Jan Roelofse Sebring Adrianna Polhemius Research By Lucinda M. Miller Kolba Deitman NAME: Jan Roelofse SEBRING BORN: About 1631 in Beyle, Drenthe, Netherlands FATHER: Roelof Lukassen Sueberingh MOTHER: MARRIED: About 1661 in Flatbush, Kings County, NY DIED: About 1703 in Bergen, New Jersey BURIED: SPOUSE: Adrianna POLHEMIUS BORN: About 1644 in Itamarca, Brazil FATHER: Johannes Theodorus POLHEMIUS MOTHER: Catharina VAN DER WERVEN DIED: About 1685 in Bergen, NJ BURIED: CHILDREN: Cornelis Janse SEBRING (1660- 1723) Ida Janse SEBRING (1664- ) Lucas Janse SEBRING (1666- ) Johannes Janse SEBRING (1673- ) Roelof Janse SEBRING (1675- 1756) Elizabeth Janse SEBRING (1677- 1687) Daniel Janse SEBRING (1682- ) Marietje Janse SEBRING (1685- ) DOCUMENTS: NOTES: Jan emigrated to America with his brother-in-law Steven Coerte Van Voorhees aboard "De Bonte Koe" in April 1660. He settled in Flatbush, L.I., and attended the Dutch Church there where his father-in-law preached. On March 6, 1674, he conveyed to the Rev. Polhemus 24 morgens of land in Flatbush which he had bought of Cornelius Smallwood and on May 17, 1681, he sold the balance of his property there and removed to Bergen, N.J. On Oct. 2, 1682, he and his wife were received into the Dutch Church there by certificate from the church in Midwout (Bergen Dutch Church recs.). Home Lucinda Index