Person:Joachim Andries (1)

Alternate Surnames: Anderson or Andrieszen.

He came to America as a child. "In Feb 1659 he and his parents are mentioned as sponsors at the baptism of a daughter of his sister, Francyntie. 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 [father may have been Jan Janszen]. Soon after his marriage he moved to Elizabethtown, where 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 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."

Source: Terry Bradley (email dated 98-07-29)