DE LINT: Arent Jansz De Lint was a barber who settled in Brielle, South Holland. He married Anneke Esiasdr [also recorded as Anneke Jans] there prior to 1534.
In 1534, Arent and Anneke De Lint formed a group of Nieugezinden [religious dissenters] at their home in the Coppoenstraat in Brielle. This was in the early days of the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands. The group met for only a short time, as the DeLints fled to England in June of 1534. Arent died in London in December of 1538 and Anneke returned to the Netherlands. In 1539 at Rotterdam, Anneke was tried executed for heresy [crimes against the church]. The method of execution was drowning. The couple left at least one orphaned child, a son, Esaias. Esaias Arentse de Lint's great-granddaughter, Lijsbetjen [Elizabeth] would be the first of the family to arrive in America.
(Drowning was used as a punishment during the Middle Ages. The offender was bound by hands and feet and thrown from a bridge into the river. A pond, pool, or even a tub of water, was used if no river was available. Drowning was primarily used on women.)
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