Crijn Jansen van Mater

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• Residence: 1698 - New Utrecht, Kings Co., New York, USA
• Residence: 1709 - Middletown, Monmouth Cty, New Jersey
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• Emigration: 1663
• Census: 1698 - New Utrecht, Kings Co., New York, USA
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Detached as husband from Catharine Sadiogawa Van Mater on June 25, 2024. She has been alleged to be a wife of this Crijn, but that is not mentioned in the curator note above and he appears to be have only married Neeltje Jans van Cleef. Further research is warranted.

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Surname has also been reported to be:

• Van Meeteren
• Van Meter
• van Mater / Van Mater

Given name has also been reported to be:

• Crijn Jansen
• Kreijn
• Kreljn Janse
• Kreyn Janse
• Kryn Janse
• only Kryn
• Kyrn
• Chrineyonce
• Quinn Jans

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be March 10, 1650 at Den Bommel, Goeree-Overflakkee, (now South Holland), (nowadays Netherlands) <unattested>.

links

• http://www.vanmetre.com/papers/family%20for%20scott%20part%20two.pdf
• https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/kryn-jansen-van-meteren_3...

content to clean up

See also: Quirijn Gijsberts van Meteren

http://www.davidkfaux.org/files/VanMeterHypothesis.pdf

Emmigrated 1663. Married 16 September 1683. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

His mother is unsure

Pages 90 & 91 of Unrecorded Wills and Inventories Monmouth County, New Jersey:

VAN MATRE, KRYNE of Middletown, Mon. Co., Yeoman, "Being ingood and perfect health." Dated Apr. 26, 1719. Proved by oath of William Lawrence, Junr, and Hendrick Smock, "two of the Evidences," who saw the other wits. sign; before John Barclay, Surrogate, Mch. 21, 1719.

"My Will is that My Son John Van Matre shall have and keep that Fifty-one pounds which I formerly paid to Ryk "Hendrickson for and towards a plantation for my said Son John, without being accountable to my Executors for the "same..."; " .... that at the time of the Marriage of My Daughter Yda she shall have two Cows and fifteen "pounds and my daughter Angletye to have at the time of her Marriage two Cows and fifteen pounds, And My daughter "Cornelia to have at the time of her Marriage two Cows and fifteen pounds to be delivered to them out of my perfonal "Estate by my Executors ...."; "to my loving Wife Neeltye Van Matre the use of my plantation and the use of the "Remainder of my personal Estate .... during the time that she shall Remain my Widow and after her decease or "Remarriage .... that the personal Estate that she has the use of be Equally divided Amongst all my Chilldren, "Namely, John, Yda, Ghisbert, Angeltye Benjamin, Cornelia, Sirynus and Joseph"; " .... my whole Real Estate ".... after the death or Remarriage of my Wife which shall first happen to my fowr Sons Namely Ghisbert Van "Matre, Benjamin Van Matre, Sirynus Van Matre and Joseph Van Matre as followeth, viz.... that if my Son Ghisbert shall within .... Three Years Next after the decease or Remarriage of my Wife pay unto my daughter Yda "or her heirs the Sum of Seventy-five pounds, that then I give .... One full and Equal fourth part of my Real "Estate to him ... his heirs ...., And if my Son Benjamin shall within .... Three Years Next "after the decease or Remarriage of my Wife pay unto my daughter Angeltye or her Heirs, the Sum of Seventy five pounds "then I give .... One full and Equal fourth part of my Real Estate to him .... his Heirs .... And "if my Son Sirinus shall live to the Age of Twenty-one years, and shall within three years after the Decease or Remarriage "of my Wife or at the Age of Twenty-One Years which shall last happen, pay to my Son John or his Heirs, the Sum of "Seventy-five pounds then I Give .... One full and Equal fourth part of my Real Estate to him .... his "Heirs .... And if my Son Joseph shall live to the Age of Twenty-One Years, and shall within three Years after the "Decease or Remarriage of my Wife or at the Age of Twenty One Years which shall last happen, pay to my daughter Cornelia "or her Heirs the Sum of Seventy-five pounds then I Give .... the Remaining fourth part of my Real Estate to "him.... Joseph his Heirs .... if Either of the said fowr Sons depart this Life before he attain the Age of "Twenty-One Years, or leave Issue of his Body, that then that fowrth part of my Estate be Equally divided between the "Remaining Three, they paying that Sum to the person that the party deceased was to pay .... I .... give "power to my Executors .... to divide my Lands in fowr Equall parts .... to my said fowr Sons."

Nominates "My two friends and Brothers in Law Benjamin Van Cleave and Philip folcoettson to be the Executors ...."

Wits.: kr"n G[orF]auffen van meteren Jacobus Swett [or Scott] Hendrick Smock John Lawrence Thomas Lawrence Willm Lawrence Junr

Oath of Executor, Benjamen Vancleave, before John Barclay, Surrogate, May 25, 1720.

New Jersey Historical Society. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.

Page: 480 Name: Kryne Jansen van Matre Date: 26 Apr 1719 Location: Middletown, Monmouth Co. yeoman; will of. Wife Neeltye. Children--John, Yda, Angletye, Cornelia, Ghisbert, Benjamin, Sirynus and Joseph. Real and personal estate. Executors--brothers-in-law Benjamin van Cleave and Philip Folcoertson. Witnesses--Jacobus Swett (?), Hendrick Smock, John Lawrence, Thomas Lawrence, Wm. Lawrence junior. Proved March 21, 1719-20.

Page: 480 Name: Quiryn van Matre Date: 07 May 1720 Location: Middletown, Monmouth Co. Inventory of the personal estate, £194.11.4, incl. a large Bible and four other books £4.10, a bond of Hugh Fraizer £8.10, 163 bushels of wheat at 3/4, £27.3.4; made by Wm. Lawrence, Johannes Smack, Auken Hetfelsen and Wm. Lawrence junior.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176151392/john-van_cleef
Benjamin Van Cleef was baptized on 25 November 1683 at New Utrecht, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, sponsors Nicolaas Rutgers, Helena Cordeljau. David William Voorhees, editor, Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol.1, 1677-1720 (New York: Holland Society of New York, 1998), page 426. Joseph & Benjamin; parents: Jan Van Kleef, Engeltje Van Kleef; op Utrecht; witnesses: Quirin Jansz van Meteren, Neeltje van Kleef; & Nicolaas Rutgers, Helena Cordeljau.

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https://www.ancestry.ca/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=5&p=surnames.v...
16. Crein(Kryn-Cryn) Janse (Chrineyonce) Van Meteren, born 10 Mar 1649/50 in Bommell, Gelderland, Holland; died 10 Mar 1719/20 in Middletown, Monmouth, NJ. He was the son of 32. Jan Gysbertsen Van Meteren and 33. Ceytie Van Cleef. He married 17. Neeltje (Nelly) Van Cleef 9 Sep 1683 in New Utrecht, Long Island, NY. 17. Neeltje (Nelly) Van Cleef, born 1 Jan 1662/63 in New Utrecht, Long Island, NY; died 1 Jan 1746/47 in Middletown, Monmouth, NJ. She was the daughter of 34. Jan Cornelissen Van Cleef and 35. Engeltje Louwerens.