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- JAN TIBOUT was b. at Bruges and after emigrating lived for a short time at Fort Casimer, on the Delaware, where he was in 1656, and whence coming, he and his w., Sarah vander Vlucht, joined the chh. at New Amsterdam in January, 1660. There and at Flatbush (save while at Bergen, where he was court messenger in 1662, and took the oath of allegiance to the English, Nov. 20, 1665), he spent most of the ensuing years till he came to H. He was voorleser here from 1685 till 1690, when for a year Guiliaem Bertholf took his place, but resuming his office in 1691, he served yet six years, and probably till Adrian Vermeule was employed in 1699. Thence, and at least till 1709, he held the same office at Bushwick. He m., in 1687, the wid. of Glaude Delamater, and on her erf right drew Lot 13 on Jochem Pieters Hills, which was sold to Jan Dyckman. Of his dozen chn. we give only such as appear to have reached maturity (with the reservation hereafter made as to the first), viz. Marcus, Theunis, Johannes, Andries, Jacomina, who m. Reyer Michielsen, and Jannetie, who m. Hendrick van Oblinus. Andries Tibout m. Maria De Grave, settled at Hackensack; had chn., Johannes, Peter, Andries, Jacobus, Jacomina, and Annetie. He d. in 1704, and his wid. m. Albert Terhune. Johannes Tibout, son of Jan, was a turner; m. Teuntie van Rommen; was a zealous Leislerian soldier, 1689; made a freeman at N. Y., 1699, then alderman, and d. chless. June 29, 1728, leaving his property after his wife's d. to his brs. and srs. Theunis Tibout, b. in N. Y., 1663, m., 1690, Mary, dr. of Hendrick Vandewater, was a carpenter; made freeman at N. Y., 1698, proposed, 1712, to erect a horsemill in the city,” never before seen in these parts;” had eight chn., and d. July 27, 1754, æ. 90 yrs. His will was dated Nov. 8, 1753. His dr., Sarah, b. 1692, m. Jan Ewouts; he also had sons, whence the Tiebouts of New York, viz., Hendrick, b. 1694, m. 1720, Elizabeth Burger; Johannes, b. 1696, m. 1719, Maria van Deventer; Theunis, b. 1705, m. 1729, Margaret Drinkwater, and Albertus, b. 1708, who m. 1728, Cornelia Bogert, and was a captain in the old French war. Johannes, a blockmaker, living in N. Y. Jan 2, 1763, when with his sr., Sarah, he sold some property of his late fa., d. Sept. 12, 1773.
source: Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.
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