Jan
(John)
Winans
aka Wynandszen, Wynants, Winance, Weinans
Born about in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Ancestors 
Son of Jan Wynantz
and Luytgen (VanDen Ende) Wynantz
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Susanna (Melyn) Winans
— married
26 Aug 1664 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Descendants 
Father of
Susannah (Winans) Baker, Elizabeth (Winans) Lyon, Samuel Winans Sr., John Winans, Conrad Winans, Joanna Winans, Jacob Winans and Isaac Winans
Died
at about age 54
in Elizabethtown, Essex, Province of East Jersey
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Biography
Jan Winans was born in Haarlem, Netherlands about 1640.[citation needed]
Research Note: Searched Haarlam. Netherlands, Noord-Hollan...Church Records, 1523-1948 Nederlands Hervormde Haarlem Dopen 1632-1642 (image 442 starts January 1640, image 506 January 1641, image 565 starts January 1642, image 612 ends Sep 1642. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QK-MZ2R?i=490&wc=SM94-FMS%3A1293193204%2C382025101%2C383300101&cc=2037985. Meehan-411 April 2019.
He married Susannah Melyn, August, 25, 1664, in New Haven, Connecticut, and had 9 children. He is said to have then married Ann Robinson in 1693 in New Jersey. Jan amends his will via codicil in 1694, after his first wife's death, but he does not mention a second wife named Ann. One source for this marriage to Ann Robinson is Clayton's History of Union and Middlesex Counties, which describes the arrival from Scotland of William Robinson, a physician who came to Rahway as early as 1685. After his death in 1693 his estate was appraised June 2, 1693, by Andrew Hampton and John Winans. It then states "Ann Winans, a daughter of the latter, married a son of Dr. Robinson."[1]However, this statement appears to have mixed up the identity of Ann. In Dr. William Robinson's will of May 18, 1693, his children are listed as Ann Wynnings, William, Elizabeth and Mary, which suggests that Ann was Robinson's daughter, who married a Winans.[2]The confusion over the spelling of William Robinson's name (Robieson, Robertson) seems to have settled as Robinson. The Dr. William Robinson Plantation is on the National Register. An article in the magazine Garden State Legacy describes the doctor's family as a daughter, Ann, born of his first wife, and William, Elizabeth, and Mary by his second.[3]
John Winans was one of the New England and New York families which associated to found the city of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1664/5. He died December 5, 1694.¹[4] [5]
Will 14 Feb 1687 Will abstract - John Weinans aka Winance of Elizabethtown, weaver. Wife, Susanna, ch- Samuel, Johannes, Conradus, Joseph, Isaac, Elizabeth, John and Susanna Baker. Real and Personal estate. Signed Jan Winans. Wife Exe, Wit George Ross, Humphrey Speining, Edw Gay. Proved 15 Jan 1694-5 This first inventory Dec 1694 of his estate by Hendrick Baker and Ebenezer Lyon was as 184 pounds, 7s 11 p which included 22 pounds 18-3 of gold and silver and plate. Ref. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 for John "Winance." But it was re-assessed by Benj Meeker and Obadiah Sale June 1695 in all a value of 271 pounds, 15 shillings, 8 pence. [6]
John Winans, a prominent man among the "80 Associates", who founded and settled Elizabethtown, N.J., 1664-5, along with brothers-in-law Jacob Melyn and Matthias Hatfield. John was well educated, had books (inventory) when books were rare, had Gold and Silver Plate and Coat of Arms. He was in NY as early as 19 Feb. 1665 when the name of John "Waynes" appears on the list of those who took Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to the new jurisdiction. When his brother-in-law Jacob Melyn returned to New York, John Winans bought his house-lot, house, barn, orchard etc 8 Feb 1677/8.
