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Note: e internet that she was Jannetze Van Meyer, daughter of Macyken Hendrickson and Jon Josten Van Meter, and a first cousin of Hance Hendrick. The original source of this claim is evidently a history of the Hendrick(s) family[8]. However, there is not a shred of documentation to support this claim and, in fact, there is no evidence that Jon Josten Van Meter (an immigrant to New Jersey who never set foot in Virginia) even had a daughter of that name. If he did, she would likely have been considerably older than Hance. Of the four published accounts of this family that I have found, none offer any documentation or explanation for their claims in this regard, and all four authors were evidently unaware of most of the records cited in this paper.
Unfortunately, Hance Hendrick lived in an area of Virginia for which few colonial records exist. The colonial records of New Kent County were destroyed by the malicious burning of the courthouse in 1787, for which the arsonist was hung. It was a devastating loss for genealogists because the early records of several successor counties were in that courthouse, including King William County. Most remaining early records of King William County were subsequently destroyed in another courthouse fire. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/9333222/person/-607408846/media/1
Note: Jane Hendrick’s identity is unknown. It is widely reported in published genealogies and on th
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