Frans Johannise Spier was also known as Frans Jans Spier. Frans Johannise Spier was born circa April 1683 at Acquackanonk, Passaic County, New Jersey. Frans Johannise Spier was born before 2 April 1683. He was baptized on 2 April 1683 at Dutch Reformed Church, Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey. He married
Dierckye Van Houten, daughter of
Cornelis Roelofse Van Houten and
Magdalena Van Giesen, on 17 March 1705 at Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. Frans Johannise Spier married
Hester Delamater, daughter of
Isaac LeMaitre and
Cornelia Evertse Van Ness, on 4 October 1733 at Dutch Reformed Church, Acquackanonk, Passaic County, New Jersey. Frans Johannise Spier died before 8 January 1771 at Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey. Church: Dutch Reformed BS: Baptismal Register of the Bergen Reformed Church, 1666-1788, Advanced Pages taken from the Year Book of the Holland Society of New York for 1913, Arranged by Edward Van Winkle, Recording Secretary, Pg. 29. (Book in my possession) Witnesses are Jan Aertsen van de Bilt and Annetje Ariaense Sips. BS: NJ State Archives; NJ Genealogical Magazine (Jan. 1980), Vol. 55, Number 1, Pgs. 8-9, 'The Early Spier Family' by Janet T. Riemer. Baptized 2 April 1683. MS: NJ State Library - Books - Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, NJ, Part I (A974.921 R332a pt. 1 ), Hackensack, Pg. 29. MS: NJ State Library, Vital Records of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church at Acquackanonk, Passaic, New Jersey, 1727-1816, A974.923, A734, Pg. 209, #108. - for marriage to Hester De Lameter. DS: Janet T. Riemer article. NJ Archives Wills 34:491. Will written 30 December 1767 and proved 8 Jan. 1771.