Abraham ‘Andriese’ Emans

Birth: 1670 Gravesend Kings County (Brooklyn) New York, USA Death: Mar., 1756 Colts Neck Monmouth County New Jersey, USA

Abraham Emans was also known as Abraham Emmons. Abraham Emans was born circa 1670 at Gravesend, Kings County, New York. He was the son of John Emans Sr. and Sarah Antonise Van Salee. Abraham Emans resided at at Gravesend, Kings County, New York, in 1693. He married Rebecca Stillwell, daughter of Capt. Nicholas Stillwell III and Catherine Hubertse Van Keuren, on 20 October 1693 at Gravesend, Kings County, New York. Abraham Emans married Margariet Willemse Williamson, daughter of Willem Willemse and Mayke Pieterse Wyckoff, on 17 August 1702. Abraham Emans resided at at Gravesend, Kings County, New York, before 1713. On 4 June 1713 purchased 300 acres begunning at juncton of Mine and Coopers Brooks in Colts Neck, NJ. In Book G of Deeds, page 59, Mon- mouth county clerk's office, is record of a deed from Tunis Covert of Free- hold township, to Cornelius VanBrunt and Hendrick Hendrickson of New Utrecht of Long Island, for 203-1/2 acres and 96-1/2 acres in Freehold township. On pages 61-62 of same book is record of a deed dated May 1, 1719, from Abra- ham Emans of Freehold township, to Hendrick Hendrickson and Jaques Denys of New Utrecht, L. I., for a tract of 96 acres in Freehold township. Haekcut, Haekee — Daniel Harker was a security to the amount of £125, for High Sheriff Forman, March, 1696. Daniel Harkcut, "late of Freehold, now of Great Harbor" (Absecom Creek?) in 1713 sold land to Abraham Emans, late of Gravesend. From the township death records and various family cemeteries we know of other families that lived in Colts Neck in the 1700's, among them: Probasco, Sickles, Bennett, Laird, Brower, Heyers, Holsart, Statesir, Wainright, Van Clief, Stoutenburg, Holmes, Golden, Emans, Scobey, Williams, Polhemus, Lefferts, Wickoff, Smock and Logan. He died between 1736 and 1756. He died in March 1756 at Colts Neck, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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Parents:

 Jan Emans (1639 - 1715)

 Sarah Antonise Van Salee Emans (1635 - 1715)

Spouse:

 Rebecca Stillwell Emans (1678 - 1715)

Burial: Body lost or destroyed

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Abraham Emans (son of John Emans and Sarah Antonise Van Salee)270, 270 was born 1670 in Gravesend, Kings, New York, USA270, 270, and died March 1756 in Colts Neck, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA270, 270. He married (1) Grietje Willem Willemsen on August 17, 1702 in Gravesend Drc270. He married (2) Abagail Stillwell. He married (3) Rebecca Stillwell on October 20, 1693 in Gravesend, Kings, New York, USA270.

More About Abraham Emans and Grietje Willem Willemsen: Marriage: August 17, 1702, Gravesend Drc.270

More About Abraham Emans and Rebecca Stillwell: Marriage: October 20, 1693, Gravesend, Kings, New York, USA.270

Children of Abraham Emans and Grietje Willem Willemsen are:

1. Cornelius Abraham Emans, b. 1720270, 270, 270, d. March 1756270, 270, 270.
2. Benjamin Abraham Emans, b. 1713270, d. 1748270.
3. Joseph Abraham Emans, b. 1713, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA270, d. 1801270.
4. Daniel Abraham Emans, b. April 1714, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA270, d. 1788270.
5. Jacob Abraham Emans, b. 1705270, d. 1801270.

Children of Abraham Emans and Abagail Stillwell are:

1. Isaac Abraham Emans, b. 1699, Gravesend, Kings, New York, USA270, d. 1782, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA270.
2. Thomas Emans, d. date unknown.
3. John Emmons, d. date unknown.

Children of Abraham Emans and Rebecca Stillwell are:

1. Nicholas Abraham Emans, b. 1696, Gravesend, Livingston, New York, USA270, d. 1759, Reading, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA270.
2. Jan Emans, b. 1694, Long Island, Queens, New York, USA270, d. May 1732, New Jersey, USA270.

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Teunis G. Bergen, REGISTER, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF KINGS COUNTY, LONG ISLAND, N.Y., FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT BY EUROPEANS TO 1700 (Polyanthos, Cottonport, 1973).

p. 109: [EMANS, EMMANS, OR IMANS] Andries Junr. of Gravesend and New Utrecht, b. 1677; m. Nov. 24, 1693, Rebecca Van Cleef of Gravesend. Bought July 20, 1708, of Stoffel Romeyn a farm in New Utrecht, to which he removed. On ass. Roll of Gravesend of 1693 and cen. of 1698. Will da. Sept. 1, 1728; pro. Jan. 6, 1729; rec. p. 34, Lib. 10, N.Y. surr. Off. Issue:--Hendrick, d. young; Johannes; Andries of New Utrecht; Benjamin of N.J., m. Sarah (or Antie) Snediker; Jacobus of New Utrecht, m. Jannetje da. Of wm. Kouwenhoven; Hendrick of Somerset Co., N.J., m. Sara da. Of Roelof Verkerk of New Utrecht; Antie, bp. Apl. 26, 1696, d. young; Ann, m. 1st John Verkerk, m. 2d Jacob Rapalje of Brooklyn; Sara, m. Teunis Polhemius of Orange Co.; and Rebecca. Signed his name "Andries Emans." __________________________

Page 437.—In the name of God, Amen. September 1, 1728. I, Andrew Emans, of New Utrecht, in Kings County, on the Island of Nassau, being very sick. I leave to my wife Rebbecca, during her life, my whole real and personal estate for her to use for her convenience. I leave to my eldest son Hendrick Emans, all that piece of land in the County of Somersett, in New Jersey, at a place commonly called Rocky Hill, being 200 acres, which he purchased of Benjamin Cole, and whereupon I have paid £237. I also leave to him £213, to make up the sum I have paid upon the land, £450. I leave to my son Johanes, all those two tracts of land in the County of Hunterdon, in the Western Division of New Jersey, containing in all 610 acres. One parcel I bought of Adrian Lane, and the other of Myndert Laphever, as by deed will appear. I leave to my son Andrew, all my real estate in the town of Gravesend in Kings County; and he shall pay £500, at the rate of £50 yearly till the whole is paid to me or my order. I leave to my son Benjamin, all that tract of land in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, being 300 acres, purchased of Adrien Ten Eyck. I leave to my youngest son Jacobus, all my real estate in the town of New Utrecht, where I now live, after my wife's decease, and he is to pay £500 to my children Hendrick, Johanes, Andrew, Benjamin, Ann, wife of John Verkerk, and Sarah, wife of Teunis Polhemus, and to my youngest daughter, Rebecca Emans. And the remainder of the £500 to be paid by my son Andrew, which may be unpaid at the time of my decease is also to be paid to them. I will that my three daughters have out of my estate £350. "My children who shall hereafter marry shall have as good a setting out as my children who are already married." After my wife's decease all my personal estate is to go to my eight children. I appoint my wife and my sons Hendrick and Johan, and my two sons in law, John Verkerk and Teunis Polhemus, executors. Signed, Andries Emans. Witnesses, Hendrick Jansen, Jacobus Emans, S. Gerritsen. John Montgomerie, Esq., Captain-General and Governor. To all, etc., Know ye, that at New York, on the 6 day of January, 1728, before Isaac Robin, Esq., the will of Andrew Emans was proved. End Op Liber 10.