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Someone who will remain nameless sent me an insulting E-mail. Rather than respond to them I will respond here.
Epke JACOBSE
[2679]
1619 - ABT 1686
BIRTH: 1619, Minnertsga, Friesland, The Netherlands or Harlingen, Friesland, The Netherlands
DEATH: ABT 1686, NJ
Father: Jacob EPKSE
Mother: Reytske SICKEDR
Family 1 : Sitske DIRCKSDR
MARRIAGE: ABT 1650, The Netherlands
+Cornelisiys Epkese BANTA
+Seba Epkese BANTA
Hendrick Epkese BANTA
Dirck Epkese BANTA
Weirt Epkese BANTA
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___??__ LIEUWE ______|__
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_Epke LIEUWES _______|
| (1569 - 1630) m 1589|
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_Jacob EPKSE ________|
| (1598 - 1656) m 1618|
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| | ___??__ CORNELIS ____|__
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| |_Sil CORNELISDA _____|
| (1570 - 1630) m 1589|
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|--Epke JACOBSE
| (1619 - 1686)
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|_Reytske SICKEDR ____|
(1600 - 1652) m 1618|
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[2679] Data from Webb and McDowell. Epke Jacobs was a farmer who lived in
the vicinity of Harlingen (65 miles north of Amsterdam), an important
seaport of Friesland, the most northern of the providences of The
Netherlands. His son, Seba was born in Osterbierum and the rest of his
children were born in Innertsga. These are small towns six and nine
miles north of Harlingen, respectively. Epke probably lived between
these two villages. This part of Friesland is flat and much of it is
below sea level, protected by dikes. Epke is a rare name as no other
persons have been found to have this name. It is thought to be the
equivalent of the English Egbert as latter generations in NJ are
referred to as Egbert in some documents. In volume 14, page 90, of
the colonial manuscripts in the State Library, at Albany, NY (copied
into NY Documentary History III: 52,53) there is the bill of charges
for passage to America for Epke and his family. Translated from
Dutch, it reads:
Epke Jacobs, from Harlingen, farmer: Debit
For passage and board when he came over in the ship De Trouw, Jan
Jansen Bestevaer, skipper, Feb 12,
1659............................................fl 36
For his wife and five sons of 1/4,2,3,4, and 6
years..................................108
Cash received from Lord
Directors.............................................................
15
fl 159
Upon arrival he probably settled in Flushing. In 1669 he was still
residing in Flushing. In Liber A, pg 69, in the Surrogates office,
New York is a record that, in Sep 1669, Epke served with John
Lawrence, as an appraiser. Lawrence, subsequently the mayor of New
York was the most influential man in the area and tends to make one
think Ekpe was of sort import in the community. On Dec 29, 1671 Epke
bought a mill in the adjoining town of Jamacia. It is listed in the
Town Book of Jamicia, NY. By 1675 Epke had moved to Bergen, NJ. On
Feb 18, 1679, Epke was appointed one of the Special Court of Oyer and
Terminer to be held at Bergen, beginning the first Tues of Mar 1679.
In 1681, he purchased land in Hackensack with his sons and became one
of the earliest settlers of that ancient village. The first deed is
recorded in Trenton in Liber 2, pg 141 of deeds. and dated Jun 1681.
A deed dated Jun 17, 1685 shows Epke sold what is now known as
Ridgefield Park to Hendrick Joris Brinkerhoff. Jun 9, 1686, Govenor
Gawen Lawrie deeded 240 acres to Epke on the west side of the
Hackensack River. The deed is recorded in Trenton, Liber A, folio
323. This land covered what was formally known as Sluckup and now
Spring Valley.
The last notice of Epke found is in the "Journals of the Procedures of
the Governor of East Jersey" pages 137 and 138, dated 23 Oct 1686.
The last name Banta first appears in writing Jul 5, 1697 at the
Baptism of Epke's grandchildren. Seba's Daughter's also used the last
name Banta when she joined the church Jul 10, 1698.
According to "Banta Pioneers", Epke was the owner of a windmill near
Minnertsga, Friesland, the Netherlands. He was a miller in
Oosterbeirum and Minnertsga. In 1652, he and his wife bought a house
in the village of Oosterbeirum, but sold it at a loss in 1655,
returning to Minnertsga.
Records show that he was arrested on Oct 8, 1656 and fined for
permitting a Roman Catholic priest into his house to Baptise his child
(probably Hendrick). The state religion was the Reformed Protestant
Church. Regardless, Epke and his descendants were staunch supporters
of the Dutch Reformed Church.
It is not known why Epke and his family left the Netherlands for
America, but he is known to have had financial problems. He and his
family left the Netherlands on Feb 12, 1659 from Harlingen on the ship
"DeTrauw" for New Amsterdam. The ship sailed to the Canary Islands,
then the West Indies and then north along Virginia to New Amsterdam
(later renamed to New York by the British).
Epke and family settled in Vlissingen (now Flushing), Long Island. He
became an Innkeeper, an important person. There he spent the next 16
years. He had restless genes, though, and in 1671 he bought a new mill
in Jamaica, Long Island. Milling was his occupation in the
Netherlands, and so he was in his element. The mill was built on the
river between Old Town Neck and Long Neck. His genes were still
restless, and in 1675 he sold the mill to Joseph Carpenter and Caleb
Carmen and he moved to Bergen, Bergen Co., NJ (now Jersey City).
Epke was an upstanding and respected citizen, and on Feb 18, 1679 he
was appointed as a Magistrates Assistant to the Court of Oyer and
Terminer, under Captain John Berry. The Court, on which Epke served,
met semiannually and had jurisdiction of all indictable crimes.
Epke's sons were very active in the Dutch Reformed Church as Elders
and Deacons of the Church. It is not known where Epke was buried, or
the exact date of his death, however, Elsa Banta thinks it may have
been in the Old French Burying Ground at the site of the French Church
of Kinderkamack. He was married to Sitske Dirksda.
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