Notes for Jan Roelofson Sebring: Jan Sebring immigrated to America with his brother-in-law Steven Coerte Van Voorhees aboard the ship De Bonte Koe in April 1660. He settled in Flatbush, Long Island, and attended the Dutch Church there where his father-in-law preached. On March 6, 1674, he conveyed to the Rev. Polhemus 24 morgens of land in Flatbush which he had bought of Cornelius Smallwood and on May 17, 1681, he sold the balance of his property there and removed to Bergen, N.J. On Oct. 2, 1682, he and his wife were received into the Dutch Church there by certificate from the church in Midwout (Bergen Dutch Church recs.).
Notes for: Jan Roeloffsen Sebring In the book "Some Descendants of Mordecai McKinney," published in 1953 and edited by Gerald McKinney Petty and Eulah McKinney Ridgway, it states that Roelof came to America about 1660 on the ship "De Bonte Koe" (Spotted Cow). He settled in Flatlands on Long Island. Jan was brother-in-law to Steven Coerts, immigrant ancestor (from Drenthe) of the Van Voorhees family, aboard the "Bonte Coe". The Voorhees were ardent Leislerians. Jan lived in Flatbush. In 1681, moved to Bergen, NJ.
Wayne (from the Dutch Colonies List at Rootsweb) said that Jan and Adrianna Sebring were mentioned first in the Midwout area in 1671. He also found this: Left for Jamaica Theodorus Polhemus and Catharina Polhemus, Elisabeth Polhemus x died 30 Sept. 1683 (Flatbush Church Records, by David Voorhees, p. 359) and on the same page they had the same note for Jan Sebring and Adrianna Polhemus).
According to a question posted by Kristen Finch on the Polhemus page of www.genforum.com, Johannes Polhemus may have been the pastor at Midwout in the mid 1600's. Kristen asked, "Was he a pastor at the Ref. Dutch Church in Midwout (Flatbush), New Amersfort and Brooklyn app. 1655-1677?"
Their children listed here (except for Catherine) come from page 20 of "Sebring Collections."
"SEBRING COLLECTIONS," the Genealogy and history or the Family compiled by Walter Wilson Sebring and John Cletus Sebring (1908-1967) Lib. of cong Cat#74-33138.
More About Jan Roelofson Sebring: Emigration: Apr 15, 1660, From Drenthe to New Amsterdam on the De Bonte Koe.
More About Jan Roelofson Sebring and Adrianna Polhemus: Marriage: Abt. 1660, Flatbush, New York.
Children of Jan Roelofson Sebring and Adrianna Polhemus are:
+Marietje Sebring, b. 1685, Bergen, New Jersey, d. Abt. 1780, Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Jan Roelofson Sebring (b. Abt. 1631, d. Apr 23, 1703)
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