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The Van Etten Family of America, from 1658 to 1972
Jacob Jansen Van Etten (1632-ca. 1693) was a son of Johannes Marinessen Adriense and Wilhelimina Hoannes, born in Etter, Holland, The Netherlands. Jacob immigrated to land near Kingston, New York, where he worked as head farmer on the farm of Aert Pietersen Tack; Tack had abandoned his wife and farm and returned to Holland. The wife, Annetje (Arians) Tack petitioned for a divorce, which was granted, and she then married Jacob Jansen Van Etten in 1665. Des- cendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Texas, California and elsewhere.
History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill Counties
"Journal of James Young, comissary general, of the musters - from June 19 to June 26, 1756", p. 407-420; "A journal of Captain John Van Etten, at Fort Hyndshaw and Fort Hamilton, in the Pennsylvania forces, from December 1, 1756 to July 21, 1757," p. 421-455; "A journal of Colonel James Burd, from February 16, 1758 to March 10, 1758," p. 447-459; "Fragment of a journal containing an account of doings at Fort North kill ... June 13 to August 31 [1754]," p. 463-477.
Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown, Rhode Island
In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England co...
