Jacquemijntje (White) Morris (1697 - 1794)

Born 3 Apr 1697 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey

Ancestors

Wife of John Morris — married Sep 1719 in St Giles, Cripplegate, London

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 1794 at age 97 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Jacquemyntje / Jacomyntie / Jacquemynte White was born 3 April 1697 in Shrewsbury, NJ . Jacomyntie passed away in 28 April 1794. ^[1]

• Baptised 25 April 1697 in New York City at the Dutch Reformed church. Her baptism was just a few months after the May 1696 charter was granted to that church from the English, to allow the Dutch to operate outside of the Church of England. The baptismal witnesses were Bartholomeus la Roux and Trijntje Rollegam (husband and wife).

• Church Record: 1697 Apr 25 Jacquemyntje; Robbert White, Francina Standing; Wits.: Bartholomeus Laroux, Tryntje Van Rollegom. ^[2]

• According to that church's history, around 1706, the Charter did not prevent other English difficulties, so many Dutch from that church emigrated that year to northern New Jersey. Presumably she and her parents made that move sometime around or after then, as Jacquemijntje later married in 1716 to John Morris, who was born in Monmouth, NJ. The Morrises were of Welsh Quaker origin.

• Reports of marriage in London, England, appear in various trees and keep getting edited into this, but seem highly unlikely and inconsistent with other family circumstances (such as her baptism in America, not England). This Findagrave descendant report of her marriage on 15 Nov. 1716 at Squankum (Farmingdale), NJ, seems far more plausible, even if still lightly sourced. See [ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111761396 ]

• She and her husband were parents of ten children: Elizabeth, John, Lewis, Robert, Mary (Freeman) , Frances (Brewer), Richard, Thomas and Jacob.

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by William Berkhoven, Monday, April 6, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.
2. ↑ Baptismal record from the Collegiate Church of New York City: [ http://brooklynancestry.com/new-amsterdam-reformed-dutch-church-baptisms-1697-1702/ ] : accessed 1 March 2023

See also

• Baptismal record as transcribed / indexed https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rbillard/vital_statistics.htm which are Holland Society of New York

• Geni profile showing marriage: [ https://www.geni.com/people/Jacquemynte-Morris/6000000056969058167 ]

• Collegiate church and Charter history: [ http://www.upword.com/collegiate/history.html ]

• This Miscellany of New Jersey source indicates that Jacquemyntje's father Robert/Robbert was married and had a daughter Elizabeth by a first wife, Jacomyntje van Rollegon, before marrying Standing/Stanley. That likely means the above Tryntje (usually aka Catherine) "RollegoM" may have been a Rollegon sister-in-law.). This source also speculates about other White relationships in New Jersey plus StanDING/StanLEY name for this Jacquemyntje's mother: [ https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal05instil/page/622/mode/2up ]