Anneke Webber Jans was an early Dutch colonist in New Amsterdam and New Netherland. She was born in Norway in 1605. She married Roeloff Jans in Amsterdam, Holland, on Friday, April 18, 1623. They had six children. Her name became well-known because of the many lawsuits concerning her farm, which was claimed by her heirs and the Trinity Church in New York City.
In 1636, Governor Wouter Van Twiller granted to Roeloff and Anneke Jans a 62-acre farm, or Bowerie, on Manhattan Island just outside the limits of the New Amsterdam Settlement, between present-day Broadway and the Hudson River. Roeloff was contracted by the West India Company to farm the plot. He died shortly thereafter and Anneke inherited the land.
Dutch women had more property rights than their other female colonists in the New World. Prenuptial agreements were common at New Amsterdam, and they enabled women with money and/or property to keep their wealth after they married. Anneke Jans wrote one of the first prenuptial agreements, and later drafted them for her daughters, as well.
In March 1638, she married Reverend Everardus Bogardus, the second minister of the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam. They had four sons. He died at sea on September 29, 1647.
After learning of her husband's death by drowning off the coast of Wales, Anneke moved from her house near the Fort in New Amsterdam back to Beverwyck, where she had a house on land adjacent to property owned by two of her sons from her first marriage.
Anneke Webber Jans died at Beverwyck on February 23, 1663, leaving her property to be divided among her eight surviving children. Her will includes the 62 acres on Manhattan Island. She was buried in the churchyard at Beaver and Hudson Streets.
The Drink:
Apple Pie Cocktail:
1/2 Daiquiri rum. (1 1/2 oz, 4.5 cl, 3/8 gills)
1/2 Martini sweet vermouth. (1 1/2 oz, 4.5 cl, 3/8 gills)
2 dashes apricot brandy.
2 dashes grenadine.
4 dashes lemon juice.
Shake and strain into cocktail glass.
Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 4
Priority of Conservation: 2
Comments: "tastes like cough medicine" also "FR used dry vermouth instead of sweet - not a good idea"
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