Individual Details
Jan (Johan) Streypers
(Abt 1641 - )
Bought 5,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania from William Penn in 1682 while living in Krefeld, Germany and in 1683 Sold 100 acres to his brother Willem.
Was also known as Jan Streypers. According to the Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Jan was part of the effort by William Penn to bring German residents to Pennsylvania and he purchased land. His brother William was one of the "Original 13" settlers who arrived in Philadelphia on the Concord in 1683, along with his brother in law, Reynier Tyson. Many family members immigrated.
On the 7th of June, 1683, Jan Streypers and Jan Lensen entered into an agreement at Crefeld by the terms of which Streypers was to let Lensen have fifty acres of land at a rent of a rix dollar and half a stuyver, and to lend him fifty rix dollars for eight years at the interest of six rix dollars annually. Lensen was to transport himself and wife to Pennsylvania, to clear eight acres of Streyper's land and to work for him twelve days in each year for eight years. The agreement proceeds, " I further promise to lend him a Linnen weaving Crefeld. 5 stool with 3 combs, and he shall have said weaving stool for two years . . . and for this Jan Lensen shall teach my son Leonard in one year the art of weaving, and Leonard shall be bound to weave faithfully during said year." On the 18th of June the little colony were in Rotterdam, whither they were accompanied by Jacob Telner, Dirck Sipman, and Jan Streypers, and there many of their business arrangements were completed. Telner conveyed two thousand acres of land to the brothers Op den Graeff, and Sipman made Hermann Op den Graeff his attorney. Jan Streypers conveyed one hundred acres to his brother Willem, and to Siemens and Keurlis each two hundred acres. Bleikers and Lucken each bought two hundred acres from Benjamin Furly, agent for the purchasers at Frankfort. At this time Janes Claypoole, a Quaker merchant in London, who had previously had business relations of some kind with Telner, was about to remove with his family to Pennsylvania, intending to sail in the Concord, Wm. Jeffries, master, a vessel of five hundred tons burthen. Through him a passage from London was engaged for them in the same vessel, which was expected to leave Gravesend on the 6th of July, and the money was paid in advance.5 It is now ascertained definitely that eleven of these thirteen emigrants were from Crefeld, and the presumption that their two companions, Jan Lucken and Abraham Tunes, came from the same city is consequently strong. This presumption is increased by the indications of relationship and the fact that the wife of Jan Seimens was Mercken Williamsen Lucken. Fortunately, however, we are not wanting in evidence of a general character. Pastorius, after having an interview with Telner at Rotterdam a few weeks earlier, accompanied by four servants, who appear to have been Jacob Schumacher, Isaac Dilbeck, George Wertmuller and Koenradt Rutters, had gone to America representing both the purchasers at Frankfort and Crefeld. In his reference to the places in which he stopped on his journey down the Rhine he nowhere mentions emigrants except at Crefeld, where he says: "I talked with Tunes Kunders and his wife, Dirck Hermann and Abraham Op den Graeff, and many others who six weeks later followed me." For some reason the emigrants were delayed between Rotterdam and London, and Claypoole was in great uneasiness for fear the vessel should be compelled to sail without them, and they should lose their passage money. He wrote several letters about them to Benjamin Furly at Rotterdam. June 19th he says : " I am glad to hear the Crevill ffriends are coming." July 3d he says : " Before I goe away wch now is like to be longer than we expected by reason of the Crevill friends not coming we are fain to loyter and keep the ship "still at Blackwall upon one pretence or another;" and July 10th he says : " It troubles me much that the friends from Crevillt are not yet come."6 As he had the names of the thirty-three persons, this contemporary evidence is very strong, and it would seem safe to conclude that all of this pioneer band, which, with Pastorius, founded Germantown, came from Crefeld. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg says the first comers were platt-deutch from the neighborhood of Cleves.7 Despite the forebodings of Claypoole the emigrants reached London in time for the Concord, and they set sail westward on the 24th of July. While they are for the first time experiencing the dangers and trials of a trip across the ocean, doubtless sometimes looking back with regret, The Waldenses. 7
The Lower Burying Ground consists of a half acre, given by Jan Streepers of Holland. The Reverend Christian Post, missionary to the aborigines of North and Central America, was buried here in 1785. William Hood provided by will for the massive front wall. He is buried here, and the place has been called "Hood's Cemetery."
