Jan (Pietersz) Mebi (bef. 1654 - 1725)

Born before 4 Oct 1654 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland

Ancestors

Husband of Antje Pieterse Bosboom — married about 1681 in Schenectady, Province of New York

Descendants

Died 8 Apr 1725 after age 70 in Schenectady, Albany County, Province of New York

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Biography

The son of Pieter Casparszen Mabille (1625-bef.1665) and Aechtje Jans (1629-bef.1698). Peiter's father was a descendant of a Hugonaut line that migrated from France to Norway before traveling to New Amsterdam in North America.

Jan and Annetje Mabee were the first to permanently settle on the Mabee family farm. The Mabee family farm is the oldest farm in the Mohawk Valley (1705).

(Side Note: Today, the Mabee Farm is a historic site run by the Schenectady County Historical Society, in Pattersonville-Rotterdam Junction, New York, and is open for tours.)

Church Records

Baptism

• 1654 Oct 04 Jan, Pieter Van Naerden. Wit.: Hendrick Willemszen, Marritie Claes. ^[1]

Children's baptisms

1. 1686 Jan 20 Pieter - of Jan Pietersz. Witnesses: Abraham Van Trigt. By Lysbeth Van Trigt. ^[2]
2. 1693 Apr 16 Annetje - of Jan Pietersz Mebi and Antje P. Bosboom. Witnesses: Jan Hendriksz Vrooman, Cornelia Pietersz Van Olinda. ^[3]

Death

8 April 1725, Schenectady, Schenectady, New York^[4]

His will was dated 3 April 1725 and proved 13 Sep., recorded under the name John Mabee.^[5] The will names eldest son, Peter, second son, Jacob, youngest son, Abraham, and daughter Margaret as well as six unnamed daughters. He appointed Jacobus Van Dyke and Caleb Beck his executors.^[6]

Research Notes

LNAB : "Van Naerden" is the surname recorded for Jan's father at Jan's baptism, but that does not appear to have been a name that applied to anyone but him. Pietersz, Jan's patronymic, is the "surname" that first appears for him in records, at the baptism of his son Jan. Quackenbush-118 00:47, 27 March 2017 (EDT), citing page 37.

Surname: While Jan was baptized under the name Van Naerden, his father's name of origin, he evidently used Mabie (Mebi, Mabi, Mabee, etc.) as his preferred surname. It appears consistently in his own records and those of his family, including the Fort Hunter land deed (below), his will,^[5] and the baptisms and marriages of his children.^[7]

The following paragraph comes verbatim from the Wikipedia page on Fort Hunter, boldface added:

The Fort Hunter land, approximately 80 acres on both sides of the mouth of the Schoharie, was deeded in 1697 to Jan Peterse Mabee. He had an advantage because his wife Anna Borsboom, apparently of mixed race, was "something related to the Indian castle".[citation needed] The deed was signed by Sachem Rode of the Wolf Clan. In order to build the fort, there was a land swap, with the Mabee family receiving land further south on Schoharie Creek. Copies of the deed are held both in the Albany State Archives and at the shrine of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha in nearby Auriesville, New York.^[8]

See petition in sources, below.

See also: WikiTree page Notes on 'Mabie Family Update'

Sources

1. ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890, p. 38 (Archive.org).
2. ↑ Year Book Holland Soc. NY:
3. ↑ Year Book Holland Soc. NY: Page 60
4. ↑ Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800. Albany, N.Y: J. Munsell, 1873. (s.v. Mebie)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Fernow, Berthold, Calendar of wills on file and recorded in the offices of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at Albany, and of the Secretary of State, 1626-1836 (New York: Colonial Dames of the State of New York, 1896), p. 254 Archive.org.
6. ↑ New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County), John Keller, William S. (William Smith) Pelletreau, and New York (State). Prerogative court. Abstracts of Wills On File In the Surrogate's Office: City of New York. [New York: Printed for the Society, 18931913. Vol. II, pg. 358-359, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822025845801&view=1up&seq=378
7. ↑ Steve Mabie, Mabie/Maybee/Mabee/Mabey Family Records (Maybee Society) Children of Jan Pieterse Mebie.
8. ↑ Fort Hunter, New York in Wikipedia (accessed 20 Jan 2020)

• Year Book of the Holland Society of New York (1904)
• Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed 26 Mar 2017. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm Jan Pieterse Mabie
• Pearson, Jonathan. A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883
• Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800. Albany, N.Y: J. Munsell, 1873.
• Mabie House Mabie House
• Biographical sketches and index of the Huguenot settlers of New Rochelle : 1687-1776; Seacord, Morgan H.. Biographical sketches and index of the Huguenot settlers of New Rochelle : 1687-1776. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Huguenot and Historical Association of New Rochelle, 1941.
• Petition of John Pieterson Mebie of Schanhegtade, praying to be confirmed in the possession of a tract of land, lying and being upon Trinoroges creek, on bothsides, commonly called Kadorode, made over to the petitioner by Roode, the Indian, in his life time, principal sachem, by and with the consent of the rest of the Praying Indian Castle, in the Mohoggs country. https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/19525 Download to view, the Archives viewer is flawed.

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Austin_Alfred_2011-03-28.ged on 28 March 2011.
• WikiTree profile Perte-1 created through the import of Vicki Norman family tree v2 (3).ged on Aug 1, 2012 by Vicki Norman.