Hope you all are having pleasant holidays. I have added one new document to my website. Although it holds interest to a much smaller group of researchers than the previous lists might have held, it will be very interesting to that smaller group. The document is an entry in what appears to be the Court of Sessions Minute book for a court held in Flatbush on 30 April 1712. It seems to be the only record of a second marriage for John Lake, son of John Lake and Anne Spicer. John is known to have married Neeltje Claeszen as his first wife. At the time he worte his will in 1723, he makes reference to his wife, Mayke. This document shows that he had a another wife between these two. Thus this second wife was Elizabeth Jans. From the context of the law suit and the identity of her co-plaintiff, she is to be identified as Lisbet Jans van Rheenen, daughter of Jan Jacobsen (van Rheenen) and Geertje Gysbrechts. Her sister, called "Evah Oke" in this document, is the co-plaintiff. Eva was married to Jan Aukes (sometimes Van Nuys), the son of Auke Jansen Van Nuys and Magdalena Pieters. Geertje married Auke Jansen as her second husband. The specifics of the case are not given but the record does state that the two plaintiffs are heir to "John Jacobse late of Bedford" and that it is an action "de morte ancestors". They are suing Lamber Sychels, about whom I have failed to learn anything. However the case has been allowed to abate and judgment does to Lambert. The source for this document is part of the Translations/Transliterations series for the Town Records of Long Island. Labeled as "Court and Road Records. 1668-1766" vol. 2, it is itemized on the Archives Master Sheets (their finding aid) with the only remaining volume of Brooklyn Records (Town Meetings 1785-1823) and is on the same reel of film as those records. For that reason, I have included it in the Brooklyn folder on my web-site. Also this particular volume is lacking the usual certificate at the end which gives the transcriber/translators statement. The statement by the County Clerk is included, dated Feb 1906. The writing appears to be that of Frank L. Van Cleef. Hope some at least of you will enjoy this and find it useful. Renee L. Dauven

Hi Renee, Thank you for the record and the second wife of John Lake. This is very interesting, and maybe for more than Johnson-Van Nuys descendants, and the Sutphen descendants, and so forth. Maybe it would also interest some of the Sickels descendants. Lambert Sickels (one of several sons of Zacharias) was from Albany, and came to NY sometime before 1692, when he and wife Maria Jans baptized a son Johannes in the NYDRC. Here is a collection of data about him, collected some 10 years ago by Laurie Lightfoot: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SICKLES/2002-06/1023901198 And a RW website has more info, including what appears to be an extract from Riker's "Harlem", on Joan School Francis' database: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=joanfran&id=I06834 This 1712 case in Flatbush is just such a minimal entry, but very interesting. It concerned two daughters of Jan Jacobs aka van Rheenen (Elizabeth and Eva), against Lambert Sickels. He was born ca 1666 (apprenticed 1680 in Albany). He is approximately the same age as Elizabeth and Eva, daughters of Jan Jacobs aka van Rheenen, who start having children in the late 1670's and early 1680's. Lambert Sickels had five children by 1698 (Long Island census). Jan Jacobs aka van Rheenen had married Geertje Gysberts, and after his death, Geertje married Auke Jans van Nuys, the father of Jan Aukes van Nuys, Eva (van Rheenen) Jans' husband. They were in Brooklyn as early as 1662, when Jan Jacobs van Rheenen and Geertje Gysberts baptized a son Jacob in October 1662. See New Netherland Connections Vol. 2 (1997), p. 35. Now I wonder if Maria Jans, wife of Lambert Sickels, had been another daughter of Jan Jacobs aka van Rheenen, who had died before 1712. Perhaps a dispute had arisen concerning the distribution of Jan Jacobs van Rheenen's and Geertje Gysberts' mutual estate. Maybe other records will turn up in the various records of Flatbush concerning Lambert Sickels, that would give some indication of who his wife had been. Or more about what the lawsuit concerned. Thanks again, Liz J On 27 December 2012 21:27, Renee L. Dauven <promine@web-ster.com> wrote: > Hope you all are having pleasant holidays. > I have added one new document to my website. Although it holds > interest to a much smaller group of researchers than the previous lists > might have held, it will be very interesting to that smaller group. > The document is an entry in what appears to be the Court of > Sessions > Minute book for a court held in Flatbush on 30 April 1712. It seems to > be the only record of a second marriage for John Lake, son of John Lake > and Anne Spicer. John is known to have married Neeltje Claeszen as his > first wife. At the time he worte his will in 1723, he makes reference > to his wife, Mayke. This document shows that he had a another wife > between these two. > Thus this second wife was Elizabeth Jans. From the context of the > law > suit and the identity of her co-plaintiff, she is to be identified as > Lisbet Jans van Rheenen, daughter of Jan Jacobsen (van Rheenen) and > Geertje Gysbrechts. Her sister, called "Evah Oke" in this document, is > the co-plaintiff. Eva was married to Jan Aukes (sometimes Van Nuys), > the son of Auke Jansen Van Nuys and Magdalena Pieters. Geertje married > Auke Jansen as her second husband. > The specifics of the case are not given but the record does state > that > the two plaintiffs are heir to "John Jacobse late of Bedford" and that > it is an action "de morte ancestors". > They are suing Lamber Sychels, about whom I have failed to learn > anything. However the case has been allowed to abate and judgment does > to Lambert. > The source for this document is part of the > Translations/Transliterations series for the Town Records of Long > Island. Labeled as "Court and Road Records. 1668-1766" vol. 2, it is > itemized on the Archives Master Sheets (their finding aid) with the only > remaining volume of Brooklyn Records (Town Meetings 1785-1823) and is on > the same reel of film as those records. For that reason, I have > included it in the Brooklyn folder on my web-site. Also this particular > volume is lacking the usual certificate at the end which gives the > transcriber/translators statement. The statement by the County Clerk is > included, dated Feb 1906. The writing appears to be that of Frank L. > Van Cleef. > > Hope some at least of you will enjoy this and find it useful. > > Renee L. Dauven > > > > > ************** > For New Netherland Resources - ships lists, church records, land records > and more visit http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-NETHERLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >