The Most Remarkable Lives of JJJaaannn JJJaaannnssseeennn and his son AAAnnnttthhhooonnnyyy (or) Does 577 microliters* of my blood speak Dutch? *see reverse ©2013 Brian A. Smith, D.C. *577 microliters is based on the following: Three Assumptions: (see Comments on Assumptions, below) 1. I am included in the population of “average adult males”; 2. The possibility that JAN JANSEN is a direct ancestor of ours through more than one of his children exists but is, herein, ignored. This is not as rare as you may think; I have already found two ancestral couples that we descend from through two of their children; and 3. Each ancestor in a particular generation contributes a fractional amount to our genetic make-up, i.e. “blood” equal to the total number of ancestors in that generation, thus: a. Mom and Dad each contribute exactly 50% to our DNA – 2 people in that generation contribute exactly ½ of the DNA we have; and b. Each of our 4 grandparents contributes exactly ¼, or 25%, of the DNA we have; and so on… Two Numbers: 1. The “average adult male” contains 160 fluid ounces of blood; (and) th 1 2. Jan Jansen is one of our 8,192 11 -great-grandparents therefore he contributes /8192 to our genetic make-up. & Three Calculations: 1 1. /8192 of 160 fluid ounces = 0.0195 fluid ounces; 2. 0.0195 fluid ounces = 0.576684 milliliters; and finally, 3. 0.576684 ≈ 577 microliters. Comments on Assumptions: 1. Since it is a given that I am better than average, there may be some adjustment to the amount of blood I actually have; unfortunately whether this adjustment is up or down has not been, to my vast knowledge, adequately explored; 2. While there are several instances of mental “uniqueness” in our direct ancestors there appears to be no connection to related ancestors who married each other, perhaps the fact the closest of the two relations that married were third-cousins-twice-removed may be why this is so; 3. Ties in with 2 above – the calculation of percent contributed is complex when one is an th ancestor through two children, e.g. our 5 -great-grandfather WILLIAM THOMAS 1 th contributes /128 to our genetic make-up through his 4 daughter ELIZABETH. He also 1 th contributes /256 to our genetic make-up because he is our 6 -great-grandfather through his oldest daughter MARGARET. Are these amounts simply added together or is there some as-yet-unknown factor by which each contribution is reduced because of genetic duplication? With a suitably large Federal Research grant I am sure to be able to supply a suitably vague answer after researching this very topic for, say, 5 years, to warrant an even more suitable and larger Federal Research grant to clear up some, but not all, of the vagueness found in the first project. A “Final” Federal Grant, suitably enlarged, would probably allow me to arrive at the conclusion that “Yes, the amounts are simply added together” but it’ll take about 2 decades and $15 million to reach that conclusion. DEDICATION This book is dedicated to my mother who, unwittingly I am sure, added the exciting Jansen genes to our DNA. Though of Dutch stock, not a people particularly known for being boisterous or taking risks, the two Jansen family members chronicled here are beyond being a couple of “wild and crazy guys” – they were risk takers. They were dare devils; they were opinionated; no task was too daunting to stop them; they stood out in any crowd – due to their height in once case and, in the other, due to his dress – exquisite, multi-colored and silk – and his mode of transportation – carried by slaves in a gilt traveling chair; and so much more. The second Jansen generation we can, perhaps, attribute some of his more notable qualities – he was reported to be well over 6’ tall and strong as an ox – to his own mixed bag of genes. Definitely Dutch from his father, his mother was a Berber – from one of the tribes that originally inhabited the Barbary Coast – but we do not know if she was a mutt. Many Berbers in North Africa had intermarried with the Arabs who had arrived around the 11th century – that’s a possibility. She had moved from the Barbary Coast to Cartagena in the Kingdom of Murcia – now the Mediterranean Coast of Spain, but we don’t know how many generations of Berber ancestors lived on the north side of the Mediterranean. In fact two Berber dynasties ruled most of Spain from 1062 to 1269 – her family may have been there for 4 centuries – we just do not know. Another reason for dedicating this work to my mother is because, if it weren’t for her, I may have known more about my ancestors and been thoroughly bored by them. As it turns out, at Kisthardt Elementary School one homework assignment was to bring in a 2 page paper discussing your ancestry. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Asking Dad about his family brought the incorrect “they were from Budapest and one of them invented a purple dye used by the Hungarian Royal family” – guess he got that one from the same place he got the one about the man who invented a salt-making machine but lost it when it fell overboard – and that’s why the ocean is salty. Mom’s response was even less informative – “They were all farmers – one came from County Cork (wrong) and Grandpop came from Naples (also wrong) that’s it, nothing else…and stop bothering me, I’m trying to cook dinner.” Dad had trouble just naming his grandparents; at least Mom could go back 2 or 3 generations. The not-knowing gnawed at me for a couple of decades, until 1985 to be precise – that’s when I found the Southern California Genealogical Society in Burbank and from that day I have been digging up dead ancestors. ALBERTA JEAN MATELENA Thanks Mom! FEBRUARY 4, 1929 – DECEMBER 6, 1971 i CONTENTS PAGE Dedication i Contents ii INTRODUCTION 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS 3 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVERAL OTHER COOL PLACES 9 Map of Morocco & the Barbary States, with Spain and 16 Spanish holdings of Malta, Sicily & the Canaries JAN JANSEN VAN HAARLEM 17 ANTHONY JANSEN VAN SALÉE 67 APPENDICES 1: ELIZABETH AND JOHN – a love story or a load of #!@*? 124 2: Negotiating with the OTTOMAN EMPIRE, an oxymoron? 125 3: THE DUTCH-ALGERIAN WAR OF 1618 136 4: TURK’S PLANTATION 139 Gate of JAN JANSEN VAN HAARLEM’S kasbah (built 1634) in Oualida, Morocco ii INTRODUCTION This book details our Dutch ancestry – well – sort of. Our ancestor JAN JANSEN was from Haarlem on the Atlantic Coast of the Netherlands. Before the age of 30 he left the area to embark on one of the most interesting and varied life that took him far and wide – sailing the high seas for about 3 decades and launching escapades that gained him notoriety and respect (in some circles) and opened doors into the monarchies of Europe – Kings and Queens knew him by name – while other escapades earned him scorn and derision, but made him a very wealthy man. He was given one of the daughter’s of the Sultan of Morocco as a gift! Somewhat belatedly, the Netherlands’ has taken him as a home-grown hero – commissioning a national opera on his life a few ago is just one of the accolades this notorious pirate, admiral of the much-feared Salley Rovers from Morocco has garnered of late. Because of JAN’S Dutch beginnings, a short history of the Netherlands sets the stage for this book. When JAN was born “the Netherlands” was barely a passing thought – it was only the northern part of the Seventeen United Provinces of the growing Spanish Empire. By the time he died the Netherlands had gained their independence and international recognition and were well on the fast-track to becoming the world’s first, and wealthiest, multinational corporation. Following the Dutch section is another “Brief history of …” section. This section covers other places we are familiar with, sometimes rather vaguely, that played a part in the lives of our subjects. While much historical material is found within the biographical sections, this section provides the reader with a concise, self- contained overview of some areas our ancestors were connected to. These places may be (1a) places that are not covered in detail in the biographical sections or, oddly, (1b) places that are discussed in detail, perhaps too much detail; and are (2) presented in a chronological order, as far as it is known. The reader can easily flip to this section to find out various unimportant things like the highest mountain peak in Spain lies about 100 miles off the coast of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean and various important things like if you traveled from Amsterdam to the Canary Islands and then on to Cartagena, Spain in the late 16th century, besides being extremely old, you had yet to set foot out of the Spanish Empire (this would still hold if you stopped in Miami on your way to Sao Paola, Brazil and then spent a week in the Philippine Islands before returning to Amsterdam). Morocco is covered in greater detail because I amassed more information about it when compared to the other places and I didn’t want to waste my work in gathering that information – plus this was where the coolest action takes place. JAN JANSEN meant different things to different people and even different things to the same people at different times – to the Spanish HABSBURGS he was a no-good rebel; to the Dutch he was a freedom fighter; to the KNIGHTS OF MALTA he was a pirate and prisoner; to the SULTANS OF MOROCCO and the PASHAS OF ALGIERS – he was their ‘go to’ man – he is said to have chatted with England’s QUEEN ELIZABETH (unlikely) and KING LOUIS (likely) of France on their behalf.