Jan Roelofsz (Eltinge) Elting (1632 - 1729)

Born 29 Jul 1632 in Swichtelaer (now Zwiggelte), Beylen, Drenthe, Nederland

Husband of Jaquemijne Cornelis Slecht — married 1672 in Kingston, Province of New York

Descendants

Died 21 Feb 1729 at age 96 in Hurley, Ulster, New York

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Biography

Jan Eltinge, son of Roelof Eltinge and Aaeltjen Eltinge, was born in swichtelaer, being in the territory of Beylen, part of the province of dren[te/the] in the Year 1632 the 29 July old style, and has received his Christian baptism from our Reverend Lord and father-in-law D[omin]e Johannes Beeltsnyder and was named Jan Eltinge, born from pious and Worthy Parents, who have always had a good Reputation among us/ and whose family is ever famous[,] of which his H[onor] has desired our testimony that we could not refuse him But extended to him this our certificate that should suffice for its purposes. Actum [in] Beylen the 20 January 1680 Guiljelmus Hofstede Edels Beylensis et Classis/Meppelana p t Deputatus Maria Eltinge his sister was born the 28 februar[y] in the year 1630. Old style Bartelt Eltinge his Brother as born then 18 Dece[mber] in the year 1631. ^[1]

The Elting Family by The Bevier-Elting Family Association maintains an excellent biography of Roelof, Jan Roelofsz and Roelof Jansz Elting.

Although there were no Eltings among the twelve Patentees, the Elting family was an important one in the story of New Paltz. In almost any one of the original families one finds a connection with the Dutch Eltings. ^[2]

Jan Roelofsz Eltinge, was born in the hamlet of Swightelaer (Zwiggelte), near the town of Beijlen (Beilen) in that province on July 29, 1632. Jan Elting came to America in 1657. By 1665 he owned land on Long Island. When the British took over the colony he was unable to cultivate his land and chose instead to travel north. He was a carpenter by trade and in 1672 married Jacomijntje Cornelisdr Slecht in Kingston. He was later one of the witnesses to the signing of the agreement with the Native Americans in 1677 for the New Paltz Patent. He moved to Hurley, near Kingston, where he became a prosperous farmer.

In the mid-1650’s Jan, a carpenter by trade, renounced in favor of his elder brother any future claim on his father’s farm and sailed forNew Netherlands. He settled in Flatbush (now Brooklyn) and in 1662 was one of the builders of the Reformed Church in that village. It seems likely he was married during his years there, but if so, no recorded information has survived. Jan Eltinge bought land in Flatbush in 1663, but soon came into conflict with the English authorities and as a consequence sold out and went up the Hudson River to Esopus, on the western side of the river.

In Esopus, Jan Roelofsz Eltinge became a prominent citizen. If he had married earlier, that wife had died, for in 1677 he married Jacomijntje Slecht (widow of Focken), daughter of Cornelis Barentsz Slecht and Trijntje Mathijsdr Bosch, who had five children from her two previous marriages. First she was married to Jan Kunst and their daughter, Heijltje married Nicolaas Roosevelt (ancestor of both U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt).

In 1684 Jan was a justice of the Court of Sessions, and before 1686 he purchased additional land on the other side of the Hudson near Rhinebeck, Dutchess County. In 1689 he was among the signers of the Oath of Allegiance. He died in Ulster County about 1695.

Roelif Eltinge, first son of Jan and Jacomijntje, was born in Ulster County, baptized October 27, 1678 and married, in 1703, Sarah, daughter of Abraham DuBois, the Patentee, who was the son of Louis DuBois, the Patentee of New Paltz, New York. He settled in New Paltz about 1720. Legend says Roelif came from Kingston to New Paltz wearing a belt filled with gold. He lived on Huguenot Street near thestone house of Isaiah Hasbrouck. He later moved south of the town on land purchased from the DuBois’ and built a stone house there.

