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- From 1671 Census of the Delaware, by Peter Stebbins Craig.
Anders Stille, Swedish, apparently had just married. (#162 in the census) Wharton enters the words “Anna Peterson marryed to Andreas” with no last name given to the husband. The man was Anders Stille (son of Olof Stille), who testified on 17 October 1683 “that he has been 25 or 26 years here in town.” The wife was Annetje Pieters, daughter of Pieter Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven, who had purchased a lot northwest of Beaver Street at Hart Street in 1669. At the time of this census, her father ( a brewer) was languishing in debtor’s prison in Manhattan, as a result of a lawsuit by Philip Carteret. In 1667, when a resident of Elizabethtown, East Jersey, van Couwenhoven had mortgaged all of his property ot Carteret and was unable to pay off the mortgage. After Pieter van Couwenhoven’s New Castle property was sold in 1673, Anders Stille and his wife Annetje moved to the Christina River with John Ogle, John Arskin and Marten Gerritsen. Anders died before 1693, survived by sons Jacob and Johan Stille and at least one daughter.
Opposite the brewer Pieter van Couwenhoven’s property was an empty lot between Beaver Street and the Mart, for which a patent was given to Jean Paul Jaquet bearing the date of 1 May 1671. This was soon acquired by the English soldier John Ogle, not listed in Wharton’s census, who married by the end of year Anders Stille’s niece, ElisabethPetersdotter, daughter of Ella Stille and her first husband Peter Jochimsson.
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d. Abt 1690, White Clay Creek, New Castle County, Delaware