Joost Jans VAN METEREN

                   Witnesses Jan Joosten, Mayken Hendricz, Jacob Du Bois
	1  PURC
	2  DATE 1724
	2  PLAC Monacacy River, Frederick co, Maryland, USA
	2  NOTE 600 acres called "Metre"
	1  PURC
	2  DATE 1732
	2  PLAC Frederick co, Maryland, USA
	2  NOTE 150 acres called "Pipe Meadows"

Occupation: Horse breeding.
Alia: Van Metre, Van Matre, Mator

Settled in Salem County, NJ in 1714± with brothers Isaac and Henry; was John the Indian Trader who, prior to 1730, accompanied the Delaware Indians on their raid against the Catawba Indians, and saw the valley of the Shenandoah River and of the South branch of the Potomac; obtained land grant in 1730 from Governor Gooch and Virginia Colonial Council.

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"Jan (John) in 1683 who later settled in Berkeley County, Virginia, dying there in 1745, leaving eleven children one of whom, Elizabeth, married Col. Thomas Shepherd and another Soloman Hedges mentioned in Geo. Washington's Journal when surveying beyond the Blue Ridge 1747-48."

"Joost Jan Van Meteren became sufficiently Americanized to spell his name John instead of Jan, and finally dropped the 'n' off, thus leaving the name Van Metre. So Joost Jans is the John Van Meter a 'Dutchman from the Hudson' who was the noted Indian trader and explorer of the Shenandoah Valley who 'Spied out the land' about the time of Governor Spotswood's Expedition, 1716. He equipped a band of Delaware of Caugh Indians and while on this expedition he explored the country then almost unknown to the white people, the Valley of the south branch of the Potomac (known then by the Indian name of the Wappatomake).  On his return he advised his sons to take up the land in 'The Wappatomica Valley in the south Branch Bottom above the Trough,' as it was the finest land he had discovered in all his travels. By the nature of his life, his habitation was seldom fixed for a definite length of time, but proof exists that he dwelt at different periods in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania."

"On April 23, 1705, he [Gysbert Crom] conveyed to Jan Joosten van Meteren of the City of New York his interest 'in the estate of Jan Joosten which was bequeathed unto him, the said Gysbert either by words or writing.' . . . The grantee, by the way, was not the original Jan Joosten, but his grandson of the same name. This is indicated by the following record: on April 24, 1705, Gysbert Crom, at his house 'in the Limits of Marbletown,' witnessed an agreement between 'Jon Joosten van Meteren, son of Joost Janse van Meteren, son of Jan Joosten van Meteren, in his life time living at East Jarsey,' and 'Maycke Jooste, widow of Jan Joosten van Meteren,' wherein Maycke conveyed to her grandson 'her right of inheritance in her husband's estate,' for '45 pieces of eight of 15 penny weight to be paid her annually, the child of a negress about 5 years old named Lea, to be delivered to her order in the Jerseys . . . with condition that the aforesaid Maycken may dispose of the . . . child as she pleases.' Maycke was also to receive 'honourable burial' (Ulster County Land Deeds AA, pp. 340-41)."

An inventory of the personal estate of 'John Joost van Metere' was attested by 'John Van Mater' (the grandson), in Burlington, New Jersay, June 13, 1706. The above John Van Mater was Jan Joosten, son of Joost Jans and Sara Du Bois, baptized in Kingston, October 14, 1683 (KgB:No. 329)."

"Here his [Jan Joosten's] grandsons, Jan, Hendrick and Isaac Van Meteren, first bought 3000 acres of land, which subsequently grew into 6000 acres, so that the Van Meterens were early among the largest property owners and most prominent residents of southern New Jersey."

"With regard to the identity of John Van Metre, the Indian trader, it seems impossible to reconcile the various statements made about him, and his family; or to determine positively the relationship, is any, existing between him and Isaac Van Metre of Salem, N.J. . . . In his petition to Governor Gooch for the Virginia lands, John Van Metre informs us that he is of the 'govt. of New York,' and has a family of eleven children; of whom, says D.S. Van Metre, in West Va., Magazine, April 1902; there were five sons and six daughters. John Van Metre's will proved at Winchester, Va., in 1745, proves this to be correct, and give the names of his children. They were: Abraham, Isaac, Henry and Jacob, sons; Sarah, Mary, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Magdalena and Rachael, daughters. Johannis and Joanna, grandchildren; son and daughter of his eldest son Johannes (the German form of Dutch Jan), deceased; both under age. Johannes, being deceased, the order which the names were written may not have been the same as of their birth. Three of these names agree with the baptismal names of Joost Jan Van Meteren's children, at Kingston. Jan, the eldest b. 1683; Rebecca, b. 1686; Lysbeth, b. 1689. . . .Elizabeth m. Thomas Shepherd."

