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Immigrant from Holland ~1654

Annetje Daniels was likely born in Amsterdam. The Dutch naming tradition would indicate that her father's given name was Daniel. In Amsterdam, about May of 1649, Annetje met and married Joseph Waldron, who had two children from a previous marriage. His young Sarah was 3 years old, the other child probably younger, its mother having likely died in childbirth. It is unclear whether the young children lived with the newlyweds Joseph and Annetje, or with their father's mother, Maria Goverts. Joseph gave bonds for the children's maintenance before he remarried, and after immigration sent part of his salary back to his mother, until 1661.
Joseph and Annetje had a house near the hoeck of Passenger Street in Amsterdam. Two children were born to them there: Daniel in 1650 and Mary in 1652. Two years later the brothers Joseph and Resolved Waldron (II) arranged for passage to the Dutch colony in America, along with their families.
On their arrival in New Amsterdam the two families bought a house together on Broadway near Wall Street. (Here at Wall Street, a wall had been built by earlier colonists, to protect themselves in the Indian wars.) The two families joined the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam. Joseph and Annetje had three more children: Anna born in 1657, Deborah (who died in infancy, date unknown), and John born in 1661. Joseph was employed as butler to the garrison and in charge of the magazine of the company until his death in 1663. His youngest child was apparently 2 years old.
Annetje had requested funds to return to Holland, whether to stay or for a visit, but it is unclear whether surplus funds remained from Joseph's estate. In any case she remarried in New Amsterdam, in 1668 to Harman Smeeman, a mill owner. Young John was seven years old when his mother remarried; the next year he died accidentally in his step-father's mill. Annetje and Harman Smeeman were married less than 14 years. She remarried a third time in 1682 to Coenraet Ten Eyck. By 1668 she was again a widow. On 10 May 1668 Annetje transfered ownership of some city property to her son Daniel. Afterward, she was payed by the government "for tending sick soldiers."
Thirty-eight years of the life of Annetje Daniels are accounted for, between her first marriage and third widowhood. Her birth and death dates are unknown.
This biography extracted from "Harlem (City of New York), Its Origin and Early Annals", by James Riker, NY 1881, digitized by Google; see web address below for additional notes, and for descendants.)

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 11        Generation 12
                                        
                                        
                  +-- Joseph Waldron  
                  |   (????-1663)       
                  |                    
 Daniel Waldron --+                     +-- Daniel Damma
 (1650-????)      |                     |
                  +-- Annetje Daniels --+
                                        |
                                        +-- unknown
 Sources: [1][3]

Step-Children

(2 children of Joseph Waldron and first wife Aeltie Hendricks )

Children

( children of Joseph Waldron and Annetje Daniels )

Places of Residence

Sources

Source notes

• Number of children:"Harlem (City of New York), Its Origin and Early Annals", by James Riker", leaves a question regarding the total number of children of Joseph Waldron.
  -Riker discusses Joseph's two children by first wife Aeltie Hendricks and says one of these two perhaps remained in Holland as "it is not named in our records here..."
  - quoting proceedings of the orphans court, 1663, Riker says "appearing that there were six minor children, two of whom were by a former marriage"
  - Riker names six children, 5 with birth dates. Sarah's birthdate places her as a child of the 1st marriage. Deborah's date is unknown, but the statement that she "died in infancy" would imply that she was not the child left in Holland to be raised by the grandmother. The children are named by Riker in birth order, so far as indicated by birth dates given. Deborah was named next to last, but without birth date.
  This would seem to indicate at least 7 children total, 6 of whom were minors in New Amsterdam at the time of Joseph's death.
  -Specifically named as 2nd wife Annetje Daniels' child is "son Daniel Waldron", to whom she leaves land, along with "son-in-law Delamontagne", implying that Anna Waldron (Delamontagne) was likely her daughter (if the term "son-in-law" had strict usage).
• Date of immigration: "Harlem (City of New York)" by James Riker, in the biography re. Resolved Waldron says that he immigrated in 1654, and that he then, with his brother Joseph and their wives, were received into the New Amsterdam church. The implication is that Resolved & Joseph immigrated together, but the year of Joseph's immigration (& Annetje's) is not explicit. Other sources indicate Joseph immigrated first, in 1652; see his page.
• Coenraet Ten Eyck: per sources [37][38][39]cited by "The Young Family", James C. Moule, Coenraet Ten Eyck was born 1617 in Moers, Germany [37]; married 15 Apr 1682 [39]; died ca. 1687 New Amsterdam age 70 [38], [39]. Occupation shoemaker, tanner. Reformed Dutch Church [37]; came from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam before 1640. [38]

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