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The Van Meter Family |
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| also spelled Vanmeter, Vanmetre, Van Metre, Van Matre, Van Meteren, Van Maitre, | |||||
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John Van Meter (Joost Jans van Meteren) was born in Holland. He married Sara du Bois on December 12, 1682. Sarah was the daughter of Louis du Bois and Catherine Blanchan. Jan (John) Van Meter (1683, married Sara Bodine and Margaret Mollenauer), At first they lived in Ulster County, New York. In 1714 they moved to Salem, New Jersey where they owned a part of a 1,200 acre tract. In 1716 they sold their portion of the tract to Jacob du Bois.
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John Van Meter was born in 1683 in New York. He was a son of Joost Jans van Meteren and Sarah Du Bois. John married Sarah Bodine. Sarah was a daughter of Jean Bodine and Marie Crocheron. John and Sarah's children were born in Somerset County, New Jersey. Sarah Van Meter (1706, married James Davis) His second wife was Margaret Mollenauer. Rebecca Van Meter (1711, married Solomon Hedges), The Van Meter family moved to Berkeley County, West Virginia. In 1730, Virginia granted John a 20,000-acre tract in the fork of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers that was bounded on the North by Opequon Creek and and included the Shephardstown, Bakerton, and Harper's Ferry area, but also parts of Jefferson and Berkeley Counties. Van Meter, like other grantees of the time, was to settle one family of non-Virginians for each 1,000 acres he received. Much of John Van Meter's land was then patented to Jost Hite on June 12, 1734, after Hite had purchased part of Van Meter's holdings and established the required number of families in this area. The Van Meters were early settlers in, what is now, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. On June 12, 1734, John was granted 1,786 acres on Jones Mill Run near Martinsburg. The same day he was granted 885 acres on the east side of Opequon Creek. John's will was probated on September 3, 1745 in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia.
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Abraham Van Meter was born about 1721 in New Jersey. He married Ruth Hedges Joseph Van Meter (1743, married Isabella Evans), His second wife was Martha Roberts Wheeler. Abraham owned several large tracts of land on Opequon Creek. |
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Jacob Van Meter was born about 1723 in New Jersey. He was the son of John Van Meter and Margaret Mulliner (or Mollenauer). He married Letitia Stroud on August 30, 1741 in Frederick County, Virginia. Leticia was the daughter of Edward Stroud and Eleanor Shepard. Jacob and Letitia's children may have included: Eleanor Van Meter (1742) From Frederick County Road Orders
They were members of the Severns Valley Baptist Church, built a grain mill on Valley Creek, and operated a still and a tavern. |
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