Family of Jean PETIT and Elizabeth HALL

Husband:	Jean PETIT (bef1650-1692)
Wife:	Elizabeth HALL (1650- )
Children:	Elizabeth PETIT (1673-1760)
Marriage	Dec 1670	New Amsterdam 1

Husband: Jean PETIT

	Jean PETIT, "flag-bourgogne"

Name:	Jean PETIT
Sex:	Male
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	bef 1650	Bagneux, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France
Religion	1665 (age 14-15)	Protestant; New Amsterdam
Residence	btw 1677 and 1683 (age 26-33)	Hoorn's Hook, Manhatten Island, New York
Death	Oct 1692 (age 41-42)	Drowned on Nantucket Schoals while accompanying Abraham Gouvernour on way to meet Massachusetts Governor and the King William of England on behalf of the Leislerians

Additional Information

Religion

joined Dutch Reformed Church

Wife: Elizabeth HALL

Name:	Elizabeth HALL 2
Sex:	Female
Father:	Ralph HALL (bef1635-aft1650)
Mother:	-
Birth (1)	1650	New Amsterdam 2
Birth (2)	bef 1655
Death	"prob 1673"	New Amsterdam

Child 1: Elizabeth PETIT

Name:	Elizabeth PETIT 3,4
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Henry FREEMAN (1671-1763)
Birth (1)	1673	New Amsterdam 3,4
Birth (2)	1673	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 3
Religion		Presbytarian
Death (1)	5 Dec 1760 (age 86-87)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 3,4
Death (2)	5 Dec 1760 (age 86-87)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 3
Burial	1760 (age 86-87)	1st Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Record Change	5 Apr 2001 (age 327-328)

Additional Information

Burial

600 Rahway Ave., Woodbridge, NJ

Note on Husband: Jean PETIT

from The Revised History of Harlem, James Riker, 1904, p381

 

Jean Baignoux bore a good character, but is little known. It was he, we presume, who, as Jan Binjou, joined the church April 12, 1665, at the same time with Abraham du Toict. Binjou (Beenyou) approaches his name in sound. Montagne writes it Benu; the English scribes usually benew. The cultured Vander Vin using a Latin prefix (se note p. 120), writes it Abignou, i.e., from Baignoux, the latter a Burgundian town, whence Jean probably came. Twice he calls him "Jean Abignou, alias Jan petit." The French called him Jean petit, the Dutch Klyn Jan, both meaning Litle John. Kleyn Jan was paid at Harlem 9 florins for "putting the drum in order." I suspect he had been one of Governor Nicolls' soldiers. He had license December 6, 1670, to marry Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall, but his wife in and after 1673, was Anna Hoede. In 1680, he married Jenne Stevens. later, if we mistake not, sailing a coasting vessel, he met with disaster. Abraham Gouverneur, writing from Boston, October 12, 1692, relates "the sad mischance of Little John and his son," who bound thence for New York, "were cast away on Nantucket Shoals, and both drowned."

 

 

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from Harlem: Its Origin and Early Annals

index ref: 276, 373, 382, 383, 384, 395, 410, 427, 428, 496

 

p276-277:

The 22d of the same month [march 1668], Jean Baignoux, a worthy French refugee, and subsequent owner of a farm on Hoorn's Hook, having occasion to cross the river to Morris's, forty pounds of tobacco, with a nootas* and other articles, all valued at 76 florins, were stolen out of his canoe while it lay at the landing-place. He charged the theft upon Matthys, the ferry negro, who was arrested, but released on his master, Verveeleu, becoming his bail. The case, more serious for that Matthys was de facto a public servant, demanded, as thought, an extra court, which was held April 2d, when beside the usual magistrates, his honor, High Sheriff Manning, was present. Pierre Grandpre, another refugee, with Knoet Mourisse, had occasion to go over together just after Baignoux, and described the strange actions of the negro, who "with sword in one hand and fire in the other," forbade their landing. They also saw that Matthys had a nootas, but could not say whose it was. The testimony left little doubt of his guilt, but the court thought best to postpone the casae for further evidence; Vermeelen promising Capt. Manning to make good Baignoux's loss should the latter be able to clearly fix the theft upon the negro. No more appears.

 

* Nootas, a bag of Indian hemp, in which the natives carried their sewant, tobacco, etc., and measured their corn. They came into common use with the settlers, and are often named in inventories and vendue lists.

 

 

p 372-373, 30 August 1676:

Jean Baignoux ..., who was a tenant of Mr. Vermeelen, was erased from the list, Andros making him a special grant upon Hoorn's Hook.

