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Johannes
Van Ness
Johannes Van Ness was born in June 1739. He was the son of Albany residents Cornelis and Susanna Swits Van Ness.
In
December 1762, he married Hester Gerritse of Niskayuna
at the Schenectady Dutch Church. Over the next twelve
years, their five children were baptized in Schenectady.
In
1763, Van Ness purchased a lot on the hill in Albany.
In 1766, his modest property was listed on the Albany
assessment rolls. Later, he added a vacant lot or
two to his holdings. Over the next three decades,
he was a cooper who lived on Orange Street and whose
shop was on Pearl.
He
was identified as a private in one of the Albany
companies of the provincial militia in 1767. A decade
later, he qualified for a bounty as a member of the
first regiment of the Albany County militia. In 1790,
he was living with his wife and two children in their
second ward house. By 1800, Hester had passed and
his household consisted of three adult men.
Johannes
Van Ness died in April 1808 and was buried from the
Albany Dutch church.
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Notes: The
life of Johannes Van Ness is CAP biography number
922. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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