Sometime after this date [1741] Isaac and Hannah Van Metre, their children Henry and Sarah and their families emigrated to the South Branch of the Potomac, and no doubt, it was this Isaac, son (?) of John and Sara Van Meter who was associated with his father (?) John in procuring the grant of 40, 000 acres of Valley lands from Governor Gooch, some years before. In their respective petitions, John Van Meter sates that he is from the 'Govt. of New York; to him was allotted 30,000 acres for 20 families, including his own (of 11 children), relatives and friends. . . by 1732 the Van Metres wil have settled the 30 families upon the granted lands. For some reason which does not yet appear, the Van Meters transferred or assigned their holdings to Jost Hite . . . John Van meter, with his contingent from New York and Penna. proceeded at once, by way of the old Indian trails through Pennsylvania - to Opequon, Virginia, and settled there under new grants from Jost Hite."

"The late J.B. Kerfott of Martinsburg, Va., supplies the following: . . . He also says, that according to tradition the first wife of John Van Metre was Sara Berdine, of a New York Huguenot family. Evidently the name has been confused and du Bois is probably meant [confused with father's wife?]. John Van Meter m. 2nd, Margerat ________. The will mentions her name. It also disposes of about 3,400 acres, of lands, some of which had been bought of Jost Hite, some acquired of others, and some that lay in Maryland, that was probably bought before he settled in Virginia. He signs his name 'John Metor.' There is some reason to assume that John Van Metre after settling his son (?) Isaac, at Salem, N.J., in 1716, resumed his business relations with the Indians of New York, and as they made frequent incursions into the country of their natural enemies the Catawbas and Cherokees in the Carolinas, Van Metre often accompanied them south to the Holston. At Monocacy, Md., where a number of German and Quaker families from New Jersey and Pennsylvania, had settled about 1725 - John Van Meter, and possibly Isaac, too, bought considerable land, and here John may have established his family - Jan's in particular - where they would be centrally located on the trail of the trading expeditions between New York and athe Carolinas. His sons Johannes and Isaac both owned land at Monocacy, here Johannes lived and died, perhaps a few years after his marriage as he left only two children. This would account to some extent, for the absence of any mention of Johnannes in the accounts and traditions of the Virginia family. Here too, it is possible, that Abraham Van Metre met and married Ruth Hedges; Rebecca, Solomon Hedges, and Elizabeth Thomas Shepherd. Both the Hedges and the Shepherd families were prominent in Maryland before they appeared in Virginia. Even prior to 1725, the Hedges, Shepherds, Zanes and othere were among the early Quaker settlers in Salem, N.J., and it is unlikely that the genesis of the families of that name in the valley of Virginia, may be traced to an origin in Fenwick's Colony, Salem County, N.J."

"A particular instance which involves quite a group of the Van Metre family is found in 'An Indenture dated June 19, 1714, between Colonel Daniel Coxe, of Burlington, of the one part, and Jacob du Bois, of the county of Salem, and John Van Metre and Isaac Van Metre, of the county and division aforesaid, of the other part,' recites that Daniel Coxe purchased Thomas William's land in Salem County - 7,000 acres - in consideration of '£750 lawful pounds money of New York, at eight shillings the ounce,' and the said Coxe conveys unto the said Jacob du Bois, Sara du Bois, John Van Metre and Isaac Van Metre, 3.000 acres beginning on a branch of the Maurice River, and being part of the 7,000 acres taken up upon the right of the three parperty purchases of Thomas Williams by Daniel Coxe. Shourds, the Salem county historian, states that 'these parties divided their lands by the compass, the du Bois taking theirs on the north side of a line and the Van Metres on the south side. The Van Metres continued to purchase until they owned a very large portion of the land reaching from the Overshot Mill on Upper Alloways creek, near Daretown, southeasterly to Fork Bridge, about 6,000 acres in all.' The grantees thereof were Sarah du Bois, wife or widow, of the elder John Van Metre; her two sons, John and Isaac Van Metre; and her brother, Jacob du Bois. Here Sarah established her son Isaac permanently, as she thought, as by a deed dated 27 May, 1726, reciting' for and in consideration of the love, good will and affection I have and do bear toward my loving and dutiful son Isaac Van Metre of the province aforesaid,' the mother transfers to him three hundred and two acres of land lying at Pile's Grove between Nickomus Run and Salem creek. Possession of this property was taken over by Isaac on the 26th of May, 1726, in the presence of Cornelius Elting Jr. In Salem, prior to 1709, is a record in the 'Eare Marke Book' reciting that John and Isaac Van Metre, Jr. had recorded cattle and swine. The amibition, and that restless spirit, inherited from the father with his vision and early advice, inspired the two Van Metre brothers to launch the sceme to colonize their relatives and friends in the Valley of Virginia. Between them John Van Metre and his brother Isaac they obtained from Governor Gooch, of the British Crown and council of Virginia, on the 30th of June 1730, a grant of forty thousand acres of land, unappropriated and unsurveyed, in Spottsylvania county in the Northern Neck of Virginia."