Roelif had four sons and three daughters:

1. Noah
2. Josiah
3. Abraham
4. Johannes
5. Jacomyntje
6. Margaretta
7. Catrina.

Name

Jan /Eltinge/ ^[3][4]

Jan /Elting/ ^[5]

Jan /Elten/ ^[6]

Jan /Eltynge/ ^[7]

Birth

Birth: Date: 20 JUL 1632 Place: Switchalaer, Beylen, Drenthe, Holland

Date: 29 JUL 1632

Swichtsaelaer, a dependancy of Beilen, province of Drenthe {Drenthen},Netherlands

Date: 29 JUL 1632

Place: Swichtelaer (now Zwiggelte), Drenthe, Netherlands^[8][9]

Parents' Marriage

Husband: Roeloff Elting

Wife: Aeltje UNKNOWN

1. Child: Maria Elting
2. Child: Bartelt Elting
3. Child: Jan Eltinge

Marriage: ^[10]

Residence

Place: Long Island, New York^[11]

Occupation

a carpenter working on a church

Date: 1663

Place: Flatbush, Kings County, New York^[12]

Judge of the Court of Sessions

Date: 1675

Place: Ulster County, New York^[13]

Family

Husband: Jan Eltinge

Wife: Jacomyntje Slecht

1. Child: Aeltje Eltinge
2. Child: Roelif Eltinge
3. Child: Cornelius Eltinge
4. Child: Grietje Eltinge
5. Child: William Elting

Marriage:

Date: 24 NOV 1672

Place: Kingston, Ulster County, New York^[14][15]

Death

Date: BEF 19 FEB 1694/95

Place: Hurley, Ulster County, New York^[16]

Death: Date: BEF 2 AUG 1692 Place: Esopus, Kingston, Ulster Co., NY

Church Records

1. 1678 27 Oct Roelof, Jan Eltingh, Jakomyntie Slecht. Wit.: Hendrick Slecht, Elsje Slecht.
2. 1681 29 Dec Cornelis, Jan Ente, Jacomyntie Slegt. Wit.: Cornelis Slegt, Jochem Hendricse, Engeltie Hendricdr.
3. 1685 19 Jan Willem, Jan Elten, Jacomyna Slegt. Wit.: Magdaleen Crepel, Jochem Hendrix. ^[17]

Both years of marriage, 1672 and 1677, are years that do not appear in the Kingston book.

Research Notes

Note: from [1]

In the early 1700’s Roelif Elting came to New Paltz. He was the eldest son of Jan Elting and is described as having come to town "with a belt of gold about his waist." He married the daughter of Abraham DuBois, the Patentee, in 1703. His brother Cornelius married her cousin Rebecca.

Roelif and Sarah had seven children. Their son Josiah Elting purchased the Bevier homestead from the children of Samuel Bevier in 1760. Josiah was named as the most affluent man in New Paltz on the 1765 tax list. He was also one of the most liberal subscribers to the Conferentia Church which believed that Dutch Reformed Churches in this country should be subordinate to the Classis of North Amsterdam. The Consistory of the New Paltz Church held that they were not under allegiance to the ecclesiastical power of any foreign country.

Josiah’s son Roelif J. Elting married Mary Louw, the daughter of Rebecca Freer and Johannes M. Louw. The couple lived in the Bevier-Elting house during the Revolutionary War. It was their son Ezekiel who built the "1799 House" on Huguenot Street, now known as the LeFevre House. This house is of stone with a brick front and stucco simulating brick on the south facade. It originally had a hipped roof which was replaced after the blizzard of 1888.

Noah and Nathaniel Lefevre received a grant of 3000 acres from the government on bothsides of the Walkill River and the family members still own a major portion of the grant

Josias (Josiah), baptized October 12, 1712, lived in the old Eltinge house on Huguenot Street. It was built by Louis BeVier and purchased by Josiah about 1735 - 1740. He had a daughter, Catherine, andfour sons, Roelif J., Abram, Cornelius and Solomon. Abram and Roelif J. remained in New Paltz. Abram married Dinah DuBois. His son, Philip, his grandson, Mathusalem and his great-grand-son, Solomon Lefevre Eltinge have all lived in the same Eltinge home. Roelif J. married Maria Louw (Low) and kept the old Eltinge homestead and his father’s mercantile business.

