Aerjan "Adrian" Jans

Notes:

Emily Stowell writes, in her historical novel AMERICAN NOMADS, that Adrian Jans "came to Draedvadt in 1657 (when the) Indian troubles had just hotted up...Governor Stuyvesant sent (Adrian) to help move the scattered settlers' houses into the village and help put up the palisades. He was a house carpenter...(during the warfare with the Esopus tribe, the tribe) ambushed the soldiers and settlers down by the ball court near the Strand, collected the ransom for their prisoners, then tortured and killed seven of them....Adrien was one of the sorry seven. Burned alive like the rest..." (Stowell, p 78).

Aerjan married Geerthen Jans before 1645. Geerthen was born before 1625 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dirck Adriens was born before 1645 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; died on 7 Jun 1663 in New Netherland Territory.
2. Anneke Adriens was born on 29 Aug 1645 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; died after 1690 in New York.