 

p 382-383:

Beginning at Kip's Bay, the grants were 30 acres to Gabriel Carbosie, 60 to David du Four and son, 60 to John bassett, 38 1/2 to George Elphinstone, 32 1/2 to Jacob Young, and 30 to Jean Baignoux. The last three fell partly within the Harlem patent. That to Elphinstone, which lapped upon the southern end of this patent (at 74th Street, including within its limit the Saw Kill); and that next, granted to Young and "bounded to the north-east by the commons or a certain run of water" - were surveyed on April 25th. Baignouz's farm was run out adjoining to Young, on July 20th. The grants were "to be confirmed by patent when begun to be improved." ... [Baignoux's patent was issued] Sept. 29th following, and they were subject severally to a quit-rent or annual render to the government of "half a bushel of good winter wheat."

 

p 388:

The ensuing winter found nearly all of the inhabitants busily employed in the woodlands cutting 5000 palisades "for use of the city," pursuant to an order from the Governor, of Nov. 27th, 1677. They were to be "under 4 inches thick and 122 to 13 feet long, to be delivered at the water side in a convenient place to be taken away." ... All those who had shared in the late land drafts took part in this work, save Constable nagel, Johannes Verveelen, ferryman, and Capt. Carteret; ... In addition ... Jan Petit (Baignoux) "and his mate."

 

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from New Amsterdam (New York City) Reformed Dutch Church Marriages 1680

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/rdcmarr1680.shtml

[betrothed] 11 dicto.[ 11 April 1680] Jan Bengnout, Wedr. Van [widow of] Anna Oedt, en [and] Jannetje Stephens, j. d. Van [unmarried woman of] Uytrecht, beyde woonende tot [both living at] N. Yorke . [married] 1 May [1680]. [Utrecht is a town south of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.]

 

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from New Amsterdam & New York Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/rdcbapt.shtml

The baptisms are laid out in order as follows: The date of the baptism; the parents; the child; and the witnesses.

 

8 Dec [1673]; Jean Bejonge, Anna Hodde; Anna; Nicolaes de Lapleine, Anna Reynouts

17 Dec [1680]; Jean Bingou, Anna Hoedt; Marritie; Paulus Turck, Marritie Loockermans

24 Mar [1685]; Jean Petit, Jannetie Stevens; Benjamin; Pieter Pieterszen Groenevelt, Clara Ebels

 

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from History of Harlem, James Riker, pp. 427-428

 

Jean Baignoux sold his farm on Hoorn's Hook, May 15th [1683], to Isaac Deschamps, a French refugee, and well-to-do merchant at New York.

 

Deschamps eventually sold the Baignoux farm to John Spragge, Esq., of New York. The lands about this lower section of the town, already acquiring value, were thus passing from the hands of the sturdy yeomen who first settled and improved them, in part to become, under the touch of wealth and refinement, the charming rural seats of affluent tradesmen and shipping merchants, noted mariners and others. Later occupants of the Saw-kill farm were Capt. Samuel Bradley and his son-in-law, the famous Capt. William Kidd, whose wife was the former Mrs. Cox.*

 

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from Documents Relative to the Colony of New York, 1853, p 4

Excerpt of a letter from Abraham Governeur (in Boston) to his parents (in New York), 12 October 1692, translated from Dutch

 

I hope that my two last letters came to your hands, and having now an opportunity I durst not omit letting you know how things are here, as also the sad mischance of little John and his Son; they were afloat again from that place where they first drove on shoar, but were cast away on Nantucket Shoales and both drowned; all my clothes, linen, silver, pocket book, and bookes, all is lost, so that I have nothing but two Shirts and one cravat.

 

[DSW Note: Abraham, Secretary to the former New York Governor Leisler, was collecting support from the neighboring Governors on behalf of the citizens of New York to petition King William of England for grievances against the current Governor, restitution of repuation for Leisler (unjustly convicted of treason and executed a year prior), compensation for his family and Leisler's supporters, and appointment of a new Governor. All these requests were granted by 1695. Jean Petit may have been Abraham's escort on the voyage.]

Note on Wife: Elizabeth HALL - shared note

from Ancestors and Descendants Of Lewis Ross Freeman p. 8

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH12,35923

 

Joe Klett also checked baptismal and land records in New York for Baignoux and PetIt and sent the following to compiler:

Marriage license granted in New York for Jean Baignoux ["Baignouix"] and Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall, 6 Dec 1670.

(New York Historical Manuscripts, English: Books of General Entries of the Colony of New York, 1664-1673 {Baltimore, 1982), p. 385.

Sources

1	New York Historical Manuscripts, English, "Books of General Entries of the Colony of New York, 1664-1673" (Name: Baltimore, 1982;). apge 385. Text From Source: Marriage license granted in New York for Jean Baignoux ["Baignouix"] and Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Hall, 6 Dec 1670.

2

Godfrey Memorial Library, comp, "American Genealogical-Biographical Index" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999;). Text From Source: Online publication - Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.Original data - Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.

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3	Ancestry.com, "One World Tree (sm)" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;). Text From Source: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
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4	Edmund West, comp, "Family Data Collection - Individual Records" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000;). Text From Source: Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.
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