Cornelius Jans Eltinge, son of Jan and Jacomyntje Eltinge, was born in Ulster County in 1681 and in 1704 Married Rebecca Van Meter. They settled in Kingston, and in 1711 were friends of the Joist Hitefamily of Kingston, and god-parents of one of the Hite daughters. By the mid-1730’s the Eltinges had left New York for Frederick County, Maryland. Cornelius Jans Eltinge died there in 1753, his will, dated April 26, 1751, was probated on January 1, 1754 in Frederick County Court (Book A-1, 65).

Zara (Sarah) Eltinge, daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca Eltinge, was born in Kingston, Ulster County, New York in 1715. She moved to Frederick County, Maryland with her parents, where in 1737, she married John Hite, the eldest son of Joist and Anna Marie Hite. They lived in Frederick County, Virginia and eventually had six children. The date of Sarah Hite’s death is not known.

Our thanks to Peter Ross Elting for the original text and to Douwe Elting for updates and Dutch spelling.

Sources

1. ↑ Jan Elting Affidavit of Birth, 1680. Affidavit, written in Dutch at the request of Jan Elting by the officers of the Reformed Dutch Church in Beylen, Netherlands, confirming his birth and baptism there in 1632. The Colonial Manuscript Collection, Historic Huguenot Street. Link to image.
2. ↑ all info in bio + note quote from Elting
3. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 21, 1. Jan Eltinge
4. ↑ Source: #S11476 Page: 1:93–94, 109. Jan VanDeusen
5. ↑ Source: #S865 Page: 358-380, Appendix G: Roots and Branches, Angus McDonald, Immigrant
6. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 17-20, Jan Eltinge (The Progenitor)
7. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 17-20, Jan Eltinge (The Progenitor)
8. ↑ Source: #S865 Page: 358-380, Appendix G: Roots and Branches, Angus McDonald, Immigrant
9. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 21, 1. Jan Eltinge
10. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 17-20, Jan Eltinge (The Progenitor)
11. ↑ Source: #S865 Page: 358-380, Appendix G: Roots and Branches, Angus McDonald, Immigrant
12. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 17-20, Jan Eltinge (The Progenitor)
13. ↑ Source: #S865 Page: 358-380, Appendix G: Roots and Branches, Angus McDonald, Immigrant
14. ↑ Source: #S865 Page: 358-380, Appendix G: Roots and Branches, Angus McDonald, Immigrant
15. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 21, 1. Jan Eltinge
16. ↑ Source: #S3977 Page: 21, 1. Jan Eltinge
17. ↑ Roswell Randall Hoes. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York: (formerly Named Wiltwyck, and Often Familiarly Called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from Their Commencement in 1660. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891.

• Source: S11476 Albert Harrison VanDeusen, Van Deursen Family, 2 vols. (New York City: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, ©1912): Url:http://www.americanancestors.org/Blogs.aspx?id=25838&blogid=124069&blogid=124069.

• Source: S3977 James W. Elting, comp., The Descendants of Jan Eltinge: The Genealogy of the Elting/Eltinge Family, (Charlotte, N.C.: the compiler, 2002).

• Source: S865 Cornelia McDonald, A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the ShenandoahValley, 1860 – 1865, edited by Hunter McDonald, (Nashville, Tenn.: the editor by Cullom & Ghertner, 1934).

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM) June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998: Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street: Salt Lake City, UT 84150. Family Search: FSFTID: 27MN-91C; Ancestral File Number: 27MN-91C

• Poucher, J. Wilson. Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, New York (Dutchess County Historical Society, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1924) Page 298.