His wife Susanna is mentioned in his will and therefore died between date of the will, 14 Feb 1687/8 and its probate 15 Jan 1694/5. About 1693 he married Ann Robinson, daughter of physician William Robinson, a child Wm b abt 1694. John died Dec 1694 leaving an estate which was inventoried 17 June 1695. He was a weaver. At his death he had some 200 acres of land in Elizabethtown, N. J., 16 acres on the "Neck", 120 acres on Peach Meadow Brook, 40 acres on Elizabeth Creek, 4 acres at Meadow, 6 acres at another point on Elizabeth Creek. The large inventory at June 1695 of the Estate of John Winans lists many household utensils, books, live-stock, much Silver and Gold - in all a value of 271 pounds, 15 shillings, 8 pence.
John Winans was one of the founding members of 1st Presbyterian Elizabethtown from Rev Harriman's Account Book, subscribing members 1694-1699. [7]
Burial: 1st Presbyterian Church Burying Ground Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey Memorial ID 144974425 [8]
Will
Last Will & Testament of John Winans (sic) Accessed in Trenton 28 October 2016, Transcribed by Valeri Jean Shafer, Jan Winan's 9th Great Granddaughter[9]
In the name of the everliving God Amen. The 14th day of February 1687. I John Winans of the Town of Elizabeth in the County of Essex in East New Jersey Weaver being in good health and of perfect Memory and remembrance praise be to God; desiring to set my house in order do make and ordain this my last will and Testament in Manner and form following. Viz. First I give and bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God my maker hoping that through the meritorious Death and passion of Jesus Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer to have free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to rest with him in Eternal happiness hereafter and as for my body to be buried in Christian Burial at the discrshon (sic) of my Executrix hereafter nominated Item I give unto my children Samuel, Johannes, Conradus, Jacob, Isaac, Elizabeth, and Johanna, after the decease of my wife, all my xxx, lands, leases and goods moveable and immovable whatsoever equally to be divided amongst them, provided and it is my will and testament my daughter Susanna Baker shall have her part, proportion and equal Share of all my goods and Chattels whatsoever upon the equal division being made of the same viz all my goods that are moveable. Item I give unto my wife Susanna all my whole estate real and personal, my Lands, tenements, and xxx goods moveable and Immoveable whatsoever all her life natural xxx to have possess and enjoy upon Condition that she shall pay all my just debts and Legacies and make her Sole Executrix of this my last will and testament revoking all other wills and testaments, Nevertheless it is my will and intent hereby that if my wife should marry there xxx viz within the time and space of fortie (sic) dayes (sic) after her being married upon equal division made according to the judgement and discretion of two honest men she shall only have and enjoy one third part of my whole estate before mentioned.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Jan Winans
Furthermore it is my will & pleasure that if either or both of my two daughters Elizabeth and Johanna shall marry that then they shall have enjoy and receive their equal parts and proportions of all my moveable Estate, provided and it is my will that then they shall be debarred from having possessing and enjoying any part or proportion of my immoveable estate. Memorandum that this Codicil was annexed before the sealing hereof witness hereunto George Ross Humphrey Spinning Edward Gay (?) Perth Amboy 19 January Anno Dom 1694 [Original will was light and difficult to read; this is a transcription of the Recorded (transcribed) will found in the East Jersey Deeds, Book E, p 155 in New Jersey State Archives in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey. Will was originally written in 1687.]
Church Records
Baptisms of children in New York RDC:[10]
- 1671 Mar 28 Elisabeth; Johan Wynandszen, Susanna Molyn; sponsor Jannetje Molyn
- 1672 Apr 02 Samuel; Jan Wynantszen, Susanna Molyn; sponsor Jannetie Molyn
- 1674 Oct 03 Susanna; Johan Wynants, Susanna Molyn; sponsor Nicolaes de Meyer, Jannetie Loppers
- 1674 Oct 03 Johannes; Johan Wynants, Susanna Molyn; sponsor Nicolaes de Meyer, Jannetie Loppers.
Sources
- ↑ W. Woodford Clayton, History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey, 1882, p. 122.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wils, 1670-1817 [database on-line]. Volume XXX, Abstracts of Wills 1730l-1750, p. 564.
