Jacobus, aged 5½, Judith, aged 2 5-6, and Jan, aged 1¼, children of Jan Wouters Van der Bosch and Weintie Peters, who came from Stanford, New England. It is probable that the original record reads "Branford," and that "Stanford" is an error of the copyist who prepared these records for the press; for a limited search in Stanford, Conn., has failed to reveal the presence there of any Jan Wouters or Van der Bosches. Moreover, the age of Jacobus (the Latinized form of Jacob or James) exactly corresponds with the age of Jacob Johnson, son of Jan Wouters, who was born at Branford in December, 1672. On the whole, it is extremely improbable that two Jan Wouters, one at Branford and the other at Stanford, each had a son Jacob born in the same month of the same year. Another proof of identity is the fact that Jan Wouter Van der Bosch married Weintie Peters, while Laurens Jurianse Haf married Kenira Peters; and we have already mentioned that Laurens Jurianse was brother-in-law of our Jan Wouters.
With these facts established, it is possible to sketch the earlier generation of Walter Johnson's family.
1 | JAN1 WOUTERS VAN DER BOSCH, son of Wouter Van der Bosch born about 1638, resided at Flatbush, L. I., and Branford, Conn., and died after 1695. He married, first, Arente Arents, and, second, Weintie Peters, whose sister Kenira Peters married, July 5, 1676, Laurens Jurianse Haf. The Peters family came from Amersfoort. Children by the first wife:
Children by second wife:
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