JANS, yii/1R, ANNEKE Or A NNETJE ( ?-1(;63 An early Dutch colonist of New Netherland, fa mous bee:nuse of lawsuits concerning her farm her I' I'S a nil the corporation of Trinity Church, New York City. She emigrated from Ilolland to New Netherland with her husband, Roelolf Jansen, in 1630. In 1636 the latter ob tained a grant of 62 acres of land on Manhattan Island. extending from the present Warren Street to the neighborhood of Desbrosses Street. and lying between Broadway and the Hudson P,iver. Soon afterwards Jansen died, and :Ile married the Dutch dominio Ever:mins Bogardus (q.v.). In 1054. after her husband's death, she seen rid a patent to the farm in her own name. and later removed to Albany, where she died, leaving her property to be divided among her eight surviving children. After the English had taken posses sion, in all property-hold•rs were required to secure new' titles for their lands. Accordingly, the heirs secured a new patent for the farm from Governor Nicol's. on March 27, 1665. Four years later. March 9, 1671, the property was sold to Governor Lovelace, all of the heirs signing the deed of transfer except the wife and child of Cor nelius Bogardus. a son of Anneke and her second husband, who had died in 1666. It is largely upon this omission that the subsequent suits have been based. Upon the recall of Governor Lovelace (q.v.), the Government confiscated the Jans farm,
and subsequently granted it to Trinity Church by a patent scaled on November 23, 1705. In 1749 Cornelius Brower, a descendant of the Cor nelius Bogardus whose heirs had not signed, took forcible possession of a portion of the farm, and on being evicted began an action against Trinity Church, which was decided against him. In 1757 he made another unsuccessful attempt. Another Cornelius Bogardus took possession of part of the estate in 1784. and held it until he was evicted by the courts in 1786. His son John brought suit in 1830 to se cure one-thirtieth of the farm and a proportion ate share of hack rents. In order to secure the money necessary to carry on this suit, he sent circulars to all the descendants of Anneke Jans asking them to contribute, which they did most liberally until 1847, when judgment was again given for the church. Since then there have been several other suits brought by the heirs, but they have been in favor of the defendants. Consult: sash, Anncke Jans Bogar dus: Her Farm, and How it became the Property of Trinity Church, New York (New York, 1896) ; Sandford's Chancery Reports (vol. iv., pp. 633 672) ; Schuyler's Colonial York (vol. ii.) ; and Harper's Monthly Magazine for May, I885.