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 66 (1935), pp. 233-234: JAN CORNELIS BUYS married as his second wife FEMMETJE JANS: "August 24, 1663 Jan Corneliszen Buys, widower of Ybe Lubberts was married to Femmetje Jans, widow of Teunis Nysse. Married at Middelwoud with letters from Breuckelen" (Brkn., 141).
  Children	1. Jacob Janse BUYS,   b. Between 24 Aug 1663 and 13 Dec 1666
  Family ID	F5694	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 3	Willemtje THYSSEN   d. Aft 29 Nov 1689
  Marriage	Between 13 Dec 1666 and 14 Jan 1674
  Children	1. Thys BUYS,   b. Bef 14 Jan 1674   2. Hilletie Janse BUYS
  Family ID	F5713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024