Jenneke (Sip) Vreeland (1770 - 1788)

Born 12 Mar 1770 in Bergen Township, Bergen, New Jersey

Died 5 Dec 1788 at age 18 in Bergen, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

When Jenneke Sip was born on March 12, 1770, in Bergen, New Jersey, her father, Garret Sip, was 30, and her mother, Jenneke Merselis, was 28. She married Cornelius Vreeland on October 5, 1788, in her hometown. She died as a teenager on December 5, 1788, just two months after her marriage., in Bergen, New Jersey, and was buried in in the Old Bergen Churchyard in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Sources

• Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey – First Series -Vol. XXII – Marriage Records: 1665-1800, page 571. 579; William Nelson; The Press Printers and Publishers; Paterson, N.J.; 1900 https://archive.org/details/documentsrelatin22newjuoft
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136709214/jenneke-vreeland : accessed 03 May 2022), memorial page for Jenneke Sip Vreeland (12 Mar 1770–5 Dec 1788), Find a Grave Memorial ID 136709214, citing Old Bergen Churchyard, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave (contributor 8) .
• The Holland Society of New York. The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bergen [Jersey City], New Jersey, 1666-1788 This is a reprint of three Holland Society publications from 1913, 1914, and 1914. Book 2 (1914), page 80. Heritage Books; Westminster, Maryland; 2010.
• Dutch Reformed Church Records from New Jersey. The Archives of the Reformed Church in America, New Brunswick, New Jersey . Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Bergen, New Jersey, Book 59, page 261.
• New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZR4-ZH4 : 20 January 2020), Jenneke Sip in entry for Cornelis Vreelant, 1788.