"Copy from the Original Van Meter Grants
'At a council held in the capitol the 17th day of June, 1730. . . On reading at this Board the Petition of John Van Metre setting forth that he is desirious to take up a Tract of land in this Colony on the West side of the Great Mountains for the settlement of himself and eleven children and also that divers of his Relations and friends living in the Government of New York are also desirous to move their families and effects and Settle in the same place if a Sufficient Quantity of land may be assigned them for that purpose and praying that ten thousand acres of land lying in the forks of the Sherando River including the places called by the name of Cedar Litch and Stoney Lick and running up between the branches of the said river to complete that quantity and twenty thousand acres not already taken up by Robert Carter and Mann Page, Esqrs., or any other, - lying in the fork between the sd River Sherando and the River Cohongroota and extending thence to Operkon and up the South Branch thereof may be assigned for the Habitation of himself and family and friends. The Governor, with the advice of his council is pleased to give leave to the sd John Van Metre to take up the sd first mentioned tract of ten thousand acres for the set'lem't of himself and his family, and that as soon as the Petitioner shall bring on the last mentioned Tract twenty families to Inhabit on that this Board is satisfied so many are to remove thither leave be and it is hereby granted him for surveying the last mentioned tract of twenty thousand acres within the limits above described in so many several dividens as the pet'r and his sd partners shall think fit. And it is furthered ordered that no person is permitted to enter for or take up any part of the afsd Lands in the meantime provided the sd Van Metre and his family and the twenty other families of his Relations and friends do settle thereon within the space of two years according to his proposal."

"Jan Joosten 2nd. of Meteren (John Van Metre of Virginia) son of Joost Janse of Meteren and Sara du Bois, b. 14 Aug. 1683, Ulster Co., N.Y.; succeeded to his father's rights at Burlington, N.J., Somerset Co., on Raritan R. and his grandfather's land in East Jersey. At the raritan he m. Margaret Bodine, dau. of Isaac Bodine, 1705. . . . John Van Metre and Margaret, with ten of their children, migrated to the little settlement on the Monocacy, East of the Blue Ridge, near the Potomac R. in Prince George's Co., Md cir. 1725-6. He was joined there by his son Johonnes some time after the latter's marriage. He sold his land on the Raritan (N.J.) and acquired other property in Washington Co., Md. In 1730, an immense tract of land in Virginia was obtained as a grant from the government for the settlement of John Van Metre and family of 11 children. He was the patentee and original settler in Virginia. Several histories give the facts as to the removal of the Van Metre brothers to Va., their location, their settlement, their adventures with the Indians, and the protection their forts promised to the surounding settlers. Beyond the Potomac, a few miles from the Monocacy, lay the beautiful limstone valley of Virginia, called by Fairfax, the Lord of that manor, 'The Norhern Neck of Virginia', then mostly in Spottsylvania Co., but since divided into several counties. Ever advancing, restless, and adventurous, Jost Janse's sons, probably following the advice, and possessing the spirit of their father, pushed into this valley and began to develop a colonizing plan. John and Isaac, brothers, 17 June 1730 obtained a grant of virgin lands, lying in the angle formed by the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, and extending far down the valley to the South. To John who spied out the land and his brother Isaac, who joined him in the scheme, the grant was made. They were to bring their families, relatives and friends from Ulster Co., N.Y. and Salem Co., N.J. but the grant of 1730 was later assigned to Hite. Land was granted in Orange Co., Va. in 1734. While an inhabitant of Orange Co., Va., John conveys lands called 'Metre', lying on the Monocacy in Prince George's Co., Md. 1739-1741. Another deed was made for land in Prince George's Co., Md., called 'Meadow'. He made other purchases of land in Frederick Co., Va. 1736, and acres located in Orange Co. on the Opequon Run on the Opequon river. He had first settled near what is now Shepherdstown in Jefferson Co., W. Va. - then Orange Co., next Frederick Co., then Berkley Co. John died in Frederick Co., August 1745, aged 62, leaving his wife Margaret and ten children - his eldest son Johonnes having predeceased him. He left more than 3000 acres to his children. John Van Metre's will, dated 13 Aug. 1745, provated at Winchester, Va. 3 Sept. 1745 is signed, 'John Mator'."

