• General Notes

  [Chapman.FTW]
  
  oachim Anderson (Andrieszen) was probably born in Amsterdam, Holland and
  came to America as a child. In Feb, 1659, he and his parents are
  mentioned as sponsors at the baptisim of a daughter of his his sister,
  "Francyntie" (sic).
  
  In July 1660, he and three others were fined for boarding a ship just in
  from Holland, despite a notice forbidding it. In October 1663, he and
  his mother were witnesses in a court action started by his father.
  
  His marriage was not performed in the New York Dutch church, and the
  parentage of his wife is unknown. Soon after his marriage he moved to
  Elizabethtown, whee he took the oath of allegiance to the British Crown
  on 19 Feb 1665/6 and was one of the first generation of "Elizabethtown
  Associates".
  
  The names and number of Joachim's children have been a matter of
  controversy. His will, a 56 word unsigned document, dated Oct. 15, 1674,
  and penned by Humphrey Spening (Spinning), was proved by the latter in
  open court March 1, 1675. It leaves the disposal of his property to his
  wife, should she "kepe unmaiered", but if she were to remarry, half of
  the estate was to go to her, and the balance equally divided "amongst
  they children".
  
  Following the practice of other Elizabethtown residents of Dutch origin,
  he had five of his children baptized in the Dutch church at New York.
  One or both of the grandparents were sponsors at four of the five
  baptisms. That the first of these, Elias, was in fact his eldest son, is
  indicated by a quitclaim that Elias executed in 1724, for land formerly
  laid out on Joachim's right. The youngest child was Benjamin, baptized
  in 1674, a few months before the father's death. In addition to the
  five, it has been claimed that another son was Enoch Andrus
  (Andrieszen), who was repeatedly associated with Joshua and Cornelius in
  various ways, and who married a sister of their wives, and moved with
  them from Newtown, L. I., to New Jersey. Enoch must have been born well
  before 1675, as he had a daughter born about 1690. Accordingly, if he
  was a son of Joachim, he must have been born during the 3 1/ 2-year
  period between sons Joshua and Cornelius, or about 1668-9. Despite lack
  of proof, however, it seems likely that Enoch was Joachim's son, and his
  name has been so entered, provisionally, in this compilation.

Details of Joachim Andrieszen\'s family with Emmeetje (Amy) Andrieszen Jans\Jansen