- ↑ Gordon Bond, "The Dr. William Robinson Plantation," Garden State Legacy Issue 4, June 2009.
- ↑ Jan Wijnants, Weaver by Edythe D. Winans Groome, 1980
- ↑ As We Were - The Story of Old Elizabethtown by Theodore Thayer, 1964
- ↑ New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 for John "Winance."http://interactive.ancestry.com/2793/32669_236608-00618?pid=28112
- ↑ http://interactive.ancestry.com/11382/dvm_LocHist002408-00021-1/41
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144974425/john-winans: accessed 23 August 2022), memorial page for John “Jan” Winans (1640–16 Dec 1694), Find A Grave: Memorial #144974425, citing First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by Deborah (Hoffman) Weiner (contributor 47643884).
- ↑ East Jersey Deeds, Book E, p 155 in New Jersey State Archives in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey. Accessed 28 Oct 2016.
- ↑ http://longislandgenealogy.com/baptisms/baps.html
- Winans Family Genealogy by Woolley, Alice Winans Egy (Alice Elizabeth Winans Egy), 1910- (Sacramento, California: A.W.E. Woolley, 1987). Includes Crane, Cuslidge, Downing, Myers, Phillips, Woodruff and related families. https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/629069?availability=Family%20History%20Library.
- Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Vol 2, pt. 1. Evans, Thomas Grier, New York, N.Y. : New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901., Vol 2,pt 1. Pg 116
- Descendants of Founders of New Jersey
- http://www.njfounders.org/node/219
Acknowledgements
- WikiTree profile Winans-58 created through the import of i2f9f4_5524042z4w54bsf29ef4t1.ged on Feb 20, 2012 by Drew Meeks. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Drew and others.
- Thank You to Valeri Jean Shafer Shafer-1245
- Tom Kelly.
- Dr. A. Mike Crain
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The parents currently linked to this profile have no supporting documents to back the claim. I would love to be able to find proof for either set of parents.
As Winans-49 is my 8th great-grandfather I have always been interested in his origin. At some point in my own research into the idea of his connection with the painter, I accumulated two biographical entries for Jan Wijnants, one from the Grove Encylopedia of Art, the second from Benezit’s Dictionnaire des Peintres…Grove gave the probable birth range of the artist as 1605 to 1635, but most likely 1630-1635. His father was an art dealer also named Jan, who was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke in 1642. What is known about the painter’s personal life is that “by December 1660 Wijnants had moved to Amsterdam where he married Catharina van der Veer.” If the painter was not born until ca. 1630, this does not bode well for our John Winans to be born around 1640, unless he was the son of the father, the art dealer, but then the father would not likely have two sons both named John. Benezit also thinks the painter was born around 1630-1635. In Benezit is cited the record “En 1646, un Jan Wynants, veuf, épouse Luytgen van den Ende. Peut-être s’agit-il de notre artiste. Mais nous n'avons pas de preuve.” That says that there is a marriage recorded of a man named Jan Wynants, a widower, with Luytgen van den Ende, but no way to know if this is the painter.
On this basis, I would suggest detaching John Winans from these two parents Wynantz-1 and VanDen_Ende-1.
There are other theories out there. I don’t think he was related to the English family Wines, whose Barnabas Wines was also one of the Elizabethtown Associates, but who later returned to Long Island (after 20 years), as Barbabas and John signed their last names distinctively different, which would be unusual if they were of the same family, even distant cousins.
I think it’s much more likely John Winans WAS of Dutch heritage, spelled his name originally Jan Wynants, and perhaps even knew Matthias Hatfield, both of them weavers, in Danzig, a place of commerce in the 16th and 17th centuries where most of the inhabitants spoke German, but which had a sizable population of foreign merchants from England and the Netherlands, for example. Jan and Matthias coming together to New Netherlands and marrying the Melyn sisters in New Haven in the double wedding in 1664 makes sense. However, the important thing is to remove what appear to be the wrong parents from Jan/John. The mother, in particular, most certainly did not die in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1646 before Rahway existed.
edited by Sharon Olson