Re: WHO IS JAN GERRITSEN?
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WHO IS JAN GERRITSEN?
Alna Philliips 2/04/08
Hello Alna,
Is your question about Jan, baptized in 1699, around Raritan, northern New Jersey?This Jan 1699is the one,whom you determined could be a solid candidate to be the father of your line’s, Old David GARRISON, born c1717.
Here is the 1699 baptismal record for that Jan GERRITSE or Jan GERRITSEN or Jan GARRISON…this is cut and pasted from the link below:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kindred/BRar1699.txthttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kindred/BRar1699.txt
“First Reformed Church, Raritan (Somerville) Baptisms 1699-1745
“TRANSLATED AND COMPARED WITH ORIGINAL RECORDS
THE EARLIEST known ecclesiastical organization in Somerset County was that of the First Reformed Church of Raritan (now Somerville), originally known as the Reformed Dutch Church of Raritan. It was organized March 9, 1699.The church baptismal records are preserved from the beginning, the first three baptisms recorded being March 8, 1699, made, no doubt, by Rev. Guiliam Bertholf, of Hackensack, in whose presence, next day, the first elder and first deacon of the Raritan church were installed. Bertholf probably supplied the organization with preaching until 1717. The next known minister to officiate was the Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, who was called from Holland and arrived in 1720, becoming pastor of the four churches of Raritan, Three-Mile Run, Six-Mile Run and North Branch (Readington). The baptisms were written out in the Dutch language until 1720, when English, with some Dutch intermixed, was substituted. Some of the early entries, while admirably kept and well preserved, are exceedingly hard to decipher, owing to the unusual spellings (often greatly varied) of the proper names.
Source: Somerset [NJ] Quarterly, Vol. II, 1913, pgs. 38, 138, 209, and 298
“BAPTISMAL RECORDS FROM 1699
1699.
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Sept.19. [1699]
Van Vechten, Michiell and wife--Dirck. Witnesses: Jan and Kataleyne Thuenissen.
Gerritse, Fredrick and wife--Jan.
Thuenissen, Jan and wife--Abraham. Witnesses: Cornelis Thuenisse and wife.
Woertman, Jan and wife--Lisebet. Witnesses: Michiel Van Vechten and wife.”
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Hope this helps!
Dee in Cincinnati
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Re: WHO IS JAN GERRITSEN?
Dee Bardes 2/06/08