ID: ind00369
Name: Hester Douw JANS
Given Name: Hester Douw
Surname: Jans
Sex: F
Birth: 1615 1
Baptism: 2
Death: 1690
Age: 75y 3
Event:
Funeral 4
Burial: 5
Education:
Note: b. Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; d. Albany Co., NY; after Jellis' death, Hester m2. Barent Gerritsen in 1660 who died in 1663 (killed by Indians); then she m3. Theunis Dirckse VanVechten in 1670; Hester's maiden name was VanArentsvelt; the Dutch family tree lists her as Hester Douwedr, using her father's first name in Dutch tradition; another source lists her father as "Douwe Janzoon deVries VanArentsvelt". Another lists Jans as Hester's maiden name, which is from her mother, Maria Jans; Barent Gerritse married Hester Fonda, widow of Jillis, sometime between 1656 and 1661 and was killed in the second Esopus War in 1663. Hester and daughter Sara were taken prisoner by the Indians. The widow eventually returned to Albany, her name appearing in occasional Albany records, as late as 1681. She had apparently made a third marriage to Theunis Dirckz Van Vechten, sometime before 1672; [R023] Founders and Patriots of America Index; [R065] A Career Woman in 17th Century New York (Hester Jans); [R043] De Fryske Ofstamming Fan Myn Fiere Efternicht Jane Fonda; [R004b] American Ancestry; [R048a] Old Dutch Families: Fonda Family; [R126] Famous Frisians in America >> www.fonda.org <<
Father: Douw Janszoon VANARENTSVELT b: 1580
Mother: Maria JANS b: 1589
Marriage 1
Jellis Douw FONDA b: 1614
- Married:
10 FEB 1641
Religious Marriage 6
- Note: m. Diemen, near Amsterdam, Noord, Holland, Netherlands
Children
 Douw Jellis FONDA b: 24 NOV 1641 Giertje Jellise FONDA b: 22 SEP 1643- Sara Jellise FONDA b: 18 JUN 1645
- Abraham Jellise FONDA b: 14 APR 1647
Marriage 2
Barent GERRITSEN b: 1620
- Married:
1660
Religious Marriage
Marriage 3
Teunis Dirckse VANVECHTEN b: 1610
- Married:
21 MAR 1670
Religious Marriage
Sources:
- Title: A Career Woman in 17th Century New York (Hester Jans)
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Fonda Family
Publication: New York, NY
Issue: F17
Edition: Vol. 95, No. 5 (July 1964), pp.129-137
Note:
FondaHester
- Title: De Fryske Ofstamming Fan Myn Fiere Efternicht Jane Fonda
(The Frisian Descent of My Distant Cousin Jane Fonda)
Fonda Family
Publication: Leewarden, Netherlands
Publisher: Genealogysk Jierboek, Fryske Akademy
Publication Date: 1986
Issue: F11
Edition: p.64-68
Author: Van der Meer, D.J.
Note:
FondaJane
- Title: American Ancestry
Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans whose Ancestors Settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence
Compendium
Publication: Albany, NY
Publisher: J. Munsell Co.
Publication Date: 1887
Issue: C3
Edition: Vol. I, p.28
Author: Hughes, Thomas P.
Note:
CompAmerAncesSett
- Title: Founders and Patriots of America Index
National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
Compendium
Publication: Washington, DC
Publisher: Geneological Publishing Co., Inc.
Publication Date: 1909
Issue: C7
Author: Mrs. Herman E. Weston, National President
Note:
CompDFPAIndex
- Title: Early Irish in Old Albany, N.Y.
with special mention of Jan Andriessen, "De Iersman Van Dublingh"
Compendium
Publication: Boston, MA
Issue: C1
Author: Danaher, Franklin M.
Note:
CompAlbanyEarlyIrish
Text: [...the court records show that on August 18, 1651, "Thomas Konnig abused the court as an unlawful court, taking materials from the sayings of Dyckman, who sang the 82nd Psalm and called the high council rogues and tale bearers in presence of Evert Pels, Art Jacobse and Gillis Fonda."]
Note: CompAlbanyEarlyIrish
- Title: Amsterdam Records of the Fonda Family
Fonda Family
Publication: New York, NY
Publisher: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Issue: F1
Edition: Vol. 119, No. 1 (January 1988), pp.1-5
Author: Cooney, Robert G. Jr.
Note:
FondaAmsterdam
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