"John Van Meter, here mentioned, was a native of Holland, and settled in or near Esopus, now Kingston, N.Y., prior to 1700. It is related by Kercheval that he was an Indian trader and visited the Valey of Virginia with a company of Delaware Indians, who were on their way south to fight the Catawbas. The time is said to have been some years prvious to the first white settlement, possibly about 1725. The northern Indians, who were probably a raiding party of the Five Nations, were defeated with great loss near present Franklin, Pendleton county, West Virginia, and Van Meter barely escaped with his life. The beauty and fertility of the country so impressed him that he advised his sons to secure lands on the South Banch of the Potomac z9Kercheval History of the Valley, 2nd. ed., 1850, p. 46.) However, the natural obje
                  

                   Sponsors: Gysbert Crom and Catryn du Bois
                  

                   Sponsors: David du Bois, Janneken Meulenaer.
                  

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	2  DATE 17 JUN 1730
	2  PLAC 10,000 acres, beyond the Blue Ridge, Virginia
	2  NOTE Built Fort Pleasant at Old Fields
	1  CAUS Scalped by Indians



Relation to mother, Sara DuBois, shown by deed from Sarah DuBois to Isaac VanMetre, dated 27 May 1726, recorded Liber D, page 203, Salem Deeds, which recites consideration as "love, good will and affection I have and do bear toward my loving and dutiful son Isaac VanMetre . . . "

John Van Meter and his brother, Isaac, were granted 110,000 acres of land in the Shenandoah Valley by the Royal Governor, William Gooch, which they later sold to their cousin, Jost Hite, after selecting choice sites for themselves, while it was still a wilderness.

Kegley's 'Virginia Frontier in describing the earliest history of Virginia, says: "The Van Meters cross the Powtomack (Potomac River). John and Isaac Van Meter were traders who knew the country about the Potomac and the Shenandoah as early as 1728. After 1721 Isaac lived in New Jersey, but John had moved westward toward the southwest part of Maryland. In 1730 their petitions for 10,000 acres each in the forks of the Shenando River and 20,000 more for other families were granted. This was not to interfere with the surveys of Carter and Page."...Jost Hite with Robert McKay began acquiring land in the Shenandoah Valley in 1731. They with one hundred families were desirous of seating (settling) themselves on the back of the Great Mountains on land lying between the land of John Van Meter, Jacob Stover, John Fishback and others. ... Hite acquired the Van Meter grants in 1734 and patents began to issue to his settlers, one thousand acres to each family...joining the land of 'Jost Heyd' and others.

Isaac Van Meter first settled in this area in 1740 and in 1744 built a home and fort that he named Fort Pleasant. The house and fort were built on a gentle rise overlooking wide open fields stretching south down the valley of the South Branch of the Potomac River. Later, the Van Meter lands were passed on to his son, Garrett.

1754 Heirs
Information about Isaac Van Metre, So. Branch of Potomack County of Frederick, VA.
Married to Hannah. Will Feb 15 1754
Children:
Henry
Jacob
Garrett
Sarah Richman
Catherine
Rebecca Hite
Clita

Names of wife and children as shown in will, dated 15 Feb. 1754, proven 14 Dec. 1757, Hampshire County, Virginia (now Hardy County, West Virginia): wife Annah, children, Henry, Jacob, Garrett, Sarah Rickman, Catherine, Rebecca Hite, Hellita.

