Roelof Janse Terhune
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Roelof Janse Terhune (1686 - 1761)

Capt. Roelof Janse Terhune
Born in Flatlands, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, Province of New Yorkmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , [half], , [half] and [half]
Husband of — married 6 May 1706 in Flatlands DRC, Kings Co, NYmap
Descendants descendants
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Died at about age 75 in Flatlands, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, Province of New Yorkmap
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Roelof Janse Terhune was a New Netherland Descendant 1674-1776.
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Birth from father's birth +30 years

Biography

He is the son of Jan Terhune and Annetje Schenck. [1]

Family records state the will read as follows " Feb 20, 1753, I, Roelof Terhune of Gravesend, in King's County, being very sick, will that after payment of debts etc., etc., I leave to my son Gerret my great selver Kop, and my Keenan swoord, and my leder britses, and the selver botten hoels. I give to my son Roelof a gun; to that child of my son Albert named Roelof, my gun and Great Bybel. To my son Albertis, all that farm where I now live and the meadow that lies in the Flatlands; and he shall pay 150 pounds to each of my five daughters etc., etc.

Sources

  1. ↑ Entered by Joshua Allen.
  • Van Nice Family History 1661-1979, or Vannice, Van Nuis, Van Nuys. A Record of the Family of Isaac Van Nuys (or Vannice) of Harrodsburg, Kentucky son of Issac Van Nuys of Millstone, New Jersey by Carrie Allen 1916

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Terhune-85 and Terhune-111 appear to represent the same person because: same parents...
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