In 1693, there was an inhabitant of New Sweden whose name was Matts DeVoss, who had been born in Sweden and was still living in '93. According to THE 1693 CENSUS OF SWEDES ON THE DELAWARE, by Craig, Devoss/DeVos/DeFoss were other names for Johansson, which also was Jansen. This earlier Matthias Mattsson de Foss was a blacksmith who arrived in New Sweden with his brother Anders Mattsson in 1754....there was also another Matthias Mattsson in the colony, so tracing each Matthias is difficult. . I checked the CD of wills and there are no Jansen/Jansan/JansonJamsen wills recorded in Chester Co, and no mentions of the surname in the wills of others. The will for Claus Jamsen is as follows.....Phil Co. JAMSEN, CLAUS. Germantown.Executor: Son Claus, sole heir.Witnesses: January Dooden, Dirck Jansen and Francis Daniel Pastorius. (There is no date given, but it is found between 2 1711 will probates and is definitely pre 1726.) Sandra -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: 9/15/2006

Do you mean 1654? New Sweden didn't exist in 1754. --- Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> wrote: > In 1693, there was an inhabitant of New Sweden > whose name was Matts > DeVoss, who had been born in Sweden and was still > living in '93. According > to THE 1693 CENSUS OF SWEDES ON THE DELAWARE, by > Craig, Devoss/DeVos/DeFoss > were other names for Johansson, which also was > Jansen. This earlier > Matthias Mattsson de Foss was a blacksmith who > arrived in New Sweden with > his brother Anders Mattsson in 1754....there was > also another Matthias > Mattsson in the colony, so tracing each Matthias is > difficult. . > I checked the CD of wills and there are no > Jansen/Jansan/JansonJamsen > wills recorded in Chester Co, and no mentions of the > surname in the wills of > others. > The will for Claus Jamsen is as > follows.....Phil Co. > JAMSEN, CLAUS. Germantown.Executor: Son Claus, sole > heir.Witnesses: January > Dooden, Dirck Jansen and Francis Daniel Pastorius. > (There is no date > given, but it is found between 2 1711 will probates > and is definitely pre > 1726.) > > > Sandra > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - > Release Date: 9/15/2006 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > Gene Stackhouse: Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm as love-making. -- Anonymous __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com