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In the beginning it was the fatherland religion, but was admitted to the Presbytery of Philadelphia; which, consultation to those records will show. This accounts for the change to Presbyterianism of Isaac and his family. In 1714 Daniel Cox, of New Jersey sold 3000 acres of land to Jacob du Bois of Ulster Co., NY. , (a brother of Sarah du Bois, the wife of Jan Joost Van Meteren) Sarah du Bois, John Van Meter and Isaac Van Meter, (the mother and two sons.) This was subsequently divided among them of which John individually acquired 400 acres and Isaac 430 acres. Isaac bought many other tracts in Salem Co., also and passed a very active life there as did his brother John and Henry. The most important probably to his descendant, being the prominent part he took in the founding of the Pittsgrove (Pilesgrove) Presbyterian Church of Salem Co., NJ. The covenant of which was signed 13th April 1741. This he is designated in signing as number 1: his wife Hannah (norn annetje), 2; their son Henry, 3; and their daughter Sarah, 4.

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The settlements in the Valley of Virginia were originated principally by the labors of four individuals -- John and Isaac Vanmeter in Frederick county , William Beverley in Augusta , and Benjamin Borden in Rockbridge . To them Governor William Gooch made extensive grants of land beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains , on condition that they should be colonized within a reasonable time. These grants were all of a later date than the so-called Fairfax grant, which was made by Charles II. in the twenty-first year of his reign, and conveyed to a number of noblemen a tract known as the Northern Neck of land in Virginia , "rounded within the head of the Rivers Rappahannock and Quiriough or Patomack rivers , the courses of said rivers, . . . and Chesapeak Bay ." At a later date, title to all this tract became vested in Thomas , Lord Culpeper , one of the original grantees. Culpeper 's daughter and heiress married Thomas , Lord Fairfax , "Baron of Cameron , in that part of Great Britain called Scotland ," and the estates passed to Lord Fairfax . This grant gave to that nobleman, with the exception of certain reservations, nearly all the land in what are now the counties of Page, Shenandoah , Warren , Clarke , Frederick , Lancaster , Northumberland , Richmond , Westmoreland , Stafford , King George , Prince William , Fairfax , Alexandria , Loudoun , Fauquier , Culpeper , and Madison , in Virginia , and Berkeley , Jefferson , Morgan , and Hardy , in West Virginia . Lord Fairfax visited his Virginia estates in 1739 , and returned again about 1747 , ultimately settling at Greenway Court, in Clarke county , within a few miles of Winchester , where he remained until his death in 1782 . While living in Westmoreland county , he had become acquainted with the Washington family, and particularly with the young George , then a youth of fifteen, who had been a boyhood companion of the children of Fairfax 's cousin, William Fairfax , of Belvoir , an estate near Mount Vernon . Accordingly, the nobleman proposed that one of the sons of his cousin together with George Washington should visit his lands on the frontier, for the purpose of exploring, surveying, and making maps of them. They accepted the proposition, and started on their journey over the mountains March 11, 1748 . A record of their surveys is preserved in Washington 's Journal of the expedition.


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John and Isaac Vanmeter , of Pennsylvania , obtained a grant of forty thousand acres from Governor Gooch in 1730 , to be located in the lower Shenandoah Valley , within the present counties of Frederick , Clarke , and Jefferson . This warrant was sold by the grantees in 1731 to Joist Hite , a Hollander, who removed from Pennsylvania in 1732 with his own and fifteen other families, most of them Scotch-Irish. They settled along Opequon, Cedar , and Crooked creeks , in what is now Frederick county .

Ancestry.com. Scotch-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002. Original data: Hanna, Charles A. The Scotch-Irish or the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America, Vol. 2. New York, NY: Putnam, 1902.

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His son Isaac Van Meter with his wife and four children settled at historic Fort Pleasant in what is now Hardy County, West Virginia, in 1744.

"Isaac Van Meter, brother of Jacob, was killed and scalped by the Indians near his fort in 1757. One of his sons was Colonel Garret Van Meter who was born in New York in February 1732, and was a boy of twelve when the family located at Fort Pleasant. In 1756 he married Mrs. Ann Markee Sibley, and after the death of his father, inherited Mount Pleasant and a large tract of surrounding land. He was a colonel of a regiment of militia in General Washington's army in the Revolution. After the war he and his wife lived at old Fort Pleasant, where they died full of years. Only two of their sons grew to mature years, Isaac, born in 1757 and Jacob, born May 18, 1764. These brothers married sisters, Bettie and Tabitha Inskeep, whose mother was Hannah McCulock (McCulloch), a daughter of the most famous Indian fighter and scout of his day. (Travelers through present Wheeling may note a marker at the site of McCulloch's leap, over a bluff to escape from the savages.)

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Isaac VAN METEREN766,879 was born before 1692 in USA, New York, Ulster Co.. He was baptized about 1692 in USA, New York, Ulster Co..763 He signed a will on 15 Feb 1754 in USA, Virginia, Frederick Co.,.880 Isaac's will states he was "of the South Branch of Potowmach in the country of Frederick, Virginia" when it was made. It was presented in court in Hampshire Co., Virginia December 14, 1757 by his sons Henry and Garret. The will provides for his "dear wife Hannah, as long asshe shall live," and mentions children: Henry, Jacob, Garret, Sarah (the wife of John Richman), Catherine Van Metre, Rebecca Hite ( the wife of Abraham Hite) and Helita Van Metre. The lands in New Jersey are to remain under their current leases until their expiration when they are to be sold at public venue to the highest bidder; devises lands in Virginia, slaves and money. The children are to have the privilege of selling their land, but must first offer it to their siblings so that they may keep it amongst them. He died after Feb 1754 in USA, Virginia, Frederick Co.. Isaac Van Maitre was a landowner in Bridgewater Township, Somerset Co., New Jersey, in 1714. In 1718/19 Isaac Van Metere of Salem, NJ was appointed executor of the will of Hendrix Mullinar. Fellow bondsmen were John and Henry Van Metre, also of Salem.
Isaac had a family of eight children, some of which emigrated with their parents to the Valley of the South Branch of the Potomac prior to 1745.
Isaac's grant of land obtained in 1730 (the same time as his brother Jan) was for a 10,000 acre tract lying near "The Trough" on the Opequon River. All of these lands were in what was then known as Orange Co., later became Berkeley Co and was near the present town of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Fort Pleasant was built on the land owned by Isaac.
In 1757 both Isaac and his second wife were killed and scalped by the Indians outside Fort Pleasant.

763. Smyth, Samuel Gordon, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents (Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909, 480 pgs.), p. 14.
766. A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents, p. 16.
879. Unknown., A Story of a Van Matre Family. p. 6, 8.
880. Anonymous, Biographical, genealogical and descriptive history of the First Congressional District of New Jersey (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1900, 1368 pgs. ), p. 36.
                  

                   Witnesses: Abram de Boys, Jan Hamel


From the "Genealogies of WV Families, from the WV Historical magazine Quarterly, 1902-1905, p. 40, article by Samuel Gordon Smyth": Hendrix Van Meteren was baptised at Kingston 1 Sept 1695, sponsored by Abraham du Boys and Jan Humel.

Baptismal & Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Reformed
Church of Kingston, NY: #863, child--Hendrick, Bapt: 1 Sep 1695.
Parents: Joost Jansse, Sara de Boys. Witnesses & Sponsors: Abram deBoys, Jan Hamel.

"Here his [Jan Joosten's] grandsons, Jan, Hendrick and Isaac Van Meteren, first bought 3000 acres of land, which subsequently grew into 6000 acres, so that the Van Meterens were early among the largest property owners and most prominent residents of southern New Jersey."

Migrated to Salem County, NJ in 1714±

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Hendrix VAN METEREN766 was born before 1 Sep 1695 in USA, New York, Ulster Co., Marbletown.766 He was baptized on 1 Sep 1695 in USA, New York, Ulster Co.. Sponsers: Abram du Boys and Jan Hamel He signed a will on 2 May 1752 in USA, New Jersey, Trenton.881 Henry's will, recorded May 2, 1752, was proved Dec 8, 1759. It names the following childen: Joseph, David, John, Ephraim, Fetters. Benjamin, Jacob. Elizabeth, and Rebecca. All the land, 2,400 acres, was left to the sons. He died between May 1752 and Dec 1759 in USA, New Jersey, Salem Co., Pittsgrove Tsp.. Henry Van Metere also migrated to New Jersey and lived in Salem Co. He is said to have married four times. He was a fellow bondsman with his brother John as securities of the second brother Isaac for his administration of the estate of Hendrix Mullinaer of Somerset Co.

766. A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents, p. 16.
880. Anonymous, Biographical, genealogical and descriptive history of the First Congressional District of New Jersey (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1900, 1368 pgs. ), p. 36.
881. Ibid., p. 37.