Jan and his family changed their surname to Theunise and then later changed it to Van Middleswardt. Thus, the three known children's surnames are Van Middleswardt. Jan was born in New Amsterdam (see map above) in 1654 and his wife, Catalyntje was born in Wallabout, Brooklyn, New York in 1657. They were married in 1679 in Brooklyn at the Dutch Reformed Church. Their three children, born in New York, are listed below:
1680 Femmetje
1682 Teunis
1685 Sarah, our ancestor
Jan died before 1707 at age 53 in ,Somerset County, New Jersey. Catalyntje's death date is unknown.
JAN T. D. DENYSE
BORN: 12 Apr 1654 in New Amsterdam, Kings, NY
MARRIED: 16 Nov 1679 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY
DIED: Bef 1707 in ,Somerset, NJ
CATALYNTJE T. BOGAERT
BORN: 16 Dec 1657 in Wallabout, Brooklyn, NY
DIED: Unknown in USA
SOURCES: Brøderbund Software, Inc., Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction (Release date: December 23, 1993), Internal Ref. #1.17.1.3400.3; Births and Marriages in the Reformed Dutch Church 1639-1801. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 99-101 Newbury St., Boston MA; Collections of New York Genealogical & Biographical Society. "Records of Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam & New York 1639-1801". Vol 1, 1890. Edited by Dr. Samuel Purple. Church recorded events of parishioners; !SOURCE: Ancestral File of LDS Church 1992 edition. !Sealed to parents "before 1970": IGI of LDS Church; !SOURCE: Ancestral File of LDS Church 1992 edition. !Sealed to parents "before 1970": IGI of LDS Church; AFN # 93F5-SN; B5D5-49 NAME: James Tenuise Denyse; James Teunise Nyssen; According to John Albert Bogart: Catalyna's family "settled in Raritan, New Jersey. Their descendants changed the name to Tuenison and later to Van Mittelswaert."
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