NOTES: Magdalena married as her second husband HARMEN EDWARDS, of Bergen, the
widower of Jannetje Hendricks. Harmen was buried at Bergen on 30 April
1681. She was identified as his widow in the Flatbush Reformed Dutch
Church record of her betrothal to her third husband. On 11 December
1681 (with banns published 13 November 1681 at the Reformed Dutch Church
of Bergen) at the Reformed Dutch Church in Flatbush she married as her
second husband and as his third wife JAN AERTSEN VAN DER BILT. They are
said to have had 1 child - JAN JANSZEN VAN DER BILT, JR., who had no
birth or baptismal record. Abt. 1733 Jan Jr., married HELENA (or
MAGDALENA) LEFFERTS, the widow of Gerret Martense, who had no birth or
baptismal record, a dau. of Leffert Pieterse.
His marriage record states that he was "van Aschwaerde in't stift
Bremen." On 18 November 1659, he petitioned for payment of 30 gl.
balance of rent due from Aafie Leenders. On 14 February 1660, he
purchased from Pieter Pietersen Menist a lot on Heere Graf (Broad
Street) which the latter had just purchased from Fredrick Lubbersen.
Apparently he visited Holland shortly thereafter as he, his wife, and
two children, aged four and five years, returned to New Amsterdam on "De
Trouw" on 23 December 1660. In 1661 Hendrick Jansen Spiering and Johan
de Decker were in disagreement concerning repairs made to a house in New
Amsterdam. The case was referred to arbitrators who reported on 9
September 1662. Their findings were not given. Hendrick sold the Heere
Graf lot, with a house on it, to Christoffel van Laer, a shoemaker, on
9 May 1662. Disputes concerning this sale were recorded in the town
records on 29 May 1663. Hendrick's name appears in the records again
when, on 2 October 1668, he acknowledged a debt of 360 florins to
Nathaniel Jans Backer and requested a delay in repaying. Spier was
granted one month to pay the debt plus costs. His arrival in what is
now New Jersey occurred following his purchase of twenty-five morgans of
land near Gemenoepa in July 1662 from Annatien Dircksen, widow of Pieter
Kock. This land was one-half of that originally granted to Klaes
Karstensen Noorman on 25 March 1647. Hendrick's purchase was confirmed
by a patent from Governot Carteret on 1 May 1668. The patent stated
that the land was at Minqackqua. It remained in the Spier family until
1 May 1768 when it was sold to Jacob Van Wagenen. Hendrick Spier
evidently moved to New Jersey and was living at Mingackqua in 1662 as he
was one of the three men who signed a petition refusing support of a
Clergyman at Bergen. He extended his holdings by purchasing from
Severyn Laurensen about seventy acres of land adjoining that which he
already owned. This tract was sold on 10 April 1694 to Gerrit Gerritse
Van Wagenen, Jr., by Hendrick's widow and children to pay his debts. On
15 June 1674 Hendrick petitioned, with Joost van der Linde, Hendrick
De Backer, and Harmen Edewartse, for land on Staten Island. On 7 July
1674 Hendrick was granted twenty-five morgens "beginning opposite
Schutter's Island and further westerly along the Kill van Kull". It
appears that Hendrick died prior to 4 September 1674, as a patent for
land on Staten Island was granted to Jans and Hans Spieringh, two of his
sons, on that date. It is certain that he died prior to May 1679 when
a son of Magdalen Hansen, widow of Henrick Jansen Spier, was buried at
Bergen.
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