Winant Van Zandt1

(c 1801 - 1875)
Extended Family
ChartsAncestors of Robert E Suydam (#1)
Ancestors of Robert E Suydam (#2)

Children of Winant Van Zandt and Rachel Smith

Children of Winant Van Zandt and Mary Magdalen Wyckoff

Life Events

Overview
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     Winant was of the Dutch Van Zandt's of Somerset County, New Jersey, a descendant of Bernardus van Zandt who was born in Holland, October 3, 1700, and settled in Montgomery, Somerset County, New Jersey. [I have more details but not yet written up]
     With his first wife, Rachel, Winant had two children, Anna and Peter. Grandchildren of these two [i.e. first cousins - not uncommon] married one another so Winant and Rachel are our ancestors twice!
     After Rachel died, Winant married a second time, had 5 more children, and migrated to Ohio. His second wife died there. Winant married a third time and moved to Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan. He was a farmer and lived to the age of 74.

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BirthWinant Van Zandt was born circa 26 May 1801 in New Jersey.
[birth date calculated from death record]2 
Research Note The 1790, 1800, 1810 & 1820 census for New Jersey were destroyed. 
MarriageHe and Rachel Smith were married on 24 Jan 1822 in Somerset County, New Jersey. The officiating clergyman was John L Zabriskie, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church.3 
1830 CensusWinant Van Zandt was listed as the head of a family on the 1830 census taken on 1 Jun 1830 in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. The tally for his household showed 1 male age 15-20, 2 males age 20-30, and 1 male age 30-40;
1 female under age 5, 1 female age 5-9, and 1 female age 20-29. There were no slaves or free colored persons in the household, although there were both in the community.4
MarriageHe married Mary Magdalen Wyckoff.
The marriage record has not yet been found.5,6 
MigrationWinant and Mary migrated from New Jersey to Ohio between the birth of son Tunis in 1834 and that of Rosetta in 1837. Mary's brother William was in Sycamore Township, Hamilton County, Ohio as early as the 1830 census and Washington... states that Winant and Mary settled a few miles south at Oakley, in Columbia Township, Hamilton County. Washington... also states that they moved to Ohio immediately after Mary was widowed but as seen by the children's birthplaces this isn't correct.6
 
1840 CensusWinant Vansant was listed as the head of a family on the 1840 census taken on 1 Jun 1840 in Mississinawa Township, Darke County, Ohio. The tally for his household showed 1 male under age 5, 2 males age 5-9, 2 males age 15-20, 1 male age 40-50;
2 females under age 5 and 1 female age 30-39.
These tallies correspond with Winant, his wife Mary Magdalene, three Johnson children (from MM's first marriage) Peter, William and Joseph, and four Van Zandt children - Winant, Tunis, Rosetta, and Mary Ellen. They do not account for Winant's earlier children, Catharine (born c1827) and Peter (born 1829).
In the entire township, there were 67 males and 56 females and in each household one person was working in agriculture. There were no slaves or colored people.7
(Widowed) DeathHis wife Mary died on 1 Nov 1844.8  
MarriageWinant Van Zandt married Triphena (-?-).
Perhaps Triphena's previous name was Ewers - there are children with that name with them in the 1850 census.9 
1850 CensusWinant and Triphena Van Zant appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Dundee Township, Monroe County, Michigan, enumerated 6 Aug 1850. Winant was 49, a Farmer with real estate valued at $400, and was born in New Jersey. Triphena was 46 and born in Pennsylvania. At home were Catharine (21), Winant (18), Tunis (15), Rosetta (13), Mary (10), Lemuel (7), as well as Ann A Ewers (age 6 born Michigan) and Susan Ewers (age 13 born Ohio). All the children attended school.9
1860 CensusWynant Van Zanten [sic] appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan, enumerated 7 Jun 1860. He was 60 years old, born in New Jersey and was with his son Wynant's family.10
1870 CensusWinant Van Zant appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Dundee Township, enumerated 14 Jun 1870. He was 69, a Farmer owning land valued at $1200 and personal estate of $150, and his birthplace New Jersey. In the same household were his son Winant and his family.11
DeathWinant died on 28 Sep 1875 in Dundee.
Details from register: widower, age 74 years, 4 months, 2 days, birthplace New Jersey, Farmer, parents unknown, cause of death: Consumption.2
Winant VanZandt death register entry, 1875
[the original ran across two pages so the format has been edited]
BurialHe was buried in Old Petersburg Cemetery, Petersburg, Monroe County, Michigan.12 
Last Edited17 Jan 2012

Citations

  1. [S1577] Death Records of Michigan, 1867-1897. viewed at Family Search Historic Records & Images Online, Peter Vanzandt, recorded in 1885, #141.
  2. [S1577] Death Records of Michigan, 1867-1897. viewed at Family Search Historic Records & Images Online, Winant VanZandt, recorded in 1876, #148.
  3. [S2570] Various counties. Indexes to New Jersey Marriages, 1682-1956. Images online at familysearch.org, Winant Van Zandt & Rachel Smith, 1822.
  4. [S1757] 1830 Federal Census for United States, New Jersey, Somerset County, Franklin Township, Roll 83, Page 42. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  5. [S1539] Death Records of Texas, 1890-1976. viewed at Family Search Historic Records & Images Online, Winant Vanzant Jr, 1914, #7276.
  6. [S1766] Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry, and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: E.L. McClain, 1932), digital copy viewed on Heritage Quest.
  7. [S1756] 1840 Federal Census for United States, Ohio, Darke County, Roll 390, Page 84. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  8. [S1766] Charles Arthur Hoppin, The Washington ancestry, and records of the McClain, Johnson, and forty other colonial American families (Greenfield, Ohio: E.L. McClain, 1932), digital copy viewed on Heritage Quest, citing Johnson-Wyckoff family Bible.
  9. [S857] 1850 Federal Census for United States, Michigan, Monroe County, Dundee, Roll M432 358, Page 283. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  10. [S1740] 1860 Federal Census for United States, Michigan, Monroe County, Dundee, Roll M653 554, Page 20. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  11. [S1739] 1870 Federal Census for United States, Michigan, Monroe County, Dundee, Roll M593 691, Page 244. Digital image viewed at Ancestry.com.
  12. [S893] Website Interment.net [an online database of indexed cemeteries] (http://www.interment.net).
  13. [S1767] Death Records of Michigan, 1897-1920. Library of Michigan collection viewed at http://seekingmichigan.org/, Mary E Kingsbury, 1902, #49.