Lot: K7 (Taxlots)

Janneken Bonus, daughter of Claes Boone, of Amsterdam, came to New Netherland with her first husband, Urbane Leursen. After his death (he was probably lost on the "Princess Amelia," in September, 1647, for he had served on board of her), she married, on October 17, 1649, Tobias Teunissen {Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 15), and went to live on his bouwery at Harlem. Here, in September, 1655, they were attacked by the Indians; Teunissen was murdered, and Janneken and her children were made captives. — Riker's Hist, of Harlem, i8o. Some time before February, 1658, Janneken was granted this lot on the Smee Straet. — Rec. N. Am., II: 243; VII: 176. It was patented to her in 1662 (recital in Patents, II: 173, Albany), by which time she had made a third matrimonial venture. In June, 1659, she and Thomas Verdon appeared before the orphan-masters, to have guardians appointed for her four children, three of whom were the children of Urbanus, and the fourth, a little fellow of eight years, the son of Tobias Teunissen. — Min. of Orph. Court, I: 93-4. After her last marriage, she lived peacefully in Brooklyn, where she and her third husband joined the church, in 1661. — Riker's Hist, of Harlem, 182. They were both still living in September, 1672, when they sold the property to Daniel Ternier (Tourneur). — Liber Deeds, B: 202; cf. Book of Records of Deeds y Transfers (etc.), 1665-1672 (translated), 230-1. Site: No. 35 William Street.