7710–7711.  Little is known about Jonas/Johan _____. Tryntje Roelofs was born in (probably) Marstrand, Netherlands, and died in New Amsterdam, America, between September 21, 1644 and 1647. Her married name was Tryntje (Roelofs) Jonas. They had two children:

i. Marritje Jans died in New York on November 17, 1677. She married three times:
  1. Tyman Jansen, b. 1603; m. about 1632. They had one child, Elsie Tymens. She married Jacob Leisler who led the Dutch rebellion and retook New York from the English in 1689. When the English retook New York about 18 months later, Leisler was hanged for treason.
  2. Dirk Corneliszen Van Wensveen, m. August 28, 1646, in the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church; d before July 1648. They had one child, Cornelis Dirckszen.
  3. Govert Loockermans, b. July 2, 1612; m. July 20, 1649; d. before May 18, 1671. They had one child, Jacob Loockermans.
ii. Anneke Jans [#3855]: She was born in Vleckere, Norway (now Flekkerøy, Flekkerøy Is., Vest Agder, Norway), in 1605, and died in Beverwyck (now Albany, New York), on February 23, 1663.

Trijn Roeloffs (as she gave her name when granting permission for her daughter Anneke's marriage in 1623) and her two daughters sailed to America on the ship de Eendracht, the Unity. They set sail on March 21, 1630, from Texel (Island), The Netherlands, and arrived in New Amsterdam 64 days later on May 24. With them came Anneke's husband, Roelof Jansen, and their two daughters, Sara and Trijntje. Their eldest daughter, Lijntje, appears to have died a few months before the trip. The family soon moved to the Rensselaerwyck colony, Tryntje (Catrina, Catherine) was a midwife, or trained nurse.

Anneke Jans in Fact in Fiction, gives the follow clear and interesting account of Tryntje's name and some of what is known of her life in New Amsterdam.

Her full name, as assembled from various source records, was Trijntje (given name), Roelofs[datter] (patronymic, or father's given name—from Anneke's marriage intentions), Jonas (possessive surname based on given name of husband), van Maesterland (place name, usually based on birthplace). Thus Tryntje (Roelofs) Jonas van Maesterland was most likely born in Marstrand, now in Sweden, to a father whose given name was Roelof. Her husband's given name was Johan, a Teutonic name usually transliterated by the Dutch to Jan or Johannes, and at times, to Jonas as in this case. Two daughters of Johan and Tryntje are known, that is, Anneke and Marritje. Their full patronymic was Johansdatter, or as transliterated and abbreviated, Jans.

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Tryntje Jonas served as the official midwife for the West India Company in New Amsterdam. On 26 November 1635 the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company recorded in its minutes that a letter had been received from her, "requesting an increase in wages and some necessities to ... [the sentence was not finished and nothing was said about the action taken]." We can surmise that she probably served at least a year before asking for an increase in wages. For the lack of a more exact date, we assume that she began serving by the second half of 1634. We do not know when she stopped serving or when she died. She appears to have served until her death or the onset of a terminal illness; for on 11 August 1647, as Domine Bogardus was about to sail to The Netherlands, Dirck Cornelissen van Wensveen, husband of Marritje Jans, gave Domine Bogardus, the other son-in-law of Tryntje Jonas, a power of attorney to collect from the West India Company the sum of 245 guilders, 2 strivers, and 8 pennies "as appears on the Book of Monthly Wages, No. F, folio 17," which was due at the death of "Trijn Jonas van Maesterland, in her lifetime, midwife here in New Netherlands."

That power of attorney was lost on 27 [29] September 1647, when the Domine was drowned. On 17 August 1649, Anneke Jans, then widow of Domine Bogardus, gave power of attorney to the Domine's brother, Cornelis Willemsen Bogaert, living at Leyden, to collect money due by the West India Company in Amsterdam to her as "heiress of her mother Tryn Jonasz., deceased, late midwife here, and also to collect "such money as may be due to her late husband, Everardus Bogardus ... together with whatever may be coming to her or her late husband from any other private individuals, whether friends or blood-inheritance or otherwise." This was signed, "Dis ist X merck van Annetie Jans, selfs geselt."

Since Trijnte Roelofs used her maiden name when witnessing Anneke's wedding banns and came to America without a husband, it is reasonable to assume that her husband (and Anneke's father) died before Anneke was married.

Note that Marstrand is now part of Sweden.

Sources: 75–76;