Jansen, Claes (1658-1745)

From GAMEO
Revision as of 08:57, 20 January 2014 by RichardThiessen (talk | contribs) (Text replace - "date=1957|a1_last=van der Zijpp|a1_first=Nanne" to "date=1957|a1_last=Zijpp|a1_first=Nanne van der")
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Claes (Klaas, Klaus, Nicholas) Jansen, one of the first Mennonite settlers in the United States, came to Germantown, Pennsylvania, from Krefeld, Germany, in 1685. Later he lived in the Skippack area where he became a trustee in the Mennonite congregation in 1708 and a preacher in 1717. The assertion (DB 1884, 75) that he was appointed minister in 1692 or shortly after to serve together with Rittenhouse is not attested by  the old documents. It is very probable that Claes Jansen was the ancestor of the Johnson family which was very prominent in the Lower Skippack congregation in the 19th century furnishing three Henry G. Johnsons as ministers in succession and leading to the nicknaming of the congregation as the "Johnson Mennonites."

Bibliography

Bender, Harold S. "The Founding of the Mennonite Church in America at Germantown, 1683-1708." Mennonite Quarterly Review 7 (October 1933): 231, 234 f.

Hoop Scheffer,  J. G. "Het Tweede Eeuwgetijde van de Vestiging der Duitschers in N.-Amerika." Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1884): 75.


Author(s) Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published 1957

Cite This Article

MLA style

Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Jansen, Claes (1658-1745)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 22 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jansen,_Claes_(1658-1745)&oldid=108212.

APA style

Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1957). Jansen, Claes (1658-1745). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jansen,_Claes_(1658-1745)&oldid=108212.



Hpbuttns.png

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 91. All rights reserved.


©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.

Retrieved from "https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jansen,_Claes_(1658-1745)&oldid=108212"