Johannes Teller^[1]

1659 - 1725  (66 years)

• Name	Johannes Teller
  Born	1659	Albany, Albany, New York
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1690	Schenectady, New York   [1]
  _FSFTID	LDS1-59S
  _UID	9079F5CE03824184B4B7BCEF0C26CE709C3D
  Died	28 May 1725	Schenectady, Schenectady, New York
  Person ID	I316	Strong History
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Willem Teller,   b. Abt 1620, Maesterland, Bohusland, Netherlands ,   d. 1701, New Amsterdam, New York  (Age ~ 81 years)
  Mother	Margaret Donchesen,   b. 1622, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland ,   d. 1664, Albany, Albany, New York  (Age 42 years)
  Married	1641	New Amsterdam, New York
  Family ID	F506	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Wendel,   b. 1663, Albany, New York ,   d. 20 Jan 1707, Albany, New York  (Age 44 years)
  Married	18 Aug 1686	Albany, Albany, New York   [2]
  Children	1. Johannes Teller,   b. Abt 1691, Schenectady, New York ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Margareta Teller,   b. 1693, Schenectady, New York ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Willem Janse Teller,   b. Bef 4 Oct 1695, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 25 Apr 1757, Albany, Albany, New York  (Age > 61 years)   4. Jacobus Teller,   b. 1698, Schenectady, New York ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Maria Teller,   b. 1700, Schenectady, New York ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Annatye Teller,   b. 14 Feb 1705, Schenectady, New York ,   d. 22 Oct 1761, New York  (Age 56 years)
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2020
  Family ID	F81	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  In the Schenectady Massacre in 1690, Johannes was carried away captive by the French and Indians to Montreal. After several months he was ransomed and returned. His father, William, in consideration of the heavy losses sustained, gave Johannes his bouwery and farm in Schenectady. Name: Johannes Teller Gender: M (Male) Remarks: "Johannes Teller and his negroe". State: New York Town: Schenectady Residence Year:1690 Household Remarks:"LYST OF Ye PERSONES WHICH Ye FRENCH AND THERE INDIANS HAVE TAKEN PRISONERS ATT SKINNECHTADY AND CARIED TO CANIDA Ye 9th DAY OF FEBRUARY 1689/90." Johannes Teller was born in 1659. He was the youngest child of the marriage of New Netherland pioneers Willem and Margarita Donchesen Teller. His mother died while he was a young boy and his father re-married. By that time, his father had become a patentee of Schenectady - although may not have lived there. Willem Teller did retain his Albany properties and was listed as an Albany resident for many years. In August 1686, Johannes wed Susanna Wendell at the Albany Dutch church. Both marriage partners were identified as living in Albany at that time. However, their first child was not baptized in Albany until February 1691 - a year after the raid on Schenectady in which Johannes reportedly was taken prisoner! By 1698, however, three more children had been christened in the Albany church. During the 1690s, Johannes Teller was an Albany mainstay. He was a constable and high constable in 1694 and '95. In 1699, he joined other Albany residents in swearing allegiance to the king of England. Traditional sources imply that he was a resident of Schenectady. At the same time, he was included on Albany survey documents. As late as 1709, his Albany property in the first ward was valued on city tax rolls. After 1700, Johannes Teller began receiving land at Schenectady from his father - reportedly to help offset losses sustained in the raid of 1690. Johannes probabaly lived there until May 1725 when he made his will. He died in Schenectady at the end of June. - Johannes Teller by Stefan Bielinski Johannes Teller, son of Willem and the settler of Schenectady, was born in 1659 and married Sussanna, daughter of Capt. Johannes Wendel of Albany, in 1686. At the time of the Schenectady massacre of 1690, his house was burned and he was made a captive by the French and carried to Canada. In 1700 Willem Teller conveyed his two Schenectady bouweries to his son Johannes "in consideration that he was much reduced in property in 1690, at the burning of Schenectady by the French." Johannes Teller had three sons, Johannes, Willem and Jacobus, among whom his property was divided at his death in 1725. - History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925, Chapter 22: Settlers at Schenectady, 1661-4 In the Schenectady Massacre in 1690, Johannes was carried away captive by the French and Indians to Montreal. After several months he was ransomed and returned. His father, William, in consideration of the heavy losses sustained, gave Johannes his bouwery and farm in Schenectady. Name: Johannes Teller Gender: M (Male) Remarks: "Johannes Teller and his negroe". State: New York Town: Schenectady Residence Year:1690 Household Remarks:"LYST OF Ye PERSONES WHICH Ye FRENCH AND THERE INDIANS HAVE TAKEN PRISONERS ATT SKINNECHTADY AND CARIED TO CANIDA Ye 9th DAY OF FEBRUARY 1689/90."

  
  

• Sources

  [S147] U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, Document: The Documentary History of the State of New York [Albany, NY:, 1849]; Volume Number: Vol 1; Page Number: 305; Family Number: 21. [S209] New York, Marriages, 1686-1980, GS Film number: 908989.