Was also known as Jan Streypers. According to the Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Jan was part of the effort by William Penn to bring German residents to Pennsylvania and he purchased land. His brother William was one of the "Original 13" settlers who arrived in Philadelphia on the Concord in 1683, along with his brother in law, Reynier Tyson. Many family members immigrated.
On the 7th of June, 1683, Jan Streypers and Jan Lensen entered into an agreement at Crefeld by the terms of which Streypers was to let Lensen have fifty acres of land at a rent of a rix dollar and half a stuyver, and to lend him fifty rix dollars for eight years at the interest of six rix dollars annually. Lensen was to transport himself and wife to Pennsylvania, to clear eight acres of Streyper's land and to work for him twelve days in each year for eight years. The agreement proceeds, " I further promise to lend him a Linnen weaving Crefeld. 5 stool with 3 combs, and he shall have said weaving stool for two years . . . and for this Jan Lensen shall teach my son Leonard in one year the art of weaving, and Leonard shall be bound to weave faithfully during said year." On the 18th of June the little colony were in Rotterdam, whither they were accompanied by Jacob Telner, Dirck Sipman, and Jan Streypers, and there many of their business arrangements were completed. Telner conveyed two thousand acres of land to the brothers Op den Graeff, and Sipman made Hermann Op den Graeff his attorney. Jan Streypers conveyed one hundred acres to his brother Willem, and to Siemens and Keurlis each two hundred acres. Bleikers and Lucken each bought two hundred acres from Benjamin Furly, agent for the purchasers at Frankfort. At this time Janes Claypoole, a Quaker merchant in London, who had previously had business relations of some kind with Telner, was about to remove with his family to Pennsylvania, intending to sail in the Concord, Wm. Jeffries, master, a vessel of five hundred tons burthen. Through him a passage from London was engaged for them in the same vessel, which was expected to leave Gravesend on the 6th of July, and the money was paid in advance.5 It is now ascertained definitely that eleven of these thirteen emigrants were from Crefeld, and the presumption that their two companions, Jan Lucken and Abraham Tunes, came from the same city is consequently strong. This presumption is increased by the indications of relationship and the fact that the wife of Jan Seimens was Mercken Williamsen Lucken. Fortunately, however, we are not wanting in evidence of a general character. Pastorius, after having an interview with Telner at Rotterdam a few weeks earlier, accompanied by four servants, who appear to have been Jacob Schumacher, Isaac Dilbeck, George Wertmuller and Koenradt Rutters, had gone to America representing both the purchasers at Frankfort and Crefeld. In his reference to the places in which he stopped on his journey down the Rhine he nowhere mentions emigrants except at Crefeld, where he says: "I talked with Tunes Kunders and his wife, Dirck Hermann and Abraham Op den Graeff, and many others who six weeks later followed me." For some reason the emigrants were delayed between Rotterdam and London, and Claypoole was in great uneasiness for fear the vessel should be compelled to sail without them, and they should lose their passage money. He wrote several letters about them to Benjamin Furly at Rotterdam. June 19th he says : " I am glad to hear the Crevill ffriends are coming." July 3d he says : " Before I goe away wch now is like to be longer than we expected by reason of the Crevill friends not coming we are fain to loyter and keep the ship "still at Blackwall upon one pretence or another;" and July 10th he says : " It troubles me much that the friends from Crevillt are not yet come."6 As he had the names of the thirty-three persons, this contemporary evidence is very strong, and it would seem safe to conclude that all of this pioneer band, which, with Pastorius, founded Germantown, came from Crefeld. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg says the first comers were platt-deutch from the neighborhood of Cleves.7 Despite the forebodings of Claypoole the emigrants reached London in time for the Concord, and they set sail westward on the 24th of July. While they are for the first time experiencing the dangers and trials of a trip across the ocean, doubtless sometimes looking back with regret, The Waldenses. 7
The Lower Burying Ground consists of a half acre, given by Jan Streepers of Holland. The Reverend Christian Post, missionary to the aborigines of North and Central America, was buried here in 1785. William Hood provided by will for the massive front wall. He is buried here, and the place has been called "Hood's Cemetery."
Events
| Birth | Abt 1641 | Kaldendirchen, Germany |  | ||
| Marriage | 12 May 1669 | Kaldenkirchen, Germany - Entgen Anna Doors | | ||
| Alt name | Jan Strepers |
Families
| Spouse | Entgen Anna Doors (1641 - 1700) |
Endnotes
1. The Decendeants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, p 48.
2. The Decendeants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters, p 48.