Annika Jurgensen (Kyn) Baynton (abt. 1644 - 1704)

Born about 1644 in Oxford, Chester, Pennsylvania, New Sweden

Ancestors

Wife of James Sandilands — married 1664 (to 1692) in Upland, Delaware, British Colonial America

Wife of Peter Baynton — married about 1693 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 2 Oct 1704 at about age 60 in Chester, Pennsylvania, British America

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Biography

Annika (Kyn) Baynton was a Pennsylvanian.

Annika (Kyn) Baynton has Swedish ancestors

Annika “Anna” Kyn was born around 1646 in Upland, New Sweden (later Oxford, Chester, Pennsylvania) to parents Jöran "Jurgen Schneeweiss" Kyn and Willemka (Jurgensson) Kyn. She was married twice. Her first husband was James Sandilands (1646-1692), a prosperous merchant from Scotland. They married about 1664 in Oxford, Chester, Pennsylvania, New Sweden. Her husband was one of the few non-Swedish colonists residing in New Sweden.

Their seven children are:^[1]

1. James Sandilands (1664-1706), d. Abt. 26 Dec 1707. m. Prudence Unknown; d. Abt. 10 Mar 1732, Upland.
2. Eleanor Sandilands (1668-?) , m. George Foreman
3. Catharine Sandilands (1669-1745), b. 26 Jan 1671. d. Abt. 16 Jan 1745, Upland.
4. Christian Sandilands (1672-?)
5. Mary Sandilands (1674-1707).
6. Jonas Sandilands (1678-1728)
7. Lydia Sandilands (1680-1693)

James and Anna were married for 28 years before he passed away in 1692. Not long after his death, she remarried a man named Peter Baynton, who was of English birth, but resided in Upland in the colony of New Sweden, now part of southeastern Pennsylvania. To this second husband was given control of Annika's considerable personal wealth and inheritance. He proved to be a faithless and greedy husband, who abandoned her and his step-children to return to England.

They had at least one child:

1. Rebecca Baynton, b. Bet. 1693 - 1694; m. Thomas Weston, 21 Dec 1713, St. Paul's Church, Chester, Pennsylvania."

When Annika died she was interred beside the remains of her first husband, James.

The Swedish Colonial Society research information: by Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig

Anna Keen was married about 1668 to James Sandelands, an English soldier of Scotch birth who obtained a 200-acre patent on Upland Creek on 4 Aug. 1668 and his discharge from the army in 1669. He died in Chester, 12 April 1692, survived by his wife, two married daughters (Eleanor, wife of George Foreman, and Catharine, wife of Jasper Yeates) and five minor children: Christian, Mary, James, Jonas and Lydia. Anna then married Peter Baynton (English) in 1692 and had an additional child, Rebecca, born c. 1693/4. Her second husband deserted her and returned to England. Anna was buried 5 Oct. 1704 at St. Paul’s Church in Chester, beside her first husband.[1]

Research Notes

Notations (1) on James Sandiland and wife Anna (Kyn) Sandiland:
“ James Sandilands and his wife, Anna, were prominent in the early history of the colony. Part of St. Paul's Church was erected over their graves and an elaborate slab of gray sandstone was located opposite the pulpit marked their last resting place, according to the book History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Vol I Chapter VIII, Chester.

James Sandilands was born Feb. 28, 1646 in Scotland most likely Hilderstown. That was where his parents were born. His parents were William Sandilands b. 1620 in Hilderstown, Scotland.”….. excerpted

Notations (2) on James Sandiland and wife Anna (Kyn) Sandiland:
“ Anna Jurgensen Kyn/Kühn/Keen was married about 1668 to James Sandelands, an English soldier of Scotch birth who obtained a 200-acre patent on Upland Creek on 4 Aug. 1668 and his discharge from the army in 1669. He died in Chester, 12 April 1692, survived by his wife, two married daughters (Eleanor, wife of George Foreman, and Catharine, wife of Jasper Yeates) and five minor children: Christian, Mary, James, Jonas and Lydia. Anna then married Peter Baynton (English) in 1692 and had an additional child, Rebecca, born c. 1693/4. Her second husband deserted her and returned to England. Anna was buried 5 Oct. 1704 at St. Paul's Church in Chester, beside her first husband.”….excerpted …. *Addendum: Of note, several sources record him as having died in Pennsylvania so there is a question as to whether he “returned to England”….” Peter Baynton, born in Bedminister, nr. Bristol, England, and died in Pennsylvania”….. The Descendants of Joran Kyn, by Gregory B. Keen, published 1913, p. 17-21

Land Grant of James Sandiland:
On 13 June 1670 he had a grant of land in Delaware county Pennsylvania. Located in Upland County, now Chester Co, it was bounded on the SW by the kill, one the NE by lands of Neils Lawson, on the E by land of Jurian Keen (Anna Keen‘s father and his father-in-law), and N and W by lands of Niels Matson. The land consisted 5 acres……excerpted from “The History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania” by George Smith M.D. 1862.

Sources

1. ↑ Johnson, William R. (2007-). Descendants of Joran Kyn in "Joran Kyn: Early Settler Of New Sweden." Retrieved on 7 September 2015 from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjohn55447/joran_kyn_chart.htm

• https://colonialswedes.net/kyn/
• Keen, Gregory B. The Descendants of Joran Kyn. The Swedish Colonial Society. 1913, p. 17-21
• Jordan, John W. Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania : genealogical and personal memoirs. vol. 5, Lewis Pub. Co., 1934
• Weeks, J.C. Descendants of James de Sandilands, p.14; "Anna was born in New Sweden, Upland, now Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was 53 yrs old when she died..."
• History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Vol I Chapter VIII, Chester
• Craig, Peter Stebbins. “The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware” p.50.

See also:

• Find A Grave
• Ancestry Profile 1
• Ancestry Profile 2

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Keen-274 created through the import of Watson Family Tree Large.ged on Oct 21, 2011 by Jonathan Watson.
• Thank you to Jim Bowers for creating WikiTree profile Keen-585 through the import of Bowers Family Tree.ged on Jul 7, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jim and others.